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I really have a sinking feeling that Uribe is going to be starting over Richar and taking mad at-bats from him, or at least leaving thin eggshells for Richar to walk on. Which makes this my least favorite offseason move by default. It wouldn't have been so bad if they'd have traded Garland for Cabrera who was also only going to be around one more year AFTERWARDS, but that's not how it worked out. Kenny really bought low on Quentin and it could end up working out brilliantly. It took me a couple days to come around on the Swisher signing but it was better than any of the other CFers we could've gotten that year except for maybe Fukudome, assuming he lives up to all that hype.

It was just a swapping of terrible and horrible contracts. Both teams feel like they got away with something.

QUOTE(rcpweiner @ Feb 22, 2008 -> 04:41 PM) Until someone overtakes Uribe as 2nd baseman, where it looks like he's going to be playing, then the Uribe signing AND Cabrera trade should be off everyone's "worst" list. I don't see any good reason Uribe should be starting at 2B aside from the fact that he is being paid like a starter.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Feb 21, 2008 -> 11:39 AM) And you can have decent healthcare, just buy it. Yes because that's the reason so many people don't have healthcare, they just don't want to pay for it. Those damn people, ruining everything with their sense of entitlement.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Feb 21, 2008 -> 07:55 PM) Well, I like having him much more than ben wallace and do prefer him over ben gordon. And his contract is at least somewhat more tolerable knowing it wasn't us who signed him to it... I still remember drafting him late in fantasy a few years ago and the big season he had... Stay healthy and play hard, Hughes. Hughes and Wallace both have terrible contracts, but the difference - Hughes actually has value as an NBA player.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Feb 22, 2008 -> 08:56 PM) I never understood why Wallace always tried so many fancy layups around the basket.... whats wrong with dunking the damn ball. I don't understand how you can be 6'9" and miss an uncontested layup. Just put the ball in the basket. Damn.

QUOTE(Reddy @ Feb 22, 2008 -> 04:38 PM) so essentially you hate the vast majority of what campaigning is. Actually yes.

QUOTE(ptatc @ Feb 22, 2008 -> 09:06 AM) A player that will do that is few and far between with this type of agent. Some agents listen to players more than others. Boras is not one of them. That's because most players just want the biggest deal possible and that's what Boras is out to do, and he's the best at doing that.

QUOTE(ptatc @ Feb 22, 2008 -> 08:26 AM) And if you think that's the way it always works, you are naive. How many times have you heard a player say "that's why I hired an agent, to do that work for me." Not all agents take control but many convince the players they know best and"just let me handle it." This is similar to the players have a say in who runs the union. In theory they do but in practice, the leaders of the union decide who they want and tell the players they should vote for the guy. And by the why there is no one else to run against him. No I'm not naive at all. The agent does all the work but the final decision on where he goes and what he does is up to the player, not the agent. If a player wants to give a hometown discount to stay in their city they will do it.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Feb 22, 2008 -> 12:57 AM) He is always looking for the best deal because that gives him the biggest pay day, he doesnt go and give home town discounts or do the type of things to make sure that his players stay happy. HE works for THEM. They tell him what to do.

QUOTE(Jimbo's Drinker @ Feb 21, 2008 -> 12:48 PM) Idon't miss Garland at all, the kid was a headcase. I think if Danks can develop some Cooper pitches he will be great. Floyd is just crap in my opinion. Floyd has really good stuff, its just the problem of somehow realizing it.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Feb 21, 2008 -> 09:23 AM) When I posted the picture above... I was mocking it, a little. I know, I was arguing for the sake of being argumentative. lol

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Feb 20, 2008 -> 09:28 PM) I like the goal, but it's a lotfy one, it probably won't happen but we'll see. Didn't Willie Harris make a crazy goal a few years back? It's not completely inconceivable, given the pace he was on for basically half a season plus a year of assumed improvement as a hitter. It would mean he had to be in CF full-time though.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 20, 2008 -> 02:13 PM) Sure it is fun to mock something that others people hold as sacred. Posting a picture of something is mocking it? I think not. I could see if we had a large number of Muslims who posted on this board and they collectively said "we don't appreciate you posting pictures of our prophet b/c it's forbidden in our religion" and someone did it anyway but thats not the case. Now, to say something like "I bet Mohammed was a Jew" just to get a laugh... THAT is mocking.

BTW I really hate it when a campaign gets desperate and starts attacking the other candidate personally and start getting away from the issues, I also hate the subtle but irrelevant low blows.

QUOTE(Reddy @ Feb 8, 2008 -> 04:37 PM) i hate it when campaigns base their campaign entirely on meaningless rhetoric to rile up emotions instead of actually dealing with issues. this is why the candidates i support always lose - they're issues candidates. I'm assuming you're talking about Obama, and IMO this is getting blown all out of proportion, any time I hear a Republican (or sometimes a Hillary supporter) say something like "Obama is shallow and all talk, great speaker and nothing more" or "Obama's supporters probably don't even know what his policies and plans are, they just like hearing him talk" it makes me wonder how much they really know about Obama. Truth be told Obama has voted in lock step with the Dems since he's been elected to the Senate (he's not different from any other Democrat) and on most of the major issues, his stances are either really close or identical to Hillary's. If someone really doesn't know where Obama stands on major political issues by now they have to just be deliberately ignoring him.

I wish Jerry Owens would do steroids. I'm joking but only a little.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Jan 20, 2008 -> 09:30 PM) Yea I didn't want to say below average. Thought I'd be generous. Corey does have his moments. Patterson is a much better defensive CF than Owens... I'd call Owens average at best. Bad instincts which are mitigated by plus speed make average range. But he throws like a girl. Patterson would be a decent #9 hitter though. When he was in Baltimore (I went to several games) they'd periodically try him at the top of the order and he'd suck, but in the 9 hole with no pressure he's pretty good and he has very good speed to boot.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Jan 21, 2008 -> 04:04 PM) Overpaid (unless there are incentives we don't know about), but I like the signing in general. I have always been a big fan of Dotel's, and if healthy, he can be a top SU man. "Overpaid" just comes with the territory, these days just about anyone who reaches FA healthy and has above average stats will get a contract worth at least 10 million. That's subjective really. I mean, at the beginning of 2007 people were saying Javier Vazquez was overpaid, same thing about Lilly on the Cubs, but nobody [smart] is saying that now. Baseball players make a ton of money, that's just how it is. My 1 year old is favoring his left hand, so you'd best believe I'm putting a baseball in there as soon as he learns to grip it.

This is a high risk, high reward type of signing. If it works out and Dotel doesn't get injured it could work out beautifully. If not we are stuck with a pretty expensive DL.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Jan 9, 2008 -> 07:53 PM) I'm not challenging you I just want to ask a question. What if we found out that 85% of ALL players throughout baseball, minors and majors, took steroids or HGH. Would that make a difference? Would you have open tryouts? I only ask because I wouldn't be surprised if that were the true number. Or even more. Yeah... I wish it was that black and white. I honestly do not care anymore. It is what it is.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Jan 9, 2008 -> 07:49 PM) Agreed...but more often than not...there may have been talks, but it probably won't happen. Not saying it absolutely won't...just probably won't. This is every sport though really... and a lot of it is total BS that's not based anywhere in fact, remember this past offseason when everybody was like "ZOMG THE BEARS R GONNA GET MCNABB FOR BRIGGS" because of a hypothetical Yahoo Sports article? However, I guess the difference here is Kenny actually does something eventually, whether good or bad (Unlike John Paxson who could have had EITHER KOBE BRYANT OR FREAKING KEVIN GARNETT but chooses to hold onto his roster of overrated, low-ceiling players for dear life) Anyway, rant aside, there's a lot of media-speculated and fan-speculated BS in the offseason of any sport.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 05:33 PM) Maybe BP should have researched a bit more, Swish is FAR more deadly against LHP Which year's stats are you looking at? I see in 2007 there is a nice wide gap in OPS in favor of LHP, but in his career numbers it's only about 35 points. Josh Fields, on the other hand, eats left-handed pitchers for lunch.

QUOTE(max power @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 07:39 PM) Are you a fan of the show lost or did someone lose you between the seat cushions? Originally it meant "lost" as in "displaced" considering I now live in Maryland and I'm a Bears/Sox/Bulls fan (in that order of priority). Now it's pretty much just a screen name that I use on every sports site I post on. I tell you what though, whenever I get to arguing with certain types of people and they disagree with me on something, usually when I'm right and have other people on my side, and they are very wrong, they say "wow lost, you're just like your name!" That automatically lets me know that I'm dealing with the internet's sports message board lowest common denominator, i.e. someone well below average intelligence. So far there has only been one exception to that rule.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 05:28 PM) In Dye's three years with the Sox, he has never played "excellent defense" nor has he had "good speed on the basepaths". Let me put it this way, he's never been Pods, Owens, or Ozuna, but he's also never been Konerko, Thome, or AJ. He's a surprise threat to steal bases and he legs out extra bases from time to time. He seemed like he lost more than a step in 2007 though. I thought his defense in 2006 was really good, not All-Star good but above average. In 2005 maybe my memory makes him better because he's better out there than Ordonez. But then again in 2007 he just looked really old.