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QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 25, 2011 -> 10:39 AM) Next year it will be Crain in the 7th, Reed in the 8th, Santos in the 9th. The bullpen won't suffer without Thornton. An unproven rookie who has never pitched in the big leagues is promoted over Frasor and Crain already? Obviously you're not planning on Ozzie being back, because that could never happen on his watch. And that same manager who has two of the best lefties in Sale and Thorton will suddenly be "just fine" with only Ohman and Santiago? Ummm...okay.

Don't forget our old "flame-throwing" pal Nick Masset. Although with Cooper, he was usually at 92-93 MPH.

Well, if you believe the stories, he went through two interviews with the Cardinals but withdrew from that process as the power struggles between LaRussa, ownership, Jocketty and Mozeliak became more unsettling... But I didn't see where it was actually offered to him...just that he withdrew, same with the Mets situation. Pretty sure he could have had the Pirates job, though, had he wanted it.

This is basically the assumption because of his time spent with Moorad and Steinberg, as well as Northwestern and Harvard Law. Since he's "numbers oriented," he has to be a SABR type of person. On the other hand, we've never really seen these numbers applied to personnel/scouting/FA decisions or referenced in articles. The only examples I could think of would be the times they went to arbitration with a player, but those examples aren't plentiful and they're obviously closed to outsiders, so only the agents would really be able to testify to his actual approach. He's definitely not Grady Fuson, old baseball scout, referenced in Moneyball.

Well, the problem is "where will he play?" with Rasmus. Despite all evidence to the contrary on Rios, Ozzie seems wedded to him as the CFer. http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/id...73/colby-rasmus He's 19/88 so far with the Blue Jays...for a 216 average and mid 600's OPS. I'd like to say Rio can do better than that at some point, maybe?

FYI, the initial "Sox-like" lowball offer by the Twins to Cuddyer was $12.5 million/2 years

Latest update, looks like Quentin will miss entire Seattle series too....yet, in their all-knowing competence, the White Sox never DL'ed him in order to bring up Viciedo because "Ozzie already has 5 DH's." Meanwhile, Dunn lost track of outs in an inning and "doesn't believe in scoreboard watching yet (until September)" when we're playing the Tigers... http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,5648781.story

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 25, 2011 -> 12:10 AM) I heard a discussion on the SCORE about that. I guess Hahn is the highest paid asst. GM in baseball. So the reason why he hasn't been hired can be over money. Guess he learned how to negotiate his own contract from working for Steinberg and Moorad!

Maybe Heyward and Beachy for Quentin, Thornton, Dunn, and Rios. We'll throw in Peavy to make it far.

QUOTE (SpainSOXfan09 @ Aug 24, 2011 -> 11:31 PM) Is Hahn really considered a sabremetrichead? Didn't think he was and if he isn't then he wouldn't fit the bill that Ricketts is looking for. If he's been responsible for our farm I wouldn't hire him based on that mess. He's considered a hybrid, basically. Next to Ozzie and KW, anyone would look like Bill James or Billy Beane.

Zombie Apocalypse? Isn't that basically what happens to our offense most nights?

Greg, it will never happen. If he goes through another year like 2011....then he probably would retire. But renegotiating right now, forget it. Never going to happen. The player's union would go bonkers and we'd never be able to sign a big free agent for 10 years or until a new ownership group was in place.

I know one thing. JR will never live down letting Hahn go if he won a World Series for the Cubs. Yet if you're Hahn, you have to be thinking that the Cubs have a much better shot at competing 2-3 years from now because they'll be rid of all their bad contracts except for Soriano. With Dunn and Rios, there's just no answer to that problem, and the ongoing dilemma which is Gordon Beckham. You might only get one chance at a GM job, you go after the Cubs job 100% and you STILL probably have the White Sox as the fallback position. Personally, Byrnes is the guy I'd go after (if I were Reinsdorf), but who actually knows what he's thinking. They're definitely not in a position like the Cubs would be to possibly get a Friedman type. If he wasn't so old, Ryan, the former Twins GM, would be my 2nd choice. The Twins' model didn't lead to a World Series title, but with a bigger potential future budget (when the new TV deal is renegotiated)...the White Sox should still be able to spend 25-33% more than the Twins because of their built-in Chicago market media advantages.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 24, 2011 -> 10:40 PM) How long will u be in China? Do you love it over there? Is it lucrative? I am a Journalism major so if you want to get them to make me an offer I'll listen Good luck to you over there. Seems kinda scary. Greg, Northeast/Paseo/Southeast High Schools in KC are a lot scarier than anything I've ever seen abroad. Or the KCKS School District. There are a lot of writing opportunities abroad. I've written some articles for local/regional magazines, but just for fun and to earn extra money. But there are full-time gigs, if you're willing to do some advertising/ad sales work on the side to supplement the writing part.

Thanks, Soxfest. I'll have to find some arms for the new GM, lol. Maybe I can find Jerry Krause's number or e-mail add...but I think he's only responsible for Latin America and not Asian scouting.

Yep, going back to Shanghai and my teaching job this Friday....have to stay near O'Hare tmrw night. Goodbye to US and gaining 12 pounds in 4 weeks, haha. I came weighing 180 and now have to get back into shape playing badminton and ping pong, lol. At least I did get to see the Royals/Red Sox last Thursday and paid $14.00 with free parking because we were so late!

This would have been one of those nights you'd have had to bet against the Sox if you were a gambler. With the Angels smelling a race again with the Rangers and Weaver going...no way they were going to lose this one. Glad it was blacked out in Iowa and I had no way to actually see the dismal results.

The one prior to that, he faced Verlander and there was the stare-down incident with Carlos Guillen and Weaver was summarily ejected not so long after.

Yep, the Dotel and Linebrink overpays. And a lot of missed opportunities as half the "new" White Sox fans from 2005-06-07 disappeared back into the woodwork.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 24, 2011 -> 05:51 PM) If you hit Konerko 3rd, and Q is out, who exactly is left to hit clean up? Dunn? Baines, Melton, Kitty or Walker

Well, Weaver hasn't won a game for something like a month. Don't think he's pitched that poorly (see Danks, J. 0-7 start) but simply a function of the anemic (yet better than White Sox nevertheless) offense.

You're not going with AJ reaching 1B with the ball in the dirt? Crede's homer against Riske? Iguchi's off Wells? Joking....have to agree with the Konero GS, off Qualls...I think it was. The Pods and Blum ones weren't so shabby, either.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 24, 2011 -> 07:17 AM) I'd off myself if they got Friedman. A dynasty (within the division) would be on the horizon. Didn't realize about 80-85% of the GM's who've led their teams to the playoffs were doing in with their very first team. Interesting. http://www.csnchicago.com/08/22/11/Kaplan-...amp;feedID=8487

Then again, if Nick Swisher or Alex Rios were to say that, we'd probably think their PR person or agent wrote it and that it was entirely disengenuous.

That would give the Yankees quite a logjam with Tex, Swisher, Posada, Pena, etc. Guess it doesn't really matter to them financially....Pena would only be $1.7-1.8 million for the rest of the season, something like that.