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QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 10, 2009 -> 01:48 AM) Why? It's not like he swings at EVERYTHING. Oh. wait... He is also our hottest hitter batting 6-7 currently. WHy f***ing move him? and my other point of wanting to punch ozzie in the face is refusing to play Getz against lefty SP. Leave him in the f***ing game, let him play, you can't platoon every f***ing position

If AJP bats 2nd again I may vomit

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 8, 2009 -> 02:12 PM) That is an excellent point and I am glad you brought it up. We have some strange opinions sometimes about our veteran players. Next one is Konerko Yep, doesn't matter what the topic is about, it will still come up. "Thome saves 3 babies from burning building" First Reply - Thome's a great guy man, I still can't wait for him to leave next year though he's washed up.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ May 8, 2009 -> 11:25 AM) nice guy, maybe has a year left, but i hope hes not back next year. not even for 1mil Is this like a forum auto-gen post? Every single mention of Thome and this is guaranteed to be mentioned at least 47 times.

been asking this for weeks. Probably is the concussion thing. What about the metal necklaces? Is that just the same BS about "magnetic healing"?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 7, 2009 -> 07:27 PM) This.team.is.dead fire Greg Walker Konerko needs to be released I wish Cincinatti would reconsider Bailey for Dye I'm sorry AJ has to go damn you, leave some apocalyptic, end of the season quotes for the rest of us.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ May 3, 2009 -> 10:04 AM) Really? equals championship? So why does he have 0 rings? The Bulls have offered him nice contracts the last 2 summers, he wants superstar money. He's not a superstar. There was so much sarcasm in my post that I didn't think it needed to be green BG needs to go, thank god he didn't sign the Deng contract we offered. Helped us out and screwed himself since he won't see that money ever again. The BG we saw in game 6 & 7 is the real BG. He'll explode every once and while, but for the most part is a selfish player who isn't good enough to warrant it. I was waiting for him to just start shooting from half court last night.

thank god we have gordon, i don't know where we'd be without him the last 2 games. I say 5 years 70 million this offseason, lets do it. BG = championship

there's the BG we know and love. s***ty shake n bake move, chuck up a shot, miss. Woooooo, i love me some BG

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 11:59 AM) Really? So even though Gordon averages about 15 or 16 shots a game as this team's leading scorer, go to option and SHOOTING guard, he supposedly hits 2 or 3 shots a game and then starts taking shots over anyone? Wow, that's funny because that means he's hitting ridiculous shots left and right by looking at his percentages and his output on a per game basis. So if he's doing that, I hope he continues as the numbers suggest, it's a good percentage shot from him. Also, move Salmons over to SG, do you really think he's better at running the offense and sharing the ball? Because you're delusional if you think so. In fact, out of the players who do play on this team, I'm 99% sure, he takes the lowest assisted shots on the team by a good margin. This team with Rose Gordon Salmons Insert big man here in 2010 Noah is infinitely better than Rose Salmons(if he resigns, he is a FA after 2010 and he's also on the wrong side of 30) Deng(who has gotten worse over the past 2 years) Big man Noah Also, there's a different between Deng and Gordon. Deng was a guy the Bulls signed off of potential they thought he had. He had not produced more for this team than Gordon has over the same course of time. He was better at rebounding and that's it which is expected for a SF. His defense wasn't great up until this year in which defense is all he could do and he did it at an All-Defensive team level. Deng never showed improvement, however, when he signed that contract. He's the same player he was his rookie year. Yet, people here wanted Deng resigned and Gordon not. Gordon, on the flipside, has become better each year and has improved on different aspects of his game. He's also been a gym rat since he's been here and does what he needs to do. Never did he ever complain about coming off the bench, but yet people think he hates it. With a guy like Deng, even after bringing in a superstar, it's going to be hard to be championship level since we would have no consistent outside threat. Heck, there's not many threats in the league like Ben. Well congrats on living in some fantasy world where you think this team will do anything other than .500 and bounced in the playoffs every year. If you're content with that, then there's no point in arguing. BG is not and never will be a "superstar" in this league and I don't want to watch a .500 team every year because we paid $100+ million for 2 average players. And got better every year? Really? So after '06 when the entire city was "OMG!@!@@!!! Deng + Gordon!!" and they declined $120 million in contracts and then both sucked the next year, that was an improvement? But by all means, lets stick with this core of players. BG, Deng, Kirk....I smell a dynasty. Also, the fact that you seem to want BG more than Rose nullifies all of your arguments, just for future reference.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 09:43 AM) Ben's guarded the "go-to-guard" a lot this year. In the past, yes, Kirk was the guy to handle the shooting guard, but not this year with Kirk getting injured, and Ben and Derrick starting. Kirk doesn't play a whole lot of minutes, and recently, he's been guarding Pierce. It's always been Ben guarding him throughout the year and he's been able to outproduce that player more times than not. So your argument is pretty null and void since I stated he improved on defense and is no longer a liability there in which you want to believe in that myth. Does Gordon put up selfish shots? No. He's more efficient scoring wise than Wade and LBJ actually as well. Again, as I've stated before, in the top 20 in scoring, Ben has the lowest amount of FGA only behind Dwight Howard for anyone who averages over 20PPG. So to say he is selfish and jacks up shot for the hell of it is incorrect and erroneous. Again, another myth. Now does Ben take heatcheck shots? Hell yes he does. But that's what all great scorers do. Jordan did it. Kobe LBJ and Wade sure as hell do it. I'll take those 3 or 4 heatcheck shots a game if he's still keeping up his insane TS%. Plus, I think he may be only behind Tyrus Thomas in terms of FTA per game on this team, so I don't wanna hear he doesn't get to the line either. Also, you want to advocate keeping Deng, but not Gordon? Wow. Also, the commentary on Gordon is amazingly funny. Rose catches no flak though, even though he makes lazy turnovers, again 7 turnovers last game as well, as well as much worse defense. Hello, the guy he's guarded is averaging a triple double. I go on what I watch. After Gordon hits 1-2 shots, its game over. He will be shooting the next 8 times down the court no matter what, miss or make. I go on never ever watching a bulls game and thinking "damn, look at Gordon's D there". I go on the fact that not one championship caliber team has a player like Gordon (and no, that's not a good thing). And where the f*** did I say the Deng signing was good??? I'm pleading with the idiots of Chicago to NOT turn this into another f***ing 60 million dollar dump on an average player. We are stuck with Deng for 4 more years of a ridiculous contract, I don't want to ruin the franchise for another 5 years by s***ting out money for BG. If he wants to resign for 3 mil a year? Cool, go for it. But paying 10+ for him would screw us for yet another handful of years. I agree that we will be an above average team with BG, but I want more than that (and so should every other fan). I want to have the money to go balls out next summer and potentially bring another dynasty to Chicago. I don't want to go .500 ever year and get bounced in the first round of the f***ing playoffs which is the most we will ever get with BG as our guy.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Apr 26, 2009 -> 11:11 PM) With the screening, yes. Also, just to note, Ben was not in either possession when Ray tied the game and neither was he in when Allen hit the game winner in Game 2. Game 3, Ray Allen started poor and obtained most of his points in garbage moments. Yeah, no. Again, look at the stats. The SG position has the lowest PER Against on the team by a wide margin. Also the PER Differential is by far best on this squad. Gordon is not only played pretty good defense throughout the season, he also is consistently outperforming the guy he is defending. Now, there are nights where other guys have burned him. With that said, the only guy who has consistently lit him up has been Kobe Bryant. I suggest you take some of your own advice. Let me f*** you up with some truth first. PER: 17.6 PER AGAINST: 15.0(average right on the dot) That's a plus 2.6 which is 2.0 better than the next guy which is at the SF position. At that position PER: 15.6 PER Against: 15.0 So while the defense Salmons has brought us there has been great, he really hasn't produced a great amount like some people tend to believe. Rose is right behind Gordon in terms of efficiency on the offensive end PER: 17.4 But sucks defensively: PER Against: 17.0 http://www.82games.com/0809/0809CHI5.HTM So not only do I see it, the coaches have applauded his improvement in defense, and the statisticians see it as well. Only people who don't are those from Soxtalk for some reason. How often is Kirk guarding the other teams SG? Salmons? When, in the history of BG, have you seen him guard the other teams go-to G? Never, ever ever ever ever. And he never will, which affects the rest of the team who have to pick up the slack. But despite that, there is no stat for dumb in the NBA (that I know of). I've watched way too many BG "shake n bake" moves fail, too many triple teamed air balls fired up, and too many selfish shots taken to justify resigning him. Don't turn this into another 2006 Deng fiasco: hype the s*** out of an average player to the point that we give him a ridiculous contract and are held hostage by him for the next 5 years. We need to focus on building around the ridiculous 20 year old point guard we have and not forcing this "core" that has supposed to have been "coming together" for 4 years now. Its not working. Without BG next year, we still have a solid, competitive lineup with Salmons and Deng. Then when summer 2010 rolls around, we will have almost $30 million dollars to spend on the likes of LBJ, Wade, Amare, etc.....signing BG destroys that hope. And if you think we have no shot at that FA class, what team would be in better position than us? "Hey _______(Insert MVP caliber FA here), would you rather play on a team with Rose, Deng, Thomas, Noah or Eddie Curry?" If we have $30 million to spend and that group of guys, add LBJ or Wade and we are instant championship favorites. What other team in that summer has that to offer?

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 26, 2009 -> 04:10 PM) Ben Gordon doesn't even pretend to play defense anymore. Good riddance. 0 defense. He is not a starting SG on a team that wants to be in contention. What team has a selfish starting 5'11" SG with no ball handling skills, no defensive skills and remains in title contention? Nobody. Thanks Ben for the 3 pointer today, but you have also missed just about every other buzzer/clutch shot in your career. Please Paxson, don't handcuff us with another horrific contract like you did with Deng

Quentin went 0-3, he needs to be sent down to AAA to get his swing right, this is a joke.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 06:52 PM) Danks didn't win as many games as Floyd because Danks didn't go as deep into games as Floyd and thus was more reliant on the pen. I think both are great pitchers and have the ability to be front of the rotation guys but I love Gavin Floyd (Danks too for that matter). How many games did danks get an L for that sox lost 2-1, 2-0, 1-0, etc. Floyd had exponentially more run support that Danks. Which is also why W/L for a pitcher are really meaningless. They need to create an adjusted stat to take into account what the offense did.

QUOTE (chisox2334 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 03:43 PM) http://bucsbits.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/...d_to_white.html YES! Finally an answer for our leadoff-CF problem!

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:42 PM) I have no doubt that Owens could hit above .240. It might be an incredibly empty average, but he'd hit in the .260-.270 range with a low OBP and nothing but singles. Wise would hit in the .250's (he's a much better hitter than Anderson) and put up some pop (10-20 HR's) and a ton of doubles as well as strikeouts. Oh and a full season of Anderson and I guarantee the all time strikeout record will be set. Well, I disagree. Unfortunately we will never know since BA will be done shortly.

QUOTE (TitoMB345 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:38 PM) But Anderson's 600 have come over 273 games. Owens 380 came over 117 games. Anderson got his shot in 2006, but we all thought he was too young then. If he gets 2 weeks of starts this time around, and proves nothing, I'll be over the Anderson hype. But I want to see those 2 weeks. I feel the same. I want him to start for 2-3 weeks, everyday. No JOke, no Pods, just BA. If he isn't passable after that, then I can give up. Unfortunately, I see JOke starting withing the next day or 2 because Ozzie is nuts.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:34 PM) I can't ever rule it out because the tools he has are tremendous, but watch him swing and you'll see why he'd struggle to hit .240 over the course of a full major league season (I'd probably pin him for more like a .220 average). And you can substitute JO and DW in that same sentence.

QUOTE (Phil McKrevice @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 11:23 PM) Not the MLB feed, but the YES and Sun feeds are. Nope, none of them work.

QUOTE (Phil McKrevice @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 11:16 PM) SOMEONE has to have MLB.tv, right? Not up yet

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 10:27 PM) Um, no. Brian will get his chance. It's up to him to FINALLY take advantage. I'll believe it when I see it. He should get the same shot wise got: 6 games, and I just don't see him even getting that before JO gets to flail around out there.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 08:51 PM) At least it appears its BA's job to lose. Per the Tribune: By Mark Gonzales DETROIT - Jerry Owens is scheduled to rejoin the White Sox before Tuesday's game at Detroit, but don't expect him to get an immediate shot at regaining the leadoff/center field job to Dewayne Wise in spring training. The decision to purchase the contract of Owens, 28, who was 1-for-7 at Triple-A Charlotte, was made by general manager Ken Williams, according to manager Ozzie Guillen, after Wise was lost for at least six weeks after separating his right shoulder while making a diving catch of Ramon Santiago's drive. But Brian Anderson, who drew two walks and stole two bases Monday, might get more of a shot at winning more playing time. “Kenny made that decision because we need a center fielder right now," Guillen said of the Owens' promotion. "We’re going to start by keep playing with Brian. ... I have to see how (Owens) was doing because I don’t think he was doing too well in Triple-A, either. "But when I got to the office, Kenny said (Owens) would be coming for the next couple of days and we'll see how he does. I need a true center field. Hopefully Brian does the job, if not, I’ll give Jerry a shot.’’ Williams and Guillen each expressed their disappointment that Owens didn't display more intensity during spring training, but both understood that Owens' personality isn't fiery. Since the third game of the regular season, the center fielder no longer appears part of the leadoff picture. Guillen has employed Chris Getz at the leadoff spot, and speedy Brent Lillibridge ignited a four-run third inning rally with a leadoff double. That's likely to remain in effect for a while unless Anderson can continue to reach base frequently and steal bases. After the game, Wise returned to Chicago to undergo more tests. Translation: If BA doesn't go 4-4 with 2 hr's, 6 rbi's, and 2 SB he will be right back on the bench and JO will be given the job

QUOTE (letsgoarow @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 09:47 PM) Just joking but Swisher just pitched an inning, scoreless!! Thought it was funny. Dude who struck out should just retire from baseball right now

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 12, 2009 -> 02:26 PM) Hopefully the sox retain Dye next year, and convince him to DH. His stick is still solid and he can provide a power threat, as the kids are filtered more on to the scene. Only if he takes about a 10 million dollar pay cut