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Boston bites the dust as well. Things are really set up for a Penguins Wings rematch in the finals.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 14, 2009 -> 09:54 PM) In the rookie year. It would be freaking stupid to go with a ton of rookies if the team tanks this year because you'd be asking for attendance to plummet. I mean stupid. If the Sox suck, they'll need to trade there guys, give the kids a look, evaluate, and than utilize some of this kids, trade some of those kids for other assets (proven or unproven) and find a way to make a splash to attract fans and essentially show Sox fans that they plan on contending, therefor, ticket sales might be saved. I'm not saying the Sox will do it, but it will be essential for them to do just that. And I personally think getting another outfielder isn't that bad of an idea since the Sox have zero in the words of upper echelon starting pitching prospects and might need to use some of those propsects to get us a top flight pitching prospect, especially since I'd much rather see the club spend decent money on a free agent bat or two than a free agent pitcher because spending money on bats is typically a far far better investment option. We haven't done a ton of rookies in what, 10-15 years? The Sox are always plugging a new cheap guy into the line up to try to save some payroll. With the hype surrounding this minor league system right now, do you really think Kenny Williams is going to go out and spend money on anything but pitching? I just can't see it.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 14, 2009 -> 07:14 PM) And that would be a big mistake, since the Sox only have one prospect in the minors that projects to play in the outfield, Jordan Danks. Shelby is another guy but you don't not sign someone because of John Shelby. Allen is a 1B/DH. Beckham is a middle infielder. Quentin is an outfielder, so bottom line the Sox will most likely need to add an outfielder if they want to compete. If they don't, sure they can stick and hope every prospect pans out, but it wouldn't be the smart way to quickly rebuild. Historically the Sox don't spend free agent money, especially when they believe they can fill positions internally for minimum wage. I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of Getz, Beckham, Ramirez infield with the winner of Viciedo and Fields in left.

Detroit it is. I don't hold out much hope for the Hawks, but I can dream. This is the team that is taylor made to beat Chicago, as they are physical and just as skilled as the Hawks. Let's hope that the boys can come out and steal a game right away to get them going.

3-2 Wings after two periods of play. I just don't see Anaheim coming back to win in that building... Hopefully I am wrong.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 14, 2009 -> 04:50 PM) I think you might be speaking far too quickly on Josh Fields. Even if you don't believe in Fields, we still need to make a spot for Beckham as well, not to mention a Brandon Allen, Jordan Danks, etc. We just aren't going to spend a lot of money or prospects on an OF at this point.

With either Viciedo or Fields making the shift to LF in the near future and TCQ going to right, we are not going to pay 8 figures for an OF. It just isn't going to happen.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 14, 2009 -> 01:51 PM) I think if things don't work out, anyone expecting the White Sox to be able to dump their larger contracts for halfway decent prospects are going to be in for a rude awakening. A lot of that depends on who is in it. If we are talking about the big spenders, like BOS, NYY, and LAD they will spend as usual. If we are talking about teams like STL and KC, they won't have any money to spend. It might also hurt the Sox if a lot of high dollar teams are out of it and looking to dump players, such as LAA and DET.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 14, 2009 -> 11:17 AM) We really need Q and Alexei to find their grooves and for Gavin to find his. Our bullpen is out-performing last year's pen, we have 3 starters we can count on most times out, Konerko is hitting better than last year, Anderson is hitting better when healthy, AJ's still AJ, JD's still JD, Thome's still Thome. We can work through things like Fields and Getz struggling, esp. if Konerko keeps hitting, but we need Q and Alexei to find their grooves and for Gavin to stop being an automatic loss. Great post. Our slump buster is going to be getting healthy and getting the guys who should be performing, back up to par.

Am I the only who wonders if Contreras is indeed not feeling any pain right now? He is having a problem with location, which could very well be a product of having a sore achillies and not being able to plant and fire consistently because of it. Without a solid finish, his release point could be deviating a lot, which would explain the wildness, especially in the forkball which he has to over throw to make sure it is down, and has been bouncing into the plate very often this year. We know Jose hid pain from Ozzie last year, would he be above doing it again this year in an effort to get back to play before his contract is up?

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/wh...-ssep14.article

Well since it was brought up, here is the latest... http://blogs.suntimes.com/whitesox/2009/05..._fields_vs.html

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 14, 2009 -> 09:36 AM) 'Why not? One game can make all the difference in the world. Why not send Lillibridge down when Nix came back? They had the back up infielder. Lillibridge has shown over and over again he has no business collecting a major league check. His performance is almost historically pitiful. When they called up Nix, they had yet to see him play SS, so they didn't know if he could handle it or not.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 13, 2009 -> 10:37 PM) 57 strikes in 108 pitches? Man, his location is shot. he may not have given up runs, but I dont think major league players are going to let him off the hook with all of those walks like the AAA teams will I think Kal posted he was 39 strikes and 35 balls at one point, so something changed...

If Owens, Wise, or Anderson pan out, Lilly most likely has about 25 ABs by now. You can also throw in the injuries at different times to TCQ, Dye, and Thome for giving the guy playing time as well. With Nix showing he can field in the IF, as soon as the injuries clear up, most likely when Anderson is ready to go, The Bridge is on a one way back to Charlotte until he cuts down that swing.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ May 13, 2009 -> 10:28 PM) FWIW, it's a pretty stupid decision on his part. I understand the reasoning behind it, but its wrong. The surprising part was that he pretty much took the GOP reasoning as his own for not doing it.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 14, 2009 -> 08:49 AM) Not to get ahead of ourselves, but can I add Go Hurricanes and home-ice advantage for the rest of the playoffs? Yes, you may as well.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 14, 2009 -> 08:22 AM) Might I say "Go Ducks and home-ice advantage"? Yes, you may indeed.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 13, 2009 -> 10:31 PM) When he wore #27 he played like we'd expect Josh Fields to play. When he wore #22 he played a lot like Scott Podsednik. He now wears #7 and he's producing like Jerry f***ing Owens. I miss the #22 approach...

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 13, 2009 -> 09:13 PM) I read the KC Star, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Plain Dealer, The Free Press and the 3 Chicago papers... One thousand people at the Mall of America could walk by Bill Smith and not recognize him. Dayton Moore, same thing. Williams, Dombrowski and Shapiro make more of an effort to get their face and quotes in the papers and especially in the national media. So you read some small town newspapers, and that is the same thing? If nothing else, the level of the Chicago media is way more intense than those towns. You still didn't get into all of the other things that we follow here for coverage of the Sox to make the exposure of each of those teams equal.

"I'm a Pisces"

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 13, 2009 -> 08:05 PM) Kicked my dog? GMAB back. I've been one of the bigger defenders and cheerleaders of KW through the last 2-3 seasons. Yes, I think there are better ones out there, but there are many more that are worse. Name me another GM whose quotes are in the papers more often about silly things like Frank Thomas and "pitching inside" to opposing players? He's a smart guy, but he can't get out of his own way sometimes...but I'll wait for your list of the GM's with bigger egos. I'll give you Billy Beane and Theo Epstein, who else? Exactly how many teams do you follow in depth to the point of reading their message boards, blogs, local newspapers, local programing etc to know how much their GMs are quoted? We know Kenny because we seek out all things of the Sox. Of course it seems like he talks a lot because that is what we are reading. Its like reading a liberal blog and wondering why Obama is always talking so much.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 13, 2009 -> 07:37 PM) According to RotoWorld, the Tigers could release Mags. Anybody interested? If only Mags was 25 instead of 35...*sigh. f*** Maggs.

So the big story of the day is that Obama completely did a 180 and is now NOT going to release all of the torture pics to the public. Interesting.

Did Ashton Kutcher jump out at you?