southsideirish71

Even with a destroyed arm he could outpitch our teeball stand by committee that we would of marched out there in ST. OH for 2 years 8 mill > Teeball Grill+Teeball Diaz+amount of tums I would need for my ulcers+replacing my tv after I throw the remote through it+the replacment after I kick the dog so much in anger that I need to put him to sleep Simple formula. Its an overwhelming yes for signing this guy.

I like this lineup. Pods is your leadoff guy. He gets on and can swipe a base. Eck has good patience and the bat control and speed you need as a number 2. He also can lay down a bunt to sack Pods over to 2nd. Arow is your line drive hitter, doubles guy, has some power but also has some speed. Then you get into the thumper part of your lineup. Konerko Now with the speed ahead of him is less likely to double up. Everett/Thomas Another RBI group. Great place to get some RBIs gives great protection for Konerko. Dye should have some good RBI opps here can extend the inning Crede and Davis have low BA but good power and if they have up years could bridge it back to Uribe who has speed and power. I like it. It is a nice balanced lineup. It should give us more depth and more ability to stretch out some innings and create some runs.

Think about our rotation for next year from one interesting point. We will have 5 pitchers who have all completely different stuff. All good, but different enough so that having a good day off of one pitcher doesnt mean that the team will be able to transfer that success to the next. This is not in any rotational order btw also. As of now and including if we get Javier Vasquez and spin off Garland. I have included Garland just incase we keep him. Buerhle Location guy, nasty changeup and cutter. Best when he pounds the guy in and in. Garcia Live fastball with some sink to it, good slider and curve. Best when he keeps the ball down. Vasquez Live fastball,.great location pitcher, gets ahead and puts you away. Great curveball Contreras filthy splitter and live fastball O Hernandez, great breaking stuff, motion is all legs and arms Garland if Vasquez isnt here. Sinkerballer, good curveball

I thought Jon Garland was a member of the whitesox already?

Go get him KW.

If contreras could realize that throwing a 95 mph fastball to setup your awsome splitter is so much better than throwing 12 splitters and walking the bases loaded then throwing your 95mph fastball down the cock. He should just throw what is layed down from Davis instead of shaking our catchers off. Watching Bull Durham should be the first thing they do in spring training for the whitesox.

My favorite radio quote from yesterday and I think it was from Bruce Levine was how do you say Kyle Farnsworth in spanish. Jorge Julio. That was in response to the cubs need to trade for Julio.

Flash I am kinda tossed up about losing Marte. On one hand it depends on the Marte we are losing. Is it the world beater in 2003 with the electric stuff or is it the guy in 2004 who couldnt locate his fastball because he wasnt following through on his release. Marte's issues from last year are very very fixable. But it depends on how we are using Marte on our team. If we are using him as a closer or primary setup guy lets keep him. Marte(setup guy/closer) with learning how to follow through again > issues garland will impose in our rotation If we are only using him as a lefty specialist we can find another one of those so trade him and get a legit top of the rotation guy. Visquiano's(I know I cant spell)'s splits against lefties are pretty good. We bring in another lefty with a good breaking pitch to be a situational lefty. Marte as a situation lefty

Yeah but even world beaters have a problem playing in New York becaue of the Pirahanna press that they have out there. Look at how ARod struggled to start the season. I look at the years before, plus we are competing in the AL Central and not against the Redsox all the time.

If we trade for Vasquez and give up Garland think about that freakin rotation guys. Buerhle Garcia Vasquez Hernandez Contreras That my friends would absolutely shut down all AL Central teams and if we got a piddling of offense we would win the division easily. Remember guys we play in coors east. A guy who would hit 5 home runs might hit 15 here.

If you want to find out the sox plans, just sit KW down and ask him one by one about each FA we think or player we would trade for. The minute he starts to giggle like a 7 year old on sugar you have your answer. I am sure that this is all that George Offerman or Bruuuce Levine does. they pump KW full of redbull and watch his reactions.

I can see it now BRUUUCE LEVINE with another AM1000 exclusive. Kenny has confided with me that we are going to offer El Duque a 2 year deal. You heard it here first people.

According to rotoworld The Dodgers and J.D. Drew have agreed to a five-year, $55 million contract, the Bergen Record reports. That's a better deal than what they reportedly offered Adrian Beltre. A healthy Drew might be worth as much as Beltre, but this a player whose career high in games played is 145 and whose second highest total is 135. He shouldn't have gotten this much money. Dec. 22 - 12:54 am et

Doesnt Bruuuuce Levin look a lot like Chris Elliot. I keep thinking of groundhog day everytime he starts his broadcast.

Danny Almonte was 12 remember. the formula for latin players is as X approaches infinity z is greater than the multiplier of the age and the gravitation pull of the earth on tuesdays. By that formula he is indeed 70. But can he toe the pitchers plate and give us a sub 7 ERA. I think the answer to that is yes. And the best part of this deal. Is NO f***ING GRILLI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This made my evening.

Its a done deal when they have a press conference and El Duque is putting on his whitesox hat and through translator Ozzie Guillen tells everyone how happy he is to be here.

YUP, I found it doing a google for my favorite teeball stand of a pitcher. And I found that one.

Is this the end of the teeball stand 5th starter. Will our anti-hero JR's cheapness finally pay off. Will they get another INF to platoon with Willie. Answers to this an more will come tomorrow on As the Southside turns

I would rather get Eck instead of cora. I dont feel that good about having a relative in the coaching aspect. It kind of skews the objectivity. Get Eck and you have some great balance.

I know he is 45 years old. I know he get injured. But this is good news. Jason Grilli and his 7.40 ERA can give up gopher balls in AAA. Diaz can replace Mike Jackson as our dog in the pen. All is right in the world. El Duque pitched pretty well last year and I am surprised that they did not sign him. Go get Eckstein now and I will be a happy camper. Or lets get greedy and trade for Vasquez and have 3 ex NY starters on our team. Trade Garland and get Javy. His value must be low if he was the reason that the dodgers pulled out of it.

Perez makes natural sense. KW tried trading for him already. He is obviously on the we want list.

I still think he can hit 30-40 at safeco. His homers are not cheapies by any margin.

First of all Mr. Pennnigton we can complain if we want. Its our perrogative as a fans of the team. Who is saying anything about the yankees. How about a payroll of a mid market team. Not the payroll of the KC royals. Its also not like anyone has recent history to go off of to say that these moves are nothing more than money dumping to make a buck. I do remember in 94 and 97 moves being made that only benefitted JR and not the welfare of the team. So am I skepticle as a life long sox fan of his motives behind our roster moves yes. I get sick and tired of seeing the happy no matter what society get all over people for expressing their concern. If KW and JR make the moves necessary(get a FA pitcher to address number 5 and maybe a utility IF)then hey I will be the first person to say I was wrong. Nobody is advocating spending 200 million for Beltran. But when you start playing the shuffle game to keep your payroll under a low amount even for this team it gets a bit silly. We are also not asking for JR to go broke, just reinvest earnings into the team to make the team better. The Comcast deal, the increase of the ticket prices, and the forbes 2004 ratings on net earnings all pose that JR has some money to reinvest in the team. So far this offseason he traded a 300 hitter who had 30 homers for a reliever and a leadoff guy. His reasoning was to change the makeup of the team. This I buy and I like. And then to reinvest this money into a FA pitcher which JR himself said was the reason we lost the division last year. This from the chairman of the team. Well the first thing we see is that he enters into the FA market underbidding other teams. 3 years 7 mill for Clement wasnt going to get it done. There were already offers on the table for clement at that rate without the big boys entering the market. Yes it is more than he is worth, but its all about supply and demand. Now KW he talks about how we might not spend this money until July. Does this inspire good feelings for whitesox fans. Unless you have your head in the ground, no. So if he goes into the ST with the team pretty much the same, with the 5th starter as Grilli , pocketing the savings and moving into the season with a 64 million dollar payroll then I ask you are you a happy camper. If you are I question your baseball know-how. If you dont like the people complaining dont read their posts. But dont question anyones loyalties to the team. These are people that dump a ton of money, and their love into this team. I go to spring training every single year, to soxfest, I watch about every single game, and I go to about 30 games a year. So if I complain about some of the moves on this team its my opinion. If you dont like it or like others opinions then express it or ignore it. There are lots of peoples opions on this board I dont agree with but I dont tell them to turn in their sox gear. Get a grip.

At 8 Million I think he gawn. I think he will get minimum 10 mill if he puts up similiar numbers to last year.

Hawk and KW bantering in the Q&A session with angry fans. Ozzie asking why are we angry. Soxfest 2005 SOX PRIDE