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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 16, 2011 -> 12:37 AM) Rios has the timing he just can't square it up Verlander is good even when he ain't

I guess we all want a mega trade, but there ius nothing wrong with signing a fellow to pitch at Triple A. Maybe he can help sometime down the road. Teams make these moves all the time

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 05:53 PM) What's D1's schedule? within a week I believe

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 06:51 PM) Just watched Baseball Tonight's preview of the AL in the 2nd half, and Doug Glanville said the White Sox are the team to watch, and that Adam Dunn will break out of this and turn his season around. I hope the Sox prove him and Kruk right

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 04:11 PM) John Kruk believes the player to watch in the 2nd half is Adam Dunn. He thinks he's going to hit 20 HR's and drive in 60 these last 2.5 months. LOL I am happy for John Kruk and that job he has at ESPN BBTN.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 11:39 PM) Trading CQ makes alot of sense to me. I don't see that at all, but I do think Juan Pierre, who to his credit is a hardworking guy, might be someone another contender might take from us. What we would get back is questionable, but it would open a spot for Viciedo. I still hold on to the idea of Viciedo and Quentin in the corner spots. Plus apprently AL players see a real positive in CQ as they put him on the all-star team. I like CQ a lot too. He hustles all the time and when hot can carry a team. A bit steaky but a lot of power hitters are

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 08:58 PM) If someone offered "too good of a deal to be true" then wouldn't anyone have to pull the trigger? I mean, if the Dodgers offered you Kershaw and Kemp for Viciedo...would you say no? Come up with your own fantasy there, if it's "Too good to be true"...no one will be mad. The worry is that KW will do something like Viciedo for Beltran, which would be a bad, bad, bad deal that might make the team slightly better this season. Maybe so on a bad deal for Beltran. It is getting intersting over there with the Mets and possible trades though. Beltran has been mentioned. Rios has fallen out of favor with a lot of our fans and maybe with management and we might need a new CF'er. Am I correct in thinking that Rios makes more than Beltran? I am sure the Mets wouldn't do that kind of swap would they? Crazy stuff

I was looking over some of the rumor sites and I see where the Atlanta rumor included the possibility the Braves might be interested in Juan Pierre? Now I know we need a lead off guy, but apaprntly this auithor thinks the Braves do also. His question is whterh the Braves would be willing to give up the young Beachy or the more expensive Lowe for Pierre. Trading JP would open up the spot for Viciedo, who we would all like to see up with the big club. Quentin obviously has been mentioned, but I just can't see that as more than idle specualtion. The rumor mill even says the Sox may not be really looking at any moves. The struggles of Rios and Dunn have pretty much hamstrung our ability to make a trade. Plus if they could ever get it going that would be as good as two trades IMO. I know this is alot of rehash, but the idea of Atlanta maybe being willing to tak Juan Pierre was intersting as I hadn't heard that before.

I just want to win and get things on a roll.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 02:26 PM) I bet you that if they snapped off an 8 game winning streak out of the break he'd immediately shift into buyer mode. That is my thought on the matter also. Winning always makes things look or seem better. You only hope that after the 8 game winning streak and the addition of someone to the team that they can keep up the winning. It has been a struggle this season and I think our longest winning streak is 4 games

Konerko

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 12:15 AM) Its no surprise. He's had a lot of long layoffs the past three seasons. His body isn't used to the grind. Is the physical therapy to loosen up the groin muscle pull or to improve flexibility or do we know for sure?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:30 PM) A few discussions of trading Quentin and that's all we do is bash him? My word, that's more than a bit excessive. Point taken, but I think it is obvious that some don't particualrly have a good sense of the value of our own players. My goodness you woud think we were the cellar dwellers of the entire baseball world based on some of the ideas thrown around. I would guess maybe it's just that we are frustarted we aren't winning and I can understand that though

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 11:01 PM) Guy, I don't know what I can say to you. I just don't believe you are very logical and there's little reason to argue with you. Plese don't respond to anymore of my posts. Thanks! I don't need your negativity or comments.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 09:00 PM) That also means that Danks is not expected to be on the open market. And shouldn't be IMO. Hopefully we keep him. Pitching wins

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 08:23 PM) A possible future. Puhlease. Jackson is mentioned in the article as possibly the best pitcher available. And quite possibly he is. That should be a bargaining chip. Jackson is not a bad pitcher at all. He is actually pretty good and has a lot of upside. Quentin is a player I would not trade at all unless overwhelmed with a great offer. Here is a guy just selected by his peers for the all-star team and some Sox fans on this site do nothing but bash the guy and/or call for him to be traded. You have me confused

Where is Scott Podesednik? Injured?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 07:51 PM) I don't know if Jackson is a headcase...I think his biggest problem is the lack of a third remotely effective pitch. He's all 2 pitches...fastball slider. If both of those pitches are on 100% of the time, then he's near unhittable. If either of those pitches isn't giving him control that day though, then he's rapidly a 1-pitch pitcher or worse. He can still win some of those games because 1 of those pitches is a 96 mph fastball, but he has to throw a lot of pitches to win a game like that if he doesn't have the slider. Throw in one more pitch that comes in the low to mid 80's, even if it's not hugely effective every game, and suddenly even on days where he has no control over the slider, he can keep people off balance by changing velocity. Or, similarly, get him to do a better job of changing up the velocity on his fastball. Something. He just doesn't have the repertoire needed to be an everyday starter unless his 2 pitches are there all the time. I would think this is right on. It amazes me with Edwin that even on days when he doesn't seem to have it and the guy throws 120 pitches he can still keep the opposition down to like 4 runs. He is a real enigma. So much talent and so little success. I think some team might be willing to gamble on him and give a respectable amount of talent (young hopefully) back for him.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 06:53 PM) Trade Quentin for a young pitcher. Than trade Jackson for a young hitter. That would be nice. And gain what?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 02:56 PM) And that's also...sort of his job. If he did the kind of things that would take for this type of Sox Fan to not get on him, he'd get fired quicker than Stone got canned on the North Side. And how Harry Caray adn Jimmy Piersal got canned by the Sox

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 03:16 PM) I find it odd how many people target the post game show host personally... Like he has anything to do at all with what is happening in the organization. Lashing out at anyone and anything I guess. Doesn't make any sense though

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Jul 11, 2011 -> 11:46 PM) Man now that's having some faith!!!! I have faith and I know that a baseball season is more than one game. We seem to live and die over each game. We should be better no doubt and it's frustrating, but I still think the talent is there and hopefully we can turn it around

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jul 11, 2011 -> 08:58 PM) I guess the question for me is how big of a risk is it to bench Rios for good? Who replaces him? Is it by a committee thing? Emotionally you think "anyone's" better but last week Lillibridge cost them a game by allowing a guy to score. I think this decision lies with Kenny. Whatever Kenny wants to do I don't see Ozzie disagreeing. Maybe they are hoping from some naive GM by the trade deadline. Trying to trade a Rios contract may only happen if you trade one bad contract for another. No one out there in a similar CF situation that I know of and I am not certain a rotation of Pierre and Lilli would be a very good thing in CF. Last year though when we were convinced he had found it we never had these conversations. Can he find it again? Is his struggles affecting his hustle and game mind set? Probably so. As some said before we are probably stuck with it.