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So who would you rather play? Philly or New Orleans?

Rangers closing in on Beltre with 5 year deal. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/01/rang...-to-beltre.html

Alfredo Simon is wanted for murder. http://deadspin.com/5722871/baltimore-orio...nted-for-murder At one point last year, he actually did a decent job as closer for the O's.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jan 2, 2011 -> 06:24 PM) Major Wright, Chris Harris and Nick Roach all got hurt. Still too early to see how bad. Agreed. Really? Thought I saw Harris playing late in the game.

The good thing is that nobody came out of that game hurt. Cutler looked off today though.

Bears D hasn't played this well since the Miami game.

Looks like the Bears game won't mean much. Atlanta's destroying Carolina.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jan 2, 2011 -> 04:11 AM) dont listen to T R U.. he just wants more "Christmas n00bs" to join the black ops community so he can feast on your souls and inflate his stats even more. I loved it when I'm in a map with noobs when the game just released. Easy kills. Unless they're on your team.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jan 2, 2011 -> 01:30 AM) I can't believe the intelligent people on here think we are a lock to win anything and if we don't Ozzie should be canned. First of all it was a miracle winning as many games as the Sox did last year. Secondly, I could easily see this team sucking. Just because Dunn has been added and Crain? That doesn't mean s*** except we are returning to the days we had another major league hitter (Dye before the second half collapse in his final season here; Thome before he was let loose n signed by the Twins) in the lineup instead of the abysmal Kotsay and mediocre Jones duo. We have no proven closer. Our starting pitchers were good at times last year, horses*** at times. Peavy is a major question mark. Our third base and second base are question marks (as much as I love Gordon's potential). Paulie could easily drop in production after that great great season of his. We still have a powderpuff hitter in left who arguably is not a good leadoff hitter and has no arm. Rios is no superstar. In fact, despite his nice season, he still has much to prove. After bouncing back last year, does he feel he has anything to prove? Will he regress? AJ had an average season last year. Some might say until the last six weeks or so he sucked. He's not getting any younger. And this team has shown no ability to beat Minnesota and even dominate the lowly teams in the division. Just because we added Dunn and Crain we are locks to win the division? We are locks to dominate KC, Cleveland and Detroit when we haven't dominated them the past two seasons at all, just because of Crain and Dunn? I dunno about that. This team isn't a lock to win s*** and if it doesn't it isn't necessarily Ozzie's fault. That said, if I were Ozzie and thought I had enough money in the bank/investments, I would ask for an extension now in an ultimatum ploy. If he doesn't get one, he should resign. He can be a bench coach next year somewhere in the NL, then get a managing job again, likely in Florida. He's a fool to go into the year with a one-year deal; a fool. Managers with a WS title under their belt have more leverage than one year deals. As much as people think the White Sox should win it all every year, the reality is the city of Chicago has one WS title in the last 10,000 years. That title was with Ozzie at the helm. Ozzie's contractual situation will be a major distraction all season. How can it not be? Ozzie doesn't stifle on matters like this. With Ozzie's mouth, the reporters will be able to bait him so easily. If the Sox are winning early, they'll be asking him about the extension and doesn't he deserve one NOW; if the Sox are losing, they'll be asking about him about likely not getting an extension. He'll say his old s*** of, 'If they don't like Ozzie, fire him now!' It will be a HUGE mess with him unsigned past next year. Should be crazy to watch it all explode. p.s. After reading Rogers' article, it's pretty obvious Ozzie will be Florida's manager after next season. This isn't going to work with him on a one-year deal. No way. Not with his ego. There will be sooo many fireworks. Might as well get it over now. Thank you Ozzie's agent. There's question marks on every team, some just have less than others. The White Sox are one of those teams with less question marks than most of the teams within our division. Detroit is thinking about starting Phil Coke. Minnesota barely has a bullpen left. If you spend $120 million this off-season and end up losing to the Twins again or underperform (anything less than 88 wins IMO), there's no reason Ozzie should stay unless the team has a bunch of injuries and things were completely out of his control. Ozzie has absolutely no right to continually ask for a contract extension throughout the season. He has to earn it. He was the one who helped screwed up the entire DH situation last year and I'm willing to bet Kenny's fuse with him is very, very short. If he complains about a contract extension throughout the season and the team underachieves, he doesn't even have to resign, he'll be fired first.

The Bulls' financial success since the Jordan era might be a reason why we're getting so much money this off-season. After all, Jerry is the majority owner of both teams and he can do whatever he wants with the money he makes.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 1, 2011 -> 08:53 PM) Hawk Harrelson, anyone? I never said I liked Hawk.

Warriors were leading by 14 at the break against Miami. Now down 8 with about 8 to go in the 4th. Yuck.

Apparently, the Cavs wanted to give the fans some Big Macs since they fouled Deng for no reason. lol Bulls played a s***ty fourth again, that's been the case ever since Joakim's been out.

Boras is playing games with Kenny again. I heavily doubt that Soriano would take a cheaper deal just because of Ozzie. Besides, is there even a history between the two?

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jan 1, 2011 -> 06:29 PM) oh man, it's getting worse for Rex Ryan! ........ My eyes!

It better be. You don't spend $120 million+ and lose the division.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Dec 31, 2010 -> 06:29 PM) Noah needs to be in the booth until he gets back from injury. He was hilarious. It was like having Frank Thomas broadcasting White Sox games. Too much homerism, although I can't blame him for cheering his teammates on. He's still playing for the team.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Dec 31, 2010 -> 07:28 PM) A few points.... • I wonder if twitter would go away if the media didn't keep quoting things people say on twitter. How many people actually use the thing? • I don't see why anybody would give a f*** what Oney Guillen tweets. What does he have to do with anything? If he wants to reveal Bobby's problems, I guess somebody could ask Bobby to comment on what Oney is saying, but it's pretty irresponsible for anybody to quote a nobody like Oney Guillen's twitter posts. Who cares what Oney Guillen has to say on twitter? • I don't see how this involves Ozzie or your feelings about Ozzie at all. This is his kid. He has nothing to do with another grown human being over 21 years old. Why anybody thinks any of this reflects badly on Ozzie is beyond me. • Paul Konerko and AJP are back with the Sox; we just added Adam Dunn and Crain. If anybody thinks Ozzie is unbelievably difficult to play for or is a complete buffoon ... then why in the hell would these two veterans return (life is too short) and why would ANY free agents who could go anywhere sign with us? Believe me, if a veteran like Konerko thought Ozzie hurt his performance at all, he'd be outta here. And if AJ thought Ozzie was incapable of leading us to a WS title, he'd have gone elsewhere. Oh wait, he HAS already led us to a WS title. Just my two cents on NY's Rockin Eve. A lot of people use Twitter, especially those in the media. So you might as well just get used to it. People care what Oney Guillen tweets because he's Ozzie's son and he grew up in clubhouses. He knows a lot more about what happens in private than any of us here, whether it's with the White Sox or with whatever other team Ozzie's been employed by. He might not be the most trustworthy person in the world, especially after this incident, but everything he said about Jenks is something we already had a clue about (outside of punching the clubhouse attendant). So I don't think he was lying. Even though Oney should be a grown man, almost everybody in the Guillen family feeds off of Ozzie, especially Oney. I mean, this guy got a shot at pro ball because of his dad. He got to work in the organization because of his old man. I'm willing to bet they spend a lot of time together in the off-season. It's not improbable that Ozzie might have said some of this stuff to Oney. But you're right, players usually don't care what the manager's son does, especially if he's over 21. But people don't like Ozzie to begin with. There's been numerous polls saying that most players don't like Ozzie and don't want to play for him. That's mostly his fault because of the Tracey incident in 2006 and numerous other things that he said in the past. In the end though, money talks and that's how the Sox got Dunn and Crain to join them this off-season.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 31, 2010 -> 04:44 PM) I can't help but think about the possibility of having signed Beltre instead of Konerko, and then Lee instead of Crain. For a few million more dollars this year (obviously we would have more committed down the road), I feel like we could be a lot better. I doubt Jerry would have ponied up the money for Beltre. Plus, Boras is his agent.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Dec 30, 2010 -> 05:23 AM) Garnder doesn't put this team over the top, I won't even comment on the Beckham to 3B and CQ for Howie Kendrick trade proposal... As of right now everyone is saying Jake will be ready to go Opening Day, and until Kenny signs a cheap starter, I believe he is coming back in April. I don't see how you can think otherwise, and I don't understand why the coaching staff would be bluffing about Peavy's comeback. This isn't the Chicago Cubs organization. Howie Kendrick is the 2B version of CQ. Good potential, always hurt.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 29, 2010 -> 06:31 PM) #3 in def. eff. already? That means we've been surging upwards in that. Bulls are #3 in ESPN's Hollinger ratings. Our strength of schedule in the last 10 has been .403, that's probably why we're surging in the defensive categories. It's not gonna get any worse either, I count like 7-8 games against good teams in the next two months or so.

Listened to the B&B interview with Oney. Bernstein really tried to put him in his place and for a good number of moments, Oney seemed pretty speechless.

Devin must have wanted his teammates to reach for their inner-child again. Unfortunately, Rashied Davis couldn't do it since he broke his car.

Is Cora going to make Juan Pierre's arm strength increase or something?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Dec 29, 2010 -> 01:53 PM) I'm thinking Ozzie needs to be canned. You cant have your manager telling his leaky mouthed kid private clubhouse information. Oney should be canned from all White Sox facilities.