Harry Chappas

The Brewer rotation is one injury after another. If healthy they would walk away with the division. Buerhle would move Bush to the pen where would most likely excel.

Think they would take Fields and include Braun? If Iguchi is included they may have a shot at Weeks.

Once the team trades for Buerhle they are free to negotiate with him. Allowing the 72 hour window only allows the team to call off the trade if they can not sign him long term. This has nothing to do with the Sox after the trade and the offseason.

How do you think Boras is feeling about A. Jones and Crede right about now?

I think Contrearas would be great in Seattle and San Diego as he could pitch more to contact in those parks.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 11:41 AM) What does Mark's personal life have to do with his trade talks? From a business stand point none. I was referring to the post that they should trade him and go after him in the offseason. If Buerhle does not want to leave and they trade him my thoughts are that he would be less inclined to resign with the Sox in the offseason if he left and felt he was treated unfairly in the dealings. If the White Sox have no intention of of resigning him, trade him. By trading him the "hometown discount" is gone and the Sox would have to possibly be higher then another team thus there can be no option ot let him walk and try signing him later.

Mark Buerhle's wife is going to have their first baby late in July. If they trade him, they will not be getting him back and I think he ends up with the cubs out of spite more then anything if he likes Chicago. They will not be able to trade him and pull a Sid Ponson and get him back. Also there is a 90% chance Ichiro resigns with the Mariners and if A-Rod hits the open market the White Sox will not pony up the cash necessary. The only hope for 2008 and beyond is to trade Contrearas and Vazquez and lock up Garland and Buerhle long term. This is a complete 180 from when I thought the hitting should be sacrificed for the pitching. The bullpen and abysmal hitting has changed my outlook for htis organization. Relying on who may and may not be available is stupid as there are to many factors on what can happen with a given player. Say the Braves let Jones go and go after Ichiro, suddenly the cost of Ichiro rises beyond what the Sox had hoped to spend.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Jun 24, 2007 -> 05:07 PM) the fact that gonzalez has gotten more ABs in the last few games than mackowiak is a horrid job of mismanagement by ozzie....andy shouldnt even be at AAA, let alone the bigs and starting almost everyday...i hate to play the race thing but i honestly feel ozzie plays him only because he is hispanic...ill prolly get blasted now but gonzalez primarily played SS his entire career in the minors, and now he comes up and takes ABs away from mackowiak instead of uribe??????? The treatment of Anderson and Iguchi v. Uribe, Cintron, Terraro, and Gonzalez is kind of a head scratcher. Iguchi is far and away a better player then Uribe yet he seems to find his way to the Guillen doghouse and Uribe who could be one of the worst players since the beginning of last season in all of baseball gets a free pass. If Anderson was healthy it would be an interesting scernario. It is a head scratcher.

Ozzie Guillen needs a bench coach that can help him manage the game and know the opponent. Baines seemed to be good at this and even Raines but there have been more than one time where simple moves were flat wrong. Pagan's average from one side of the plate v. the other Relief pitchers that were brought in for the LH/RH where the pinch hitter that was brought in was a worse Sox match-up (see Toronto Saturday game) I think Cora is not a good bench coach and adds to the debacle of this season. Guillen does some things very well and should stick around.

Seeing how this season is really out of control, sorry there are to many things that need to be fixed including 2 outfielders, a shortstop, and all but one bullpen pitcher for the White Sox to believe they have a chance. This weekend could really help my psyche........why you ask???? I am one of those people who hates the cubs as much as I like the Sox, both cause me a tremendous amount of angst. Well this weekend the Brewers host the Royals and the beloved Sox host the cub. A sweep by the Brewers and the Sox and the Chicago baseball season is essentially done. You see, the jist of why I hate the cub so much can be typified as follows; They traded a good player and a player they needed to win and there is little negative media vibe. Barrett was thought of as a drag to the team. Nice media spin to benefit the cub but is this not a White Flag deal or at least at this time treated as one? The cub are still in the race and have zero catching depth. Blanco's career may be over. The media does not grill them at all. Listen to the media and you'd get the impression that the Sox are 50 games under and the cubs in the thick of it. They both have the same number of losses! The Sox are being treated as an organization in ruins becasue their division and league are very very good. The cub are trearted as a legitimate franchise because........they are 8 out in a terrible league. Come on, Ted Lilly has an ERA of 4 in the NL and Marquis is slipping into 2006 form each and every day. Instead of telling of the success the White Sox have had over the last 17 years the media covers them like they lost 90 games last year and once again they suck, come on. Sorry if this sounds like a typical b****ie, whining, jealous Sox fan but hey I need to get fired up to throw hands at the cell the next three days and this is what I choose. Go Sox!

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Jun 21, 2007 -> 01:43 PM) Had we actually been in the hunt this year, this would have been a God-send. No use for him this year. The intriguing thing is to try and get him to be competitive and if he shows anything try and trade him at the break. Based on the looks of our OF this year and going into next they have to seriously look at anyone that can catch a ball hit in the air and bat .250.

What is the waiver process at this time? How close do we pick? Very interesting. Didn't the A's get hot without him?

Is there any story behined the name Gavin?

KW has the chips. Every team in the NL except Washington is still in the race. He could change the face of the NL race by trading Dye, Iguchi and Buerhle to one team. How would Atlanta or St. Louis look with those three. If nothing else Dye and Iguchi insulate a team from injury and gives them a dynamite bench which when packaged with Buerhle should net soem pretty good results.

Stay healthy and light it up this weekend and then who cares. I liked Owens but he is a ways away from being a productive major league hitter.

We get to see Owens bat again. Awesome!

PLEASE TAKE TWO STRIKES!!!!!!!!

Please take at least three pitches.

Maybe the rest of the fools on this team saw how to work a count. God I hate this team, it was nice to see a guy look like he had a clue.

The 2-1 pitch should have been crushed this team sucks really bad.

Dye, wind blown save of the foul out then K's nicely done to atttack and looking for someth ign to drive. Now the LOOGY to get them out of the inning. This team is down right miserable.

Think Uribe will feel the wrath that Iguchi gets for lackadasical play...... 2nd and 3rd nobody out.

QUOTE(briguy27 @ Jun 20, 2007 -> 02:35 PM) come on aj, make it 5-1....or 3-1 also works damn, guy on 2nd, 1 out, and cant get him in. or swing first pitch and end the inning

I gotta tell ya. Joe Crede may be a man without a country very so. I don't think he gets non-tendered but his value to the Sox organization will continue to drop if Josh can sit at the .270 range as the power and OBP will be better than Crede.

This season is the baseball version of Groundhog Day the movie. Nothing really ever changes unless the opponent really sucks and gives the game away. I bet AJ sees 2 whole pitches at the most.