nickofypres

Its so close...yet so far away.

I'm just glad they fixed it up in general. In the old version the area around USCF was blocky, pixelated and it was cloudy and dark. Now its clear and sunny. Much better.

I love the Black, White and Silver. If we change our scheme and uniforms I'd be pretty pissed.

NYY BOS TOR TB BAL SOX CLE DET KC MIN TEX OAK ANA SEA COL NYM PHI ATL WSH FLA CHI CIN PIT MIL STL HOU PHX LAD SF SD I'd just move the Rockies to the AL West, and Houston to the NL West

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Feb 1, 2010 -> 06:14 PM) I think the idea is to reduce his innings some this season so Buehrle doesnt fade the 2nd half. :nod:

Peavy, I think Buehrle benefits from starting 4th in the rotation. It also says a lot when a pitcher of Mark's caliber is only a 4 in your rotation.

What ever part of the country you live in, your local teams will be blacked out. I live in Toledo which is Tigers/Indians/Reds market. I had it in 2008 and whenever we played the Indians or Tigers it was blacked out on MLB.com, but it wasn't a big deal because I could just watch it on TV. And IIRC, Fox Saturday Baseball games are also unavailable on MLB.tv, not sure about Sunday night though.

Mets.

06 no doubt. If we get a legit power bat though, I think my vote would change.

I think Thome comes back.

Dunn, Gonzalez or Fielder.

I can live with 3.

I think he was just thinking on the upside. Everyone (non-Sox fans) seems to think Rios is over the hill because he had a bad 2009. I think Rios bounches back to career norms, plus USCF couldn't hurt.

Pierre Beckham Quentin Left Handed Power Hitter Konerko Rios Pierzynksi Ramirez Teahen

Dunn would make the most sense. He can play 1B, OF and DH which would allow our flexibility at DH. Secondly he's a lefty bat that has a high OBP and a lot of power.

I'd rather sign Coco Crisp cheaper

I say Sox player. I think it fits best. To say Konerko is your favorite sock, IMO, that suggests were the White Socks and not the White Sox.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Nov 18, 2009 -> 09:12 PM) I think Wite just means he's our 4th best pitcher. Anyways, to start the season it'll probably be: Buehrle, Peavy, Danks, Floyd, Garcia in that order anyways. I think so too, I think Buehrles will always be the opening day starter, plus we can do L-R-L-R and we won't have to start Buehrle and Danks back to back (which is something Oz doesn't wanna do)

I'm lazy, is there any more info about this, or it is speculation from that one sites information?

Crawford would be nice, but if your going to give up a lot of prospects to get him, I think we'd be better off going for Gonzalez.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Nov 13, 2009 -> 04:09 PM) I started reading that article and I guess I'll go back and give it a chance. I really disagree with idea of protection being a myth. The better hitters before and after you, the tougher it is on the opposing pitcher. The better the hitters are in front of you, the likelier it is for someone to be on base. Going after a big RBI guy with a man on base is very different than attacking him with no one on. Also, if the previous hitter - let's say Beckham - gets into a battle and sees a lot of pitches, and if he forces the pitcher to use just about everything he has, then a smart hitter on deck is going to be watching this, and he is going to go up to the plate with a better idea of what to look to for. From the standpoint of the pitcher, it's a ton easier to work around a tough hitter and then risk making a mistake to a weaker hitter than it is to make good pitches to 3 hitters in a row because you have to. If the pitcher finds it hard to get into a rhythm and he drives up his pitch count in the process, the odds of the bullpen entering the game sooner increase, which is generally going to help your chances of scoring runs, especially if you can get into a bullpen early during the first game of a series. I'm one of those people who believe that the stress of an inning mentally is harder on a pitcher than just throwing pitches in general, and the more stress you put on him, the likelier it is for him to make a mistake. A 3-4-5 of Beckham-Gonzalez-Quentin IMO would add a ton of stress to opposing pitchers. Obviously there will be some guys who are very good pitchers and are just "on," and they'll be able to work through this without much difficulty, but more often than not, it is going to be a pain in the ass for opposing pitchers to work through that kind middle of the order. For a recent example here, I don't think it's much of a coincidence that Dye, Thome, Paulie, and Crede all had excellent years for themselves in 2006 while hitting in a row. They all had very good years on their own, but they also benefited from each other. And I'll say this too: just look at our starting rotation. We have 5 guys that on any given day can go 7 innings and pretty much shut down a lineup. As it stands right now we are were lacking in offense and I believe that even if we don't make any major improvements in that area, we'll still be able to scrape across enough runs to win quite a few close ballgames. If we add a bat like Gonzalez we are going to really going to boost our run differential, and there are going to be more games where we'll be up with big leads, and our starters will take us deep, and because of the leads we'll be able to rely on the front of our bullpen (Carrasco) to finish out games. You can never really count on a bullpen, especially one-inning relievers, but having 5 starters each capable of working 200+IP as well as a potent offense could do wonders to improve our bullpen simply by taking stress off of our weakest back-end relievers by going to them less frequently in tight situations. If I didn't believe Adrian Gonzalez would make us a World Series contender for 2010 and 2011 then I wouldn't suggest trading the farm for him since it is likely we would lose him to free agency in 2012 and only pick up draft picks. But I just find it so surprising that so many people are so concerned about the 2012 team that they'd pass up a chance like this, if it really is there. If we get Adrian and we make major runs for the next two years than EVERYTHING is going to change. You can't just sit here and imagine that things two years from now would be similar to the way they are now, only worse because we won't have any good young players anymore. Two years represents 2 more years of development for the remaining prospects we would keep, plus two years worth of drafts and international signing periods, plus two years of better attendance and a more attractive atmosphere to potential advertisers which leads to more money to play around with, plus two years or additional roster moves by the front office. Two years from now we may have another Floyd/Danks/Quentin/Alexei type that is cheap, young, productive, under team control, and who is **not even in our organization right now.** Go back 2 years from now to 2007 and very few if any of us here would have thought we'd be in such good position as we are in currently, given how s***ty that 2007 team was. I just don't understand how dealing the farm now for a player of Gonzalez's caliber somehow dooms us in the future. That's a very bleak attitude and IMO it is completely unnecessary given the strides our organization has made in general since the 2003 offseason compared to prior periods. Win

This is most reassuring. Its nice to know we're going to have 4 starters in our rotation that can beat another team's #1 guy, plus Freddy Garcia. This will be the biggest key in a turnaround.

First Edwin Jackson and now Granderson? Are we going to get a pretty ribbon when they gift wrap the central for us after Grandson and Jackson are traded away?

Come on guys, lets keep it in perspective, AJ to Atlanta for McCann

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Nov 7, 2009 -> 03:16 PM) .251/.311/.435/.745, 94 OPS+ is incredibly mediocre, Mark Teahen should be able to match that with ease. That was actually the 3rd worst OPS+ by a White Sox DH in the team's history. That sort of production out of your DH just doesn't cut it unless the rest of the offense is incredible or you're great at every other facet of the game. I'm an incredibly mediocre hardcore fan