Harry Chappas

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 07:35 PM) Someone keep me posted. I come home and DirecTV has screwed me. SOB. Comcast screwed us not DirectTV.

Bruce Levine thinks Pods will be a good Cf for the cub.........do the cubs play in the MLB or some fictitious land

The Bears have given up on Lovie not Jerry Angelo. This team is unprepared to play on a weekly basis, see the penalties, poor play calling (has the red zone fade worked ever), and inability of players to get better over the course of the season and a career. Maybe this team will hire a legitimate coordinator and coaching staff instead of some hack and his merry band of incompetence. When Lovie signed his current deal he was giving personnel decisions that is where this team has failed. I will give Angelo a pass for this year as he seems to get players in here and then they get worse as this coaching staff works with them.

I would love to have a Soxtalk poker tournament as you could bluff your way through the game.

IIRC the Sox could not touch him a year or two back but got to him the few timesthey saw him. Big arm, no control..........maybe Linebrink is going somewhere.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 18, 2009 -> 11:48 AM) They just need to pitch him against the White Sox. Silva was torched in a pitchers park with great defense.....imagine what will happen to him in Wrigley. The NL is bad but notthat bad. Surround Milt with a good system and I think he will do fine. If cash is not exchanged with the M's covering some of that salary this coudl be one of the worst deals in baseball history.

Chris Henry won the lottery and messed it all up. The fact he lead a life style that most people would question and blew everything is what I think people are holding against him. He had the opportunity to be extremely wealthy and set up his three kids for the rest of their lives. At the end of the day if he was not going to to turn his life around and it seems as though he did not, his kids are better off although their mother needs to make better choices and I do not think this is going to to happen either.

Jen Patterson is going to get a gig on Comcast after Josh Mora is gone or Sarah Kustok moves on to bigger and better things. The fact Gail Fisher is there and Kerry Sayers is not is an absolute joke.

QUOTE (chunk23 @ Dec 17, 2009 -> 01:30 PM) I'm not sure I follow your logic. You think that our mediocre lineup will do fine against average pitching, so they should wait to acquire a big bat. But if they're doing fine, why would they go after another bat? If they aren't doing ok, wouldn't it have made more sense to get the big bat right away and avoid a long stretch of poor hitting? And don't players usually cost more in terms of talent mid-season compared to the offseason? I think you can get an Adam Dunn for less in July then you do now. I think a bigger bat is needed to win in the playoffs but I think the collection of hitters now will suffice especially in the early part of the year when it is colder and the pitching can carry them. My thinking is that Guillen wants to play the LH/RH odds and you can not do that or he did not to with Jim Thome last year while I think he wants to this year. I do think that a biggeer bat will be brought it and most of this is KW $0.50 BS.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Dec 17, 2009 -> 10:16 AM) I don't want to just win the division. I want to kick the yanks and the red sawks arses and win the World Series. I don't want to win the division just to get pummeled in the playoffs. I see your point though. A power bat would put us that much closer. At this point in time, this team needs to assemble itself to give themselves best opportunity to win this division. The players they are bringing in do that. They will hit the mediocore pitchers that kill the Sox. The bigger bat can be had in July. This rotation, if it performs to its capability, is good enough to carry this team to the World Series. I am not sure where this site goes from time to time but having bench players that can hit pedestrian pitching is something I like as compared to watching Thome look awful against just about every LHP he faces. I think the big question right now is whether to give Flowers a DH/C role and pick up a third catcher or get a bigger DH type bat and let Flowers play in the minors. The 2009 Josh Fields campaign probably plays a big role in this. If the bigger bat can not be had, Flowers is your bigger bat .

Campbell is looking good as he is being put in spots to have success. The cost of Hawks game are only going to go up as well as that joint is packed and relatively small. Do you think they pipe in noise for the anthemn? I was in section 117 last night and it seemed like nobody was making noise. I gotta tell ya the 300 level is much better than the lower level when it comes to fans but they are paying the bills.

Essentially Guillen does not want to have a guy that when they play those 12 games in the NL park, they are unavaialble. What Guillen wants are platoon type guys that he can use for certain matchups. This works well in this division as I have seen enough of the Cy Youngification of s*** pitchers. I think something is going to happen and it is going to be related to John Danks and his contract situation.

you know what is f***ed up.......when talking about blockbuster deals, Alphonso Soriano is the ceiling......yikes

When comparing the steller careers of Pods and Pierre please remember that Pods was out of baseball last May. They are not on equal footing whatsoever so I wish people would end this comparison.

Also KW is getting athletic versatile guys that have hit MLB pitching. While these moves are not sexy they give stability. Everyone he has picked up adds value something more than a couple of guys could not do last year that were on the roster.

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 15, 2009 -> 12:12 PM) I really hope it's Jordan Danks, but I could live with using Flowers as a main trade piece. The OF is set for the next two years I think and there is no space this year with Kotsay and Jones. I think against some RHP you will see Kotsay lead-off and Pierre bat 9th.

Maybe the guy from Colorado whose name I can not spell properly. The Dodgers probably have a list of five or six guys to choose from.

Last winter Milton Bradley was sold to cub fans as a winner and the guy that was going to show the clubhouse how to win yet Milton had never won anything.....how'd that turn out. Last year the White Sox showed little resolve in September and a stretch run that looked like a lost ship trying to find direction. In the last six months captain Stubing (Ozzie Guillen) may have gotten the rutter he needed in the form of an ace and some some players that seem to know how to win and may be able to reinforce the winning mentality that seemed to be lacking with the the 2009 White Sox. The American League Central division is very winnable right now if this team does what it is capable of doing. The Vizqual, Jones, Kotsay, Peavy and Pierre's of the game may not be the Michael Jordan winners but they all have won and all seem to want to win. These are the guys that should help Guillen do his job which is get his team relaxed and ready to go and push the Ramirez and Rios' to do their job and assist AJ and Konerko in leading this team. In my mind the sum of the parts equals a whole that looks really good right now....kind of like.......I don't know.....the last six months of 2004....... Time to go find the Timo Perez bobblehead and get the Journey albums out?........maybe The starting pitching always would determine if this team wins or not the hitters simply need not go into a late 2009 Jermaine Dye slump and the future looks bright. The big bat that everyone seems to be yearnign for doesn't mean anything if the starting five do not stay healthy or underperform. There is no insulating the team from this unless you have $200M to spend which all but one team do not.

People need to stop worrying about the payroll. This is the old $0.50 argument yet he seems to always find the smart money when it is needed. He will play poor to get cash with players and then add the prospect wheather it is Ryan Rupe, Royce Ring or Ryan Meaux to give the team giving the cash something to hope for. Jenks will not be a salary dump. This trade came about because the Dodgers could not get a better offer and KW most likely forced their hand. I think Vlad Guerrero comes here to DH. The bench is looking pretty loaded now if there is a backup catcher signed. If it is Buck, won't the Sox then have two of the three pieces that KC got for Beltran?

Look the Sox neeeded a better option. Is he ideal.....no, but they are not going to put all-stars at every position. He is a smarter base runner than Pods as Pods was a very dumb player. He also is probably very similar to Pods defensively. I will continue to state that the White Sox are loading up on guys that can hit MLB pitching and should help score more than last year and will be successful against the soft tossers that give them fits. Another leftie moves bode well for success against the Blackburn/Baker/John Bale's of the division. This also means Matsui is going to the Angels in my mind.

In the NL Central with Wainwright and Carpenter though that should lock it up for a couple of years if LaRussa and Duncan hang around. Wow is money flowing in odd places this year. The collusion scare must've gotten to a couple of owners.

The only thing that makes sense is if the Phils lock up Halladay and Lee only wants to test the market. The Phils should not have to give up too much here to think that they are giving up a big time prospect is insane. Halladay is more of an injury risk, not a large one but a risk none the less, but he is a horse.

As Ed O'Bradavich said Greg Olson is the first player to actually play smaller and slower than they really are. The Aroma thing that made Lovie look bad was that they saw all of this in practice?????? Huh....why is he behind Bennet and Hester than? I think the coaching staff continues to show that they are unable to get players to progerss as they mature and make sound decisions about both personnel and game managment. That last series was an embarassment. What does Pep Hamilton do?

QUOTE (daa84 @ Dec 13, 2009 -> 12:56 PM) ogunleye and hillenmeyer were held on that play....holding is just such a bipolar call in the nfl cuz you really can call it on every play...but the call on omiyale was less obvious to me than on that run..... now the blatant missed pass interference right there is troubling ..... The thing is Lovie does not take issue with this and it seems to happen at least once a game. At some point I think Cutler is going to lose it as he is the only guy with Tillman to appear to give a s***

Wasn't that Aromashadu Not sure what Cutler was doing there How is that not holding on the Rogers 1st down run. Mike Cary having a bad day.