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QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 12:08 AM) I wouldn't. Quite frankly, somebody calling JR cheap really hasn't had ground to stand on since about 2004. He's proven he'll spend, and JR and Ozzie have proven that they won't win outside of a magic in a bottle year 6 seasons ago. If this season continues to go to hell, those two need to go to the unemployment line. And if we go young at GM and manager with guys who have heard of advanced statistics, can develop and keep young players, and won't waste outs bunting and stealing every single day, I'd be thrilled. Develop and keep young players? Like Gavin Floyd, John Danks, Chris Sale, Matt Thornton, Bobby Jenks, Alexei Ramirez, Carlos Quentin?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 07:49 AM) I have no idea why I can't stay out of this thread. But I really want Dan Haren. Even a C+ farm and he could've been had. Again, no he couldn't have been. The D-Backs were in that stupid "we need to get a major league player" for him. The only team that was going to get Haren was a team that had a starter who had been in the majors for 2-3 years that they were willing to part with. It would have been giving up Danks or Floyd for the White Sox.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 08:28 AM) Say what you want about KC and Cleveland, but season-long pennant races in both cities will do wonders for the sport of baseball from a generalized sense. I guess that's something to be optimistic about...having lived in KC for almost a decade, they deserve a team that's not a mirage like 2003 or even a couple of years ago. One they can actually believe in. Cleveland had a long pennant race and an ALCS game 7 just a couple years ago, and they're right back to the bottom of the league in attendance now.

He's thrown 5 straight balls, so you swing of course.

Loaded for Rios...

Well, a couple runners on in the first for Dunn...

You should trade that for a Chris Paul background.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 05:52 PM) Ozzie finally got the middle part of the order right. Now make them all hit.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 04:52 PM) Which is both good and bad; good, because it's a good record. It's bad because, if everything were to remain constant throughout, the Sox would be the first team out every single year. Correction...the Sox would simply need to get Bud Selig to push through his playoff expansion plan and they'd be in every year.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 04:44 PM) FWIW I'm pretty sure the copyright rules are broken here (and just about everywhere) frequently, you're only supposed to post a paragraph or two, not an entire article. Most places won't care if you're not regularly posting the entire article...if that all you do they'll get annoyed...but the most important thing for them is a link, since the Google crawler will see the link and it'll push them upwards.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 04:34 PM) I would venture a guess that a 89 will get you into the playoffs a lot more frequently than 85. And I'd venture a guess that there are very few managers in baseball history who average 89 wins, and even fewer who are currently available.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 04:11 PM) So he's another Teahen? Except he's right handed, can only play 3b/1b, has been more injury prone, and has a sub-.300 career OBP.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 03:57 PM) Which was in response to the orginal poster leaving off the two best years, which is what elecited that response in the first place. This whole thread was framed with the worst possible time frame. And even with the worst possible time frame...Ozzie winds up a .500 manager.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 03:48 PM) In 686 plate appearances last year, Daric Barton drew 110 walks. In 3120 plate appearances in his career, Yuniesky Betancourt has drawn 106 walks. Wait, why are these 2 being compared?

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 03:53 PM) Is McPherson any good defensively at 3B? Never been thought to be.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 03:32 PM) If he was in the Polish army, why was he captured by the Russians? The Russians Also invaded Poland in 1939. The war started shortly after the USSR and Germany signed the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" (named after the 2 foreign ministers) which was a peace deal between those 2 countries but which also partitioned Poland between the 2. Poland had been a colony of both Russia and Germany prior to WWI, so those countries wanted the territory back. The Germans invaded Poland first. A couple weeks later, before Poland fell completely, the Soviets did from the other side.

you can get rid of those pretty easily, especially for the elves

We all knew that, we've got the Google.

Until tomorrow then!

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Statutory rape? What do you plan to do with those ears?

Quit making excuses and tell me why a hug from this wouldn't cheer you up.

Obviously you need one. As does most of this board. Would it help if the hug came from Lillibridge?

Maybe the world needs more hugs.