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I just got to believe the Cubs will win the division. We need to get our ass in gear and win ours so the dream of an all Chicago WS remains alive. Cubs are the best team in the Central.

Why isn't Dye even on the list of five that you get to vote for? Baseball is disgraceful. This guy is everything that's good about baseball and a WS MVP. At least give Sox fans a chance to vote him in.

My memory of his good outings are fading, but Richard looked great in his first couple starts. He ought to watch game tape of those games. I'd like to see some of the threads after those games. Everybody was pretty stoked and happy we didn't trade him as I recall. I'm sure our skipper and pitching coach and GM won't trot him out there much longer if he's just a four, five inning man. WHy the f*** was he so effective in his first couple starts? He was really good. Got to get him back to that.

I'm not a huge believer in teams being emotionally not into it, but our team certainly seemed zombie like in Games 3 and 4. The Royals radio announcer today said Sox looked like a team ready to get on the plane home about halfway through that sleepwalking performance. It might have been a good day to plunk a Royal early like they have done to our hitters many times this year, just to rile things up a bit.

Seven in a row was a nice win streak and proves we can get hot. So I'd think we'd stay in the race. I do not think we'll win the division and no way we are going to get the wild card. It's a bit disappointing (I know greedy) to not keep the Royals down when they were down and win the game with Floyd on the mound to win that series 3-1 instead of a split. I am not a believer; think we'll finish 7-8 out with Minnie winning it over Detroit. We do have some stars on this .500ish team, though, no doubt about it. MVP: Dye, Buehrle (the veterans have done well this year, AJ, Pods, Paulie, Jimmy for the most part) Dud: Lilly was the worst. A current dud? CQ cause of his health woes mostly and that long slump after the early stretch of home runs.

Our hitters have zero chance against Soria. Not many do. I can't believe we only split the series after getting off to such a good start. We played pretty blah, fairly bad baseball in games 3, 4.

We can't b**** about that decent catch in lf, considering KC gave us our second run. It'd be nice to come back and win three of four against the powder blues.

What I'm asking if he maxed himself out so quickly, is that something that will improve in time as he learns to pitch in the bigs?

When Richard was doing well, wasn't his fastball popping? What's happened to his arm strength? Does that develop as you get used to being a big league pitcher?

So much for "expecting" to win Game 3 of the series. That was kind of a blah loss. I didn't see it, but the KC announcers in the first fpur innings, which is all I listened to, made it sound as if Floyd didn't have the control today. I couldn't believe yesterday DJ and Farmer said Thornton was an all-star, lock to make the team. I mean I like Thornton, but no way will he be on the all star team.

The Cubs are gonna win that weak division; we may win our division. It's a repeat of last year with a glimmer of hope we meet them in the WS. I'd love to see it happen in a lifetime.

I watched much of the Twins-Tigers tonight on MLB. We need to go into the dome and play better baseball this year. The Twins are good, yes, but not good enough where they beat us all but 2 games there this year. The Tigers jumped on them, blew the lead, then won it in 17 or so. The crowd was big, but dead and there's a big sign out there in leftfield saying "Countdown to Outdoor Baseball." They hate playing in there so they should not give us the usual beatdown in there this year.

I don't think you can expect a sweep against anybody on the road. We are hot and they are not. I hope we can keep it that way. Bannister has been decent of late and Hochevar has been good at times as well. We need to play.

You guys are a tough crowd. All that matters are results. He needs to get ahead of the hitters in the future or he'll be ultimately f***ed, but he also did the job tonight. Olivo doesn't take walks; he has hit 11 or 12 bombs. He's a free swinger.

Man, they packed the stadium and couldn't do s*** against Johnny and Liney. Great win. Danks does it the night after Mark. Two lefties in a row handcuff the Royals. Let's take 3 of 4 or all 4.

That's kind of a dumb statement IMO. Give Liney credit as much as Olivo f***ing up.

Liney doesn't believe in working ahead of hitters. Or he's rusty.

This is hard to believe. DP? Wow.

Hope Bobby gets up. It's only 5-0

Yes, but they had Aviles, who is out for year and Gordon who had hip surgery. Also Soria was out a long time when all the losing started. ALso Crisp is out for the year and John Buck got hurt as well and is out.

Royals had one good month where everybody got excited. Now they are wondering if the team will keep losing at this alarming rate the final 12 weeks.

That's a big DP. Full stadiums are rare, here and they wanted something to go nuts about. They are ALL staying for the fireworks show. Nice job Liney and the D.

You were joking, right?

C'mon Danksie. Only 99 pitches so far.

Time to minimize the damage.