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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 12, 2010 -> 01:01 PM) Wake the F*** up Q. I don't want to weigh in on the side of the naysayers, but CQ has not looked very good a lot. Do we have a one shot wonder here? I hope not and hopefuly he breaks out of this soon. He needs to cut down on that vicious swing and take some pitches once in awhile and go with the pitch to hit

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 11, 2010 -> 05:03 PM) Huge, Huge series. Time for a sweep.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 11, 2010 -> 06:40 PM) No, and here's why. If this team falls completely out of the race early this season, it's a ticket sales killer. I can't do anything but hope they win and keep winning

Quentin

I hope big time Freddie can put together a great winning game tonite. It would do wonders for this team and this site

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 11, 2010 -> 09:32 PM) Trading Jenks right now would have been like trading in your whole portfolio when the market was cratering for one or two days over freaking Greece debt issues. Simply illogical to sell as low as possible on him and panic. There's zero reason to force our hand to do so. Embree replacing Williams or backing up as LHR/loogy and pushing Thornton to closer is definitely NOT that reason to move Jenks, that much is for certain. I can appreciate your raitionale, but I think Jenks is on the market and has been

QUOTE (flavum @ May 11, 2010 -> 06:52 PM) Embree has been assigned to Charlotte. Probably to get his arm back to strength and I would not be surprised if he isn't waiting in the wings in case the Sopx make moves to the big roster

A Jones

Konerko

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 11, 2010 -> 06:58 PM) Basically, if you want to correctly do a full rebuild, and the non-performers are young and inexpensive...yeah, that's exactly what you have to do. Trade Jenks and Teahan and Kotsay and maybe AJP and see what you mght be able to add. Trade away your strong nucleus and all you do is add inexperience to go with inexperience.

QUOTE (bkmoney @ May 9, 2010 -> 04:31 AM) hitting singles He has 27 hits this year. Without looking it up, guess how many extra base hits he has... ready. set. go. (and good thing he can steal bases) Not an upgrade over Pods in my opinion. But I think he was one of those guys coveted by KW and Ozzie over the years and finally they got their man. Vizquel is another one they wanted for a long time.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 10, 2010 -> 02:15 AM) There's a chance that it could be Putz as the 1st option because he's a non lefty veteran. I wouldn't mind seeing Thornton as our closer and send Jenks packing if needed, but Putz is not much better IMO as the closer option then Jenks is. He has blown some games by giving up the long ball too

So we trade our performers and keep those who don't perform? Not much sense in that

Don't know if we should fire Ozzie or not, but I would push for another bat. KW's additona of Pierre and Kotsay and Vizquel have done little for the offense. But, as the eternal optimist says there s still time to show us they were good moves. If Pierre could get on more think of the number of SB's that guy would have and he leads the majors as it is. However, my preference was always Pods over Pierre

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 7, 2010 -> 04:52 PM) Hell...if the rest of the bats can't get their heads out of their tails, there's no reason to hold him past the deadline. Maybe we will be out of it this year, but next season is a new battle altogether. I would hope we keep PK for at least another two years

PK is the team leader. Now I await the inevitable call for him to be traded while his value is high

A Jones

Rios

Rios

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 5, 2010 -> 10:43 PM) No team needs him more than the Mariners. We need him

Reading the article makes one realize it is a stretch, but I would welcome J Dye back on this team. What he said rings very true "small ball in nice, but you need a balance" plus he can play 3 positions minimum for the Sox. We need another bat!

Konerko

I find this kind of debate somewhat perplexing. We get something started to slash and trash a team leader and look at his trade value, etc, and once again we get into this issue of failing to appreciate the true value of someone. Paul Konerko is not a problem but is an assett and we should be loking at keeping him.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ May 1, 2010 -> 11:56 PM) Teahan looks to be a below average (not horrible) 3rd baseman defensively. If he can hit the way the Sox seem to think he can, he'll be alright as the Sox starting 3rd baseman. If he hits to his career averages, he will be a liability as the starting 3B. We can't afford defensive liabilities

QUOTE (hogan873 @ May 5, 2010 -> 03:28 PM) You know...maybe the Sox and Royals could combine clubs, discharge all the fodder, and come up with one better team. Chicago RoyalSox! The sad thing is that one of our outfielders would still be Pierre or Podsednik. Point well taken