greg775

The only way you can start getting even moderately excited is if we sweep Boston and Detroit loses its next four. We'd still be four back in the loss column if we pulled that miracle off and that's currently what the Cubs are behind in the wild card and everybody says they are buried. Optimism is great, but we pissed that away in that 16 game stretch of s***tiness.

Great post. The reason I currently dislike Rios big time is he failed miserably to do what the Sox brought him in to do this year. Help us win the average Central Divsion. Has he had one big hit yet? Why acquire him and pay him the big bucks when in past offseasons we've cried poor and not signed cfs way better than No hit Rios?

Why are people so sensitive getting mad at those of us who think Rios is a dog? This team acquired him to help now and he's failed miserably. Same with Pena. He hasn't helped a lick.

Well we can judge him on how he's helped the team in a pennant race which is what acquisitions are meant to do. He's not helped at all. So he deserves some heat.

I'm very mad Alex Rios has had a terrible year offensively, because he has had prime moments where he could have lifted us to victory and maybe kept us in the race. He has done absolutely nothing at the plate. Some 40/40 guys (yes that's what he has been billed up to be in the majors) can carry a team. He could really have lifted us on that road trip and in those 6 games vs. KC and the O's but simply sucked. He got here in time to help us THIS YEAR and has failed miserably. Hopefully he'll get his s*** together for next season. Now comes the part where somebody makes an excuse for him ...he hasn't played every single game or something like that. Well, we have four outfielders worthy of playing and he was given ample at bats to provide a spark. Yes Dye has also sucked and Pods has failed us on the basepaths, but Rios?? Yuk so far.

Why would you want to trade Torres when he looks like a possible middle relief candidate for our horrific bullpen? At some point KW has to address the bullpen issue. Relying on Linebrink and Dotel just because they make big bucks will get us nowhere. They are 2 reasons we have had such a s*** second half.

Paulie's at bat earlier in the game where he waved at an ouside junk curve ball was similarly bad. On a positive note ... was anybody else so happy to see a baserunner score EASILY from second on a single to left today? When Getz came racing home from second on a single the way it's drawn up? It was nice to realize who was on second and how it wouldn't be station to station when the ball went through the hole. I love the home run but once in a while it's nice to have a no brainer single score a run from second.

I'm hoping the anger phase subsides soon. Aren't you the least bit pissed at the choke job we pulled in that 16-game stretch?

I agree, but a loss or two here and there and a draft position or two up or down doesn't interest me much. There are very good players to choose from in the first round regardless.

4-2 season series against the Cubs is very good. f*** the Cubs. We are now ahead by two games in the all time series as well I think.

I'll never root for us to lose a game. The draft is too much of a crapshoot to care about that. Sorry the Sox have put me in a very bad mood since the Royals and Orioles' series. I'm glad we won, but I'm still in the anger stage at the pissing away of the season. I'm sure the anger will subside before too long. Sorry but at this point in time the team has just pissed me off since the Royals and O's.

If the other team's outfielders keep falling down in the 8th and 9th, we're in business.

It's very nice to win to pick up a game on Cleveland. That's the only race we're in, perhaps to catch Minnie as well.

Yeah and we get the Royals and Indians and Orioles who we don't dominate enough. Nice win, but we got our own problems to not worry about the Dubs.

I'm out. Bring home a winner guys. I am not feeling good about the lack of key hits vs. Dumpster. Feel like it's gonna strike us negatively to the tune of a 5-1 loss. Peace out.

Another opporunity with men on base. Yikes

Quentin is too f***ing anxious at the plate. My god.

That sucked. Paulie has whiffed on junk and a high heater both.

Why is Dumpster mowing us down? Can we get 3 this inning? Our bullpen is going to eventually break our hearts if we don't get some more runs!!!

That was a good hit Peavy. I should never say never, but a weakness of our team this year is clutch hitting.

Peavy, care to expand? We don't get hits with men on base.

The 09 Chicago WHite Sox don't get big hits with men on base. Period.

I dunno. The Cubs are playing the Sox. I have to work in two hours. I like the Sox. I don't get to see them all the time on TV here. Even though I feel we are hopelessly out of the race don't necessarily mean I'm wasting my time watching my favorite sport and favorite team. Again, I feel we are buried and dead in the division but I like the game and team.

One run through five in Wrigley is not good. Cmon bats!

Not really. Lots of people go to baseball games when their teams are out of it. As much as we don't like it, we're 8 back in loss column. Detroit has a decent team. We're cooked.