southsider2k5

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I would imagine that either Blache didn't want to change his system or Smith wanted someone imparticular.

When it comes to the draft or FA's the Bears are much like KW. They won't say anything about anything because they don't want their guys taken.

Now if the Sox did this, his whole family would be on WGN right now, crying for the cameras.

Don't get me wrong, by no means do I think KW is anything special as a GM. I blame Kenny for a lot of things, the biggest being mulitpling the culture of distrust to where players have no interest in staying in Chicago. That is why we have had to give ridiculous contracts to guys like Koch, Konerko, etc, because no one wants to play here for a normal salary. And that is because of the assine BS going on in our front office. Offers disappearing, he said, she said crap, lies being told to and about players etc. No one trusts this team. Granted that stuff started before Kenny got here, but it sure has gotten much worse since he took over. It says everything to me when Graffy and Robbie leave for less money somewhere else. The big point of this thread was for all of the arm chair GM's who seem to know how to run this team, to show their stuff. Operate within the perameters that JR has laid out, and see how they would fix this team. There have been so many posts about how bad this off season has been, but I have yet to see a feasible solution to what to do. I really want to see one of the people screaming about this off season come up with a realistic solution within the guidelines of JR.

I can't wait to see this. I want to know what session you are going to be at.

BHBG- take charge. Tell people to be around at a certian time. If it doesn't work, change it. Pissing around and waiting for someone to do something is the whole reason that this hasn't happened yet.

obviously they didn't participate in GW's marriage program or they would still be together.

Brady is a product of a good system, and has a great D to help him out. Manning is by far and away the better QB.

So every coach we are looking at would be doing his job at the NFL level for the first time in his career? Just write off 2004 now

KW is responsible for the fact that his player development has been horrible over the last 5 years or so? If we had even an inkling of our prospects coming out anywhere close to what they were predicted, half of KW's bad deals wouldn't have been forced. If Kip Wells had done half of what he did for Pitt, Todd Ritchie would have never been here. If Rauch hadn't had the major injury, or come back strong from it, we wouldn't be worrying about a 5th starter, same with Danny Wright and Rocky Biddle. If Borchard had developed anywhere near what he was predicted it would be easy to trade Maggs or Lee.

I wonder if Blache was unwilling to work with Smith or vice versa?

I didn't say impossible, I said "near" impossible. But what I am trying to prove is that there isn't going to be a miracle cure for this team before openning day, because there isn't one!

In the context of the thread, I think he is saying that they over paided for WV. Take a deep breath.

Exactly. This is a near impossible task.

Unless you are talking about pitchers that are making near the minimum salary, the team can't afford it, without moving other contracts. Remember the Sox are $5 mil or so overbudget, and are not allowed to add payroll. Period. Every deal done must either be a zero sum trade, or net subtract salary.

Apparently Pete slipped up a while back and let a journalism class know that he bet on baseball. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1709448

The post didn't have "f***ing" in it anywhere. It couldn't be Maddux

Boy did they overpay

OK for all of the all knowing people on this site, who have bashed KW this off season, I am throwing down the gauntlet. How would you improve the team, WITHOUT spending anymore than the league minimum or minor league contracts, on free agents. That is unless the $5 million the Sox are overbudget, plus the actual space of the contracts you would be aquiring. Also factoring in the backlash of fans if certian big name players are traded, and making sure that the trades are resonable enough that other GM's won't simply laugh you off of the phone.

The Trib said this morning that there was a good chance that he would try to keep Blache as the D man.

OK I did leave out the 162-0 on purpose

Bill Wirtz has said that as long as he owns the team, he will be coaching this team.

Yeah Sox fans have a special place in their hearts for goats...

I know people's nerves are frayed by a combo of Sox losses and Cub gains, but it is only natural that people are going to talk more about teams like the Cubs, Twins, Royals etc than teams like San Diego or Tampa Bay that have no rivalry or geographic presence here. It is just a part of being a Sox fan to talk about what your rivals are doing.