Jordan4life_2007

I had to hate him because he was a Cub. But Lee has always had a special place in my heart due to his clutch 2-run double off Prior in Game 6.

lol@the LeBron returning to Cleveland hype. So f***ing dumb. Unless you're a fan of either team and would watch the game anyway, who the f*** is going to care after the player intros?

QUOTE (joeynach @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 05:55 PM) Look at his WAR, I bet you the less defense Dunn is allowed to play the greater is WAR. Dunn could easily be a 6 WAR guy in a DH only role, which is RIDICULOUSLY GOOD. The only way Dunn can be bad is if he is allowed to play defense and costs enough runs to negative his .900+ OPS. Dunn would have to go 2006/2007 David Ortiz to post a 6 WAR from the DH slot. Not happening. I'm more than content with a 4-4.5 WAR. 5 WAR would be the absolute max. And he would have to really take to playing 81 games at the Cell for that to even happen.

QUOTE (sircaffey @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 05:50 PM) If we re-sign Pauly, you better go over slot in the next draft Jerry. lol@that ever happening. But I digress. We just signed Adam Dunn. I'm content for now.

QUOTE (scotty22hotty @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 05:34 PM) Not really excited about this... but if Jerry is raising the payroll, then okay it's a good signing at best. Hes a purely NL hitter with horrible OF defense (granted he just moved to 1B last year) that strikes out ~33% of the time for 14M a year (4 years too O_O) If this is Kenny's only "big" signing AND hes lets Konerko walk then I am disappoint. Would rather have Konerko at 28/2 than Dunn at 56/4... Might as well sign a couple more type As as the 23rd pick is gone. What the hell is a "purely NL hitter"?

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 05:32 PM) I agree, I would not trade Beckham for Rasmus straight up, and I like Rasmus a lot Be too lateral of a move to me. Both are talented, cost/team controlled players. Although Rasmus is the better player at this point.

QUOTE (joeynach @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 05:28 PM) Beckham is the only piece that would even come close to getting it done, but we need to move CQ just to have a place for Rasmus. Think about it though, if you have Rasmus in right you can sign someone like Orlando Hudson to play 2B (1 year 5 mil). Hudson, if healthy, will actually give you numbers pretty comparable to what a good year for Beckham would produce, about .280/.350/.420. I realize Beckham is the only piece that would get it done. And I'm not even sure I'd do that. Beckham and CQ? Too steep.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 05:24 PM) $14 million is about right. Although having him until he's 35 worries me a bit. I would have liked 3 years a lot better. Meh, guys like Ortiz/Vlad/Thome have continued to rake at or well past 35. Not too worried about the years, as Dunn has prototypical "old guy" skills anyway. Those don't decline nearly as fast as somebody like a Carl Crawford's would into his 30's.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 05:20 PM) The Dodgers are paying $3.5 million of the $8.5 million owed. Therefore, Pierre will cost the Sox $5 million. If someone would take him, wouldn't you be happy to add that money to the payroll? JP ain't goin' anywhere.

QUOTE (joeynach @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 05:17 PM) Konerko and Dunn is your 1B/DH combo. I hope that Konerko does resign becuase Dunn's value becomes very diminished if he allowed to play the field regularly (1B or RF). You still need a RF, Quentin can play, I guess, but I would welcome a trade for a more defensive minded RF. Still would a CQ and Beckham package get it done for Rasmus? Of course it would. And that would be a drastic overpay.

Well, well, well...Pass out for a few hours from some early morning drinking and suddenly we've signed one of the elite power threats in baseball. Nothing to complain about here. Splendid move.

My name is Jordan4life aka Mikell, and Blake Griffin is f***ing sick. You know you're good when you make me tune in to Clippers highlights.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 06:48 AM) Yeah, and the Sox were sitting a bunch of their players at that time as well. DeAza, Flowers, Morel, Lillibridge, Viciedo all got tons of playing time that last week, but of course you would never acknowledge that. You're right. And I should've mentioned that. But you just proved my point. The last 2 weeks or so for teams that have either clinched or aren't sniffing the playoffs mean next to nothing.

Happy bday to an excellent poster!

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 03:23 AM) I don't understand what you think win totals mean to people. To me, "we won 88 games" means that we had the talent to win 88 games. That's not a stretch. You can take that win total and estimate how far off you are from legitimate contention. You then take that information and logically conclude that you should not blow the team up. That's what 88 wins means going forward. Um, no. You can choose to either look at 88 wins in a vacuum or look a little deeper. I don't give a s*** that we went 8-1 the last week and a half to pad our overall win total. Teams that are out of it or that have already clinched mid-to-late September simply don't give a f*** and are either resting regulars or playing minor leaguers. How many stars got shut down with two weeks to go because of mysterious injuries? The Rays wouldn't even play Longoria when it was clear he was fine the last 2 weeks or so of the regular season. Playoffs begin? He's back!!! Josh Hamilton was out all of September because the Rangers had such a big lead but of course they claimed he was "hurt". Playoffs begin? He's backkk!!!!! Miguel Cabrera gets shut down with over a week to go. Think that happens if a playoff spot is on the line? Pitchers all over the place were being shut down to "save" them for next year. There's just no real value in finishing the year strong when you were already out of it well beforehand. You know what, I've heard all this before. To me it's simple: BEAT THE MOTHERf***ING TWINS! I don't want to hear this nearly bulls*** or we're not far off. They've been bendin' us over every year (save '05 when they weren't ever in it) and rammin' us up the ass with extra shiny lube. We're like 3 and 53734267464 in Minnesota the last 3 years. "Oh, well, they're outdoors now. They're not gonna be that good." Fail. Just like Sox fans can get on the Twins for losing to a 200 million dollar juggernaut every year in the playoffs I will do the same damn thing for us losing to the team that Sox fans mock for losing to the Yankees. See above.

lol@steve. You failed again. Bulls player of the month? That's like winning employee of the month at Burger King.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 04:03 PM) Then the Twins were an 87 win team in reality, so I guess the Sox won the division! Yay! I mean, since we are randomly deciding to remove 7 wins from a team, right? Seriously, there's being disappointed, and then there's being absurd. Do you really not see the difference between this: "I'm content with the season, we still won 88 games" (which is your straw man), and this: "we still won 88 games despite disappointments, holes and injuries, so we don't need to retool the whole team"? Who cares if they won a bunch of games once they were well out of the race to make their win total look decent? This was a team that underperformed most of the season when it mattered (save the insane 25-5 run). We won 90 games in 2006 with the entire pitching staff falling apart. Have we won 90 games since? The fact we won 88 games means absolutely nothing going forward.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 12:24 PM) Hyperbole? Please, I don’t see how last year could be seen as anything other than an abject failure. We conceded the division to the Twins in Spring Training. It just took it a while for that to shake out on paper. You don’t go into a season with gaping holes and your fingers crossed. I don’t care how many games we won last year, we willingly came into the season as a flawed team and ignored a very real shot at winning this division after assembling one of the best pitching staffs in the game. We went into the season with our weaknesses on glaring display for the entire world to see, that matters a lot more to be then 88 wins, a lack of a playoff berth, and a yearlong glimpse of the fundamental misunderstanding that our manager has for the game of baseball. The record is meaningless when we have nothing to show for it. I have high expectations for this team year in and out and I’d like to see this organization establish similar goals for itself. Well said. I want to eat a rat poison omlette whenever I hear "we still won 88 games." The team collectively soiled their pants and lost 12 of 14 games from September 6 to like September 21 and were outta the race LONG before that last week when they decided to get hot. This was about a .500 team in reality.

QUOTE (flavum @ Nov 30, 2010 -> 07:49 PM) Yes. Just two more guaranteed years at what he's made the last 5 years. $24 mil, plus an option for $12 in 2013. Just making sure. You scared me. I thought you meant two more years at 6 million each. lol. Sorry.

QUOTE (flavum @ Nov 30, 2010 -> 06:57 PM) Maybe it'll happen next week, but it's surprising there haven't been any real offers made public for PK. It's too bad the Sox couldn't get him to come back for 2 more years at $12, and an option for a third. If he can do better, he should take it. Do you mean 2 more years at 12 million each year?

Sounds about right to me. Other than an injury-plagued 2008, Tulo has proven himself to be one of the 10 best (maybe top 5) players in baseball. And he just turned 26 a month ago. More and more teams aren't messing around when it comes to locking up their young stars.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Nov 29, 2010 -> 10:34 PM) Pierre did lead baseball in SB's last year. Obviously his OBP wasn't the sexiest- but the dude still has legs. And why would they 'have' to cut salary? They didn't come out and say what their budget is yet. Unless I missed it. Kalapse's payroll source is your friend. Tell me how in the hell we're going to be able to resign PK AND sign Dunn without cutting payroll with all the committed money and arb raises that are due without cutting salary somewhere else?

I've always loved Pence. The OBP leaves a little to be desired. But he's a fine all-around player otherwise. He'll still be fairly cheap, even with an arb raise coming up. Other than Sale/Danks, there isn't a thing we could offer they wouldn't roll over laughing at.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Nov 29, 2010 -> 10:25 PM) If we get both- the central is ours! Suddenly our offense becomes SCARY! No offense with Juan Pierre leading off can be considered scary. And to get both we'd have to cut salary somewhere (trade Floyd). So we strengthen the offense while downgrading the pitching.

No way Rose is doing what he's doing with LeBron here. Not that the Bulls aren't a better fit. I think they are. But honestly, he had the perfect setup in Cleveland.