Little Slide Rooter

Teheran or Vizcaino, Beachy or Minor, and Heyward for Castro and 2-3 months of Dempster. Raise your hand if you'd say no. Maybe even replace Beachy or Minor with Hanson and Dempster with Garza?

Don't look know, but Josh Vitters' OPS is a tick under .800 and steadily rising.

Nailed it. You know he was sitting there, thinking he had to somehow comment on this, and when all was said and done that's what he came up with. Even da Bum would be shaking his head. You might not like the way it's written, but what it comes down to is teams will call about Castro and be blown away by the price at which point Theo or Jed could sell them on one or more of 23 other guys.

I think before people make too much out of this, Castro is likely available in the same fashion that Garza was in the summer. I guarantee it will cost 2 top shelf prospects plus a few low level/high ceiling guys. Otherwise, there's no reason that they'd trade a player like that at his age and price. Unless of course the don't plan on contendong for the next 5 years, in which case Samrdjzia wouldn't be off limits.

When black Friday rolls along, you often hear about these insane blockbuster deals like a 52 inch flat screen for $250. In reality, a very small amount of those $250 flat screens are available, and more customers than not are going to visit that store to find that the $250 flat screen is sold out. However, many of them figure that once they're in the store anyway, they'll do some browsing, and the salesmen show them some other bargains that they might not have wanted at first, such as an I Pod dock, some video games, a 24 boxed set, Carlos Marmol, or a lap top. Hopefully in our case, nobody walks home with Starlin Castro, but they do some bargain shopping anyway.

Tavarez + Dontrelle Willis for Matt Clement and Alfonseca Todd Hundley for Grudzielanck + Karros Bobby Hill + Jose Hernandez for Kenny Lofton + Aramis Ramirez Choi for Derrek Lee A. Gonzalez, Justin Jones, Brendan Harris, F. Beltran for Nomar Garciaparra + Matt Murton I'd say it was more getting te prospects we kept to pan out, and those that did to stay panned. We had some pan out, but so many of the top prospects we had busted.

I like Rhoderick a ton ... but I'm still not convinced there's enough on the fastball for him to be a dominant late inning arm (there's definitely enough on the fastball that Rhoderick could be it, but I still have my doubts). Hatley has the fastball and the power slider, but he lacks Rhoderick's consistency right now. I tend to think of Rhoderick as more Michael Wuertz-ish. I've never seen any of the three in action, so I just go by the number. But hey, I'll take Michael Wuertz-ish from a lesser bullpen prospect. The things that we seem to have no shortage of in the system are high ceiling latin American middle infielders, relievers with back end potential, and toolsy Center Fielders. That and slugging 1st Baseman who are sure to hit Iowa by their late 20's.

Cubs won the Timmy vs. Jimmy fight. Time to pick on someone bigger than us.

Settle down, you beat the Padres, it's not like you just won the World Series. Oh wait, that was our team. Party on then. Party on.

It helped more than that bucket. Hendry basically did what big market GMs do. The Giants and Dodgers, to name a few handed out as much bad money as Hendry in the same time frame, but they're in better shape because they each had a lot of prospects that panned out, and did so big time. And it's not like we didn't seemingly have quality guys through the system in the '06-'07 farm offseason when most of the damage was done, though it was nothing like '00-'03.

Most Sox fan you run into like the guy even less than anyone else. Watching someone else's drunk dad making a fool out of himself in public may be awkwword, but I guess when it's your own, it's 100% worse.

I like Hatley to, but when it comes to relief prospects, unless they have closer stuff are going to tend to not get the attention of other prospects. Especially in Hatley's case where there are two prospects in his pen that are more intriguing than he, being Rhoderick, and Cabrera who you mentioned. This being said, I wouldn't mind seeing Beliveau, Hatley, Cabrera, and Rhoderick in the 2013 pen along with Russell and Dolis. I've liked what I've seen in Parker too. Even Coleman's been pretty good in his time there, though he simply doesn't seem to have the stuff of the others.

That just sounds, for a lack of a better term, icky.

Every time I hear a White Sox broadcast, Hawk sounds sounds less like a professional broadcaster and more like the drunken, over the top intense, potentially dangerous middle aged guy watching the game alone at the bar that you desperately try to avoid making any kind of eye contact with.

People continue to suckle on Dumpster’s teat as if it were Salma Hayek’s. He gave up 6 hits, 4 walks, and 6 ERs in under 5 innings today, but it’s not his fault. Couldn’t be. No, instead the sucklers look at his sub 3.00 ERA, his still sparkling 1.15 WHIP, his anemic run support and declare him the best EVAH. I gave up this battle long ago on message boards, but the fire still burns. Dumpster puts the over in rated. If only the Cubs could somehow maroon him on Gilligan’s Island. Or at least Des Moines. One last year and perhaps, finally, we’ll be done with him. Free at last, Free at last, thank God Almighty, they’ll be Free at last. You think he sucks, but you then admit that he has a great ERA and WHIP and has had anemic run support? Which is it? I’m not calling you a suckler, but sucklers certainly view the glass as half full. The milk certainly tastes better that way. The reality is that Salma is 45, and her milking days are coming to an end. As will Dumpster’s days with the Cubs. Soon. Very soon. What a strange rant. And strange word choice. Just....strange. Those familiar with the poster GvilleCub should know that his hatred toward Dempster rivals that which most of NSBB feels toward John Grabow, Bob Howry, Ryan Theriot, Dusty Baker, Osama Bin Laden, Jim Hendry, Juan Pierre, and Mark Grace combined.

Looks Demp woke up this morning and told himself if I'm going to get another L anyway, then by George I'm going to earn this one.

Unfortunately, we have the automatic 1-0 loss on the mound. If ever there's an arguement as to thy W/L is a stupid stat, it's Ryan Dempster so far this season.

I's sure like to know what it feels like to have your team in back to back World Series'. Hey Fred...

For what it's worth, if there ends up being some high priced blue chipper in the 2013 Draft, I doubt that the Padres or Twins would take them. Assuming the new CBA doesn't take that type of thing off the table.

Pretty sure it was mostly due to Rizzo... Pretty sure he was being sarcastic/joking. Sorry, I had my WSR filter on. Wouldn't you mean off?

Remember when the Rangers were on the brink of bankruptcy and didn't have 2 pennies to rub together?

GD had Cashner hitting 102 on the first pitch to Soriano. Why'd we give him up again? Oh yeah, Hendry guy. That and Rizzo.

[expletive] it, they should give the role back to Marmol. If he can thrive in the closer role once again for a few months, he could build up his trade value. After that, they can experiment.

You shouldn't care about that dumb stat because it's dumb. Like really really dumb. Like dumber than almost any. Usually, yes, but in a season like this stats, are all we got, be they of the practical or superficial variety .

Glad he kept Shark in line for the W.