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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 6, 2009 -> 08:51 AM) Do you really think a deal of the magnitude that hasn't been able to be reached by Jim Hendry for 2-3 years is going to be pulled off without KW picking up the phone over the period of an entire month before it gets done? KW might trust his lieutenants, but he's never going to present a trade as "Rick Hahn's trade" in any way, shape or form. The buck stops with him, and I thin his ego's too big to delegate 100% to one of his deputies. He might have said, get an idea what Baltimore might want for Roberts...but he will be involved quickly enough if it's near time to close the deal and pull the trigger. That's his reputation, as a straight shooter you can get a deal done with, at least it has been for the last 2-3 seasons. I can't believe I called him "Mark" Anyways, it is pretty well known that Hahn has been trying to find a real GM job around MLB. IIRC he interviewed with the Cards and M's. From what I understand it is very common that Hahn does a solid amount of work on many deals. It wouldn't surprise me if Rick ( HA, I got it right that time) was doing leg work on multiple deals to try to cover more ground while Kenny worked on other deals.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 3, 2009 -> 08:57 PM) Well, Boystown is a pretty decent neighborhood too, if you don't mind a bunch of rainbows and whatnot on the main street in your town. Some of the friendliest people you ever want to meet!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 10:41 PM) I just don't think there's much to this at all but typical Internet rumors. Gonzales has confirmed KW hasn't spoken with the Orioles since November...unless KW lied (or is lying) to him. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,2233078.story Or someone like Mark Hahn is doing the talking...

QUOTE (Gregory Pratt @ Jan 4, 2009 -> 06:41 PM) That's after-the-fact assessment, though. Know what's a bad contract? GMJ's. Nobody in their right mind would've thought he'd do what he did again; it was a career year in Texas, and I'm sure there must have been some rumors within the business about PEDs, too. Jones' had a bad result but it wasn't a stupid move. It just turned out wrong. To be fair, there were a lot of people who didn't like Jones contract at the time either. The per year dollar amount was way higher than it should have been, and that was talked about ad naseum.

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ Jan 6, 2009 -> 01:29 AM) What would you guys think about someone like Andy Petitte? I noticed he recently rejected the yankees offer to return Perhaps he wants years? He's a great pitcher when healthy I think Pettitte wants the Yankees or retirement, from everything I have read anyway.

QUOTE (BainesHOF @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 11:06 PM) Not sure why there's so much negativity toward the thought of Baines as a Hall of Famer. While a decent debate could be made for either case, I'm wondering if some of you saw Baines play much. For starters, Baines was not your typical good-hit, no-field DH. He was an excellent right fielder before knee injuries and surgeries related him to the DH role. His head was always in the game and he got great jumps on the ball, often tracking down balls in the gap or down the line that you would have thought a faster player would be needed to get to. He had a great arm. While a few players had stronger arms, Baines was particularly accurate with his. Teams seldom ran on him, yet he still finished with double digit assists in a few years early in his career. Did you know that he also played some center field early in his major-league career? Now how many DHs can say that? Baines' offensive stats can be looked up, but anyone who saw him play will tell you they only tell part of the story. He was a tremendous clutch hitter. Hawks puts Baines in the top three of the best clutch hitters he ever saw with Yaz and Brett. He was that good. I'm not saying Baines belongs in the same breath as Ruth, Gehrig, Mays, Mantle, DiMaggio and Williams. But I believe he was better than some others already in the Hall of Fame. He was one of the best clutch hitters ever to play the game. That combined with his impressive career totals make him a Hall of Famers in my book. If you need a tiebreaker in a close call, Baines has always been a class act. I saw his entire career, thanks for asking.

So it is worth noting that now two of the final four Democratic Presidential candidates have had to suffer major national embarassment due to scandals? (when you throw John Edwards into the pile with Richardson)

QUOTE (BamaDoc @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 03:47 PM) Do you really think Garland would take 3 for 21 after making 12million in 2008? Judging by how fast the market has fallen for 2nd tier free agents, I would be surprised if Garland signs a deal worth more than $21 million or three years.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 03:17 PM) I still think Jon Garland would be the perfect pick up for this team but maybe that's just me. I said about a month ago I could see Garland and the Sox hooking up on a one year deal.

SOunds like someone didn't pay their bribes to the Daley Empire.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 03:09 PM) So why did you appoint him again if you couldn't get an answer out of him? There really is a big pattern of protecting the top man in the very short time that the Obama team has been on the stage. He wouldn't answer them? Seriously? And then they nominated him anyway? That makes zero sense to me. Kinda like no one ever talked to Blago about the Senate seat.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 03:01 PM) Rock is a much better candidate than Harold. I agree with this 100%. He ranks next to Rickey Henderson when it comes to base stealers in the last 30 years or so.

The homemade stuff that used to be sold on the floor of the CBOE was the best stuff I ever had.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 02:54 PM) That was publicly available information wasn't it? I think we need to hear more of Joe's uninformed, irrelevant opinions. America clearly cares what he thinks. With people like Rush, Olberman, Maddow, and Hannity with shows, why not?

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 10:22 AM) http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towert...ariotti-jo.html Interesting that he doesnt mention the White Sox, with whom he had probably the worst working relationship Nor does he mention the Blackhawks...

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 02:14 PM) At what age are guys supposed to stop laughing at dick and fart jokes? I vote never. The day you turn in your man-card.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 01:50 PM) Great move for the price. Looking forward to see where the rest of the league'll stand with Burell and Bradley off the market We are really seeing the prices of those second tier free agents coming down hard. I think this saids two things for the White Sox. #1, Jermaine Dye isn't going anywhere without the Sox picking up part of that contract. The Sox aren't going to pick up any more money in a trade, so Dye isn't going anywhere. #2 as prices keep falling, I really think Kenny will go bargain hunting for a SP.

QUOTE (Maury @ Jan 4, 2009 -> 08:09 PM) I love Harold and he was good, but not a Hall of Famer. There are a couple of pet peeves I have about how people qualify others for the Hall of Fame. The biggest one is by taking the numbers of a player, and comparing them to a player from another era. Comparing Harold's numbers to a guy who played 100 years ago tells you nothing about how good he was during his own era of play. Baseball really has very distinctive eras, where one group dominaties over another group. Looking at the 60's and 70's pitchers were in charge. Looking at the 90's and 21st century, its the offenses. 384 homers during Harold's era, is not the same as 384 homers when Ron Santo or Johnny Evers was playing. While the same statistic, it doesn't mean the samething. A pitcher with Greg Maddux's 3.16 career era during the 1960's or pre-1930 would have probably been the last man in the rotation, if not in the pen. When I look at Hall of Famers, I look at the very best players within a era. I want to see someone who either defined, or redefined something about the game of baseball. Realistically, what did Harold Baines really stand out from the pack for? Baines is one of my all-time favorites, but I can rattle off a bunch of guys who are more dominate in this era. Harold Baines, while being a very good hitter, for a considerable period of time, it not one of the all-time greats who deserve immortality in Cooperstown.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 10:29 AM) Yeah, that's just... no. Regardless of whether what Reid does is legit, these are totally different circumstances , if a guy actually wins an election I don't see how you can refuse to allow it just because you don't like who won. At least in the case of Burris, you have him being appointed by a governor who is accused of taking bribes for that appointment rather than Burris winning an election. Night and day. You are right in the part that they are totally different circumstances... Legally, the Dems have less reason to not seat Burris, than the Repubs do Franken. There is no clear legal reason why Roland Burris should not be seated. Now if the Dems in Illinois had manned up and done something quickly, they could have taken Blago's ability to appoint someone by either impeaching him or calling a special election. They did not do so. On the other side, there is a clear legal statute that saids if there are lawsuits, the election is not certified, which we all know the MN GOP will be in the courts right away to file those challenges.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 3, 2009 -> 09:01 AM) Here's something I never fully understood about that. So massive government spending, brought on by the need for military hardware, is what really ended the Depression, right? So why couldn't the government cause the same effect with massive spending on non-military goods that will actually benefit society in the long run (like infrastructure, for instance)? There is one thing the politicians are missing, probably because it is not in their agenda... WWII biggest effect was to reduce the labor pool so that there weren't so many people looking for work.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 4, 2009 -> 03:29 PM) Another long NYT piece by financial writer Michael Lewis on how the corruption and cronyism on wall street got us in to this mess and some easy and reasonable suggestions for how to fix things in the future. Um, I hate to tell you this, but the SEC has been the same way since it was created in 1933. I keep telling you guys that the bureucratic system of financial regulation doesn't work, and hasn't worked, yet people keep acting shocked when this stuff comes up. The system we have had in place for 75 years now does not work, and was not designed to change to keep up with the times. I know economic history isn't really popular, but this is by far not the first thing the SEC has missed, and it won't change until the system itself is changed. Period.

QUOTE (Maury @ Jan 4, 2009 -> 11:11 AM) Dr. Cox is my hero. By a country mile... Question for everyone... What is your all-time favorite Dr Cox rant?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 4, 2009 -> 11:46 AM) I'll once again give Shipps credit...this was freaking hillarious. I showed my girlfriend and she spit out her drink laughing so hard. And then she said, "Well, Actually..."

Good lord, that reads like he is the governor of Illinois.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jan 3, 2009 -> 05:13 PM) Lies. You got your advice and then played it off as fake. QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 3, 2009 -> 05:42 PM) Move this to SLaM. True and true!