jackie hayes

Weak.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 7, 2007 -> 10:00 PM) It's actually pretty hard for me to come up with an example of a Free Agent pitcher who's succeeded... Add in the fact that this was, bar none, the most astonishing offseason for mediocre starters, and the fact that the Sox aren't going to offer the moon even in a 3-year deal, and...scene!

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Mar 7, 2007 -> 09:35 PM) Gil Meche is just gonna f*** things up for everyone, isn't he? That's his mo.

QUOTE(Tmar @ Mar 7, 2007 -> 03:19 PM) Sure they can, they just release him and only have to pay the signing bonus Yup. Or they can just threaten it, and the contract gets "reworked". I've never begrudged holdouts in the NFL.

Bad idea. Turn it way, way, way down.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Mar 7, 2007 -> 06:56 PM) If the reports are accurate, Buerhle basically turned down the same contract extension Vazquez just signed last All Star break, which was right at the beginning of his freefall. IMO either he's starting to question if he can get people out anymore or he's going to be asking for a lot more than Levine thinks. Agreed. If MB thinks he'll return to form, he'll wait and cash in. And on the Sox side, you have to be concerned about the catastrophe that was last year. I still think the possibility of an extension died last year, and I'm not gonna believe any differently until a contract is actually signed, whatever Levine says.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 6, 2007 -> 09:43 PM) The the speculation is a moot point on multiple levels then. We'll just have to see what he says about the bill in his signing statement if/when he signs it. "The Executive Branch shall construe this right to organize as the ability to have a superfun TSA club consisting of the right to collectively negotiate the date of an annual pizza party, as well as discounted captain's wings."

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2007 -> 03:01 PM) At least the one count he was acquitted of was that. If he hadn't been convicted of the other count of the same charge, it would be true. That's pretty close for Fox News.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Mar 6, 2007 -> 11:40 PM) The Justice Ligue That's just...yeah...that's good.

I didn't know Joe Buck was ever gone.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 5, 2007 -> 05:09 PM) And this whole thing is pretty simple, it's about signing bonus. The 7.5 million number means nothing, just like the 80 million dollar number for Nate Clements means nothing. The only number in football that matters is singing bonus (aka guaranteed money), and Briggs isn't getting any here, hence the holdout. I could have sworn the tag money is now guaranteed once you sign the offer. Right now I take this as posturing. He was careful to say that he loves his teammates, his coaches, the city, blah blah blah, so there won't be a problem if he decides to come back. It's just the usual tough talk in order to get his contract this year. It's his right, and I can understand why he's upset. But I'm a Bears fan, so I just don't care.

QUOTE(sircaffey @ Mar 3, 2007 -> 12:10 AM) What was so wrong with what Brandon said? The clubhouse is old. People were telling him what he was doing wrong all the time. This is the stuff that gets under Ozzie's skin? Wow. Grow some thicker skin. There was nothing offensive in his comments, IMO. Bingo. Ozzie just hears what he wants to hear. QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Mar 3, 2007 -> 12:14 AM) http://soxmachine.com/blogs/soxmachine/default.aspx Gotta comment. Heard the audio. It's right there. The audio. That sounds hateful to some of you? Jeez. And he didn't say, "I hate him." Said, "I hate 'em," referring to the comments. When he made the comments about the playoffs, he said: "I wish him the best of luck. We won ninety and what. How many'd we lose? How many games?" "90 and seventy two." "Well he lost five of those seventy two. We might be in the playoffs if not for him." And then North says, "Didn't Buehrle kills us worse than anyone?" and he says, "Oh yeah, Buehrle knows that. Oh yeah, he know. He know that." Ozzie ripped McCarthy to shreds. Right. I can't believe the reaction to this. It's so silly. He had a few criticisms, said some good things, wished him all the best of luck. Anyone who hasn't heard it should listen to it for themselves. Blaming McCarthy for the SEASON is the absolute stupidest comment I've heard from anyone connected with the Sox in the last year or so. That's flat idiotic. Just because he grudgingly admits that Buehrle was worse after North reminds him for the umpteenth time in the interview doesn't mean he's being fair. And then, suddenly, he's not so interested in talking about last year's performances, but about spring training and how great he'll be in 2007. Damn curious. He wasn't even prompted to say that dumb s*** about McCarthy being the reason the Sox failed. That's just mean, petty, whiny bs.

QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 10:46 PM) I think anyone trying to defend Ozzie for not being malicious in his comments should listen to the interview. I read about the interview, but it's totally different when you hear it directly from his mouth. Completely agree.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 10:33 PM) Hey guys! Context! http://blogs.dailysouthtown.com/whalen/ Ozzie's comments. McCarthy's are his right before, but I'm excerpting Ozzie's specifically to show how much of a monster he truly is. No, not context. Backpedaling later in the day. These aren't the 670 comments.

I'm still missing the part where anyone could possibly be outraged about what McCarthy said. He said that, as a younger, unmarried guy, he got to know other younger, unmarried guys better than older, married guys. He didn't say he never talked to the older guys, never asked them for advice. Just that he didn't know them very well. Now, maybe when you were in your early 20s, you bugged all the married guys to hang out with them at their kids' soccer games and thrilled to hear kindergarten application banter. Which is fine, but that would make you really f***ing disturbed. Beyond that, he said the coaches focused on the negatives, and implied that he wasn't getting much support from the coaching staff. Which has never been much of a mystery, and Guillen confirmed it today. But, hey, Ozzie's just telling it like it is...

QUOTE(rangercal @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 12:56 AM) Millen with another bonehead move. Does he not get it? Denver can make their water boy a 1,000 yard rusher. But not Maurice Clarett. I'm waiting to see them draft Gary Marshall this year.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 09:17 PM) You would have to look long and hard to find a more immature 42 or 43 year old man than Ozzie Guillen.

QUOTE(ptatc @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 06:30 PM) It's great how things get taken. Ozzie was commenting on how McCarthy said the Sox were negative and had a negative clubhouse. Ozzie's reply was that he didn't get to know most of the team and that maybe it's hard to be very positive whyen he was pitching like crap. He could think of 5 situations where McCarthy blew games. If he hadn't blown those maybe we make the playoffs. granted he shouldn't lay it out there like that but McCarthystarted it all with bashing the Sox as being a negative team and too boring and Married. McCarthy is a smart guy it wouldn't surprise me if he bashed the Sox knowing how Ozzie would react. It's interesting how everyone enjoys busting on Ozzie but refuse to lay any blame on the players. If players suck Ozzie put them in a bad position. If the players do well, they did it despite Ozzie. He had abslutely nothing to do with showing confidence in them to run them out there to prove it. He didn't say the clubhouse was negative, he said guys in the clubhouse weren't his age and weren't single. He said the Sox coaching was focusing on the negative, as in, 'Don't do this', and he didn't react well to that sort of coaching. It's not bashing the club, but, hey, the word "negative" was there. Great how things get taken.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 05:52 PM) Luis Terrero. Put up a 927 OPS in AAA last year. (You didn't specify what league they were playing in). Well, I think we have our new starter.

QUOTE(bigruss22 @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 05:44 PM) anderson has full responsibility over his future, if he hits well and plays great defense then he will start, but he hit horrible last year and needs to win the job back. Mind showing me the cf on our roster who didn't "hit horrible last year"?

QUOTE(rpmahr @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 11:08 AM) Juan Uribe's Hitlist Nice, lol.

QUOTE(knightni @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 08:27 PM) I'm thinking that if my team gets the injury bug, I'll rename it, "Coop Will Fix Them". Thanks, that reminded me of a name I was thinking about.

QUOTE(BHAMBARONS @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 12:23 AM) Also add that two Dback pitchers will be Casey Diagle (Jennie Finch's husband) and Evan MacLane. The Sox's should have a field day with those two. If you promise me Jennie'll be there I'm buying mlb.tv premium TONIGHT. Edit: N/m, that's the other game.

Early is relative. I'm in as Coop's Magic Fingers. Not sure about that one, but it'll serve for now.

Chris Young? Who the hell is that?