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QUOTE (jasonxctf @ May 25, 2009 -> 05:15 PM) just a guess BA hasn't seen Santana much in his limited career. I think only 2AB's... now he did hit one of the 2AB's out of the park, 3 years ago. Scotty Pods has seen Santana a bunch in his career, not a lot of hits, but a bunch of walks. (OBP= .375) So Brian sits because Ervin Santana used to have major control problems? Then wouldn't Anderson's vastly superior walk rate make him a more dangerous hitter than Podsednik? And I think it's well established that Ozzie Guillen doesn't look at things like past performance and split stats when filling out his lineup card. He's longed to put Podsednik in the leadoff spot since we signed him (he said as much when Pods was recalled) and now he's getting his chance even despite Podsednik's lousy play.

Looks like those who claimed Anderson would unfairly lose his job to Podsednik upon his return are receiving a bit of vindication here. It's sure as hell looking like a platoon to me or perhaps Brian's just the 4th outfielder. Gotta love it, benching a young player who's actually producing for a washed up 32 year old vet. If I were a more superstitious man I'd make the case that Podsednik's presence on this ballclub has hindered the production of 2 young players. (3 if I were willing to tie him to Getz)

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 25, 2009 -> 09:44 AM) I am not going to wade through old threads and find those that have criticized KW for depleting the farm system, not finding a reliable lead off hitter, center fielder, or any of the rest. I could point to Josh Fields is a bust type threads. The I'm sick and tired of this s*** threads. The posts where we should blow up this team and start a rebuilding process. If you have not read them, I'm not going to read them for you. And I'm not curious about your* opinion of the article, but I thank you for being curious of mine. The article is the perspective of one guy who does not follow the Sox as closely as most here. Often times the out of town writer opinions take a season or two to change. The opinions have to be formed while writing on deadlines. The writer does not have the luxury of living and dying with one team, so they are never as accurate as the hometown beat writers. Of course, the hometown guy is also an idiot if he disagrees with the average poster's opinion. *or anyone's opinion. An opinion of this writer's opinion is kind of boring. That's fine then, I guess message boards need those who just come by to take pot shots at the rest while really providing no opinion of their own. I'm not entirely sure why you even bothered to read the comments in this thread considering the vast majority of them are likely to be opinions of the writer's opinion and the rest will be opinions of the opinions of the writer's opinion. After all, that would be boring. Perhaps you just can't pass up an opportunity to point out the many hypocrisies of this board's posters. You say the board consensus is that this team is going to suck for a while, I don't think that's the case at all. So naturally I'm going to be curious as to why you hold this opinion. What I think most believe: this team has a good young core, an owner willing to spend, a s*** load of money coming off the books, a very good farm system and an aggressive general manager with a knack of dealing the right guys at the right time. Sound like a recipe for a quick turn around if things don't work out this year. I still find it interesting that you were able to determine a board consensus after 3 posts (I believe that's how many posters stated their displeasure with the posted article), seems like a sample size issue to me. Of course it's awful hard to determine your real point when you're speaking in generalities. If you're going to start calling out hypocrites perhaps you should start with the people in this thread.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 24, 2009 -> 11:37 PM) Did anyone think Peavy came here, read how badly this team sucks, and is going to suck for a long time, and decided not to come? I've been reading for months here how this team sucks, then when it's in print elsewhere, suddenly that writer is an idiot Not entirely sure where you read that one. I'm Curious who exactly believes this team's future is beak, since you're confident enough to put it in a post calling people out I'd love to hear some names. I'm almost positive the 3 people in this thread that have expressed their displeasure with the premise of the posted article are not amongst those you speak of so we can cross them off to start. Blanket statements are fun though. I'm also curious what your opinion is of the article.

Hey, there's still Jhonny Nunez, right? Right?

2009: April: .312/.430/.714/1.144, 7 HR May: .123/.301/.246/.547, 2 HR 2008: May: .176/.272/.275/.547, 1 HR June: .315/.402/.630/1.032, 7 HR

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 23, 2009 -> 05:48 PM) Looks like they missed the hit and run sign last night, I think it was Nix. Pods got off to a terrible jump and was looking bat at the plate way too much for it to have been a straight steal. I was thinking the same thing but Hawk didn't bother to make any excuses for him so I'm going with horrible jump and panic from podsednik.

5 baserunning blunders in 4 games for Podsednik, can he make it 6 in 5 or even 7 in 5? We'll see.

He started that thread before yesterday's game, it's just a heads up. He does it all the time.

Well I had no idea he hit 2nd on Thursday, didn't see a second of the game. I guess that makes this significantly less important.

Alexei's in the 2 hole today.

The Sox were willing to pay a starting pitcher an average of $17.333M a year over the next 3 years. They're certainly not cheap, perhaps ignorant but not cheap.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ May 21, 2009 -> 05:00 PM) It's a shame it got leaked, but I'm certainly not holding this one against the Sox. I know its incredibly easy for some to call the Sox cheap for not investing 22 million into a pitcher four years from now, but it's an incredibly risky venture that obviously was the deal breaker. If another team wants to do it, good for them, but there is a reason he hasn't left San Diego yet.... They had absolutely no chance of getting a deal done without picking up that option. If they went into this thinking Peavy would make any concessions then they were fooling themselves. It really is a shame this got leaked because it was never going to get done in the first place.

I thought the return of Jeopardy on SNL's season finale was hysterical.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 21, 2009 -> 03:50 PM) It's not perfect... but just enough to give us all boners. Make sure you tell people, "Steve9347 made me cum." You're damn good at this. That looks badass

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 21, 2009 -> 03:19 PM) Speaking of fun, Kalapse missed the best part of this thread. The 5 or so pages about Penguins were the best. Can someone link me?

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ May 21, 2009 -> 03:18 PM) Fun, isn't it? It really is, I love this stuff. Wish I could have taken part in the 1,200 or so posts that have been made since this morning.

QUOTE (daa84 @ May 21, 2009 -> 03:11 PM) Kalapse, alot of what was said in the SD paper was predicated on what Axelrod said when he talked to peavy yesterday afternoon...which was that peavy still preferred NL. We've heard from DeLuca that Peavy wants his option picked up...and now from ESPN radio that the sox are trying to rework the 22 mil to make it work and have sent their offer along to Jake. If you ask me this thing sounds like it could be getting closer. Seems like Peavy is willing to do it if the sox give him concessions (also a full NTC once he comes here) and the sox are trying to accommodate Thanks a lot. Good to see the reports have changed over the past 4 hours, this is just incredible.

QUOTE (G&T @ May 21, 2009 -> 03:07 PM) It appears that the Sox and Peavy are in negotiations in order for him to waive the NTC. He is seeking to have his $22M option guaranteed, and get Full no trade protection through the end of the deal. Sox are trying to defer some of the $22M. Thanks, nothing shocking there. That $22M option was going to be the sticking point in any deal involving Peavy.

I've been out of the loop for the past 4 hours, at last check the SD newspaper was reporting that no deal was imminent. What's it looking like now?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 21, 2009 -> 11:11 AM) Nope, that's what been reported, is probably true. They've said that the 2 PTBNL are probably pitchers, and they're not named Gordon Beckham. 4 pitchers? That's madness, it'd wipe out our supply of pitching spects in one fell swoop. As long as Beckham and Flowers aren't involved (they wouldn't want Allen anyway) I'm good with this.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ May 21, 2009 -> 11:09 AM) Waiting on Peavy... Do we know anything more about the package or is still Poreda and Richard + 2 PTBNL? I'm stuck here at work missing all the fun, it's driving me insane.

Wow, so this is for real? What's the latest update?

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ May 21, 2009 -> 01:39 AM) move on people, we know that anything that is released to the media is not done by KW in the end. People should really stop saying this because it's not true at all.

If he gets dealt that $22M option is gonna have to be exercised as incentive to waive his NTC. So that's an $18.5M pitcher right there. That makes his contract the 3rd highest in the history of the game in terms of average annual value for a starting pitcher on a multi-year deal. I do look forward to coming back to this thread 15 hours from now and seeing the 300 or so posts that will be made over that time span. I'm sure there will be at least 1 completely off topic argument.