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Should be interesting to see how he hits the final five weeks. Personally I'd keep him. At worst he's the best defensive center fielder we've had since Ken Berry or Chet Lemon. Maybe he's blossoming because he's finally 100 percent healthy. I'd take that chance. Everybody is worried about age of players when the team becomes a contender around here. Why aren't other teams afraid of guys 30-35? Our fans act like 29 is ancient. Other teams do not. It doesn't take a team of superstars to win our pathetic division. When are the Sox gonna acquire enough players to at least contend for a WC? Keeping Robert to go with some of the young hitters would be a smart move.

I don't think so regarding too much hype. He's hitting home runs off all kinds of pitches and terrorizing the bleacher fans with his missiles. Whoever passed on him to let him fall to the 20s in the draft was dumb. He is amazing.

Teams blew it in not offering the Sox a lot for Robert. Somebody coulda stole him. He's been healthy all year and when motivated appears to be special. The arrival of Colson seems to have woken him up. I mean when you are playing with complete stiffs like last year it has to wear on you. Now he has Colson around. Plus Teel is for real folks. Quero is tremendous and shoot me if you will but I like Tauchman and Beni. Tauchman has had a lot of good games and is light years better than somebody like Pham. Hope the Sox build around the core and spend a few bucks to contend. They have way more good players than last year to build around if they wish to do so. We all know the pitching staff isn't good nuff to do anything special. Nice win over the Twinks who own us normally.

Colson Montgomery is a superstar in the making obviously. He's so good there are no words. Robert may now blossom or at least we can hope he's turned the corner. Did you see his form on that home run? My gosh he crushed it and had the natural lift and pull uppercut.

I can't believe another season is almost over. And Jerry didn't take a hit in his wallet at all. Our fans are so good that attendance wasn't half bad again this season. I would say next year we currently project to be a .450 team. So that's another wasted season. Ugh.

Thanks for posting. Sounds like the Crusaders have a chance to be competitive.

I kind of like Getz. I think everybody should agree I was right that the tank/rebuild thing was always a bad idea by Kenny, Hahn and moneybags saver Jerry. I do think the team is way better than last year's abomination. Perhaps next April and two weeks of May the Sox will actually go 5 over .500 and be in the race for once.

Tauchman having a good year has helped. I still like Beni. Quero, Teel can hit; Montgomery obviously can hit; Robert has been better prior to all star break and after. Sosa has 17 homers. We can hit. The problem with our team figures to be pitching in the future. Sox have a bunch of no names who haven't had to ever pitch in a pressure situation cause of our team's burying itself the first six weeks of the season. No pressure at all. Sox need to work on the rotation this offseason. Bullpen has stunk forever it seems.

36 rbi in 34 games? Hitting .325. He's doing well for the Brewers. Hopefully they win it all and he has a huge postseason.

Baseball is best with AL teams playing everybody in the AL and just a few interleague games. Playing the Cubs so many times is absurd. And frankly playing Detroit, Cleveland Minnie, Milwaukee a ton of times is flat out boring. Who cares about travel issue mentioned by Manfred? It works well now with private jets. Teams are making plenty of money flying around.

Salt Lake is an underrated town. I like it. However they'll need a retractable roof. For sure.

No on the pitchers hitting again. That automatic out is important in games where the pitcher hits. Agree on Cubs/Sox. Will be the end of baseball interest in Chicago. Cubs fans don't want to play us; and we don't need to play the Cubs. Yuck.

The mods do a good job of preventing talk about politics. Trust me, they do. For instance as you know I have some opinions about my hometown of Chicago. I DO NOT dare speak about such concerns/issues as I still fear the mods sending me on a six-month vacation from here for talking politics. They are all over putting a stop to non baseball talk Caulfield.

Will we go to playing the Cubs 20 times? That's ridiculous. I thought baseball fixed this realizing it was a mistake to have the Sox play KC 19 times a season (by the way I was right about the Sox again turning KC's season around; they now are locks for the wildcard and mite even win the division after boatracing the Sox and regaining swag). If the Sox are gonna be in the same division as the Cubs just have them break away from MLB and play each other 150 times a spring/summer. Dumb decision Manfred.

Poor Gordon had very few good at bats. He was the definition of utility player. No bat. Good prediction by the poster about Sox scoring runs. He hit the nail on the head. Hope he bet the house baby.

Greg doesn't usually speak up for himself. But I told everyone to bet the house on the sweep. So sad for baseball. It's unfair to the wild card contenders to have the Royals turn their season around with a sweep of the Sox this late in the season. Now KC storms to a playoff berth again. All cause the Sox gave them hope/momentum again. Sad, sad, sad. Even though the Sox are a bit improved this year I am all for penalizing them for fielding a noncompetitive team for the most part for so many years. Embarrassing sweep. The highlight of this season has unquestionably been a team in yellow uniforms honoring Oz, Paulie, AJP and Mark B in banana ball.

This might sound dumb but have we missed Meidroth greatly? And shouldn't both our catchers be in the lineup every day? Also inexplicably Beni is 6-for-36, killing us. He prolly thought he was gonna get traded and is depressed. We need his bat to win. I'm shocked our pitching staff has been OK this year. It is by far the most "no named" staff in Sox history. None of these guys make you say, 'This kid can pitch."

Tonight's game was cool to see Ozzie coach first base and do the Banana dance and Konerko step to the plate. He shoulda took one pitch LOL. Banana management sure did a nice job honoring Chicago the past two nights. Nice introductions of Paulie, Buehrle, Ozzie and AJP; honoring Chicago firefighters both nights; the Banana players doing a dance to the Super Bowl shuffle; some guy on the broadcast saying there's not a bad seat in Rate Field. Honoring a family that has taken in several foster kids both nights. That's neat they didn't feel the need to honor any Cubs. Having Bedard of the Hawks there and MJ of the Sox/Bulls woulda been neat. Have Jordan bat again on 35th and Shields.

If AJP likes Banana Ball that's all I need to know. I LOVE me some AJP and he saw the electricity first hand.

Why the anger? No I haven't followed the Banana phenomenon. Now after watching em the last two nights I've learned a bit. What's with the anger?

Sox have been a godsend to the Royals. Saving their playoff hopes again. Very annoying to live out here and see the Sox get boatraced by KC game after game.

Say what you want. Nobody would have thought a fake team could fill 50,000 seat stadiums. The free food idea is genius. Anybody know if they charge for parking? Most sporting events these days charge so much for parking you'd think you were in Vegas getting ripped off by the casino owners.

My point is because of the Sox they WILL make the playoffs. You wait. They'll be hot as heck after this sweep turns their season around.

I will say I'm amazed in a good way at the Bananas success. This has been going on for several years now and they sell out all the games they play. My gosh 100,000 fans on two nights in Colorado; Rate Field is sold out for two nights. I watched the game on stream and it was as everyone says, very fun. AJ and Mark Buehrle were into it and it just was awesome. I think they charge 40, 50 and 60 for tickets maybe. Not exactly 10 dollars but the fans that attended prolly say it was worth it. There's some kind of lesson to be learned here. Banana fever. https://www.sportstravelmagazine.com/bananas-on-the-rocks-five-things-the-savannah-bananas-get-right/

I truly do think the Sox are improved this season so this is mostly frustration being expressed. I get so mad because the Sox are about to save the Royals season. Bet the house times 10. KC will sweep this series and thus start a hot streak that will get them in the playoffs. The Royals dominance of the Sox saved their season last year and they boatraced the Sox for years before that. It's not fair, baseball. Even though the Sox are better they still reek on the road and it's unfair KC gets to ride three wins over the Sox (again) to save their season and get 'em hot for the playoff stretch. Make us get competitive, baseball commish. It's unfair to teams that don't play the Sox at opportune times.