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The last thing Ozzie needs is a rookie bench coach by his side, that ship has sailed. Ozzie has proven that he does not have what it takes to be a competent in game manager so what he really needs is a grizzled old vet by his side on the bench who can get in his ear in tough managerial situations and keep him from totally f***ing it up. The sad thing is I'm basically describing Joe Nossek, it's a damn shame he felt the need to retire.

QUOTE(mmmmmbeeer @ Oct 13, 2006 -> 06:11 PM) outstanding visual, bro. thanks. I aim to please.

Am I the only one who just doesn't give a s*** about Jay Mariotti? I just really don't care about this guy.

QUOTE(SoxPride56 @ Oct 13, 2006 -> 07:51 AM) I know I might get killed for saying this, but what about Mussina if we can get him to sign a 2 year deal. That way after the contract is up, Broadway and Heager will be ready, if there not ready before then. Is Carlos Zambrano available, I know he is a FA after 07, so maybe we can get him? But would the Cubs want to trade a young, all-star to the White Sox, and what would the Sox have to give up in return? Would you trade Fields for Zambrano striaght up if we can sign Zambrano and Crede to long term deals? Maybe that isnt realistic? Is there any way to get Lackey from the Angels? Would Garcia, Vazquez and Cotts be enough to land Lackey and Shields?... Peavy? Hudson? The way I look at it, is we have 6 starts, atleast one has to be traded, would that really improve the rotation that much? I don't think it will. Right now, I think you can pencil in Buehrle, Garland, and McCarthy into the rotation, but who will fill the other holes? I don't see how Buehlre could possibly be a lock at this point, hell his option hasn't even been picked up yet. Once the option is excercised he still isn't a lock seeing how he can walk after the '07 season. There are no locks for next year's rotation, the pitcher's who's jobs are the safest would be McCarthy, Garland and Vazquez then a little ways down you have Contreras followed by Buehrle and Garcia is on the very bottom of the list, here's a visual: Garland | McCarthy | Vazquez Contreras Buehlre Garcia

There have been 3 team's mentioned in newspaper articles as possible trade partners with the Yankees, the Cubs, Giants and Marlins. None of the 3 make any sense really when you think about it. The Giants and Cubs just don't have the pieces to get the deal done unless the Cubs would be willing to give up Zambrano + some and all the Giants have left is Matt Cain and he alone is no where near enough. The Marlins makes zero sense, they thought about moving Willis midseason because he makes $4.35M why would they trade for a guy who made $10M more last season than the entire Marlins payroll combined?

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 05:00 PM) I don't think anyone is arguing over the 4 minutes. It's just that the $500K figure is a drop in the bucket. The Sox don't seem to have extracted what they could have for the move, as evidenced by the giddy spokewoman "We think it's worth way more than $500,000." Oh yeah I totally agree with you on that, I was mainly tackling the claim that this is a "non-story".

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 04:48 PM) I think the argument against it is that, as the Sox are expected to have a payroll around $100M this year, the $500K per year only represents roughly a .5% increase in payroll. It's like spitting in the Lake Michigan. Yet what is the downside to starting games 4 minutes later than usual?

QUOTE(greg775 @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 04:29 PM) Keep dumping money into the stadium; make it look better and better. This is a non story. Who cares? Actually it's $1.5M more that can go into the payroll of the team (per Brooks Boyer) I'd say that's pretty significant.

QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 04:11 PM) Thanks. ETA... I'm missing the reference to drinking and flying... or "flight history" as you labeled it up there? He mentioned Lidle's drinking in a television interview but it's not in the quote from the original New York Post article.

I just replaced it with the actual Rhodes quote.

Cory Lidle is now confirmed dead, he was only a pilot for 8 months, there was a flight instructor on board the plane at the time of impact. Lidle's passport was found on the street below the crash as well.

This is Thurman Munson all over again to a lesser extent I guess. Appearantly the Yankees weren't all that excited about Lidle flying around in a plane. Lidle was supposed to flyout of New Jersey this morning and it's believed that he was the pilot of this plane. ESPN is now confirming that Cory Lidle did die in the plane crash.

Appearantly this plane is registered to Cory Lidle. Arthur Rhodes has mentioned Lidles flight history before:

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 12:06 PM) Don't count on Schilling coming back for sure. I would say it's about 80%. Garcia would probably interest a NL team first, I would imagine...and I don't know if Kenny would want to deal someone to a possible playoff foe. That being said, if any Chicago team gets ARod...it's going to be the Cubs. Hendry needs to make a splash and if they end up hiring Sweet Lou, ARod will be a natural choice. They can either let Aramis go and have ARod play 3B or move Izturis to 2B and use Cedeno in a deal or vice versa depending on how much they like Cedeno. And the White Sox don't need more offense, they need pitching. I keep hearing the Cubs as a possible trade partner with the Yankees but I just don't see it as being realistic. The Cubs really don't have the chips to land Arod unless they'd be willing to move Zambrano which would be completely retarded from the Cubs point of view.

Hillarious

QUOTE(greg775 @ Oct 10, 2006 -> 02:52 PM) Is Brian Anderson the next Jeremy Reed? Just wondering. What makes Brian a better prospect than Reed? Other than injury, what exactly is the problem with Reed? The guy is still a decent propect going into his 4th season, he hasn't shown much power potential in the bigs and regressed offensively in his 3rd season mostly due to injury. If he could just stay healthy Reed could still be a nice .280 hitter, 8 HR, 30 2B, 50 RBI, 70+ R, 15 SB with excellent defense in CF next year. What does it mean to be the "next Jeremy Reed"?

The first sign of Jeter being a horrible leader was his unwillingness to move to 3B after the Yankees acquired a superior defensive SS. I can't believe this isn't brought up more often, it was an incredibly selfish move and actually hurt the Yankees in the longrun.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 11:55 PM) Nope. That article has completely changed my mind. Can you guys believe that A-Rod doesn't get along with everyone on his team? What an awful person. ENEMIES!!!

Steve McNair is not very good, same goes for the team he plays for.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 10:04 PM) So are you trying to say that he's a bad defender? He's basically a reincarnation of Greg Norton.

QUOTE(Brian @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 10:02 PM) What a borefest tonight. There aren't even any sacks or hard hitting plays it's basically just bad quarterback play and running backs falling down after 2 yard runs.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 09:45 PM) Your way off base. Coming into the season, everyone wasnt sure if the O was going to be there, but you could count on the D. A Scouting Report from Roto. Here's what Jim Bowden thinks of Zimmerman's defense:

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 07:49 PM) Still the leader of our defense(Urlacher) was a first rounder and the leader of our offense(Grossman) was a first rounder. 1st rounders are mostly over-paid overall.... but there is also a reason they are in the 1st round as well. And the 2006 defensive player of the year (Harris) was a first rounder.

QUOTE(TLAK @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 07:18 PM) Yep, I counted is 0 for 4 against Minny on 10/1. Sorry. You are forgiven.

QUOTE(TLAK @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 06:47 PM) You are aware, I assume, that Brian hit .188 in September? Actually he hit .200