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If the Hawks score in the first few minutes, it will be a blow out.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 06:37 PM) Yeah. I wish I wish I wish I could come up with a single name of a collegiate football player who wound up succeeding for the Sox. I feel like there must be one. Somewhere. Someone must have played football then had moderate amounts of success for the Sox. And probably within the last 2 decades or so. There just has to be one. If only my mind could come up with a name. But let's not bring Kenny Williams into this..

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 06:35 PM) Drafting football players like KW, Borchard, and Fields has provided this organization with such great talent, I could see why they went back to that well. As a H.S. OF'er no way KW was going to take him with the first pick. The organization looks for quick fixes (college) in the first round. Quick fixes? You can't be serious. No one thought of Fields or Borchard as a quick fix. They were both projects from the day they were drafted, much like HS players.

First things first, I would fire anyone who recommended a personnel move based on what they read on a message board.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 06:25 PM) I must admit, I'm impressed here. I wouldn't have expected that anyone would have predicted a catastrophic leg injury for Mitchell early in 2010. Somehow you must have, because you're giving management **** over the fact that they didn't. I'd really love to read the post if you can point me to it. Ah the power of hind sight.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 06:28 PM) What a ballsy call there. And honestly, he is better than Luongo, at least the games I've seen. Not good. And Scott is in (as a forward.. ), Kruger out. Its not ballsy, it is full pledged panic mode.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:43 PM) Seabrook is back tonight? I mean, we are 0-3 with him, and 2-0 without him. This just gives me another excuse for my friends as why I hate that guido douchebag. Lol. John Scott>Brent Seabrook is FAIL.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:39 PM) Firesale is middle of this season. If teams are in the races, there will be interest in Dunn. There is interest in him every year.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:38 PM) So they would pick up Dunn this year to sit on the bench? A deal that would work perfectly for both teams if the Sox went into meltdown mode, Fukodome + prospect for Dunn. Sox get out of the contract and get a building block. Cubs get their thumper from the left side. Its not hard to envision at all. Its revenue nuetral for both teams this year, and Cubs get money in the coming years when they can afford it. It also still leaves them room if they want to go after their big guy next year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:37 PM) At the end of this season, Boston, Texas, LAA, maybe the Yankees, if Seattle ever decides they have a competitive team, the Twins depending on what Thome does and what they want to do with Mauer, Oakland if they have a little cash to spend (Dunn is something of a Moneyball guy). Oakland was a team I saw having interest in him in the off-season.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:28 PM) Name another. A very interesting name that popped up during the off-season was the Cubs. Apparently with the contracts they had coming off of the books in 2011, they were hoping to backload a deal.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:18 PM) per Cowley KW is making the trip to NYC and if things don't turn around a sacrifice will be made. Repeat, this is Cowley, so to be safe divide by 2 and doubt what's left. The first question to ask would be is this a regularly scheduled trip with the team for Kenny or not.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:22 PM) Yes it does, even your buddy Balta agrees. Right, because I agree with Balta all of the time. If you look at even just the AL between the DH's, 1B's and OF's even if you want to irrationally DQ Detroit, there are plenty of other teams that would be after Adam Dunn if they were in the race.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:18 PM) Then they signed Victor Martinez. That doesn't mean they would want him any less. The talk originally was that Detroit was going to sign both of them.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:14 PM) Again, I'm asking if anyone has an opening. Would Dombrowski take Dunn and his contract for nothing right now? Its a yes or no question. Not moderator gang up time. For nothing but his contract? 100% yes. The only reason he didn't end up there in the first place was because Dunn didn't want to go to Detroit.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:11 PM) So you're saying they were out of the race until this weekend, and these 3 games over Easter weekend put them back in the race and would be in the market for a DH hitting .150 and owed $50 million? Please don't ever tell anyone what they post is silly ever again. So like I said in the beginning, you are totally based this on what he is hitting a week after coming back from surgery, instead of the 300+ homers he has in the last decade, or that there was actually plenty of interest in him in the off-season. Great. I don't think you have any room to say anything.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:02 PM) Way to dance around it. You know the answer. Like I said, I have no doubt he would do it if he thought it would win him a division. Hell after this weekend, we put them right back into the race, the odds are probably pretty good for it, in theory.

QUOTE (bulokis @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 03:59 PM) If we end up with a fire sale i will support it. We may need a new direction, stock up on some young talent. But i am not sure kw can do it Are you telling me if the Sox have a firesale, you are buying more tickets to the games?

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 08:49 PM) Growing up in the Chicago Stadium and then the UC prior to 2009 makes you hate the Wings, as well as their fans, more than any other team. Not necessarily because the team is always "classless" on the ice because that hasn't always been the case, but it is a hatred that runs deep. Detroit will always suck more than anyone else. Whether it is Tigers, Pistons, or Red Wings, I hate Detroit. Teams like Vancouver come and go, but Detroit is always Detroit.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 12:32 PM) I see a lot of people saying that. Is that an educated guess or was this stated by KW or JR? Who else would you bring in? It'd be on an interim basis for sure, but he is the next guy in line. If they fire Ozzie in the off-season it would be a different story.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 11:58 AM) Perhaps, but Dunn was supposedly close to signing with the Tigers on Nov 17. A week later the Tigers signed Martinez for about the same amount of money Dunn received. A week after that Dunn signed with the Sox. If you're saying money will be no object for Pizza Pizza, and you may be correct, if they really wanted Dunn so badly why wouldn't they have just jacked up the bid a little higher? Money talks. Do you really think if KW called Dave Dombrowski up today and told him he'd like to give him Adam Dunn for an A Ball pitcher with a 10.00 ERA Dombrowski would say yes? If he thought Dunn would win him the division, he would do it in a heartbeat.

Him and his f***ing cannonball. That pitch sucks if AJ can hit it.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 11:42 AM) And the Tigers passed and then signed Victor Martinez. They didn't want to pay him that contract. You think a .157 average with 23 strikeouts in 14 games has changed their minds? If they were so gung ho about signing him and had to have him, they would have signed him. Now they added someone else. They might take him if KW took Magglio and his $10 million contract this year back, but what does that accomplish? Dunn passed on the Tigers for us.

He had worth on the free agent market mere months ago. He was the Tigers #1 target.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 11:17 AM) I'm not overreacting. I like Dunn on the Sox. The Sox overpayed, but that's fine by me. If you really believe that Dunn went from worth $56 million to nothing in a matter of a few months, then yes, you are overreacting.