Listening as well. Hahn should point the thumb with Tyler Flowers. I have no reason to doubt Flowers came into this season prepared and ready to be an everyday catcher. Unfortunately, he's just not good.

Rick Hahn is on Hit and Run and said there have beeen individual meetings with certain players to send a message that they have to play better. He's very disappointed with the energy level and said these players planned on spending the summer in Chicago could be in for a rude awakening in short order. There may be a couple more but these guys had to have been sat down.

1. Alejandro De Aza
2. Tyler Flowers
3. Alexei Ramirez
4. Nate Jones
5. Adam Dunn

Keyser has an irrational hatred of De Aza that is unmatched.

But the .295 OBP is unacceptable


Just like with Castro. .260 with very few walks is not getting the job done

It is a problem, but would you put De Aza as the #1 problem to be dealt with on this team?

Hahn seemed ready to blow this shit up. Thankfully.

It won't be easy to do that. What is there of value that can be moved?

Right. so what do they want him to do? Be better than he can be?

I think Flowers was a case of wishful thinking

Hahn seemed ready to blow this shit up. Thankfully.

Rios will have value to someone, but if I was a GM I would not want him, as I think he is a headcase and trading him will get you nothing more than a guy who flops after a trade.

Someone will take Paulie from you, for no real prospects, just to have him on a team for the playoffs. You should be able to move Peavy towards the end of the year.

But basically there is no value to be moved it is all about salary dumps.

Kind of like having a mascot that looks like a CDC specimen that scares the crap out of little kids. You recognize this abort that project and look for something new.

All I remember is how bad these mascots smelled.

Stunk as bad as the Sox offense has of late???

The Sox are fucked. And their answer is just going to be to go cheap and lose nearly 100 games and there will be about 1000 people in the stands come September. And we're still stuck watching Dunn strike out for another year.

Maybe you could get a good prospect for Peavy. Decent one for Rios, Alexei. People are always desperate for relief help. They have three decent veteran RPs to unload.

Buy yes. They are fucked. This has been apparent for years. That is what happens when your farm system gives you very little over the course of a decade (or you trade it away for bad old bums).

Not going to say stupid, but had to try it at that point. Groomed the guy for years, had to give it a shot, it didnt work, happens all the time.

It is what you do once it doesnt work that matters.

Kind of like having a mascot that looks like a CDC specimen that scares the crap out of little kids. You recognize this abort that project and look for something new.

It's funny that some people think DeAza is so terrible, and yet, he has as many RBI on June 3 as the great Scott Podesdnik had in the entire 2005 season.