bmags

Bravo, marines.

Yeah, okay, I don't really mind this move by KW. BUt that doesn't change the fact that going into the season with 1 below avg. LFer at leadoff, another question mark at 3b, and a DH combo that is probably worse than sticking carlos zambrano there is brutal. When you look at every move in a vacuum you might say what could we have done? But, the fact is we have a 100 mill payroll in a division that is pretty easy to win, and for 4 years we've had one playoff birth. Now we have the best pitching staff by far in the division. Not winning it is absolutely despicable. And with this offense it'll be a real struggle to win. It's a shame.

I would be more interested in this if it focused around the trade deadline or the draft.

this isn't a classic reality show. It's not just sticking normal people that want to be famous for 3 months into an INTERESTING situation!!!!!!!! It's more like a TV documentary. I doubt they'll be making KW and Ozzie do scavenge hunts to see who will be kicked off the show first.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 07:35 PM) Huh? detrot is empty. it's too large of a city for the populace.

think about how much money he can save on drinks when there are actually people here to buy them for him. Penny saved is a penny earned.

Yes, but our contract guarantees that you will in fact see people walking around in the city

nada.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 06:13 PM) indeed Rad, that was gonna be one of the biggest things I miss down here, but glad I have a place to go to get it. Calabresa ftw

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) im a fan of peqouds as well. Fogo2go still remains my favorite pizza joint though is that brazilian pizza?

xanga pages are empty

I know, I'll check twitter.

It was just insane that i was mad jermaine didnt make the allstar game last season, and now he's a scrub looking like he'll be out of baseball. That second half was so brutal.

kinda wouldnt mind carrasco back right now.

anyone hear anything from their sources recently?

the partial title on the home page totally made me think it was "Sox front office get a reality check". and i was like "s***, damon went to detroit"

I mean, if it was from reagan until obama it would be a weird coincidence but 3/5 presidents especially, 3 out of 44, I'm not that impressed.

haha, that's pretty brilliant.

QUOTE (quickman @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 06:22 PM) Funny half the time people on this board ask Rock to check with his source, now people are crapping on it because its not what they want to hear. I toohave personal friends with people in the media, and JimH who you all hate, has some great resources in the media, that said, it has seems that unless you are JR, KW, Johnny damon or Scott Boras everyone is shut down for the moment. Lets not trash Rock. If you don't want to believe his source, then don't. This board has the Ranger on it who is part of the media, close to many team resources, and chances are if KW told him something off the record, he wouldn't go and run with it to some internet board. you don't have to say people when it's one dude.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 04:23 PM) Wow, you're gonna hate him even if the DH situation is resolved by Damon? Call me crazy, but I think Kotsay is pretty great to have off the bench. Besides, who else will back up 1b? EDIT: I can see trading him for a proper CI backup, though. One who can play both 3b and 1b. There was nothing hateful about that statement. edit: I don't even know who the hell "him" is in your post

If we sign damon i get rid of kotsay. But I know we won't.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 07:01 AM) I'm not sure what you're missing here. I was commenting on your words to someone else: "Again, I find it ironic, then, that you want to trade away the talent that we'd have cheaply for 6 years in the future for a one or two year player we can't afford to re-sign." You're right, it doesn't have anything to do with signing or not-signing Damon. I never said that it did. Right, which was about how he said we weren't thinking about the budget and wasting a 100 mill. payroll. I was saying keeping these prospects was very cost effective compared to having to plug in veterans. But yes, considering our history and where our budget will likely be in 2 years, and the fact that Adrian Gonzalez will net one of the leadin contracts in the MLB, it's a pretty safe bet.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 12:56 AM) I've never seen a 6-time duplicate post like that before, bmags. That's got to be worth a prize somehow. welcome to brazilian internet, where when it seems you are just waiting thirty goddamn minutes for the page to change, the internet is actually disconnecting and reconnecting and sending the same data over and over again. edit: like right now, i can't edit my above post...pretty tight.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 01:29 AM) The Dodgers have a lot more money than we do and were stupid to pay Pierre what they did. Hence their decision to eat half of his remaining contract. Also remember that Pierre was only on the bench because of Manny. I can't think of many players that would beat out Manny for a spot in LF. Pierre was also outstanding during Manny's suspension (.360 OBP). Yes, and getting Adrian Gonzalez would be the reason in this scenario you are forcing upon me to bench Pierre. It's pretty reasonable Okay, again in this hypothetical, you are adding in Carlos Quentin getting injured. And again, there are worse things than having adrian gonzalez at 1b, PK at DH, and that OF. I don't know how long in this hypothetical you are saying Quentin will be injured for. But in the short term you can live with that defense.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 01:00 AM) Pierre is a .290-.300 hitter who is good for a .330-.350 OBP and steals 30+ bases a year at a 75-80% clip. That's a perfect #9 hitter and relegating him to the bench with a $4.5M salary is an incredibly dumb idea. It's even dumber to rely on him to play RF or CF when Quentin suffers yet another injury. If the Sox were lucky enough to garner both AGon and Damon (which is extremely unlikely to begin with), they'd have to trade Pierre for a cheap RF to make it work. Otherwise, it would make the lineup even more one-dimensional than it already is and downgrades the outfield defense. Yes, it is a very unlikely scenario, that's why I'd bet more on the latter move happening than the former. But for one, paying pierre DOUBLE what we are paying did not stop the dodgers from sitting him. Why? It made their offense better. In this crazy hypothetical situation, you'd be sitting you're current LFer, a (likely) .330 OBP singles hitter but who gets a lot of hits, with someone who may have less average, but gets on base at a higher clip, has vast more power. Pierre is better at defense and steals, no doubt. And, in the case that Quentin gets injured, you have damon in right and pierre in left. Is it as good as Quentin in RF? No, but what team can ideally replace one of it's best players easily? These are easily workable circumstances if you are acquiring a 45 HR, potential 1.000 ops hitter. And again, you are acquiring at the deadline, so this would only be for 1/2 the year. You can rework the team in the offseason and sign as many aging minimum salary guys as will make your heart content. But in no way does sitting pierre for damon hurt us in any way except defense, and I'd imagine the offense makes up for those runs.