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Paul should not make this team. A third catcher is a waste of a bench spot. I hope that team management will realize this.

I really hope so. It really sucks to see that it came so close but didn't happen. When it's that close things should get done.

Ok it looks like this was the deal, 3 years 11.5 million with an option for 2006 at 7 million which would automatically kick in if Mark pitched 200 innings in 2005 and a 10 million option for 2007. So it looks like this probably could have been done if the sox would have just made the fourth year gaurenteed.

It is from the wire section on their mlb page I wish I knew how to post a link but I'm a computer idiot.

Yeah at this point I have to assume that it is a typo or something, he would be crazy to turn down a deal like that in my opinion.

Damn you beat me to it.

I am not sure if someone has already posted this but I just read on ESPN.com that Buehrle has been renewed at $445,000 after turning down a 5 year 27 million dollar deal. If this is true I have to ask what was mark thinking.

I say put paul on waivers, if he doesn't clear so what it's no big loss. burke and or the other guy we got can be called up in the event of an injury and a trade could be made if the injury is serious. I wouldn't want to see paul as the everyday backup anyway and it doesn't make any sense to waste a spot on the bench for a guy who is only going to play in case of injury, thats what journeyman minor leaguers are for.

I seem to recall that when ozzie guillen left he said Robin had some problems with manageent and wanted to leave. I wish we could have kept him he was my favorite sox player while he was here and it really hurts to see with the yankees.

I don't think Crede will be spectacular but he will be solid, probably putting up numbers similar to eric hinske's numbers last year.

I allways just figured that the tie goes to the runner was just some bulls*** expression that announcers used just so they could be saying something.

Man I hope Madritsch can eventually get to the majors It would be awesome to see another Goldeye playing in the big leagues.

Has anyone heard anything about prior's mental make up. I am just asking because no matter how good your stuff is chances are that at some point in the season it will fail you for a while. Is he the type that should be able to overcome this and get through a stretch without his best stuff come back strong or could it mess with him and cause him to lose his composure. Buehrle has proven that he has a great mental make up and awesome poise on the mound, very similar to maddux or glavine. Baring injury Buehrle's career should look quite similar to those two and I would take that any day of the week.

Then please for the love of God stop praising Comiskey. It seems odd to me that the stolen grand jury testimony of the players suddenly turned up in Comiskey's lawer's briefcase several years later and Comiskey had guilty knowledge too.

1. Disagree. My reading shows that Jackson took money. These guys were banned because they conspired to throw the World Series and were on the take from gamblers. There does not need to be any other reason than that. (And Cubkilla, it is not what you you, it is when you hit it, and it is also how you play defense - being a step slow, the throw being a tad off and slow, etc. You know that these things cannot be "proved" now with all the participants dead. But the suspicions arose at the time by the people who saw the Sox suddenly play like bush leaguers and in a a few games suddenly turn it back on again. It was obvious to those who saw it.) 2. And this puts me in the odd position of disagreeing with you not only once, but also twice. Veeck may have been the most fun owner ever but it was hardly the best. In both of his tenures with the Sox he traded away our future and had all kinds of questionable trades. Call it being uncapitalized, call it being a riverboat gambler, call it having a very short attention span - his periods of ownership were (mercifully) brief, he always felt compelled to go on and do something different, but he left us depleted both times. I know that this is a fine line but I think that there is a difference between taking money and being given money that you didn't want, which is what happend to Joe. Joe is only problem was guilty knowledge and even that is debateable.

Frank is great but Shoeless Joe was the Greatest player to ever wear a White Sox uniform. f*** Shoeless. Do the s*** he did and youre not even worthy of sucking a goats dick. He f***ed us over for nearly a century. f*** him! :fyou :fyou :fyou The only things that Joe did wrong was that he had knowledge of the fix and suposedly didn't tell anybody, although there is some evidence that he tried to tell Charles Comiskey but Comiskey wouldn't talk to him because he was already working on a cover up and he felt Joe wasn't bright enough to help. The other thing he did wrong was not knowing what to do with the money that was given to him for the fix and keeping it, however he was told to keep it by Comiskey's representatives and there is evidence that he never spent the money. If the old roman wasn't such a cheap prick that scandel never would have happend.

Frank is great but Shoeless Joe was the Greatest player to ever wear a White Sox uniform.

If you go to a game when they play the Winnipeg Goldeyes you might be able to see three famous sons if the Goldeyes can resign Pete Rose Jr.

The only problem with this idea is that Shannon Stewart sucks.

I'll have to be sure to boo him when he is getting his ass handed to him by my Winnipeg Goldeyes.

I'm in

As long as the Sox are in the World Series and not at home facing their TV screens I don't really care who their opponent is.

If thats the plan they should do it at the same time so it will always look uniform. I really wouldn't mind that change though, ballparks should be green.

I heard that is why he always had a good OBP, someone kept telling him that there was some crack under first base.

You'd be crazy not to....I was just showing how similar they actually are. Valentin is probably a very good spark for the team....in 2000, we had him at SS and he ignited out lineup(along with Thomas's production). In 01 and 02, he was not playing SS....he was not sparking the lineup. When he got SS back in August, we started playing well again. It is something about him playing SS that just does that....it's like a mojo or something. Fisrt of all I really like Jose but people keep giving him so much credit for the teams success in 2000 and the end of 2002, it seems to me that that success had alot more to do with Franks bat than Jose playing short. Jose should be playing at SS but I have to give Frank the bulk of the credit for the success of the team during those two periods.