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They really should find a sponsor for these always-exciting at-bats courtesy of Mark Teahen. Oy.

Watching Teahen play, whether it be batting or fielding, is a very painful experience.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 19, 2010 -> 06:34 PM) If we're going to be sitting Manny, it's ridiculous that Viciedo isn't getting at bats. 100% agree

I still maintain, based on this article from earlier in the year, that if Tony LaRussa does make a return to the South Side, it is as likely to be in the role of GM as it would be as manager. La Russa weighs in on Reinsdorf

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 08:49 PM) Teahen with the same amount of strike outs tonight as he has homers all season. What a disgraceful effort on this home stand. He has got to ride the pine the rest of the way - he is just an awful player. I'd rather watch any other position player on our roster play than him. Let's see what De Aza and his speed can do out there in right field, maybe. That would be at least somewhat more interesting than watching this clown peform. I mean, seriously - what more does Ozzie and Sox management need to see? He's terrible! He's terrible, and he was terrible for most of the five full years he played with Kansas City before he came to us. There is no "potential" - it is what it is. We can not afford to let him essentially kill us on BOTH offense and defense any longer.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 08:43 PM) Exactly. People act like it's some huge contract we are stuck with. Pay $3M a year, and I can bet you that we can find a team to take him for $2M a year. Someone out there exists. I mean, it's not like Teahen hasn't showed potential in his career. I bet someone would take a $2M gamble that he can put something together, at the very least being able to play multiple positions. Did you see any "potential" this year?

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 08:38 PM) The Marlins led by Ozzie Guillen??????????????????????????????? Lol - the only way we get this albatross off of our hands is to take someone else's albatross off of their hands. I guess it can happen, seeing how the Cubs were able to miraculously move Bradley last off-season. The problem with Teahen is that there are not one but two years left on that contract of his. Imagine the garbage we'd have to take on in order to move him along. Oy!

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 08:35 PM) Way to track that one, Teahan. I don't see why it would be hard to move him in the offseason. Isn't he only signed for $5 mil a year? Who the heck would want him? What Major League team at this point would want him on their 25-man roster next year?

Ooooohkay, there's another position Teahen cannot play. Next!

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 08:15 PM) Include him in a deal with someone like Danks for a team that can take on money. Lol - sort of like the Marlins tacking Dontrelle Willis along in the Cabrera deal. I wonder if we could double tack in such a deal and send Linebrink along as well!

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 08:10 PM) He's a zero tool player. Exactly, couldn't agree more. But that makes him useless as a bench player as well, if he can't do anything particularly well, or in his case, even league-average. So what to do with this guy for the next two years? That is the question.

This Teahen guy is just a mess of a player.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 07:29 PM) but what do we do with the cuban man child? Hawk sez he's going to the other side of the infield.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 07:24 PM) Wow, very impressive by Morel!! Me thinks he's going to be the 3b for Sox next season. After that play, maybe even longer than that!

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 05:14 PM) Agreed. This is JR we're talking about. Unless Ozzie is leaving on his own terms, it doesn't matter if the sox go 62-100 next year, he will still be the manager. Well, if he was ever going to leave, now would seem to be the opportune time to do so. He has what appears to be as appealing an opportunity he could wish for waiting for him in his hometown of Miami. The job with the Marlins would seem to be the perfect landing spot for him were he to leave. He has a good, albeit brief, history with that team. He'd be in the National League where he could play NL-style baseball to his heart's content. And by going down there he would get him far, far away from Kenny Williams. So despite the JR element, I think it's quite possible he could make the move. We'll see!

QUOTE (wallyburger @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 01:55 PM) Fisk? Nice. Very nice. Hahn and Fisk. LaRussa and Fisk. I just get the feeling Kenny will get bumped upstairs in favor of LaRussa, I really do.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 06:41 AM) I have only seen the opposite. Where are these rumors coming from? I'd be curious to see them. It was actually quite interesting yesterday on the "Steve Dahl Show" podcast of all things. Pat Boyle from Comcast Sportsnet was on, and he told Dahl that he's heard rumblings that Ozzie is gone at the end of the year, and none other than Carlton Fisk will be the new manager. I don't quite know how legit that is, but coming directly from Boyle, there just might be something to it.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 8, 2010 -> 07:56 PM) No one answered my question about Teahen's 2nd error. This is a pull baseball special it seems. He made the pick on a somewhat difficult grounder that was hit right at him, but then he made a lousy throw way to the right off the base at 2nd.

QUOTE (chisoxt @ Sep 8, 2010 -> 07:43 PM) This is the problem when you totally disregard the farm system...you have to grossly overpay (in free agent money and trades) for REPLACEMENT LEVEL talent. I also do not like how we tend to overpay for guys whose better years are behind them (See Jake Peavy). This has been a good season, but I for one would like to see Kenny 'promoted' next year. After all of the drama between Williams and Ozzie this season, along with the fact that all-time Reinsdorf favorite Tony LaRussa will be looking for a job this off-season AND is interested in trying his hand at being a GM, I would not be surprised to see KW bumped upstairs in order to accommodate LaRussa. That is my bold prediction!

QUOTE (elgonzo4sox @ Sep 8, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) Bench Teahen, move Vizquel back to 3rd, and put the Bridge at 2nd until Beckham can play 2nd again. I would go with that arrangement, too, for lack of a better alternative.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 8, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) Somebody? Tom Paciorek, a.k.a. "Wimpy", doing the play-by-play, and The Big Hurt doing the color analysis.

This is Year #6 of Mark Teahen proving that he does not deserve to be a starting player at the Major League level. The madness has to end!!!

VIZZZZZZQUEL!!!!

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 8, 2010 -> 06:30 PM) I said it yesterday, but Teahen needs to go this offseason. He's just a terrible fit with this team, and is making way too much money for someone that doesn't appear to deserve to be starting. The problem is he is a bench/role player at best, but making too much to be a bench/role player. I really can't imagine another team willing to take him on as a starter at this point. He was a below-average starting player for five years with the Royals, and now he has this year to add onto his resume. Sad as it is to say, that ill-advised extension he was given last winter probably means we are saddled with him for the next two years.

Two more years of Mark Teahen left to go. Oy.