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Biggest difference between Twins of the 2nd half and Twins thru first 2 games is Mauer and Thome were two of the best hitters on the planet since the ASB, and they've both been awful vs the Yankees so far. I'm pretty sure Mauer led the AL in hitting since the ASB, and Thome led the AL in OPS.

Shouldn't be with him being guilty of PEDs

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 8, 2010 -> 05:41 PM) If they can keep it up over his hands, they will be fine. The same Paul Konerko that was the best fastball hitter in the majors?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 8, 2010 -> 04:27 PM) We should start compiling a list of players that fit that profile so we know what king of garbage we'll be picking up. Carlos Beltran

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 8, 2010 -> 05:24 PM) Wouldn't it be fun to see him and Thome bash our brains in next year? Ugh I'm sure Bobby Jenks or whoever is pitching would continue to give him fastball after fastball.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 09:38 PM) They'd have to be blown away to deal him. He's still cheap and under control for two more years. He's only 26 and even though he's underachieved his skill-set, in particular his speed/defense, is rivaled by very few in baseball. And his power picked up considerably towards the end of the year. I'd kill for either him or Kemp. These are the kinda guys you take major gambles on. The possible reward far outweighs the risk. Give me Kemp over Upton any day of the week! Upton is nowhere near as good as he could be, and he's going to get very expensive very soon.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 8, 2010 -> 11:52 AM) If they acquired Crawford, and I believe that is a gigantic longshot, the Sox have not given another team's FA more than $20 million total in 14 years, I think he would play LF, Pierre CF and Rios RF, assuming that didn't mean the end of Alex Rios with the White Sox. Oney hinted in his tweets the White Sox may get what he termed a "real" CF. I thought Rios was fine, but apparently Ozzie projects him more as a RF. Oh hell no....that means we're going after Torii Hunter

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Oct 8, 2010 -> 04:15 PM) Since it came up, if Paulie's not coming back, who would be the leading suitors for him? Boston, LA teams, Arizona, Twins (if Morneau can't recover)

Tampa gets burned by pitching Chad Qualls, who really has no business being on a postseason roster.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 01:37 AM) I seem to recall Martin being tied to PED's earlier. He went off them and lost a bunch of weight, and this past offseason he regained the weight (and I don't think it was regained in muscle). Martin was tied to alcohol and excessive partying. After watching him last year though, I want no part of him.

With the Reds hitting so many line drives vs Doc, it feels like a pretty weak no-hitter....NOT! It's amazing how that final play could have been such a fluke hit based on the ball hitting the bat.

Marshall Faulk with a great analysis on NFL Network regarding the Bears debacle on offense. Basically saying Cutler is to blame for a lot of the sacks, as he did not go through the proper progression in Martz's offense. Also said Forte and Olsen were just as responsible for the sacks as the OL.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 5, 2010 -> 04:33 PM) Ah. So he's the one that got hosed on the Hudson deal? Hahn does the financial deals....KW does the player transactions.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 5, 2010 -> 03:23 PM) Can someone explain the Rick Hahn love affair to me? I honestly don't pay attention to what he has done or is responsible for so I'd like to get a little educated on the topic. He's known as one of the best negotiators in all of baseball. He handles a lot of the contract work, as KW stays out of it.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Oct 4, 2010 -> 08:59 PM) what the? can someone tell me what is going on around here? since when did floyd's value skyrocketed? floyd for fielder and a prospect? if i were the sox, i wouldn't hesitate to trade floyd for fielder alone. I'm with you on this

QUOTE (Allsox @ Oct 4, 2010 -> 08:20 PM) This. From my count, the Sox loaded the bases against the Twins 7 times with less than 2 out and on those occasions, they scored only 1 run. That was because AJ grounded into a double play with nobody out. Paulie struck out 3 times on those situations so..... And hit into a double play in the Thome game.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 4, 2010 -> 07:13 PM) Unfortunately, this makes way more sense, too. There was a special on Real Sports about this. Athletes that already have a concussion that suffer another blow to the head while the swelling in the brain is still persistent can lead to traumatic brain injuries, etc.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 28, 2010 -> 01:35 PM) Where are people getting Borat? I can't think of a single quote from that movie that anyone ever actually says. "High Five" "....not" "Vageen" "You will never get this"

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 4, 2010 -> 07:20 PM) Then the Dodgers can look somewhere else. Seriously. Young pitcher under control for several years at fixed cost compared to a young player hitting arbitration with no stable contract and attitude issues? Not even close. Just seems like Dodgers could find a team willing to give up more for Kemp. I do know for a fact that the Sox organization from top-down hates Kemp due to issues they had with him when facing him in the minors. Hopefully enough time has changed since then though.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 4, 2010 -> 06:12 PM) Apparently the feeling is now that Cutlers concussion came after the "Olsen falls over" block. Which is scary, cause of Cutler already was concussed and then suffered that blow from Aaron Ross, there is a lot of damage that could have been done.

Am I the only one who thinks Floyd wouldn't be enough to get Kemp?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 4, 2010 -> 06:26 PM) Personally after about the 4th sack, he looked like a dead duck out there. He took some pretty heavy licks. Again, all the more reason for him to take a set of downs off last night and regain his focus (or have the staff realized he wasn't 100% in the brain). I just went on talkbears to see what was being said on there, and I agree with you that calling Cutler a p**** is ridiculous.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 4, 2010 -> 06:17 PM) My guess is Cutler stayed away from everyone. They didn't know he suffered the concussion until halftime (since he didn't even come out on the play he took the hit from Ross). I still don't understand why the Bears even tried to throw the ball to end the 1st half. At that point, I was thrilled to death it was a 3-0 game and wanted to get to halftime as fast as possible to allow the coaches to make adjustments and for Jay to take some breaths. Jason, you're making some of the same points I am about the coaching staff's utter failure last night, but you went off on me for saying the Bears were being outcoached? I truly feel like the Giants did a much better job adjusting during the 2nd half last night, including a perfectly timed screen pass on 3rd and long.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 4, 2010 -> 06:21 PM) Then the medical staff should have sought him out after the 3rd or 4th hit and they'd have been negligent not to do so. And to that point, did they not see him basically falling over himself in the 2nd quarter? I thought it was due to the field conditions with it starting to rain, but maybe not.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 4, 2010 -> 05:55 PM) I think I saw one time where a check-down was open. The guy was playing with a concussion, most likey, for a good chunk of the 1st half. And if you watch where his WR's were on those sacks, youd' see that they were busy running slow-developing deep routes. SO contrary to the one play where Cutler could have taken the hit and thrown it to Bennett (at that piont, it would have been about his 15th hit or so), he really didn't have these options that people are talking about. Not to mention, I'd like to see them make those decisions when the QB is sacked on 45% of his drop-backs and hit on like 75% of them. Are there actually reports that he was hurt prior to the Ross hit? It would actually make more sense, as he seemed to be lacking coordination during the 2nd quarter. As for the slow developing deep routes, I couldn't agree more with you. That was part of the coaching flaws I mentioned though. We were playing right into their hands.