southsideirish71

I wonder if gammons slaps his meat under the table every time they mention the RedSox. You can just see it now. The RedSox have just signed premier pitcher Matt Clement. (slapping noises heard and gammons starts to make wierd faces;wierder than usual). I think with this addition of Matt Clement the Bosox will repeat as WS champs for the next 10 years. A loud grunt is heard. I believe that Matt is better than Randy. (gammons takes a second to wipe some sweat from his brow)

The only thing we are going to lose in this deal is a hell of a guy from a personality standpoint. Kong might not be the fastest guy on the team, but his is all about team. He is a standup guy. Thats the only thing to me that sucks in this deal.

How hard do you have to try to be successful in the mexican league. Gload owned that league.

Remember everyone Konerko is a FA after this year. And will be going for a pretty penny if he has a repeat of last year. Again the sox would lose out. If this is Kong for Vasquez straight up, even with Marte its not a bad gig. Remember you are basing all of this on last seasons statistics with Kong. Not with the last few years when he would put up Jeckle and Hyde seasons. I like Konerko, I think he is probably the best fastball hitter I have seen in a while. But most of his homers are Cell induced. He is slow, remember how many of you b****ed and moaned either how slow he was or how he is a base clogger. I figured that Konerko would be dealt. I never thought for a million years that both Kong and Lee would be dealt in the same offseason. If we do lose Kong to this, we need to sign AJ and get a first baseman. Davis needs to be a personal catcher or Burke needs to be a personal catcher. Maybe also get Palanco. Vasquez+whatever else they throw in+palanco+FA 1st basemen+visquino+pods>Lee&Konerko

I would question your projection of Cotts stats to say he is the next Johan. What next Grilli is John Smoltz and Diaz is Curt Schilling.

The soon to be moved washington nationals have a projected 50 mill payroll. From contraction to 15 mill off of our payroll. Nice

Its not that he needs just to learn a changeup. He needs to learn how to pitch. Johan has pretty pinpoint control. His stuff is nasty, but its his ability to get that nasty stuff where he wants to throw it that makes him dominant. Cotts has a few things to learn before he becomes a starting pitcher.

How made will everyone be if it comes out that the 3 year deal was backloaded with deferments like colons deal.

Salary dump. He gets the speedster that Ozzie wants. He gets rid of Lee. Now everyone wonders why Lee was sent instead of Konerko. It makes perfect sense. Lee was under contract for 2005 and 2006. We get rid of him there is no pressure to resign him. Konerko is under contract for 2005 only. He will be easier to either get rid of in the middle of the season or to lose out to for FA. 16 mill off the books without a fight.

Quote from Rotoworld on October 2nd. Jason Grilli was tagged for six runs in 3 2/3 innings tonight in a loss to the Royals. Only the White Sox would prefer this to Felix Diaz. Grilli finishes 2-3 with a 7.40 ERA. There will be no reason to keep him on the 40-man roster in the offseason. JR saves his money and the human pinball machine starts the 5th starter saga once again.

KW isnt going to get fired. He jumps around yapping like the taco bell burrito dog. Making all sorts of noise, getting hopes up. Then in the end JR gets money back. KW to JR. Jerry, I think we can land a big free agent pitcher. It will cost us 7 million. JR to KW Kenny go for it. But you need to dump some salary. Trade Lee or Konerko and you can reinvest the money. Didnt Ozzie say something about fast guys like Pierre. Get someone like Pierre but cheaper. KW to JR. I got a trade setup, we get rid of Carlos and get a fast guy who is on a down season and another bullpen pitcher. We will save about 6 million that we can use to reinvest into clement. JR to himself 6 millllllllion dollars, jackpot. JR to KW I think we can get a hometown discount on Clement. Give him 7 million, and structure the deal the way we structured Colons deal. He can get his 21 million over the next 10 years. Tell him we will give a team option for a 4th year and a 5 dollar buyout. JR to KW Now if this doesnt work, dont worry we can reinvest it later. I can get interest, i mean dont make rash decisions on a pitcher. Hey that Grilli kid looked good last year. Check out his ERA+ numbers. I think you may have a steal there. KW to Ozzie: Clement didnt work out, but Jason Grilli looks good for number 5. Why do you keep saying Chinga. Who is Chinga Te? Is he that korean hitter we signed for 2nd base. JR to the board: The plan is almost complete. I have our man out doing a good PR job. He has them believing that we will reinvest the money in the team. We are at 64.2 million on the payroll. I figure that by July 1st we will be able to get rid of Konerkos salary and Everett. Next year we can launch these kids can play II. Its all going according to plan lord vader.

65 million dollar payroll and crap on a stick for the 5th starter. Thanks JR and KW for nothing you worthless pieces of crap.

Does anyone know anyone who can keep the ERA under 7 and give us at least 5 innings every fifth day?

I am looking forward to the Q&A session at soxfest. So JR have you invested the money you saved by not fielding a competitive team this year in something safe like a CD.

Detroit will add Lowe to their rotation. They have two closers so their pen is much better. Their offense is stacked from last year and they beat the sox even with inferior teams over the last two years. Cleveland - Young hungry hitters. Bullpen looks a bit better than last year. Minny - 2 dominant pitchers who we do not know how to beat. But hey there is always the Royals. 4th place without dominant pitching 1-5. So far we added team speed with pods. Everything else is a wash.

JRs plan is to roll out all of the money on the floor. Get naked. Then proceed to roll all over his money only to make it more dirty. He will laugh like newman on seinfield saying, fools all of this money is mine allll mine. ah ah ah ah ah

Remember last year we were having this same talk about Gordon. We can afford Gordon and we got Mike Jackson. We will get some cheap, very very cheap injury prone FA that is lightening in a bottle. That is how showey made it into the rotation last year.

Well we got our salary dump. No FA pitcher, salary at 65 mill. Think about it this way, if we are sitting in 4th place in June we can look forward to salary dump II. Konerko and Everett will be gone. This of course will be to get more money for next years FA class. Which again we will have to compete with Anaheim, Seattle, NY, and Boston. If we play our cards right our payroll could be around 50 mill. More money for JR to get naked and roll around in cool. We are officially f***ed now. :fyou

dont walk everyone in site is what i am saying.

Now that clement has signed with the bosox. Anaheim and the rest of the masses target odalis. Lowe goes to detroit. There was an article about Millwood going back to Atlanta, but they balked at that as he stll thinks he is worth big money north of 8 mill. Milton would get destroyed here with gopher balls. O Hernandez is 41 and is injury prone. Jason Grilli keep the ball near the plate at least. Maybe we can outslug a team once a week. We are targetting not a number 5 guy, but a top of the rotation guy. Pitching wins. KW

Actually I disagree, I think this will help alleviate pressure from Contreras. His problems in New York were due to pressure of the moment. As a number 4 here he will have a lot less pressure than if he was part of the top three in the rotation. I think it will do worlds of good for Garland who becomes the best number 5 that we have ever had. I dont think Freddy has any pressure. He has enough guarenteed money. The only pressure if family pressure from Ozzie if he messes up.

Actually if he signs to another team I may hate him. But not because of overexposure.

I smell bulls*** on the rumor. Welcome to Boston/Anaheim Mr. Clement. I think you can afford a new house now with the bags of money we gave you. Here is an extra million to keep your wifey happy.

I wonder if he will have his press conference announcing his Angels/RedSox signing today or wait until monday pending a physical. Odalis goes to the loser by the end of next week. Lowe goes to the tigers at about 7 mill.

Jose Lima has herpes. So do you really want his wife? Remember whats the difference between love and herpes? Herpes is forever