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QUOTE(rowandrules83 @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 08:34 PM) sorry, but i have to disagree. unless they changed the rules, they don't play a one-game playoff to determine the difference between the wc and div. champ. they just go by the head-to-head record. wouldn't it be pointless to send out contreras to try and win a one-game playoff when a playoff spot was already wrapped up? Dude, that came from MLB.com. We would play them in a 1 game playoff.

Yes!, from Hell.

Contreras - Garland - Garcia - Buehrle I don't start Buehrle. It's the playoffs. He's been doing the worse out of the 4 so he gets put in the 4 spot. It's not about respect in the playoffs, it's about giving your team the best chance to win. Buehrle doesn't do that for the Sox. He gives up a lot of hits and that doesn't bold well in the AL playoffs considering all the teams will hurt you if you do that.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 07:47 PM) ATTN Please: If I see again that ANYONE wants Juan Pierre I'm going to puke. He is a lesser version of Pods at the plate this year. He hasn't been near as good as Pods. .274 .326 .352 No thank you. Career numbers. Look at them.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 07:37 PM) I don't worry about things like that. You have a DH almost the entire season and than when your in an NL park you play the matchups. So say we get to the World Series. You now have to bench one of your big boppers for half the games. I'd happily do an upgrade of PK to Delgado, but fact is we need a DH that can also play a fielding position that is not the same as your only other big bopper. Again, Nomar would make sense. No matter what, all the FA's that are signable are going to be injury risks.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 07:36 PM) Hat's off to the Count. Without him the Sox are toast. French??

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 07:35 PM) Rowand must think the SS is playing in the OF seats. Lol, must've.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 07:34 PM) I'll puke if that happens. Nomar = Frank (ie I don't want anyone you can't count on being healthy). Dunn is as over-rated as it gets. Sure he'd be great, but this guy doesn't have a clue how to execute. He went a couple years without a sac fly or something. Pathetic. Resign Paulie..trade for Delgado...keep the rest of the cast in place, add another reliever, deal Duque. And where are you going to play Delgado/PK when we're in interleague? I think Delgado is too big of a bat to have as a DH and same as PK. Neither could play any other positions. YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BOARDDDDDDDD........YES!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 07:25 PM) I can't believe Comcast isn't broadcasting Cleveland's loss yet. It's Comcast. I'm suprised they didn't black out yet.

Count continues to make great pitches. Contreras > Cy Young

And runners on the corner with 1 out. I know lots of people don't believe in jinxes, but DJ needs to get his ass kicked.

Is DJ trying to jinx this thing? Someone email and drill his ass.

Seems like Pods didn't run that out hard. At least from first observations.

It don't mean a thing without the ring.

Yankees always get away with stuff like that. Other teams don't whether we like it or not.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 03:37 PM) We have so much talent on offense that it's scary. AL Team OBP 1. Boston .357 2. New York .355 3. Cleveland .336 4. Oakland .332 5. Tampa Bay .330 6. Texas .330 7. Toronto .329 8. Baltimore .328 9. Los Angeles .324 10. Detroit .323 11. Minnesota .322 12. Chicago .322 13. Kansas City .319 14. Seattle .318 AL Team Batting Average 1. Boston .282 2. New York .276 3. Tampa Bay .275 4. Cleveland .273 5. Detroit .272 6. Los Angeles .270 7. Baltimore .270 8. Texas .268 9. Toronto .264 10. Oakland .263 11. Kansas City .262 12. Chicago .262 13. Minnesota .258 14. Seattle .256 Hits 1. Boston 1539 2. New York 1505 3. Texas 1487 4. Cleveland 1483 5. Tampa Bay 1482 6. Detroit 1480 7. Los Angeles 1468 8. Baltimore 1455 9. Oakland 1432 10. Toronto 1427 11. Kansas City 1398 12. Chicago 1398 13. Minnesota 1394 14. Seattle 1369 Doubles 1. Boston .334 2. Cleveland 324 3. Texas 302 4. Oakland 296 5. Toronto 292 6. Baltimore 289 7. Seattle 284 8. Kansas City 283 9. Tampa Bay 283 10. Detroit 278 11. Los Angeles 271 12. Minnesota 262 13. New York 253 14. Chicago 248 AL Team SB% In 100 Or More Attempts 1. Tampa Bay 77% (189 Attempts) 2. New York 75% (106 Attempts) 3. Los Angeles 74% (209 Attempts) 4. Minnesota 70% (141 Attempts) 5. Baltimore 69% (118 Attempts) 6. Seattle 68% (148 Attempts) 7. Toronto 68% (103 Attempts) 8. Chicago 67% (198 Attempts) But Cleveland's 2nd half offense = White Sox 1st half offense. At least that's what I read from a poster. You're telling me he was wrong??

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 03:29 PM) Why does everyone suddenly care how many homers we hit, or how many we get from what position? Does it really matter that much if our CF hits 12 or 20? Wasn't the whole point of our offense to rely less on the homers? The Yankees don't have a whole lot more homers in the outfield than us (Matsui is barely over 20, Crosby has 1, Williams has 12, Lawton has 13 on the whole year), and their offense seems alright. We're still near the top of the league in homers anyways, and it isn't helping. If Anderson hits .250 with 20 homers, virtually no walks, and 130 K's, how does that help the situation? He's a rookie! He's not going to come in and hit .300. Young is even farther from being ready to produce. He's got talent but he's raw. Adding more guys that can't get on isn't going to solve our problem. Even in a season that it seems a lot of us are disappointed with, Rowand is hitting over .270 and has an OBP around .330. While it's not stellar, it's not terrible either. How about we deal with the guys that are hitting around .250 with OBP's under .310 first like Everett, Crede, and Uribe? How many exactly does Gary Sheffield have?

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Sep 27, 2005 -> 10:42 PM) Mentality, desire, heart, attitude, managing....all things the Sox do not have right now. And talent.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Sep 27, 2005 -> 10:41 PM) Never said it wasn't an important stat. Stat's are overrated in baseball and I have said this many times and I hate to sound like Hawk but it's about what he does for the team that doesnt get recorded as a stat. And since the first half, he hasn't done jack.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Sep 27, 2005 -> 10:39 PM) I fear you underestimate the grind of 162 games on a body. 1st off, no one, NO ONE, is 100%. 2nd, the fact of the matter is that the team as a whole is slacking. Look at how it was clicking in the 1st half. The team lost that mentality and it has hampered everyones play. So how do you explain the surging Indians and Yankees? Fact is, Pods had his resting time and he had more than enough time to get back on track to do what he's supposed to do. He isn't doing it which makes him a liability.

QUOTE(YahtzeeSox @ Sep 27, 2005 -> 10:34 PM) Who the hell cares about that. Not all players are about power, dude. I really would have expected someone with your knowledge to know this. I don't know if you watch Sox gams through the internet or whatever, but Pods was freakin' amazing in the first half and there is a reason he bats #1, so he can get on base and steal bases which he did perfectly for a half a season until his injury! Does it matter if he plays OF, IF, C? Not really, you can get power players for any position nowadays. Look at his numbers with RISP. His OPS is way low. His OBP isn't that of a great leadoff hitter. He doesn't have many triples for a guy with tremendous speed. His defense isn't good. He's a nice player and an asset. This team, however, doesn't need assets, it needs guys they can rely on. In the first half, Pods was doing his job. After that he went to s***. Like I've said before, the most worthless .300 hitter.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Sep 27, 2005 -> 10:22 PM) Oh, I agree with you there 100% but getting rid of Pods, who is cheap, is plain retarted to me. If we could package Aaron, El Duque, and Marte to a team willing to give us a good offensive player...do it. And have Pods play CF? As someone said earlier, I rather have Konerko in CF before Pods. Also, Podsednik is no longer injured. It's a mental block for him. He caught the Willie Harris syndrome. In fact, I think even Willie doesn't have that syndrome anymore. Pods is cheap, but if we could package Rowand for a power hitting corner fielder and somehow get Pierre in here, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

QUOTE(YahtzeeSox @ Sep 27, 2005 -> 10:14 PM) I could deal with Anderson over Rowand too. I like ANderson. That 2 homer game or whatever showed something to me. I can't wait to watch him in Spring Training next year and see how he does. I'd love for him to become some sort of stud that we need. Here's food for thought, anyone think the Cards would be interested in dealing Scott Rolen? Look at how well they do, even without him. Just a thought. Of course they would. But they would be demanding Crede, probably BMac and Marte.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Sep 27, 2005 -> 09:56 PM) ?? I thought you were saying if Nomar didn't have to play the field he would be able to avoid injury. Then I said "he got injured on the base path". I never mentioned Thomas or Thome. As far as taking a risk on a injury prone player... sure, if they are willing to sign a reasonable contract. I'm saying I have faith in him staying healthy as a DH. As far as I know fathom, the guy will play whoever shells out the most dough unless he's willing to play SS for a weak franchise. All of the California teams have a SS. Angels: Cabrera Dodgers: Izturis Oakland: Scutaro or Crosby(I forget) Giants: Vizquel Yankees won't sign him because they have other pressing needs like pitching again. Boston won't bring him back because they have Renteria. Florida maybe, but I doubt they let go of Alex Gonzalez. As far as I'm concerned, he's going to have to play another position, sign for less and play whatever reasonable position the team wants, or sign for the most(for a cheap team probably). We need a couple of things though. We need a Nomar, Durazo, Furcal, Giles, Thome, Tracy. At least 2 of those guys are needed on this team.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Sep 27, 2005 -> 09:53 PM) Are you talking about keeping PK too? If you just substitute Helton for PK, this offense still blows. I'm not sure we could afford both. I agree. That's partially why we have to go after those bargains. We need to add to this team, not make lateral moves and add something while taking away something else.