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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 14, 2011 -> 06:39 AM) People are upset about losing Jeff Gray? Jeff Gray? Really? People, he did fine, but it was 13 innings in garbage time. If he was as valuable as you think, the White Sox wouldn't have had to place him on waivers, they could have traded him for something, anything, but apparently no team was willing to give KW anything. It's all relative. I'm more upset when a fly lands on my arm than about the White Sox losing Jeff Gray, but they both still upset me. QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 14, 2011 -> 07:00 AM) KW tryin to see if Pena is still the reliever he thought he was getting in the Brandon Allen trade. They've had almost 2 years to do that. He's proven to be really bad.

As of this moment, you don't trade him for a goddamn thing. Oh, and not wanting to count on Peavy? How about not wanting to count on Phil Humber...you know, the dude who is 28 and has never had any sort of sustained success at the major league level? He's proven he can be adequate, but you are talking about replacing a guy who is almost an ace with a guy who is probably a 4.50 ERA type guy at his best. That is absolutely absurd. As of right now, the Sox have, optimistically, anywhere from a 25-50% chance of winning the division. If they trade Danks, that drops to 5-10%.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ May 14, 2011 -> 12:46 AM) Major league teams generally don't enforce "accountability" by cutting veteran players. That's not really the way it works. You mean like how the Blue Jays didn't release Frank Thomas in 2008, even though he was one of the greatest hitters of the previous 25 years and was a 500 home run hitter? You release players who are bad. Tony Pena is bad. --- I'm relatively upset about this, with the key word being relatively. It's not worth arguing or fighting about nor am I going to lose sleep over it, but it seems quite clear to me that Jeff Gray is a superior option to Tony Pena. There are a lot of options that are superior to Tony Pena. Perhaps he has taken on the role of Jenks and brings candy to the bullpen and keeps guys loose or what have you, but Pena is really bad, whereas Jeff Gray is only bad.

HAWKS-HEAT EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS oh wait, Bulls-Heat

QUOTE (Bighurt52235 @ May 12, 2011 -> 05:50 PM) Fairly stunning to me how many people hate watching the end of games. Especially in save situations. Also, is it really that hard to stay up until midnight? I get it if you have to get up before 5 am, but otherwise, a West Coast game should be pleasurable, a late night treat. Just my 3 cents. I love them. Always hated them when I was a kid though, what with my 10 o'clock bed time.

For whatever reason, I thought the Sox had a game today. Considering the start to this road trip, it's a well deserved day off.

QUOTE (High Mileage @ May 12, 2011 -> 05:10 PM) I was wondering where he was, he has to better than Teahen right...? Yeah but Teahen's a bench player and making $10 mill over the next two years, and Viciedo has been moved to the OF because he is so bad defensively at 3B. Don't want to call up Viciedo to have him ride the pine. I actually think Teahen is in the perfect role. Being overly reliant upon him to be an everyday player is a recipe for disaster, but I think he is a damn good bat to have on the bench. Get him around 200-300 PAs and he'd be just fine.

QUOTE (High Mileage @ May 12, 2011 -> 04:50 PM) I agree on all points, but I am not educated on the Sox farm system, at all. Among those in AA or AAA, Dayan Viciedo is really the only player that could crack the Royals lineup at some point in time.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 12, 2011 -> 03:34 PM) A Carter is just not having a good season. I'm not too worried. You'd like to see him exhibit better control, but the strikeouts are there and he's not allowing home runs. Some of the hits he's allowing are certainly due to him throwing poor pitches, but a lot of that is dependent upon luck as well.

I haven't seen a player as locked in as Jose Bautista since BLB in 2004.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ May 11, 2011 -> 11:33 PM) Is it too early to get excited bout JorDanks? Yes

I think Cleveland will be there for a while atleast. I also think MLB needs to do an extensive search of the Cleveland Indians' strength and conditioning coach's bags.

QUOTE (Andrew @ May 12, 2011 -> 12:37 AM) They're BACK, alright. Haha. Atleast they aren't as BACK as the Twins

I WANNA GO HIGHER!

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 12, 2011 -> 12:25 AM) Paul Konerko with a SB and two web gems in the tenth is pretty much the greatest/rarest thing that could have happened. Pretty sure those will get him into the Hall of Fame

Thornton deserves some of that Seriously, that last play looked like a f***ing trick play in football or something. What the Jesus F McNabb

Paul Koner-Rose behind the back to Thornton for the winner

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ May 11, 2011 -> 11:20 PM) I hear Sox possible destination for Carlos Beltran.. In for Pierre at LF? Mets going to eat his salary?

Thought I saw that movie before. Guess it was a deleted scene.

QUOTE (Real @ May 12, 2011 -> 12:15 AM) Brent Lillibridge >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gordon Beckham. yeah, that's right. He has earned more playing time, that's for sure. Konerko with the steal!

May as well put one in the rocks AJ

Lillibridge is such a f***ing monster

QUOTE (fathom @ May 12, 2011 -> 12:09 AM) Jepsen getting away with some meatballs to Dunn. I thought that was actually a pretty good pitch, the pitch Dunn hit. Like 3 of the others though, yeah they were fat. Dunn looks really good at the plate. LOL

I think Huge Dick would be a far better nickname, because I'm pretty sure I see it hanging around his knees

Adam Dunn's nickname is Grand f***ing Canyon? Really?