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If he did come, it wouldn't be because the Bulls could offer the best package, unless of course the Lakers want to rebuild for a few years. However, the reason I could see the Lakers doing it with the Bulls is that they deal him out of conference to a team they may think won't be able to compete. They aren't going to want to put a competitor over teh top in a deal, however, a team thats down and nowhere they may not thikn Kobe would be able to win it all. Still, I don't think Kobe is going anywhere. He'll be a Laker (90% sure or a Clipper 5% sure). Which means their is 5% he goes elsewhere.

Sweeney also gunned a guy down at the plate in the game

When Nach was drafted I think some of us projected him more as a top flight closer. One thing about him is that I hope his knees hold up, cause he has dynamite stuff. He was obviously just quite raw or something cause last year he was brutal. Still, just a year removed from high school.

Gload has looked pretty bad out in right, but then again, he's more of a left fielder (although I don't think their is much of a difference other then arm strenght in playing left and right). He is a good defensive first baseman though. I do remember Gload making a decent catch in center against the Indians.

Look at Scheiders splits and you'll be presently surprised that minus April, he's actually been a pretty good hitter and if I recall he hit about .290 in June. Of cousre the splits show my argument and who knows how good he really is, but he's supposed to have some offensive upside.

Righties struggle against Zambrono so its best to bring in a leftie like Gload, imo.

Thats pretty cool.

I'm starting to like the idea of Kendall more and more as long as Sox management is willing to take part of his contract and they aren't going to use that as an excuse not to resign some guys next year (lets be honest, I think resigning guys like Garcia and such are more important then having a catcher). However, he's really made great strides defensively this year, calls a good game, has good speed, and can flat out hit the ball and would be a great two hole hitter. He does what Jeremy Reed at his finest would do and from a more diffucult position to get production from. I say Kendall or Schneider (From Montreal). Schneider has been hitting the ball better every month, is still semi young (but gonna be arb eligible) and is a STUD defensively (Throws out about 45% of base stealers each year).

Screw Estrada, the amount that it would take to get him would be so un-worth it. The Braves are very high on Estrada and will not deal him unless they get Maggs or Konerko or some other everyday player...case closed. The White Sox just don't have the major leauge prospects that the Braves would want to make a deal. The Braves aren't going to make a deal for lower level prospects or anything along those lines, they'd want guys that can come in and help immediately. He is more "retooling" then rebuilding (Schueroltz). If the Sox want a catcher its gonna be Schneider, Zaun, or Kendall unless of course Maggs is part of a deal in which case I think its very likley you see the Sox get Estrada since they seem desperate to clear payroll (another thing Schueroltz has been told to do) which means they may just have to include a cheap good player in Estrada. However, like SSI mentions, he is absolutely awful defensively.

Good quote...I think it will be interesting how everything shakes out. Kenny isn't a deadline dealer, he tries to get his moves done before then.

Well to say the least it didn't go near as planned. We worked for about 5 and a half hours on it and just kept running into problems. I turned the board back for the time being while Kap and I will have to regroup and try to figure out what exactly is wrong with the swap. Were both puzzled as to why this isn't working because were doing it the proper way, its just not taking for some reason. Anyway just wanted to give everyone an update. Unfortunately this means that we'll still have down time. My hope is that the next time it goes down, we'll do a little test to make sure we can get it uploaded first and then once we know we got the thing working right, we'll turn it off and make the switch as quick as possible

I saw it on Tuesday and was pretty much dis-interested in the movie. I liked the first one better. However, I think part of the reason was it was like 1 AM on Tuesday and I was really thinking sleep would of been the better idea

Howard was compared to someone in our system by Baseball America or John Sickels a few weeks ago, maybe even a month ago. THe problem is I don't remember which prospect it was. For some reason I Think it was a piece on Thomas Brice.

I sure hope so. I expect it to be up in a few hours, hopefully by 10 o clock my time, but it could hit a few snags.

The site will be turned off rather quickly. I've been downloading everything onto my computer hoping to make the actual transfer process as quick as possible, but since the sites database is so large it may take a while to finalize the whole download and upload process.

Congrats to Brian, even though I was hoping it wouldn't be for another week. He'll be batting 3rd tonight for the Barons

Still nothing, but the more I Think about it, I'm thinking they are aiming for him to come back after the break. I think he'll go to Charlotte just before the break, rehab and then come back to Chicago.

Ya, I think another pickup or two would be very nice. I'd still like another starter, potentially a left handed bat, and of course another bullpen arm or two. By the way, welcome aboard

http://www.futuresox.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3 The game thread is set up right there. If you want to read it, don't worry about registering, if you want to post, you got to register (just cause it makes it easier). Its just basically a test forum I created, but it should handle the thread fine

Hooooollllyy Shiiiit....thats some sick looking stuff Cheat. Beautiful. I'll get it up on a server tonight so it takes a little stress off your site

Check out http://www.futuresox.com/forum There you can have someone post inning by inning updates or something. I'm also gonna set up cw and 2k as admins for that site before I leave Also for those curious, it is a little bit of a preview of what the new soxtalk will look like in a few weeks, once the upgrade script is available.

Steff, just want to say I got your PM and I'll get back to ya after my finals and the server move tonight.

Nah, kidney stones isn't anything along those lines. Its just something that ocassionally comes up. Looking at Miguel, he's a pretty big and strong guy and probably drinks a lot of milk and what not.

Ya, it was spring training...I bet ya to it seal, lol. I forget what causes them, but I think its calcium buildup.

He had to of started, he was like the most popular playre in baseball in the early nineties with Griffey.