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Love the optimism, Kenny, but don't understand it. Nice win today, but we just went 2-8 after a 3-3 homestand against two pathetic teams. We truly need to win about 10 in a row starting now to have any chance and we're not going to do that.

I got it all right too. One win in Boston, said Yankees would sweep us and one win in Minnie. Know your team.

I can't believe Kenny is that dumb to trade an everyday player for a middle relief hack. What was he thinking?

No, I like Beckham, but I would think their fans are thrilled with the move even though they gave up their top pick. Especially if they make the WS. s***, he probably likes St. Looie and may give them the hometown discount to keep him over the Yankees/Bosox/Mets. If Rios continues to suck, though, I'd have taken about anybody over him. He came with less than glowing recommendations (i.e. lazy tag) and if he is a bust I hope we can dump him and his salary to some stupid team, if the salary keeps the Sox from acquiring good players. If the salary doesn't matter, fine. We didn't give up anythign to get him except the money.

Why does everybody think this? Just because of our rotation? It adds Peavy which is great but everything else is the same. We're under .500 with this rotation. So Peavy goes 17-3 and we're going to be 9-10 over .500? Hope so.

Good article once again. Resting Thornton is a good idea. The stuff about Lexi and the six man rotation was good as well. The 2-8 road trip heading into Wrigley ended our season. Time to look ahead. If we could win 10 in a row, we'd be back in it, but we're not going to do that with our upcoming schedule. We'll be lucky, very lucky to split that Boston series after likely losing in Wrigley.

I said I like Kenny but his acquisitions this year were horrible. I stand by that statement. I'd rather he picked up somebody who could have pitched say, this year, whose name was not Bartolo or Freddy. Oh wait he did. Pena. What a stiff Pena is. Rios has hit no better than BA for us. He has a lot to prove next year. He and Peavy better be good or we are f***ed cosidering their salaries.

A rare win since the perfect game. Great win; horrid road trip has one game left. 2-8 was pukishly bad.

He should of got us Holliday. Now that was an acquisition. Rios has sucked; Peavy? Are you serious? He hasn't done a thing. That's all about next year hopefully. And Castro has been average at best. Pena has been awful. Simply awful. Randy Williams? Was he a minor leaguer in our system or another horrid pickup? I like KW but his acquisitions have sucked this year.

I'll keep watching too. But if we are in contention, are the Indians as well? They are only four behind us? We have to catch 2 teams and we can't even win a damn game at this point. We got to play Cubs in their stinkhole, Boston 4 more games, then after Oakland, the Angels? We ain't in contention.

I agree. I don't understand why everybody thinks a clean slate 0-0 record will guarantee a good season next year. We have no bullpen. None, which in itself will pretty much guarantee .500 at best. Unless we dump Rios, who has sucked, how are the Sox going to upgrade? It's still the same cast of characters. I'd move Lexi to second, keep Gordon at third. Are there any OC type ss's available on the cheap for a year? At least can't hit Rios is good on defense so Lexi at second, a new defensive ss and Rios in center would give us much better D up the middle.

You'd think the law of averages would give us one win in the dome. It's ridiculous that we are probably going down again today. The Twinks have charged past us in the standings. We're as far behind them now as we were Detroit when this road disaster started.

What's our record since Wise went on the DL? Don't flame me. I'm not saying he's the reason for the flop or anything. Just giving my boy a plug.

I'm sure Jimmy loved (loves) the great city of Chicago, but can you imagine how happy he is to get the hell out of Dodge? After this road trip in which his team simply laid down and got creamed? He has to be the happiest man alive arriving in the Dodger clubhouse. I still can't fathom however him wanting to pinch hit. He's still capable of whacking some big home runs and it's impossible they play him at first base. As sad as I am to see the big lug go ... I'm happy he doesn't have to endure September with this Sox club that hopefully will be rebuilt and ready to go in February.

We have so many bad relief pitchers it is amazing. We simply have to release Pena and Liney and Williams and trade Dotel. Please don't bring them back. They all suck. It's just money, which we had no problem throwing Rios (Mr. Oh-fer) way.

I don't know if we're doom and gloomers. If we were going to some easier cities on a 10-game trip, I don't think I'd have gone with 2-8. I mean we were bad going into the journey, but kind of .500 scratch your head bad. Now we are dregs of baseball bad, fighting for third place.

I think I'd rather the Twinkies win it than the Tigers. Don't ask me why. I just sort of feel that way.

Let's review all our predictions and make a comment on how you felt now and then, please. * I went with 2-8. Not so confident it'll come true. At the time I felt the O's and Royals series were KILLERS and we'd get bludgeoned by the Yankees and BoSox and of course can't beat the Twinks. I thought we'd get one in Boston and one in Minnie and get swept by the revenge minded Yankees. I was hoping we'd show some fight and our bats would awaken ... but NOOOOOOOOO. When are we gonna start winning again? We got a whole month remaining. We could really have a bad record by the time this season is over.

1-8 on the trip from hell. Good job, Sox. Either those of us who picked 2-8 will be correct, or those who went with 1-9. Can Cleveland catch us? That is the question. One month of baseball to go. You must be proud Kenny and Oz; very proud of your "lay over and die-ers."

You are stubborn. I don't know why you think our bullpen is magically going to start getting people out and why our defense is going to become adequate all of a sudden.

I wonder what other teams hate the Humpydome as we do. Who else bombs in there??? -- Do you guys hate the fact we have flopped against the Central this year? Is it going to be a pattern in the future? We are going to be considered the rivals of the Twins, Royals forever. The Royals go headhunting when they play us; never against other teams. They've played us pretty close the past 2 seasons. The Twins get geeked out of their minds to embarrass us at the dome. They will want to continue the trend in the new stadium and at least will be intense in those games trying to prove it wasn't just the dome that doomed the Sox. We have had great luck vs. Detroit til this year. IMO Kenny needs to start treating our team as if we are in the East Division because these Central teams get jacked up to play us and that will not change next year or the following years to come. Are any of you bothered by the pesky teams who beat us up this year in the Central??

I'd agree the young guys should play and play a lot. The veterans were the ones who flopped and went from .500 and change and two games out to crap. Pods' baserunning blunders; Dye's lousy hitting; Rios batting like he's totally overmatched; Pena, Dotel, Liney all worthless. I wish we'd immediately move Lexi to second, maybe experiment with Beckham at short, what could it hurt? Shut down all those lousy relievers and bring up kids to pitch in those roles from the minors. I would like to win games, but why not have some fun the final month to rid the taste of this horrible season which only figures to get worse with 2 more in Minnie, one at Wrigley and more of the Bosox? Why can't the team admit Lexi to ss was a failure and put him at second for the next 10 years? We can always pickup a stop gap defensive minded shortstop somewhere if they insist on keeping Gordon at 3B.

There's absolutely no reason to pitch this guy this year. Bring him to spring training ready to hopefully go. I mean he's been out so long, no reason. I'm all for holding off Cleveland, but cmon. Do it with the young guys, not Peavy, who has had a bad luck season and might get hurt again.

OMG I forgot we also have to play Boston again. We truly are going to be passed by Cleveland. Ouch.

No. I'd say Cleveland is licking its chops with a good chance of catching us in the standings. I can never recall a time, it's been a while since I firmly expect us to lose night in and out. That has been this road trip. Just chalk up another loss today.