southsideirish71

f***ing Ref.

Keith has been sloppy this game.

Now that they have clinched a spot. We can await the pageantry of the parade of goats dead or alive to Wrigley as morons attempt to break a make believe curse.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 23, 2015 -> 02:59 PM) I think the idea is that this was some whistleblower who knew about the tampering and wanted to alert the victim. Maybe the girls attorney used google and bought it online and planted it himself to make people like you believe in a conspiracy theory. See how insane that sounds. Just about as bad as some random whistleblower doing it this way. http://www.crimescene.com/store/index.php?...;products_id=93

QUOTE (LDF @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 04:24 PM) a question, was Adam LaRoche signings .... was that a kw or hahn doing??? Do you have to even qualify this. Older, NL based power hitter who is a lefty. Signed to be a DH. Sounds familiar huh.

He will be 34 year old next year. The Sox typically hold on to players a year or two too long. This smells of that. Let him go and bridge to Anderson.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Sep 7, 2015 -> 08:03 PM) The Sox can't develop hitting anyway, even if they had the #1 pick. They seem to do okay with pitching prospects.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 7, 2015 -> 03:40 PM) I'd end the Olt experiment early. So you want to have our players choke up on the bats like its little league and bench a player we just picked up from playing in meaningless games in September. These are gems Greg.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 10:41 AM) How dare anyone not appreciate terrible rape jokes about an ongoing tape investigation How dare anyone convict someone without a fair trial. Have you sent your apologies to the Duke Lacrosse team yet. A nice card, some flowers, maybe a hey I am sorry I got that one wrong.

I wonder if we went back to the Duke rape case thread how many people had those players convicted due to the accusation. Because obviously it was a rape, remember. Then the facts come out and its not that. If he did rape her then he deserves jail. On the other hand if she didnt get raped maybe she deserves jail.

Its the 9th fairway and Alexei is approaching the dish with a 33inch Maple bat. He takes a few swings, tough putt here. He steps in the box. And the first pitch. Ooh I think he was trying to pitch it onto the green there. He steps out and takes swing. Yup he hit the ball to the uh, second baseman. Pods is bad at this. Put his wife in the booth and cut to her. Turn the sounds off.

QUOTE (harkness @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 06:38 PM) I like what I've seen from Saladino...he swings at strikes, is selective has a good swing. I'm hoping he is the answer at 3b... but that's a big need. Also if Avi can't be the guy we need another outfielder. Then there is LaRoche.. The thing is I don't think the Sox are that far away. I would take a look at Tyler at 2b. He has played that position before. His bat and his defense might be a fit for 2b. Then you target 3b for a guy with pop. We need offense at some place. I would play Tyler at 2b over the other internal options.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 08:16 AM) Let's hear some names. I'll start with some obvious ones that'll get tossed around: 1. Ozzie Guillen- His .524 winning percentage with the Sox is a lot better than Ventura's. Left on bad terms though. 2. Dave Martinez- The next great manager according to everyone but the 30 GMs running teams. Worrisome that he hasn't been hired yet, particularly by the Rays. 3. Joe McEwing- Perennial managerial and been with the Sox awhile now. Good 3rd base coach outside whatever the f*** 2 nights ago was. 4. Sandy Alomar Jr- The coveted catcher to manager move. Being groomed as a manager by the Indians. Obvious Sox ties. 5. Joey Cora- Key part of the Guillen "glory days" but without the shenanigans. Vanderbilt educated. The only one on that list I would entertain would be Sany Alomar Jr. He would be an interesting hire. Cora maybe. But the rest no. I want to see someone who actually has some experience. If they hire another ex-sox player with zero experience I would be very disappointed. No Thome, no Thomas, no AJ. I want an actual guy with some experience.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 09:01 PM) Hoky crap Sale has one bad start and this place falls apart. Its crazy, just overreacting. Its like you have won 7 in a row against really horrible teams and people start printing playoff tickets and want to trade everything away.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 07:31 PM) Our farm system just flat out sucked minus Gio. Look at the guys we've moved and tell me who irks you that we've moved. You know that Miguel Cabrera fella. When he was put on the block we didn't have the bullets to get him here. Trust me Kenny tried. He just didnt have the horses to do it. Because he keeps going for it. So keep dumping players every year and you have nothing to go over the top when you need to.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 07:00 PM) All of the wild card teams are upgrading. We're in this. Let's make a bold move for a bat. Bold moves are why our farm system was in shambles and we are in the spot we have been in the last few years. Sustainable teams have a deep farm system that they use to restock major league talent and use for trade chits. If we dont get into the playoffs with this gamble then you burned it for nothing. This bold move nonsense is foolish. I would rather keep our talent and use it when we are truly in a spot to compete.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 04:27 PM) They pretty much are forced into it because of the need to give a shiney thing to the fan base in order to get them to show up. Even if it isn't best long term, they have to take the chance while they can to try to get people to keep showing up. They bought a lot of shiney new things this offseason and it didn't help with attendance. Consistant winning over a period of time is how you turn this thing around. That requires a rich farm system to use to replenish and to use for trade chits. Going for short term contracts to win now is not a strategic play. This is chess versus checkers here.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 04:12 PM) K, how did you view taking 2 from cardinals before then? That we should go for it? I don't think we should burn anything for it. If it went bad move Jeff, it was like this stay put. We are still in a retooling part of the process. Burning this down for a lottery ticket is stupid.

So we are about to burn our farm system again to fund another one of Trader Kenny's long shots. Then again I look at data like losing 2 from the Cardinals and 3/4 from the Royals as a bit of a scary trend over sweeping 2 series from a couple of dogs.

‏@elliottbaseball Hearing Jeff Hoffman in the package to Colorado

QUOTE (LDF @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 12:36 AM) but on his resume, he got the sox their 1 world series in how many yrs???? no pls do not take this as i am a kw supporter, which i am not and have not since the late 90's. So if he trades Anderson, Montas, and Adams in his quest to go for it. Its all good.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 12:09 AM) KW is in charge. Great.....

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 12:03 AM) Been going on for months. KW / TOR is still a hot button topic don't think it's not. Big drama in the FO this season. This is why we cant have nice things. We have a guy who wants to burn down the farm going for it no matter what the odds. If the odds are greater than 0 then he pushes the chips in.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 11:55 PM) Deals for Shark to TOR and SF in place. The deals are sitting there. KW is still "all in" on '16 and Rick is not so there's that drama right now. Of course Kenny is all in. He is all in every year no matter what. He must be a joy to play poker with.