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Andy Gonzalez' SLG% is .272 his ISOp is 74. Jerry Owens' SLG% is .293 his ISOp is 47. It's REALLY hard to put up numbers like these.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 10:04 PM) Mike Myers must pitch an inning a game as well. Darin Erstad must start at least 5 times a week and 90% of his GP must be starts as well. Also, Luis Terrero must be buried on the bench while Scott Podsednik gives Josh Fields 2 days off a week.

Hopefully Andy will start the 2008 season with the South Georgia Peanuts where he belongs.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 09:48 PM) I imagine Vance is tired of posting this. The same arguments are being made like 3-4 times a day now. I'm not sure how many more times I can handle reading the names Bullington and Bush.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 09:38 PM) That was the most impressive non-homer Richar hit this year. That was the sort of thing you see from very good major league hitters. I still think Danny Richar is going to be a hell of a player for this team in the not too distant future.

Tampa now up by 4 in the fourth. Florida now up by 2 in the fourth.

No Darin Erstad.

Tampa is up 2-0 in the 2nd @ Boston and Florida tied 2-2 in the 3rd @ Washington.

They were also using illegal methods of communications. The Pats were using Walkie Talkies to bypass the system that automatically shuts off the headsets. This is some seriously bush league s*** right here.

W L LB Florida 61 83 -- #1 Chicago Sox 61 83 -- Tampa Bay 61 83 -- Kansas City 62 81 2 #4 Baltimore 61 81 2 Houston 62 81 2 Pittsburgh 64 80 3 #7 San Francisco 65 79 4 #8 Cincinnati 64 79 4 Washington 65 79 4 BEST.RACE.IN.THE.GAME FLA: 2vsWAS, 3@COL, 3@ATL, 4vsNYM, 3vsCHC, 3@NYM CHW: 2vsCLE, 3vsLAA, 4@KCR, 3@MIN, 3vsKCR, 3vsMIN TBD: 2@BOS, 4@SEA, 3@LAA, 3vsBOS, 3vsNYY, 3@TOR

Just get the man a competent bench coach, please. I can accept Ozzie being around for the next 5 years as long as he has an experienced baseball guy at his side helping him with his in-game managing.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 09:32 AM) The machine is starting early. Getting his name out to the sox beat reporters, and the continuous fluffing of someone that KW obviously has a thing for. More high fives as we pass up on Alvarez to pick up the more signable Jordan Danks. The fluffing of Jordan Danks by members of the media. Now maybe Gonzales should of taken a look at what Pedro did in that tourney. Just another reason why I want a top 3 pick. With any pick between 1 and 3 the Sox will have to take the best player available but if they finished with say the 9th pick there's no doubt in my mind they'd take Jordan Danks, no doubt.

What's the downside to having the #1 pick? At least with the top pick in the draft, as opposed to the #9 pick (which you seem to want) you can draft who you want. If the Sox feel there is one player who is head and shoulders better than all the rest then they can, no matter what, select him if they have the top pick. You don't have that luxury at #9. Winning these games does nothing for the future of the ballclub, having the top pick in the draft adds an insanely talented position player to an incredibly weak farm system, the #9 pick adds Jordan Danks. Just imagine having Justin Upton patrolling CF for the Sox this season, how f***ing sexy would that be? Just imagine the trade value a #1 draft pick has if he's able to put together 2 very good seasons to start off his pro career.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 12:41 AM) Sad we continued to disgrace ourselves on the field. Sad we are closer to being the worst team in the league. Sad that Cub fans are happy that they won and we lost both. Sad that so many Sox fans have much in common with Cub fans these days in wanting us to lose. Pittsburgh and Washington also won tonight so we're putting some distance between ourselves and the worst of the NL which is nice.

Gage is going for the parenthesis world record tonight.

Nice we kept pace with Florida and gamed a game on Tampa.

This could be a fun final 10 outs.

Darin Erstad has had more retarded mental mistakes in the field this season than I could ever have imagined. He's just terrible.

So has Bukvich killed any chance of making next year's pen? I happen to think he has and am glad that he has decided to suck.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Sep 10, 2007 -> 11:16 PM) Yeah, he's not too bad. I notice a lot of people on here talk about salary. Is he worth the money he'll command? No. So sign Hunter, who will be worth it. DeJesus will make less next season than Podsednik was paid this year, David is worth every penny. Hunter on the other hand could give Barry Zito a run for his money as the most overpaid non-perpetually DL'd player in the game.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Sep 10, 2007 -> 11:05 PM) DeJesus is pretty good, but he's no Beltran. For one, he can't steal a base. He's a little better than a plodder, but by no means fast. I like him, but the verdict is still out on him as far as his "star" quality. He has 6 hrs and 54 ribbies in a lot of at bats. Nine steals. That's Iguchi like speed at best. He might step up on a better team, but as of now, he is not an all star. Who cares if he's not a star? You're not going to see anyone anywhere near the talent of Carlos Beltran brought in to play play CF next year but a guy like DeJesus would be a great fit. He has good speed, above average defense in CF, a wicked batters eye and the potential to put up an .810 OPS. He'd be a pretty perfect fit. Not that I really care about either stat all that much but you mention he has 54 RBIs, did you happen to notice his 95 runs? For a guy who's apparently not very fast he sure as hell scores a lot of runs on a terrible team. It's just a shame that the Sox probably can't afford to acquire him.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Sep 10, 2007 -> 10:53 PM) What's his contract situation? I've always thought he was a bit underrated just because he's stuck in KC. 08: $2.5M 09: $3.6M 10: $4.7M 11: $6M TO or $500K BO

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 10, 2007 -> 10:42 PM) I don't know how the Sox OBP problem would be solved with Eckstein, Richar, and Fields in the line-up. They need to get guys who can get on base, and who can catch and throw the ball. Eckstein is going to be paid a lot more than he's worth. If you're looking to add OBP and defense to the top of the order then David Dejesus and his career .360 OBP and 90 ISOd for the 2007 season would look awful good in a Sox uni in '08

Jordan never played a "real" game for the White Sox so the white pin striped jersey you see is likely the Birmingham Barons' home uni. He played 127 games for them in 1994.

Dave Roberts got no where near $10M a year. He got nearly half that. I want David DeJesus. He's going to be dealt this offseason and his value is way down after his slugging% took a huge hit this season. I want him.