Harry Chappas

This was covered last year when the Sox did the same thing. It is called premium tickets and I agree with it 100%. I bet they sell out all of these games at these outrageous prices. Now what is the price of a Tuesday game against the Royals. It is the simple theory of Supply and Demand. The price of the good games go up but people will still buy them. The games that no one goes to, stay the same.

I am interested in Jessica Simpson. Dollars to doughnuts I don't get her. This talk would irritate me if it weren't for the fact there is nothing else to talk about.

Not to get to involved here but if Garland is our number 5, who is our number 4? I assume there is an assumption being made that we are going to pick up a 3/4 type pitcher thus bumping garland to 5? Should that pitcher be Clement or Lowe, fine but I get teh feeling any FA brought in will be slated as 5 to begin with making Garland our number 4.

I just kind of glanced at Beltran's stats and although they are nice, I didn't really see the monster year. Defensivly and speedwise he is tops but for $20M I would think that his numbers would rival someone like Thomas in his first few years. For $20M you should get a perenial MVP candidate, especially if you are the White Sox giving out the money. I am thinking 90's Griffey or Bonds, total package and awesome in every respect. Sorry but for $20M let the Yanks or someone else have him. I would love to have him but I get the feeling 3 years into it, we would feel the way Boston does/did about Manny Ramirez and Manny is a hitting machine. Beltran had a great playoff but I wouldn't target him that is for sure. His career OPS is under .900, not worth $20M.

Somebody correct me if I am wrong but you can only give a team $1,000,000 in a trade. You can agree to pay part of a contract given up (i.e. the yanks can not just give the Royals $10M for Mike Sweeney.) In the nicest manner possible. I hope the offseason fictious trades are not all this bad. Giving Lee/Konerkoand $10M or whatever it is, is just plain silly. Now back to lurking in silence.

I heard from some place not sure where that the injury is identical to that which Bo Jackson suffered in his hip. Has anyone else heard this???

First off he has a great head of hair. If he played for the cub it would be a WGN segment. He isn't here to produce that is for the inept Crede, Valentin, Uribe and Harris. Whatever Davis and Perez give us are bonuses, the aforementioned nitwits are what are killing this team. Imagine if Davis can turn it around. How fleeced would Seattle be, if the Carols Guillen deal isn't bad enough. Trade Guillen sign Aurillia. Call him up and lets do more buisness.

This deal was in the works back when Brown went down and he was going to come for ML talent and be placed in our pen. Since that time ELO became expendable. I pointed out around the AS break that I thought Torre had an unusual trust in ELO. Now I get it. The Yanks traded for a two time All-Star wheather the second time was deserving or not.

Here we go with my little thoughts. It is easy to manage when you are winning. Ozzie ain't looking good as long as Borchard keeps showing up on the lineup daily. Our pitchers Marte, Cotts and Politte especially are unable to throw strikes consistently. Why will guys that can't hit look to get hit by a pitch if need be (see Koskie and today Higginson,) but we act lihe the ball will explode if it hits you. Crede is awful. NO RANGE WHATSOEVER and that pop out display today should earn him a trip somewhere, anywhere. Oh wait then Uribe would have to play and Valentin. I think ole KW needs to realize that stats do not win games. There were 5 sure outs in this lineup yet our only .300 hitter does not play daily. Let's not resign Ordonez and try and get rid of Thomas so we can watch everett, Jimenez, Uribe and the other useless s*** KW is going to throw at us. Sorry folks, we saw this last year and will continue to do so in the future. I would like nothing more than to be positive but we just finished July hitting under .230 as a team. Blame whatever you want but .230 is .230. That is 9 guys averaging .230.

We still have no hitting, defense or common sense. I like this trade but what would it have cost us to make a run a Nomar. Valentin is better then Alex Gonzalez. This trade has really no impact on this season.

Can anyone help in finding a site that can give the White Sox Top Ten list going back a few years to see how guys have panned out. I remember most prospects that were untoucables that never panned out and would like to see something going back a few years, (i.e. Ruffcorn, Liefer, etc.)

The heroic endings of Valentin and Crede would not be issues if they did anything during the game to produce. Each are hitting around .240 which causes the game to be tight and they produce at the end after causing us to lose the two or three games when they go 0-4 with 3 K's. IF Borchard homers tonight and wins the game 3-2 because of it, is he now a "leader." The leader of an underachieving team for the 4th straight year is kind of like being the leader of Enron. The ungodly amount of pop-ups that this team continues to hit without being able to foul off good pitches year after year leads to our continued failure.

Ozzie shows again why he is not a very good manager. Why is Uribe playing today over Rowand in the first place.

Mike Jackson is worthless. Do the job and put it behind us. Win lose 6-2 and Tori gets off unscathed. That was the position to hit him in the ass and be done with it. The was a cheap shot.

Here is a chance for Jackson to do something worth his keep.

How is this more about Jackson than Cotts. In a close game, two walks a hit and an HBP are not the makings of a good reliever.

Why is Ben Davis allowed to bat but Rowand is pinch hit for? Ben Davis and Joe Crede look completely clueless at the plate.

Here is a conspiracy theory for you. End of season Loiaza is an FA, Yanks need pitching, remember the All-star game when Torre picked him over Buerhle who is signed for 3 years??????????

As bad as the C. Lee at bat, and I agree, the slider was no where near the plate so he could have continued to sit on the fast ball. My point goes to why Ben Davis was left in the game and then Rowand and Uribe were used as runners. Is Rowand that much better Perez as a runner???? Also, if the game goes into the 9th and we get a couple of guys on, our options are Davis, Alomar and Burke??? Not sure of the strategy here.

This is nice but one of the guys has never thrown a pitch for us. Please enter Garland into this and compare.

I'd like to join this fantasy train.

Before yesterday I thought we would white flag this season, now I am thinking playoffs. I was pissed we did not resign Colon and felt this season would be painful so I have nothing to say. Colon was blasted again today. Remember in the offseason when KW stated he would make his moves in season. Well I am happy with this one. At first I did not like giving up Olivo what the hell.

Farm systems are for trading for proven players with rare exceptions. None of those players you mentioned are those exceptions, nor are Reed, Borchard, Honel, or Wing.

I was at the game Jon pitched. He was hit very hard. I have not been on much lately sorry if this is old stuff sorry. Neither Rauch or Munoz throw over 90. The genius that is Hawk and DJ will tell you time and again that you do not need to throw hard to be successful. If you are not throwing strikes with your offspeed stuff and you throw as hard as a good high school pitcher, you will get shelled, (i.e. Rauch and Munoz.) Thursday will be yet another affirmation that KW is failing to get this team over the hump. With every passing day our starting four are being taxed. By skipping the fifth starter every time, our pitchers never get 5 or even 6 days rest between starts. I use the cub as an example of a team whose pitcher looks fresh every time out there. We have outings from starters that look like they could use an extra day every now and then. This will once again kill this team in a the worst division in baseball. I quote Hawk, "Show me a team with 5 good starters and I will show you a playoff team." Isn't that what we are trying to f***ing do??????

If he is back next week this is a huge lift and shows his determination. With Frank playing some first they can use him as a DH once in a while and then have Konerko to PH late in the game.