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QUOTE (Mattchoo @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 03:15 PM) I totally agree with everything you said. My whole problem is that we traded Hudson and Holmberg for Jackson while not addressing hitting. Why couldn't we have used Hudson, Holmberg, and one more prospect for something better. If they really felt they could really upgrade the offense for that package, they would have. I haven't seen any of the left handed powerhitters prices that looked like they fit that.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 03:12 PM) Jackson isn't a solution to replace Danks though since he'll be gone after 2011. Just an expensive, mediocre stopgap that takes up too much payroll resource next year. Not if he gets dealt in the 2010 off season in an effort to "rebuild" the farm system.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 03:10 PM) We'll see how you feel if we have to trade Danks due to money issues or cannot re-sign Konerko. I've been saying for a while that Danks is out the door anyway. The fact we keep acquiring pitchers does nothing to change that opinion for me.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 03:08 PM) At least with Cowley, no one actually lets him dictate how they feel. It scares me the amount of people that take Rongey's words as intelligent. Right, like he totally isn't the Guillens kids b****? I can't believe anyone would ever take anything Cowley said as intelligent.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 03:08 PM) And I don't really want to hear you guys whine and cry about it anymore either. Looks like we're both s*** out of luck. You are in the wrong place then... This is either going to keep going until we clinch the division, or for years if we don't.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 03:07 PM) Chris Rongey = fail I actually think you hate Ranger more than I hate Cowley, which is saying something.

BNightengale #mlb White Sox say there are done at deadline. No more deals at least not until players clear waivers

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 08:40 AM) What do you mean? That's not what we are being told.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 11:20 PM) Nope http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...,7294813.column From the sounds of it, this isn't really true.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 11:19 PM) Sounds like KW never had a deal with the Astros, and that Berkman declined to go to other teams as well http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...,7294813.column From the sounds of it, this isn't really true.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 08:29 PM) So when would Jackson pitch for us assuming he doesn't get traded? Wednesday

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 07:00 PM) You will see J4L 'unleashed' if the offense isn't legitimately upgraded. He "got" Lance Berkman.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 12:26 AM) I hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I hate it. X 50

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 02:14 PM) there's also the very realistic situation where the White Sox make one more effort to sign Danks to an extension, it doesn't happen and they move him, in the offseason he could get a ton.... wouldn't like it, but it could happen That is a really good point. Nothing says the pitchers we end the season with are the pitchers we begin 2011 with.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 02:22 PM) So, BP has the same group doing its environmental impact statements as they have doing the engineering on their blowout preventors? Otherwise, that's equally wasteful. Keep making excuses for a complete failure here. It is amazing how much your opinions have changed in like a year and a half.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 01:05 PM) I really don't get how anyone can support Republicans right now. Even if you absolutely hate Obama's policies and what the Democrats want to do, the Republicans are intentionally sabotaging any effort at governance. The role of the opposition party isn't to break government. I wish you all had felt this way from 2001 to 2009. I think I am going to start calling this thread Lies the Democrats told me, because all it is anymore is a complete revision of history.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 12:44 PM) They're involved in the clean-up efforts. That's different from regulating the drilling/ piping or being in charge of stopping the leaks. Source? The leak was reported on Monday at 8:45 AM in the pipeline. Presumably, they were able to close the pipe line and stop the leak quickly. The EPA took over clean-up operations Wednesday. edit: Maybe you're confusing contained with stopped-leaking. You'll need to explain how the efforts to clean up and contain a relatively small oil leak in a pipeline is comparable to what happened in the Gulf, where the main focus has been getting the damned thing to stop leaking for 100 days. The EPA should be and, AFAIK, is involved with the efforts to clean up the spill in the ocean and on the shorelines, rivers and lakes. What would you like them to have done here? You don't see how this is 100% contradictory? Stopping and preventing problems isn't a part of fixing them? And if you don't see them under the same vein, that explains A LOT about why our government gets away with being so incredibly wasteful.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 12:59 PM) The superwealthy have a lower percentage tax burden than just about everyone else. That is garbage propaganda.

QUOTE (Wedge @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 12:09 PM) 400k for Hudson or $8.5M for Jackson. The funny thing is that many of the same people who worried about the games that Jenks blew, won't see the immediate value that a Jackson would win more games than Hudson in the short term.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 09:51 AM) then why are they involved in the michigan spill? And involved in it before it was contained...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 29, 2010 -> 10:10 PM) What does FEMA stand for? What's their mission statement? Are they a regulatory agency like the EPA? Except the EPA isn't just a regulatory body, or at least it wasn't until about 100 days ago.

And yet the same people get all uptight about the rich not paying their "fair share".

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 11:24 AM) I just e-mailed Cowley and called him a f***ing moron for not doing his research properly on Marquez. He must not have checked here like usual before he tweeted...

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 11:24 AM) Based on Kenny's history, I have NO problem with him trading prospect. Few, if any, have ever grown to be much of a MLB player. I haven't liked a rookie pitcher as much as I like Hudson since Brandon McCarthy. I have no idea what that means.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 10:52 AM) BNightengale #mlb #white sox Sox GM Kenny Williams, the king of the trade deadline, is quietly exploring possibility of acquring Brett Myers from Astros 1 minute ago via web Man, it would really suck having such a piece of s*** on the ballclub. Can we please avoid players that I'm forced to actively root against? No joke. I couldn't ever bring myself to root for Albert Belle either.