mac9001

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/sports/7494647.htm

Hey, anyone notice Ponson's 2002 salary on that page. He's taking quite the pay cut.

When i see it in a Chicago paper or rotoworld i'll believe it, until than...

Its called special money. No one knows where it comes from or how to get get, but every now and than it appers.

Holt needs to stay on LA 25-man roster the entire season, if they send him down we can buy him back for something like 50 grand.

50 bucks says Graffy hits a game winning HR vs. us this season, any takers?

Well for Huff, we'd have to trade 2 out of Rauch/Cotts/Pacheco/Honel/Wing +Borcahrd, Rauch and Pacheco come to mind first.

Yeah, i have that same feeling. But if we do trade Mags why not go after Huff? Mayebe a Rauch/Borchard/Pacheco for Huff deal.

Its a good deal for the Sox's, but i somehow fell Kenny would need to make up some of the difference in money. Were send them $19M and only taking back $12-13M.

Carlos Guillen, not Jose.

Isn't Guillen a FA? Anyway i'm fine with a Maggs+Jose for Garcia+Soriano+Wynn trade, but i don't think the M's would be very willing to let Wynn go, who else do they have to play CF? Maybe if we throw in Rowand or Harris.

I think who ever offers Ponson 3Yr/$24M will get him, but i could see him sign for 3Yr/$21M, so at least the Sox's are close.

We can only hope so. If Tejada goes to Baltimore maybe KW can swing a Maggs+Jose+Cash for Garica+Soriano+Clint Nageotte trade with the M's.

I doubt Thomas demanded to be traded. He's the kinda guy that would have made a big fuss if he really did demand to be traded. Also, NO WAY IN HELL would Guillen want to trade Maggs.

Reinsdorf has to approve everything Kenny does (even the little trades), so it's probably more convenient to have the boss their in person to aprove deals quikly.

She's just doing her job.

KW already said something along the line of "I'd like to keep my job for next season" when asked whether he considered dealing Thomas in the Brown/Weaver deal.

2004: option $6.0M player 2005: Dual option $8.0M player/$11.0M team 2006: Dual option $10.0M player/$12.0M team or $3.5M buyout ***-Can receive up to $2M in bonuses for top 10 MVP finish -***

Can the Sox's increase the payroll to 70 million, most likely they can, but will they? Hell NO!

If were gonna trade Thomas to LA, might as well trade for Perez+prospect and cut the Yankees out of it.

Chris Carpenter, Wilson Alvarez, Pedro Astacio and Jeff D'Amico are all guys i'd like to see get a chance at ST. All of them could be had for under a million bucks (or near it).

Sacrifices needed to be made last season for us to have had a chance. They were good deals, get over it and hope some of the draft picks pan out.

Yeah, but he got rid of him, so i kinda evens out.

3.24 ERA and .213 .AVG as a reliever. He should be fine as a reliever.

Big cites should have good attendance too, but the Sox can't seem to put people in seats.