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QUOTE (chisoxt @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 01:01 PM) I admire Kenny's enthusiam and drive to win. He always seems to search out guys who have his football player's mentality. Therein lies what I think is a huge problem...The thing that Kenny or the next Sox GM must understand is that this is baseball, not football. Sometimes you have to be patient and even admit that certain years just may not be your year. Regarding 2005, the irony of Williams' success is with that team is that the only player that KW acquired as a result of an all-in type deal was Freddy Garcia. Of course, it didn't hurt that as Freddy was a relative of Ozzies's the Sox had a strong inidcation that they also could resign him. Many of the other key players from that squad were either obtained through low-cost acquisitions such as AJ, Tadahito, Carl Everett, Bobby Jenks, Juan Uribe, Scotty Pods, or, gasp, developed from within (Crede, Buehrle, Rowand). Kenny worked very hard in the off season after 2004 to stretch what limited resources he had to work with. Kenny was uncharacteristically patient in that off season and his efforts were richly rewarded. I used to think that having a large budget to work with was a good thing, but when I see certain GMs (Williams, Hendry, Manya) squander those resources, I no longer think that is the case. Carl Everett came here from a pretty big deal right before the ASB. Pods was in the huge Carlos Lee deal with MIL.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:50 PM) They are shopping more than Edwin...... That much has to be obvious.

It has to be better than whatever draft pick we would get for him in FA.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:29 PM) Aha well that would make sense. I'm not saying anything will happen mind you... Just that it isn't strange that nothing has happened yet.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:23 PM) Yeah if they were going to do anything it would have been done on Monday Actually the sentiment is not true. Usually there is a blackout on that stuff until after the ASG, so that nothing takes away from it.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:17 PM) If something was going to happen it would've happened by now, so I guess we're stuck waiting to the trade deadline. Sounds like Reinsdorf has so far vetoed any firings that KW wanted to make, so not sure how much to blame kw for no movement. While I'm hoping for a turnaround I seriously doubt that 4 days off is going to spin this team in a new direction. Where did you hear/see that?

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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) So I'd be more tolerant if I were white? Blacks have a lower rate of acceptance than Whites or Hispanics.

I have always found it bizarre that people in many minority groups seem to be the least tolerant of gays. You'd think groups with experience of being the targets of discrimination would be more supportive of different people, not less.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:47 AM) no question about it. expecting him to be better than Carlos is asking a lot. wanting to replace Carlos with Dayan doesn't make us any better In the short run, it would make us worse.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:41 AM) No, I said "Struggled through 2 seasons due to injuries". If his current .909 OPS is "Struggling through this season due to injury" then I can't wait to see what he does when he's healthy. How did he start off this year after his injury?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:40 AM) And neither are Cub fans. And definitely not Republicans, because we can't talk about that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:38 AM) You can't possibly compare the shoulder thing and the foot thing with being hit on the hand by a pitch and expect to not be laughed at. You are the one who said no injuries.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:38 AM) This thread has jumped the shark. Just as long as one is male and the other female...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:33 AM) Neither had Carlos Quentin coming in to 2008. Viciedo also hasn't struggled through 2 seasons due to injuries or had major surgeries on the way up, as far as I know. He didn't miss a month of this year with an injury?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:29 AM) You could have said the exact same thing about Carlos Quentin any of the last 4 seasons, except for 3 of them you'd have to replace the word raw with the words inconsistent/injury prone. Viciedo hasn't had anything close to 2008 for TCQ.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:14 AM) As of now: Peavy Danks Floyd Humber Sale If you trade for Sanchez, you're adding starter 7 for this year and starter 6 for next year. Your response of course will be "But they'll just trade Danks", which is of course possible, but that still makes dealing for a starter a foolish move because it compels the Sox to trade Danks, rather than allowing them to wait for a good offer. And then of course there's still plenty of reason to think that M-56 will get an offer from the Sox to come back. I'm not convinced Sale is going to be a starter enxt year.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:00 AM) in 100 ABs and helped by a meaningless last half of september when nobody cares Which is the exact same standard applied to Ozzie.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:05 AM) I know, but even then, it's such a poor, poor fit. If you're selling on Carlos, you need long-term guys, a pitcher who would fill the 7th starter spot right now and 6th starter spot next year does none of those. We aren't going to have that many starters next year. If we do bring Buehrle back, someone else will go to make room for him.

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Xavier McDaniel would have been a weird choice.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 09:20 AM) Byfuglien was, and should have been, much higher regarded than Versteeg. Getting rid of Steeger had to be done at any cost. I don't fault Bowman one bit for getting a shoddy, albeit cheap return for him. And they had to cut dollars. They didn't have a choice. They couldn't shop around and wait for a good deal to come along. The cap mandated moves had to be made that didn't involve getting salary back.