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QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ May 17, 2010 -> 09:37 PM) I only know one Knightni, are there others? They are the knightS that say ni... duh.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 17, 2010 -> 02:26 PM) Yeah, I guess Konerko and Jenks are about $20 right there, but I am still not sure I want sooo much money tied up into Peavy and Gonzalez. Buehrle's contract is up after 2011 at $14 million per season.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 17, 2010 -> 02:13 PM) The very least the Sox could offer him would be $5.4M which is likely quite a bit more than he'd be looking at on the open market and if he finishes the year with even mediocre offensive numbers and his people submit a number of $7M up against any figure lower than that submitted by the Sox he'd win in a landslide. A good major league veteran everyday catcher making a reasonable salary is not going to see a salary reduction in arbitration, a slight pay rise would be likely. The one thing that could help is the fall in the salaries in the middle of the pack due to the recession going on. The argument has to be made for players of similar ilk, and trying to argue that their salary should fit that.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ May 17, 2010 -> 02:13 PM) It seems only limited to Chicago. One thing I have noticed the Chicago media can't live without creating some type of soap opera. Oh that happens everywhere now.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 17, 2010 -> 02:09 PM) A contract extension we wouldn't be able to afford anyway. If you look at the payroll coming off of the books in the next two years, it is more realisitic than you think.

QUOTE (Allsox @ May 16, 2010 -> 11:59 AM) Wimpy and Farmio actually sounded pretty coherent, insightful and entertaining, unlike the usual broadcasts. Big Hurt sounded a tad awkward and doesn't know when to be quiet at times but I liked his spot-on-analysis of situations. Very weird but positive broadcasting indeed! The funny thing is that Frank sounds a million times better than his first TV/radio appearances. It was fun to hear him jump into the Hawks home run call, and how excited he was to do it.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 17, 2010 -> 02:05 PM) The difference is that this is Gonzalez final contract year, w/ a club option for 2011. Rios is here through 2014 w/ 2015 club option, and Peavy is here through 2012 with 2013 club option. That is NOT the same, especially considering that Gonzalez will make more money than both those guys in his new contract. We wouldn't trade for him without a very, very good understanding of a contract extension. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that is what has stopped past potential deals for him.,

QUOTE (WCSox @ May 17, 2010 -> 01:58 PM) Wouldn't arbitration also give AJ a pay raise? He's making $6.75M this year, and it's kind of difficult seeing the Sox paying him $8M next year (especially if this year forces them into outright rebuilding). It could. It depends on the figures submitted by the team and AJ, and then who sells the case better to the arbiter.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 17, 2010 -> 01:33 PM) Is Westminster Abbey a place that you tour or more that you look at for a bit? Want to get an idea of how much time to set aside for some of this stuff (I'm also reading around online) as I try to design my full itinerary. Also are there anythings that are recommended for at night or daytime (i.e., that are much better at night or during the day). Maybe a romantic place for a sunset or anything along those lines. I know we are going to do Bath and a few other places during one day trip. And than also do a tour of the city in a double-decker bus (plus a river tour). Outside of that I assume there is enough stuff to see within the city that I should stay there (we are there for 4 days). Basically 1 day trip, 3 days in the city. I was thinking of getting tickets to wicked (found some discounted ones) and I've never seen it and am not usually an artsy fartsy guy but I think it would be a fun thing to do. Wicked is a great show. The wife and I saw a performance in Chicago.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ May 17, 2010 -> 01:44 PM) What type of free agent will he be? If he is a Type A or B that is the caliber of prospect you start with then you determine his value to the other team as well. He has his shortcomings but he is still a solid catcher that has a world series on his resume. I do not know how he works with pitchers but they seem to be fine with him. He should get something decent in return, what that is I do not know but I hope it more than when KW has given away guys in the past. I paid big money for my season tickets if they f***ed up the revenue stream too bad I want to get my money's worth and pure salary dumps are BS. Either get a discussion worhty return or let him play it out and then walk. Same thing with Konerko. We only get compensation if we offer arbit and he turns it down. AJ won't turn it down, because there isn't going to be a big free agent market for him.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 17, 2010 -> 01:29 PM) If Flowers is the everyday starter, would you still want Lucy backing him up? I'd want at least one vet catcher on the roster.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 17, 2010 -> 01:26 PM) This reminds me of the Scottie Reynolds Villanova stories that came out after they sucked it up in the tourney. Another player was banging his GF or something. Those all turned out to be false, as I'm sure all these Delonte rumors will turn out to be as well. Now if they had said Zydrunas Ilgauskas was sleeping with her, that would be much more believable. It could be, then again you could look at a guy like Royce Clayton, where it actually did happen...

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 17, 2010 -> 12:22 PM) Perhaps they're related. Re-Pete perhaps?

This is a pretty important story, so I went ahead and gave its own topic.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 17, 2010 -> 12:19 PM) An all time classic. Kap and I were at that game. We were sitting next to the visting pen, so we could see directly into the Sox pen. He walked out there and signaled, while there was literally nothing happening in the pen. The bullpen coach threw open the doors, walked out on to the field, and threw his hands up into the air like WTF do you want? It was amazing.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 17, 2010 -> 12:14 PM) And yet she's the most liberal person alive with no evidence to prove it. Hi lefty Kap!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2010 -> 12:09 PM) It's the National League. I guarantee Jenks would be successful there. Heck, Carlos Silva is a valuable starter in that league. Its funny how repositioning someone to the other side of the pitching rubber can have such a profound effect.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ May 17, 2010 -> 11:33 AM) You pretty much have to do the touristy history stuff. Parliment, Tower of London, Clock Tower, Tower Bridge (which isn't the London Bridge as most people think), changing or the guard at the palace, Piccadilly Circus, double-decker bus tour, Westminster Abbey, pubbing and clubbing in Soho. . . and drinking as much Real Ale as you can while the getting's good. Out of curiosity, is there any kind of market for Beatles type tours?

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ May 17, 2010 -> 11:35 AM) She's as far left as they come only without the paper trail. This is why she's the perfect candidate for Barry. There isn't much to vet her on, but make no mistake, Obama knows where she stands. Which is the whole point of picking someone who hasn't practiced law, or sat in judgment of anything of value.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 17, 2010 -> 11:49 AM) You must not watch a lot of baseball. The thing that jumps to the top of my list is Terry Bevington calling in the non-existent reliever.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 17, 2010 -> 09:01 AM) Gavin lost his composure, and the game, when Alexei/Pierre/Rios let the ball drop between them(which i blame on Alexei). His stuff was good yesterday, he was cruising until that happened IIRC, that happened to Gavin a few times this year with bad defense not necessarily showing up as errors.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ May 17, 2010 -> 11:24 AM) There's no way would the Sox pay him what the Yankees think he's worth. If we trade for him, all we have to do is fine the price he wants, not necesarily what he is worth. There is a difference most of the time.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 17, 2010 -> 12:23 AM) Is anyone else happy that the Padres are doing well, and thus they will probably hold on to Adrian Gonzalez and not entice Kenny to throw what is left of our farm at him? In an already seemingly lost season, I think the only thing that is worse is Kenny trying to win over fans by trading all of our best prospects to reel in Gonzalez to a team that will probably never catch the Twins. I hate the idea located in your second sentence. If we were to trade for Adrian, or any big named young player, it wouldn't just be for 2010. A guy like that becomes the Paul Konerko style anchor of the middle of the line up for many, many years. For some reason people took the same mentality towards Rios and Peavy.

SWEET! I have a board meeting for the Tuesday that would have been the finale, so now I don't have to miss anything

Raw unsalted Almonds, still in the shell.