southsider2k5

Exactly. This is a near impossible task.

Unless you are talking about pitchers that are making near the minimum salary, the team can't afford it, without moving other contracts. Remember the Sox are $5 mil or so overbudget, and are not allowed to add payroll. Period. Every deal done must either be a zero sum trade, or net subtract salary.

Apparently Pete slipped up a while back and let a journalism class know that he bet on baseball. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1709448

The post didn't have "f***ing" in it anywhere. It couldn't be Maddux

Boy did they overpay

OK for all of the all knowing people on this site, who have bashed KW this off season, I am throwing down the gauntlet. How would you improve the team, WITHOUT spending anymore than the league minimum or minor league contracts, on free agents. That is unless the $5 million the Sox are overbudget, plus the actual space of the contracts you would be aquiring. Also factoring in the backlash of fans if certian big name players are traded, and making sure that the trades are resonable enough that other GM's won't simply laugh you off of the phone.

The Trib said this morning that there was a good chance that he would try to keep Blache as the D man.

OK I did leave out the 162-0 on purpose

Bill Wirtz has said that as long as he owns the team, he will be coaching this team.

Yeah Sox fans have a special place in their hearts for goats...

I know people's nerves are frayed by a combo of Sox losses and Cub gains, but it is only natural that people are going to talk more about teams like the Cubs, Twins, Royals etc than teams like San Diego or Tampa Bay that have no rivalry or geographic presence here. It is just a part of being a Sox fan to talk about what your rivals are doing.

Wow that is a hell of a range. Simply looking at the people who made one prediction there is a range of 72-93 wins I put this up here because I personally am curious, if the Sox make a major move, how much that these will change.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...onkey_underwear

Ah I gotcha. That makes a little more sense. What did you think of ST? Was it in AZ or FL?

Seriously? Damn I would say ST everytime. At least that way you get sun, heat and baseball.

If they trade Zhamnov, they will not win 20 games.

Oh Critic Put a little love in your heart

Yeah maybe they should have heimlich instructsion handed out at the gate of their home games?

Sure we give it PA and he takes it. It is pretty simple really. BTW you know how hard it is to find a good whipping boy now a days? Geesh.

What happened to being able to say whatever you want?

Has anyone heard anymore about the rumor over the demise of the 7 game plan? That is what i used to always get, so that is what I would do again.

I think that was the number the JR personally made, IIRC, not what the team made.

I also just noticed that the Sun Times had the Cubs making a $12 mil offer for two years, and the Trib said it was 2 years at $15 mil. That is a big difference, I wonder which one is true?

There is a thread about Maddux in the Sports Bar, but rumors sound like the Mets could be the darkhorse.

He's the Michael Jordan of posters