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LOL at Belize. But true. In a perfect world, we'd have Granderson on our team (I realize he has had a bad on base percentage year) as well as Bartlett. We could have Gordo at third, Bartlett at short, Lexi at second and Paulie at first. Wow. Grandy would be the cure to our leadoff woes forever. My point is we still need a couple major upgrades in our lineup. I truly think Lexi should move to second and we need a new ss. We need another productive outfielder. I'd prefer to see Rios and Jermaine gone. Bring back Thome to DH. We need a productive backup catcher. We really do. Can't we rush Danks and acquire a Grandy-type outfielder?? Make it happen. This is Chicago!

Z: Considered insane. Bradley: Hated by teammates and a headcase. Rios: Supposedly lazy. Bring 'em all in!! Just kidding. But I wouldn't mind getting Zambrano if we could dump Alex's salary. Didn't somebody do a long story on him being a Sox fan? Admittedly I haven't read enough about Z's problems. I know he kicks the s*** out of the dugout, etc. Is he considered that bad a guy? Just curious. And that is wild the pitching coach would go off like that. Wow.

This racist stuff is really really bad. There's a story in the Trib online tonight where Bradley's mom said he was concerned his 3 year old heard racist comments. Are Cub fans animals? This racist stuff is really bad and sad. I mean what are they yelling at Bradley?? If they are calling him the N word, they should be removed immediately and prosecuted. What other racist chants are there?? The charge could be inciting a riot or something. Or they should be banned from all Cub games forever.

Good point and reminder to me. I do read those quotes online and like the fact they take responsibility. But when the team makes so many gaffes I'd think Jerry might once in a blue moon remind the media he loves those two in charge and the players better get it together. Then again, the modern ballplayer probably doesn't care if the owner is pissed at them. They can go get a job with another team if they are veterans with track records.

Then I wish Jerry would speak up more and blast the players or something and remind everybody of Oz's and KW's excellence. It doesn't hurt to remind the lumbering players that the boss fully supports the top two guns. I don't want KW or Oz to leave ever. I'm just saying at some point the guys in charge are the ones who should be booed. Oz and KW should be moderately ashamed at some of these performances the second half.

1.) The offense, led by Dye's s***tiness and total inability to get key hits. I am amazed at how many balls in the dirt a proven big leaguer like Jermaine flails at. It's unbelievable how bad he's gotten. Dye really should be embarrassed. Haven't read any stories examining his failure and why he can't get it turned around this time. Extra BP? No extra BP? That's No. 1. And Rios shouldn't get a free pass just cause he's good on defense. My god, if you want defense, Anderson could patrol center and hit .155. Yes Rios has a track record,Brian doesn't blah blah blah. Brian also made pennies compared to Rios' zillions. 2.) The Bullpen. The bullpen has sucked. 3.) The defense. I'm tempted to make this No. 1. You have to have better defense. 4.) Key blunders in games that mattered. Pods' getting picked off; very dumb calls by the 3B coach, just very stupid gaffes that hurt the team. It's been said many times on here what a dumb team we are. 5.) Station to station baseball. In the past the homers have been awesome. This year it seems to me we've hit into more DPs rather than blasts over the fence and off the wall. Like fathom said, maybe this team just isn't this good, with only a couple players overachieving. WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR! (maybe)

Walker should flip flop jobs with somebody in the organization. Let him keep a job somewhere, but make a change at hitting coach for change's sake. Is Buddy Bell a candidate? I really don't think it'll matter much but it's time for change for change sake. The new hitting coach will be the scapegoat if we suck at the plate again. But these cliches in baseball must be addressed from time to time and with the Sox, it's time. I love Oz, but nobody in baseball has a lifetime contract. We have a lot of "name" position players and pitchers and on paper shouldn't be this bad. I prefer to blame the players but it's his team. If the team sucks again next year, I'd suspect the Oz era may be in jeopardy. I guess the fans may keep coming out. I'd think some ticket holders might be reconsidering unless they just love going out to the Cell each and every summer. So many of these home games have been hitting disasters. I would think some of these fans would pass on a repeat of these type games next year.

Boos for Dye and the whole team. This is starting to reflect on Oz. Our team is disgracefully bad. I don't know if it'll help, but they do need to replace Walker. Can't bring back the same crew. Maybe the team mentally checked it in after their pal, Big Jimmy, got shipped out of town. Whatever it is, this team is sickeningly bad right now.

Can we score 3 runs this inning? How bout four? Seven hits thus far ... no runs.

I wonder who Jermaine will be making his comeback with next year. Doubtful it's the Sox after this second half.

Twins get runner on third, automatic sac fly. Me thinks we better improve on fundamentals next year like moving runners ourselves or Oz before too long may be on the hot seat.

This is embarrassing. Really is. A double steal.

Hawk sounds disgusted we just beaned Spam. Hope he's OK.

Carrasco's pitches are screaming "hit me" tonight. (Stoney just said "every time we've made a mistake tonight the Twins have taken advantage; fastballs, wild pitches, errors, they don't overswing; the Twins take what you give 'em. And they haven't made any mistakes. That's the difference in the teams."

They said Hudson was poised and had good stuff. He needs badly to develop one more pitch. His error was horrible, they indicated, but he'll learn from that.

Hudson did pretty well; drawing praise from Stoney and Hawk. Maybe our staff will be studly next year, but the defense has gotta be improved and hitting with men on base. We get more hits that turn out to be meaningless cause we can't string any together.

Since we've become a horses*** team the last several weeks, how many double plays have we hit into? Seems like tons. This is hell. No matter who the opponent is it's the same story.

We're getting hits. How bout some fricking runs?

I can't believe how bad a team we've become. Gosh we suck. Unearned runs, no bats, etc. etc.

At least we can agree the Bears are great. Go Bears!

I'm saying it can be written off, because KW is an educated man who would never bring this clown into his clubhouse and also doesn't need the grief of the media who would find story after story of what a clown Bradley is. No baseball teams suspend guys for talking to the media and the Cubs just did it because they can't stand the idea of having Bradley with their team one more day. I don't know KW but I have studied him in interviews. He would never take on this clown. Educated men learn from others' mistakes and he can see what a mistake Bradley would be. I'm still hoping whatever he saw in Rios emerges next year. At least Rios hasn't acted like an ass. I'm sure we'd have heard stories in the media by now if hitless Rios was being a dick.

Bradley is the kind of guy who gets GMs fired, just like Jose Guillen should get KC's GM fired. This is a non issue cause KW won't want this clown in our locker room.

Come on. Are you serious? Lou Piniella has a great reputation. Lou isn't going to intimidate somebody, anybody, unless they deserve that treatment. And "Bradley hates that." I'm sure some of the Sox hate when Ozzie tells it like it is as well. I thought this thread would be one big bash on Bradley. Instead some would be in favor of it? How can anybody think adding this clubhouse wreck would help our team any? You can polish a turd all you want but a turd will always be a turd. I agree with the poster who said it probably started when his parents named him Milton. I do feel for him for that one.

Keep dreaming. It's not a bad thing. The problem is our hitting is a nightmare.

Glad to see him get a start. Maybe our unknown will do what unknowns do to us all the time. At least that's my hope. When's the last time we won a series. We're equal opportunity losers - home and road as far as series.