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Nothing says "going for it" like sending your 1st or 2nd best reliever down to AAA.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 7, 2011 -> 04:45 PM) Not the case. No one drafted in this year's draft can sign a contract until a new CBA is agreed upon. Ah, well that crosses that off I guess. I still wouldn't risk a career ending injury playing 1 extra year in college, maybe for a really low draft pick I can see playing another year to increase your value....but for a guaranteed #1 pick it's makes absolutely no sense.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/01/whit...-are-close.html Will Ohman? The final piece to the puzzle

Assuming the 2011 NFL Draft abides by the current rules.....Luck is f'ing idiot who most likely just cost himself upwards of 20+ million dollars since there will almost certainly be rookie salary restrictions in the new CBA. I'll never understand why a guy who is a consensus #1 pick (or top 5-10 for that matter) would choose to "finish school" for 1 meaningless year. Take your 50 million dollar contract and finish school in the off season instead of risking your draft stock dropping or blowing your knee out in your senior season.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 6, 2011 -> 04:53 PM) Cash is different than worth. If you worth is locked up, you can't spend it. Honestly those two situations make my point for me. Just because something is worth a lot of money doesn't mean that one has access to that money. Huh? How is losing a huge chunk of your fortune to a gold digging wife "not having access to cash"? I'd bet my non-existent house that if there was a meeting with KW and the "owners" and he said "we're 5mil over budget if we sign Player X, the last piece to our team" that ownership wouldn't say nope, can't do it too much money.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 6, 2011 -> 03:34 PM) Worth, is worthless. Ask the Padres and Dodgers about that.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 6, 2011 -> 02:50 PM) Indeed. People keep saying that...but in the grand scheme of things to a ownership group worth billions, 5 million is nothing.

QUOTE (Darren @ Jan 6, 2011 -> 08:41 AM) Hey everyone, Does anyone have a HD copy of Buehrle's perfect game? Had it on my Tivo and the drive is flaking out and dying. I have a standard-def copy of Buehrle's No-Hitter and a copy of Tom Seaver's 300 game that I could trade. I was at the game with my mom and it would mean a lot to have a copy. Thanks, Darren I have a 25gb uncompressed/unedited HD rip from my Tivo. Or you can get it for $2 on iTunes in HD, that's what i did instead of wasting my time editing out the commercials of the live one.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jan 5, 2011 -> 11:21 PM) I'll take my chances with my offense needing to get 3 yards vs theirs needing to go 97. I'd go for it every time. They'd only need about 60ish yards really

Jackson is/was better than Hudson was last year. We were going for the division win last year. Jackson will most likely be better than Hudson this year. We are trying to win the division this year. Pretty simple to me. He didn't trade f***ing Nolan Ryan away, he traded a pitcher with 30 ML innings under his belt. I give KW the benefit of the doubt every time, and still will until Hudson becomes a legit top of the rotation starter. The number times he's fleeced organizations vastly outweighs the number of "OMG we traded away the greatest prospect of allllll time" trades.

they better have asked Rose and he declined....Rose + Griffin would have been a sick contest.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 5, 2011 -> 09:39 AM) That's a resounding YES. No it's not...not until Hudson proves he can pitch (and no, 2 months last year doesn't prove anything).

The almighty "greatest team on earth" packers still only scored 10 f***ing points when their season was on the line. So sick of hearing about them.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Jan 1, 2011 -> 07:44 PM) The players? Or the Twins or Tigers? I just don't think that a manager has that big of an effect in baseball in a positive or negative way. The person that brings in the players and the players are the people who control whether a team wins or not. Ozzie's decision to go with Kotsay instead of THome had a much bigger effect on the team than anything he did in seasons. Good luck with that argument here. Everything is Ozzie's fault no matter what, its such a lazy argument.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Dec 21, 2010 -> 11:11 AM) Peavy WAS helping the team. He was dominant while he was injured. The guy's lat was hanging on by a thread. 15-30 days wasn't gonna make a difference and earlier surgery wouldn't have saved him for 2010. He tried to pitch through it to help the team. There was no replacing him if he did shut it down and he knew it. Same as the Thorton argument...."if stupid Ozzie didn't leave Thorton in for that one extra batter he wouldn't have gotten hurt!!!!!" Injuries don't work like that.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Dec 16, 2010 -> 08:30 PM) Sorry if this was answered earlier in the thread: Bobby is a Type A or Type B? Doesn't matter

I guess my little chat with Wood at the bar last week changed his mind

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 11, 2010 -> 05:43 PM) Someone needs to post that on Twitter as "Insider Report: Kerry Wood turns down chance to play for White Sox." "A source close to the pitcher says Wood will not be signing with the Sox"

I drunkenly ran into Kerry Wood at a bar last night, gave him my best pitch to sign with the sox and he said "can't do it man". You heard it here first

Less pressure on Beckham and Quentin....my god if they are just average and Alexei decides to hit in April-May, this may be good.

QUOTE (IamtheHBOMB @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 10:28 AM) After watching him last year, I came to the conclusion that he doesn't have the best instincts. He would get bad reads pretty often and get caught in between on liners into RF. His bad defense can be attributed to more than just physical problems. But how do you "lose" instincts? He was rated well on defense all through his career and a fly ball in AA is a fly ball in the MLB.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 07:39 AM) The Sox were one of the best situational hitting teams in the AL last year. #2 in BA with RISP, #3 with Scoring Position and 2 outs, and OPS numbers that ranked them similar to where their batting average did. Greg Walker appreciates your praise. But don't you remember that time we couldn't score a guy from 3rd with 1 out????? Fire Walker

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 3, 2010 -> 09:19 AM) The thing that really sucks is if Mitchell had stayed healthy and continued progressing in 2010 and KW didn't get desperate with Pierre and Teahen, we might actually be able to talk about a name like Cliff Lee realistically. Then again, when we had Contreras/Buehrle/Javy/Garland/Garcia in 2006 our rotation was even more expensive. I seriously doubt the few million spent on Pierre (1 year left anyway) and Teahen (not that much money) would hold back an offer to Lee. +/- a few million dollars when you're talking about a 100+ mil contract is nothing. KW isn't sitting in his office saying "dammit, if only we didn't spend that 5 mil on Pierre, I could sign Lee for 7/100 right now!"

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 03:24 PM) This is exactly type of the move i need from this organization to get my confidence in the team back. Dunn would be an outstanding addition to the club. Not if it means no PK, its more of a lateral move to very slight upgrade.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Oct 24, 2010 -> 09:22 PM) I don't care who the offensive coordinator is, they aren't going to succeed with an O-line that can't block anyone. I'm defending Martz because I think it is pretty obvious they should be attempting to run more, but you need an offensive line to do that as well. Its not about running more...its about realizing Cutler has 1 second to throw, so maybe don't have him take a 19 step drop so much.