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QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 09:44 PM) Ok, so lets say Williams doesnt do anything, and the Sox make it to the series. Does he still fail??? Williams shaped this team into playoff caliber team, after 4 years off basic .500 records. Its hard for me to say he failes if he doesnt add Rich Aurilla. Kenny is the executive of the year most likely(him or beane) it's kind of hard to call him a failure when he reshaped the whole team and made them what they are today...

Nah, pitching guys on extra rest some times gets them a bit f'd up. If we can ever clinch this thing then give Brandon a start or two to set up the playoff rotation.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 09:30 PM) Remember how the Twins sent Santana to the minors to specifically work on his change? Did McCarthy have to do something like that? I'm sure someone can answer this better but for some reason he just stopped using it(I'm not sure if there was something wrong physically..?), in spring training that pitch made him effective and it's a plus pitch for him. When he's using that pitch he's going to be hard to hit, he's got a chance to be special and I really believe that.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 09:24 PM) Dye and Rowand with Pods getting on at the top could carry this team. They're looking good right now. I'm sticking to my guns, if we go into the playoffs with a few guys like this hitting, we're in good shape. I'm thinking and hoping tonight was the turn around day. I haven't seen our offense look that good in quite a while, very impressive day by the O.

Awesome, just an awesome performance. Way to go Brandon

Ok, here's the thing. Brandon makes the league minimum. We owe Jose 6 mill next year, Jose behind AJ burnett will be the best arm available. Jose could net us some good talent in return. Think about it, for the team it makes the most sense. Would it be better to get rid of the Duke...hell yes but he wont net us as much in return.

Brandon to Bobby..we'll be seeing that a lot in the upcoming years.

This is the Brandon Mccarthy we're going to be seeing next year and for years after that. Brandon for whatever reason didn't throw his change at all in his first few stints, now he's using it and it's just a very good pitch. Brandon has one hell of a curve, a very solid change and a good fastball, not to mention he throws strikes and knows how to pitch. He is going to be a good one. Great f'n job Brandon

Yay, we're going to make a trade....

Cmon now....

QUOTE(spiderman @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 06:56 PM) Nobody is saying that Burehle stinks - did you read that somewhere in this thread ? As I said, he's a good #2 starter, but do you honestly rank him as a true #1 starter ? If Buehrle hasn't been an ace this year...who has??

I'd say we've just been playing like absolute s*** for the last two weeks. We built up the lead so nicely when we were playing well that we still got a nice cushion after playing like complete s*** for the last two weeks. You don't call a team dead when they've been damn good all season minus a few weeks. Is the offense bad right now...hell yeah it is but they'll hit better I'll guarantee that. The thing is every team goes through ups and downs, right now we're playing awful but we'll get out of it and soon.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 03:26 PM) I would hardly call that a blast. He was way out in front of a change up. Stopped. threw his bat at it, got it off the end of the bat. and it went out to the shortest part of the park. Yes, someone please explain to me how that got out. He took an off balance swing at it and got it out.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 10:31 AM) People said that every time he pitched this year. It hasn't worked so far and I'll bet it won't work again. 5 runs, easy. 2 good outings, 3 terrible ones, so it has worked a few times. Big difference now is Bmac got himself righted in aaa, his first two stints with the big club he was struggling down in aaa.

QUOTE(Iguana @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 02:14 PM) Wasnt willie hitting .380 at one point while in AAA a year or 2 ago? Here's the difference, Ross hit well over .300 last year in the major leagues. Ross can hit, he can play a very good first base and he can run a little bit, there honestly is no reason for him not to be with the big club.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 06:01 PM) Isnt AJ a UFA? Can someone find me a link to his status?? With the $$$ thing, like I have said earlier in threads, NO ONE in Sox management knew they were going to have 20+ sellouts this year. Who knows how many games we will for the playoffs(if we get there )and I would have to expect a little increase in ticket sales. Moreover, if the Sox were to get bumped out in the 1st round pretty easy, which could happen very easily, I am truly confident in Ownership and KW that they would try to put us over the top for 2006 after a very dissipointing 2005 season(if we got knocked out 1st round.) Aj is arbitration eligible, so he'll be back next year.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 05:57 PM) How do you figure we're going to have a lot of money? Unless we don't resign PK and trade someone like Contreras, I think you're only going to see minor additions to this team. We have a lot of money to be paid to guys like Garland and AJP. Payroll is going to go up a crap load that's why. Yes, the Konerko situation determines a lot but with the attendance spike and hopefully a nice long playoff run we'll have plenty of money to spend.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 05:51 PM) Excuse my ignorance. But, two things: 1) Does someone wanna tell me where we might get that money. 2) What about Kenny's homeboy Mr. Uribe? We're going to have a s***load of money to spend in the offseason and not a whole bunch of holes to fill. Tony, good point about a 3rd baseman but I do think you'll see the sox in on Furcal because he's become a very good shortstop this year(errors are way down) and he can absolutely fly, fits into the whole ozzieball thing. Just a hunch but I think you see the sox go hard after Furcal in the offseason.

Pitchers duel?

To be honest, I'd be shocked if the sox aren't big time players in the Furcal sweepstakes.

I didn't even know the vma's happened until I read this thread. After reading this thread I still don't care

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 04:29 PM) How can you possibly say we got the better of that deal? Koch screwed up our bullpen for two seasons and now he's out of baseball. Foulke saved game 4 of the world series last year. In the long run, we still got one of the worst trades in Sox history. This year we've got the better of the deal because Cotts is way better then Foulke. For the past 2 year it looked like an awful deal.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 04:13 PM) maybe just for sept then, but I knew that he said he wanted 3 Ya, he was talking for september. Get aj some rest, be able to pinch run for aj, etc..

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 04:07 PM) Ozzie wants 3 catchers, and I bet we carry 12 pitchers, but thats a guess. I highly doubt we wouldn't carry 3 catchers all season and then the playoffs come and then we add a catcher?

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:59 PM) I can, he's comfortable playing in Cincinnati and he gets to spend spring training with his family. I'd love for him to come to Chicago, but Griffey Jr. is by no means the enemy in this situation. He's busted his ass for years, and I'll still root for him no matter what happens. Right. I feel weird saying this but I guess there are things more important then baseball . Griff is from cinci and I'm sure he's just really comfortable there. I'd love to have griff as well, I'd love to see Jr. win a world series but he has his priorites and baseball obviously isn't number 1.