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making a list of people that I will not buy a beer for at the next game... even though a Lions fan - not sure what type of Sox fan - last non game comment for me since I b****ed about that before

they do wonderful things with anti depressants these days - have some hope, man, don't bum us out with forecasts of doom

is it still tied?

I hate to be an asshole (which I am) but can we kind of keep the game thread to the game - I also am at work and it would be easier if I don't have to scroll through regular conversation which could easily go into another thread - not trying to be an asshole, just trying to follow the game. Go ahead cuss me out, but please...

I have his autograph. Of course everyone else whose autograph I have is gone from the Sox so not a good omen but none the less, I still like Carlos Lee. He frustrates me some times but I'm happy with CLee in left. I was frustrated that he twice failed to deliver on Sunday with the bases loaded - I suspect he was thinking a little more of his 5 grand slams than getting a runner in - but he missed a 6th grand slam by inches and it is a team game and it all worked out. CLee will get them next time.

about the way I feel.

I like Carlos Lee.

exactly. those who whine about the upper deck are just plain whiners. If they didn't whine, they couldn't talk baseball.

You just jinxed us, now Bere will go out there and throw a no-hitter read the thread title and the link that I posted: Bere is on the disabled list already. Boy was I surprised to see Bere on a DL.

yep. Next batch of chemicals found: FoxNews will do screaming features on new cache of chemical weapons found - and they will turn out to be Saddam's bath salts and pool chemicals.

Trades are a part of the game, and that is what I learned when I was 7. The Averills lived during the season 3 doors down from me and in the off season they lived whereever they were from, which I don't remember where that was. Hell, I was just a kid then! But we said see you soon at the end of the season, see you next spring, never knowing what was going to happen. That was a hell of a thing to learn at age 7. I remember telling my parents it should be against the law for anyone to be traded! That following season and for a few years Cubs player Glen Hobby lived at the same house, with his wife and kid. Nice people and I got to babysit their kid, but it wasn't the same. You just can't ever let yourself get too attached - baseball is a business and a trade can happen at any time.

Who will be left to pitch for Cleveland? Not that I care - I just want to know who we will be beating! Sabathia may go on DL

By the way, I don't think we suffered through anything. I had a lot of fun waiting it out and when the game started, it was a crowd of what, 15,000 maybe, but every one was a die hard and true believer who really wanted that game played and the Sox to win - one of the most fun crowds ever, at least in my world in the upper deck - I really enjoyed the Friday experience in its entirety!

Exactly right, too. I wanted to like him as a player more than I did but he certainly did not deserve ever to be trashed. I never understood people who got on his case. He gave us some great moments and he deserves our appreciation. That said, I think Jiminez will develop into a solid player and I do not mind that D'Angelo is playing in place of Durham. I know what it is like to be friends with a player who gets traded. When Earl Averill, Jr. was traded away by the Sox, and moved away, he took with him his son and my childhood best friend. EA III. And being an off season trade I never even got a chance to say goodbye.

I thought so too. Sunday was the coldest of the 3 games as far as I am concerned. But all that means is you throw on another layer of clothes. I have been at far colder games in Ann Arbor in November. You just have to dress right. And while I was having the time of my life at the Cell, it turns out that Friday-Sunday were 3 straight days of ice storms up here - when I got about 40 miles from home all the trees were ice covered - I guess it was really bad - power outages and the whole thing - and I missed it all because I was where I belonged, at Comiskey!

RPS and Guido are wimps then. Hell, we are from Chiocago, a little rain and thunder scare us off? One reason to always have a radio is we put on ESPN and listened to what they were saying and around 4 they spoke of a clearing that was moving our way so we knew the game would be played for sure - there is no way that the Sox did not want to play that game - the Trib reported that the Sox were going to hold off calling it until 9 pm, the official time it would have been out of their hands - I would have waited as long as it took - and as you said what the hell else were we doing that day? As it all turns out, it was one mem orable afternoon and evening that I can talk about the rest of my life! (Thunder really reverberates in the upper deck concourse.) I would expect RPS to be a chicken s***, he is a ND fan, but Guido disappoints me. I thought he was tougher than that! I don't travel all the distance I do just to say "no game." And I have preserved my lifetime record of never having been rained out.

CK, I agree with your evaluation of Ray Ray - I wanted to like him so much but he was never consistent enough. But for this whole thread, you cannot compare Jimenez to Durham when one is a young guy started out and the other guy has been around since what, 95? One has shown what he has (and we still can't agree on what that is) while the other is just developing into what he will be. And who the hell wants Jimenez to be a clone of Durham? As any player, he will have his strengths and weaknesses. Two players cannot match up like clones. Hell, Durham was no Bobby Knoop. My personal jury on Jimenez is still out, but I liked what I saw this past weekend, liked it a lot. I am feeling much better about his development into a solid player for us.

lol they probably did ask rps.............i still cant believe they went home.... omg.........now you know why he is called puss boy................. While I thought the game would probably be cancelled, I was not in favor of leaving the ballpark at 3:30..... during rush hour. Like we had anything better to do. But, they were my ride and I was bound to their decision. Ask Guido if I was pissed on the way home :fyou You guys left at 3:30???????????? the delay had hardly begun then! You may have been pissed but someone(s) was/were (a) real wimp(s) in that group! Name names! I want to know who to mock! With the group that i was with, those in favor of staying never looked at the one who wanted to go - since we never made eye contact we never had to listen to any b****ing. Besides, leaving because of massive rain and thunder and lightening is like leaving when it is 8-0 Cubs - it ain't over till we say its over!

Mat is a great and knowledgable fan and I get Mat too - remember he is 2-0 when he sits with me and he is 2-0 when he has one of my tickets in his hand and 1-0 when he and I are sitting near each other - the combination of Mat''s and my total Sox goodness radiating onto the field creates such karma that the Sox are unbeatable!

someone asked about Eldred - I saw in the Saturday Tribune that he has something like a 159.00 ERA, one retired batter in 5 he faced

he can sit with me

I have learned several things from your post that I did not know - and that is why I love this message board, learning so much all aspects of the game and baseball life - thank you for sharing that!

Dude, he's awesome...albeit in the absurdly surreal kinda way. If only he could be as snarky and merciless rhetoric (libretto?)-wise as some of the guys behind the plate at the Cell...he'd be way awsomer. I heard him get a guy to buy wieners for his girl friend and I thought the whole exchange was very funny so I think there is a lot of future for the opera hot fog vendor! Was everyone sitting in my section or was the vendor everywhere?

There is no one at Comerica to hastle. There would have to be somone at the park to have a problem! Except for that damned opera singing hotdog vendor. Man I hate him. :fyou I've never had a problem at Comerica and I go in full Sox gear - never had a problem at old Tiger Stadium - and have been attending games there since 77 when the Sox are in town - opera singing hot dog vendor - where were you siitting? I was in Section 534 on Friday and I loved the guy, although one of my friends feels the same way you do, hated him - was he getting all over the upper deck or where you one of the people sitting around me - who all by the way I thought were cool and great fans -

I believe here that it would be his job to keep it up - as well as setting it straight -