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Pretty sure he's talking about Burnett.

QUOTE (VictoryMC98 @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 12:51 PM) Minus the results. How can you say that right now?

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 01:27 PM) I will never blame KW for Dunn or Peavy. 95% of Sox fans agree with these moves at the time it happen.. Would make any fan a hypocrite to blame him cause of Dunn had an off year or that Peavy got injured. I will blame KW for letting Hudson, Gio, and the Nick Swisher trade to the Yanks. I will also blame him for a brutal minor league system. I respect Reinsdorf a lot. My only disagreement with him, is that I wish he would have fired KW, Hahn and Buddy Bell this off season and start all over again, like the north side club has. I go to about 50- 60 games a year to support the team that I love. You take on that type of contract for a guy that pitched half his home games where death to all things offense occurs, you're taking on a major risk. Peavy was also injured at the time of the trade. I'll give you Dunn. I was ecstatic.

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 01:44 PM) Also, Jon Heyman is reporting it as well.. I don't believe that the Rays will trade him I'm not saying you're lying about it being reported. I'll take your word from it. But not a thing will come from it. Hellickson is not going anywhere.

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 01:40 PM) Reports out of Tampa Bay today says that Rays are open minded to trading Hellickson Again, I don't believe it at all. That's simply not the way Tampa operates.

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 01:33 PM) Hellickson is also on the trade market Yeah, I don't believe that for a second.

Did the Knicks sign Grant Hill?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 11:50 AM) He'll probably be hurt before the end of May. If not, hopefully he's his old self and we can trade him for a nice prospect. He'd have to be 13-1 with a 2.45 ERA or something of that ilk for a team to even consider him. And even then that's a huge stretch. Even at half a season, he'd still be owed roughly $12 million or so (that includes the $4 million dollar buyout).

QUOTE (soxsider11 @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 11:36 AM) Abreu is owed 9 mil next year so 125 with 17 spots. They have a cheap closer but where do they put everyone? Kendrys at dh pujols first but then where do abreu and trumbo go? While they are in the spending mood they should just take rios. Pretty sure Morales is no longer in their plans. That injury in 2010 looks to be career threatening. They'll probably just non-tender him.

Eddy Curry? Jesus. Is the C position that bad that he can still somehow find employment?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 11:17 AM) Priority one for the Sox has to be acquiring young pitching while lowering payroll. To that end, the next guys to go should be Ramirez and Floyd (Thornton has few takers). If the demand isn't there for Danks, keep until the break. To get a blue chip pitching prospect I advocate shopping Viciedo. Danks' value decreases even further if you wait until the deadline. There's now no compensation for teams that trade for impending free agents mid-season.

QUOTE (pktmotion @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 11:00 AM) I have a buddy who sells tickets for the Rangers, but it's pure speculation. I texted him this morning going to work after I heard about Pujols signing. He just texted me "Our phones haven't stopped ringing!" Albert to the Angels was crazy. But Wilson to the Angels as well; really stings the Rangers. I wouldn't doubt if Danks is traded there and maybe Konerko, if they miss out on Fielder. Exactly what I was thinking. It's one thing to lose Wilson. But to lose him to your main competition? Oh, and Pujols. That makes things a tad bit more uncomfortable for them. Go back to them with Danks as your main bait. Don't settle for ANYTHING less than Martin Perez.

Could be wishful thinking on my part. But if there was ever a time to get at the Rangers, now is it. They go from easily the best team in that division to, at least on paper, the second best. Maybe they go into semi-panic mode? KW should be all on that s***.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 10:25 AM) Awesome. That's like the exact type of player they were missing last year. One of the better perimeter defenders of the last half decade and a killer from deep? Yeah, he'll fit in quite nicely.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 10:02 AM) ChiTribSports ChiTribSports Shane Battier says he will sign with Miami Heat OK, so the east is once again spoken for.

What the hell is Cole Hamels gettin' next year?

QUOTE (flavum @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 09:50 AM) So to preview the 2012 AL playoffs... Yankees, Tigers, Angels division winners Rangers vs Red Sox in the wildcard game (if they do it) The Rays told me to tell you to not forget about them.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 04:53 AM) Now that I'm a bit more level headed. __________________________________________________________________ For the past eleven years, there were a few constants in my life. Seeing the same friends, coming to the same home, and Mark Buehrle taking the ball every fifth game during baseball season. Now I'm at college, but I still had Buehrle. Now that's gone. Buehrle was like a friend that you never really knew, he was reliable, a great person, and you loved him. When some friends and I were at Blockbuster, we got in the car...I was wearing my Mark Buehrle shirt (during baseball season I only wore it every day he started a game and no others) and I heard Farmio say "Mark Buehrle has retired all twelve batters he's faced." Ok, four innings of perfect ball is nothing to get excited about...but I did. I sped home to turn on the game. DeWayne Wise catching that ball released the most unbridled emotion in me that I've ever really had, including out 27 of Game 4. I watch that play now and it isn't the same. It's over in like three seconds. Not three hours. Mark was more than a baseball player to me. He was an inspiration...honestly, I kept trying at making my high school baseball team, where I knew I had no place, because Mark made it off hard work, not talent. Every day he pitched, right under my jersey was my now tattered Mark Buehrle t-shirt, because honestly, the guy is the only celebrity "hero" I ever had, him and Paulie. But Buehrle wasn't a highly touted prospect. He was kid who didn't make his HS team, pitched in JC with OK stuff, but made it to the big leagues and was a great human being. I could wax poetic about Buehrle for paragraphs, but it's pointless as he's gone to the home of the Hollywood Heat and the second running of the Oz Show. Where LeBron and Co. have a pre-season celebration, where Ozzie and Loria try to be flashy, where the 72 Dolphins b**** and moan every year...the Patron Saint of the Southside has no place in South Beach, yet there he is. I'm wearing my Buehrle shirt one last time tomorrow, then the shirt I've worn more than any other will be retired until Buehrle rejoins the Sox or retires himself. Mark I'm in tears right now. Sorry, Q. But you must persevere. You must go on. In fact, here's something I want you to listen to whenever you think of Mark.

Holy f***ing hell in the name of almighty allah most gracious/most merciful - Aaron Rowand f***ing sucks! Do you people not follow baseball outside of the Sox? Teams? Players? Aaron Rowand reminds me of that smell that comes from dirty belly-button. You do not give roster spots to terrible baseball players because, well, there is no f***ing reason. Stop it, people.

lol. This thread is getting out of control. I'm on my 4th corona. Keep goin'.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 05:41 PM) Sure thing. Maybe the other side of business is if you put out the resources to field a competitive team they will come and you will suceed and make money? Don't and they won't and you won't. There are always two ways to look at things. An in some cases more Oh my goodness. I surrender. I'm not responding to you anymore.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 05:36 PM) maybe this will sell you. owners make money by selling tickets. fans buy tickets. when teams suck, there are no fans. no fans, means no tickets sold. no tickets sold means no money for owners. no money for owners means no opening up wallet to INCREASE payroll. NOT. EVER. GOING. TO. HAPPEN. Let it go. He doesn't understand a single aspect of the business side of sports.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 04:59 PM) I agree with the sentiment you are expressing. This has been a very frustrating season and isn't done yet as far as disappointments. Apparently theSox feel Buerhle can't offer them a quality season or four anymore. Or Jerry is broke. If he is broke then he should save money by canning KW. I don't see the Sox addressing the real issues or problems with this team. All you hear and have now seen is dump salary. With MB and Juan Pierre gone and Vizquel and Castro and also Santos we have cut around $20M plus and keep high paid non-performers. It will take awhile to accept the direction the team is headed and hopefully by ST we can get positive again :lolhitting

lol@milk

So the compensation is still the same, right? I don't have the new CBA rules all down yet.