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QUOTE (Lillian @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 08:59 AM) Beckham and Quentin is just too much affordable future potential to give up for Tejada and Markakis. Have you looked at the Markakis contract? He's going to be making $15 Million per year in 2013 and 2014. If you're going to spend that kind of money, why not just acquire a free agent and keep your young affordable players? Because most free agents are older. Dumping MB and AJ and Teahen relieves a lot of salary so they would have to go.

I never try my hand at this because I'm no expert on every player on every team but Quentin , Beckham and Teahan for Tejada and Markakis. Tejada only has a one yr. contract for $6 mil. so he can depart after this year. Markasis is signed for a while and doesn't get really expensive till next yr. Trade Buerhle to anyone who would take his salary and plug Hudson into his spot. Not that Baltimore would ever trade Markakis especially for 2 struggling players but its possible for Beckham and Q to become very good players again. Of course next year we'd be looking for a 3rd baseman and a 2nd baseman but Nix ,Vizquel and Lillibridge can play it this yr. Trade AJ for w/e you can get and we get even more salary relief. I know Flowers probably isn't ready but have to get salary relief somewhere. We improve RF and 3rd base D get OBP and consistency from Markakis. A platoon of Vizquel and Nix at 2nd puts up better numbers atm than Beckham does and equal or better D. Baltimore is most likely building around Markakis so I know its silly to think they would trade him but one can dream.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 01:11 AM) Jenks had the K to win the game twice, and got f***ed on both of them. He pitched a great 9th that should have continued to lower his ERA. I agree.Sometimes it seems as if perfection is the only acceptable outcome around here. Even then you'd probably hear about too many pitches and 3-2 counts.

4 well pitched games in a row and Bacon with 3 doubles in last 4 games.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 04:21 PM) Well, the pitching's been real good the last three games. That's where it starts. That's where it begins and ends with this team. A turnaround is possible if the starting pitching gets back on track.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 11:13 PM) It would be nice to see Kenny go out and make a move to help us first. We need a 3B and some IF help in general. Ty Wigginton is making very little and shouldn't cost a bunch in trade even though he's really hitting. The O's are done and would be willing to listen for sure. Just a little move like that would show the players and fans we're not ready to give up just yet, and who knows, maybe something like that could go a long way. With this mini run we're having now and upcoming games against the NL I can easily see the Sox around .500 at the AS break. If the pitching comes around and we make a tweak that pays off as you suggested the season could produce a lot of excitement. The drama need to end so firing Ozzie should be highly considered.

I can't blame KW at all. Ozzie dissed the Sox organization by saying he'd pay his son to go to college over the Sox. That in itself is not a terrible thing to say if he had worded it in a way that stressed education over baseball when you're drafted that low. Don't think the fact that the Sox drafted him that low was the issue . KW is very big on not saying anything disrespectful about the organization. That was the issue about the tweets and Ozzie's ill-chosen words added fuel to that particular fire.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 07:41 PM) It doesn’t work like that. Just because you’re expected not to suck, and then suck, doesn’t necessitate some kind of miraculous reversal of fortune the same year. There’s a decent chance that these guys will pitch better, but likely not at all enough to make any meaningful headway while being 8.5 games behind a superior team. Yes we all know it doesn't work like that most of the time but I refuse to rule out a reversal. To do so would make rooting for the Sox meaningless.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 10:13 PM) I'm not saying it is probable or likely. I'm saying that we aren't that far gone and that it is possible that we turn it around. Did I say we're playing good baseball? Nope. Do I think this team is capable of playing good baseball? Yes. Will they? Probably not -- but it is possible. Go back to pouting guys - I'll continue to be myself and hope for the best. Suck it up guys. Cheers You're the man Hiatus. Since most of us agreed that the starting staff was supposed to be the strength of the team and it hasn't been by a long shot, then it should follow that they can all turn it around and be what we thought they would be.

Beckham with a double 2 games in a row. Nice to see.

Nice catch CQ.

or not.

Gordon prove you got an extra base hit in you !

Just turned on the game and Kotsay was the 1st batter I saw

Kind of surprised the silly thread about Stone being the problem was close. With all the doom and gloom around here it was nice to see an attempt to lighten the mood. The Sox are bad at the moment , it happens, get over it , move on , show a sense of humor. Lighten up , life's too short.

QUOTE (KipWellsFan @ Jun 3, 2010 -> 08:46 PM) After watching Bobby tonight it is quite clear that he still has the stuff to close. It's all about location. And he had the tight slider working too. Didn't he use to have a pretty good 12 to 6 curve too? I thought he got away from the fastball too much with that 12-6 curve but it was a good pitch , then this year seemed to be all hard stuff and the curve disappeared. Was happy to see the last out of the game was 2 fastballs for strikes and the big curve for the swing and miss.

The offense, defense and starting pitching suck but the season isn't over. I'd enjoy watching a lot more if they can turn their record around and make things interesting. This is like the Murphy's Law White Sox. Whatever can go wrong has gone wrong. It can't last so I'll watch the victories and and hope for comebacks when we're down and pray things improve.

Forgot Grateful Freddi isn't Dead Garcia !

Q power amping up. ! Righteous Rios ! Mr. Jones ! Badass BJ !

Need a wild pitch .

Need a miracle.

Smoaked again.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 08:09 PM) That ws one of the worst strike calls I've ever seen. It was truly bad .

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 03:44 PM) You obviously have no clue what you're talking about. Gordon's line in AAA: .371/25/8/23/.508/.701/1.209 But yeah, he obviously couldn't hang at high A. Believe he's talking about Field.

I think his struggles could be a result from missing a lot of last year and possibly that 115 pitch or w/e it was effort in a spring training game. Of course the 3 good games he pitched at the end of 2009 might not indicate my previous statement as all that accurate but nevertheless I'm thinking (wishfully) he'll show much improvement as the season goes on.