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QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jul 19, 2007 -> 03:43 PM) Jerry has been surprisingly good lately. Post all-star .286 .375 3 sb 1cs if he could keep that line we would be in biz One thing I'm really not looking forward to is the return of Pods and Erstad, because it'll resign Owens either to the bench or to AAA. If this season's a loss, then we might as well see if this kid can keep the hot streak he's on right now going against ML pitching, because if he can, it solves an awful lot of our problems for next season.

This was exactly the path Paulie took in 05. I think he's just the definition of a slow starter.

Houston could be deadly next year if Francis ever passes...

QUOTE(SoxFan77 @ Jul 19, 2007 -> 02:58 PM) I agree, He has had 2 seasons where he was hitting well. Decent Def.. And Avg player about to get more than Garland or Mark.. NO thanks. Does anyone else like the idea of paying $10 mil a year for an OF with a .750 OPS, who will hit 30 next year? I just don't see him actually being the .900 OPS guy he is this year or was in 2003.

I really, really dislike the idea of giving Rowand what his market value will be after this season.

If no one is brought in, you have to think that it comes from Fields, Owens, Anderson, and Sweeney. Sweeney I'd say is a virtual lock to take over one of those spots next year. Fields will be up somewhere, and might play some OF if Crede comes back for a few months to try to rebuild his trade value. Owens hasn't been as bad as he could be during this callup, he's almost up to hitting .250, and if he can do that, I'll take him over Podsednik. It'd still be nice to get something, somehow out of Anderson, given that he was a #1 pick and does have a bunch of unrealized potential, but his injuries this season havne't helped the cause. The best possible situation for the Sox would be to have the OF be Owens, Anderson, Sweeney, and then to have all 3 of them actually earn their starting positions. But the odds are that we're going to need at least 1 more person brought in, esp. if the organization has decided, as some have stated, that Anderson will never play for the Sox again. I think our #1 priority right now has to be to find another SS. If some of our OF guys struggle, at least there's a line waiting to replace them. But right now we don't have anyone to take over SS from Uribe, and that's becoming more and more of a problem.

Charlie now sporting a 1.93 ERA.

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Jul 18, 2007 -> 12:22 PM) Bases loaded, 1-out. I now look at these situations and try to figure out how it can be blown. Strikeout by Thome is a good start.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Jul 18, 2007 -> 12:07 PM) Think Haegar will pitch in every game for the rest of the season? Why not? At this point, what's the worst he can do, prove that he's not ready for the big leagues yet? On the other hand, maybe he earns a bullpen or rotation spot next year or builds himself some real trade value by getting big league hitters out.

QUOTE(chimpy2121 @ Jul 18, 2007 -> 12:04 PM) I can't believe the poll on ESPN that says only 58% of the people who voted believe he should be suspended now. I thought for sure it would have been 80%/20%. I also can't fathom how someone could treat a living thing like that. There's the one report that he was there when a dog was soaked with a hose and then electrocuted. That's so sick and twisted, I don't know how anyone could even do it. Well, on the suspension, it's not necessarily as open-and-shut as something like Pacman, who had 10 runins with the law before his suspension, or Tank, who was convicted and jailed before his suspension. The government still has to prove their case in a court of law and in their eyes Mr. Vick is required to be treated as innocent until proven. So here's the question; with Vick having no priors, unlike the other guys, what happens if the league suspends him for 8 games or so and then he winds up being found not guilty?

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 13, 2007 -> 10:12 AM) <!--quoteo(post=1471586:date=Jul 13, 2007 -> 09:13 AM:name=NorthSideSox72)-->QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 13, 2007 -> 09:13 AM) <!--quotec--> For the last two years since Katrina we were lead to believe by the overwhelming majority of scientists that global warming will cause not only an increase in hurricanes (or forces that cause them) but also an increase in the intensity of hurricanes. They forecasted the biggest number of hurricanes on record for each of the last two years. They used every piece of available data, every scientific model/program/whathaveyou, and spit out this grand theory that we were going to get pummeled by storm after storm. And you know what happened? Jack diddly f*ckin squat. For two years hurricanes have been a non-story. Last year was also an El Nino year. I'm not exactly certain why, but this is something that seems to be difficult to predict until one actually forms in the western pacific. It is well established that El Nino years do a lot of wierd things, like say, killing the snowpack in the Sierras and leading L.A. to ask folks to conserve water and so forth. One of the weird things El Nino does is create heavy winds over the Central Atlantic, winds that tend to shear apart any storms that try to organize.

Home Economics is now called "Family and Consumer Sciences". It was "Life Skills" when I went through high school.

Wow, and Matt Thornton comes in and does the job.

QUOTE(kwolf68 @ Jul 18, 2007 -> 11:32 AM) I'd love to get Hu, but I don't think Jose will get it done. Had he been pitching worth a damn maybe...Hu is a future MLB SS easily. The Dodgers are also rumored to have interest in Dye (which they really should, since they've needed a RH bat who can hit 30 home runs for 2 years now)

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 18, 2007 -> 11:25 AM) Wilson and Uribe are pretty much the same damn player, why replace one problem with another? I'd rather just sign John McDonald in the offseason live with the horrid offense but get some great defense for 1/10 of the price of a Wilson or Uribe. Whatever we do this season, I sure hope that KW has his focus on acquiring a young SS, because at least to my eyes, SS is the one position where we don't have anyone young who could come in and even compete for a job next season. OF, SS, 3rd base, SP, bullpen, we have at least some kid at all of those positions who we could use if we decide that's the best option, but right now in our system, it's Uribe or nothing.

Dye Rumors.

QUOTE(joeynach @ Jul 18, 2007 -> 10:56 AM) Where is AJ, he always starts if there is a Righty on the mound. Day game after a night game on a takeoff day, Ozzie does have a habit of using the backup C those days. I presume AJ played the last 2 games?

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 18, 2007 -> 11:18 AM) Byrnes and Rowand would cost you about 20 million dollars a year between them. Don't worry though, the grinding will be out of control. And getting rid of Dye for nothing is very dumb, as it's likely his two Type A compensation picks will be much more valuable than what the Rally Killer will get you right now. I can't wait until people around this team realize that Rowand has probably pushed himself either totally or nearly into the $10 mil a year territory by having a career year so far this season.

The First 6 months of 2007 are either the first or second hottest since temp. recording began, depending on who's numbers you look at (.01 degree C difference)

Here's the question you have to ask yourself: Is a lineup that looks like this going to be a winner: Owens, LF Richar, 2b ARod, SS Thome, DH Konerko, 1b Pierzynski, C Fields, 3b Sweeney, RF Anderson, CF Starting rotation: Buehrle, Garland, Vazquez/Contreras, Danks, Floyd Bullpen; no expensive additions, only stuff from our organization or picked up through trades If you could get someone to take on Contreras or Vazquez without us having to give up money, that's about a $100 million lineup right there, give or take. If you want to be able to put ARod into that lineup, you need to be ready for the rookies to take the rest of the spots.

At this point, it probably behooves us to take whatever we can get for Jose, for 2 reasons. 1; salary dump. I don't see us being in good shape next year if we're spending another $46 million on the starting rotation with these same 5 guys in it. And 2; we really need to clear another slot in the rotation to try out some of the kids we think could be good. It wouldn't be a bad idea at all to give Floyd a few months in the big leagues this year to see if we can hope to count on him for anything next year, and if he can't cut it, then it's Broadway or Gio time next year. On Dye, if he departs as a FA, his numbers all but guarantee he'll bring us A level compensation, so there's no huge rush to deal him unless we get something more valuable than that back. Iguchi...I could go either way. He's got an outside chance at being an A level FA as a 2nd baseman, and I'd say at worst is a B-level one, so he'd probably bring us something back next offseason if he walks. But it might not hurt to give Richar some time in the bigs this year as well, so it depends on what we're offered.

Give Richar a shot. If we can't plug in some of these kids and actually have success with them, we'll be pretty much screwed anyway. You can't hire a FA mercenary to fill every single hole you have unless you're on Yankee salaries.

QUOTE(hitlesswonder @ Jul 18, 2007 -> 09:45 AM) I agree -- it's not like the bullpen is the only hole on the team. The offense is terrible. Half the starting lineup consists of AAA players. And to get decent relievers that early in the season would have cost players like Egbert, Gonzalez or Sweeney. And perhaps equally as important...the guys on the offense who aren't terrible all seemingly got off to terrible starts except Thome (who got hurt). Even if everything else was equal, we weren't going to win many games with this version of Podsednik and Erstad at the top of the order and Konerko, Iguchi, Dye, and Crede hitting around .200 for the first 2 months. We survived bad starts by Konerko and Dye in the first 2 months of 05 because the pitching was really, really good and because we did a nice job of manufacturing runs with Pods tearing up the basepaths. Without that, we didn't have any way to avoid a slump there either.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Jul 18, 2007 -> 09:18 AM) Would a corrected bullpen saved the season??? hard to tell. i would guess we would have 6-7 more wins right now if we had quality, major league talent in there. 6-7 more wins, puts the sox around .500 with a fighting chance for post season play. The question is...how much do you sell off in order to get a fighting chance at the postseason (in the AL nonetheless, where a .500 record leaves you 15 games out of playoff contention at the end of the year)

Gio Gonzalez and Ryan Sweeney for Octavio Dotel. Get it done KW! (ok, so I can't find the text color button yet)