{"id":320,"date":"2007-07-29T00:23:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T05:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2008-11-16T00:26:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T05:26:30","slug":"trading-the-past-for-a-different-part-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/320\/trading-the-past-for-a-different-part-of-the-past","title":{"rendered":"Trading the Past for a Different Part of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paraphrasing an exchange overheard during the early part of the Sox game TV broadcast Friday night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>DJ:<\/strong> . . . and of course the news coming out about Tadahito Iguchi being traded to the Phillies for a young minor-league pitcher.<br \/>\n<strong>Hawk:<\/strong> Yes, a fine young pitcher, I imagine. I haven&#8217;t seen or heard too much of him, bbuut if I know Kenny Williams, this pitcher&#8217;ll be something special.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s reassuring. It&#8217;s sad to see the Gooch leave, but with him slumping most of the season and Dan Richar tearing up the minors, it was only a matter of time until Sox brass started thinking it was time for a replacement. Who knows, with time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?n=Michael%20Dubee&amp;pos=P&amp;sid=milb&amp;t=p_pbp&amp;pid=452774\">Micheal Dubee<\/a> could go ahead and turn out to be a star, especially considering how Kenny Williams has engineered such brilliant and infinitely remarkable bullpen acquisitions as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Billy Koch<\/li>\n<li>Jon Adkins<\/li>\n<li>Mike MacDougal<\/li>\n<li>Felix Diaz<\/li>\n<li>Mike Jackson<\/li>\n<li>Gary Glover<\/li>\n<li>Jose Paniagua (ERA: 108.00[!!!])<\/li>\n<li>Rick White<\/li>\n<li>Cal Eldred<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You get the point, and that&#8217;s not even counting last winter&#8217;s assembly of this year&#8217;s &#8220;nasty bullpen&#8221;(Williams&#8217; term at the time, but I <strike>think<\/strike> hope he meant nasty as in unhittable, not nasty as in vomit-inducing) . A second baseman came out of nowhere, made a legend for himself on the South Side, then disappeared into thin air leaving nothing but another gamble on the future of the team&#8217;s in his wake. Still, we can remember what it was like to &#8211; briefly &#8211; have a top of the order that was the envy of baseball. . .<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;2 and 0 to Iguchi, here&#8217;s the pitch. Podsednik takes off! Strike called, there&#8217;s the throw &#8211; SAFE at second base! . . . 3 and 1 to Tadahito, swing on a fastball inside! Gooch pops it deep to right field and it&#8217;s caught easily at the track. Podsednik will tag and move up, the throw is cut off, and it&#8217;s 1 out with good speed on third after a perfect sac fly by Iguchi. . .&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Iguchi didn&#8217;t put up exceptional numbers or carry the team to prominence, but what the Good Guys had with him was solid fundamental baseball. A guy who could take pitches, move the runner over and make a great play when the situation called for it. His days on the South Side, much like the team&#8217;s limited days of glory, are over now and as number 15 goes, so too go the White Sox. How this will pan out for either club or player is anyone&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say hello and wave sayonara to another South Side icon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[150,93,237,74,29,254,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}