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QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 01:35 PM) He's going to have to have an outstanding ST to make the team, but he's already a better player than Wise if he's fully healthy. If he's a decent late-inning defensive replacement with a solid glove and good speed, he's likely to be leading off on opening day.

So if we claimed him on waivers, that means we'd lose him to send him to AAA correct? So he's insurance if we can't sign Kotsay, and perhaps then the 5th OF behind Wise, Quentin, Rios, and perhaps Pods if he's resigned.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 12:28 PM) One entity putting the others out of business by selling a product artificially below cost is illegal for any other group in the country to do. It is anti-competitive.

I just don't like the injuries. Especially when they happen to the most important player on the roster.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 10:50 AM) Good. Bring on the competition. As long as it's not run by the government.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 11:57 AM) I hear ya but like the multitude I can't see anyone loyal to this org advocating trading one of the cornerstones of our franchise's future, mainly Gordo. But starting with Flowers/Huddie is a serious package I would say. It's a serious package but it's not one that other teams (i.e. Boston, NY) couldn't beat.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 20, 2009 -> 06:16 AM) We are at $90 million essentially without adding a single free agent. Keep in mind that we went from 2,500,648 to 2,284,163 in total attendance, and we are publicly worried as an organization about losing major sponsors this year. If we add a 10 million dollar player that puts us at one hundred million dollars, which is a bit more than 2009, with all of those negative factors? Yeah, that isn't going to happen. I'm pretty sure I agree that $10 mil-ish for Abreu would be a bad move with any sort of salary constraints...but I have to wonder, if we're already at $90 million, and we still have at least 3 spots on the field that I think we need to fill (Corner OF, DH, LOOGY), then I kind of have to wonder whether the Peavy/Rios moves adding salary didn't really hurt us more than I thought. Filling 3 roles with less than $10 mil to play with might be a serious challenge if that's all that we have to work with.

For once, I'm starting to agree with you.

QUOTE (scenario @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 09:48 AM) No... You're the 2nd biggest Nix guy on the board behind Ozzie Ball.... who I'm beginning to think must be a blood relative of Jayson's. He can't be, there's no Y in his name. It'd have to be Ozzye ball or something like that.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 09:21 AM) Cassel is right-handed, unless he switched arms during the season (maybe that explains his walk rate). There are essentially NO lefty relievers in the top two tiers of the Sox' minor league system right now. Williams appears to be the only option in-house for a 2nd lefty to Thornton. Like it or not, that's a position we really need to address on the FA market.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 09:23 AM) Well, the unions and more importantly the labor contracts they wriggled out of the Big 3 are definitely PART of the problem. Just not all, not by a long shot. I'd also like to note that the CEO of GM received what, a $10-20 million golden parachute when we kicked him out? Because you know, you gotta retain top talent to keep the books in order.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 09:19 AM) So your comment was directed at those business leaders, then? Actually I'd say it was directed at the folks, some who visit these threads, who continue to insist it's all the union's fault and if they'd have gone away we'd have kicked Toyota's arses.

Derrick Rose is dying now? Oh no...

Bulls are in trouble.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 08:57 AM) Who said it was? My post was making the point that this aspect was NOT about the unions and labor, or getting better cars to market faster, etc. Think for a moment...which am I more likely to do...bash the union, or use an article pointing out how management sucked to highlight the people who continue to blame everything that went wrong with the automakers on the Unions and those crazy middle-class wages and health care that the workers get.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 06:35 AM) So here is a really fascinating story about the Obama administration's main guy who dove into GM and Chrysler prior to the auto bailout. Its interesting because, in addition to all the factors we discussed in why the US automakers were in such trouble - union labor contracts, lack of agility in release hybrid/alt technology, overseas competition, price of raw materials, price of gas, etc. - there was a big huge one we really didn't touch on very much. Finance and accounting. Apparently, the financial and accounting practices, as well as the overall management and leadership of both companies was "shockingly poor". Worth reading. And this is the Union's fault because?

Talkin' bout my generation...

I wonder if the Yankees finally successfully buying a world series will wind up helping be a game changer on revenue sharing the next time the CBA comes up. Especially if they're right back next year. The locals may love it, but most of the country is going to be annoyed/turned off of baseball.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 20, 2009 -> 07:08 PM) Not really, keeps the cap under control, keeps players off the FA market and from having their cap numbers inflate. Harris got hurt, so that can be overlooked. Harris was hurt before he got his extension.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 20, 2009 -> 04:32 PM) I disagree - I think Obama going after Fox is politically stupid. If you want to convey the idea that Fox is a partisan non-journalistic news network (which... duh), then you treat it as such - ignore them, maybe laugh at them a little bit when the opportunity presents itself, and just go on doing your job. I dunno, I've gotten the impression that ignoring what is going on over at Fox hasn't exactly worked. How many of their Meme's have fully penetrated the national consciousness just because Fox was pushing them? The Death Panels, the town hall disruptions, how horrible the budget deficit is now that a Demycrat's in office, the birthers, all of Glenn Beck's other conspiracies, etc. It's interesting to me that the major drop-off in Obama's polling data seems to have turned around since mid-Sept when he genuinely started slugging back.

Might be able to get away with it for Bugs. They're not Disney.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Oct 20, 2009 -> 10:25 AM) No, you trade from an area of excess to fill holes, and 5 legitimate SP with a 6th on the horizon is not what I'd call an excess. You don't tear up a strength to address a weakness. That just makes you mediocre. The Tampa Bay Rays tried exactly that last offseason; they felt like they had more pitching than they needed, so they traded Jackson to Detroit. Jackson had a great season, one or two of TB's starters struggled, and Tampa suddenly had a deficit of starting pitching and might well have been a playoff team had they still had Jackson.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 20, 2009 -> 10:20 AM) It bothers me to know that as soon as the Sox have a stellar rotation 1-4, and a Good-Great rotation 1-5, everyone is looking to take it apart before watching it work. The good news is...the only guy who's opinion actually counts is also the guy who put it together.

Unless I'm mistaken, the last time they tried a slipstream drive Voyager wound up crash-landing on a planet and being encased in ice.

Silence! No one can stop us now. Except microscopic germs. But we won't let that happen will we 2k5?