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Thanks for the updates Jim. I think Levine was right on the money when he mentioned the 20th. Their are gonna be a record number of players non tendered. I think one of those guys could end up being Freddy Garcia, I just don't think he has value and if the Mariners add Tejada on top of Guardado, they may not want to spend an estimated on Garcia, allowing him to join the FA ranks. Either way their are supposed to be a ton of guys non tendered, some of them very good players.

Anderson is around the same amount, if not less. They have him at a great price and he's a free agent next year. This is a Cub fan wishing. If it happened, it would be a great move by the Cubs.

Yanks may not have Sheffield, a few articles have mentioned that talks are breaking down. Orioles are definately the favorites, Dodgers could be interested although he would never go there and I still wouldn't count out the Angels if they could make a deal.

Benito may be old, but he still calls a great game, still has a pretty good arm and has quite a bit of pop in his bat for a catcher. This is a another good move by the Royals. They are doing a very good job.

About 14 months and the site already ahs that many posts..pretty amazing

Agreed; Jeff Nelson, Arthur Rhodes, Armando Benitez, Al Levine, Jose Jimenez, etc.

None of the threads occured in Pale Hose Talk Anyway...I'm gonna move this to the off topic board now

I'm pretty sure it was all removed.

I agree with you Rex. In all honesty I didn't want Alomar back, I didn't want Gordon back at his price and a multi year deal and well, nothing you can do when the Angels go out and make a flat out impressive offer for Colon. The only thing I will disagree with is how some quality relievers have been signed that could help the Sox, but at the same time there are other guys out there. Things could be a lot worse. Now if at the end of December the Sox are still sitting here things could be different, but as of now there are still plenty of ways to build the Sox into a championship caliber team. Will they, who knows, but right now, I'm not going to stress it.

The three were banned for uttering hate. It was an ugly few days to say the least.

I definately have hope...its just going to be a longer offseason then some expected because the Sox are going to have to move the likes of Maggs, Konerko and Koch to free up room to make other moves. Its going to take time for that to happen and the one thing that I think about is whether or not they will be able to move Konerko and Koch. I do think Kenny is trying his best though, whether thats good enough, I don't know, we'll just have to wait and see.

Jugger has been posting quite a bit lately. Work sometimes has him busy, but he has been around this past week.

The one big flaw in this is that the contract specifically states that JR can't use US Cell's money on players or pocket it. It can soley be used to renovate the stadium. Now their is nothing wrong with writing letters, but I recommend leaving explictives out of them because the best way for them to gain your respect is to yell swearwords because then you give them reason to throw your letter right into the trash. I'm still willing to be patient, but I think all Sox fans are frustrated right now.

Agreed, it would be greatly appreciated if someone in the Chicago area could update everyone. I know Tizzle did it for the last show and then him and Ross were able to get on and even give a shout out to the site, which was awesome Thanks for whoever helps out and posts it

Not soxfan99 but its Elisha Cuthbert

She's around every once in a while...I just don't think she wants to post right now. I know someone mentioned that they thought she was working on remodeling her house or something along those lines.

Can't trade prospects to get Ventura, you have to wait a certain amount of time to trade him. In regards to Ventura I don't think he would be playing 3rd. Crede is already superior to him and his 2nd half showed some really good things. Crede will be just fine. His defense continues to get better and offensively he shows that he can hit the ball to all parts of the field and has power. He still has to improve his avg and draw more walks, but he keeps making improvements and was one of the few players always willing to move guys over and he had quite a few clutch hits. I'm a big Crede fan though.

KC and Minn still have the best pens in the AL Central, but I think I'd say that Marte is the best reliever in the central. The Twins did get Silva and Joey Nathan, both good relievers this offseason. As far as their closer though, I'd guess they pick up someone like Benitez, Jimenez, or Roberto Hernandez. No one great, but someone solid. And they have Jesse Crain in AAA, a stud closer prospect.

Even though its a 2nd rounder, look at it this way. The Sox will have 6 picks in the first two rounds. I'd say thats pretty darn good. They should be able to have a very good draft and going with last years draft (Which looked really good) completely rebuild the farm system in the lower levels with an influx of talent. I like a lot of the position players that were drafted last year and I think this time the Sox should go heavy on pitching and draft a good catcher or two as well as middle infield prospects, cause you can never have too many of them. Basically they aught to just go best available the whole way down, but find guys that they can sign. I'm guessing with so many picks, they will probably take a few guys a little high for signability reasons.

Al Levine, now I like that name. HE is a solid reliever that can throw a lot of innings and has a pretty a good sinker if I recall. He's definately a quality reliever and I wouldn't mind bringing him back to the Southside. Man it seems like so long ago that Levine was a Sox.

Whats so bad about Lidle, as long as they are bringing him in to be a back of the rotation guy. He's put up pretty solid numbers the past few years and keeps you in games. Now if they want him to be the #2 or 3, then I'd say forget about it.

Remember, there is no guarantee that Scho will be around. The Sox would have to pay him roughly 3 mill a year, so I think its almost a guarantee that he gets non tendered and Wunsch is a FA or at least I think he is.

You'd have a shot at getting Mulder, maybe, if you took on Dye's salary and gave them someone else that could be useful.

The Expos would be nuts not to make that trade cause they'd have a star RF and that money off their books next year. At the same time the Sox would also be nuts to trade Maggs for Livan and Vidro. Now if they somehow were getting another good player in return, then I'd think it be plausible. I do like how you made the salaries work out though, cause thats the only way something like this would happen.

Oh s***, the Royals just got a hell of a lot better. Sully will be a huge acquistion. To go with Grimsley they are now looking to have a bit better of a pen. Geeze it sucks when the Twins and Royals are out there bettering themselves (Well Twins haven't necessarily made themselves better, but they have kept some of their guys and I think they will add a player or two).