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It's not a contradiction at all. KW made this team the way it is, and when you are spending 100 million already and have the best pitching staff of your life it's good value to spend another 5 mill on a DH to help further ensure a pennant. I think the solution is that the sox much earlier on should've put a lot more money into the draft and player development. We'd be in a lot better shape if we did. We haven't...and so we only have andy gonzalez's to plug into our system when we can't afford half of the veterans salary.

I mean, if we could have him for free the way this thread seems set up. Or GARY GLOVER

QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 01:32 AM) Funny, the Twins have holes in their offense as well, yet they manage to win the division most of the time. What's our excuse? I think it's "you can afford to have holes when you have 2 fantastic hitters and other good hitters" as opposed to "you can't afford to have holes when you have average production from others"

QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 01:25 AM) It's called adhering to a budget. Most teams can't spend $60M on their pitching staff, over-pay guys like PK, Rios, and Jenks, and round out every other position with $6M+/yr veterans like Damon and Matsui. The Yankees and Red Sox can, but the White Sox can't. And until the Sox become an elite revenue team, that isn't going to change any time soon. You are missing the point. Our budget is 100 mill and with that budget we have gigantic holes on the team.

Yeah "pulling the offer" is really strange language. But nonetheless the nail is in the coffin as far as I'm concerned. Seriously, someone buy a. jones some nice, nice steroids, plz.

I'm sorry, I didn't read the article. I was under the impression it was already filmed.

that said...our military is amazing. Give them any military objective and they can achieve. But not everything we need is a military objective. I see no political solutions that will occur in afghanistan anytime soon.

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.