RoyalChicagoFCArchie's penaltyRoyalChicagoFC Thome out the door on a waivers deal, and Dye to follow at season's end when they buy out the $12-mill mutual option for next year at a cost of a million bucks, and then only one more year of Konerko's $12-million albatross and so rid of him --scads of cash to go shopping for free agents over the coming winter
Interesting to see you're happy to see both Konerko and Dye go.
Jermaine's a class player, but as I said to a gaggle of young folks on the platform @ the Clark/Division station end of July, you're gonna get three good months at bat out of JD every season and none more; he'll even carry the lineup on his back for a good chunk of that, but when he's awful, he's really awful --I track base hits daily, and I'd be lyin' if I said that I can recall the last time he reached base that way.
Anyway, age has caught up. He's still got an arm out in rightfield, but he doesn't cover the ground as he used to, and he costs a bundle; if I'm the club, ain't no way I'm taking my half of that $12-mill option for '10, and I'll get the same production and defensive effort in right out of someone else for less than half of that.
Konerko --speaking of a guy good for three solid months and none more-- I've never liked, but of course he had to go and put up a monster October on the way to a World Series title in his walk year, and so we had no alternative to re-upping him at the time. He's good with the glove (although it's only first base), but he'll be 34 by the end of next season and was born maddeningly slow of foot, which can't be fixed. He's kind of a media prettymouth too, or at least he used to be, which I always found annoying.
So...are the teams in yet?
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ever since he broke his own hand he hasn't seemed the same player.
....messy