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god we could have swisher in RF and Q DH'ing right now.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 4, 2010 -> 08:45 PM) This is giving me fits... You should watch the stand-up special he took it from - Live at the Purple Onion, Zach Galifinakis

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 4, 2010 -> 11:47 AM) I just dont see the Sox committing $7mill to him for the rest of the year. If they get him it will be because he cleared waivers and the Dodgers threw in a bunch of cash. There was a reason why the Sox didnt offer anything for him earlier, because they dont feel like he was worth that money or talent in return for the 6 weeks he gives you. Why would the dodgers throw in any cash? If we claimed him they could dump his whole salary.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 4, 2010 -> 07:42 AM) Worth noting...every pitcher currently in our rotation has an ERA a run higher on "normal" rest than they do on 5 days rest. Mark's ERA on "normal" rest is 5.47, it's 3.5 on 1 day extra rest, and it's 2.48 on 6 days+ rest. There's no reason to believe that Buehrle wouldn't have been shellacked by the Orioles, costing us a winnable game, on short rest. And what is the sample size of that? A handful of games?

No, Alexei doesn't walk enough or take enough pitches so I can't even watch him bat even though he's hitting about .390 the past few weeks.

QUOTE (hammerhead johnson @ Aug 2, 2010 -> 01:40 PM) This guy's power potential is through the roof, but he has yet to draw even a single walk in 66 plate appearances. Between Viciedo, Ramirez, Pierzynski, Vizquel, and Pierre, we're talking about 75 walks in almost 1500 plate appearances. If you can't work counts and draw walks, then I'm not interested in watching your ABs, with few exceptions. Of course, I'm ecstatic about the Sox being 35-11 in their last 46 games, but still, thank god for DVR capabilities. I fast forward through the ABs of Ramirez, Pierzynski, Vizquel, Pierre, and Kotsay. I check out the Tank because he hits the ball so viciously, but I'm disgusted by his lack of plate discipline. I sit through Andruw Jones ABs because I'm fascinated by his utter stupidity & the fact that he has a perpetual smile on his face. He also has Stevie Wonder type moments when he swings and misses on breaking balls by like two feet. I guess you can say that I'm in it for the comedy. I thought he might actually have a bounce-back season based on early returns when he was crushing everything in sight, but he doesn't have a prayer against right-handed pitching at this point. An .870 OPS against left-handers is pretty cool, though. It's always a real bummer when I watch games with other people, because I have to sit through so many of these horse s*** at bats. Kinda stupid to not watch A-ram, he's been on fire lately. Its a fine line between swinging at everything Uribe style and looking at 20 called 3rd strikes like Swishersweets

QUOTE (clown baby @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 02:32 AM) Thome has a .933 OPS, and is the exact lefty power bat that we are missing... Hating the Thome shift is a pretty dumb reason to not want him. Ozzie really screwed up picking Kotsay over Thome. It's going to cost us some good prospects now if we want to get somebody of equal production to Thome. That move is really not talked about enough. It could end up costing us Hudson and another good prospect. Ozzie screwed up. Plain and simple. KW screwed up. Ozzie doesn't sign players.

sexei

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 05:21 PM) The question is what is good enough for Sox fans? Yes the payroll now is pretty decent, but if you have four or five stars, the payroll in a market like this means you will have a batch of inexpensive guys as well. My guess is you want division titles four of every five years and deep playoff runs as well, with a WS title, what, every 10 years? Five years? Is being the Minnesota Twins good enough for you? The old Atlanta Braves who won the division every year for 15 years or something? What are your expectations? My expectaitons for a still "small market" type team is about what is happening. Vie for a division title and hopefully have lightning strike in a bottle in the postseason as it did in 05. So what are your expectations?? My guess is many think we should run away with the division every year and at least make the ALCS every year. Good luck with that. Other teams want it too. The grass is always greener.... -We have a GM who isn't afraid to make moves and hasn't been burned more than losing a couple average players. Hasn't made any franchise crippling signings. And has completely fleeced multiple teams that have us some of the solid players we have today. -We have a coach with a winning record who, when the team isn't playing like s*** (which he has no control of despite what everyone seems to think) wins games. Great job twins, you compete for the division every year and get swept in the playoffs. Woopdeedoo.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 05:08 PM) Well yeah but what about the quarter of a season before that? Like night and day. You may as well be talking about 2 different teams. I think a good team can play like s*** for a while....but a bad team can't play like the best in baseball for that long.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 04:30 PM) Attendence was going to fall anyway. You could either do nothing and lose revenue for sure, or cut payroll, if you weren't willing to raise prices. Which would you perfer. I'm fine with raising prices, but you can't have it both ways. You can't announce a 15% increase and then complain about how nobody is coming out. They have to pick one or the other, don't use "no attendance" as a excuse when you're one of the handful of teams raising prices. Its not like they'd announce "hey people have been filling the seats, we're going to lower prices now!"

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 01:18 PM) I think it's what most fans do, at least in a message board forum. Just win, baby, and you shut everybody up. Even that's not the answer, this team is winning. People will b**** up until a WS ring. I'd hate to be a fan like that, seems like such a miserable way to look at sports.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 09:02 AM) They can when attendence has gone down pretty steadily since 2006. I mean you can't say "well nobody's going to games OMG!!!!!!" and then raise ticket prices every year. The 2 are related a bit

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 11:55 AM) Not sure what was wrong with my tivo, but I missed it. anyone else have this problem? They didn't encode meta-data on the show properly. My tivo is set to record only new episodes, but it records all of them since they didn't specify which was "new". All the episodes look the same as far as Tivo sees it. Pretty stupid

Yeah they can't claim poor when they've been one of the few teams to raise prices every year.

hahaha, I thought this was a thread from like May or something that just go bumped. Hilariously awful

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 02:07 AM) I called for this a few weeks ago, so I'd like to consider myself ahead of my time ;-) But I say yes, it's silly to have him batting 9th. And the argument of don't fix it, it ain't broke is silly because if you believed that you'd have Rios batting 7th because that's where he did on opening day. We sucked balls in the beginning of the season...

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 04:47 PM) that doesn't mean they nailed free agency though. What else could they have done? LBgay Wade Bosh JJ - bulls had 0% chance at any of them.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 01:55 PM) UZR and Plus/Minus, 05 Rowand owns Rios in both of those categories. Seriously, people used to love Rowand when he was here. But oh, now that he's gone, I don't know, those diving catches sure seemed overrated... Never said I didn't like him or he wasn't awesome, I just think Rios is better. Watching them both in the field, I'm taking Rios every time.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 09:18 PM) Fine... LF Pierre > Then Podsednik CF Then Rowand > Rios (this is actually very true) RF Then Dye > Jones + Quentin 3B Then Crede > Vizquel SS Alexei > Then Uribe 2B Beckham > Then Iguchi 1B Then Konerko > Konerko C Then A.J. > A.J. What are you basing Rowand > Rios on? How many diving plays were made?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 10:51 AM) I wish the Oswalt talk would stop. Frankly, I would rather have Dan Haren. I'm pretty sure everyone else would too

If Beckham is traded, I won't trust KW again. I don't see any way that happens, especially not for a DH we may or may not be able to sign (or even want to, his weight is going to destroy his knees eventually).

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 22, 2010 -> 03:54 PM) Because I know you'll try to defend Jenks like there is no tomorrow and engaging in a conversation with you about him isn't going to do anybody any good. Not defending Jenks, just showing how stupid it is to say "these 2 games will cost us" when there are probably 15 others you could say the exact same thing for. You could have said that any number of years about any player who had a bad stretch. Doesn't matter who the player is, blaming an entire season on one guy is retarded, sorry.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 22, 2010 -> 03:52 PM) I'm not even going to bother. Because you realize its complete bulls***?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 22, 2010 -> 03:51 PM) Depends on why we lost. But I definitely wouldn't be happy. If we lose by a couple games at the end of the year, I'll be much more pissed at the 100 losses to Cleveland/KC that we had this year than the 2 horrible ones this week.