supernuke

I couldn't agree more.

Hope Josh Paul dosen't let the door hit him in the ass on the way out.

Montreal is the home of baseball in Canada and would sellout every game if they played in Jerry Park or a place like it(with more seats, but not Big bl"O"w like. Super you can look forward to Fergie Jenkins' CBL this year though, is there a team in the peg? Montreal was set to fail, with not being on T.V. and playing in that s***box and alienating fans at every possible turn, I hope the Seagrams lawsuit wins. No CBL in the peg. We have the Goldeyes in the northern league though. They have been to the playoffs every year since their inception in 1994, but only one championship which they won in their innagural year. Go Goldeyes

I'll have to agree with my fellow Canadian on this, Rogers is going to see a big decline this year.

The Expos should stay where they are. MLB just has to relocate fans from other areas to Montreal. It will be a sad day for me when the damn blue jays are the only Canadian team left. :fyou blue jays.

Sadly I think the only thing that letter would do is give you writers cramp.

I would just add two words to your brilliant and accurate summation: Buehrle accepted the deal, KW and Hahn accepted the deal, but JR did not. I just want to add to the addition, :fyou JR

i agree - except I'll add that I don't expect Kelly to struggle I'll agree with cw on this one.

Thanks alot cluj. I am at work during the day and being able to see these reports when I get home is great. I can get a much better feel for what happened in the game this way instead of just looking at box scores.

The players union will not tolorate any player having a mind of their own unless said player completly supports the unions philosophy.

Exactly, we do not NEED a third catcher. A veteran and a rookie are enough to keep us going. Hopefully, its gonna be Rios, Graffanino, Daubach, Alomar, and Harris/Miles. An extra infielder is alot more useful than a catcher thats gonna catch probably once every two weeks. the thrid catcher is a wasted spot..unless of course one of your atchers is named sandy alomar...wtf was KW thinking here???....sandy was great in his day but god dammit we know he will go on the DL and because of that he have to carry an extra player that sux...the best move would be if sandy went on the DL during ST..he could then act as a bench coach to MO and we keep paul as the 2nd catcher so we dont lose him to another team.. we cant let paul go to another team..then have sandy go on the DL and its olivo and burke as the catchers...that would precipitate a mid season trade for a back up catcher and would cost an arm and a leg... Put Paul on waivers and send him down, if he gets claimed so be it. If Alomar goes on the Dl for an extended period of time we will have to make a trade anyway. I know I would not want to see Paul as the regular backup,he sucks defensively and doesn't have much of a bat either.

Well it looks like kw will have a brand new excuse for not spending any money next year now that he doesn't have any cost certainty. It will probably go something like this, How can I spend a dollar when I'm not sure if i have 50 cents or a quarter.

The last two years were option years. I think if the fourth year was gaurenteed it would have been a done deal. Although it looks like Marks agent may have been set on Mark going year by year.

This is part of what I read. The White Sox mlb board has more on the story though.

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.