Balta1701

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:37 PM) What are Ramirez's stat lines at USCF and in Tampa? Those are going to be dominated by the crappiness of the Rays's pitching for the better part of his time in Boston. .333 average, 1.049 OPS at the Cell. .299, 1.003 OPS at the Trop.

QUOTE (girlslikebaseballtoo#26 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:16 PM) I'm still waiting for Joe to come up with a really good new nickname for this kid right here!! "Black Wood"? Seriously...That's like asking us to come up with a nickname for Ivana Tinkle.

QUOTE (thedoctor @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:34 PM) who said it's ok? The Sun Times, obviously.

Guys, if the Dodgers were this desperate to unload salary, KW would have had it done yesterday.

QUOTE (thedoctor @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:20 PM) i know he's not popular here but LOL at cowley digging on rogers: cst_sox In other shocking news, Phillip didn't like the trade, as the Trib Tower points its finger down on the South Side. at least he's an equal-opportunity a--hole. Really, it's ok to be that much of a jerk in public to other sportswriters?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 11:35 AM) 5. We have Flowers/Teahen/Viciedo to DH Stop pretending that our real Dh isn't here and won't be here for a while. Kotsay foreva!

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:28 PM) I hate the guy too, Balta. I’m just getting desperate enough to make excuses for him. Very few things could get me defending Kotsay. This might.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:28 PM) So if you're the White Sox, does giving the McCourts $5 million right now, today, cash on the table...and Chase Blackwood, get you Manny Ramirez for two months? If it did, it'd already have been done.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:26 PM) They have to give the Dodgers SOMETHING, it can't just be a monetary transaction. Tomorrow though it could be just monetary, if the Sox try to grab him off of waivers. The Commissioner has to approve any deal that the Dodgers pick up any more than $1 million of the deal. If the Sox assume all of it, they could just claim him on waivers tomorrow.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:21 PM) I imagine he's offf his cyle by now. The injuries imply it, but the numbers are still there. I'm willing to take the risk, if the asking price isn't too high. Doesn't mean i'm not going to bash him for being a juicer.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:24 PM) I'd also like an explanation how it works in his case, please. Basically...it's 100% up to the team acquiring him as to how much they'd pay. The Sox could strike a deal where they assume all of the remaining obligations, or the Sox and Dodgers could come up with an agreement where the Sox pay certain payments and the Dodgers pay other ones. If no move is made prior to the end of the season, the Dodgers pay all of the deferred money. If a move is made, it could be anywhere from none of his contract to all of his contract that they have to pay...it would be specified in the exact deal.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:19 PM) Manny can still hit and get on-base. He's be a huge addition to this ballclub. I'm going to paraphrase a nice point that was brought up in the Brett Myers discussion, "no one is going to care if he's an angel, if he's batting cleanup for the Sox in the 2nd round of the playoffs." They will care if he runs out of needles.

QUOTE (T R U @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 03:42 AM) I think my favorite part is the 911 call where they heard mumbling and gunshots, and did nothing about it.. Yeah, there's something seriously screwed up going on here.

"Steeerroooiiddsss....Steeeerrrrooiiiidddsss...."

QUOTE (spiderman @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:04 PM) Hilarious. Heyman on MLB Network saying that the Sox now won't trade Jackson to Washington, and the Nationals are asking for Beckham or Alexi Ramirez instead. They've been asking for that the whole time. If anyone seriously thought that trading him to Washington would be the saving grace for the Jackson deal, they were really missing things. You don't have to complete that first trade if the 2nd part has any chance of falling through...you do it as a 3 way unless you're happy with the other guy as well.

Danks it Danks it.

QUOTE (Frank_Thomas35 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 11:49 AM) Your probably right he isn't worth it, he would probably be a guy who disrupts chemistry because he is a me first guy. However he was and maybe can still be one of the best hitters in the league. Everyone know this guy is a professional hitter by every definition. There's no doubt in my mind he would benefit being a DH and even more so cause he would be able to stay healthy and save himself his manny moments in the feild. I would love seeing Manny mash in the cell. In fact I would LOVE it. He's probabably off the steroids right now so his performance could suffer at any point.

Soxnet.net Wrapup: what the Harrell?

I see that neither of you think that the judge getting threats is a bad thing.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 05:30 PM) Just one small distinction here...Jackson will only be making $1.5 million here for the remainder of THIS season. I don't think it's quite fair to be counting his salary for next season just yet... Then we've got a choice if somehow we dump Jackson's contract. Either we go and find Bartolo Colon and see if he'll sign for another $500k next offseason, or we take Jackson's $8 million and spend it on another overpaid FA pitcher somewhere. Unless we've got a method to catch Freddy Garcia-like lightning in a bottle next year, or we're totally insane and we're going to dump Sale into the fryer immediately next year, we're going to need another starting pitcher if we somehow became the 4th team to give up on Jackson in 2 years, and we're absolutely not going to get an MLB-ready minor league arm for him.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 05:17 PM) And if you were signing the checks that may matter. But the people signing the checks have decided that Edwin Jackson is worth 15x more than Hudson. Probably because 15x0 is still 0. So, you're saying that both Hudson and Jackson are totally worthless?

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 05:11 PM) I hate watching Kotsay at DH I will hate watching him more in the playoffs at DH Don't worry, Edwin Jackson will hold the Yankees to 6 runs over 4 innings and we won't need to worry about Kotsay.

For your birthday present...Edwin Jackson. And you get to pick up the bill. Yay!

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 05:09 PM) Jackson isn't going anywhere, I'd say. If anything we'll have a minor trade; but definitely nothing approaching Dunn. Which would mean that the Kotsay disaster will continue. And we came out of the trading deadline with at best a very marginal upgrade at a position we were deep at, and zero upgrades at the position we've neglected all year.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 05:07 PM) So the Yankees lineup would look something like Jeter/Swisher/Teixeira/ARod/Cano/Berkman/Posada/Granderson/Gardner. Yikes Don't worry, Edwin Jackson will take care of them! (OPS against Jackson, Jeter .960, AROD 1.389, Swisher 1.346, Teixeira 1.000).