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I like it, very fair price and creative with the deferred money. I would have preferred DLee, personally, but I don't feel we overpaid compared to Paulie's market value at all.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 11:20 PM) Do you think up to this point that the Sox have had more conversation with Konerko or DLee? According to some writer, Konerko's agent hasn't even spoken with the Sox yet and won't until the winter meetings. I'd imagine that KW, giving his due diligence, has to have atleast had some sort of feeler out for what DLee is looking for.

Love me some PK but last season kind of came out of nowhere. If you sign him to a 2 or 3 year deal chances are you'll never see anything even close to last season. A mediocre PK season is equal to a mediocre DLee season, for a whole lot less money. Outside of '06, last season was a career year for Paulie. At 35, you just can't count on much more of that.

Search on youtube and you'll find some tutorials. I had one saved but lost the link.

QUOTE (sircaffey @ Nov 28, 2010 -> 12:34 AM) I love this team. Now only if we could upgrade the 2 position. I can't watch Bogans start the whole year. Why is Bogans starting over Brewer? Not that Brewer is the great shooter we need, but I like what he brings to both ends of the floor. Bogans is pretty good at missing wide open shots but, still, I'd prefer Brewer starting.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Nov 24, 2010 -> 10:02 AM) I agree with KW for once. If you are not going to be competitive next season, sell off the veterans with value and start rebuilding to contend, being half way between contending and rebuilding has no benefit. If KW cant sign/acquire the players that are going to put this team into contention, tear this thing down and start rebuilding. The only problem I have with that is that the Sox minor league scouts have not shown to have a great track record of evaluating talent. With a starting 5 of Danks, Floyd, Jackson, Buehrle, and Peavy/Sale, we're going to be competitive. It didn't work out very well last season (though we did win 88 games) I would say that we're actually entering this season with a much stronger rotation (lose Freddy add Edwin). We have holes and the pen could be an issue, but with a staff like that you're nearly guaranteed a .500 record with nothing more than a meager offense. KW has to know this and, imo, believes this as he has always placed a premium on SP.

I've been here for a while and I can tell you that there's one guy in this thread that I'm absolutely convinced has a damn good source....he's been spot on about a few things. He's never come out and said, "yo, check out this insider info I've got" but he'll drop names of players, etc. very nonchalantly and next thing you know we're in the running for said player. Now that I know he has a PM list for this info, I sure wish I were on it

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 01:03 PM) So no one reads a statement from KW that Peavy will be on the DL as KW actually saying "Peavy's going to win 6 games for me in April and I'm going to rake someone over the coals for one of my pitchers"?

Walk will fix him....maybe not.

Great news despite his shaky 2nd half last season.

Twins expected to raise payroll http://mlb-facts-and-rumors.blogs.cbssport...297882/25783918

Per Sportsline....and props to them for making fun of Cowley http://dave-andriesen.blogs.cbssports.com/...297882/25554357

Rangers in 5

"I wish I was your dick, man..."

While I'm glad to see him go, I think Walk was just starting to mature into being a hitting coach. This is the first season he's been on board that we didn't consistently fail against pitchers we hadn't seen before. That alone tells me he matured. On the other hand, our hitters made no adjustments throughout a game, seemed to be without a game plan for each at bat, and he was still missing mechanical flaws (see Beckham stating he wasn't opening up early or it taking a year to figure out Rios hands were starting too high, both of which were easily seen on video).

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 16, 2010 -> 10:18 AM) Which is opposed to most other GM's mantras of "I really hope we lose." While veiled, my point was that he doesn't believe in 5 year rebuilds....he always wants to be competitive.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 04:05 PM) There is nothing wrong with having a fourth or fifth starter who pitches for less than a million a year. What about 3 fourth or fifth starters because, apparently, that's the OP's point....we should have hung onto a bunch of bottom of the rotation pitchers because they're cheap. KW has been an absolute Godsend to this franchise. Our drafts are looking CONSIDERABLY better (see Sale, Beckham, Mitchell), we've stolen some great undervalued talent from other teams, and, other than the aforementioned 4&5 SPs, we haven't given up dick. Not to mention the fact he actually wants to win. Other than a hiccup here or there, he doesn't sign bad contracts that are anchors to this team. OG is the problem with this team. For a guy who has played as much baseball as he has, watched as much baseball as he has, and coached as much as he has...the guy makes some of the most idiotic management decisions I've ever seen....and it's getting worse! You'd think he'd have learned by now what works well and what doesn't but, nope, he just continues to make the same poor choices. I hope he's gone before opening day.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 10:38 AM) Manny has obviously been a waste of money, but mainly because this team is too far out with too little games to play. But to think Manny is done and needs to retire? Absolutely hilarious. Yeah...I'm with you. I'm not sure why KW is catching hell for making a move to improve our chances? Either y'all think Kotsay/Jones was a better DH option or you are an investor in this franchise. Me, I'm a White Sox fan and I was thrilled to see someone of Manny's ability come on board. He's disappointed, but I definitely liked the move.

My issue with Ozzie is not his poor decisions, every manager has those, it's with his strategies and fondness of NL style baseball. A poor decision is leaving MB in to face VMart....I expect a manager to choose incorrectly some times. Sacrificing Juan Pierre to second CONSISTENTLY throughout this season late in games is a strategy, not a spur of the moment decision. Sacrifice bunts, stealing bases with little to no regard for the opposing battery, these are strategies. A rotating DH is a strategy. Sunday lineups are strategy. We aren't in the NL and, until Ozzie gets this through his thick head, I will continue to look at him as a manager who not only is a poor strategic manager but also a buffoon who refuses to admit the faults of his strategies.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 09:59 AM) Not if he doesn't want to. This is America, the land of the free! Yeah, that is the case. He can skip his conscription but would never be allowed to step foot on Korean soil again....tough decision to abandon your home like that.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 11:58 AM) Here's another thing: the Sox are actually ahead of the league average on getting guys home from 3rd with less than 2 out. The league average is an astoundingly low 53%, which tells you that (1) a lot of teams struggle to bring home those runners; and (2) all things being equal, you have a slightly better than 50% chance to bring home the run that will still leave you 2 runs short, with few outs remaining. Not so hot. Don't forget that we lead the league hitting with RISP....which means it was absolutely imperative to move Pierre from 2B to 3B....errr

I am so glad I picked Jackson in my fantasy league right after Coop said he could fix him. It's paid off verrryyyy nicely.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 31, 2010 -> 11:57 AM) Another thing that was specifically talked about was a change in body position on the mound. I believe that the talk was Jackson was slouching over more while throwing late in last season/early this season, and one of his first tasks was getting him to stand back upwards. Yeah, the ESPN coverage of his first Sox start was referring to how Coop had identified his right leg would kind of collapse or buckle early in his delivery which caused him to regularly miss up and in (to RH hitters) and just generally lose quite a bit of accuracy.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 07:32 AM) How do you know what financial impact it has? Its $4 million that could have been spent on something more useful, perhaps earlier in the season. But that money wasn't used to acquire anyone so, again, it has no present value to the team, from a fan's perspective, outside of acquiring Manny. While interest on $4M would be great if we were investors, we're not. Debating his value to LA is fair game, though I think 2009's contributions in contrast to his 2010 efforts make it clear that he no longer gets along with Torre or someone else in that organization as opposed to him just losing his skills.

From a fan or media perspective, I'm not sure exactly why the fact Manny makes $4M over the remainder of the season is even in the conversation when evaluating the move? This expenditure has no impact on next season's payroll, no impact on acquiring additional help this season, and cost us nothing in terms of talent. The only person that should care about the size of Manny's remaining 30 day contract is Reinsdorf and the other investors. As fans or as media, you can only judge this move based on what Manny does for the White Sox chance of winning this division.....any move that replaces Mark Kotsay with Manny Ramirez has absolutely got to be looked at as an improvement.