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QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 05:39 PM) Forget about trading....I'm ready to make a run for the division lead Have fun with that. The rest of us won't get our hopes up over a team that just lost two of three to the Indians and is 9.5 games back by the start of June.

According to Merkin, White Sox prepare to draft signable college pitcher and then tell fan-base that's he's an impact type. "CHICAGO -- With the 13th pick in the first round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft, don't be surprised if the White Sox take a college pitcher Monday night. "That's a high-percentage possibility," said White Sox director of amateur scouting Doug Laumann, speaking to the media Sunday morning, one day before the start of the 2010 Draft. "That's not to say if one or two of the guys in this pool we have is available that we might not go that route." General manager Ken Williams' Draft philosophy has been to get an impact type of player, at any position, something the White Sox feel they have done during the past two Drafts with Gordon Beckham (2008) and Jared Mitchell (2009) standing as their top picks. Signability, according to Laumann, also will serve as a fairly significant factor in the selection process this year. "One of the hardest parts of it is just the games that are played before the Draft with the agents in terms of, 'My guy wants this, my guy wants that,'" Laumann said. "I don't want to spend a year's worth of our guys' time scouting and our time and the effort and money to pick a guy off the board that we're not going to sign. "At the same time, I don't want to pass on a guy to find out that he's signed five picks later. I hope, and maybe in the next couple of years with the new agreement, there's a system set up where we could just line them up, see whose better scouts, take the best guy available and see what happens." http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...rtnerId=rss_cws

Flowers might be turning a corner here. I'd like to think he's found a happy medium between his old hitting mechanics and Walks adjustments.

Great win for our trade value. Most of the guys who needed to show something, did just that.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 05:24 PM) If we get to the 9th with a lead, its almost automatic. Bobby Jenks is awesome! Except for where it's never automatic, and always scary as hell when he's on the mound. You do realize hitters are batting over .300 against him. right?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 05:23 PM) Nice location by Jenks. You have to wonder if that game saved some jobs. I don't think just managing not to get swept by the Indians, should save any jobs.

What a curve!

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 03:21 PM) It's not the likes of AJP that should be getting the 3-0 green light. More like Konerko/Quentin/Rios/Jones. Instead, we get Nix, AJP, and Kotsay getting the green light. I don't give a damn who the player is. You take on 3-0 EVERY SINGLE TIME.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 03:18 PM) Hawk will never rip Ozzie, but even he can't believe the power hitters don't get a 3-0 green light. Swinging at 3-0 is up there with bunting on 3-2 as the stupidest thing a hitter can do.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 03:17 PM) Really? You think part of the problem with these guys is not being sufficiently aggressive? This is exactly right. We refuse to work counts and are far too agressive. The approach at the plate needs to change.

Is this the worst time in recent memory to be a White Sox fan? Take into account the state of the minor league organization and the fact that the 2007 team was crippled by injuries.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 03:11 PM) Well, Konerko is a terrible leader, so no one should care what he says anyways. He's a great guy and a great player, but this is Ozzie's clubhouse, he doesn't want anyone challenging his authority. 2008 proves that.

I don't think anything changes here. I honestly think this organization values 2005 that much. This is incredibly depressing.

This is funny to me that Ozzie publically called out Manny Acta to the media earlier in the year, and Manny's team responded by beating the living s*** out of us, every time we faced them

f*** everyone on this team. Everybody's mentally still at Glendale, we were unprepared to compete this year.

My brother's at this game. Poor bastard.

The fall of Mark Buehrle is one of the sadder aspects of this year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 02:33 PM) Really? I'd say they all do. Agreed, half of those guys even start everyday in the N.L.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 11:58 AM) I keep seeing comments like this, but WHO ELSE IS HE SUPPOSED TO PUT THERE? How about someone new, anyone new? People who have yet to have been put in both of these holes, and proven they CAN'T hit there. So, Kotsay goes in there and repeatedly fails, and we should what? Leave him there? Just because we have six others dudes, who are just as bad? At this point, we're looking at upside. If one of these guys turns it around, who do you want it to be and where do you want him to be hitting? Just put the guys who should be hitting in a lineup that gives them a chance to get the most at-bats and see what happens. Pierre, Ramirez, Rios, Konerko, Q, Jones, AJ, Nix/Vizquel, Beckham

Vizquel at 2 and Kotsay at 5. Ozzie just doesn't care anymore.

Sounds like Grandal to the Royals is a done deal. Looks like the top four (Harper, Tallion, Machado, Grandal) has already taken shape.

Still, even beyond Rendon we're looking at great arms like Taylor Jungmann and Gerritt Cole. I'm perfectly comfortable purging payroll, and letting the kids play for half a year, and giving ourselves an early shot at one of the best draft classes in years.I don't see how walk-up sales do any better if we stand pat, i'm going to assume that even after the purge we'll still have Buehrle, Peavy, Rios, Beckham and Quentin. Are that many people going to jump ship with Konerko, A.J., and Jenks gone?

Thornton should never be the closer on this team, unless we have a dominant lefty-arm to fill his void. With Putz and Jenks gone, Thoronton becomes even more valuable in his current role, Santos probably (should, but won't) becomes the closer, and Pena gets to stop pitching the garbage innings.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 01:04 AM) If it wasn't for his last name, no one would be penciling Danks into the lineup for at least another year and a half. He's not even close to being ready. I'm all for seeing young players get time in the Majors, but even I have no interest in seeing that pathetic lineup. This would only be for the back half of this season, not the start of 2011.. I imagine it will be a lot more interesting to suck with young guys, then old guys. (See, the Diamond-Backs method) Also, you can't tell me that the notion of being bad enough for Rendon, while getting Flowers and Dayan some play, doesn't make you drool.