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Lol, it will be done on Thursday, up on Friday. Will finish it when I finish my finals tomorrow.

I am all for the White Flag as long as they do it my way.

Thomas is guaranteed 22.5 million over the next few years.

But that was from the Expos, this is a different point of the game. I think we could easily land two top prospects for Colon. Guys usually become more valuable as they get closer to the trading deadline. Think if the Yankees continue to struggle what some of our players could be worth to them... Yanks, Angles, Red Sox and Giants will be who the Sox deal with.

It won't be a failure when the Sox move Koch and Flash and then cut or deal White. That right there opens three slots and thats when a lot of those guys will be able to step right in. That allows the Sox to easily move some of those arms in the pen (NOT Marte), get something valuable to help with the rebuilding/retooling process.

But that was from the Expos, this is a different point of the game. I think we could easily land two top prospects for Colon.

Wow, I'm with you on these ideas. I got all of these type of things in the article I'm working on. Will finish it right when my finals are over.

Ya, there cousins. My mistake on the age. Must of screwed up the dates. I was just looking at birth dates and may of thought for some reason his birthday already happened. I think Hummel will move up pretty quickly on our list.

Like the fact that the Spurs just choked

I can always debate you on Jose. You bring up good facts. And I can only hope Jose starts hitting the cover off the ball as you suggest. Nothing would make me happier then the Sox all of a sudden hitting the ball and winning.

Yep, I got a horrible feeling. Either way I'm super excited just to see the Sox. I wonder what team we'll be seeing cause it could be a whole lot different in a week and a half.

Lets at least agree on this, BOTH ARE TWO BLAME. This organization has quite a few things to do to fix itself. I thought they were close and I admit I was wrong. For that I won't blame them as much, but that doesn't change the fact that this team needs a change. If no one is in charge, they better get someone in fast, cause they should be busy on the phones trying to find some top arms and prospects to acquire. I'd have the scouts going out ASAP.

True. I saw him on third when the outfielder picked it up. I was studying during this whole thing so who the hell knows. I could be blind. No point in arguing that play individually. I soley stick to my guns on Jose. People actually convinced me this year that he would be worth something. I tried, yet all I ever see is worthless traits. You can say he runs, but Tom Goodwin can run and play good defense and he hits like crap. You don't see me asking for him to play. Jose has power and he's better then Goodwin, but similar situations. Jose's just off to the same start that 90% of our team is -- a horrible one. Assuming that all of them will just suddenly realize how to play winning baseball is looking more and more absurd as the L's pile up and all hope is dissolved. I think I'm gonna take Jason's approach -- just watch and try not to care too much about it, because it's just too frustrating to expect the Sox to win every game when they appear to just not care. Thus far it made todays game a bit more relaxing, especially cause the whole time I was just looking for Borchard to hit; That homer was impressive. Still, its going to be hard to take that approach until we get some TALENT up here. By talent I mean my mixture of players. Damn, they should hire a 20 year old gm.

Lol; He just needed the porn star mustache.

I am not saying we should start Miles and move Jimenez to 2nd. I want Jimenez to stay at 2nd with the Sox acquiring a young shortstop from AAA. Almazenga Jose can be here until then, but the Sox need to retool this team the right way. Jose isn't the type of player I want around, simply because like I say I want defensive guys that don't strike out a lot and have great speed. Jose is solid, but aging and is terrible defensively. There are quite a few things I'd change with this lineup to make it WAY WAY more balanced. Lee and maggs would be the only vets to stay offensively if I were in charge.

Sometimes I can be wrong ; I'm not wrong in regards to Jose. I could be wrong with Borchard on the play. I didn't see the jump he got and I will admit as always that Jose gets awesome jumps. Borchard definately has a lot to learn before he is Jose on the paths.

Could it be that they stopped him because they don't know his speed, etc because he's been up for so little. I agree with you Jose doesn't get the stop sign because they know him. But I think if they treated the two the same, neither would of scored. Obviously Jose has more trust because he's been here and doesn't get into many mistakes. I understand your huge on stats, but stats only show part of it. Overall you can look at stats and figure things out, but to really asses you watch and breakdown the swing. See who he gets his hits off of (Can he hit good pitchers?) etc and then you know a lot more. I know Jimenez is doing good, don't have to look at the stats. I know Carlos has been solid and Maggs has been really doing good. I could say that jsut watching their approaches and seeing them go oppo field, etc.

True. I saw him on third when the outfielder picked it up. I was studying during this whole thing so who the hell knows. I could be blind. No point in arguing that play individually. I soley stick to my guns on Jose. People actually convinced me this year that he would be worth something. I tried, yet all I ever see is worthless traits. You can say he runs, but Tom Goodwin can run and play good defense and he hits like crap. You don't see me asking for him to play. Jose has power and he's better then Goodwin, but similar situations.

I want to trade him and use trades to bring in a young shortstop with a slick glove that has great speed and can handle a bat. By handle a bat I mean make contact, bunt, and has a good eye. I could give a damn about what he hits right away as long as he does the little things. I mean he'll have to do around .250 with a solid obp. Note: I'm more then willing to accept a rather low avg if they have a ton of other things that make up for it. Almazenga of the Angels would be my guy cause I think we could land him.

Well if they agree with me this is a new trend cause for years everyone has disagreed with my take on Jose. You flash me the runs he stops, but you never mention hits. Errors hurt a team no matter what. It just happens he hasn't made any during super key situations, but they still hurt. If you want to say you appreciate him when comparing him to the Sox baserunning go for it, but don't make him good because of the Sox pathetic fundmentals. This team needs a wholesale change from players to coaching to management. There are a lot of issues and some of it stems from the way the organization builds teams. They build it on power and not speed, defense and pitching, which is what really wins games. I'd trade for the Twins any day of the week. You realize how fun they are to watch. I bet the Cell would be damn near sold out if the Sox played that style of baseball. All those guys have the fundementals and heart of Jose (Using him for example) and they make all the heads up plays while still playing tremendous defense, etc. I hate to admit it, but the TWINS are FUN to watch. Great defense, do the little things, never say die; They are just FIESTY.

Its funny, 98, 99, and 00 were my favorite years watching because the Sox were just so fun to watch grow and develop. The problem was we were developing players that weren't fundementally sound via a manager that is an idiot.

I'll agree with you on KW (move him elsewhere; this team is lacking the major major type talent/makeup) as long as you'll agree with me that we need Backman

only young guys and Maggs stay in my books.

I think 2004 will be fun to watch, simply because I really enjoy watching prospects and players develop. I'm not seeing anyone develop on this team other then Miguel, Borchard, and a few other players. Otherwise I'm just seeing players fundementals get worse and worse and worse and I point that at the coaching and the type of players we have. We have a lot of guys up here that aren't solid fundemental players. We probably have a lineup with quite a few dh's and guys that are terrible runners, have bad approaches, etc and its a big reason we suck.

Its time to retool the farm system and team, pretty much from the ground up. I got some great ideas I'm working on in an article; Don't you all love self promotion