Jake

The book is out on this contract. Alexei was worth $8MM last year according to FanGraphs and was worth over $16MM the years before that. He's already been worth $3MM this season.

Friedell says Bulls are "emotionally spent" and lack confidence going into tonight's game. Said they were sky high after the win, but some of those good spirits were contingent on the return of Deng, Hinrich, Rose. Losing Game 3 and still not having so many important players has taken its toll and you could tell in Game 4.

There are some folks that are very unsupportive of the .05 BAC recommendation, including Mothers Against Drunk Driving

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 15, 2013 -> 10:30 AM) Oh, and BTW, the Sox are 16-21 with 3 players - Dunn, Keppinger, and Konerko - underachieving badly, another starter - Beckham - on the DL and another starter - Viciedo - who was on the DL already this year. On top of that, 14 of their 21 losses have been by 2 runs or fewer, and 9 of those 21 have been by 1 run. It's going to take about one of those three underachieving bats to get back and heated up, and the Sox will start winning those 1 and 2 run games, and if two of them heat up, they won't be having nearly as many 1 and 2 run games. Dunn, Kepp, Kong underachieving. Gordon comes back and likely replaces Kepp, eliminating an underachiever. T Flow is back over .200, so who knows what we're getting there. Since Dunn abandoned that crap approach, he has posted a .750 OPS...which isnt great, but might be a sign of better things to come. Konerko...hopefully he gets it going again. He's been a guy that has gone through a lot of prolonged slumps, so it is hard to say whether old age or just his typical slumping self is at fault here.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 15, 2013 -> 10:28 AM) Right -- though trading CQ is the exact type of thing we should do when our minor leagues provides a replacement. But not spending for the sake of losing is silly. I am fine with calling a spade a spade when necessary, but there's no reason to be get as bad as you can. If we can maximize our benefit by trading someone, so be it. If we're trading someone just because it is a sin to have good players on a bad team, then that's silly. If we're out of it in July, then of course we should trade Thornton, Crain, and Lindstrom. They're leaving anyway. Rios and Peavy are far trickier because they are under contract for two more years at a fair price, Peavy for three if we take his option/it vests. We should never plan on being bad for two years. There's an argument that we have a minor league replacement for Peavy, which is to be seen but might be right FWIW

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 15, 2013 -> 10:14 AM) The question remains, if you have money and are willing to spend it, why do a gut rebuild? Why get rid of your good players for guys like Simon Castro and Nestor Molina? If you aren't supposed to compare them to other teams who did gut rebuilds, who should you compare them to? What team gets rid of all its good players and is back with this "sustained success" 2 or 3 years later? Right -- though trading CQ is the exact type of thing we should do when our minor leagues provides a replacement. But not spending for the sake of losing is silly. I am fine with calling a spade a spade when necessary, but there's no reason to be get as bad as you can. If we can maximize our benefit by trading someone, so be it. If we're trading someone just because it is a sin to have good players on a bad team, then that's silly. If we're out of it in July, then of course we should trade Thornton, Crain, and Lindstrom. They're leaving anyway. Rios and Peavy are far trickier because they are under contract for two more years at a fair price, Peavy for three if we take his option/it vests. We should never plan on being bad for two years.

I have to think the Cards would like Alexei, but who knows. They'd probably like to get at some of our relievers too.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ May 15, 2013 -> 09:13 AM) Finally watched Silver Linings Playbook. Outstanding. I can see why Jennifer Lawrence won the Oscar. I loved that movie.

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ May 14, 2013 -> 10:39 PM) Yeah but if we never sign Wise it's a $700,000 difference. Danks is this organization's best defensive outfielder. Danks has .355 OBP in the minors and Wise's career high OBP is .293. Save $700,000 + See what a young player has + better defense + improve OBP on the MLB's worst OBP team. I'm with you

QUOTE (fathom @ May 14, 2013 -> 09:54 PM) Some good stuff out there by our pitchers tonight. Time to win the series tomorrow. Some hitters showing signs of life too. Bring back the Gordon!

Flowers with consecutive good games at the plate.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 14, 2013 -> 08:50 PM) Okay, now that was an awful call. Dunn was clearly safe.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 14, 2013 -> 08:27 PM) He was quite clearly out on a replay shown on the Twins network, got him on the shoulder right before looking up at the ump. Thanks, there was nothing conclusive on our broadcast

You know what....I think he was out. Flow barely got him while he was b****ing I think

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 14, 2013 -> 07:29 PM) Hawk and Stone talking about a change in Dunn's hand position to keep them higher through the zone. Irrelevant, Sox suck 4 evar

Adam. Dunn.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 14, 2013 -> 06:55 PM) If you make a trade like that, you absolutely bench someone like Dunn. Right, just bench whichever guy is playing worse at that point. Try to spread the ABs around a bit, playing matchups, but Adams becomes your best bat at that position.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ May 14, 2013 -> 06:44 PM) Where would he play? You pick a guy for him to replace this season, then he can be our 1B starting next year

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 14, 2013 -> 05:02 PM) These are the numbers after the initial cup of coffee in roughly the first full year's worth of plate appearances .271/.347/.483/.831 - 648 plate appearances - .282/.344/.482/.826 - 532 plate appearances - .270/.347/.460/.808 - 430 plate appearances -

Alexei for Matt Adams is my favorite thing I've heard all day. Count me in.

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ May 14, 2013 -> 04:46 PM) Not sure what team you've been watching but I feel like I've been watching the SAME ONE since then, just replacing Thome with Dunn. I will say this, I should correct myself: they didn't suck last year until the last month or so, that's true. Don't know how that happened, but they were exciting for a while. Other than that though, meh. Me? I'm tired of the "patchwork" and hoping to "sneak in" to the playoffs. I'm willing to sacrifice to play the long game. They also sucked until Mid-May last year, but we all know the season is never lost just 30-some games in.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 14, 2013 -> 08:06 AM) not only 36, but often injured. No thanks on Chase Plus we have several options there. The corpse of Keppinger, Gordon Beckham, Carlos Sanchez. We shouldn't have to buy a player there...unless it's Robinson Cano. I'd trade my first born for that dude on the Sox QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 14, 2013 -> 08:29 AM) I think this is a cop-out answer and is totally wrong. A very similar offense to this scored the 4th most runs in the AL last year. They are bound to heat up at some point, and there's no reason to rush to a decision. Shh...we're the worst team ever!!!! AJ Pierzysnki is the only reason that team was any good!!!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 13, 2013 -> 11:54 PM) Ha. He's part of it. But really. I still have nightmares about that '04 Detroit team. #wORSTmoSTBoringChampionshipTeamSINCE1979. The grizzlies are so similar. So sad that Westbrook got hurt. That's the only reason this boring ass team is going to the conference finals. You're like a baseball fan that thinks it's only fun to watch when people are hitting bombs

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 13, 2013 -> 09:47 PM) Phegley was highly touted for the bat when he was drafted, as a supp pick. He started well out of the gate too, then had health issues over a multi-year period. He's finally been healthy a full season last year, and offseson going into this year. That, too, will do magnificent things. We shall see. He's had two straight full seasons of sub-.700 OPS baseball. I'm rooting for him.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 13, 2013 -> 11:33 PM) They remind me of the '04 Pistons. And that's horrible. It's the Tayshaun