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Lillibridge is on the Indians now. Red Sox traded him. Not unlike the tenure of Brian Anderson in Boston.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 12:38 PM) I'm kind of surprised by this trade, I thought for sure DD would get Greinke and close the door on the division. I know he has a history with the Marlins but I think he made a mistake not shooting higher with this trade. Sanchez is not the kind of difference maker Greinke would have been. Detroit's rotation certainly got better, but will it be enough to take them deep into the postseason? I read that they also had their sights on Justin Upton but couldn't make that work. To me, it seems like this is their year to do it if they're going to do it. Why? They will only get better in the next year or two. They'll be adding Castellanos, Smyly, Albuquerque and MOST IMPORTANTLY, Victor Martinez as their DH.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 12:24 PM) I just read this. I would do it but I would hope Greinke could be resigned. He's already turned down something between $100-112.5 million for 5 years. With the Danks contract for 4 more years and Peavy off the books finally, it would be the ultimate shocker. Especially with how they've gotten by with Humber and Quintana the last 2 years.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 12:03 PM) 5 times in 2010. Twins won all 5 of those starts. Okay...I knew it was one of the last two years. Considering he's been around since 2006....07, 08, 09, we didn't face him much, partly because of the rehab from TJ. It was either 1 or 0 starts that whole time, before 2010, something like that.

Soler hit his first homer in a Cubs' jersey. Yay for him!

Luckily, Greg wasn't close to field or he might have attacked Mr. Cub after the Konerko beaning and we would have had another Ligue Jr. incident.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 12:23 PM) Not so much fooling scouts... it is more a matter of catching a team's attention. He gets promoted, other GM's and orgs see that and say, hey, how stale is our info on this guy? Maybe we should have someone go check him out again. They would save money just reading this site or WSI, lol. Granted, there are lots of things we're not picking up mechanically with his swing. We don't have the video....at least I don't think too many here are subscribing to MILB.tv and watching Barons games on a consistent basis and trying to analyze what's been going on with Jared the last 6 weeks or so.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 11:24 AM) I seem to remember the Sox trying to get Halladay from Toronto, and he didn't want to come here. Does that ring a bell to anyone else? Halladay is scaring coming off an injury. Flashback to Peavy, although that was a pitcher who was literally injured when we acquired him. And labrum injuries are always scary. Those are much harder than TJ to come back from.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 11:20 AM) Bolded is where you derail. For THESE TWO MONTHS, Dempster not only looks like a better pitcher to have, he's also the opposite of a head case. Dempster's value right now in trade is higher than Greinke's, without a doubt. I might actually agree with you, but KW has a different way of thinking. He probably has coveted Greinke for 10 years...since he was scouted in high school. And KW has this overwhelming confidence in Cooper to get almost any pitcher that comes in to perform up to his ability. Plus, there's the fact that Greinke is much more familiar and comfortable with the AL Central than Dempster, who some are saying would be afraid to pitch in the AL for fear of diminishing his FA contract value.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 09:25 AM) Why would Greinke cost that much more than Dempster? It's only one year of Floyd at $9.5 million. That's not exactly a huge bargain. As we all know, relievers, even closers....can be overrated in terms of their value. (See Santos, Sergio). Delgado would be under team control for 5 years Look at it this way, would you have rather Viciedo/Reed or Delgado? Because clearly, Greinke's a better pitcher than Dempster, results over the last two months notwithstanding. According to Marty, Viciedo's easily replaceable, whereas young starting pitching under team control is not. For example, would Viciedo/Reed get us Infante/Sanchez? Maybe, maybe not. Would the Tigers rather keep Turner than have Viciedo/Reed? Obviously, they wouldn't make that move because of the presence of Berry, Boesch, Young, Raburn, Dirks, Worth, etc. And they already have Valverde, Dotel, Benoit and Villarreal.

However, every scout in baseball knows Mitchell has struggled with consistency this season. I can't imagine they're going to be fooled by him being promoted to AAA the week before a trade. They probably just want to see how he does the last month of the AAA season in that smaller park...perhaps, it could have something to do with wanting him to be with a different hitting coach. Sometimes if things aren't really clicking with one particular coach, you try another and see how that works out. And he could definitely be a pinch-runner or PHer in September. I'd rather have him up there than Escobar, Flowers or Hudson.

I have no clue why the Orioles are paying Markakis $15 million. That's just insane. But he can't fit on the A's payroll without a new stadium. Angelos, sure, if he wants to go that direction of adding payroll.

If DKR is the best film, then Greg is right about Ozzie. Opinions...

Interesting that Buehrle's name didn't come up. How will he be more marketable in the future? Eventually, they're going to have to send some salary relief to move him.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 09:09 AM) Heyman is reporting the Padres are planning on keeping Volquez. That comes as a bit of a surprise... Fits the pattern with Maybin and Quentin, although I'm not sure they're just one year from contention.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 08:16 AM) Really makes you think about Fenway or Citizen's Bank Park and how ill their respective consecutive sellout streaks are. Red Sox: roughly 750 games White Sox: roughly 750 minutes May 15th, 2003 I'm sure Cleveland Indians fans feel even more upset....after their long attendance streak at Jacobs, now they're still fighting for the worst in baseball. That's what happens when you do two total rebuilds in one decade. Same thing happened in Miami.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 09:06 AM) Why? We are talking attempted murder here. Our society is too soft IMO. This bastard shot at me and my famly and I can't beat the s*** out of him with my fists and/or smash him in the kneecaps with a baseball bat? The coward can't fight a fair fight? He's still a danger in the parking lot. How would he be a danger if he clearly was giving himself up and didn't appear to be armed? There has to be some imminent or reasonable expectation of harm or self-defense in order to shoot him. We don't even know if he still had all of his gear on (Kevlar vest, mask, etc.) or he was just leaning against his car with his crazy dyed hair and his hands up in the air. Clearly, if he was going for a gun, then they would have been justified, but based on his reactions in court, he was probably calmly waiting to be arrested and very non-chalant in his actions.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 07:45 AM) Dan Hayes ‏@DanHayesCSN #WhiteSox get their first win over Francisco Liriano since May 20, 2009. They actually haven't faced him so many times before last season. Not as many as you would think.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 05:33 AM) 2nd - Opening Day Yeah, it was 38,676. For some reason, I thought a few people said it hadn't sold out. Must have been confusing it with all the Cubs' games. I know none of those came close. I wouldn't be surprised if we had more Tigers' fans for our last home match-up than we had Cubs' fans this year. They've been travelling very well all across the country this year.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 07:54 AM) padres have 51 home games already played. sox have 47. Yes, but that doesn't have much to do with the average...well, the difference between 4 games played for a mean over that many is not statistically significant. They're about 300,000 ahead of us, 175,000 if you adjust. It's a lot to make up considering Sox attendance typically nosedives in August and September. 1/2 price nights are one thing, we'll see Tuesday and Wednesday if they come close to 30,000 and 25,000.

Any team sweeping another this time of the year, especially the Yankees, there's going to be a huge move in the standings. If we hadn't blown that stupid Thursday night game, we'd be tied for first and in the wild card spot, too...despite the DET sweep, although they'd have the tiebreaker advantage with the 7-4 overall mark against us.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 02:22 AM) Caufield what's it like working in China? Are you allowed to date women out there? Or would they consider you a jerk for even considering to do so? Are u married? Don't answer if you don't want to. I just figured it might be tough to get dates over there. What are your classes like? Do they respect Americans? Is it tough to teach somebody to speak English? And read, etc? Greg it's not 1975. China is much more open and Westernized than you would imagine especially cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Foreigners are probably more popular with the women in Taiwan/Taipei than Chinese, although it's all about the bank account and credit card. It is complicated as a teacher, because you do have some women who want to be friends or just practice their English....but that's cool. Probably 75-80% of Chinese women, their parents would be somewhat or very upset if they were to announce their intention to marry a foreigner. Lots of girls are curious about dating, but maybe still there's that barrier about marriage...it's also complicated, because most men are expected to have a house (that they own free and clear) and car to get married (there are 6 men to every 5 women), so that's not easy as an ex-pat because cars and houses are roughly 2-3X as expensive now than the comparable house or car in the US. On top of that, you have to pay 30-40-50% of it upfront, and I don't want to be tied down to property because the bubble here will burst in the next 10 years, just as it did in the US. I was married to a Russian woman for 8 years but am now divorced. Most of the girls that I have dated since I have been in Asia have been in the Philippines (since they speak English well) and Thailand, because I lived there two years. My g/f in Thailand was an ER doctor who went to one of the better Thai medical schools, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. We have two groups of students at my international school. They are divided into A and B classes. The A classes are all going to study overseas, they average around 660-740 on the SAT Math but are much weaker in English, as it's not their native language. For example, one of my Economics students already got a perfect 800 on his math section. But their English scores tend to be low 500's to low 600's. The tuition ranges from around $15-16,000 per year to "scholarship" students whose parents pay "only" about $3,500 or so. The B students are lazy, bored, unengaged and listless. They're addicted to their cell phones and computer games...they're not really behavior or discipline cases, but they can be very frustrating to teach at times. I love the students in the A classes, though. In general, in any Asian country, teachers are much more well-respected than in America. I can say that universally applies to South Korea, China, Thailand and the Philippines, the 4 Asian countries I have taught in. And it's not even close. To me, teaching English just depends on the motivation of the learner...some students are great, some are more difficult if their parents are forcing them to learn English against their will. I will say that from my observation, teaching English to pre-kindergarten or kindergarten students, students who have never been exposed to any English at all....they have my utmost respect for their patience. I prefer to teach high school/university/adults.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 07:11 AM) Youk won't command anywhere close to $12-13MM next year, IMO. That's how much the club option is...they can decline it and give him the buyout, but then they're competing with every other team out there on the open market for his services. It's possible if he really really likes it here, he'd want to stay. And we would have that advantage, so probably $6-8 million (or more) + the $1 million buyout. Then again, there might be a team out there willing to give him a backloaded two year contract if he keeps playing as well as he has with the White Sox since the trade. They're in the same situation with Floyd, Peavy and Myers...do you really think if they told Gavin they weren't willing to pay him $9.5 million next year he'd still be attracted to take much less, with the dearth of starting pitching out there on the open market? We already went through this discussion with Edwin Jackson, although you'd have to give Floyd at least 1 in 3 or 1 in 4 odds to come back to the Sox because of his comfort level here.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 07:14 AM) I'd give them Floyd+Santiago+Mitchell for Grienke+cash or just two of the three if there is no cash involved. The last reliever in a bullpen and a prospect who strikes out too way too much? The Milkwaukee GM would laugh after considering it for 2-3 seconds. If Dempster is worth 5 years of Delgado, no way that gets it done.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 06:46 AM) With Dempster off the books (most likely) it seems as if KW will go hard after Grienke now. What type of package will it take to get the guy is the question? (Mitchell, Reed, Santiago, Humber or Floyd?) Just throwing names out there. Not sure what Milwaukee would want from our farm. I'm sure Floyd would interest them because they can take his option for next year. Floyd, Reed and Viciedo...if Dempster is really worth Delgado.