Dick Allen

At WSI, it says Bruce Levine is reporting the Sox are close to acquiring Williamson for a package of minor leaguers headlined by Arnie Munoz. He also said the Sox were close to acquiring Carlos Guillen for Valentin.

Wow, look at his salary on that page. Its over 2.5 billion. Steff talked to him, he hasn't signed.

I agree. They have a great rotation, but you have to score in the AL.

People said the same thing about Dick Allen

I can't imagine the Orioles not signing him, after going after these other guys. No pitching would make them the Texas Rangers east.

They have a huge edge. Hopefully, they sign a catcher and Guerrero and run out of money.

Did you see Hairston's salary according to ESPN? They said he made 300,000,000.

I think you could get Gonzalez for a whole lot less than $8 million.

I would agree with that, its just that the guy in the NY Post had the White Sox as frontrunners for him with that same offer, and that was yesterday. Maybe the writer of this Cleveland column took the other one as gospel and went with it.

But one would question a rookie manager basically scolding a future Hall of Famer at his press conference to announce his hiring. It probably is BS, but who knows.

I don't know how to link it, but Joe Sherman in today's NY Post says Thomas has demanded to be traded. Says Guillen has requested that Konerko, Ordonez, and Lee get traded, and that the White Sox are the frontrunners for Ponson with a 3 year $18 million offer.

He came up a secondbaseman with Oakland. He really hasn't played there for a few seasons, and I really don't know how he was defensively there. But he is a "grinder", and I think would fit in well in the line-up.

Winning isn't the cure all. The Cubs have been pretty brutal overall the last 10-15 years, yet have no problem packing them in. The White Sox had the best record in the AL in 2000, yet didn't draw 2 million, more than 500,000 below the league average.

Next year would be this upcoming season. By opening day, I believe the naysayers will be impressed with the roster.

That's in a huge pitcher's park. It would even be worse at the Cell. If he quit partying so much, and had a better attitude, his numbers would probably get back to where they were before.

KW could just be posturing. If other teams know he must get rid of players right away, he could never get any value in return.

I was thinking the same thing. He called the Clayton and Boomer Wells trades a couple of years ago. He said 3 years ago the Sox wanted Weaver, all as accurate as can be. Lately though, he has been way off.

Phillips is the guy who assembled one of the worst teams in baseball on a $110 million budget. What does he know?

Isn't there a way around it by signing a minor league contract? I could be very wrong.

Why would the cash-strapped A's go after Wickman, especially since he hasn't pitched in over a year? This story is BS, I believe.

I will be renewing, looking forward to batting practice at the Cell next spring.

Isn't there questions about Percival's hip? Bo Jackson, Konerko, Percival, the White Sox would be the hippest team in the league.

There will be some more seats available. They screwed up, and had no idea the seats would be more popular outside of the park than in it. They will correct this, and you as a season ticketholder will get some seats.

It would have been a sweep. Tony G is great off the bench, but when they played him for longer stretches, he got exposed, and wasn't nearly as effective.

The Reds are dumping payroll and would like to get out of paying that contract. If Griffey hit 50 homers next year, and was healthy, they would trade him for a slew of prospects in a heartbeat. No one would trade for him now, especially your team's best player. His conract runs 3 or 4 more years after this season with a 4 million buyout, I believe after 2008. Even if he came back to his old levels this season, his recent injury history still makes his contract a terrible risk.