southsideirish71

If you want to find out the sox plans, just sit KW down and ask him one by one about each FA we think or player we would trade for. The minute he starts to giggle like a 7 year old on sugar you have your answer. I am sure that this is all that George Offerman or Bruuuce Levine does. they pump KW full of redbull and watch his reactions.

I can see it now BRUUUCE LEVINE with another AM1000 exclusive. Kenny has confided with me that we are going to offer El Duque a 2 year deal. You heard it here first people.

According to rotoworld The Dodgers and J.D. Drew have agreed to a five-year, $55 million contract, the Bergen Record reports. That's a better deal than what they reportedly offered Adrian Beltre. A healthy Drew might be worth as much as Beltre, but this a player whose career high in games played is 145 and whose second highest total is 135. He shouldn't have gotten this much money. Dec. 22 - 12:54 am et

Doesnt Bruuuuce Levin look a lot like Chris Elliot. I keep thinking of groundhog day everytime he starts his broadcast.

Danny Almonte was 12 remember. the formula for latin players is as X approaches infinity z is greater than the multiplier of the age and the gravitation pull of the earth on tuesdays. By that formula he is indeed 70. But can he toe the pitchers plate and give us a sub 7 ERA. I think the answer to that is yes. And the best part of this deal. Is NO f***ING GRILLI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This made my evening.

Its a done deal when they have a press conference and El Duque is putting on his whitesox hat and through translator Ozzie Guillen tells everyone how happy he is to be here.

YUP, I found it doing a google for my favorite teeball stand of a pitcher. And I found that one.

Is this the end of the teeball stand 5th starter. Will our anti-hero JR's cheapness finally pay off. Will they get another INF to platoon with Willie. Answers to this an more will come tomorrow on As the Southside turns

I would rather get Eck instead of cora. I dont feel that good about having a relative in the coaching aspect. It kind of skews the objectivity. Get Eck and you have some great balance.

I know he is 45 years old. I know he get injured. But this is good news. Jason Grilli and his 7.40 ERA can give up gopher balls in AAA. Diaz can replace Mike Jackson as our dog in the pen. All is right in the world. El Duque pitched pretty well last year and I am surprised that they did not sign him. Go get Eckstein now and I will be a happy camper. Or lets get greedy and trade for Vasquez and have 3 ex NY starters on our team. Trade Garland and get Javy. His value must be low if he was the reason that the dodgers pulled out of it.

Perez makes natural sense. KW tried trading for him already. He is obviously on the we want list.

I still think he can hit 30-40 at safeco. His homers are not cheapies by any margin.

First of all Mr. Pennnigton we can complain if we want. Its our perrogative as a fans of the team. Who is saying anything about the yankees. How about a payroll of a mid market team. Not the payroll of the KC royals. Its also not like anyone has recent history to go off of to say that these moves are nothing more than money dumping to make a buck. I do remember in 94 and 97 moves being made that only benefitted JR and not the welfare of the team. So am I skepticle as a life long sox fan of his motives behind our roster moves yes. I get sick and tired of seeing the happy no matter what society get all over people for expressing their concern. If KW and JR make the moves necessary(get a FA pitcher to address number 5 and maybe a utility IF)then hey I will be the first person to say I was wrong. Nobody is advocating spending 200 million for Beltran. But when you start playing the shuffle game to keep your payroll under a low amount even for this team it gets a bit silly. We are also not asking for JR to go broke, just reinvest earnings into the team to make the team better. The Comcast deal, the increase of the ticket prices, and the forbes 2004 ratings on net earnings all pose that JR has some money to reinvest in the team. So far this offseason he traded a 300 hitter who had 30 homers for a reliever and a leadoff guy. His reasoning was to change the makeup of the team. This I buy and I like. And then to reinvest this money into a FA pitcher which JR himself said was the reason we lost the division last year. This from the chairman of the team. Well the first thing we see is that he enters into the FA market underbidding other teams. 3 years 7 mill for Clement wasnt going to get it done. There were already offers on the table for clement at that rate without the big boys entering the market. Yes it is more than he is worth, but its all about supply and demand. Now KW he talks about how we might not spend this money until July. Does this inspire good feelings for whitesox fans. Unless you have your head in the ground, no. So if he goes into the ST with the team pretty much the same, with the 5th starter as Grilli , pocketing the savings and moving into the season with a 64 million dollar payroll then I ask you are you a happy camper. If you are I question your baseball know-how. If you dont like the people complaining dont read their posts. But dont question anyones loyalties to the team. These are people that dump a ton of money, and their love into this team. I go to spring training every single year, to soxfest, I watch about every single game, and I go to about 30 games a year. So if I complain about some of the moves on this team its my opinion. If you dont like it or like others opinions then express it or ignore it. There are lots of peoples opions on this board I dont agree with but I dont tell them to turn in their sox gear. Get a grip.

At 8 Million I think he gawn. I think he will get minimum 10 mill if he puts up similiar numbers to last year.

Hawk and KW bantering in the Q&A session with angry fans. Ozzie asking why are we angry. Soxfest 2005 SOX PRIDE

Well lets hope he isnt willing to go with teeball stand by commitee at number 5.

This is just a warm up for Soxfest

How much will Paul get in FA if he puts up a 285 35-40 homers 90-110 RBI season or something like last year. Glaus Money maybe? Sexon money? Do we believe that JR will sign him. And he will not give some big home town discount so please discount that. So if by May he doesnt sign do you think that JR will trade him midseason or risk losing him for just draft picks. Will he even offer arbitration? I ask this because everyone is stating we cant live without kong next year because of losing Lee. But I suggest that we will lose him anyways. So lets get something for him. Or sign him and pay the money. But after Maggs being almost traded last year in the offseason I cannot see JR taking on a big contract from a 1B.

If we cant afford Milton how do we afford Lowe/Millwood/Perez. Does Kenny believe these guys are cheaper.

Robert Person is looking for a SP opportunity

So much for all the people talking about our backup. Ben Freakin Davis is our starter. Hello 500 OPS, Hello 214 BA. Hello Paul Bako numbers for our starter. Its a good day to be a sox fan. The money we saved not giving AJ a contract will be well worth it come July We are running this season like Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons. I will gladly pay you in July for coming to the park today.

Mike Jackson was on a major league roster last year. Billy Koch was on a major league roster. Jose Paniagua was on a major league roster. That doesnt mean that they are good options for the whitesox. Yes I applaud them for going against the ods and making it to the majors, however we are not a minor league team and therefore should actually try to sign talent that has a chance. His BA over the last few years is pretty terrible. As a backup or personal catcher no problem, its overpaying but hey whatever. As a starter this will be a disaster unless he completely becomes another player altogether. I dont know. Sign AJ and use Davis as a personal catcher for buerhle and contreras

Jerry is quickly going to ebay to find something that looks close to the prototype and can be mocked up for cheap. We will put these nice ones in the scout seat area. Kenny how do I open a paypal account. Stadium Seats from Ebay

July we will spend the money Well its July and you are 6 games back of the Injuns, Tigers and the Twins, Its a lead we will never overcome. So we have addressed our future by trading Paul Konerko to the Dogers for 2 AA players that will be ready in 2008 and cash. Next year we will be aggressive to get that 5th starter in the FA market. JR

But what pitcher brought in. If its perez or a trade for vasquez then thats pretty cool. If its a Mike Jackson like old starter that didnt pitch in 2004 like we tried last year with Person then it isnt too cool. It the number 1 thing that we need to address. Picking up Eck, AJ and Pods will change the offense big time. Not addressing the pitching situation is a mistake and will haunt us. Just imagine the outrage if we are sitting in May with the sox number five starter has yet to pick up a victory this year. Or the whitesox are considering a 4 man rotation to overcome the failures of the 5th spot.