Princess Dye

aaah. i know it's not his regular gig, but several times Moose Skowron's quick reaction (yes!) has gotten my hopes up..... and each time it ends up in Sox disaster. i.e DuBois HR, Iguchi DP in the 8th

also, lets remember: Frank probably will play elsewhere next year. i dont see him finishing his career here, unless he retires right after this year. like the article said, there's no way we pay him 10 mil......... and if we buy him out, i doubt he'd be coming back for less i think i would hesitate to pull any trades....... at worst, he still gets tons of walks. at worst-of-worst, he gives us that much needed RH bat off the bench. or Dye could provide that when Frank returns. and Everett can give us that too. he's been hitting better from the righthand side this year it seems.

how did i know there'd be snipping and what not. just a hypothetical. a lot of people have said that they are missing Carlos Lee, so i'm just curious how badly people would want to still have him here. lets also not pretend like we are worldbeaters as far as RBI/power guys. batting average, even. i dont care how good we've been.... 3-4-5 spots are UNDERACHIEVING. no? they will have to be better, or else we will be just like the recent good Sox teams that feast on bad pitching only (today as proof?)

QUOTE(Brian @ May 21, 2005 -> 08:00 PM) Who'd play 1B? Carlos? as i alluded to, there was talk of this happening once. Carlos proposed it himself a while back.... or at least he saw it happening later in his career. i dunno, the other option is DH Carlos, Frank at first or something. i guess what i wanted to center on was the Paulie v. Caballo preference, but anyone just take it anyway ya want. it seems like a lot of people here are missing CLee these days. obviously no one can complain at this point....... but all the same, i cant blame those that miss Carlos when i think about our somewhat low team BA

ok time for the pointless speculation scenario if Milwaukee would have taken Paulie instead of Carlos (we still get Pods and Vizcaino)...... would you have done it? i suppose this would mean going thru that briefly mentioned "Carlos at 1B" process......... but logistics aside... who would you have kept? personally, i cant help get sick of Paulie's funks and total lack of speed. i mean, when he's good he's great...... when he's bad, he's like unbelievably bad.

didnt kill us, but did help out with a big 2RBI double in the 8th a Dye platoon when Frank returns? Yes.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ May 20, 2005 -> 03:30 PM) well, i guess it turns out this is quite the 'macho' thread after all? like i said earlier, if you're making a push for a championship, why not bring in every asset you can ..... if it fits. right now he fills a need better than anyone else: we found out last year how little we have in the way of major league ready prospects as far as wasting his option or bringing him closer to arbitration..... i dont think these are issues. re: option, if he's solid it won't matter... hell, it was never an issue with Garland and he was always shaky as hell. that reminds me, Jon did some long relief stints too. Gasp! re: arbitration..... i dont think anyone doubted he'd see some time up this year, anyway. El Duque hasnt pitched a full year in awhile.... and plus he woulda been here in August at worst

losing Walker wouldnt be tinkering with anything , would it? i hope this doesnt happen, but if a Cuban gets shelled in the next two days, we might have to see what i'm talking about. since Vizcaino went today, we would be seeing Cotts and/or Walker for multiple early innings. not good. can i at least get you guys to admit we could stand to lose Walker for a righty long reliever at some point? we dont need 3 LHPs.

that year in the playoffs, Buehrle ended up being better than the other relievers we had..... i think Chad Bradford blew it for us in particular i say let all your talent work for you when you are making a playoff run. i'm not saying rush up any youngsters we have, but in this case i think we have a need to fill: long relief. you guys really want Vizcaino coming in during 3rd innings?

i guess i'm in the camp that feels this staff wont be going 6-7 innings every single time all year....

you know it might not be the worst idea ever to bring in McCarthy as a long reliever. it worked for Buehrle, and that was in a playoff run too. it helped Buehrle develop in a lower pressure role (as low as pitching pressure can get)........ and seeing how Buehrle now has a little playoff experience going into this year, i'd say i'm grateful to Jerry Manuel for bettering the 2005 team that way on top of that, i dont really know that anyone fits the long relief bill for us (not that we've needed it).... Guillen seems to use Vizcaino for that, but Jose did not do that almost at all for the Brewers, and it seems like he's at his best this year for one inning outings so it fits the bill and helps develop a young guy...... i dont know, just a thought. anyone wanna chime in?

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ May 20, 2005 -> 02:58 PM) now we need the Cuban Delegation to step forward, Freddie-style i feel "The Cuban Delegation" was a gimmick tagteam from my WWF youth. at least it shoulda been

good to see Garcia finally wanting to get in on this Buehrle/Garland talk if all these guys start trying to one-up each other, we're going to have... one of those staffs

funny how i hate Questec in general, but i always want it when something goes against me

This Sounds Like a Job for Questec!!!

it is kind of amazing how everyone was crazy about him not so long ago and now he is residing below whale s*** in the Sox consciousness

Maggs!!!!! J.K.

it sure would be bad to have Buehrle and Garland both go

i've gotta say Patterson makes sense.... the only one i would switch is Politte for Marte not that i think Marte has been awful or anything, but it's time to credit Cliff ........ middle relievers barely get noticed , their only chance is something like this!

QUOTE(Brian @ May 16, 2005 -> 10:26 AM) Mary Steenburgen is like the default frazzled wife for all movies

and not the Carlos Lee dive...... which makes up for the ground he would be able to cover as a normal fielding OF

ho, and the defense... diving catch

to the White Sox offense

ah, had my music up too loud for that one.

I seriously thought George Offman was a gimmick.......... i almost still do.