Dick Allen

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 17, 2011 -> 05:15 PM) Worry about SS later. That pitching staff is a ticking time bomb. I've got no problems dumping Ramirez as long as the return is what you should get for a premier SS. I think the guy has too many mental lapses and they seem to be more frequent as the seasons go by, but SS is such an important position, regular filler won't do. That said, KW or a new GM will have to be blown away to deal him, and righfully so even with all his warts.

He should be someone who won't pop off this: Guillen couldn’t resist taking a poke at those who questioned why it took so long for Dayan Viciedo to be brought up from Class AAA. Viciedo, who hasn’t hit a home run since his first game of the season on Aug. 28 at Seattle, was hitless in his last 12 at-bats and didn’t start Friday. “Right now ‘The Tank’ is going through a tough time, our savior,” Guillen said. “Remember the guy who was going to take us to the top? He’s had a tough time. I’m going to give him a break.”

The Onion has named Adam Dunn the AL Cy Young Award Winner.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 17, 2011 -> 04:36 PM) It's quite simple. I don't see how anybody can call him a "piece of trash manager" when he led a CHICAGO team to a WS. When I see outlandish s*** like that, I feel like saying something in support of Oz. You can say he lost the team but he's not a piece of trash manager. I mean he's been in Chicago longer than most managers/coaches stay with their teams. Change is coming but if he was total trash Florida wouldn't be ready to sign him for four years. If Adam Dunn was total trash the Sox wouldn't have signed him for four years. Oh wait...........................................................

QUOTE (VictoryMC98 @ Sep 17, 2011 -> 04:26 PM) Well, I think the GM will be moving CQ, why not for a 3b? Because he has a 3rd baseman. The Sox do love Morel. They aren't replacing him. They are going to give him a chance.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 17, 2011 -> 04:40 PM) Glad to see he's doing well. He has only 34 RBIs all year though? Yikes. Who would have thought Beckham would have such a crap season. If he does this again next year, what makes him any better than somebody like Getz? Beckham is a good fielder, though, damn good. He's better than Getz if he stays where he's at, but he'll get better. BTW, look at the stats on KC's little secondbaseman now, the Italian guy with a great name I can't think of. The guy sucks, but his line is almost identical in batting average, obp, and slugging pct as Alex Rios, yet Rios continues to hit up in the order.

Maybe Ozzie's back if he wants, but he can't have an extension and they are getting rid of Cora, Walker and Cox. So in essence, if he comes back he's a liar. This sets the Sox up for some comp if he wants to go to Miami. If they bring both Ozzie and KW back and make very little change, Cowley will get his irrelevant.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 16, 2011 -> 07:53 PM) He should have been DL'd in June then. OK. One slight problem, its against the rules. Good night.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 16, 2011 -> 07:50 PM) Plain and simple, he needs to play. More than anyone else on this roster. Not in his current state. It defeats any purpose. A lot of players come back from being horrid to good the next year. Rios went from garbage to real good the first half of 2010. Dunn has no chance right now. Its a waste of time putting him in games.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 16, 2011 -> 07:41 PM) He was never on the DL. His mind is injured.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 16, 2011 -> 07:39 PM) He needs AB's. He's had plenty of ABs. Too many. He can get them in the batting cage this winter and in spring training. He know better than anyone what the result is going to be when he walks up to the plate right now. When you hit as poorly as he has for as long as he has, a few ABs isn't going to change the situation. A few months off and a better frame of mind could.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 16, 2011 -> 07:24 PM) It is next season. No its not. They should send him home, let him host a couple of keggers, get away from baseball for a while, maybe hire a personal trainer. Get in better shape, pick up a bat the middle of November and hit for a couple of months to get ready for spring training. He's no different now than he's been the rest of the season, what is sending him up to the plate to strikeout going to do?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 16, 2011 -> 07:20 PM) The idea that he should not be playing, but should not be released is folly. No. Reboot. Try again next season. If its more of the same, then the release.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 16, 2011 -> 06:19 PM) Why the f*** should Dunn NOT be playing? Probably for the same reason you and I aren't in the line up.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 16, 2011 -> 07:12 AM) I will support absolutely none of this darkness and negativity. If Boston loses out and we win out, that's a WC tie, baby! Just win, baby! All you gotta do is believe. Exactly, if Boston loses out and TB loses out after this Boston series and LAAA win 4 or less, and the Sox win out, there is a 3 or 4 way tie for the WC. Don't stop believing.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 15, 2011 -> 08:05 PM) Yeah, but I think that affected his career with the Angels...by the time he came here, he was more of a "suspect" than prospect, although anyone drafted that high gets a lot of chances to prove himself. The one thing I will always remember about McKay was I went to a twi night DH against TB in 1999. The first game was a make up and there were probably 125 people in the stands. We arrived in the top of the first and as soon as we walked into the concourse over by the 3rd base side, we could hear Christensen calling for a flyball in CF. It was like going to a HS game and it was cold.

I went to spring training in 2006 and loved watching Donny Lucy during infield drills. Maybe if I had seen him hit I would have thought differently, but I thought he had a shot.

QUOTE (SoIL @ Sep 15, 2011 -> 07:05 PM) The more you look back at 2005 (with how Pods/Iguchi/small ball have been overstated despite the 200+ homers)...the one thing that seems impossible to replicate ever again was the success and virtual lockdown quality of that bullpen. That bullpen was incredibly good. There were lots of homers, but I seem to also remember a lot of first inning runs where Pods got on base and was driven home in some fashion. Getting an early lead is almost always a good thing. If my memory serves, we had a lot of low scoring games that year too. The one thing they haven't been able to replicate is the dominance of the AL Central. They killed people that year.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 10:36 PM) Speaking of accountability...Gardenhire b****ed all season about the call ups not knowing the fundamentals. The Twins just fired some of their AAA coaches. That's a stretch. They are supposed to learn fundamentals when they get to AAA?

If the Sox released Dunn, they wouldn't owe him the balance of his contract on the spot. They would pay it when the guaranteed contract states it will be paid or he'd agree to a buyout.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 08:07 AM) Because no other baseball team in the majors brings back old players to offseason gatherings. What a joke. No other team makes a big deal about it in the middle of September.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 04:42 PM) I dont get that feeling. Mark would pitch for us regardless of who the manager was. I agree. It makes no sense not pitching for the team that you've been with your whole career because Ozzie or Cooper aren't around, to go pitch for another team where Ozzie or Cooper aren't around. If the money is right and the Sox aren't rebuilding, either or both of those guys being gone isn't going to be a factor in MB's decision.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 13, 2011 -> 10:18 PM) It would be nice to see our guys outdominate an ace once in a while. Like maybe we beat Verlander 5-0 somehow at home once in a blue moon. Historically the Sox are about .500 vs. Verlander. They used to kill him.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 13, 2011 -> 10:16 PM) This is a big game? This game is huge. The Sox are fighting for their playoff lives.

I think they should concentrate on bringing some big names into Soxfest taking everyone's attention off of what probably will be very little they do with the roster.