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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=cha - Cubs Suck

The San Diego Padres have agreed to trade staff ace Jake Peavy to the Chicago White Sox and are waiting for Peavy to decide if he will waive his no-trade clause, sources tell ESPN. Apparently according to Gammons, all pitching, no Beckham involvement -Cubs suck

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 19, 2009 -> 01:51 PM) Michael Jordan should be coaching the Bulls. Who knows more about basketball than him? This is a ridiculous argument. For one thing, being a hitting coach requires communication. Harold? Hello. Not sure that communicating the skills that led you to a 9-yr career .260 avg and .320 OBP is all that helpful. Additionally, Donny Baseball did a pretty solid job with the Yankees and now for the Dodgers under Torre and he speaks even less than Hal

Greg Walker Career Stats: G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO AVG 855 2,864 368 746 164 19 113 444 268 28 520 .260 Hal Baines Career Stats: G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO AVG 2,830 9,908 1,299 2,866 488 49 384 1,628 1,062 187 1,441 .289 ... Who do you want to be giving you hitting advice?

Slumping a bit: 2009 BIR Sou 22 Chw AA 13 53 10 15 4 0 2 7 1 0 5 10 1 1 0 0 1 .283 .356 .472 82

CBS Sportsline: "White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and his staff have at least discussed a scenario where Alexei Ramirez could be moved to CF, making room for top prospect Gordon Beckham to be called up to play shortstop, The Sports Xchange notes. Guillen said it is still too early to pull the trigger on that, however. They want Beckham to get more games under his belt at the minor league level. Beckham is hitting .368 in nine games at Double-A Birmingham. He has two homers and seven RBI." (Updated 04/20/2009)

Are you all kidding?? Joe was the MVP of the 2005 playoffs, and in some people's view (like Joe Buck for example) the MVP of the ALCS and the World Series... Did you boo Ho Baines when we retired his number and traded him? Give me a break... Joe is a hero for White Sox fans, always should be...

From today's LVH sports book: 7:2 to win the AL Central (3rd btw) 15:1 to win the ALCS 22:1 to win the World Series

Trade him immediately...

What is it with this guy? Why are the White Sox continuing to use this stiff/forget about re-signing him... He's been a stiff all his career. Fan blogs across the web from his time in Houston, Oakland, NY, etc summarized as follow: "Our stance is that Octavio Dotel is the worst closer of alltime and a disgrace to the Green and Gold" - Sep '04 I don't understand it...

Paulie's Slam #1 Not sure about top Five, but here are a couple other notables (notably the Wimpy footage): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbjgR76hyk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDaviqB2ps

According to La Velle E. Neal III of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Twins and Joe Crede/Scott Boras have reached an impasse in contract talks. Crede's been rumored to want a $7MM base salary; I'm guessing the Twins are probably thinking he deserves about half that. Twins players support the idea of a Brian Buscher/Brendan Harris platoon. Yesterday Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News said the Giants aren't confident about signing Crede but they do maintain interest.

23 White Sox Before you start sending cards and letters: I recognize that the White Sox were a playoff team last year. I also recognize that my calendar currently reads "2009," not "2008" or "2005." ... The rotation should be solid enough, even assuming some regression from 2008 surprise Gavin Floyd. It's the everyday gang that should give Chisox fans pause. I count one guy on the way up (Carlos Quentin) and four on the way down (Jermaine Dye, Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, A.J. Pierzynski), plus nobody seems to know who will man third base (a Fields/Betemit platoon?), second or center field. This could be ugly

Do we have any update on where (if) Crede is going to land?

If you need more evidence as to why not to trade Dye, rumor out there than when he was with the A's he used to play golf with strippers and have them not only caddy, but also lay down on the greens to give him something to aim at while putting... Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. Class A stud. Cannot trade the guy. Besides AJ, clearly the Sox most important player. Speaking of which, why does AJ not get more appropriate kudos for turning all these borderline pitchers, Garland, Freddy, Danks, etc. into gamers?

Year Team G AB R H HR RBI BB SO SB CS OBP SLG AVG 1998 PHI 151 497 68 155 17 74 84 133 19 10 .409 .497 .312 1999 PHI 152 546 118 183 20 93 109 113 27 9 .446 .549 .335 2000 PHI 154 576 103 182 25 79 100 116 28 8 .416 .554 .316 2001 PHI 162 588 118 170 31 110 106 137 36 14 .393 .543 .289 2002 PHI 157 572 102 176 20 85 104 117 31 12 .413 .521 .308 2003 PHI 158 577 99 173 20 101 109 126 22 9 .409 .468 .300 2004 PHI 159 574 118 173 30 105 127 116 40 5 .428 .544 .301 2005 PHI 162 588 104 168 24 102 117 134 31 9 .405 .474 .286 2006 PHI-NYY 156 548 98 163 15 107 124 138 30 6 .424 .462 .297 2007 NYY 158 605 123 171 16 101 84 115 25 8 .369 .445 .283 2008 NYY 156 609 100 180 20 100 73 109 22 11 .371 .471 .296 Total 1799 6490 1174 1946 241 1084 1160 1405 318 103 .405 .498 .300 Why can't he play CF? Best relative value in the free agent market... Can also rotate in the DH slot and give JD a break. Only downside is that Kenny would trade JD most likely. But an OF of CQ, Bob, and JD? C'mon, it's not even fair...