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QUOTE(Antonio Osuna @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 10:42 PM) This is one subject on which I don't mind being incessantly reminded. Unlike all your incorrect postseason predictions? All in good fun...I understand reverse pyschology. You're just giving them billboard material.

I was critical of Ozzie having Cotts in the pen...I wanted him in AAA stretching out his arm with Adkins in the majors in the pen. Got pwned there. I was also big on trading for Hudson....HUGE on it. And to think, we wouldn't have Konerko. Then again, if I were GM, I'd have traded Konerko about 4 times already. I was also very ready to trade for RJ...Garland and Konerko. Seemed like a low price for a sure-fire 20 game winner. I was also very ready to trade for AJ Burnett, and then ship Burnett to Philly for Wagner. Damn am I good or what. I will say that I was never really critical of any move KW made during the offseason. I liked every one of them.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 06:03 PM) Unless you're the Yankess, Braves and now the Red Sox, you only get one chance in a long time. You have to make the most of it, or go back into the crowd. They blew it in '03. They're only hope is that the Cards and Stros get old and that the Cubs basically outlive them. If you take Braves out, I'd agree. Mazzone = Baltimore And just to throw it out there...still depending upon the Konerko situation, I like the White Sox just as much as I like any other big market team right now. The Sox rotation is gonna be awesome next year, and the bullpen should be just as good...they bring Konerko back, and I like the Sox chances of winning about 100 games again.

I want Carl gone as much as anyone(except White Sox Josh apparently)...but I hope I'm not the only one that appreciated what he did in the postseason for the Sox. I'm still wondering to this second if Willie, even with his tremendous speed, scores from 2nd on Dye's hit up the middle. He probably does...but it would have been 1000x closer had Everett not grounded out to 2B, allowing Willie over to 3B. I must admit...I'll miss the guys fire and intensity...but his ticket has been punched already.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 10:37 PM) I mean let's have a look at the other third baseman in the AL Central. Aaron Boone - He'll make $3M in 2006. Splits of .243/.299/.378. Michael Cuddyer - May be up for arbitration, I don't know. Splits of .263/.330/.422 Brandon Inge - Splits of .261/.330/.419. Mark Teahen - .246/.309/.376. Make close to min again next season. Now compare those stats to Joe Crede. .252/.306/.454. That's the highest OPS out of any third baseman in the division, and would have been 12th best out of all 3rd baseman in the league if he was qualified (wasn't because of his injury). His OPS's in his good months, .824, .871, .893, 1.178. Average those and you get .9415. That would be good enough for 3rd for all third baseman qualified in OPS behind A-Rod and Morgan Ensberg. Just shows the potential Crede had, if he's consistent enough to put those good numbers up for the majority of a season. Definitely worth bringing back with his defense as well. To add on to this post and DBAH0s above post... Crede never had an OPS in the .500s, .600s, and .700s in any month of the year. May was pitiful...no excuse for that. However, his .308 OPS or so in August was largely due to his injury. He got healthy and was one of many keys to winning the World Series.

QUOTE(Randar68 @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 05:20 PM) A .750 OPS CF'er making 3.25 million next year and a cheap replacemant that could put those numbers up and play equal-at-worst defensively in CF, and has a MUCH higher ceiling... I just don't agree with any of this whatsoever. Rowand was a sub .750 OPS CFer if you want to be technical about it...but he's a year removed from a .900 OPS. He is top 5 in the league defensively as well...I just don't think you can say that about Anderson yet without being laughed at. I also don't buy the much higher ceiling for Anderson either. I don't see much more than a .275 20 75 20 .800 type average from Anderson season by season...coincidentally, that's exactly what I see in Rowand as well. Rowand's not breaking the bank by any means...and you don't trade a player at his lowest value. Remember when PK for Odalis Perez seemed liked a deal that couldn't happen because Perez was so much more valuable than PK?

FWIW... Dye 2004 - .265 23 80 .329/.464/.793 2005 - .274 31 86 .333/.512/.846 Finley 2004 - .271 36 94 .333/.490/.823 2005 - .222 12 54 .271/.374/.645 I am going to go out of my way and rule out Dye, since his numbers increased in the first year of steroid testing. Call it shallow thinking, but I just don't see how a player can get off the juice and produce better numbers. Finley's jump could be caused for multiple reasons...just figured I'd throw his numbers out there however.

QUOTE(knightni @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 02:38 PM) Maybe they can offer him a front loaded contract with a declining skills clause, like Frank. It would give him Year 1: 17 mil Year 2: 15 mil Year 3: 12 mil Year 4: 10 mil Year 5: 8 mil (mutual option) Not sure PK goes for that. And if he can get 5 years guaranteed, I think he hops on that before 4 year with a mutual anyways. QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 02:41 PM) Ewwww. 17? Thats Manny Money. I wonder if the Sox will offer the defferred money special here. I do not believe the Sox have ever had a contract with deferred money in JR's reign. I may be wrong though.

No .300 hitter. One .900 OPS man. One 100 RBI man No 100 run scorer One true stolen base threat Two 30+ homer players. Three closers. Yet, all these things combined, formed one of the greatest teams of the past 25 years. Wire to wire World Series champions. Unbelievable. I knew they were very underrated going into the season...I thought they had a very good team. I didn't know they'd be THIS good. What is scary to think about is that, depending upon the Konerko situation, they could very well be a better all around team next year. Rowand underproduced, Uribe underproduced, AJ - for all he did for us throughout the year - underproduced, Joe Crede was inconsistent, Duque was horrible at times as the 5th starter, Jose Contreras was horrible in the middle of the year, Garcia tended to be inconsistent, Iguchi was a rookie still adjusting to the majors, Thomas was out for 5 of the months(yet still managed to hit only 1 fewer homer than Aaron Rowand, who played in 120 more games).

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 02:06 PM) Out here and in the trib the most I've seen is 5yr 65 mill, but anything can happen. It will be interesting to see, cause if the Angels go after Manny and land him, that will mean its between Boston and the Sox. Yikes. The postseason he had apparently added a year to his future contract, along with $2 mill per season. The best deal for the White Sox would be 4 years, $44 mill...but no way in hell is that gonna happen. For the short team...5 years, $60 mill would be awesome. Brings PK back, keeps the fans happy, brings back our best offensive player from last year...that is what I like. For the long term, I have absolutely no doubt that 3 years from now that's an albatross of a contract that Sox can't move. I'm split.

QUOTE(JoshPR @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 01:19 AM) Wait a Minute Wait a Minute. I'm hispanic and never kissed my father on the lips. I saw that and said Ewwwwww :puke If your dad managed a team that hasn't won a World Series in 88 years, and you were by his side, would you kiss him? Me, fully white and Caucasian...I'd kiss my dad on the lips in that scenario.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Oct 27, 2005 -> 11:20 PM) I've completely blocked it from my memory, it was pretty disgusting. Not possible. An image that disturbing would be burned into your eyes forever and ever and ever and EVER AND EVER AGHHHHHHH!!!!!! ...

I f***in' love baseball. Really do.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Oct 27, 2005 -> 06:01 PM) You smell funny and you're not very intelligent. Now how do you feel?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 27, 2005 -> 06:55 PM) Here's one for you. It's not even a play...but it was my first moment of absolute terror followed by incredible immediate relief of this year. Mark Buehrle in Spring Training hears a pop in his foot. Goes home and takes a nap. Wakes up. Can't walk. Newspapers the next day say he's got a stress fracture in his foot. Won't play for something like 1-2 months. Later that day, he walks into the trainer's office. The trainer is shocked that he can walk. No one has a f***ing clue what the hell happened to his foot. They blame it on some sort of older injury that Mark has no clue what they're talking about. Buehrle misses 1 Spring Training start because of it. And pitches on opening day. Holy s*** do I remember that. A feeling of "maybe the experts are right" started trying to creep into my mind. That did not last long. I also have another underrated for you...the 6th inning of June 15th. Sox 12, DBacks 6

We definately have to thank San Francisco. You wanna talk about underrated/under the radar moves... Like I said in my euphoric thread last night, if San Francisco doesn't offer Vizquel a 3rd year, there is no way we are where we are. We don't have Goochi, but instead of Uribe at 2B; or contrarily, if the Sox do have Goochi, they most definately do not have Blum, because Uribe is the super utility IFer...perhaps meaning no game winning homer in game 3...that's all believing in pre-determined destiny though, and that's something I'm not a huge believer in, anyways. We ALSO have to thank them for non-tendering AJ Pierzynski. Where the hell are the White Sox without AJ?

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Oct 27, 2005 -> 04:55 PM) Mine is way better, the Unicorn kicks your ass.

It does go to show that JR did not just do this as a PR move for racial equality. IIRC, the two candiates for the job were Dan Evans and KW...Evans was fired as GM of the Dodgers after the 2003 season. KW has built not only a World Series winner for 2005, but he has the organization set for years. Kudos to KW

I have promised snow angels in the nude. There is no snow...so that is a problem. First snow fall...I will get pics.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Oct 27, 2005 -> 12:27 AM) There might be a little reason that poll is skewed. Why would that be?

QUOTE(Nokona @ Oct 26, 2005 -> 11:54 PM) f*** Moneyball. It's all about Kennyball. He said he wasnt that smart yesterday. Well then the only smarter man i know of is Einstein. And he's dead KW, UDAf***INGMAN!!!!!!!!!!

I've been digging Queen right now Not sure why.

FOR OFFERING VIZQUEL 3 YEARS URIBE WAS BY FAR OUR DEFENSIVE MVP OF THE SERIES...NO f***IN WAY IN HELL VIZQUEL DOES THAT

QUOTE(hi8is @ Oct 26, 2005 -> 02:57 AM) they have a history you know we played the brewers last year when garner was the manager and everett almost made garner his BEEE-OOOTCH!! 4 diffrent newst sorcers stated that garner was in the process of saying the following in this picture: "f***, i love freddy... why carl... why?" Why does Everett have 6 fingers on his right hand? and 4 on his left?

QUOTE(Antonio Osuna @ Oct 26, 2005 -> 03:03 PM) What the hell? Somebody's overconfident about THIS year, which, may I remind you, isn't over yet. With the way our pitching and their pitching is set up, Houston has the best chance of anyone in recent series history to come back from 3-0 should they win tonight. So nobody get too giddy yet. Backe has to go f***in 9 tonight for them to have a shot in hell, because their pen is shot to hell. Clemens then would have to have the start of his career(saying that fullwell knowing he has 340 wins) for them to even have a chance. Personally...I think Boston in 2004 has the best chance of coming back from 3-0. Maybe that's just me.