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Our hitting has sucked of course. Can you imagine how much better a team we'd be next year if we could get seven innings out of our starters like in the old days? We'd only have to use our lousy set guys in the eighth and use lefty/righty matchups, then go to our closer in the ninth. Shouldn't baseball teams go to a six man rotation in an attempt to get quality starters to work seven effective innings? We'd be a helluva team if our starters could go seven full innings.

I wonder if we lead the league in popups or if all teams pop it up like we do. Our offense is lame. I don't think it's on Walker, but if we need a scapegoat he would be a good choice. The hitters should take him out for dinner after the season since they've made him look so bad most of the season.

This is the part of the game where our lack of offense becomes annoying and my mood worsens. Why can't we score runs at home ever??

Nice play by Rios. True, Jermaine could never have caught that. He's too big a guy to get moving quick enough. But Dye can be a decent hitter next year I believe. Nice catch, Rios.

I like the way Hudson works quickly. Hurrah. He's a nice prospect obviously!

The problem many have with Dye is he is getting worse in rightfield. I still say he has not been a disaster out there in his career. People rarely remember the past, however, and he seems to have had a pretty bad year defensively in right. He takes a long time to get those long legs moving. I think we'll definitely miss his bat. People give others the beneifit of the doubt like for sure they will rebound because of their "track records." Like Rios. Many aren't believing in Jermaine cause he's been here so long. Sad. He'll have a good year at DH somewhere next year. I guess it won't be in Chicago. I would like to ask Dye haters a question. Why are you convinced you can't write off his performance as a "bad second half." WHy is he different from other guys who had a "bad half" and will definitely rebound??

Rios got owned there. Dye is not finished yet. Maybe in Chicago, but he's not done.

Nice hit. Amazing what you can do when you drive the ball where it's pitched, CQ. He has a quick bat sometimes.

Freddy actually had a great start. He just got dinked all around in the 7th. It was obvious he shoulda been lifted after six. So tell us the incident since you evidently saw it and it cost us the game, cause Freddy was done. Of course the relievers probably would have blown it anyway.

Where is Hawk? The color man has an annoying voice and just butted in on a great catch.

Oz hasn't gone off in the clubhouse much at all this stinky season. It was about time he went crazy. AJ probably screwed up here in racing to the TV for the Florida game before eating, showering, letting Ozzie shut his door. If it's AJ, I think we've read enough that Ozzie respects AJ, so it'll blow over quickly.

Badger, we've averaged 30,000 or so fans haven't we. Before the WS title we had real attendance problems some years. The fans have shown up in huge numbers again this year.

Sox still haven't won a game started by somebody other than Peavy in a long time. This team has a lot to fix before next season.

Hasn't attendance been great? There weren't 50 percent Tiger fans there last night. No way. Tiger fans don't travel that well. Fan support has been great. Some of the Sox worst pathetic performances have been at home before big crowds.

Javy and Swisher had to go. Javy was called out as scared to pitch in big games and Swisher was a disaster in Chicago. The scary thing is we have some more guys who appear to suck and need to move on: i.e. Pena, Liney and Dotel.

Team sucks. Wish Oz woulda done this after game one of that horrible road trip. Too bad this was a season from hell.

I watched it. He was rolling along til he got dinked around in the fifth or sixth. Or was it the seventh? Freddy looked good.

Freddy wasn't bad. He was great then he got dinked around and a lot of singles. Freddy should be in the rotation next year unless he gets real fat this winter. I love Oz's rant!

When it was 5-0 after five or six innings I'd have said you were insane if we'd be down 10-5 against a Tiger team that hadn't been hitting. What a season. Bring on next year. Hopefully Liney will be released; Pena will have a small role at best and our starters will have kickass seasons where they can regularly get us into the eighth inning.

Oz is on the Tigers' payroll today. DeWayne isn't exactly a good hitter is he?

I totally jinxed Freddy. I almost killed the line after I wrote it, then I thought superstition was stupid. Freddy got bombed after I praised the s*** out of him. If the game mattered in the standings I definitely woulda killed it. Live and learn for next season.

That was pretty exciting when CQ hit his bomb. Freddy was cruising nicely as well.

I know what you are saying. It is a pathetic squad. Hopefully next year will be different. But this team is easy to dislike/hate. Usually one aspect of the game goes to hell on a given night. We never string anything together. I think we had one winning stretch this year, didn't we. Something like eight wins in 10 games or something. Just one really good stretch or moderately good stretch.

I respect Sox fans, but how can anybody think Pena was a good acquisition? How much money does that hack make?

In some ways it's nice being out of the race. I'd have been so mad n depressed about blowing the 5-0 lead if this game mattered in the standings. Sounds like some fans are pissed and howling on the audio.