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Belcore to Penn.

It's not minor surgery if he's out for the season, sorry. I hope the best for Oden, he is/was a talent, body type that you rarely see. This is too bad.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 13, 2007 -> 12:55 PM) What's the deal with Juanito? How long til we can unload him?? There's a team option on him after this season. So hopefully we've seen the last of him.

Thank f***in god.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan99 @ Sep 12, 2007 -> 09:45 PM) The Astros better not f***ing blow this. lol.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 05:08 PM) This is going to be big. How does this taint their dynasty? http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3014677 I don't think it does at all. It's retarded of them to be doing this but I don't think this taints anything.

Looks like Kevin Everett is going to walk again. Absolutely fantastic news.

I still hate this.

Bannister will get mashed around next season as well.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 02:07 PM) Djokovic will be #1 by the end of the year. Federer's a dick. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Tony's spot on, I'll leave it at that.

I think I'll be purchasing a black and white pair. They look pretty sweet.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 09:26 AM) Ask KW about evaluating September performances for young guys. I'm glad Floyd is improving, but really how could he not have improved? If he has a 3.00 ERA this month does it mean he will continue to get better? Look at his 2004 numbers. They were pretty good, why was he not able to continue to improve then. He's a tease, and always will be. Contreras at least has shown he can get the job done in meaningful games. He faced two teams trying to get to the playoffs, he didn't face two teams who have shut it down already. HUGE difference.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 09:20 AM) Could be. But I would hold off on judging him by his performance this season. He was up a year early, performed quite well and has shown in his career that it takes him a season to figure out the level he is at. I'm basing it on his stuff more than this season. I'm very satisfied with this type of season from a 22 year old rookie.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 09:15 AM) Whoa. I wouldnt compare those two in the same sentence like that. Danks is up in the majors a year early. He is so good we HAD to put him in the rotation. He will prove better than a 3/4. They both have a lot of proving to do. I think at best Danks will be a 3 starter, jmo.

QUOTE(Brian @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 09:06 AM) I think it is funny that some people think that if we have the #1 pick, we'll pick the best player and pay him the big bonus money and such. We will probably draft a kid that would normally be a #20 pick or so and go cheap. That might happen but there is absolutely no downside to the 1 pick, period. It's that simple really.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 08:57 AM) It's really not that hard to be a league average starter. It's kind of funny to see where Gavin's era as a starter would rank in the AL if he pitched a full season.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 09:01 AM) With 7 games left vs KC, you have to believe those games will decide who gets the 1st pick. We'll probably win like 6 of those.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 08:34 AM) It would be very foolish to make Floyd part of 2008's rotation based on a few September starts, totalling ignoring what has gone on before, not just this year but the 3 previous seasons as well. He's not very good. Its funny that Floyd's fastball is solid when he's 91-93, but if Contreras throws 91-93 he's washed up. Like Contreras, he must keep people off base because they run at will off of him. I'm not buying his success. You keep saying September starts like because it's September that they don't mean anything. That's just wrong. Great, so a 21, 22 and 23 year old pitcher struggled, I know it's impossible at the ripe old age of 24 to improve, but hey look...Gavin is improving. You pull out some odd comparisons at times, a 24 year old pitcher who is clearly getting better to a pitcher who is about 84 and clearly getting worse, no comparison there at all.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 08:47 AM) THAT ARTICLE! Says that Ozzie isn't sold which is polite. S'not his call. Ozzie already tried moving him to the pen and was overruled. I'm not sold on him yet, doesn't mean I think he's garbage.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 07:46 AM) Really you don't want to lose any type of game when you go out there. And I'm sure people could argue "but we're trying to instill a winning culture etc." here. But really, what is going to win another 10 or so games in September going to do for this ballclub? Are they going to take that momentum into next season? I doubt it, unless they can magically bottle it up and bring it out again in 2008. What we should be doing, is basically called "tanking". And really the more we lose, the more likely that KW is forced to make changes, and not only does that include the players obviously, but the coaching staff as well. Hope Fields, Richar, Floyd and Danks continue to develop and hope for the number 1 pick as well. That's what I'm doing at the moment.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 08:14 AM) I, for one, am happy that Ozzie doesn't buy it yet. Ya well you openly said here that you were rooting against him before he even threw a single pitch for this team. You never gave him a chance. He's shown he has a solid fastball(91-93 is perfectly fine when you can move it a bit like he can), he has a good curveball yet an inconsistant one and while he rarely uses his changeup, he has flashed one from time to time just to show teams he has one. IF(and it's still a big if) he can gain some consistancy in his curve, he can be at least a league average starter for this club imo. That would be absolutely huge because it does indeed give us more options in the offseason.

QUOTE(SEALgep @ Sep 10, 2007 -> 09:49 PM) We need a large agency to market AROD effectively next year! I think he could market himself.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Sep 10, 2007 -> 07:35 PM) Long Grove Makes sense.