{"id":1142,"date":"2010-09-30T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2010-09-30T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T21:02:09","slug":"mark-buehrle-discusses-retirement-after-2011-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1142","title":{"rendered":"Mark Buehrle discusses retirement after 2011 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/mark-buehrle-no-hitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1143\" title=\"Rangers White Sox baseball\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/mark-buehrle-no-hitter-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/baseball\/whitesox\/ct-spt-0930-bits-white-sox-red-sox-ch20100929,0,610006,print.story\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune\u2019s Mark Gonzales<\/a>, <strong>Chicago White Sox<\/strong> starting pitcher <strong>Mark Buehrle<\/strong> could be leaning towards retirement when his contract expires after the 2011 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when next year gets here and knowing you\u2019re going to walking away from the game, knowing if I have something left or not, I have to hope that first of all, I\u2019m healthy,\u201d Buehrle said Wednesday. \u201cAnd second, someone wants to sign me. Obviously, it\u2019s a plus if that is. And obviously it\u2019s going to be harder to make a decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I sit here now, I\u2019d love to just go home and be with the family and kids and go from there. But when next year gets here, at this time, it could be a tough decision, knowing this is all you\u2019ve known for 15 years of your life and constantly having to be somewhere, to go somewhere. And all of a sudden you have nothing to do. It\u2019s going to be a tough decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell if Mark Buehrle suits up for the Chicago White Sox in 2012.\u00a0 His remarks on Wednesday reflect great disappointment with both the outcome of White Sox current season, as well as his own performance.\u00a0 Like teammate Paul Konerko, Buerhle\u2019 s competitiveness and leadership have always been transparent; even in his worst of seasons, he has never withdrawn from the media, and has always assumed the responsibility for the entire team.<\/p>\n<p>A lot will depend on the teams\u2019 success in the 2011 campaign, considering that Buehrle\u2019s 4-year\/$56 mil contract concludes at the end of the season.\u00a0 If Kenny Williams and the White Sox are sellers at the 2011 All-Star break, I am inclined to believe that Buehrle might prefer to retire with his pride than be traded or signed elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>However, I\u2019m sure a trip to the postseason might persuade him otherwise.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Chicago Tribune\u2019s Mark Gonzales, Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Mark Buehrle could be leaning towards retirement when his contract expires after the 2011 season. \u201cBut when next year gets here and knowing you\u2019re going to walking away from the game, knowing if I have something left or not, I have to hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,11,13,14],"tags":[264,199,702,468,927,265,928],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}