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QUOTE (Kalapse @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 05:12 PM) There's going to be a portion of the fan base that will absolutely HATE Adam Dunn. This is a terrific day. Don't include me in that. I love what's going on. I'm eating a lot of crow because I would never thought management would spend the money even though I knew they had it. The Sox owners are far from broke. Sign Konerko and Crawford and you're still almost 100 million under the yankees and you have a line-up superior to theirs. It's not what you spend, it's how you spend and who you spend it on. The Yankees just overpay for everyone. Don't stop now boys!

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Oct 28, 2010 -> 01:45 PM) Good to hear some 'moves' are bein made by the Sox, miss the season already. The way they played, I don't have to see them again for a long time.

QUOTE (hitlesswonder @ Oct 26, 2010 -> 03:24 PM) Flowers is a non-prospect at this point. No team would trade anything of value for him. As for Viciedo, he's probably the starting 1B next season given the payroll problems the team has. I wish to heck sox fans would stop this nonsense about payroll. The White Sox owners are not poor. They just believe in pocketing profits rather than reinvesting them. A successful season for them is staying competitive until the Bears start dominating the news in late summer.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Oct 26, 2010 -> 02:40 PM) It was obvious Thornton would be back, but I wasn't sure on Castro. I'm glad he is back as he's a proven backup catcher and he played great in that role this year. The decisions are obvious to us, but you have to hold your breath with this management

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 5, 2010 -> 10:28 PM) Add Pena (as a starter), Danks (depending on extension), and D2 (depending on D1) I'm looking at these teams in the playoffs. The White Sox are light years away from the quality these teams possess. You simply cannot get better with trades when you farm system is as woefully weak as the Sox. Reinsdorf has painted himself into a corner with this philosophy of non-aggression when it comes to FA. Until this paradigm changes by either Reinsdorf or a new owner (highly unlikely) get use to watching the post season as a casual observer. We deserve more but we don't demand it.

Can we PLEASE put to rest any notion of Pena being on this staff in 2011 let alone a starter?

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Sep 20, 2010 -> 07:53 AM) Well, that home stand was about as bad as it gets. The team looked dead, aside from a few moments here and there. I'm sure many of them are looking forward to the end of the season, as many of us are. I'm looking forward to the off season, because it should (hopefully) be quite interesting. There may be a change in management, but I wouldn't be surprised if nothing of that sort happens. Re-signing Konerko, acquiring a real DH, and figuring out what to do at the catcher spot are some points I'd like to see addressed. THE ONLY CHANGE THAT IS GOING TO MATTER IS OWNERSHIP

QUOTE (scenario @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 11:33 AM) Tony Pena is going to pitch in winterball (Dominican League) as a starter. Interesting. No it's not... If Tony Pena is a projected starter in 2011, the Sox have hit rock bottom. Pena couldn't make my old high school's baseball team

Third place here we come. This team may not win another game until spring training. How do you Ozziepologists like your boy now?

QUOTE (Real @ Sep 19, 2010 -> 11:33 PM) Teahen will be packaged with either Danks or Floyd in the offseason, that's my prediction Who their right mind wants Teahen?

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 19, 2010 -> 11:25 PM) totally agree....in a way, I want to see us lose every game the next two weeks I have never wished for the Sox to lose. But if that's what it takes to wake that joke of an owner up, then so be it.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Sep 19, 2010 -> 11:07 PM) This is Kenny Williams. (if he's still here) No prospect is safe. I wouldn't mind a thread on some of the knowledgeable posters here on who they would keep and who they wouldn't. I have my personal preference, but I'll be interested to hear some of you guys opinions. With a team this bad and owner who is not going to spend like a major market owner, there are no untouchables. Everybody in the organization can be and should be available.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 19, 2010 -> 11:02 PM) Christopher Sale and Matthew Thornton. I wouldn't lose any sleep over losing any of the other pitchers. But you keep these two. However, these are the 2 that everyone will want.

Amazing how the Sox can conjure up new ways to lose.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 19, 2010 -> 09:43 PM) You do know that Ozzie has said Pierre is his favorite player in baseball, and that he tried for 5 years to get him to come to the White Sox? We tend to get players like that 5 years past their prime or a year before retirement. The great Reinsdorf model of mediocrity continues ad infinitum.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 07:51 AM) There is no way Carlton Fisk is going to be hired to manage the White Sox. For one thing, he's been away way too long, and second but most important, JR doesn't like the guy. Publicly, he'll say the right things about him, but if you really wanted his true opinion, it wouldn't be pretty. And for those who think that really matters very little, look at Larry Himes. He built JR a 94 win team and set them up for years with the smallest payroll in baseball every year he was a GM, only to be shown the door when his contract expired because JR thought he was a miserable person. He thinks about as highly of Fisk as he does Himes. JR would do anything to get La Russa back. If he failed this time, he'd probably would give up his chairmanship. Remember, Reinsdorf is not the majority owner of either the Bulls or the Sox. The Sox are not run by sportsmen. They're run by businessmen who could give a rat's ass about winning championships. Sports is a great tax write-off for the under the sheets millionaires and (yes) billionaires that own the Sox.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 06:05 PM) It is wrong that you actually think Ozzie would do such a thing, he is smarter than many think he is. Ozzie is not very bright, sorry....

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 11:33 AM) I would laugh and laugh if that haunts the Sox more than the Thome walk off HR of 2010. I will call it the Larussa effect. Managers get too much credit and blame for what happens on the field. This manager in particular needed his imprint on every game so he opened the door for more criticism. Ozzie is at his best when he's a spectator. You could mop the floor with him playing chess.

QUOTE (wallyburger @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 09:08 AM) At least it might be a thrill ride with Cuban. Cuban is the anti Reinsdorf. The 3 time world series champions in a row Oakland A's had drama for days.... Those teams had several HOFs on it..

QUOTE (wallyburger @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 08:11 AM) If I could only bust one, it would be Williams. Sell the club to Mark Cuban and start over. Reinsdorf's act is old and tired. White Sox fans deserve better, without all of the BS drama that surrounds this club. I thought I was the only sane one here...thanks much The only problem is Reinsdorf's involvement with the Bulls. No way, Reinsdorf with that ego of his would subject himself to a new owner coming in and changing the face of the franchise and undoing his every bad decision. You have to force him out of sports completely in Chicago. Take Mike Jordan and 2005 away and he's probably gone by now.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 07:37 AM) Really?? That would kinda suck. I guess it would, Ozzie.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 16, 2010 -> 09:50 AM) It's funny how so many people around here blame Ozzie for this season and want him gone ASAP, while so many outside analysts have called this Ozzie's greatest managerial effort yet, even better than 2005. He took a team dead in the water in late May and got them to believe and play some incredible baseball and get back in the pennant race. Interleague or not, its still not easy to win that many baseball games at once. But they're dead in the water now, so what's your point? Minnesota gained back the 14 games they lost to them during the early summer. Yeah, some great managerial work that was.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 07:27 PM) I've been as hard on Kenny as anyone. But I'll never criticize him for the Peavy deal. So forget about Clayton Richard. Gio? I like him. But he net us Gavin Floyd. Daniel Hudson? Inexcusable. And yes, I want Ozzie gone last week. I wanted him gone the last day of the 2009 season

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 04:20 PM) Does Hahn have a track record? Does he know what he's doing? I'd boot Kenny. Keep Ozzie but revamp the team back to a plodding home run hitting team to go with our supposed great pitching staff. I'd never bunt to keep Soxtalk happy and tell Ozzie no NL style ball anymore. With all the home run hitters, I'd still put a great defensive team out there somehow as well. Fire Kenny. Keep Ozzie. Pray Hahn is good GM. Aren't all of you sick of this kind of charade. Kenny will still be making all decisions but can now hide behind some puppet. Is there somebody out there willing to buy this team?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 04:20 PM) Does Hahn have a track record? Does he know what he's doing? I'd boot Kenny. Keep Ozzie but revamp the team back to a plodding home run hitting team to go with our supposed great pitching staff. I'd never bunt to keep Soxtalk happy and tell Ozzie no NL style ball anymore. With all the home run hitters, I'd still put a great defensive team out there somehow as well. Fire Kenny. Keep Ozzie. Pray Hahn is good GM. if La Russa comes back, they're all gone