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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 11:49 AM) Let's say that JD is dealt. What does our outfield look like? This season and next. I dont see us going into our minor leagues as we dont really have anyone ready to play RF. Depends on what JD is dealt for. You bring back a starting pitcher and suddenly Poreda/Richard become a lot more expendable. We also save a good chunk of money. A trade for Holliday becomes entirely reasonable before the deadline, and I'd imagine Oakland would take either of those guys for him right now if we paid the rest of his salary. Signing Holliday next offseason would work too. Josh Fields could be a legit outfield option right now if he can hit like he has the past week. Making a play for a 1 year rental, like Abreu, is plausible next offseason. Chone Figgins is available next offseason and you have to expect he's an option for the Sox. Podsednik on one corner, Q on the other, and a platoon in CF is passable if you get a good enough pitcher. This, of course, is why we're saying we're not sellers right now unless some other team offers the moon. Because its silly to screw with a team that is 4 games out at this point in the season.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 11:24 AM) Why is it skyrocketing? Because everyone knows the governments are mandating it. Duh. Otherwise, it would have been done long before now. Of course, the gigantic spikes in energy prices over the past couple years could play in as well. That's an obvious answer to why Europe is so far ahead of us as well; they've mandated through the government that their energy prices are higher than ours, thus it makes more economic sense for us to drink ourselves silly on oil while they develop alternatives. Works fine if oil never runs out and if fossil fuels cause no harm to the environment. Edit; on the off chance that fossil fuels are not infinite, that also means that through the actions of their governments, the Europeans have gotten themselves a massive head start developing industries that will be key to the next 20 years of economic growth, because the governments were more forward-looking than industry.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 11:42 AM) Southsider, I would trade JD for Matt Cain straight up. Not gonna happen but what the heck. May even throw in a AA prospect for SF. Pitcher that is. They can have Omogrosso (AAA). If SF would do that it probably would have already happened.

Here's my 85 mph reference; came from the LATimes sport section 2 weekends ago. You at least gotta give me that they're better than MLBTradeRumors. If he could pop it at 90 mph even, I think someone would have given him the $2.5 million it would take to sign him for the rest of the season already.

Turkoglu to visit the Blazers.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 09:33 AM) I also don't feel very strongly about using RH pitchers in their twighlight years, I.E. Contreras, Garcia, Colon. Would be nice to pick up a frontline starter. The only one I would not even mind picking up the tab for is Pedro Martinez for one year if it is a filler until 2011. At that point a couple of our RH prospetcs (Shirek/Hudson) should be ready. Or as Cubano has brought up and I have also mentioned Yadel Marti may be an option depending on how MLB read he is. Pedro was reportedly throwing about 85 mph in a recent throwing session and is still asking for a lot more money than any team is even close to giving him.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 09:39 AM) Anyone else feel like last night was a near perfect microcosm of what we have on our hands with each player? It'd be nice to think that was genuinely what we can get out of Fields, Getz, and Anderson.

QUOTE (Cali @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 09:20 AM) I just don't see the CQ equation that some of you see, how does: Mediocre to Average, then a little injury + Really Sucky, then major injury = Coming back and Mashing and Saving the offense? I'd almost say there's as big a chance him coming back would actually HURT the line-up. Especially if you have a bunch of guys clicking like Dye, Paulie, Becks, Ramirez et al. You stick Carlos back in and he strikes out or grounds into double plays killing innings and such. They just just shelve him for the season now, and hope against hope he can come back healthy in 2010. The team is doing okay with out him so far, and he wasn't exactly lighting up the world before his DL stint.... Quentin was not mediocre to average while healthy. He hasn't been healthy as far as I can tell since the end of the Tampa Bay Series. At that point he was leading the AL in home runs. And he personally beat the living daylights out of Tampa.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 09:03 AM) T Beckham (Rays), Posey (Giants), Alvarez (Pirates), Smoak (Rangers), Cashner (Cubs), and our Beckham certainly have the talent to make this one, of not the, best class ever. Gammons said the other night that Smoak, despite how good Beckham has been for us, has the potential to be the best player of this class, like a Chipper Jones type, especially playing in that stadium. Cashner was moved up to AA yesterday after he posted a 1.6 (I might be off on 1.6) ERA in 12 starts for the Cubs single-A affiliate. Don't forget some of the other, lower round guys. For example, if he ever comes back healthy, there's this Danks kid who was drafted in round 7 who looks pretty good.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 09:08 AM) He's actually not a wackjob which is why it's so odd. I've quoted him before, even. Something to the effect that al-Qaida doesn't give a damn about our "freedoms" and that we watch R-rated movies and have women's rights and such and that our government (then it was Bush) needs to stop patronizing us and explain they attack us for what we are, not what we do. Perhaps he's a solid example of what living under a torture-regime does to the people who's job it is to propagate those methods.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 08:58 AM) I understand that... I want to know what happened in the last 3 weeks that put the writing on the wall? Drafting 2 big men? LMAO Link, 2 hours ago.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 08:50 AM) Who is this guy anyway? Nutjob, yes, but what is his day job? If it's the same guy, and I think it is, here's his Bio. Was the guy who wrote that book "Imperial Hubris" a few years ago, as an anonymous author from within the CIA.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 01:25 AM) How so? The fact that they pulled the contract offer last year was a pretty rough sign. On the other hand...their draft this year makes zero sense if they let Gordon walk.

Last night's 0/6 with 2 k's didn't do much to help his numbers this month, but overall, here is how Dayan finished up June. June G 26 AB 107 R 23 H 29 2B 5 3B 0 HR 3 RBI 13 BB 9 SO 13 SB 2 CS 1 AVG 0.271 OBP 0.331 SLG 0.402 OPS 0.732 Best thing from his June numbers? The K/BB ratio. Prior to June, he had 42 k's and 5 BB's. He nearly tripled his walk total on the season last month. That means he's picking his pitches better. He finished the month somewhat slowly, the 0/6 yesterday has him hitting .225 in his last 10 games. His batting average was down from .293 in May, although his OPS went up 20 points from may. He's getting there, the K/BB ratio is a good sign. If he can get that around 1:1, he'll have 1 more thing to start showing off, and that's the power. And yes, he's hit some bomb home runs, but now he needs to start hitting a lot of them.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 30, 2009 -> 11:13 PM) We just bash Cliff Lee a year after he just mowed everybody down. He's been mowing a lot of people down this season too. It's almost as if we had a really good plan for how we should attack him. I wonder if there's a coach or something who's job it is to come up with such a plan.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 30, 2009 -> 11:01 PM) I'd settle for Dustin Pedroia If he winds up at 2b, based on how he's performed so far this season, he's going to make Pedroia's MVP look like an even bigger joke.

I sincerely doubt Arizona would do anything without asking for Beckham. And Frankly, I don't care how good a pitcher is, I'm not giving up 4 of these guys for 1. The only way that makes sense is if you've got the salary constraints of the Yankees. If you can spend $15 million a player every time a hole comes open anywhere, then you can do trades like that. Otherwise, you need to have young guys to work in. The D-Backs were able to do that trade originally because they already had a ton of young guys (Upton, Drew, Young, etc.) that they could work in, and they didn't part with any of their real big young talent.

Tear em up Jose!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 30, 2009 -> 08:26 PM) And yet American companies aren't building it. In other words, there isn't any money in it, just like I have said all along. So why are the Europeans building it? It's almost as if having a government totally opposed to the existence of said industries might be doing something to make it unprofitable. (I.e. classic example, the wind power subsidies that appeared one year and disappeared the next over a period of about 8 years. And before you say "Why do they need subsidies!" don't pretend Coal and Oil aren't heavily subsidized in their own way).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 30, 2009 -> 08:23 PM) Amazing stat of the day... Cliff Lee was 6-5 with a 5.21 era against the Sox, BEFORE today. Yeah...but really, the Cliff Lee of this year and last year is not nearly the same as the Cliff Lee who almost got sent to the minor leagues or cut. Before last year his career ERA was 4.64.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jun 30, 2009 -> 08:04 PM) As Stone has been saying, pitchers and scouts will pick up he's taking balls to the other field on the outside and more power will come as they pitch him inside His hard base hit ground ball up the middle was on an outside pitch. You can't get him out anywhere.

In fact, now that i go to their actual data, I can actively prove you're completely wrong. Over that time period, the U.S.'s green tech exports have grown significantly, increasing in size by 5.4% annually on average. The difference is...U.S. imports of green technology have grown by 8.7% annually. Over the period of 10+ years, that difference in growth rate makes up the difference. The market for green technologies, therefore, has grown at over 10% per year.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 30, 2009 -> 07:59 PM) That is pretty interesting to me, because even with energy prices going up during that time, consumers seemingly still aren't interested. But that won't stop the government from telling us what we have to have, right? Or...that just says that the governments in places like Europe and Asia are actively supporting the development of those technologies, and their support has allowed those governments to offer those technologies at a cheaper price than American companies, where the government spent 8 years actively trying to prevent their development. Thus, the jobs that could have been created here were instead moving overseas. Doesn't say anything about the total amount being spent, it's says whether there's a trade deficit or not in that industry.

AND THIS BALLGAME IS OVA! CALLED, OFFICIALLY. Richard wins, Lee loses.

He homered today on another inside pitch.