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His defense is so good it's hard to believe. I hope we keep him as a backup outfielder, defensive replacement. I wonder why he's such a wreck at the plate? Is his approach awful? His stance? When he's up there, he looks like a pitcher hitting. If I had to pick between him and Wise, I'd pick BA as our super sub.

Somebody mentioned trading Alexeii. I don't think I'd do that in a trade for a pitcher. Lexi is a pretty special hitter. Now if he could do a tad better the first six weeks of the season, he'd REALLY be something but he's pretty damn electric.

Paulie and Mark .. what a concept. Loved the postgame interview. Paulie said nothing was different. Just did what middle of the order guys should do, while noting "you won't always get 7 RBIs." He's a stud.

He's been great. I thought last year he had earned his stripes so well that he should NEVER have been booed. I wonder how the clowns who booed him feel now. He had an off year. He was not finished.

I don't think Kenny's comments were that mean or condescending. But once again nobody mentions the Dodger series being premium priced. I think being 4,000 down per game is about right considering the horses*** start this team had at home. I mean the Sox totally sucked at home for a long time, just now sort of getting it together in the Cell. All those shutouts and horrific offensive performances at home. I've been amazed that baseball has survived with parking costs so high and ticket prices so high, but it has. A drop of 4,000 is reasonable to me. This team was painful to watch when Lilly and those other automatic outs were in the lineup. And when Jose sucked early when he was rushed back, and the elderly Colon were being trotted out there I'd find it tough to buy a ticket/parking.

And thank goodness Gobble is gone. I watched Poreda tonight. He looked like he has pretty good stuff IMO though he did give up a run. Poor Gobble needs to get on with his life.

Maybe Kenny wants all flamethrowing relievers. I know nothing of Allen except what I've read on here and I was hopeful he was a big bopper type for the future.

Why slam Cowley? He is a good writer and makes his stuff available immediately on twitter. If you read this site, Mr. Cowley, I think you do a fine job.

You've got to wonder if he can stay healthy the rest of the season and hopefully into the postseason. We're going to have to play great to make the postseason I fear.

Yes, but how many of them are you willing to give up is what sparked the debate on here. Four, five prospects, all of them top prospects in our organization? Or one or two of them?

Yeah, Kenny clearly has won some trades, so I shouldn't say "for once." But in a blockbuster I was hoping the 3-4 guys we ship for a Halladay wouldn't be all guys that have been mentioned as big parts of our future. Maybe Richard is not a top prospect; after his first couple starts this year I thought he looked like a very good prospect. Poreda and Allen I'm going by what I've heard and everybody seems to think they are good big leaguers. I don't know what I'd offer for Halladay. I guess it's why KW gets the big bucks.

Oh you are done? Sorry to waste your precious time on this Internet message board. I just saw that quote based on minorleaguebaseball.com. So he's not compared to big hurt; he's compared to Howard and McGriff. My bad. I don't know why everybody has to agree with everybody else, lest you are deemed a mental midget on message boards. I had heard somewhere Allen was supposed to be a f***ing stud and I know Poreda is good. I see you edited your post where you don't say you are done. Thanks for the edit.

All I hear is Allen is the next big thing. Isn't he the next Big Hurt? Why can't we engineer a trade where we clearly win the trade once in a while?

Right now we've got four pretty decent starters plus Clayton and we're still a .500 team. Clayton isn't going to single handedly cost us the division. I trust our pitching coach, manager and GM and you better believe they are assessing him and trying to figure out what is wrong or if he just doesn't have it right now. I prefer Clayton over Freddy and Colon, unless Freddy is kicking major ass in the minors and looks like a sure bet. I don't wanna see Colon grace the mound again.

So is Big Hurt a masher. I was just asking a question of why is Hurt out of baseball and Thome still in? You can't tell me Hurt wouldn't hit 20-30 home runs if he played as much as Jimmy. Jimmy better heat up if he wants to hit 25-30 dingers this year. I said I like Thome, but he cannot run a lick. You got to admit he is probably the slowest man in baseball right now.

You guys are nuts. Isn't Allen supposed to be a total stud? Ditto Poreda? And many think Richard will be a big league starter. They won't want Fields. You've got to be creative. I don't know who to trade, but you can't put 3-4 top prospects together for a pitcher. A pitcher's arm can be f***ed at any time.

Is Hamilton definitely out? That better be why Dye isn't on that list. The Sox brass, led by its owner, should personally call out baseball. Jerry needs to speak out and say the all star game is a sham w/out Dye even one of the five being on the fan vote. As far as Thome, why is it that Big Hurt is out of baseball and Thome is in baseball? Both men CANNOT run anymore. Big Jim can barely make it from first to third. He cannot make it from second to home on a hit anywhere, just like the Big Hurt. I love Jimmy, but what's the difference between him and Frank now? Neither can run.

Twins really did man up to win those last 2 games. We may need to outslug them if we can't get the M boys out. Crede is key as well. He is capable of hitting some bombs vs. us. They are going to score runs on us in bunches, especially with our defense. Might be wise to play BA in center all 3 games.

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.