joejoesox

According to my somewhat simple calculations based on kalapse's payroll spreadsheet, unless new contracts are offered in the 2009 offseason, the following players (or just their contracts) will no longer be on the books for 2010: Jim Thome Jermaine Dye Octavio Dotel Matt Thornton Mike MacDougal (He was released, but we're still paying his salary for this year right? 2.65m) Wilson Betemit Jose Contreras That's around 40-43 million, please correct any mistakes if I made any That's a f***ing ton of money right there

The Padres might be a bit on the desperate side in a trade like this, I don't see them fleecing anyone

Jake Peavy turns a, what.. at best 81-81 team into maybe an 84-78 team? I guess being that he has 3-4 more years on his contract, it would make us better down the road but for this year? I'd still s*** my pants if it happened, but I have a feeling this is just BS by some guy who knew he could stir the pot after one of his previous predictions (Garland/Cabrera)

f*** you Alexei Ramirez, you're a reason why this team is f***ing garbage this year

what channel is this on

Bench this failure.

Fields is f***ing hilarious to watch as a baseball player

Fields isn't the answer

like, in baseball, aren't you supposed to be able to hit fastballs how long before josh fields is just another has-been?

i was 3 years old, i remember it well

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 19, 2009 -> 11:03 AM) Just to point out, the current lineup has lost quite a few games in a row. you don't think they're underachieving? i'm not saying they're going to turn it around and end up above .500 at the end of the year, i'm merely pointing out what would happen if they completely blew it all up and went with all league-minimum players it would be unbearable even compared to what we're currently watching

Let's turn this already unwatchable team into something even more unwatchable. I'm not arguing that we shouldn't unload some guys, but some of these threads are hilarious. Let's dump every guy with a salary above league-minimum, and create something even more hideous. You want the Chicago Nationals? Well, at least they have Adam Dunn. Dumping Konerko, Thome, Dye, Thornton, Dotel, Jenks, Linebrink, AJ, leaves us with holes to fill (with most likely unready players) at: 1B DH RF C We're already sitting at question marks at 3B, SS, 2B, CF That leaves us with a question mark at every starting position. It also completely annihilates our bullpen, which stands behind an already horses*** starting rotation (I'm looking at you Clayton "1:1 strikes-to-balls" Richard and Gavin "I left my balls in Maryland" Floyd) At least we have a corner outfielder who, hopefully, might be good and would ..maybe, resign with the blown-up firesale Chicago Whitesox, who won't be competitive for what could be a decade, easily I wouldn't spend a dime on tickets to watch a terrible prospect-laden baseball team fight it out for 4th place for the next 5-6 years, and that's a generous time estimate

dotel and aj are f***ing worthless

I have a date with Step 4, during tomorrow's post-game

Stick a fork in Jose. Stick a fork in him 2 weeks ago, actually.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 6, 2009 -> 06:57 AM) The caulfield bashing obsession is becoming comical. agreed, lets get the girls some pompoms

QUOTE (fathom @ May 5, 2009 -> 09:08 PM) Disagree, he was one of our smartest hitters last year. He's just struggling right now, and he's trying to hit an 8 run homer every AB. It's real simple...he's opening up so early, it's disgusting. Stay closed, and he'll start hitting a lot of the pitches he's not close to hitting. Disagree, he saw a lot of hittable pitches last year because the league wasn't ready for him. The league has responded, and he isn't smart enough to respond himself

QUOTE (zenryan @ May 5, 2009 -> 09:05 PM) f*** this team and f*** alexei ramirez. This isnt just a slow start for him. He gets out the same exact way every time he's at the plate. The league has adjusted to him and he isnt smart enough to make his own adjustments. This is the key here. He's a stupid baseball player.

Gavin Floyd, Alexei Ramirez, Lance Broadway, Jose Contreras, Scott Podsednik, Jim Thome, and Brent Lillibridge are horse s***.

This ballgame is OVAH! Bullpen BURNED! Get ready for a nice losing streak, and passing up cleveland for last place in the central.

burned our whole f***ing bullpen out for this gotta love baseball

only way we can score is with homeruns, pretty ridiculous 1 out triples, leadoff doubles, doesn't matter if we can't get the ball to fly over the fence

You know this team is done when you're getting triples by AJ and still can't bring him in with a simple ground ball. Ramirez is about the dumbest hitter in our lineup, he has zero strikezone judgement

Alexei needs to be sent down, he's done. Bring up Beckham.

Keep booing AJ, KC. Please.