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QUOTE(Spiff @ Aug 23, 2006 -> 01:32 PM) B-Mac in left field, this way he could finally be a starter like everyone wishes for! Definately has a better throwing arm than Scott...

Based on logical standards, she should have at least disclosed the connection or should be out today saying she didn't know in response to the press report. Based on the Scalia standard, the ACLU owes her a free hunting trip.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 23, 2006 -> 01:49 PM) No chance, the Chicago White Sox are the only team that has ever and will ever matter. Besides, I can't follow the Angels cuz they're an AL team, can't follow the Dodogers cuz, well it's L.A., SF is too far away. My only choice is to start following tthe Padres more closely. Thx again for the wishes everyone. If ya ever wants to hit up an Angels/Sox game...

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 23, 2006 -> 11:59 AM) I'll probably regret this, but... I disagree. I think its an excellent idea. He'd be better defensively, have similar speed, way better offensively... I see no downside. Enlighten me. First off, I don't see the "Similar speed". Even in Podsednik's now weakened state, I think that Goes to Scott by quite a bit. Secondly, Scott sees a lot of pitches per plate appearance. Out of people with 200+, Scott is 28th. (Thome is 6th, Dye is 23rd, which is a bit odd since he used to be on the other side of that list.) Rob M. is 143rd. I think that's an important thing for a leadoff hitter, and Pablo drives me nuts for that same reason. 3rd, Rob is just terrible against lefties, so you still wind up with him as a platoon player with Pablo. 4th, Rob is either as streaky or streakier than Podsednik.

QUOTE(Shamrock4Life @ Aug 23, 2006 -> 09:09 AM) Does this game fit the characteristics of a must win game? i think so. I'm having trouble remembering the last game that wasn't a must-win game, IMO. The problem is we keep losing them.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Aug 23, 2006 -> 08:39 AM) They seem to generally keep their own players of late, so my guess would be that they'll throw a lot of money at him to keep him around. If he does go, then they might throw a decent sum of money at someone. I still have a hard time seeing them committing something like 5-65 to Soriano or Lee though. I agree that they probably won't land Soriano or Lee, but I think they will make a legit run at Zito...if for no other reason than the fact that they'll need something that looks like a pitching staff to start next season if they still want to make sure to sell every seat.

Welcome to the party!

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 10:45 PM) They'll probably end up signing someone like Jamie Moyer, Mark Redman or Ted Lilly, and maybe Frank Cattlanato or Jose Cruz Jr. for leftfield. Either that or they'll trade for someone moderately better, maybe a Patt Burrell-type. But there's no way they end up signing one of the top guys on the market. Don't forget the fact that it seems Aramis Ramirez is going to opt out of his Contract...so either the Cubs will have more money to not spend, or they'll wind up spending more money out of desperation to keep someone at 3rd.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 08:31 PM) It's all Mark has to give. One has to wonder if he just is worn out from last year or if this is gonna be the Mark B of the future. One thing about next year...at least our guys won't have pitched a lot of October innings in 06, so there won't be any "Dead arm/too many innings" excuses.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 06:06 PM) This is advice that I should follow more. As soon as the game is over tonight, leave this site for the rest of the night, and find something completely non-Sox related to do. No amount of complaining by us is going to chance anything right now. 2 nights ago, I skipped the game to buy a car. Last night, I skipped the game to go driving. (Finally got to the Rose Bowl) I think I'm happier because of both. QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Aug 23, 2006 -> 05:20 AM) Yeah the offense hasn't been a problem this season at all. It's only been in the last 5 games or so, they haven't particuarly gotten the job done, and since that's fresh in people's minds, people are going to say, it's the long ball or nothing. But you know what? There have been a few things that have given us trouble all year, like Left-handed pitching, and no steps have been taken to try to really correct those problems (like moving Dye into the 3-hole, at least if a Lefty is starting).

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Aug 23, 2006 -> 05:28 AM) So I just want to get a grasp on this here. So far this season Pablo Ozuna has 137 AB's in 61 games. Ryan Sweeney for Charlotte has 421 AB's. That's almost a 3 to 1 ratio of AB's right there. So my point on this whole issue is this. If you're going to use Ryan Sweeney next season, he should play everyday. If he's going to be in a platoon situation, why not just keep Ozuna, who has hit well this season, let Ryan get much more AB's in Charlotte to continue his development, which will help him immensely. I think it's more likely Josh Fields would get used everyday over Sweeney at this stage for next season though. Pablo is also a righty. IIRC, Sweeney is a lefty. If you run a strictly-platoon situation, the lefty is obviously going to get more AB's, because there are more right handed pitchers. But yeah, Sweeney should still be in AAA next season.

I still can not believe that a team THIS GOOD on paper can not find enough balls to make one more winning streak happen.

Green still is under contract for 07 correct? Just looked it up...yeah, just dropping the $$ will help the D-Backs a lot.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 03:55 PM) Cardinals are losing money on a few pitchers who maybe gone and need an OF. Go get him, Jocketty. I fear him landing on the North Side. Oh if he lands on the North Side he'll just get hurt somehow. Anyway, I think Lee may be too expensive for the Cardinals to really make a run at considering how many slots in their rotation they're going to need to fill next year. Unless they're getting a lot of additional revenue from that new ballpark, can't say I know for sure. I think the Cards' offense can be fine if they just find *Someone* to stick out in the outfield, but they need pitching. Houston on the other hand, has Bagwell and Clemens' contracts coming off the book, has room in their outfield, and really, really could use a guy to aim for that short porch in LF. If you want to be scared of him going to the NL Central, Houston's the one that should scare you.

QUOTE(chisox72 @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 03:53 PM) Something positive has to happen for us when Neifi is batting leadoff for them.... I swear to God...if anyone walks Neifi Perez...

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 03:28 PM) Some drunk Viking probably came up with the names, it's a bunch of crap just like the whole "Bluegrass State" thing in Kentucky, there isn't any damned blue grass in that state. As for the article itself......even it is contradictory. I never know what to believe with global warming, nobody can agree on anything in regards to this subject. This is only really true if you pay attention to the media, which feels the need to balance the scientists with quotes from industry-funded sources or write articles in such a way as to make it seem like the jury is still out. The "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" or IPCC, which has thus far prepared 3 comprehensive reports with the assistance and agreement of over 1200 climatologists (Update and report #4 is due next year). Their current prediction is somewhere between 2-10 degrees of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming within the next 100 years, depending on how extreme of efforts humanity goes to to mitigate the problem.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 03:36 PM) Giovany Gonzalez > Chris Young... Chris Young is highly overrated, IMO. He has only had decent numbers in the minors, but his "potential" to be a 40-40 guy makes everyone get a boner for him. I see him being a decent OF AT BEST. um... He has the potential to steal about 20 bases a season. He is actually a pretty good base stealer, but he was never on base before to show it off. Man, right now, I don't think the stats back that up too well...Gio being more valuable than Chris. Gio's looking at a 4.17 ERA and a 1.36 WHIP in AA for the Phillies this year. Giving up a lot of walks, and 21 home runs (not sure about that park, but his record is also 7-10 with that ERA, so it's not like he's destroying opponents). He's at least stayed healthy thus far, but he doesn't look like a top-of-the-line starter just yet.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 02:13 PM) Heres a question. Where in the lineup would sweeney be most effective? 2-hole? I think that by the end of next year, and maybe even by the beginning of next year, the best 2-hole hitter on our team will be Brian Anderson.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 12:58 PM) Cotts and Riske pitching = conceding? Have you seen Cotts pitch lately?

God Damnit, DO NOT START THE KID'S ARBITRATION CLOCK! WE HAVE NO SPOT FOR HIM UNTIL 08! AND HE'LL SPEND MOST OF NEXT YEAR IN THE MINORS ANYWAY!!! ARGH! The one good bit of news is that might keep Mack out of CF. But the cost of starting Sweeney's arb clock this early is pretty damn high, IMO.

I doubt highly that Brandon is being worked in 100 pitch sessions on the side. He's only pitched 3 innings because that's what Ozzie has needed, in close games where we have the lead he can do the MMac, Thor, Jenks rotation and it's over, in games where we're behind we're throwing in Cotts and Riske and conceding the loss.

Yet another reason why the White Sox never had and never will be interested in him again. The rumor thus far is that Texas is really interested in holding onto Lee this offseason. Given that Texas and Boras seem to have a "Thank you Sir may I have another!" sort of relationship, i can't tell if this helps or hurts that cause.

Internal poll Here, so take with a grain of salt (usually there's some level of truth to internal polls that are relased, but only the good internals actually are released), but it is quite consistent with a recent Rassmussen poll showing the race dramatically tightening.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 11:44 AM) There are going to be a few idiots who blame Williams, but if the Sox fail to make the post season, IMO its ALL on the players and staff. Williams built a WS club, and ADDED to it in 06. Anything can happen from year to year, but we should be talking about setting up the playoff rotation right now. Instead we are talking about how are starters make way too much money for the efforts they have been giving.... Well, at some level there can be blame placed on KW as well, first and foremost for taking the chance on Javier Vazquez despite 2 straight years of evidence about how risky he actually was, and secondly for not taking any steps to try to upgrade the starting pitching at the trade deadline, when it had clearly passed the bullpen on the list of "shakiest parts of this team." You can give him some credit for fixing the shakiest part of the team, the bullpen, with a couple of damn fine acquisitions, but I think that some blame can be placed on him for not doing anything about the starters, even if it was just to shake things up. Move Garcia for prospects and bring in BMac in July when there's time to stretch him out, or move Vazquez, or heck, just start DL-ing people who are struggling to give them a rest and stretch out McCarthy in the meanwhile. Something, anything to help would have been nice. But anyway, enough b****ing about KW, if the pitchers did their jobs there wouldn't have been a problem.

This was the funniest thing I read all day yesterday.