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Per Cowley's Twitter:

Per Joe Cowley, Colon is already in Chicago and will be starting one of the games on Friday. He also said that Ozzie said that Garcia had an impressive bullpen session.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 01:41 PM) Based on? The fact that my eyes tell me so. Or the fact that Anderson has one of the ugliest, most flawed swings in baseball. Nowhere did I say Wise is good but Wise is a better bat than Anderson. Both suck ass offensively though.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 01:23 PM) It's unforunate that this move is tainted with Wise staying up and BA going down. Dewayne Wise is worthless. I wouldn't care if it weren't for the fact that BA is better at every single aspect of baseball than Dewayne Wise. Offensively, Wise is better and while I know Wise has had a worse season (and he's still a bad offensive player) Anderson really does suck offensively. However, there aren't major differences in there offensive game where defensively, Anderson is really a premiere defensive OFer. And since we are going to seriously have a major need with guys coming off our bench to play outfield defense, I'd have went with the defensive specialist.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 01:16 PM) WHAT? http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/7489/s...VYLIrgaSXGFCLcF Anderson is batting .200 in July, how can you just flat out lie? And .203 in June. He's a bad hitter, period.

This is a bad move. With Quentin/Pods/Dye in the OF you need to have a defensive guy that can come in and replace Q. Why because we need to keep Q's foot healthy. Plus, we have Pods who isn't that great in CF. So why wouldn't we late in games sub in our best defensive CF (BA) while moving Pods to LF? Makes a ton of sense to me. Oh and lets remember, I've not clamored for BA to be the starter, I've said he's a s***ty hitter but when we are comparing him to Wise the better decision hands down is Brian Anderson on your bench.

If the Sox can deal Dotel and Liney and get something in return (at least for Dotel) than it might not be a bad idea. Assuming they can than use the cash to get the pieces they need. I still think Jenks could be the other guy you need to move as well. It would be an odd way to do things but if in theory you could move Jenks/Liney/Dotel and get Halladay for the talent you receive in return (plus maybe one prospect not named Flowers/Danks) than it might not be that bad. The Sox would than have the ability to go out and swing a deal or two for something else they might want while moving Thornton to the closer spot, Richard to the pen to join Poreda.

I'd s*** a brick if we traded Danks for Halladay.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 08:35 AM) Texas, NM, Ariz & Cali should be labeled "Mexicans" probably.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 18, 2009 -> 02:47 PM) yea, i didnt like it NEARLY as much as I loved HP5 (my fav of the HP movies). 6 tried to include the romance part way too much and didnt include nearly enough fighting. It just seemed herky-jerky and disjointed most of the time. Slughorn was annoying as hell in the beginning but got better as it went on. oh... and not NEARLY enough Tonks. Very disappointing flick

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 08:48 AM) It needs to be made clear that Brandon Allen is NOT just a 1B/DH type. I, and anybody whose seen him play, know that he is a talented athlete. In debating the merit of the trade, please do not call him a "1B/DH" type. That's the thing that bothers me. The thing is those are really the only two positions he can play, unless a team wants to work things over and move him to LF. Allen is a very good defensive 1st baseman but that is what he is, a first baseman.

I'd have went with Santana and probably Webb but the only thing effecting Webb is the fact that he's been hurt this season. Santana is clearly #1 though. My eyes tell me it and the stats back it up too.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 08:05 PM) It's way too early to say anything like that. Pena is only 26 and has put up solid numbers in a major league setting. As Goldstein mentioned in his chat with FS, there are scouts around the league that don't project Allen to be a major league hitter. I'm not saying he won't be successful, I am an Allen fan and hope he does great, but whether it is an indictment on the Sox minor system, or them being great at knowing who is going to make it or won't, there haven't been many prospects traded by the Sox to come back and bite them. If Pena can be a serviceable set up man for this team over the next 3-4 years, I'm fine with the trade. Allen is a valuable prospect and the price was steep. Pena is going to have to prove his worth, imo, because Allen had good trade value. I also know that there are scouts that like Allen a pretty good amount. I will agree that first baseman are harder to find than back of the pen relievers but Pena has to prove that he really is a back of the pen reliever. I highly doubt this is one of those trades where the Sox rob someone, but trades are supposed to be fair and if this turns into a fair trade than awesome.

Closing it up. Going to be interviewing him in a few minutes here and will have it up on the site later on in the week when I get it all transcribed

QUOTE (Seymizzle @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 10:23 AM) Does anybody know the status of Jose Martinez? Didn't he break his leg or something along those lines? This is completely off the top of my head so I might be wrong.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jul 18, 2009 -> 09:51 PM) He and SF are making alot of people look stupid so far. Many scouts, analyst, and many people here (inc. myself) thought he was picked way too high/alot higher than he was projected to fall. SF scouts saw something in him to think otherwise, and so far.. he's showing what they saw. Wait, I don't think anyone thought Posey was going to fall to the Sox pick. I remember gushing over the thought of Posey falling, in fact, Posey "fell" to the Giants IIRC. Jason Castro was the catcher everyone was surprised went as high as he did (to the Astros). Castro has been exceptional in the minors thus far as well.

Leesman has 4k's through 3 innings and just 1 hit. Mitchell is 1-2 with a 2 run double.

Quentin had a sac fly in his first ab against one of the Orioles top prospects Jake Arietta.

3-0 Barons early in the game. Danks is 1-2.

Leesman is pitching for Kanny.

Hudson is going up against one of the top prospects in all of baseball, Dbacks pitching prospect Jarod Parker. Should be an awesome game.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 18, 2009 -> 02:47 PM) yea, i didnt like it NEARLY as much as I loved HP5 (my fav of the HP movies). 6 tried to include the romance part way too much and didnt include nearly enough fighting. It just seemed herky-jerky and disjointed most of the time. Slughorn was annoying as hell in the beginning but got better as it went on. oh... and not NEARLY enough Tonks. I wasn't a big fan of the 6th one. I've enjoyed all of the HP movies but this one just didn't do it for me. I enjoyed it but it wasn't on par with the prior movies and seemed much more like a placeholder movie (to get them to the final two movies). Just not that much action, funny scenes, or cool effects and usually HP movies are loaded with all of them.

Pods stole that by a mile.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 17, 2009 -> 07:10 PM) I want nothing to do with Hamilton. I have no confidence in him to stay healthy for an entire year. That is going to be the big question. It might be the reason the Sox can afford him but it all depends on what they think of him medically. However his ability to be able to play all 3 OF positions with plus offensive abilities would be huge as I know for a fact the Sox are targeting OF bats.

f***...Adam Jones 2 run bomb, 1 run game.