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nice to see that we were willing to pay overslot.

What about Crazy Carl? He was a pretty big name and never really did much with us.

Anybody know what the slot recommendation was for Beckham?

nice. i'm watching on a gamecast, what kind of pitch was getz' hit on?

i've just seen kw dump our top prospects over and over trying to win now and i'm glad that we hung on to poreda, i want to see what he can do for us

saw this on mlbtraderumors.com If we aren't willing to give up Poreda for a big name like Fuentes then KW and the organization must be pretty high on him. Good to see that we aren't willing to dump all of out top prospects in a win-now attempt

Bare bones version today, its late, you do your own work Charlotte v Pautuckett Birmingham v Montgomery W-S v Potomac Kannapolis v Greenville Bristol v. Kingsport Great Falls v Casper

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 9, 2008 -> 08:45 AM) Interesting that Charlotte is playing the Red Sox AAA affiliate, while we play the Red Sox. Sergio Miranda: hitting .469 his last 10 games, now hitting .310 on the season with an OBP approaching .400, and has as many walks as strikeouts. Meanwhile, Escobar is hitting .229, and yet continues to start at SS and lead off every game (Miranda playing a lot of 2B, 3B, DH). I doubt that we're as high on Miranda as Escobar. Also, Escobar is a few years younger I think

QUOTE (Texsox @ Aug 7, 2008 -> 09:45 AM) "So Barry, any other side effects from steroid withdrawl?" made me laugh out loud at work

The Sox new pitching coach takes the ball from Buerhle after a solid outing.

latest updates on draft pick signings. really not a whole lot of new info here on beckham http://draft.mlblogs.com/archives/2008/08/...aft_update.html

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 12:35 AM) I thought that was only if you pleasured yourself? what if i was doing both?

damn near a double but minny loses

bases loaded now

Nice to know that Renteria's E gave us the extra out we needed tonight

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 09:03 PM) Phht, what about the east coast diehards? :gosox3: well im on the west coast and don't even get to watch the game, i've had the gamecast on for the last 5 hrs

props to those of you who are still up watching this game in the midwest

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QUOTE (Wanne @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 08:52 PM) I'm not holding my breath here.... i am a little bit

atta boy carlos!!!

thornton should've been pulled after facing lefty granderson, I was sitting here saying that even before the hr

QUOTE (BearSox @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 07:06 PM) Nice to see Hudson with another great outing, he is my AAP (which I need to make now that I am off of suspension). I think within the next year or two he will be one of our top prospects. From watching his scouting video when we drafted him, he has a plus fastball which sits in the lower-mid 90's with excellent movement. I don't know much about his other stuff, but from judging by his numbers so far this season, I'd say they have some potential. now I remember watching his video. his fastball has crazy tailing action at the very end, it seemed to move a good 8-12 inches in the last 15 feet or so

Going backwards today Bristol v Elizabethtown Vargas 4-5 2hr 3 rbi Silverio 1-4 1k (this is his standard stat line over the past month since his hot start) Kendall 2-5 2B hitting .336 in first pro season Great Falls v Missoula Estill 1-2 HR 2R BB K Lots of K's and BB's for Estill in his second season at GF. His average is finally above the Mendoza line after a terrible start Celis 3-3 2 2B 2RBI. He's from our DSL 2 team, having a good first season in the states. has great plate discipline which seems to be fairly common for DSL players (at least our dsl players) Hudson 5IP 0R 4BB 7K. He's got great peripherals so far, I'd like to know what kind of stuff he has. Kannapolis v Hagerstown Escobar 0-5 3k -in a bit of a slump lately Morel 2-5 3B 3RBI only his 3rd extra base hit at Kanny Marrero 2-2 2B HR 2RBI 2BB. He's hit well in two pro seasons after being a free agent signing W-S v Wilmington Hernandez 2-3 HR. He's a switch hitting catcher with more BB than K's and a good OBP Carter 4IP 4ER 3BB 1K. gets the loss, been struggling in his first go round at high-a Birmingham v Chatanooga Harrell and O'Malley combine to go 5.1ip 12R 6ER 16 hits 3BB Gartrell 3-4 2B Allen 0-2 BB- more BB than K's in AA, good sign of progress for him Cruz 3-4 2HR 4RBI Charlotte v Syracuse Owens 1-4 Getz 1-4 Eldred 2-4 Huffman 1-4 HR

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 06:54 PM) This is horse s***. AJ gets so much unearned garbage thrown his way. The guy is absolutely not a hothead. In fact, he seems to be quite level-headed. You could make a negative list of anything in baseball, and they'd always just put AJ first because people just believe it when they see it. EDIT: Not necessarily first, but he'd be on any of the lists. Exactly, when is the last time you saw AJ lose his cool. It's always other people i.e. Barrett or Mike Soscia (when AJ took first on the ball in the dirt in 05 divisional) who freak out when AJ is around. I'm not saying he doesn't go out of his way to fu** with people but he never loses it.

I'm not sure if we really need to "rebuild" as much as we need to get rid of some dead wood. We do have some promising young players to build around both in the field and on the mound but I do think that it's time to start getting younger. How many more seasons can Thome and Dye continue to hit like they have, Konerko has seemingly hit the wall and I'm just not sure what you're going to get on a nightly basis from Contreras and Vasquez. We don't need a total rebuild as much as we need a re-shuffling of a few players/positions