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If Peavy sees that the Cubs suck too, he won't go. The possibility of the Cubs getting him this year is slim to begin with though. I honestly don't care. Him sucking isn't going to make him feel any worse about not coming here. Some of you just need to get over it. Let the Cubs fans talk their s***, they don't know anything anyhow. Peavy at Wrigley isn't any better than Peavy at the Cell.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 21, 2009 -> 03:29 PM) f***, I hate graduation. I don't wanna go!!! I want to talk about White Sox, Peavy, and Penguins!!!! Mine's on Sunday. Yeah, I hate it too.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ May 21, 2009 -> 03:25 PM) I'd definitely petition for that MLB forums poster to join soxtalk. He obviously has some inside connections. The MLB boards? Who on there is giving you all of this inside stuff anyways?

Thing is, do we really want Peavy? His career ERA is 3.80 away from Petco. Now he comes into a better league in a hitter's park. Can we say regression? I know Peavy's a good pitcher and he would probably be our best pitcher if we got him, but damn, he pitched in the WBC in 06 and sucked that year and he's coming off the WBC this year as well and he's also not pitching too well other than his last start against the Reds. I honestly don't see a Jake Peavy in both Richard and Poreda. I think those guys make sense. They're expendable. If this deal doesn't involve Beckham or Alexei, I'm fine with it. I also don't like the idea of getting rid of Dye since this offesne already sucks. The thing with this deal is, I don't see the Sox winning the division even with Peavy. Not with Gavin Floyd pitching the way he has been.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 20, 2009 -> 11:45 AM) Everyone talks about Fields playing solid defense, but if you watch the games closely you'll see that his 3B positioning is awful and that in fact he's flat out mediocre. I don't know if anyone has any defensive metrics (as I am not good at those) which would back what my eyes are telling me but I haven't been impressed at all. I'll also admit I was very spoiled. I think a short stint in AAA is what the doctor ordered and during that time you go with a combo of Nix/Betemeit. They couldn't hit anyworse and your saving Fields in a sense. But I think Fields gets a little bit longer before the Sox go that route and I don't have a problem with that. At this point his trade value is pretty low to the point that all you can do is trade him for another failed prospect (something I'm not opposed to). Fields' UZR/150 (Ultimate Zone Rating per 150 games) is -13.6. His UZR is at -4.1 right now. If you compare that to a good fielder like Longoria, whose UZR/150 is 18.6 and UZR is currently 5.6, that's bad. Fields is below average right now. His UZR is pretty much what it was in 2007.

How much is Camby making?

The difference between this year and last year is that the starting pitching sucks. I had hope last year because I knew this team had at least 4 quality starters in Floyd, Danks, Buehrle, and Vazquez at this point in the season last year. With Floyd forgetting how to pitch, this team has two reliable starters in Buehrle and Danks. Colon is decent, but it's almost a flip of the coin with him sometimes and he's going to run into health problems sooner or later. Richard's last start was promising, but he hasn't shown that he can sustain that type of performance before. If Floyd gets it back together and the offense starts hitting due to the warmer weather, this team still has a chance because this division is bad. I just want to see this team at least compete until August. It would be a really long summer if they play like they did in the past 10 games.

Camby's a nice player if he stays healthy. Good defensively, but his offensive game isn't the same as it was before obviously. I'd rather take Kaman or even take the troubles of Randolph. Randolph's the best of the 3, but with his history, I don't think it would fit well with the Bulls.

Don't get your hopes up too high, but this was definitely refreshing. First win thread in almost a week...

Why is Gavin Floyd so bad?

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I'm already at step 5. I've given up on this team ever since that those two terrible games against Matt Harrison. If you don't remember, we clobbered him in Texas last year.

And this ball game is ovah. Linebrink sucks against Toronto. He's gonna pick up his second loss on the year against them.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 16, 2009 -> 02:15 PM) Lind f***in golfed ball four. That was as much pure luck as anything. When you're hitting .319, you have some luck. It should have never gotten to that point.

Leave it up to Linebrink to f*** around and give up the hit. Had him 0-2 too.

Why do our relievers always tend to live on the edge? It's going to come back and bite you sometime.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ May 16, 2009 -> 02:10 PM) They might think differently when they get a good look at some of the crowds later in the season. Being bad is one thing. Being bad and boring with a $100 million payroll is another thing. The 2008 Detroit Tigers are the prime example.

Tim Floyd was f***ed the moment he took the Bulls coaching job 10 years ago.

Went to do something else when it was 3-0, now it's 8-1. What happened to Danks? Not only does our hitting suck, but our pitching sucks too. WTF.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 13, 2009 -> 07:40 PM) Man, I didn't realize he'd been that bad this year, sporting a .629 OPS currently. Is this the last year of his contract? Would have to be, 5 year deal signed in 05 right? There's an option for 2010, which is why the Tigers want him gone. If he reaches a certain amount of plate appearances, the option kicks in. I don't know why the Tigers won't contemplate trading him. But if they don't, that's good for anybody willing to pick him up. He's going to get the league minimum and the Tigers will eat this year's contract. So I really don't see why they can't just give the receiving team Mags and some money. They're already going to eat the deal. If Dombrowski just releases him though, I'd like to see the Sox take a shot. We could have taken a shot on Jones this off-season for $400,000 and look how that's worked out so far. Maybe it's not that bad of an idea to pick up a guy who's over the hill. Anything to get this team going would make me happy. Mags could split time with Thome at DH and start against left handers. He could also spare Dye for a day or two in right every week. It could work out, I just don't know if Mags would want to play for Ozzie again or take the role of a platoon player.

According to RotoWorld, the Tigers could release Mags. Anybody interested? If only Mags was 25 instead of 35...*sigh.

It really does feel like we're 10 games under .500. Maybe it's because we'll probably end up with that kind of record by season's end.

I have no words to describe the dislike I have for this team right now.

This is the first time in about 8 years that I've actually semi-cared about hockey. I think the reason why is because the Hawks are the only team that might actually get somewhere this year, excluding the Bears that is. How much of an accomplishment would it be for this young team to just get to the Western Finals or maybe even the Stanley Cup Finals? Thank god that this is happening because the Sox offense is still in hibernation and the games are really f***ing hard to watch.

At least we didn't get one hit today...