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Pelfrey is unbearably slow.

Really unimpressed by Michael c wrights bears coverage for ESPNCHICAGO. Guy is boring especially on twitter.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 10:23 PM) The Rangers will send the White Sox a player to be named later – minor league INF Leury Garcia if he clears waivers – or cash. The White Sox will also absorb some of the remaining $17 million left in Rios’ contract through 2014. If Garcia doesn’t clear waivers, the deal would change with the Rangers likely taking on more, if not all, of the remaining salary commitment. dallas morning news/sports We can get a decent idea of exactly the financial value being placed on acquiring Garcia right here in this paragraph... As far the the Astros taking Garcia, they MIGHT...Correa is way down in A ball still, at least 1 1/2 or 2 seasons away from the big leagues. But why? It seems like, considering they are not competing with the sox in anything right now, there would be some unspoken agreements that you don't be a dick just to be a dick as a fellow GM.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 08:18 PM) It's funny to see how he's being defended when he was absolutely TRASHED for so long during his downturns. It's good to see a guy like Alex get a chance at a ring. I certainly had issues with him but on the whole, I tip my cap. Well, the people who liked him are more likely to go into the appreciation thread.

If Alexei will only return us players slated to be UTIL or replacement level players, I don't understand the point of trading him.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 08:07 PM) Me neither. I'm glad everyone is drinking the cool-aid now but with the way we're going, I fear the best case scenario is either a rebuilt team that maybe becomes competitive a long ways down the road, or some reincarnation of our recent strategy of retooling that accomplishes nothing more than the previous few teams have. I'm just not a fan of selling off these guys for nothing when we'll probably just resign similar players. This talk of Morales makes me ill. Agreed. Trading affordable and average starters for potential UTILs when we don't need salary relief is not exciting. RF was one of the few positions I would say is not urgent we get more production from. Now we need more production than we are getting from...every position beside DH?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 07:24 PM) It's fun to think about stuff like that. Like remember when Kenny Lofton was on the White Sox? And the Sox almost traded Jon Garland for Darin Erstad? I said that because yesterday I remembered Andruw Jones as a Sox. I had completely forgotten about that. I was really pumped for Kenny Lofton and he had that great first month or two, and then just wore down. Was amazed how many more years he played after that.

The 3 run walk off home run in 2010 was pretty sweet. Thanks for that Alex. Beside that, I will probably forget you were on Sox in 10 years.

QUOTE (shipps @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 06:37 PM) The players on this team have proved to be the worst team in the league. When you start trading said players why the heck would anyone expect to get someone to give you anything near their top talent? We are extremely lucky to have these other teams desperate enough to take on the contracts. Good job Hahn. So, does Chris Sale sucks? Heck, he doesn't have a winning record! Why should we get anything?

Is Granderson over 30? My god, how old am I?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 07:27 PM) In my opinion, the sooner people get comfortable with the fact the Sox won't compete next year, the easier it is to take these recent moves. Despite what Hahn has said, this is a pure rebuild. Well at least we have restocked our farm system!!!!!! sigh.

Presumably we will need SOME players.

Eeyore is back.

I know! I know!

Just to have a bit of an eeyore sox fan moment: Shucks it sure does seem like anytime a sox player goes on the market we are told there is no market for them. /eeyore

I think it's interesting the millennial high support for legalization while also seeing a big decline in actual usage.

Fine. Sorry Texas, you have to pay value for players.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Aug 8, 2013 -> 08:08 PM) 1) Get Garcia in the lineup and let him make adjustments at the major league level. He has nothing to prove at AAA. 2) Get $15 million off the books, and go about trying to fix 1B or 3B. I really disagree with 1. There's a lot for him to work on there.

Dang. 72 hrs is too long in the twitter age.

Lame.

Why don't they just literally buy the prospects then? 30 mill cash for X

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 8, 2013 -> 02:30 PM) The only close manifestation of that I have seen is if you take our superstar player, you have to also take the bad contract. I don't think I ever remember bad contract + top prospect for nothing being done. Yeah, exactly. If you are gonna take a top player we have to get down to 0 on our salary.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 8, 2013 -> 02:52 PM) Probably like not being able to beat the Cubs in 2 series Ha, man, I have never been so happy that that series has become meaningless. In 2001-2004 that would have been devastating.

I"ve had the one for a few months now. Never thought about the power button issue, but then again, i have normal sized hands that can hold things. All the experience of switching phones has done is convince me that iphone 4 was probably apples greatest version to date and I miss it, and that you guys are crazy to have such heated opinions about the marginal benefits over each phone. That said I like the 6-second video thing on the one, should be fun now that instagram can upload videos.

Kudos to soxtalk for pulling out the bizarre "eat a contract and i'll give you prospects" angle. I didn't really catch that's what he was saying when i first read it. That is much more of a basketball thing, and honestly...not even there.