Marky Mark

This is a tough one because they're were a lot of good offensive players in his day that will be competing against him for the Hall. Answer this with your head, not your heart.

Absolutely not. The hall is not for good players, its not for great players, its for exceptional, rare, elite players.

I always see a lot of people on Soxtalk say "Sox" when talking about a singular individual (i.e. Mark Buehrle is my favorite White Sox). Does this seem right to you guys? I feel like when talking about a person in this context you should refer to him as "Mark Buehrle is my favorite White Sox player." Or do you feel like the word Sox matches the pronounciation of sock and socks taking on both singular and plural? We gotta clear this up. Are you guys on the same page or am I crazy?

Not a bad idea for a back up. Just a question of how much though that would determine if its a good move or not.

Good luck Cook, we're setting you free to a place where you'll be given a fair shot! You're free big guy! You're free!

Not much happened yesterday. Danks: 1-5, CS Morel: 0-3, R, BB Bellamy: 1 IP, 1 BB, 2 K http://www.mlb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?si...surwin_perwin_1

You guys are so lucky that you had aspirations as kids and young adults growing up. I literally as a kid didn't want to do anything, I always hoped I would win the lottery. Haven't yet......

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 12:41 PM) No doubt. Although Dana already confirmed he is fighting in the finale WHAT! I didn't know that, you blew the surprise!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 11:32 AM) Anyone think Mitrione bails? No. But I bet they will hype every episode as if Kimbo's coming back until the very last.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 11, 2009 -> 10:22 PM) So lets say it becomes a Sox Duel, the White variety could offer: Hudson Torres Flowers Viciedo Retherford PTBNL (Mitchell) The Pads fill their holes at 2nd, Catcher, 2 pitching spots, a first basemen (fill AGon void), and CF. The reason Mitchell is PTBNL is because I really, really, don't want to give up D2. Red could offer: Bucholz Bard and I have no idea who else is in there system If the Sox were at the point where they were allowed to be offering Mitchell and they also gave up the other five guys you named, there will be no other deal out there that would come close to that. However that's too much for Kenny in my opinion.

Does Boston even have a need for Gonzalez?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Nov 11, 2009 -> 10:02 PM) Wren got jobbed, absolutely no way he lost that fight. Exactly, he had been my pick to win the whole show. Despite the fact that it was sloppy, after the second round I thought it was at least going to round 3, if not Justin's victory already.

Can you imagine how amazing Gonzalez would be if he didn't play in Petco for half the season?

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Nov 10, 2009 -> 08:55 PM) Who are the Sox using at shortstop then? Are you going to find someone that makes under 1.5 million to do it? What other areas of the team are going to be weakened because you just traded your cheap shortstop? I guess you need to think of it like this, What's better, 1) Ramirez - Retherford / Nix / IF FA or 2) Gonzalez - Ramirez Obviously with choice 2 you also lose several prospects and have Beckham or a FA at SS, but I feel like the difference in #2 is great enough that if you absolutely need to trade Ramirez to gain Gonzalez, you do it.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Nov 10, 2009 -> 08:47 PM) Because if the Sox are going to win in the next two years, Alexei is probably going to play a large role in that. Subtracting major pieces from the 2010 25 man roster to get Adrian Gonzalez is not the way to do it. Yeah but Adrian Gonzalez would be far more important of a piece than Alexei.....

Why isn't Alexei being considered as a possible piece of this trade idea?

Give any 'spect away except D2. He's kind of a sell low right now cuz of his poor finish. He also did something very special for the Sox in that both he and his brother completely ditched their agent so that they could both be a part of the organization for a long time.

Padilla shoots himself Just jumping on the bandwagon....

By Cowley http://blogs.suntimes.com/whitesox/2009/10...rk_for_201.html

QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 04:59 PM) Link The list: 1. Stephen Strasburg/WAS/RHP 2. Brian Matusz/BAL/LHP 3. Dan Hudson/CHW/RHP 4. Neftali Feliz/TEX/RHP 5. Jeremy Hellickson/TB/RHP 6. Wade Davis/TB/RHP 7. Carlos Carrasco/CLE/RHP 8. Jhoulys Chacin/COL/RHP 9. Madison Bumgarner/SF/LHP 10. Kyle Drabek/PHI/RHP 11. Martin Perez/TEX/LHP 12. Christian Friedrich/COL/LHP 13. Hector Rondon/CLE/RHP 14. Junichi Tazawa/BOS/RHP 15. Mike Leake/CIN/RHP 16. Jon Niese/NYM/LHP 17. Jake Arrieta/BAL/RHP 18. Jenrry Mejia/NYM/RHP 19. Casey Kelly/BOS/RHP 20. Michael Montgomery/KC/LHP 21. Jarrod Parker/ARI/RHP 22. Kevin Mulvey/ARI/RHP 23. Brad Lincoln/PIT/RHP 24. Matthew Moore/TB/LHP 25. Zeke Spruill/ATL/RHP So, do you agree with Hudson's ranking on the list? Do you agree with the rest of the list? Personally, I'd take a handful of guys ranked behind Hudson before I'd take him. Although they've gotten better about it over the past two years, project prospect is very much so based on sabermetrics and where a player is drafted over mechanics and stuff. Before he got promoted to Birmingham Hudson was never once mentioned on PP. Huddy should be further down. They just loved his minor league rise this year.

Don't forget how badly our minor leagues and scouting were because of a certain dickhead who was skimming money off contract bonuses. Not saying he played a huge role in the Broadway signing, but you never know.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Oct 1, 2009 -> 11:38 AM) It *might* be possible to play AJ and Flowers in the same lineup and use Paulie as the emergency 3rd catcher. But he hasn't caught for so long that it probably wouldn't be a good idea. They'd activate Cora to play catcher before Paulie goes there again.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Sep 30, 2009 -> 11:45 PM)

Bumped. Anyone have video of this? I was out of town and missed it.

Anyone have video? I can't find any working links.