Princess Dye

There is zero chance we pick up the option, and it is unheard of for a guy to get denied the option and then give his hometeam a discount as a result of him feeling like he didn't live up to the money the past few years. Jake is at the exact right age to sign a huge money short years contract with NYY. That is, if he keeps this up, of course.

Heh, so who's the fifth starter..Floyd or Danks

When you hear Hawk talk like that about Rios, you have to read between the lines -- because he's so undyingly positive....but he must've thought Alex's 2011 was an unmotivated pile of dung

Bad throw mate

Joe McEwing wrote something on a piece of paper , ran down and handed it to Alexei

ADA doesnt seem to really care about bunting

Gordon attempting a bunt!! We are entering a new era with him right now

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 11:05 PM) I don't think Lillibridge is much better of an OF than Viciedo... if not now I think as he gets more and more time out there it will be very apparent. You should want Lillibridge charging hard at borderline gappers over Viciedo.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 11:00 PM) Viciedo seems to anxious to go out and get the pitch, lunging out a lot. First base depth is kind of an issue right now. Lilli? You'll want him to play LF late in the game. Flowers?

Have to love this guy. Love all those Pierre at-bats now being put to some use.

Due to lack of a bunting pedigree, I hate to say this but Beckham may not even really have the tools to bat 9th....

Stunning

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 10:34 PM) It's looking more and more like Peavy has to be the Sox starter for game one of the playoffs. What a convoluted way you have of proposing some trade we'd be making w/ Boston

Grand Canyon

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 09:11 PM) What channel is this on, on U-Verse? 691

Hearing he said he was in the wrong stadium during the perfect, and they changed it later?

Really the only question to ask is, what would we get in return (immediately) for Peavy, Dunn, Rios? My guess is not much. Peavy might eventually get us something back if he keeps going well. we'll still have to pay $ to unload. To just yell that you want to dump their contracts proves fan frustration, nothing more. It's hard for the Sox to get free agents most years with any money we save, so the question to really ask is what prospects can we get back for these guys? If offers are weak, it really is very possible that their greatest worth is still just being on this team. Even if Rios and his career .750 or .760 OPS is what we get for the next few years....on an offense like this one, factoring in his defense, that really is needed here. We have to take ourselves out of the present and remember that we can't rely on AJ's bat carrying so much of the load in the future. That's going to come back to earth with reckless fury, maybe soon.

For a really distant frame of reference, the NY Knicks did this in 08-09 with a team that started out the gate surprisingly well, and its bloated contract players were finally producing. But because of the financial strain they decided to blow it up one month in...they traded talent (overpaid talent mind you, but still talent) ...Zach Randolph, Jamal Crawford and thus the team stunk the rest of the year, and stunk for a few more years til a total overhaul was possible. A stretch of a parallel of course, but then again with Jerry R. as your owner it's easier to think of baseball as being capped...so maybe it's not such a stretch. The biggest difference of course...is that in the NBA you dont want to be a middle-of-the-road team. In baseball middle-of-the-road is still striking distance, at least as far as a one year outlook.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Apr 19, 2012 -> 05:16 PM) You are correct, Sir. This is one time where it's an overreaction to jump all over Rios for not running to first on that. What you and your "reasoned logic" have to understand is this board has several "old school" individuals that are so Chicago tough, so Clint Eastwood-like, that their fire and passion doesn't allow for common sense crap like that. These guys are rough and tumble, take no quarter, and still make the world go around from their rocking chairs.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 19, 2012 -> 03:13 PM) Just seems like no matter how Ventura configures the lineup, there are 3 guys in it you just know have no chance to contribute that day. Overall lack of talent on the roster. This isn't aimed at you, but I think all of us (me included) are going to spend 150 games finding creative ways of phrasing that problem. Overall lack of talent on the roster.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 09:57 PM) Morel should take 5 minutes to apologize to each individual that was at the game tonight. Nice. Two layers.

Hawk really needs to get ahold of himself. Unbelievably unprofessional on that last play as Betemit is simply throwing someone out at first. Routine.

lol! Now before Gordon Beckham at-bats, we show his past defensive highlights! lol!

I was 10 for the first Bulls championship and remember Game 1 vs. LAL vividly. Unfortunately absolutely nothing in the banks regarding '85 Bears, as much as I wish I could report otherwise. I do remember Payton and McMahon but not in a trophy-holding context unfortunately. Fortunately the White Sox haven't done enough for me to need much more than early-to-mid 90s and '05.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 02:47 PM) I wish we would have traded him 2 years ago Not you specifically, but I get the feeling that a lot of people here HATE HATE HATE when Kenny trades younger/unproven guys...except when it's a bad one that he didn't trade. When it's Beckham. When its Brian Anderson. I'm going to say the following, and I think it's a calm approach... I want us to have a mix of farmhands we keep and farmhands we trade. If there's a guy that is capable of handling 2b or 3b and is under team control for a long time, and comes with high expectations...... I'm not going to be crushed if we hold onto him. It's so easy to say we should have traded Beckham in a package for Adrian Gonzalez. But (1) it would have been part of a package (2) this is a guy who was projected to be an all-star IF under team control. Under that set of circumstances, a guy like that is not getting traded for a rental. It's just not happening, so there's no reason to lose sleep over it. Beckham wasn't going anywhere unless the deal was unreal for us. Instead of regreting individual moves (constantly), we need to just look at overall what the organization's mindset is and judge that. Any team is going to have some good and bad moves, but the real test is over time how well their approach seems to have fared.