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I think everyone was just real high up for the start of the season and getting shutdown by a poor Royals ballclub bothered people. Still its just one game. If two weeks from now were still winless, then we'll all have something to whine about.

What we are going to do is keep this board in a read only mode somehow. We haven't figured out all the minor details, but we'll keep it around so people can go back and read through the old archives and such. Then I'm going to backup everything, and save it on my computer as well, in case anything happens. After that I will save the post totals and do all I can to transfer them. I'm gonna be fiddling with the new boards tomorrow, so I'll have an idea of what I can do sometime tomorrow and will post it in this thread. If for some reason that can't be done, I'll try to come up with another idea, to serve as a reference to the posts on this board, something creative. Hopefully it won't come to that, cause I suck at being creative.

Sweet, the season is upon us.

I think we will be surprised.

Wade is damn good. Carmello or Wade, I'm happy. They are going to trade Jay Williams in the offseason, or thats what I'm hoping. Trade Williams for a guard. Maybe they package Williams and a high pick for a real good sg/sf.

I'm here. Slept in, now I'm ready.

That sounds good to me Southsider

no way, they have some good young arms and some decent bats...while not great, nowhere near the lack of talent found on the staffs of kc or tampa, or maybe even milwaukee kc's rotation is a joke, and tampa bay is a major league team made up of basically AAA players, so i think a 3 game series with our AAA team would be pretty interesting. how bad is tampa's AAA team considering all their players are on the big league roster? lol The Padres will be ugly, but this is a year for development for them. They do have quite a few very talented prospects, both position wise (Xavier Nady, Sean Burroughs, Vazquez) and pitching wise.

Lol. You should just drive to Chicago and watch the game. Depending on where you live, that should give you enough time to make it to the stadium as well as kill time.

This is the best defensive team the Sox have fielded in the past 5 years or so. Not saying its awesome, but its far better then what we've been used to.

Whooooo. ITS TIME FOR THIS YEARS SOON TO BE WORLD CHAMPS to beat the crap out of the Royals

I still think that comment to Jose was freaking hillarious

I learned to like him a lot, but I still believe he needs some time in AAA to prove himself. If he can do similar things to last year in AAA, then he'll earn his shot with the Sox and may be the starting 2nd baseman next year with Jimenez at short.

San Diego. THe key is the Sox don't know what they have in Burke and they don't know whether Olivo is ready. They also know there is a good chance that Alomar gets hurt, so if Olivo isn't ready, Burke is a ? then at least you have a guy in Paul that is familiar with the pitching and is alright. He's not absolutely worthless and I do believe the Padres or a few other teams would consider picking him up. Miles still has to play in AAA, imo. Then once he does that and proves himself, then can he go onto the next step and try to prove himself once again. I liked what I saw from him, but his numbers definately fell later in spring. Is that a sign of him hitting a slump or is it a sign that when he started facing better pitching he was overmatched? It may be neither, I wasn't there watching every game so I can't tell.

Sounds to me like Wally Backman is a lot like my favorite manager in the majors, Mike Scioscia. Would that be an accurate assessment Rex? Seems like a lot of hit and runs, steals, and he preaches contact and obp?

Well, there isn't going to be any value for a 33 year old AAA er and typically they won't be taking someone elses spot. They are there in a reserve type roll, usually doing some relief or pinch hitting.

They look pretty sharp Mike

Clayton was a vacuum though. His range may not of been amazing and the glove may not of been, but is still one of the best defensive shortstops in the majors. His arm was accurate and his glove was the model of conistency.

I think pitching prospects are the one area where you always hold onto them and only deal them if another need comes up, because injuries can whipe out a staff more then any other position. Now down the stretch, the Sox may need something and they definately have the reserves there.

Ehhh, I don't want to talk about my bracket

Compared to the Twins our defense is a joke. Now it is improving, Olivo is better then anyone we've had behind the plate since Pudge. I know Karkovice was solid, but Olivo is special, real special. At third we are better then most teams and at first we are average just like we are at second. Compared to last year, Crede is better then Valentin at 3rd, Jimenez a bit better then Ray (Maybe) at second. In center Rowand is probably similar to Lofton (Lofton wasn't like he was in his prime). Lee isn't as bad as advertise and Magglio is an average defensive right field. The defense is definately better then it has been in the past. The big holes are shortstop, where Jose isn't good defensively and you can say Carlos Lee in left. Otherwise its a pretty solid group. Oh ya, the pitching staff in 2000 was ugly when it came to fielding.

I think they also want to make sure he's healthy and they are better off letting him take it slowly, then too quickly. Malone will make the jump sooner or later, especially since Charlottes rotation won't be as deep as some expected since Stewart will be there and Wright is on the DL. That could make the Sox more prone to move him up earlier, but the key for Malone as Hudler said is for him to continue to grow as a pitcher. He is very "raw" and has tremendous stuff. He just needs a some more time and to stay healthy. If he takes advantage and continues to learn (he seems to be developing quite well) then I think we'll have a pretty special lefty.

I thought some guy relieved him and threw the last 4 or 5 straight but I dunno. I remember Sean Lowe doing it 2 yrs ago. :puke I may of been confusing him with Lowe.

Brian West?

There are very good odds that they will sign Tony Brackens and they really appear to want to trade down. Burris isn't likely going to be on the roster, but the Bears will be keeping Saueter and potentially Chandler.