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Why would Seattle want Lee or Konerko? Wouldn't the aim of the trade, atleast on their part, be cutting salary? I could understand if they felt they could contend this season and just need a bat to do it, but they can't feel very good about their chances or they wouldn't be trading away their best pitcher. I think we could get Garcia for a couple of prospects and end up paying all/most of his salary.

Was it Pacheco or Diaz that had all those K's in winterball last year?

No s***. Man, that's not cool at all. I just came into work and usually read the boards prior to reading the sports page.

aahhh...what incident are you referring to?

Tough to hit the ball when it rarely goes over the plate.

I used to feel that way. But now his ERA is probably over 6.00. You're closer CANNOT have an ERA over 6. That's not a closer, that's a lucky foooo. He still can't consistently get ahead of hitters, even after his pitching coach and manager drilled it into his head. With his weak fastball he needs to get ahead. I've seen enough. BTW, the team looked shaken while congratulating one another. I think that the team has seen enough too.

I watched the last 5 innings of this game and, as much as I despise the Twinkies, they were robbed a few times by the home plate ump, including the game winner. But hey, I ain't compainin'..... 1stPlace!!!!

Good to see Uribe 6th in the SS ranking. Glad Dransfeldt was playing SS tonight.

With Jose coming back we've got absolutely no use for a minor league player on this team.

I'm with ya. I sub Willie for Dransfeldt and move Uribe to short. Ozzie must make a statement here. There was the non-2B-cover on the steal in the first which turned into a run, the HORRIBLE AB with the bases loaded, and now a 2 run error that turned into 4 runs. OG needs to get E-Lo's back and let him know that that s*** won't stand on this team. BTW, I don't give a f*** that the scrub saved a game for us. That only makes us for one of his errors. H

Did KD forget that Maggs is hitting behind him?

I skipped the ESPN2 broadcast for the Orioles home broadcast. The one dude, I wish I could remember his name, was BK's manager up in Toronto. He seemed to appreciate Ozzie's move not to have anyone up. He was talking about how Billy was just a kind of wild closer, seldom easy, but that Ozzie was just letting Billy know that it was his game, do or die. I remember Oakland fans warning us about Koch's 9th innings when we got him. Seems he's still the same pitcher, minus 5-7MPH velocity. Oh, and CW, man I gotta say that Ainsworth was the luckiest pitcher of the night. Maggs was ROBBED over the wall of a grand salami thanks to Larry Bigbie, in the 2nd I think. That would've been a nice 4 spot to have on the board.

I think these polls are pretty much crap, but nonetheless it's great to the Sox get some due props. http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/7303689

I miss the chat today and you guys were talking in depth about a favorite pitcher of mine coming to the Sox? That's my luck.

Mulder please....well s***, Hudson will work too.

give him 6/$90M. He'll pay off with attendance and with a winning baseball team. The Sox could afford him. I think you're right that NY will definitely try to schnag him, especially with B.Williams getting old as hell. I don't know if Beltran will want to play in NY. Also, I think NY would lean towards signing Maggs if both were available. I also don't see Beltran getting more than Vladdy got. He should be on par with Vladdy, but no more.

So you're suggesting that we give him $60M for 4 years so that he plays better and is able to concentrate? Shouldn't a guy making $15M/year be focused all the time, with extremely rare slumps? Here's the best way to handle this. Offer him 4/$48M. If he doesn't like it let him know he's gone at the end of the season and that he better step up his performance if he thinks he's going to do better than our offer. Then, in the offseason, give 4/$60M to Carlos Beltran and we end up with a better team.

Well, I've said a few times that Cotts needs to get the nod but now that DW is actually gone, I'd have to say we go with Diaz. Sure, he's very young, no experience, but he's tearing some s*** up so far this season. I like Cotts in the pen, until next year. If they do pick someone other than Cotts, I really hope that either Ozzie or Coop sit down and explain the situation to Neal so that he doesn't lose any confidence.

Not only did he cost us the game with 6ER in 3IP, but because of those 3IP we just beat the s*** out of the bullpen today. Even without the doubleheader/extra innings, a 3 inning outing will strain a bullpen. The guy needs to go. He looks absolutely HORRIBLE on the mound.

That was pretty much hilarious. It kills me to say that considering it was spawned from a sCrUB fan, but damn, seriously, that s*** was pretty funy.

As a leading sportswriter in Chicago, who also regularly appears on a national sports show, who also has his own radio show on a local sports station, the man does carry some clout. He has faithful fans of his work. People who are new to town recognize his name and therefore read or listen to his bulls***. When arguably the most popular sportsperson in town continuously throws stones at a franchise I find it hard to believe that that doesn't result in a certain negative impression of that franchise amongst the public. That's why we should care. He obviously takes pleasure in knocking this team, this ownership, and the fans. He is no longer neutral, no longer unbiased, he is out to do as much damage as he can. Sox faithful like those of us on this board can't be swayed by his propaganda, casual baseball fans looking for a family outing can. I think that a promotion at the park bashing this guy would be an outstanding promotion. Obviously you wouldn't get him into a dunk booth, but we could have paper shredders at the gates. Bring a Mariotti article, shred it at the gate, and get a free ticket. It would forever label him as a hardcore sCrUBS fan after the media attention the stunt would garner, no longer would he be able to declare himself neutral. Finally, casual baseball fans who find themselves reading his crap, would realize that they are reading an extremely biased opinion.

Ladewski hits on some great ideas http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/co...ki/x29-lad1.htm

Welcome Aboard!!! Yeah, I'm an Extra Innings subscriber down in OK. I don't get the WCIU games unless they happen to use the opponent's broadcast. Really frustrating.

Yeah, the bodyguard reference was nice jab. As was the jab at the DRays, which are no by no means a great team but most certainly better than PIT or the NYM, which are the two teams the sCrUBS just swept to get their record over .500. The Prior comment was ludicrous. The fact he tried to hail "blurrying" pitching performances for the sCrUBS again is misleading, considering those performances have only come against two of the most offensively anemic teams in the league. And the "winning for the franchise's self esteem" comment was a bit out there as well. We've been winning, or atleast in comparison the northside club we've been winning. "On behalf of every Chicagoan sick of these juvenile, dumb and civically demeaning spats over the Cubs and White Sox, allow me to propose a truce. Can't we all just get along?" Something tells me that journalism school didn't teach him how to support your introductory statement throughout your article.

Was tracking the game on the computer tonight and noticed that in either the 7th or 8th inning Sportsline gametracker showed Rauch warming up in the BP. Was this a mistake or did Rauch get called up?