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QUOTE(Texsox @ May 13, 2007 -> 08:57 AM) We trade with so many countries with terrible track records against the US, their human rights records suck. Perhaps it's time to drop the embargo. It's been time to drop the embargo for a long, long time. Man, the economy of that island is just going to absolutely explode if that ever happens, and it'll make a lot of people a lot of money. Then again, I just want sugar to replace the corn syrup in my carbonated beverages.

Here's a chance for all you Republicans to laugh at me and say "I told you so".

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ May 12, 2007 -> 09:00 PM) That is correct, and if Javy keeps pitching as well as he had and should, this trade won't be one we regret. I dunno entirely about that, and here's why. The White Sox 1 big need coming into next season is some additional cheap, successful, producing young talent. We're a $110 million team right now, and if we want to keep this exact team together as-is next season, we'd have to be a $130 million team. Add in about another $8 mil for Buehrle, raises for Crede, Uribe, Thome, God knows how big of a raise Dye gets, and even more to hold onto Iguchi, and just to hold as-is right now, we'd add a ton of payroll. And that leaves us no room to upgrade, say, our LF/Leadoff spot or anything like that. The White Sox really, desperately need a couple young guys to insert into the lineup next season. Just 1 won't do it, it has to be on the order of 2-3 guys. One of those young pitchers will probably step into the rotation, possibly 2 depending on what the Sox do with Garland, but that's still not going to give us any room to upgrade. So, what do we really, really need? We need 2 of our 3 top prospects to produce well in the field next season, so that we can afford to fill other holes. If we could, for example, get Anderson and Sweeney both to produce, along with another young pitcher in addition to Danks, then that could give us room to resign Uribe, Iguchi, and to make a serious run at someone to fill our other OF slot. But that doesn't work if we only get 1 decent producing field prospect. If that happens, we're pretty much going to wind up stuck with Erstad as a $6 million option because we don't have any better choice. If Anderson continues struggling and Dye walks, then we lose a lot of salary flexibility and really have no other option than Erstad. If we had Young, we would have another young OF option ready and waiting, which could have freed up salary this season and beyond. Long story short; for me to be happy about this deal, we need Anderson and Sweeney both succeeding for the Sox next year. End of story.

Fields seems like he was hitting below the Mendoza line like 3 days ago.

Give em Jell, Havy.

QUOTE(fathom @ May 12, 2007 -> 10:33 AM) Yet he keeps putting Erstad out there, who's now 3-30 against LHP all year, and his only extra base hit was in his first AB of the season. When you're a grinder, you contribute more than your numbers. Of course, that's a real strong argument for an Erstad/Terrero platoon...which would require keeping Luis on the roster...

Now this is just sad. "I'm sorry, I only hate gay people when I have to pee." I wonder, if Thompson keeps this up, if he can move into Gravel territory.

I don't know if anyone else noticed...but damn, that swing by JD reminded me an awful lot of one he had in the 8th inning against the Astros.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ May 11, 2007 -> 04:28 PM) That article was so lame. A weak attempt at a "hit job" on a presidential candidate, it won't effect the campaign at all. John McCain takes a moment to call that lady.

Graphic via the LA Times.

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 11, 2007 -> 04:25 AM) Oh, and BTW, Moore is a dickhead and unless Cuba has some radical medical treatment that was these people's only hope, he deserves what ever punishment we dish out. Nuke, you smoking any Cuban cigars? Well, I can't speak to them having some sort of radical treatment, but they do have a health-care-for-all system which is, honestly, incredibly good compared to the amount of money they spend on it, which is the point Moore is clearly trying to make. From the Wiki Gonzalez entry on Cuba's health care system: Their life expectancy is roughly equal to that of the U.S., infant mortality seems similar, etc. I'm sure there are some categories where the U.S. does win, but the point Moore will make is that the U.S. spends like 12% of it's GDP on health care, Cuba spends about 7% of its GDP on health care, and Cuba gets similar results. And you can also take a second to think about the values of the GDP of each country - for cuba, 7% of it's GDP levels out to spending about $250 per person on health care per year, to get results that at worst are not horrendous compared to the much larger amount spent in the U.S.

These folks are adults. They are and should be responsible for their own actions. It's not like this is a high school team. And another question...so what happens in an alcohol free clubhouse when you win a division? Spray grape juice over your teammates? That said...teams should really be ramping up efforts to make sure people do have options. Teams should be providing taxis to take players home if they so desire. They ought to have a specific person the players can call. Make it as easy as humanly possible for them to get a ride. And there should be punishments for DUI from the teams.

Anderson 1/3, 2 BB, 2 runs scored, 1 strikeout. Fields 2/4 with a home run and 4 RBI. Wikipedia with a home run and 5 RBI. Haeger did not pitch. Babula got the start, Carlos Vasquez appears to have gotten the win, throwing 2 scoreless innings in relief.

QUOTE(watchtower41 @ May 11, 2007 -> 08:20 AM) Terrero should get some playing time.... he hasnt seen an AB in over a week Ryan Sweeney should not see the bench until next Tuesday if he's being sent down. Get him every possible Major League at bat that can be gotten for him. Including against righties and lefties. Kick some ass Jon.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ May 10, 2007 -> 09:52 PM) I was thinking... hypothetically speaking, because this trade wouldn't hapen (at least right now) -- since BJ Ryan is done for at least a year, would you trade Dye + MacDougal/Jenks for Rios? I would, although I'm not sure Toronto would necessarily do that (for one), and after Dye took the lesser contract to come here (keeping his word), I feel like the Sox are in some way 'indebted' to him. When you consider that if the White Sox hold on to Mr. Dye, and he departs as a FA, the White Sox will still receive 2 compensatory top-of-the-draft picks, and if Mr. Dye goes to Toronto those picks would go to the Jays, I think that's a little much to give up for Mr. Rios. But we're on track with a decent line of thought there, and it could well just be a matter of changing a player or two.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2007 @ May 10, 2007 -> 09:11 PM) C'mon, Willie. I know it hurts, but you're better than that. Am I the only one that remembers the Jordan/Pippen Bulls getting smacked around 3 straight years before we got to the top? This current Bulls team was not going to win a championship under any circumstance. It's all about progression. We won 8 more regular season games than we did a year ago. We go to the second round this year. That's progess. Yay, someone I agree with! Hopefully, this teaches these kids another lesson. They've had a big high and a gigantic low within about 3 weeks. Another major summer of work, another couple big guys through the draft and FA, a year of experience, and a year of age on all of these kids.

Dave Roberts has been battling bone spurs in his elbow, and may well have to have them removed, which would cause him to miss about a month.

Bonderman may miss his next start due to blistering in his pitching hand.

Rudy also may have accepted, while he was serving as mayor, a couple of $200,000 or so world series rings from the Yankees without reporting them.

It seems like today is "Bad press for Rudy" day.

And that my friends is why you don't spend $55 million on a pitcher.

If we buy out Mr. Erstad's deal, do we still have the option of offering him arbitration (i.e. to get picks if he walks or to sign him at a lower value?)

QUOTE(RME JICO @ May 10, 2007 -> 03:27 PM) So what do you think? Did the Sox artificially inflate the value of BMac up until the trade? I know you are not going to do anything to lower the value of any of your players, but some of the Sox actions seem to point towards this scenario. I can't see how throwing him out there against Texas and Boston back in late 05, and then a few weeks later lining him up against Santana in the middle of a pennant chase was a scheme to make him look better than he was. Texas and Boston were almost the 2 top offenses in the league at that point, and he held them both scoreless for 15 innings.

Link.

Link. So According to Mr. Stark, before he was hurt, Jim Thome was essentially the best offense generating weapon in baseball thus far on the season, even beating out ARod and Bonds.