ThunderBolt

I want someone with some fire, a blue-collar guy like, DA Coach. Give me Cowher, Spagnuolo or Grimm.

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QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 03:23 PM) No, he'll be coaching in college next season. Wow, Fox just switched over to TB-Minn for me. Good riddance, i guess.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 03:08 PM) I really don't see how Lovie can't fire Babich tomorrow. Because they're best friends and Lovie feels their fates are intertwined?

Does anyone else think that the use of this song in every trailer needs to be stopped? We get it, it’s exhilarating, and epic, but there is no reason to play it in every YouTube montage, tribute video, commercial, and ad. It was very appropriate and swashbuckling for Pirates off the Caribbean. Is it appropriate for Australia? Baseball? Insurance? A home movie? No!

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 02:25 PM) Can we just fire them all at the end of the season and start over. This group of knuckleheads needs to go away. You think Bill Cowher's ready to come out of retirement yet?

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 02:20 PM) Awful everything. Turners playcalling has been equally as bad as Babich's. Oh f***, now Maynard cant punt anymore either. What the hell is lovie thinking? You call a pass! A pass???? Run the clock out!

Are you kidding me? Doesn't the evidence needed to overturn a call have to be incontrovertible ?

Bear's cant stop a damn thing today. Not a promising start.

QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 01:00 PM) Besides the fact that he wants to be a starter, he bats left-handed and would require at least 5-7 mil. per year. ( I read the Red Sox were going to offer or already did offer him 14 mil/2 years.) Of course nobody wants to pay that much for a backup catcher. Don't forget the part where he's done as a hitter, and people are stuck talking about his intangibles and game management. At this point, i'd reather have AJ and Cole.

I find Lesnar fascinating.. He was so tired of the crap he got for being a “fake” wrestler that he transformed himself into this fighting machine. Good for him.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 15, 2008 -> 10:59 PM) We all laughed at the Link trade when it happened. It would be nice if something came of it. Wait, you’re telling me that Link was the more successful of our two seemingly innocuous talent for minor league arms trades from last year? Man, I knew that Michael Dubee jersey was a waste of money.

QUOTE (scenario @ Nov 15, 2008 -> 11:54 PM) It's nothing. It really is. Talk about small sample sizes these are guys making judgments from what they see in one game. Sickles is a really smart guy, and I’ll guarantee that when he makes his in-depth report he’ll change his tune. Beckham’s been a pure hitter since his stint in the Cape Cod league, and he’s showing no signs of stopping.

QUOTE (scenario @ Nov 15, 2008 -> 01:46 PM) Well... during the next few months we'll see if KW agrees with you. I'd prefer an upgrade myself, especially if we go young at 3B and 2B. I don't think it would be smart to experiment at all 3 positions. Using the 162 game OPB and Slg averages of the “old” core and using the minor league numbers of the “new” core (Fields, Anderson, Nix, Getz) I came out with two different lineups (assuming a Betemit/Fields and Getz/Nix platoon) that both score about 5.5 runs per game (the one with Fields and Nix being the better of the two by about .016 runs), which isn’t that terrible. I think we'll get an upgrade in CF, but i'm actually kind of fascinated to see how this young team could work itself out.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Nov 15, 2008 -> 11:23 AM) If you go with Anderson then that means you're going with an Anderson/Owens competition in ST, which is particularly frightening because all Jerry Owens has to do is steal one base and stay healthy through camp in order for Ozzie to hand him the job outright. While I agree that Owens in center is a truly frightening (and realistic) possibility it’s important to realize that we have enough depth in the organization to make sure this doesn’t happen. For one, Alexei can play a mean center, and Betemit and Nix can slide right over to short and fill the void. D-Wheezey can also play center, not an ideal choice, but better then Owens. I agree that something needs to be done about the organizations slavish fixiation with JO, but i can't see what unless someone goes Nancy Kerrigan on his groin. I see us picking up a veteran OF with a decent bat like a, Randy Winn, and sticking him on the bench just in case Anderson doesn’t come through.

QUOTE (SoxFan101 @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 05:49 PM) Not to most whitesox fans, while some really liked B-Mac here Danks was just as good a pitching prospect and threw from the left side and Massett had ability to make an impact out of bp. Ive always been a Danks fan partly because a good friend of mine is a Rangers fan so knew about their system. As for the Freddy deal everyone knew he had nothing left and getting any return was a success, not to mention Gio has always been one of my favorite wsox prospects and I was a big Floyd fan. Bit off topic, but are you going to have to remake your sig now that Swish is gone? May i suggest Poreda, Danks2 or Beckham?

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 05:35 PM) White Sox Ambassador Carlton Fisk dons a Red Sox jersey in Boston and feeds Alpo dog food to dogs. http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2008...e_and_alpo.html Upon hearing of this blatant betrayal Kenny Williams is reported to have remarked, "Freak? Why don't we cut you up into little pieces and feed you to your pooches, hmm? And then we'll see how loyal a hungry dog really is! It's not about money, it's about sending a message. Everything burns!" Author's Note: quote may not be accurate.

QUOTE (flavum @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 05:47 PM) Marquez changed teams--Peoria Javelinas to the Peoria Suguaros. Any of our Arizona area fans up for scouting the kid?

We really do need to get a good nickname for the kid. It's the least that he deserves.

Macdougal was just outrighted to Charlotte. Correct me if i'm wrong, but i belive that's another one bites the dust off the 40.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Nov 12, 2008 -> 10:44 PM) Ha, spectacular, he reads Soxtalk. Hope he enjoys overreaction. BTW, It'd be pretty f***ing awesome if we had a lineup that include Danks, Quentin, Beckham and Alexei in a couple of years. And a staff anchored by Buehrle, Danks and Floyd. That'd be swell. My expectations are a bit higher than yours. I want Allen, Shelby, and Armstrong on the bench in two to three years.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 12:47 PM) I have the feeling Swisher will flame out in NY and Billy Beane will pick him up for next to nothing with the Yankees eating a lot of the contract. I really could see the A's trading Holliday to the Yanks come July, and getting Swisher back in the deal.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 09:53 AM) no way st louis trades rasmus...they are penciling him in in center next year and for 5 years after that im sure Yep, he's the reason why the Cards have put Ankiel and Ludwick on the market.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 09:54 AM) Can I ask why everyone thinks Jordan Danks will be ready for a starting job in 2010? Everything we hear about Danks is very telling about just how high the organization is on him. Furthermore, his play on the field (so far) has been consistently solid, and suggests that he could start at AA this year alongside Gordon Beckham. No one expects him to be up by the end of this year barring a massive purge of the old core, or a significant injury, but it is not ludicrous to suggest that 2 years could be a realistic ETA. The idea isn’t sending Danks out there expecting him to immediately usurp Dye in production, but rather give him some time to develop in the major In what could very much be a rebuilding year for the Chicago Whitesox.

I have a suspicion that we’re going to make a very active push to acquire a reasonably big-name CF, but if we fail in doing so I imagine we’ll end up with Anderson in that position. What I think is going to happen is that we’ll playo u the season with the young core (Nix,Getz, Betemit, Fields) platooning, and the old core (Dye, Konerko, Thome) looked on to carry the load. I think the team given the expected improvements of the young players involved, as well as the overall weakness of the division can win about 80-82 game’s. But what I can really see happening is if this team is out of by the trade deadline we’re going to be bidding adieu to the old core, and essentially, preparing for 2010 with Beckham, and Danks 2, and maybe even Brandon Allen by the end of the year.