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Part 2 of the sweep.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 08:53 AM) Seattle has a higher average attendance for their home games than the White Sox. And that isn't even noting Japanese ad sales. I am certain that the numbers for the Sox will increase and Seattle's will decrease over the course of the next 2 months.

AJP

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 08:27 AM) Because that's not nearly enough talent to offset the combination of fewer wins and revenue decreases I'd take if I sold on Ichiro. If nothing else, let's not forget...Seattle talked themselves into thinking they could compete for the West coming into this season. Revenue decreases? Who's even going to their games anymore? And that's with Ichiro.

QUOTE (beautox @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 06:15 AM) I would prefer the sox put Teahen in RF and DH Quentin. Quentin is nearing Dye territory out there. For Marks career in RF he has a -2 UZR vs. Quentin's -16 for the year; for Quentin's career he owns a -6.9 UZR in RF. In one simple move we would improve our collective OF defense and ozzie could use Jones as a defensive specialist out there. Also ideally it would keep CQ healthier. ^^This

Twins starting to click against all of the scrubs they've been playing.

Rays have 4 runs on 1 hit. Grand slam to break up a no hitter.

Alexei four for ten in SBs. Ouch.

I wouldn't be surprised if we were a game or two behind Minnesota by the end of the week.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 04:56 PM) Since Washington really likes Jackson, maybe Kenny should try to get Jackson straight from Arizona and then flip him to Washington for Dunn. After all, I would think that getting Jackson alone will be cheaper than getting Dunn. If you can't flip Jackson for Dunn, you get yourself a guy with a 4.3 FIP, which isn't the worst thing that can happen. Jackson would then be the 4th or 5th starter on this team. I wouldn't be against this scenario.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 04:45 PM) Worth noting that De Aza is on the DL? He'd still put up better numbers than Kotsay while on the DL.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 04:44 PM) well realistically this really limits it to the NYY, I really can't see many teams willing to roll the dice on that. What about the Twins if Houston pays for a part of that option?

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 04:42 PM) King Felix vs Smokin' Danks again... might be another 1-0. 2-1 or 3-2 type game that I like to see. Last week was Felix vs Floyd.

@jcrasnick:

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 04:28 PM) Did he get released? Poor wording on my part. Close to a deal.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 04:19 PM) I understand that philosophy and really, I do agree with it. The Jones contract was low risk/possible high reward. But they have to learn when to cut ties and move on, and its not just in situations like these. This organization struggles to move on from mistakes in general. Yeah it took them long enough to realize Randy Williams was one of the worst arms we've seen in decades.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 04:13 PM) That too. But it just confuses me how you can think the combination of Jones/Kotsay can somehow outproduce Thome. We saw why in The Club. JR stated how "we like to pick up guys after a down year or 2 that want to prove something".

Rangers close to signing him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 01:24 PM) Use Firefox. Download "Adblock". Right click on his signature. Select "Adblock image". Thanks!

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 04:04 PM) I demand a groundout to 3b from Kotsay tonight. He needs to change it up a bit. I'm sort of confused as to why Jones and Kotsay have DH'd so much while one of our hottest bats, Lillibridge, has been sitting on the bench.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 03:59 PM) Kotsay took a walk in that series, what more can you possibly want from him!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 03:48 PM) It worked against Felix last week. Their combined 0-7 really had a big impact.

Pierre7 Vizquel5 Rios8 PK 3 Q 9 Kotsay dh AJ2 Ram 6 Beckham4 Danks

Woohoo! Kostay/AJ combo hitting 6th and 7th once again.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 03:25 PM) If Kenny had pulled off a trade in early June...he'd have been dumping Pierzynski. He didn't have to go that far back but earlier in July could have been helpful. It was obvious we couldn't keep up that pace of winning and needed help on offense. 3 months of Dunn (or whoever) is much more preferable than 2.