Texsox

After several decades of being the team that sits on the sidelines and watches the big boys spend, this is a very cool summer. I am looking forward to the fall.

ESPN confirmed as well

QUOTE (Shamrock4Life @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 05:47 PM) Why would you even think about putting any player on irrevocable waivers in August? Thats just dumb. It was reported the 6 teams put a claim in on Rios. Only MLB and Toronto knows for sure who those teams were. Over the past 4 days, I bet Ricciardi has talked to each one of those front offices about what they would give up in a trade in the offseason. Which is another part of the game. Does JP believe these other GMs and try the offseason market with Rios hoping to start a bidding war? Does KW think that other teams are tell JP they will offer more than what the White Sox (or the team that claimed him) are lying or are they really going to offer that in the offseason? If KW thinks that JP thinks that those teams are being truthful, KW has to up his offer. JP's job is to make KW think that he thinks they are being truthful. 12:30pm is the deadline for the transaction tomorrow. So, imo, if we don't hear anything by 1:30pm, the Rios wasn't acquired. The team with the worst record "wins" the claim and is the only team they can negotiate with. That is also the only team the Jays would know placed the claim.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 05:28 PM) Why would they place him on irrevocable waivers -- better to see if they can get anything for him, maybe a mid level prospect, and if not, still let him go for nothing anyway. That is in answer to those that claim the Jays *have* to dump him at any cost.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 05:02 PM) The thing is, KW doesn't NEED Rios. Would he help? Most likely, but you also don't know the effect it has on Dye/Q/Pods not playing everyday. The pressure is all on the Jays, its not about just saving 2 million this year, its about risking not being able to move him PERIOD in the offseason. If they take a gamble and pull him off waivers to attempt a better offer in the offseason, and don't get it, they're screwed. With the way the economy is now, there's no way teams are going to both give up big name prospects and take on that salaray. If there is no way a team will take it in the off season, why would a team take it on now? Again, there is a huge assumption they are looking to shed salary at any cost. If that was the case, they could have placed him on irrevocable waivers.

She's kind of cute. Seriously, Rep or Dem, I would be embarrassed to try to reverse an election after he was placed on the ballot. Each state had an opportunity to challenge him being on the ballot.

QUOTE (Pumpkin Escobar @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 02:06 PM) I don't get how the pressure is on KW. Easy in my mind. The team is in second place. KW has the pressure to win the division. I believe the most logical places to have the biggest impact down the stretch are starting pitching and the outfield. What pressure is there on the Jays? Possibly to shed $2 mil for the remainder of the year? While I do not believe there is much pressure on this deal, what little pressure there is would seem equal or even a little more on KW.

QUOTE (forrestg @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 12:59 PM) One blue jay message site one persons suggested the sox are just blocking detroit or keeping the tigers from getting him. Come on, we all know Sox fans are smarter and know what the Jays need and want to do

The pressure is on K-Dubya if he believes this is the piece that makes the difference in winning the division. And why else would be make the deal? No deal and the Jays remain in the same position they were in before this weekend.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 12:39 PM) The defensive lapses have been amplified the last two weeks, yes. But they were there before too, and the fighting with umpires has been since early in the season. Starting to look like a trend to me. Seems like Dye is becoming a grumpy old man out there. I've been wondering how much he is hurting.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 12:25 PM) This. Dye's defensive game has gotten pretty bad, but his arm is still his best asset, for what that's worth. TCQ has a worse arm, but covers a lot more ground. It therefore makes zero sense to have those two flip positions. Dye just needs to be moved to DH, or possibly converted to 1B if he can pick up that skill set. 1B would be interesting, but I just can't feel optimistic about the chance of him being successful. Plus, I worry his offensive skills would suffer while he makes the adjustment.

There is no harm in fans speculating, K-Dubya's job is to analyze and if he wants Rios, to determine what it will take. His speculation is everything.

In the AL, they move to DH

"Let's run a few guys through waivers and see if we are blown away with any offers, plus, we need to sell some tickets" you know, just idle speculation on my part.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 11:02 AM) there must be a mistake, it didn't say smoke with willie. assumed

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 9, 2009 -> 01:15 PM) That's because your definition spans all players, mine for example only includes major league everyday outfielders and among everyday outfielders in the majors right now Jermaine Dye is in the bottom 3 defensively, he's a DH masquerading as an outfielder. I'd say that qualifies as atrocious. And based on your definition, I would agree. So atrocious in your book is still employed as a MLB outfielder. In fact, every year there are, by definition, three atrocious outfielders.

QUOTE (PeavyTime @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 11:25 AM) For all we know, we didn't even claim him. true. I wonder if the talk is selling tickets?

QUOTE (Pumpkin Escobar @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 11:23 AM) It goes to the worst team in the AL then through the rest of it before the NL. I know how it works. Had he gotten past us - he could've gone to any other contender ahead of us. Which is quite a few because of our record. Detroit, NY, Boston, Tampa, LAA, TExas, and I think Seattle even. Those are all teams who could've potentially done harm to us if we made the playoffs and he was in their Uniform. We prevented that so him being pulled back isn't a huge loss to us. I am assuming that KW and Co. are not worried about other divisions. Winning the Central is the most viable path to the playoffs. But I agree, the other is a possibility and not getting him isn't a huge loss.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 11:20 AM) Ugh. This does make it difficult, doesn't it? I mean, despite its flaws, the Trib is still far and away the superior paper in town. But now they go and hire this jackass. Yuck. That's were custom newspapers will save the day. Mix and match what you want to read.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 11:20 AM) There's a good chance that Ricciardi won't be working for the Jays anymore at that point. If he wants a supportive letter of rec from his owner, taking $60 million off the books would be a good place to start. Based on the assumption the owners want Rios off the books ASAP. Unless I missed some objective evidence, that is just an assumption. For all we know, they had a trade worked out with Detroit, or another team with a better record, and were hoping no one else claimed him.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 11:05 AM) I just have a hard time seeing them using this as a reason for pulling somebody over unless they can actually see the person using the phone. Even then, they'd have to be able to prove they were actively texting at the time. I can see them pulling somebody over for swerving or something and then hit them with this as a secondary thing... Isn't that about the same as the hands free laws? I thought you could be ticketed for a variety of unsafe driving actions, putting on makeup, etc. Cops arrest people all the time by observing them breaking the law, and they make excellent witnesses on the stand.

QUOTE (Pumpkin Escobar @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 11:13 AM) or prevent him from going elsewhere. Since the waiver claim goes to the team with the worse record, the Tigers would be the only team that matters we would be preventing from claiming him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 11:07 AM) He's still guaranteeing his team losses if he holds Rios. I think it is a little short of a guarantee, there is a chance (small) he could do better in the off season, with a potentially bigger pool of teams. I just wonder if we are sitting here talking about their team and sounding like the idiots from other markets that talk about the Sox. If they truly wanted to be shed of the contract at any cost, they could have used irrevocable waivers.

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In time for my birthday