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this really weird "andrew sullivan is an anti-semite" campaign TNR has going on really looks awful upon them.

fade into bolivia?

That's integrity! Now if only Jones/Kotsay will turn down their starting DH positions so we'll get a real hitter.

his plus defense at third?

uhhh, mr. gregory, if you need walker to go off the record for that article you are retarded. love, ben

one man's inefficiency is another mans job: http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives...er-mans-job.php

We totally won the hypothetical offseason!

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 10:22 PM) Can the boy in question add any defensive versatility to the DH position? no but his father works for balco

Have we considered befriending an adolescent boy whose father told him he would return if the white sox won the pennant to be some sort of club house consultant? It may yield some benefits.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 05:25 PM) Are you sure? it was so funny i started to hit my coworker with an lol sign over the head

Extrapolating is just not a very good idea to base your projections on. If we extrapolated Jermaine dyes season last year after the all star break he would've been going for a 40 HR season. I mean, extrapolating Beckhams #s for a full season I feel is a lot more reasonable than doing it for a 33 year old injury plagued outfielder who has sucked for 3 years now.

This episode has little to do with it. The Goldstone report was the major factor. It was something that got a little bit of play on the blogs here, but it was a major revelation in other countries.

what kind of shape is rios in? Surely that will tell us.

so happy to hear we won. Hell of a winter olympics for ze U. S . Ahhh so far

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 02:30 AM) A CF with a bad attitude? If he doesn't turn that around quick, he'll never, ever, ever play. plz tell me he isn't communist

I really don't think dye deserves 4 million or will get it.

If Andruw Jones was playing on the Royals right now I wonder how people would feel about the possibility of a good season for him.

joey cora speaks?

maybe MLB will add a fitness competition that can snag us a few more wins.

there's also a trend of people less wanting to acquiesce to it.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 07:44 PM) Yes, I understand your silly analogy. Ironically, we "got here" by following your own strategy of "spend as much as needed on free agents, so there aren't any holes in the lineup." And for some reason, you insist on incessantly whining about how the team got here when that ship sailed years ago and there isn't a thing that anybody can do about it right now. Freaking get over it. You sound like a 10-year-old who is still complaining about not seeing a Wii under the Christmas tree back in December. This was never my position. DH was the ideal position to fill via free agency because of the depressed salaries it was commanding. As far as criticizing an executive for, imo, making a really shortsighted commitment that will cost them games, sorry. I guess I should just result to insulting posters and trying to convince everyone that putting two horrible baseball players at a position, and relying on a great rotation to overcome what is likely to be one of the worst offenses in the AL, are REALLY great ideas. Because...we're on a budget

QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) That's an interesting retort... and pretty much par for the course from somebody who can't intelligently defend his position. If you can't handle the fact that the Sox can't buy their way into the playoffs every year via free agency, maybe you need to become a Yankees fan or something. I don't think the point could've gone further over your head. So let me be blunt: I know we are on a budget. I'm not asking that we don't work on a budget. I'm asking that we spend our resources more wisely, so that we can fill a position that is typically cheap, while still offensively productive. The analogy, of course, is saying that you are looking at the very end point, and crying budget. And refusing criticism because you are only looking at this point. I don't like the position we are in, and I'm complaining about the position and how we got here.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 06:09 PM) Again, you're ignoring the basic concept of operating within a budget. No, again, I'm not, so you need to get over it. If I went to the store to shop for a big birthday party and had $100. And then spent $60 on some real nice ingredients for a great cake. s*** is gonna be a Texas Red velvet cake, will be comparable to any cake any one else could make that day and birthdays are MADE on that cake, and then spent 15 dollars on some nice potato chips, some on some candles, some tomatoes, buns, mustard... and then all the sudden realize I only have $2 left for the hamburger meat! s***! You don't say, "wellp, I was working on a budget, NBD" and have it be a legitimate excuse. And it turns out, a 10 lb package of ground chuck was on sale for $5. But hey, you were working on a budget, nothin you can do. Hey, sorry Insurance company, I'm workin on a budget and I spent the $30 on body shots last night, but it's okay man, I'm on a budget, you don't understand, you're operating in a video game mr. insurance man, if my budget was 500 and i spent it on other things, you have no right to claim that I owe you that money, mr. fantasyland.

I think Phegley needs a good offensive year before we begin to expect anything of him at the ML level.

It would be really great if Flowers bat becomes undeniable this year.