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Contreras was flat out awesome! Thank you Pauly and Thank you Tadahito as well.

Didn't Griffey say he didn't want to play here?

QUOTE(HSC's Biggest Fan @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 04:14 PM) Where is Pablo OZuna, I thought he was a fine spark but we haven't seen him in weeks again. exactly the aquisition of Blum has pretty much screwed Ozuna out of any playing time. And as far as Griffey clearing waivers- it just wont happen. He's a Red for life. We just better hope Carl gets healthy- and QUICK!

I can see KW buying out the deal for 3 million, and then possibly offering him another deal for about 2-3 million for 2006 so he can finish his carrer w/ the Sox. KW needs to figure out what to do w/ that DH spot next season- and he needs to approach it as if he knows Frank would be hurt (like he did this season) that is why they still have Crazy Carl. Well if Carl goes- we would have a big hole at DH and KW still has an obsession for Griffey. I can see the Sox trading for him this offseason to fill our DH hole. And when Frank comes back in 2006 (if they re-sign him) then they can split time, plus Griffey can play some CF to give Rowand some days off. So you heard it here- Griffey-Sox-2006.

when is carl come back? i had to admit having Timo hit in the 5th slot is kind of a joke. and as much as i love A.J. he doesn't belong in the 3rd slot. hopefully ozzie learned from tonites lineups mistakes. but as far as the 1st base umpire goes :finger you were terrible in Oakland and your terrible in New York. Does he have it out for us or something? Did he grow up a Cub fan? Did Ozzie screw his wife? Podsednick was safe at 1B and A-Rod clearly interfered with that play.

Time to take 2 of 3 in the Bronx! I predict a W today, a L tommorow w/ Contreras and a series win on Wednesday as Freddy is both awesome on the road and in day games.

Going to see Jon Garland rip it up tonite at the Cell. Should be fun. Going for win # 70, Jon going for an AL best- win #16, going for our 4th straight win vs the jays this year, looking forward to see Blums debut, and looking for our magic # to at LEAST shrink to 42 tonite.

haha sorry guys- having network problems! well at least you get my point.

I'm an even prouder member of the Buerhle fan club here on Soxtalk now. What a great team player Mark is- and what a way for our team to pick him up after he picked up AJ. The character of this team is really amazing. And best of all- SWWWEEEEEEPPPP!!!! Now lets take it to those jays!!

I'm an even prouder member of the Buerhle fan club here on Soxtalk now. What a great team player Mark is- and what a way for our team to pick him up after he picked up AJ. The character of this team is really amazing. And best of all- SWWWEEEEEEPPPP!!!! Now lets take it to those jays!!

I'm an even prouder member of the Buerhle fan club here on Soxtalk now. What a great team player Mark is- and what a way for our team to pick him up after he picked up AJ. The character of this team is really amazing. And best of all- SWWWEEEEEEPPPP!!!! Now lets take it to those jays!!

The ump was a piece of s*** today! Just warn both clubs and move on. Since when can't an opposing pitcher protect their hitters? Its a shaim to have such a great streak snapped by such a clueless umpire. Oh well the most important thing is Mark got the win- we swept their asses & the magic # keeps on shrinking!! YEESSS!!!!!!

someone please explain how the waiver-trades work? they say there are usually never big names in those.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 10:38 PM) exactly. It's not like teams like boston, new york went out and made a big splash. NO ONE DID because the sellers were being ridiuclous and there just wasn't enough of them. KW worked with what he had and upgraded our team. How did he upgrade the team? Will this guy even see much of any playing time? I assume we will see him play some 1B now that Gload went back down, but geeze did we need him? Ozuna can play the IF, and Gload can play 1B. Gload is probably better then this Blum dude. I don't understand this at all. I do understand the Harris demotion- but i don't understand the Gload demotion. Oh well- i guess too many teams were buyers not sellers this year. And from what i heard- the sellers were all asking for waayyy to much in return.

Hahaha we got all excited for nothing. We got a bum named Blum. Man i can't believe we didn't make a big splash. I guess we are settling for the mid-night snack instead of the whole enchillada.

8 hours...

Man has this years trade market sucked ass.

hopefully we can get julio out of there. if we do- i think we can get this thing to extras.

Well they said if we aqcuired Burnett- we would then ship him to Philly for Wagner straight up. Why not skip a step and go straight for Wagner. IMO Philly would be dumb not to accept this. A young solid lefty set-up man and a potential future ace for an aging closer. If i was KW i would do it- since were going for it this year and our rotation is set for 2006 already anyways. Wagner = stud. This could put us over the top people- hold on to your seats!!!!

Huff, Schmidt, and Baez. (We wont get Wagner )

Right now KW has to decide what our biggest priority is. Right now our #1 priority is the bullpen- and it looks like either Baez or Wagner appear to be on KW's wish list. After that his 2nd priority is a hot stick. And to tell you the truth Sweeney makes sense- but Sweeney is the face of that organization and it would take ALOT to bring him over here. So KW will look at other options- Huff, Overbay, Griffey, Kearns, exe... His last priority will be a starting pitcher- do we need Schmidt or Burnett? Can we aqcuire Burnett then trade him for Wagner? It will be interesting in the next 2 days to see what KW does.

Anyone know the contract status of Huff?

2 days left.... I wonder what the hell KW will do.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 03:36 AM) In tomorrow's tribune, Ozzie says no trade is imminent, and that the roster is fine for the stretch run. Even though I know he HAS to say that....it still pisses me off. It pisses me off too. But don't let his response get you down. A trade has to be made to make us WS contenders. KW knows that- and so does Ozzie. Ozzie is just saying what he is suppose to say. Plus if you a manager says "we need better players" it disrespects the guys who are currently on the team. Don't worry fathom- this time next week we will be celebrating.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 03:19 AM) Are you just speculating or is there actually news to back up this information? Jason Schmidt and Omar Vizquel is looking more likely by the day if you ask me. All they do is keep on losing. They are now 14 games under .500 with a worse record than the Pittsburgh Pirates and 7 games out of first in the NL West. That is pretty sad. Aubrey Huff is too pricey? I guess we will have to see if they drop those crazy demands. I would not mind seeing BMac, Anderson, Sweeney, Fields, or Marte gone. WIN NOW!!!! exactly my thoughts. The Giants are going no where and are getting older by the minute. They would love to get a young IF such as Uribe or Harris and a solid reliever in Marte to go along with Contreras or McCarthy. Schmidt and Vizquel WILL be traded to our Sox. Pleanty of indications say so other than they being waaayyy behind the NL West race. 1. KW went to Wrigley Field to watch Schmidt pitch on Monday night. After 3 innings KW left and said "He'd seen enough..." Could this be a enough of a very good pitcher or enough that he doesn't think he can help out Sox? I personally think he was impressed with him. 2. A SF scout has been following us for weeks and has been taking notice of someone? This could be why Willie has been getting pleanty of playing time? Maybe KW is forcing Ozzie to show him off? Also Marte has been seeing a lot of action- once again KW wants Ozzie to show him off. 3. KW really wanted Vizquel in the offseason- and he would love to get him now- esspecially with his solid above .300 avg. Pleanty of indications point that this trade will indeed happen. IMO the whole Burnett thing was just to get other teams focus of Schmidt- KW is known to sneak on a trade- and I think this is another one of his sneaky moves... We will find out in 3 days....