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QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jan 15, 2010 -> 01:05 PM) Personally, I don't care (and I doubt many within the team do), but I believe it'll be Buehrle every opening day until he's gone, injured, or ineffective as a starter. Could be, and I won't lose any sleep over it...but I just like Peavy's attitude, and I think he is our ace. Buehrle is a very good, consistent pitcher, but I want them to send a message that Peavy is here to lead this staff. For as good of a guy Buehrle is, he doesn't have the natural leadership thing going. Peavy obviously has that personality. But at the end of the day, I hope the top 4 get 33 starts and Garcia gets 30 starts. If that happens, I guarantee 90 wins.

I really hope Peavy pitches opening day. He's our ace. He deserves that honor.

Dotel is close to joining Carrasco in Pittsburgh.

Tigers sign Valverde to close.

Best I can tell, these are the 15: Pitchers: Aquino, Braun, Cabrera, Leesman, Threets Catchers: Gonzalez, Lucy, Phegley Infielders: Bynum, Morel, Retherford Outfielders: Botts, Danks, Kroeger, Mitchell

Miguel Gonzalez is there now too.

Maybe TJ Bohn?

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jan 14, 2010 -> 03:06 PM) Maybe Alejandro De Aza? He's on the 40-man.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/team/roster_nri.jsp?c_id=cws Looks like Kroger, Lucy, and Braun may be back too. Please no "We got Ryan Braun!" posts. They were stupid last year, and they're still dumb.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 14, 2010 -> 02:58 PM) Where did you get that partial list? Merkin Twitter.

15 invited including Daniel Cabrera. Jared Mitchell Jordan Danks CJ Retherford Brent Morel Charlie Leesman Josh Phegley Waiting for complete list to be released.

Pirates sign DJ Carrasco.

If they're going to spend some extra money to get better, I'd like to see Johnny Damon join the team. I think he'd be a wise investment if they can talk him into a one year deal. Pierre and Damon batting 1-2 in either order, then Beckham and Quentin batting 3-4...that would be nice.

Cole Armstrong was dropped. http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/press...sp&c_id=cws

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 02:31 PM) I coulda swore I heard that Castro had signed with someone else already...guess not. I hope Castro can repeat his performance of last year and get the Sox another perfect game! The Blue Jays were thought to have signed him, and then it was denied and he was back out there.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 02:24 PM) I haven't gotten enough in the way of specific medical reports since last May, but Marquez was dealing with bone spurs when he was pitching last year. If it were me, I'd want to see if he could recover from that before cutting him loose. But then again, if it came down to Marquez vs. signing a DH, the choice is obvious. I think the chances of Marquez getting picked up on waivers is pretty low, so maybe they can get him by and outright him to Charlotte.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 02:21 PM) Cole Armstrong would be my guess. I definitely think Armstrong and Marquez are the two top candidates for a DFA.

QUOTE (scotty22hotty @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 02:13 PM) Oh oh... Is Kenny working on trading Flowers now? No. He'll be in Charlotte. So who gets dumped from the 40-man? Marquez?

Tweets Ken Rosenthal. http://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/7680733527

Some of the stuff I've read in this thread have made me question the future of mankind.

Retherford story. Gotta root for the guy. http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...sp&c_id=cws

I just watched the interview with Costas. He came off terrible. He said he used it to stay on the field. Doesn't think they helped him hit more homeruns. Blah blah blah. He called Pat Maris today and she was not happy, and he doesn't blame her for being upset. But yet he didn't think steroids helped him. Why do you feel bad, Mark?

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 05:53 PM) Any chance Gordon wears #6 in 2010? He should, but it won't happen because Charley Lau was the last one to wear it, and Reinsdorf probably won't allow it. Plus there are probably a lot of people with #15 Beckham jerseys that don't want him to change now. If jersey sales were popular in 1990, Frank probably would have been 15 his whole career too.

If you don't want to recognize Gaylord Perry as a Hall of Famer, go right ahead. I'm almost in a agreement with you on that point. However, two wrongs don't make a right. And I don't look at the "Steroid Era" only in terms of the individuals that used them. It's a larger institutional problem. This is on MLB more than the users, but the users don't belong in the Hall, especially the ones that only made their mark by doing them.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 02:44 PM) If he has good enough numbers, he should be in the hall, cheater or not. Until recently, baseball did not care about cheating. You have admitted cheaters in the HOF, what does it really matter. If Bonds doesnt make the hall, the HOF in my mind becomes irrelevant. The Hall of Fame is almost irrelevant because guys like Sosa, McGwire, Bonds, Palmeiro, (shall I go on?) made it irrelevant. You can make an argument that Clemens and Bonds had good enough careers before their PED use, but McGwire was able to get to 583 homers ONLY by juicing. He didn't even get to 2000 hits in his career. Next to not allowing non-whites into MLB, this is the saddest chapter in baseball history. If you don't see it, I can't help you.