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QUOTE(striker62704 @ Dec 3, 2006 -> 07:12 PM) I say we keep Vazquez, Buehrle and Garcia. Garcia and Buehrle will be free agents after 2007 so they'll have monster seasons in 2007. Contract year baby. We get another WS ring and call it a day. Put Haeger and McCarthy in the rotation in 2008 and take that $19mil that Buehrle and Garcia left us and either re-sign one of them or get someone else. Don't forget Dye will be a free agent after 2007 too. Thats another $7mil. They'll all have huge years. Yeah, just like Miguel Tejada had in his contract year.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 01:28 AM) Yeah, they sucked so bad that they won the World Series, beating one good team and the 2 best teams in baseball to do it. Please don't make that lame excuse about the Tigers making errors. Sure, but the Cards capitalized on them, much as the SOX won games by capitalizing on mistakes. Wins are wins, and there are no flukes. If you want to say they had bad stretches or sucked during a lot of the season, granted since they reside in the N.L. Central, but the Sox has a very ugly stretch in '05 and still won it all when almost NO ONE believed they could, so you sound hypocritical. The Cards proved they are a good team by getting to, and winning the World Series with a talented club that had did have struggles with various things, including injuries, which they overcame. If you want to put an asterik next to a team's name because of opponents' mistakes (which was only a vital factor in ONE of the 3 playoff series), frankly, that's your own absurd, inept preference. May as well alienate every single team that ever did it, including our own World Champion '05 Sox. Very ignorant statement made by you, sir. Wow, you sure did assume a lot about my opinion from one small post. I don't even know where you got half the s*** in this post.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Dec 3, 2006 -> 06:34 PM) So let's see; Ervin Santana and Chone Figgins OR A-Rod. Considering we could MAYBE get a prospect in the 1st deal as well, I know which way I'm heading on this. I don't see how this makes sense financially, unless you raise the payroll another 20M-30M at least. And I'd rather get the young pitching in Santana, and let Josh Fields develop at 3rd base (even though I don't think he's ready yet), but that's just me. Yeah and there's reports that the Angels turned that deal down meaning it is not likely on the table and there ain't a chance in hell you could also get a prospect thrown in. If the deal with Anaheim were on the table I'd probably take that one over A-Rod but as of right now, it does not appear to be doable.

QUOTE(TLAK @ Dec 3, 2006 -> 06:25 PM) Duly noted. I've long valued Pods' contributions higher and have always put a lot more weight on avoiding errors at all positions than you. While we don't agree on this, I value your opinion. Podsednik will show us if I'm wrong, and it might be a real long year if I am. Fair enough. It just sucks that Pods' method for avoiding errors is breaking late on balls hit in front of him and allowing the rest to travel over his head.

QUOTE(Drew @ Dec 3, 2006 -> 06:09 PM) Joe Crede is likely a 25-100 guy who is an elite fielder in the American League and one we probably won't be able to afford to resign because of Scott Boras. Is A-Rod worth that plus a proven starting pitcher? I don't think so. I'm all for trading if it would help, but this is a lot better for the Yankees than it is for us. Yet Crede has only hit 25+HRs once in his career and has never knocked in 100. Crede will be 29 next season and has yet to produce a 25/100 season. Where as Rodriguez has already had 10 count them 10/seasons of atleast 35/110 as well as 10 seasons with 15+ SB. A-Rod has also had 5 years with a 1.000+ OPS, even the most optimistic Joe Crede fans have said that Crede will likely never top a .900 OPS during any season of his career because he's just not an OBP type of player. Crede likely has 2 seasons left with the Sox if they don't intend to trade him, after that they'll recieve a couple draft picks and have to find a new thirdbaseman. Garcia is also likely gone after this season if not traded before then. So it's 2 seasons of "bad-back" Crede and 1 season of Garcia or 4 years of Alex Rodriguez at possibly a cheaper price $$ wise than Crede. I would make that deal in a second, I'm not so sure the Yankees would however.

QUOTE(TLAK @ Dec 3, 2006 -> 05:33 PM) We should change the title of this thread to *Enter all the crow you want to eat about Scott Podsednik*. As rough a year as he had last season, he hit .261 and don*t forget what a force this guy was when healthy in 2005. When he went on the DL on August 13, he was batting .282 and had 54 stolen bases in 99 games. This guy has hit .314 and scored 100 runs one year, stole 70 bases in another year. In 2005 he made 5 less errors than Jermaine Dye and had only 2 more than JD last year, albeit less games, yet many posters write about him as a complete bum. Unlike a prospect, he has a proven upside, it is known fact that he can be one of the best speed players in baseball. Time will tell if this guy can regain his all-star form but I think it would be dumb to just write him off. The only proven track record Scott Podsednik has is for being an incredibly inconsistent, oft-injured, horrible defensive player who's lost more than a few steps on the basepaths. He is not a proven comodity because he's shown no consistency in any facet of the game from one season/month to the next. There ain't a damn thing wrong with giving up on a guy who has never proven that he can do anything well on a consistent basis (especially basestealing). He'll be 31 years old next year and there isn't a single quality that you can gaurantee me he'll be able to provide next year. And since when do errors have anything to do with defensive prowess? Just because an OF avoids committing errors doesn't mean he's any good in the field. Hell, Carlos Lee is known for not committing errors but is also known for being a terrible fielder, much like his successor in LF for the Sox.

David Eckstein might play hard and hustle his ass off but he's still a well below average major league baseball player and is packing possibly the worst infield arm in the history of baseball.

QUOTE(Westsox @ Dec 3, 2006 -> 11:33 AM) I totally understand why all of you hate Pods. Yep, the games when he pitched and couldn't get the third out when someone homered to win the game, the games when he was batting in the 3,4,or 5 hole with people on and he struck out. Need I go on? You give this guy too much credit for loosing the season. If he has this much to do with the success of the club, I'd say he's worth way more than 2.9 mil. Trade him to a team that hasn't won a series in a looooong time--maybe the magic will go with him. I still can't find any of these posts that state Podsednik was a bigger reason why the Sox sucked last year than the Starting pitching. Saying that the middle of the order's failures with RISP was a bigger problem than having the worst leadoff hitter in the AL is just asinine however. Yeah it really sucked having Thome's .336, Konerko's .366 and Dye's .351 average with RISP anchoring the offense last season. Podsednik has no magic, just excuses and an uncanny ability to get picked off firstbase. Scott Podsednik has been horrible since the end of July in '05 and was one of the worst offensive and defensive players in baseball last season, this made him a major liability at the top of the lineup and hurt the team severly. Yet he still wasn't a larger contributing factor to the downfall of the 2006 Chicago White Sox than the lack of good, consistent pitching. But just because he wasn't as big a problem as the pitching staff does not mean he didn't have an absolutely miserable season.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Dec 1, 2006 -> 06:27 PM) LOL, WTF does that mean? We know what we have in Pods, so he should play here? You know what... I think we should go out and get Neifi Perez, too... You know what you'll get form him, too, and it isn't good. It's retarded logic and it pains me to hear it come out of KW's mouth, he said basically the same thing this morning. Perhaps the Sox could make a run at Ricky Henderson, you basically know what you're going to get from him as well. Good speed (especially for a 48 year old man), good defense, a pisspoor batting average but an OBP equal to or greater than Podsednik's, a little bit of pop and a SB% vastly superior to Scotty. Plus Ricky was born in Chicago so that's a cool storyline right there.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt @ Dec 1, 2006 -> 05:00 PM) Wow, I see that nothing changes on Soxtalk. First off, I was a bit shocked to see this Pods signing as well, but it doesn't mean he's staying. Second, why is every Sox player either overrated or underrated here? Frankly, I'm getting sick and tired of hearing how horrible Pods was last year. No, he was not great. 1.)But he was not as piss poor as half of you make it sound. 2.)Admittedly, the fundamentals were lacking, 3.)but he hit fairly well . 4.)He had some bad slumps, 5.)but he had some good stretches as well. 6.)And he still got a lot of stolen bases. Wasn't he still no. 2 or 3 on the stolen bases list for the A.L.? 7.)Frankly, IMO, you people are being overdramatic about this. Let's not forget that it's PITCHING that cost us last year, NOT hitting. 8.)STFU about Pods last year already when he was NOT as bad as everyone makes it sound. And yes, he could get better. Whoever it was that said we should stop b****ing, I say "AMEN!" 1.) Actually he was. 2.) Nonexistent would be a much better way of putting it. 3.) No, no he didn't. 4.) Wretched slumps that took up most of the 2006 season. 5.) I think you meant good "stretch" as in singular, May. 6.) Yep, he stole 40 bases which was good for 5th in the American league last year. Of course he was also caught stealing 19 times which was the most in the AL last year by 3 over Figgins and a whopping 8 over Luis Castillo. He was also only successful 63.8% of the time when attempting to steal a base which was the worst in baseball last year for all "basestealers". The general rule of thumb is if you're under 75% you're hurting more than you're helping, he was 11.2% worse than that. So in other words he was the worst basestealer in all of baseball by quite a large margin. 7.) Pitching may have been the #1 reason but having possibly the worst leadoff hitter in all of baseball didn't help much. 8.) You're right he may actually have been worse than people make him out to be. Just some food for thought out of all the leadoff hitters in the AL last season Podsednik's .330 OBP was the worst of all of them with the exception of only Joey Gathright (ungodly bad) and Covelli Crisp (injury prone season). Mix this with some of the worst defense you're ever gonna see and you have a combo of epic suckitude. One more thing to wrap your mind around: since July 27th, 2005 Scott Podsednik has put up this line: 182 G | 703 AB | 65 BB | 125 K | 48 SB | 29 CS | 62.34 SB% | .263/.327/.347/.674

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Dec 1, 2006 -> 03:45 PM) Why not keep all five and put McCarthy into AAA for some seasoning then trade someone at the deadline or, if not, leave them intact if need be? I'm all for dealing a starter for some stud pitchers but if not, I wouldn't be upset if Cy Young spent half a season or another season back in Charlotte. It should be fun watching Garcia and Buehrle walk after 2007 and all the Sox get in return is a couple of draftpicks that could help out the big club sometime aroud 2011. There's a reason why Kenny is going to trade 1 or 2 starters this offseason one of which being, if this team just allows its high priced/high value starters to just walk without compensation there will be no realistic way to replace them in 2008, it would likely usher in another era similar to that of the mid to late 90's. Fun. The farm system is horrid right now and doesn't look like it will be getting better anytime soon unless something is done this offseason to help the future look a little less bleak.

A year and a million per less than I thought he'd get.

Scrubs without Zach Braff would be like News Radio without Phil Hartman, it'd crash and burn almost immediately.

I still don't understand why Bud Selig gets so much credit for bringing the Wild Card to Major League Baseball, it's not like he invented the damn thing he just took the idea from the NFL. He may have come under fire when he did instate it but anyone with half a brain could see that it was a good idea.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 05:45 PM) Pujols should shut his f***ing mouth and be glad that a sad team like Detroit handed him a WS ring. He was clearly on the worst team to ever win the World Series and had they not been in the pathetic NL Central (which we stomped basically every team in that division this past year), his team wouldn't have even made the playoffs. Philadelphia traded away arguably its best player in Bobby Abreu and made a run because of Ryan Howard. He also had more HR and RBI than Albert. I respect him as a great player, but I will no longer root for Pujols. What a f***ing baby. Did you even bother to read the article? It's amazing that an athlete can't say anything these days without being destroyed by fans. It's funny that people complain because Pujols doesn't talk to the media a lot and doesn't often open up to the public then the one time he decides to answer a question honestly he gets s*** on. It's pretty sad really.

Apparently the winter storm alert has been moved back to midnight tonight through noon tomorrow, we're still supposed to get about 1-2 inches per hour.

Seems like it's been forever since new episodes have been aired, can not wait.

Actually over the past few seaons he's been insanely brutal in LF and it seems that most teams consider him to be a DH only after his trouble with plantas fasciitis last season. In other words, at this point in his career he's probably worse defensively than Scott Podsednik.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 12:29 PM) I seem to recall him playing some games in right field though? Nope, according to every online statistical database he's played a grand total of 1 inning in the OF (CF in '05). No other OF experience outside of that.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 08:07 PM) And most importantly, Goldeneye. And Perfect Dark, the sequel to Goldeneye.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 11:09 PM) They were injury-depleted. S'not the same. They were bad, they won 83 games in the NL Central. Injuries or not they still stucked.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 11:07 PM) Pujols' team doesn't suck. They did in 2006.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 10:57 PM) I can see where he's coming from his argument is just crap. Pujols had a injury plagued season and Ryan Howard exceeded everyone's expectations. Ryan and Chase Utley single-handedly kept the phillies in any playoff contention. I was at the game vs. the Yankees when Howard hit 3 homers. He's the kind of player that stood out above the rest and made his team better. He was the MVP. plain and simple. From what I remember Pujols only made 1 trip to the DL last year (missed only 16 games) and still managed to be the best player in baseball, lead his s***ty team to the playoffs and on to a World Series title. If the best position player in the game wants to talk about an award that should probably one day be named after him then I say go for it. I don't see how a 16 game trip to the DL constitutes an "injury plagued season." EDIT: For comparisons sake Pujols played in 143 games last season, Thome = 143, Dye = 146 and Iguchi = 138.

He's right ya know, I don't think this is sour grapes just Albert Pujols stating his feelings on the MVP award. I highly doubt Pujols has any feelings of resentment toward Mr. Howard seeing as how Albert already has 1 MVP and will likely walk away with atleast 5 more before his career is over.

QUOTE(Vance Law @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 10:29 PM) Last year Crawford vs. Cleveland: on base 11 times (no xbh) 3 stolen bases Podsednik vs. Cleveland: on base 19 times (no xbh) 9 stolen bases Oddly enough all of Carl Crawford's SBs against the Indians last year were at the expense of Kelly Shoppach. Which I suppose is a good thing since there's a damn good chance V-Mart will not be the starting catcher for the Indians next year seeing as how he's Piazza-esque behind the plate.