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Olt/Kinsler for Rios/Floyd =p

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 6, 2012 -> 05:38 PM) Look at Young's contract. We improved in 2012 partly because of our defense. The last thing you want is Young playing anywhere but DH or 1B. I would imagine they would be more likely to trade Andrus (to make room for Profar) than Kinsler (being pushed out with Andrus going to 2B), but it's just a guess. Ill gladly take Andrus if he wants to play 2B or 3B.

I agree with TaylorSt. grade yourself as a poster??? I have this weird feeling people dont like me on here for some reason.

QUOTE (BlackBetsy @ Oct 6, 2012 -> 01:32 PM) Youk ain't coming back. He's said that family is now his #1 concern (just got married, just had kid) and he lives in Los Gatos (near San Jose). You know Billy Beane would love having him on the A's. I also don't think moving Gordon to 3rd and signing someone to play 2B is an option either. Gordon, while he plays plus defense at 2B, is not an asset at 3B (he's barely an asset at 2B with his marginal stick). The Sox need production from that spot. It wouldn't be the worst idea if they cant swing a trade for a 3B but can get a 2B...Like an Ian Kinsler maybe, the Rangers have Jurrickson Prufair (or whatever his name is) who seems ready to produce. Maybe Kinsler might be available and they might want Rios as a return is Hamilton leaves. Or maybe even Michael Young who can play some 3B or 2B.

Olt or Beltre wont be available will they?? Dont they plan to move Olt to 1B or the OF?? If not, if they don't get Hamilton back maybe they'd be interested in Rios to take his place?? They have Joey Gallo as a 3B prospect who might be ready to go by the time Beltre is gone so it might make Olt expendable?

So sports blogging is a paid job?? How does one make money this way. I have all the time in the world right now.

The Swingin A's! Just because I wanna see their fans keep rockin like they were for game 162 A's vs Giants, battle of the misfits!

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 05:30 PM) Take it for what it's worth, but the White Sox' Pythagorean W-L is 88-74 this year. The Tigers? 87-75. I think the last 3 games in Cleveland definitely helped the Sox' expected W-L, but this probably shows that Ventura didn't have the best of times managing close games. I think most of us can all agree on that. I think once the rosters expanded he had too many toys to work with

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 04:09 PM) I think this gives Noah his chance to be a bigger factor on offense and hope he takes advantage. Yup, that aspect should be pretty fun to watch. I think Bellinelli breaks out this year as well and he ends up being the SG of the future.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 10:59 AM) http://www.nba.com/bulls/roster/2012 such a clusterf*** Looks like Hinrich/Robinson/Teague Bellinelli/Hamilton Deng/Butler Boozer/Gibson Noah/Naz/Fesenko When Rose comes back I really like that team, Bellinelli is being underrated here, I hope he starts.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 01:09 PM) How the hell can Jake as the article stated "be one of the most sought after" free agents this winter? Bye bye Jake. I do hope he goes to the NL so we don't have to face him, although I could picture Dunn hitting some bombs off Jake who throws a good number of meatballs up there per game. He's a good pitcher, but by no means dominant. And the fact he demands to stay in the game gives you some extra hacks against him in the later innings when he's done. Uhhh maybe because minus wins he was a top 25 pitcher in baseball??? That might make him pretty sought after right?? 17th ranked in yahoo fantasy baseball. (I know that means squat but ya, that happened)

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 4, 2012 -> 12:32 PM) Viciedo should have been sitting August 1 at the latest v right-handers. If Dan Johnson couldn't play left, Dunn could have. Can't believe they didn't try anything different to get the extra bat in the lineup they desperately needed. Ya know what, I'm gonna go full blown heel right here and say I agree. Ever since I heard an A's announcer mention "all the platoons worked out" or something along those lines it had me thinking about how our team didnt do that. A Wise/Tank split should have happened, and a T Flo/Johnson DH while PK was hurt platoon would have won us a couple games maybe.

My post was in reference to the New York Mets and acquiring David Wright Sir

QUOTE (CyAcosta41 @ Oct 4, 2012 -> 04:08 PM) No offense, man, but me and many others who watch often and closely have been saying the same thing for months. I personally had various comments about this on this board and others for months, including a few weeks ago putting the over-under at something like 5-7 days after the end of the season when it would be disclosed that Konerko was undergoing wrist surgery. Like every player in baseball, he's had his share of slumps, but this was completely different. Slump or no slump, Konerko could always turn around ANYBODY'S fastball. Always. Post All Star break, he was consistently getting beat by major league average fastballs. Once the word got out (and it always does), down the stretch virtually every pitcher in baseball was challenging him with heat (knowing the only way he could turn one around was if he cheated big-time, but, more often than not, he was just looking to slap one the other way anyway). He became a totally different hitter. I've always been a major Konerko fan, but there's a point where tough-guy and macho turns into stupidity and selfishness. Soon, we had no "fear factor" going in the middle of the lineup -- between three outcome Dunn and the slap-hitting ghost that formerly was Paul Konerko, it's little wonder that we posed little threat to good teams, hot teams, or plain old teams who for whatever reason get up especially for the Sox. For that charade to go on for as long as it did was a total slap in the face to knowledgeable fans who understand the game. And for Konerko to come right out and say with 2-3 games left in the year, (paraphrasing) "yeah, the wrist is damaged ... but I don't think it affected my performance," is another slap in the face. Sure it affected your performance. Every advance scout in baseball could see it. And while I'm on a roll, I generally really liked what Ventura did this year as a first year manager (especially the emphasis on fundamentals and focusing on one game at a time), but ALLOWING a clearly damaged PK to play everyday ... in the #4 hole ... is on him as well. He runs the team. Whether Konerko wants to be Mr. Man or not and play hurt/damaged, Ventura needed to be a strong enough manager/leader to tell him to get his butt off the field. Well said sir. Couldn't have said it better myself. And I've really came around on the last few paragraphs. I've been wanting to say this for the past view days but I've been playing the part of Mr. Brightside over here. I've just been waiting for someone to say it (almost expecting it in rebuttal of what I've been saying).... This team probably coulda won a few more games had they went with a DH platoon. Somethin like T Flo vs LHP and Johnson/Wise vs RHP.. I don't know how long it takes to recover from wrist surgery but if they could have gotten it out of the way earlier and he could have came back for the playoffs that woulda been pretty fancy. I hope it would have been season ending. I feel like I just turned heel.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Oct 4, 2012 -> 09:38 PM) Wright. I could see them picking up the $16M option and try to trade him as a part of rebuilding process. Looks like Headley might be part of this already rebuilding Padres team. This How does Tank/Q/Jones or Reed sound as a package sound?

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Oct 4, 2012 -> 03:52 PM) I am all for moving Floyd. When the games are important, he sucks. That's all I need to know about him. Floyds a Tiger killer, a lot of important games will be against the Tigers. He's also been good against the rest of the division. With a reasonable option I pick that up all day.

Oh wow, he moved pretty quickly. Just reading this page I see a June 26th post where he was in High-A and he fininshed the year off in AAA...Pretty impressive for a 20 year old. Is he gonna be in AAA to begin next year or was he just up for the playoffs?? He looks like he can be an ideal 2 hole hitter If beckham fails.

How much do you think Melky is gonna make next year? If they do trade Tank or Rios I'd take a flyer on him as a #2 hitter if he's going to come asat a discount.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 05:52 PM) f*** them, they don't bother to show up for the other 80 games. Their attendance is worse than the White Sox! Well, I obviously have no one to root for and that was just an awesome display of awesomeness...As a hardcore (music) fan seeing the whole crowd hardcore dancing was just an awesome sight to see. Theyre also a pretty good story.

The A's crowd was awesome! I'll be rooting for them after that

Sam Smith: Boozer on Joakim Noah working on a sky hook: "He has a good hook he does every day. I don't know about Kareem. But a very good hook shot." Love it A more offensive minded Noah will do wonders for this team.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 02:15 PM) Ozzie doesn't attract fans. Miami has a new park. Its still a sea of blue. The proof is in the pudding. Teams get worse when he manages, and most people are sick of his act. Ding ding ding. That free publicity that you speak of greg was often the media showing how stupid and immature Ozzie was...Not exactly something you want to hear about your manager, and def not something thats going to bring fans out.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 01:07 PM) The problem is nobody else had problems beating those Detroit pitchers before we let them off the hook. Detroit was losing to everybody not named Chicago for a long stretch and those KC pitchers are horrible. If you stretch it back a bit, we got shut down by a lot of other clown pitchers this season. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 01:16 PM) Max Scherzer - From July 18 - Sept 23, the Tigers went 11-4 in his starts Doug Fister - From July 7 - Sept 27, the Tigers went 11-4 in his starts Justin Verlander - From July 4 - Sept 29, the Tigers went 11-5 in his starts This.... Why stretch it back any further? They were 16-12 in August...It all came down to September. 5 of those 12 loses coming against the Royals, who lets face it are this years Twins for whatever reason. 1 loss against the Blue Jays and the rest came against playoff teams

If the Dodgers lose do you think Kershaw pitches tomorrow?? I'm 11 Ks from winning my money league and he's somehow available. He's got a 1 something ERA vs SF. I'm torn between him and Chris Tillman who is also somehow available (I can only make one move)

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 04:57 PM) Oh hey there Congrats! I just became an uncle 4 days ago!