Monday, May 19, 2008

Carlos Quentin Is Carrying the White Sox

Like many White Sox fans this past offseason, I wasn't very happy with the moves the White Sox did/didn't make. They missed out on Torii Hunter. They missed out on Miguel Cabrera. They missed out on Aaron Rowand, Kosuke Fukudome, and just about anybody else who they thought they were going to get.

It was during this time that I would often make the joke with my friends or other Sox fans, "But we got Carlos Quentin! Get your World Series tickets now!" Yes, I spent a lot of time this winter making jokes at Carlos Quentin's expense...

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1 comments:

bfadds said...

I know exactly what you mean. I just finished a post about Carlos Quentin at Life of Brian and I still can't believe how good he's been for the ChiSox.

In the post I talk about the Hank Blalock effect which, essentially, talks about the busting out of once great prospects who, for one reason or another, failed in their rookie campaigns in the bigs.