Rowand44

After reviewing the play, the ruling on the field stands.

My, oh my one hell of an ending.

If carl gets his ass in shape for spring training he's a very nice player to have as a replacement for maggs next year, imo.

Do I get a cookie or something for being on the Ross Gload bandwagon all year?

Don't worry ace won't leave, he'll miss me to much.

He said staff not rotation, big difference there, grilli could be valuable as a long reliever and a "6th starter," so to speak if anyone goes down atleast you can have a guy that could keep you in games.

Game over Tiggers win. Grilli didn't pitch bad but got the loss. Gload continues to be awesome.

I really do like how the bears have put there team together, obviously having grossman out for the year hurts their growth as a team but if they have a solid draft and/or have good fa pickups they really can be a good team next year, imo.

Ya, but for me it's pavano on the sox next year.

It's funny cause it's true.

Like MOS the packers would never trade him to the bears but your right harris that would be one hell of a d.

Yup. :puke After the sweep of the twins.

Jeez, such a high going into that game then the great botch killed the momentum.

Are you one of them?

I can't believe we're going to have to go out to the west coast for an extra series next year.

Gload has been consistant the whole year I don't know why you said he's only been good the 2nd half. His ba wasn't great in the first half but he was still driving in big runs in key situations, Ross has been a consistant hitter all year.

The angels wouldn't do either of those deals and figgins isn't a free agent.

The problem with Jon is so many people had very high expectations for him(I know I did) Like qwerty said, the sox came into the season with him as the 3rd starter and the sox organization as well as many fans thought he'd fit that bill but he hasn't come close to it. Garland would be a very nice 5th starter, people get annoyed and angry with him though because he has so much potential but he pitches with no balls and because of this he'll probably never meet that potential leaving him as a 4th or 5th starter for the rest of his career. This could change around but I've given up thinking he's going to be a top of the rotation guy but like I said I have no problem with him being the 5th starter.

That's the big issue in my mind. I like both Pauly and Carlos but to me the big difference is the ability to have Gload step in for Pauly if he was traded, adding more range, better defense, and more speed to first base.

Ditto. I never want to see the cubs win s***, I honestly could care less though what they're doing when the sox are still in the race.

I'm almost positive the cubs signed him to a 3 year or so extension last year but I could be wrong.

He's not an outfielder, beastly. He's a very good defensive firstbasemen.

Because lofton got injured, our offense for the first couple of months was extremely dangerous with those two guys at the top of the order we saw what a 1-2 punch like that could do, then lofton got banged up and in the words of hawk POOF, it was gone.

My god would that outfield save our pitchers some runs. Good idea, I like the trade especially if it meant adding beltran.