Harry Chappas

The Sun-Times, especially Doug Padilla are so full of s***, they are completly clueless.

I think we could get Garcia and Guillen for Valentin. If we could sign Garcia and still make a run at Ponson, that ticket increase would be forgotten. I am not sure about Nomar though. I think he has many more questions marks, (i.e. injuries, hitting away from Fenway and wanting to be here,) than Ordonez. If we could get for Ordonez and Valentin; Williamson, Kim, Mota, Perez, Garcia and Guillen and two stud young pitchers (and trade them for Huff,) I would be happy. Then if we signed a lefty bat... A pen of Willamson,Kim,Mota,Marte,Koch, Wunsch, and Shoenweis Rotation; Buerhle, E-LO, Garcia, Perez, and Garland (maybe Ponson) Lineup; Uribe;Guillen;Huff;Thomas;Lee;Konerko;Crede;Rowand;Olivo I can live with this.

I would think that they would need to replace Kevin Brown. And oh, they now have $15M to spend if needed on hitting. Someone wants a shortstop and was rumored to be in the market for Garcia and that team was the Dodgers. They can then move Perez and/or Weaver for hitting. A package of Weaver and Perez will net soem nice hitting and allows them to possibly keep the cash the got for Weaver to spend elsewhere. I think it will be pretty hard to move Valentin, Konerko, and Koch.

This is terrible for the Sox. Sounds like Vizquel and Garcia for Perez and Izturis. Sox can not touch this deal. Dodgers will land Garcia if they want him as they have the pitching resources.

Right, now we give them Valentin for Vizquel. This could have been a three team deal...... Not sure why the Mariners do not sign Aurilla. Which is what I would do if I were the Sox if they could've gotten Valentin for Guillen. Guillen at second, Aurilla at short.

What about Jose to Seattle for Vizquel?

My question is why does KW profess what his payroll is? This just adds fuel to the fire that is fan negativity. I think KW does a great job of not over-hyping our prospets so when they get traded there isn't a s*** storm in the media. Nobody is crying for Webster, Rupe or Royce Ring in media, they are here though, because we understand our prospects. KW does a great job of staying in control and not driving a deal through the media, where other teams can guage it and try jumping in. A close to home example is the fact that Bobby Hill and Hee Soop Choi are no longer with the cub. Going into Spring Training last year these two were the next Evers and Chance. Sure they got Derek Lee and Aramis Ramirez but these guys are not saviors and they both are very expensive. They are providing the cub with what Choi and Hill were suppossed to but it is costing them $14M instead of $1M.

I paid attention to your post until I got to the point wher Pudge was moved to second then i realized your post was a joke. You move players to fix holes. Olivo was moved for Bradford. Think Olivo will hit a breaking ball as good as karkovice? You trade Olivo and Maggs together to get a front line pitcher and other front line players from a team that has a glut of them. i.e. Maggs/Olvio - Ichiro/Garcia/Guillen - Soriano/a pitcher from a another team We lost last year and I thought we had the best team in the AL. In 2000 we had the best offense in baseball (same nucleus as last year, Thomas, Lee, Ordonez, Konerko,) and we failed miserably in 2000 as we did last year when it counted. How many more times are we going to ride that train and watch it fail in the end. Ordonez will leave after next year because someone will overpay for him. Do we want compensation for him now or watch him to a do a Colon? The only free agent that we lost that I wish we had was Colon. I would rather have Garcia and Ponson and maybe spend a little more on them and have it cost us Orodonez. As warm and fuzzy as Magglio is, he can't hit in cold weather, last time I looked it gets cold in Chicago in September.

Favorite players are nice but winning is better. We would be getting a return on Maggs and Olivo. I don't agree with moving them but think of what could be had and holes addressed.

If healthy, he was not very impressive last year which is why Quantrill and Gordon were brought in. I'd take him and Art Rhodes though for $4m for the two.

I think KW is looking to free up $12M, easier said then done yes. The trade with the Dodgers (Ordonez) would do this. I am not sure who the 5 players we would get would be all that bad. Although I never really heard who they were, just SCR banter this morning about blowing the team up. With $12M we can make a run at Ponson and Garcia (3 yr - $18M each) stagger the money until after Koch, Konerko and Thomas are done and I like what we have. Buerhle-Loiaza-Garcia-Ponson-Garland-Perez (Dodgers) and we lose Ordonez (maybe Cotts or Rauch.) The thing would be, can these guys be had for 3yr/$18M? The guys are your list are nice but what would we do with them. We don't need a righthanded right fielder, Clemens ain't retiring to pitch here. Catcher is not a problem, Millwood is not worth $15M/yr and Maddux is over priced. Not sure where you want us to fit in here. Picking these guys up would be moves to make moves and that isn't very bright. Now, imagine what we could get for Ordonez and Olivo..........then sign Pudge?

With the unbalanced schedule, they play and therefore beat one another more. The Central is just plain bad every year and one team backs in, usually not the Sox. We can easily win the division if we spend a buck or two.

Nobody for Colon Nobody for Marte Nobody for #2 in Cy Young voting What is your point again?

I drove down there, got there at 8:30 was told the seats would be sold out by the time I got the front, so I left. There was a limited quantity, we all knew this and they were sold. I really fail to see how this was the Sox fault. Standing in line at Soxfest for an hour trying to get in last year, that is a different story. Ticket prices going up 10%, now this is a problem. Piss poor baseball, is a problem. Not having enough seats to sell for charity, I shrug my shoulders to this. If there is a concert in a 3,500 seat venue and you are 3,501 in line whose fault is it?

I don't post there I do troll, I mean check it out.

In year three of this deal Konerko and Thomas will both be gone and with them $15M in payroll. This deal puts the Sox in a good light, finally, going into the wekend. I get the feeling they will be coming home with Ponson or Maddux. This deal allows some fixed cost to be in place going into the meeting. Come on Kenny let your heair down and get some balls. Millwood/Madux and Ponson and I renew the tix.

The Dodgers will not give up Brown and Perez. They may give up a reliever and starter but not 2/5 of their rotation unless Driefort is one of the two.

What if we got Soriano and Weaver and NO cash? Would this be asking to much?

Doug Padilla is a moron. O.K. I may be a moron if I am wrong here but didn't LA resign Alvarez and the Yanks sign Quantrill? These are the guys he had the Sox looking at. The paper also states that Kenny Rogers was too much money for the cub but the Sox are not mentioned in this. I wish there was an easier paper to read on the train. Konerko was on the cover of the Trib so I have to look around for it. Any help on that article would be appreciated, it talked about firstbase.

Cancelled mine as the price has doubled since 1997. I realized there is no reason to have season tickets other than for Opening Day and the cub games. The remainder of the games can be bought as desired. I think tickets will be very easy to come by this year and the post season althoguh it may happen will not be much to see.

I could see Lee (pitcher from NY or Chi) going to LA, Brown to Yanks, and Perez and Weaver to Chicago with the Yanks giving Sox $2M in cash. Weaver is a salary dump and we take a risk. If he pans out we have a solid rotation. If he doesn't we have Perez. I think LA would need pitching in return, maybe we get Mota.

I believe these are players that do not have the service time in to be unrestricted free agents. Lee and Buerhle could be non-tendered because we do not want to pay them. A non-tender is a guy with less than 7 years of ML service time and the team has to give monry to that they do not want to. I think.

Not to continue dumping but how was Belle a disater? Navaro was a disaster, Guillen may be a disaster, Bevington. Belle was the only good thing while Tapani was making Schueler look like a fool.

No. Montreal will just about give Hernandez away.