Chi Hot Stove on ESPN 1000 Tues night - Page 2

jeremyb1 · #16 12-09-2003, 09:40 PM

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Originally posted by Soxfest
Sox want J.Suppan ........Big Deal. No KW or OG on program but T.Francona Boston manager was on program, no Sox people on flagship station makes you scratch your head. I wanted KW to come on and say we let all 6 FA go and we are better team for it.

Its not an issue of us being better for letting them go, its an issue of not really having another option. Look at the free agents we let go and how much we would've ended up paying them if we'd resigned them:

Colon - 12 million
Alomar - 3 million
Everett - 7 million
Gordon - 3.5 million
Graff - 1 million
Sullivan - 2.5 million

That's 24 million dollars for a club that's supposedly about three million under budget right now. I don't see where that extra 21 million dollars comes from.

santo=dorf · #17 12-10-2003, 12:35 AM

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Originally posted by jeremyb1
Its not an issue of us being better for letting them go, its an issue of not really having another option. Look at the free agents we let go and how much we would've ended up paying them if we'd resigned them:

Colon - 12 million
Alomar - 3 million
Everett - 7 million
Gordon - 3.5 million
Graff - 1 million
Sullivan - 2.5 million

That's 24 million dollars for a club that's supposedly about three million under budget right now. I don't see where that extra 21 million dollars comes from.

WOW! A whole 1 mil for Graf! I thought he was Jerry's favorite player. GOD I am glad Jerry isn't buying me Christmas presents this year. He's Jewish anyways right?

**Lip Man 1** · #18 12-10-2003, 12:40 AM

I wouldn't have expected Williams to appear at least not right now. What does he have to gain?

He'd be forced to explain how the Sox, who by his own words, wanted to re-sign at least some of their guys, signed no one.

There's nothing positive right now. I'd expect he'd wait until after making some moves before speaking publicly about the off season in total to that point.

Lip

lowesox · #19 12-10-2003, 12:53 AM

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Originally posted by Soxfest
Sox want J.Suppan ........

Yuck. When has this guy ever been good? This is the kind of insulting signing the Sox are famous for. I can see it now, an article in the trib a few days later about how Suppan is a stud and how he's on the verge of getting it together.

I'd rather rebuild.

jeremyb1 · #20 12-10-2003, 01:04 AM

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Originally posted by santo=dorf
WOW! A whole 1 mil for Graf! I thought he was Jerry's favorite player. GOD I am glad Jerry isn't buying me Christmas presents this year. He's Jewish anyways right?

I think that's about how much he will make. However, from the sound of it we would've had to pay him an astronomical sum to keep him. He told KW, he wanted to seek more playing time with another club and therefore wasn't interested in resigning. I don't see how that's the organization's fault.

Realist · #21 12-10-2003, 01:09 AM

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Originally posted by duke of dorwood
It was a better show without any of them. Suppan round 2.

This thread was making me hungry until this picture.

"Clean up in aisle 5!!"

santo=dorf · #22 12-10-2003, 10:37 AM

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Originally posted by jeremyb1
I think that's about how much he will make. However, from the sound of it we would've had to pay him an astronomical sum to keep him. He told KW, he wanted to seek more playing time with another club and therefore wasn't interested in resigning. I don't see how that's the organization's fault.

So why couldn't we have just signed him, give him more playing time and not trade for Uribe?