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What the f*** is wrong with Neil Funk? The man has absolutely no energy on the TV broadcasts, he sounds depressed. As if watching Bulls basketball wasn't bad enough now you have a play by play guy who doesn't seem into the game at all, like he doesn't even want to be there. Thank god for Derrick Rose.

QUOTE (joejoedairy @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 09:28 PM) lol like brook fordyce? get olivo if they dont pick up the option. or trade for laird as bearsox suggested Olivo's is a mutual option and he already said he's not going to return to KC. The guy wants to be a starter, he wasn't happy with the 49/51 split they had in KC last year, something tells me he won't take too kindly to an 80/20 split (technically it was an 82/18 split last season) with Pierzynski.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 02:01 AM) Would you rather give Garland $7.5 mill a year over 3 years or try your luck with a combination of Garcia, Richard, Egbert, Poreda, YourMother, etc, while paying less than $5 mill and being locked into no long-term committment? I'd probably take Garland. If his shoulder is true and he can give me 3 years with a 105 ERA+ and 200+ innings then he's worth $8M dollars. If Poreda wasn't ready in September then he's not going to be ready in March, I don't think the Sox have much interest in Garcia (they didn't even go to his tryout last year and made no attempt to sign him) and even if they do, I don't (can't stand watching that man pitch), I want no part of Richard in the rotation he should be the #1 lefty specialist out of the pen next year and I don't think Egbert will be a member of the organization come April. As for my mother she has a nasty slider but her fastball tops out at 38 MPH and I'm not sure she could even get the ball to the plate on a fly so I'm gonna have to rule her out as well.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 12:27 AM) Garland was one of the worst starting pitchers in the AL last year and he has a ton of mileage on his arm. He should not be brought back. I just love this stat. Last year 48 major league pitchers threw at least 190 innings, of them, Jon Garland was the worst (according to VORP). 67 pitchers threw at least 175 innings, Garland was the 7th worst out of the group, the 6 pitchers behind him: Zach Duke, Daniel Cabrera, Tim Redding, Jeff Suppan, Barry Zito and Brian Bannister. That being said, if he were somehow interested I'd still give Garland a Jason Marquis type deal (assuming he's healthy, if that shoulder is f***ed I'm not interested); 3 years, $21M-$24M with incentives for All Star appearances, Cy Young voting and ~210 IP that could raise the deal to say $30M.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 07:40 PM) I kinda agree. Love when he was getting an attitude with reporters and he called them "retards" or something and the reporter asked, "How do you spell that?" My favorite Brett Myers memory is when he punched his wife in the face and dragged her down the street in front of a Boston hotel. He of course, pitched the next day and in the end the Phillies did nothing about it because he had a 3.77 ERA at the time of the incident.

I'm throwing my full support behind the Rays. The thought of Brett Myers getting a ring makes me sick.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 06:08 PM) Get outta Dodge. It's a much discussed proposal. Is it worth taking on the 5 years and $101,500,000 remaining on Barry Zito's deal if you don't have to give up much of anything to acquire him and they throw in Tim Lincecum?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 18, 2008 -> 01:42 PM) Peavy should command a whole hell of a lot. He's in his prime and signed to a well below market value contract. San Diego papers are saying it'll take 4 upper echelon major league ready type of prospects. The only thing "well below market value" about Jake Peavy's contract is the years (3), he's the 3rd highest paid pitcher in the history of the game in terms of average annual value of a multi-year deal at $17.333M. Count his $11M '09 team option and he's being paid $15.75M over the next 4 years which drops him to the 4th highest paid ever.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 02:32 PM) Thanks. Any idea when this might be completed? It may already have been, it's such an unimportant deal that it probably won't even be reported. Some nothing minor leaguer of ours will show up in the Pirates system next year.

The Pirates for Franklyn German.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 02:42 AM) How about getting a youngster like Anibal Sanchez from Florida? Their rotation is pretty jam-packed. Ricky Nolasco Scott Olsen Josh Johnson Chris Volstad Andrew Miller Sanchez could be a new Gavin Floyd/Carlos Quentin for us. Send them a prospect like CJ Retherford. Scott Olsen is going to make something like $2.5M in arbitration next year, they'll dump his ass before the very very very cheap Anibal Sanchez (whom they actually f***ed over in 2007 when he got hurt just so they could keep him cheap.)

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Oct 19, 2008 -> 10:59 PM) Going to put this here for reference. -Dotel goes from 5Mil to 6Mil -Linebrink goes from 4 to 4.5 -MacDougal jumps from 1.95 to 2.65 -Thornton jumps from 875K to 1.325 -AJ jumps from 5.85 to 6.25 -Lexi goes from 950K to 1.1.(There are also bonuses in his deal, which I'm sure he met a bunch of them) -JD jumps from 9.5 to 11.5 -Swisher jumps from 3.5 to 5.3 I haven't even talked about ARB numbers. Right now, thats about 7 million in salary increase from next year, not counting ARB. Cabrera and Crede off the books is 14.1 million. \ Jenks is our only arbitration eligible player who's really guaranteed to be back next year and I'd say he's looking at a $3M pay raise (from $550K to ~$3.5M) so that's about $10M in salary increases from last season. Assuming the Sox pay Thome say $7.5M we're looking at $96.625M tied up in 14 players ($98.875M in 15 players if they bring back Toby.)

QUOTE (joeynach @ Oct 18, 2008 -> 06:17 PM) I think your kidding yourself if you think Lowe or Sheets will be affordable. Both are likely to command 13-15 mil per year over 4-5 years. Remember Vazquez and his 4.5ish era gets 11.5M, Lily and his 4.2 era gets $12M, etc. The 36 year old Lowe will probably get a 3 year deal around what Jason Schmidt got last offseason, 3 years $47M. If I had to guess I'd say Lowe gets 3 years, $42M with maybe a vesting/team option for a 4th year (though Boras doesn't like to include options) at $14.5/$15M and a $3M buyout. ($45M guaranteed) Sheets should get 4 or 5 years at around $13-$16M per. Even with his major durability issues he's a 30 year old with #1 type stuff. Think AJ Burnett's '06 deal (5 years, $55M) adjusted for Sheets' superior resume and the current market. If I had to guess on Sheets I'd say 4 years, $60M with a vesting option for a 5th and a $4M buyout. ($64M guaranteed)

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 19, 2008 -> 08:01 AM) I thought there was a rumor he might retire. He said last week that he wants to keep playing.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Oct 19, 2008 -> 09:54 AM) He'll go to the Yankees or Angels IMHO. And I'd probably stay away from him either way. He'll want a 5-6 year deal at least, which JR never gives out to a starting pitcher, and he's thrown a lot of innings in the past few years. He'll get 7 years. I want nothing to do with him, that would be an irresponsible singing.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Oct 17, 2008 -> 07:31 PM) I think doing it for Bears games would be virtually impossible. Not alot of people have orange coats. A 60,000 person crowd, all wearing solid blaze orange hunting jackets could be the coolest (color)-out ever.

QUOTE (VAfan @ Oct 17, 2008 -> 07:57 PM) All these names for second base, and no mention of ... BRIAN ROBERTS ????????? He's at least worth being in the discussion. Solves the leadoff problem. Gives us a true base stealer. Better defensively at second than Ramirez. He's perfect, really. The issues are 1) availability, and 2) cost. Maybe those couldn't be solved. But this option should at least be considered. The names Brian Roberts and Orlando Hudson get thrown around in every single thread. I believe the purpose of this thread was to think outside the freaking box instead of just regurgitating the same names over and over.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 14, 2008 -> 08:11 PM) The emergence of Longoria is crazy...reminds me of Braun last year, except that instead of not being able to play defense, Longoria plays ridiculous defense. It's exciting to think of what he could become, Major League Baseball should be quite entertaining in the coming years.

So Longoria's 5 HR is a rookie postseason record and he could easily end up playing in 7-10 more games.

Anyone on here still believe Alexei Ramirez was the best rookie in the AL this year? Evan Longoria is a monster. 5 HR in less than 8 postseason games as a freaking 22 year old.

If this team wasn't in desperate need of speed and already inundated with a plethora of power hitting plodders I'd feel compelled to mention Dan Uggla as a possibility. 29 years old, slow, bad defensively, not a good contact hitter, strikes out a lot (he'd actually fit in perfectly) but has a career .831 OPS, is a two time 30 HR hitter and has proven to be quite durable. He's one of 17 arbitration eligible players on a team who's payroll didn't even top $22M last year so there's a good chance he'll be traded. But I know, not a good fit for many, many reasons. (the asking price being number 1 or 1a)

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 11, 2008 -> 12:16 AM) I'm surprised the sight of Dotel the last six weeks hasn't soured him on you at all. I could not stomach his implosions. He's definitely not one of my favorites. I do realize once in a while he'd strike out the side and look unhittable. But his suckiness on several occasions down the stretch I felt was unacceptable for a team fighting for postseason berth and postseason success. I broke this down a few weeks ago, you seemed to accept it at the time but I guess that wore of: his arm was about to fall off. He hadn't thrown more than 30 innings in 4 years, was coming off ligament replacement surgery and shockingly it seemed to bother him at about the 51 inning mark when he lost the ability to throw a slider. When I look at the data available (like the fact that Dotel was great through his first 50 innings this year) I see 2008 as a good year for Dotel, you can come to whatever conclusion you want. I'm done trying to convince you otherwise.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 10, 2008 -> 10:50 PM) But worth the money? My god has baseball dipped in pitching talent if that's the case. I agree I'd be happy with Dotel if Oz has him on a one batter presentation. If that batter slams a double or OD walks the batter ... TAKE HIM OUT! Cause the bad Dotel is a trainwreck to see. Yes he's worth the damn money. $5M for a middle reliever who's going to increase your chances of victory 75% of the time is an incredibly valuable commodity to have. Maybe you don't have a full grasp on the finances of the game (Chad Bradford, a ROOGY is going to make $3.5M next year), perhaps you didn't see many Sox games this year and Dotel happened to be bad in all the games you watched or maybe you're looking at different stats than I but Octavio Dotel earned his pay this year and to call him an overpaid bum (as you did in another thread) is just ridiculous.

That's kind of funny because last night's episode was by far the worst in the show's history.

Manny hit another HR, the only problem is Billingsley s*** the bed. Oh and that f*** face piece of s*** Brett Myers is 3-3.