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Carolina is evidently looking for a 3rd or 4th rounder for Steve Smith. If we were trading a pick, I'd much rather go after Smith. I will point out I personally don't want us to make any trades because I want the club to keep its picks. I would like the team to take a serious look at Santonio Holmes and a guard.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 07:47 PM) I'm in a relationship. I've been in it since I was much younger. I love being in the relationship most times, but sometimes it's really tough to stay in love. There seems to be a lack of communication and respect. Every year it seems to costs me more and more money to go out and spend time in this relationship. Lately, everytime I get invested, it seems I am disappointed and feel like my heart has been ripped out. What to do? How long. Provide a little more details as to how it costs more and how you get invested? Has it been off and on?

I think it is interesting. You could use Soriano out in LF if you wanted or use him at 2B (assuming he could still play there). It isn't like 2B is that premium of a position anyway. Soriano gives you a little more speed as well. He would make you more right handed though and makes more money. I think I'd consider it more so if the Sox were able to expand the deal into being a our problem for your problem scenario with Fukodome, Zambrano, and Soriano coming over for Dunn and Rios. Sox would take on payroll up-front but would save money down the road. Would only make sense for the Cubs if they really wanted to unload the short-term money and liked Dunn and Rios chances. I have no idea if the Cubs would consider it and it is clearly pure fantasy given how much money would be involved.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 09:52 AM) Because his job is to win games, not to stick with the worst player in baseball until he's just mediocre enough to not have negative value. Pierre isn't the worst player in baseball. He isn't even the worst player on the Sox. By that logic, David Ortiz would have been cut by the Red Sox a long time ago (he had 2 straight years of having terrible starts, IIRC).

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 08:59 AM) Beckham >>> Morel. Defense relative to their position is similar (if not favoring Beckham). And hitting, it isn't close. I figured that would be someone's argument. I like 3B defense over 2B defense but I won't argue this much. I think Beckham and Morel have both been better than Dunn and Rios for sure. Pretty sad. Two of our three highest paid offensive players are ranked as our two worst offensive players.

F the TWINS! F the TWINS! F the TWINS!

I'd have to think, barring a series win, that there will be some pretty serious organizational meetings going on during the All Star Break. No better time to make changes than during the break. And while I have never thought that Walker is terrible, I have always thought that a message has to be sent and clearly he's the easiest guy to let go.

QUOTE (spiderman @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 08:45 AM) I don't think it makes much sense to have, at times, your 3 worst hitters (Pierre, Morel and Dunn) at the top of the lineup, and I certainly don't like Pierre and Morel at the top of the order. Pierre is likely to continue batting on top of the order because Guillen likes the idea of a leadoff hitter, but Morel, who does play good defense, is becoming a bit of a luxery item at 3B given his .250 average and 1 HR. If I'm Guillen, I'm probably going to give Mark Teahan more time at 3B because this offense can't afford to have as many struggling hitters as it currently does. I think that Beckham & Rios are both worse than Morel and Pierre. Pierre is like our 5th best hitter right now. Morel might be the 6th best, followed by Beckham, Rios, and Dunn. I might have Morel ranked above others, but I'm basing his numbers more on what he's done the past month and a half or so. Which still isn't anything to write home about but has been good signs of development.

QUOTE (Pale Sox @ Jul 6, 2011 -> 07:31 PM) I feel kinda bad for Pierre to be totally honest. I feel more confident with him at the plate than I do half our lineup (Morel, Dunn, Beckham, Rios). I agree our team would be better if he was replaced with Viciedo, but he's hardly been the only problem. So, yes...replacing Pierre with Viciedo will help. But it's not going to make Beckham hit like he can/should, it's not going to make Rios live up to his potential, it's not going to get Dunn back to his old self, and it's not going to make Morel live up to his marginal upside. I have been saying this for a long time. Pierre has become the undeserving whipping boy. He's been more productive than at least a few guys on our roster, yet somehow, he gets most of the hate. I realize he isn't great and in an ideal scenario you don't have him in the lineup. But the Sox are playing .500 ball more because guys like Dunn, Rios and Beckham have been terrible and less because of Pierre's play. I will also that while I like Morel, the struggles of Dunn, Rios & Beckham, have magnified the problem that is Morel. Ideally, Morel was gonna be a guy that would never have to be counted on this year. Just play good defense and learn to play. He's basically done that and has been improving. He still has major holes in his game but I think he'll have the ability to be a league average 3rd baseman (factoring in his defense). The problem is, when you already have 3 black-holes in the lineup (Dunn/Rios/Becks), than Morel ends up being a 4th black-hole. That is almost 50% of your lineup.

Joe, I also echo the sentiments of the posters above. She has "trouble" written all over her. If you are looking for a relationship (and judging by your posts, you were) than you never want to start you relationship with someone when they are already in a relationship. She has been cheating on her boyfriend for a while with you (maybe not physically cheating, but emotionally).

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 6, 2011 -> 03:17 PM) Let's see: Strasburg, Harper, both Zimmermans, Rendon and a bunch of other young legit talent or the Sox? Hmmmm. Not sure which way I'd lean? I'd take the job of the team that has historically given its managers a lot of rope (e.g., Sox) and also has more history. But thats just me. Jerry is a very good owner to work under.

Good luck athome!

Welcome aboard! Great to have another Sox fan on the best Sox site in the world!

Sox put the masses of Soxtalk in charge of them. The whole team would be cut within a week.

It really is hard to gauge the outfield. Trayce Thompson is the type of guy that if the switch flips, he'll sky-rocket up the system and could be penciled into the outfield in 2013. Same could even potentially be said about Mitchell (if now that he's gotten half a season back under his belt, he can start to make strides and show he is 100% back from the injury). The hard part is, I could also say that neither of the guys have shown me near enough. So it really is hard to say. I would say Erik Johnson is probably safe to not make the squad starting in 2013, but crazier things have happened (since Daniel Hudson). And I really think Johnson projects similarly to Huddy. Both have good quality arms but had trouble repeating there deliveries. However, no one can ever predict a prospect to make the type of "rise" that Huddy eventually did. Our rotation, based upon our internal development, looks awful. But I also know we could potentially be adding other guys to the rotation or keeping guys (whether that is spinning Jackson, resigning Jackson or spinning Danks, Buehrle, etc). Not that it would help in 2013, but you could also probably safely assume that arbitration would be offered to those guys and 2 comp picks would be received for each of those guys (if the Sox held onto them as opposed to trading).

Pretty surprised she gets off scott free. Seems about as bad as the OJ verdict.

I'm all for the signing though. Be interesting to see how Cullen would do in the 4-3 set-up. I assume the Bears plans would be to utilize him as a DT. Basically as Tommie's replacement.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 09:41 AM) Yes, but I still enjoyed it. It was non stop action start to finish. I enjoyed it too. Amazing, no, but entertaining, sure.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 1, 2011 -> 05:52 PM) Caltechs football team is undefeated since 1991. Damn you, I thought my Titans had the record. Undefeated since 94.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 10:37 AM) http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nba/news/story?id=6735080 Rudy Fernandez possibly heading to Real Madrid Supposedly he turned down the deal.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 10:10 AM) There's rumors abound that if/when the lockout is finally over, the Bears have a contract agreement with Cullen Jenkins in place. I can't imagine that would be true. Would the Bears have been able to have any communication with Cullen? If it did happen, I'd have to imagine someone would be putting in a complaint to the league.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:56 AM) Continuing to give Rios 4 or 5 ABs per game isn't going to help us win a division either. I'll continue to give AB's to the guy that plays the best CF defense on the squad, isn't old or past his prime, and has an extended history of major league success. By all means, Rios isn't amazing, but he is the best CFer the Sox have. And without commenting on what he did over the weekend, the past two weeks he's been hitting the ball hard, albeit without much luck. Sure he's had a lousy first half of the season, but permanently benching him in favor of De Aza and Lillibridge would be a far worse decision, imo.

This idea of relying on De Aza and Lillibridge as platoon everyday starters for the White Sox in CF is a bad idea. Neither guy, imo, is good enough to be productive over a large, extended sample size. And to be frank, we are trying to win a division and this isn't the type of move that helps you win the division. In terms of getting Rasmus, I can't imagine the Cards would be interested in moving him and if they were to move him, my guess is it would be pretty pricey.

I know Peavy has had injury pitchers, but outside of those problems, I really love the guy Peavy is. He's the epitome of the type of character you want in your clubhouse and he's the kind of guy that will do whatever it takes to win.

Fun win. Took my ethics exam while watching the game. Nice win.