"The Heist"

[whitesoxbrian]

Um....WSB....I think Q reads this board, based on his stats tonight.

 

Boy, am I glad I was wrong.

[gosox41]

Oh come on! Kenny has GOT to be in line for executive of the year thus far. Sure, nothing has been won yet. But everything he said about who he's gotten in the last 18 months or so has panned out. Danks/Massett/Floyd/Ramirez/Quentin/Linebrink/Dotel....and I would bet a LOT that Swisher will be fine and rebound into the player we all know he is.

 

Find me another GM that has done so much with so little to help his club in the past 18 months...

 

 

KW has been great at bringing in talent this off season. And he may win Exec of the Year. But it is a long year and hopefully this continues, especially if the hitting finally starts coming around.

 

But I'm referring to more the last 7 years. Outside of 2005, I feel like the other years have been more disappintments (not as much for 2006 as they did win 90 games and I was still riding off the 2005 high). But one play off appearnce in 7 years in a division that has been winnable more often then not. From 2002-2007 the Sox had the highest pay roll in the division. The fact that some teams won spending 2/3 to 3/4 of what the Sox did says a lot. I saw a lot of missed opportunity. 2003 still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth as the Sox IMHO clearly had a better team then the Twins but played slightly abov average baseball in a division where 88 wins got it done and 3 of the 5 teams were below .500. 2004 was lost due to injury to our 2 best hitters and thankfully Magglio wsa greedy enough not to take KW's standing contract offer. 2007 showed me why we need a team that has some speed to go along with power and the ability to find "grinders" who are actually good (ie not Erstad) instead of the station to station garbage that failed miserably.

 

 

 

 

[Felix]

I wonder where all the "burn Contreras on a stake in the outfield during a seventh inning stretch" people are. Reason being I have some delightful bbq sauce that would go just right with some words. It would be a great picnic with some softball, beer, and afore-mentioned bbq sauce.

I never wanted to burn him, but I did think he was done and thought we should move him for a bag of balls. And frankly, everything that was seen last year made that conclusion a pretty easy one, and given how much money we had invested in his contract, it would have been a great idea to trade him and try to have someone else pick up his salary.

 

He's been great this year though, which is fantastic. Completely unexpected and non-logical given how he looked last year (and his age being 45 or so), but still fantastic to see as a Sox fan.