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Quick thought: If the Bulls signed Dirk and he accepted less (honestly, at his age and career earnings, championships may come first) than what his max would be (isn't it like, $20M?) and the Bulls could sign Ray Allen on the cheap, then Rose would have monster assist numbers.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 2, 2010 -> 04:53 PM) Impressive lineup, but I'd probably go Q, Gonzalez, Konerko, Teahen, Jones, 3-7. As you said getting Pierre on the bench is key. It's the easiest solvable problem they have. If you think Quentin, Beckham, and to a lesser degree Ramirez and AJ are going to hit and Peavy and Floyd are front of the rotation pitchers you deal for Gonzalez. Yes, because we'd trade the cheap locked up guy and the Padres would want Peavy's contract back, which they shipped to us for peanuts to get rid of. QUOTE (The Baconator @ May 2, 2010 -> 04:56 PM) I know Paulie seems to be a great guy for the organization (didn't he say he would take a pay cut if it would help the team?), but will he be the type of guy that will take a 'play cut' ie move to DH? I know Dye is adamantly against move to DH; is it likely that Paulie is ready to take on that role? Paulie would do it, because unlike JD, Paulie could still play the field once or twice a week and not suck.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 2, 2010 -> 03:36 PM) Donny Lucy sent down. Ramon Castro will join the team on Monday. But I love Lucy...

Alexeiitis?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 2, 2010 -> 04:17 PM) Really? He looked this amateurish for this long last year? He struggled for about -0 days or so, 35 at bats, last year before picking it up. When did he slump for a month in his baseball career? Were his mechanics anywhere near this out of whack? Didn't he have a rather long slump right after he got on fire for a while? Actually, wasn't it once he moved to the 2-hole?

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 2, 2010 -> 04:07 PM) I dunno man, Paulie and Andruw are performing well-above what can be expected of them right now...I mean Paulie is basically doing what we would expect from Adrian and our offense is still brutal right now. Once those two come down to earth a bit, adding a guy like Adrian wouldn't be a whole lot different than what we have going now, IMO. Don't get me wrong, I would love to have him, but one guy an offense does not make. We have two 1.1 OPS players right now, and we still can't score. Now, imagine having two Paulies. Now add resurgent Andruw and Rios. Alexei heats up with the weather. Gordon has had these huge slumps before, he'll break out of it. Suddenly, the only 3 question marks become AJ, who should bust out of it, Teahen who won't have to be the lefty RBI bat, and Quentin who is just, blech.

Every flyball that Andruw hits in this stadium I think is gone.

Come on Gordon, you know you gotta swing at that.

Kotsay leading off. Wat.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 2, 2010 -> 11:38 AM) Can we try to keep this thread more about the trade rumor than bashing Cowley? For some reason, I have a feeling Santos would be in trade talks sadly. Edit: @ DA, I think Rios would end up leading off.

Oh god Ozzie, forget lefty-lefty, bring in Santos or Pena.

Good timing to not suck AJ, good job buddy.

Carlos, please, please be the Carlos of 08 right now.

Dear Nick Swisher, **** you, you stupid piece of ****

Linebrink left in? No Sergio?

Danks is a warrior.

Dang it. Get him Danks, get him.

Why no Santos...Randy scares me. Double play please...

My heart stopped for a second.

This is a long game.

Well, we've established something. Javy sucks in NY, regardless of the team.

Hopefully Danks can just get at least 2 quick innings without much stress.

D'oh. Oh well, retire A-Rod Johnny.

That's one way to fix a problem. Retire the next guy Danks.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 1, 2010 -> 12:57 PM) holy christ. can we just clone andruw and paulie? thanks. I love how they were supposed to be the two biggest question marks going into the season.