Buehrle>Wood

QUOTE (Reddy @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 03:28 AM) jesus you people are ridiculous tonight. EVERY team runs out guys like Contreras on a weekly basis. But do they pay them 10 million?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 03:25 AM) In his defense there was no reason to think he'd be this bad at the time of that extension. The fact that he was 45 at the time should have given a hint.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 03:23 AM) That was inexcusable. How do you not make a routine catch on a fly ball? Rios screwed that up, that was Carlos' ball. I know the CF is in command of the OF, but Carlos had a easier chance of making that play. Rios was right under it...

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 02:33 AM) Is it too early to pull Pods for defensive reasons? ???

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 10:04 PM) rios is waay better than dejesus, any team would take rios over dejesus. ....how come we have a royals fan on soxtalk?? We have Twins and Tigers fans too. And they're all good posters, including HM, so I'd lay off him. But the DeJesus/Rios comparison is a bit out there.

I am expected to hit 100,000 posts on February 12th, 2083.

Jurassic got a cell phone thrown at him in Oakland from the upper deck. Now that's bad.

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 01:57 AM) Good one bro. Lets talk about how wrigley is a giant bar. It's even more interesting the 500th time!!! Which doesn't make it true?

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 12:46 AM) No, he was completely representative of the Cub fan base. And no, neither Ligue nor Dybas were representatives of ours. That's just the way it is. Admit it. Dybas was a Cubs fan. I'll also consider him representative of Cubs fan just because.

The road to Rios: Maybe the White Sox outfoxed the world on Alex Rios. Maybe he's going to wake up and earn every nickel of the $61.6 million they now have to pay him through 2014. But the tales we've heard from ex-teammates, and people who watched him coast through life in Toronto, make you wonder.Rios is guaranteed $12 million to $12.5 million every year from 2011 to 2014. And that's star money. But is he magically going to turn back into a star just because he's playing for Ozzie Guillen, in a hitters' paradise? Not if these reviews from ex-teammates are accurate: • "He's not a winning-type player. He's a guy who just doesn't have that burning desire to win, or be great." • "He was a guy who just didn't go after it. He'd be sleeping in his locker 10 minutes before he had to go out on the field. And not just once." • "He wasn't the same player after he got that [seven-year] contract. It sure seemed like he was a lot more motivated when he was looking for a contract than he was since he got the contract." Meanwhile, scouts we surveyed seemed dubious, too. "This guy should be a perennial 30-30 [hr-SB] guy," said one. "But to me, he's a classic underachiever. If Ozzie takes the wrong approach, he's going to lose him. He's a guy you've got to go real slow with. But whether Ozzie has that kind of patience, boy, I don't know." http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stor...rumblings090813

Bump.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 06:08 AM) f*** every single one of you f***ing sackless pussies you are all f***ing pathetic see you in a week I can't handle this f***ing bulls*** k

Ozzie Pods Pena

Steve Phillips is a moron. News at 11.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 11:48 PM) I don't think they will move Carlos there until Spring Training at the earliest, where he can get used to it - reading balls off the bat and whatnot. He's a natural RF, no?

1. Pods, CF 2. Beckham, 3B 3. Rios, RF 4. Thome, DH 5. THQ, LF 6. AJ, C 7. Alexei, SS 8. Kotsay, 1B 9. Nix, 4 Ugh....

Where do you get the full line-ups, anyways?

Dye benched.

Well, Rios is our new 3 hitter, apparently. Who had that?

Rios hitting 3rd.

Who was it defending Mexico's fan's class earlier in the thread? Yeah...