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Literally in tears watching Gio Gonzalez pitch tonight. Absolutely electric stuff.

Pitching sweet tonight, Jake has been amazing. Viciedo looks horrible. Clearly not ready for prime time.

No brainer. Humber could retire today and his accomplishment will rest in Cooperstown.

I can't stand this player, but the only possible way Rios gets moved this year is 1-If Rios plays well 2-The White Sox stink Both have to happen. Right now only 1 is. The White Sox playing well is partially the result of the quality of Rios' play early in the season. So Kenny won't move him unless someone is enamored with him and will take on all the salary and give a resource in return.

It was interesting seeing Sale pitch as a starter as opposed to relief. He transitioned into it like a pro. No soft spot in the rotation...team may not win the Central, but talk of 100 losses probably not smart.

Bullpen very encouraging early. Some nice young arms and the team hasn't starting hitting yet (mostly).

Good pitching so far...

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 9, 2012 -> 09:05 PM) posted this in the sox catch all thread, but up til that point Rios had made quite a few nice plays in RF that Tank wouldn't have had a chance on IMO The guy is a lazy tool. After his horrific 2011, a season full of lazy floating it seems Rios would come back this year with a renewed sense of purpose. But alas it's Rios and he is who we think he is. This team is young and in transition...having people who won't play baseball the right way is a determinant to the long term future of the team. Fortunately, nothing bad happened after that drop. And it would be nice if Rios will learn from that play and start playing baseball like he actually cares.

QUOTE (BFirebird @ Apr 9, 2012 -> 09:03 PM) C'mon Rios. You are better than that. Actually, no he's not. The guy is a bum.

QUOTE (KG#1 @ Apr 8, 2012 -> 09:59 PM) Or whoever! Just get Gavin out of a White Sox uniform. Never been a fan, if we can get anything for him, I'd be happy . . . Wow...the paradigm current...if we can get 'anything'... Id like to finally get some actual talent with big league potential.

Nice video.

Most hated player can't be just a guy who stinks, but one who appears to be a lazy azz and doesn't care. I haven't seen one name mentioned I dislike as much as Rios. The faster we can give this team an enema and dump him the faster the Sox can really start to get back to being a good team.

Comparisons to 2005 are laughable. There was a clear plan and direction in 2005. While a lot of those players/transactions in 2005 came 'out of nowhere' to produce at least there was reasoning behind those players. Although there may be a good reason behind the distorted direction of the White Sox. Perhaps it was Kenny's idea all along to rebuild and after he undersold the only desired assets the Sox had, he found that no one wanted the rest of our players who he clearly wanted to market. It will take a blow-up year from the pitching staff to be remotely competitive. Anything less, the team will struggle to stay out of last. Jerry doesn't know what's getting ready to hit him. Pinning hopes on freaking Alex Rios? That in itself is a terrible sign. I hope I am wrong and generally I love spring when baseball gets started, but this is the most cynical I have EVER been about the Sox. Some of the bad years in the late 1980s I wasn't as intuned to the workings of the Sox as now, so I always felt positive because I didn't know how bad a couple of those teams really were.

Certainly an "all in" move. I applaud Kenny, always one step ahead of his detractors. /sarc

QUOTE (mumbles3k @ Jan 31, 2012 -> 05:58 AM) Sure, but my point is that the 1972 season wasn't really anything special. What is it that they're celebrating? The 1972 team was a pretty damn good team (the As were just a bit better). And after what I fear we experience this season, we'll look back on that team as baseball gods.

The only thing on this team remotely decent is pitching and everyone is pitching too high a spot in the rotation (Danks should be a 2, Floyd a 3)...Sale has better than bottom end potential obviously, but this White Sox team is going to make us remember years like 1989. I think 90+ losses is a most likely scenario. In a best case situation they could MAYBE take a run at .500 with lights out years from the pitchers, but then again I could also see 100 losses here. The lineup is atrocious. It would take not just a 1 or 2 guys having career years, but 5 or 6 players for this team to come close to competing.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 6, 2012 -> 10:34 AM) Welcome to Rebuilding. Would you like fries with that? I can't see that it's rebuilding. It just looks like 'getting s***tier'. What is being rebuilt? We traded Quentin for two 'whatever' prospects, Santos was moved for a single A ball pitcher, we're stuck with some really bad and/or overpaid players that have no trade value. A true rebuild this is not. This is idle tinkering. I can't wait to see the two mediocre prospects Williams picks up if he trades Floyd. I think Kansas City finally has a chance to move out of the cellar.

Lefty, power, good plate discipline, bench fodder at best.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jan 24, 2012 -> 01:59 PM) A shame a Bear great like 54 will probably retire without a SB ring, an above avg offense and he'd have at least 1. Considering the 1980s Bears ONLY won 1 Super Bowl and that team was vastly superior to anything the the Bears have fashioned since, it's not a shock Brian won't win a Bowl with the Bears. The history of the NFL is scattered with brilliant players with no championships. In the end, the Bears during the Brian era simply put were not good enough.

Having a hard time understanding why De Aza is being anointed and Lillibridge is set in stone for the bench. To me they are not a lot different...nearly the same age (27 and 28), both came into the bigs with some potential and flamed out in their first shot at the show... both look like platoon type players to me. Neither impress me as a player to take 600 ABs, but both could probably really maximize their talent in a platoon role, which leads me to think they should platoon with each other.

I don't like his defense, but I think he can give the Sox a .255+ average and 25+ homers. Not bad numbers if he can do it his first full year out.

Salary dumps....mostly we've gotten a bunch of whatever prospects for current major league players. Hell, it may turn out roses, who knows, but it looks like the workings of amateurs and yes I realize KW was a large part of the 2005 title team, but I am thinking that was just lighting in the bottle and not the results of true brilliance. I'm a Sox fan, have been for 30+ years so I'm riding wherever this wagon goes, but the doubts remain about the current direction.

Right now so much of this scenario depends on a player with 22 innings above A-ball level. EVERY team has some prospect who is the 2nd coming...in fact, most organizations have several of those guys. When in reality, most don't make it...but we have ONE guy and low and behold, he's gonna make it.

I for one did not like and still don't like the Santos move, but I am glad KW hung onto Danks instead of dealing him away for crap. Now the Yankees, Red Sox, or whoever likes Danks can sit on their bag of untested/unproven prospects while they try to outscore people 8-7. And if these other teams thought the asking price was high before yesterday, then guess what? John Danks is STILL ONLY 26 years old. Hell, the dude hasn't really even hit his prime. He is an innings eater, a bulldog, and talented. WHY NOT keep him even if we're rebuilding? I'd rather rebuild and win 75 games instead of rebuild and winning 60. There are still movable pieces on this team and lets see what happens there...TCQ, Floyd, Thornton, possibly others. Even if Gavin Floyd is moved, the starting rotation is actually quite promising, especially if the million dollar man (Peavy) can return to some part of his former glory. Still, this was indeed a bizarre move, mainly because I didn't see it coming. But is it a bad move? Hardly.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Dec 16, 2011 -> 01:03 PM) Such a depressing list. Hopefully it at least reaches the level of mediocre after further trades. It was terrible reading that list.