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He pitched awesome. Great stuff. What a young stud. Hope Floyd has a stellar game tomorrow. GO SOX.

That curve by Bobby was fricking amazing to whiff a good hitter. Wise can play big league baseball. He's earned a job with a team, if not us, somebody. He's as good a player as a lot of guys wearing big league uniforms the past several years. He is not a stiff. Nice job by AJ who never gets a day off. Good job, SOx. One more please. Let's take it to Tampa guys!!!

Great victory. How come people on here aren't more excited? You can win titles in ways other than blitzing through the competition like '05. Do you realize we are one win from getting it to Buehrle an d if we won in Tampa we'd have home field vs. Boston?? I rip the team as much as anybody but we have a chance! p.s. Sorry for doubting you D. Wise. You are playing fine baseball. And AJP, way to knock in that first run. Danks, wow. Relievers, good job.

I hate Jason Bartlett. I love the Sox. Let's get some runs and win 9-3.

Do you think white towels can bother outfielders? Or is it no big deal on fly balls?

You never know what makes a guy a turd. They've been the best players on their teams (except this one) their whole lives. So they can be egotistical even if they stink. Pretty impressive Jose stuck around. Makes me feel good about him. MacDougal was simply a horrific mistake.

It's funny we are discussing the future so much. I doubt we did this in 05. Too excited about what was going on in the present at that time. We actually could come back and win this series if the Sox play the kind of ball they've been playing at home most of the year.

No way he is 100 times the player Joe is. We could use a Joe Crede clutch hit the past few games/weeks. I do take back calling Uribe a dog. I am sick of him swinging so hard and not producing though.

I'm in the chat room for 10 minutes if anybody wants to chat baseball.

It's hard to believe the Cubs and that lofty record went 0-3. My god. I don't care about the Cubs but I hope for the sake of Chicago pride we get it together vs. the Rays. USA Today's lead story on Friday was how great is Chicago baseball. 0-6 will be a national embarrassment. What do you do if you are a Cub fan now? They've pretty much assumed this was the year since they swept us in Wrigley way back in June. My god 0-3???? With that team? That starting rotation?? That manager?? My god. Call me dumb but I actually think we can win the next 2. I hope it's the case.

Are you still waiting for Magglio to be healthy as well? Uribe is a dog. Pure and simple. A clueless hitter who swings sooo hard and misses so often (or fouls the ball off). Please Sox finally say bye to Juan.

I tell you what, disliking Jermaine Dye? My god. I feel for you young soxtalk members. Sports has changed so much. In this day and age of message boards and intensified talk shows, it's just not as much fun anymore. Win it all baby or you are a piece of s***. I just don't understand how anybody could dislike Dye. My god. GO SOX!!

I laughed when somebody posted before Game Two that this was the best lineup they'd seen in a while. That's only because Swisher and Anderson hadn't started in a while. It's like begging for the second team quarterback, the unknown. Yesterday's lineup was just as bad as any we've had lately in road games. Our lousiness on the road against good teams is depressing.

Who did then? I seem to remember years ago in the dome the Twins fans waving the towels. I mean this was well back in the day.

I made a list of the players I disliked on the team and it wasn't even close to 50 percent. If you dislike 75 percent of the team, I believe you are a fool. Just my opinion though. If you hate 'em, you hate 'em. I mean dislike 'em.

Crowd needs to be into it and we need to hit many many home runs. I don't see how Danks can duplicate what he did the other night. I'm hoping we win 11-7.

OC is not gonna be back. KW I'm sure will go with Lexi at ss. Hope we don't see Uribe at 2B or 3B.

They try to hit home runs every at bat. That's all they do. Swing for the fences. By now we are all aware we don't win unless we hit several home runs. It's the philosophy of all our hitters. I know we can't, but I'd love to get a guy like Granderson to go with all the big boppers. f*** Coco Crisp. Don't want him.

I hear where you are coming from, nice second post there. But my opinion is he didn't really look that passionate. He looked kind of quirky or dorky doing it I thought. I guess my anger does stem from the fact it didn't work and he whiffed. I think what he did was wrong. I think you answer back with your ability and not that kind of antic which was counterproductive.

Interesting usage of the word "dislike." Who do I dislike on this team (based on this year)? Off the top of my head I'm coming up with ... Dotel, Swish, Wise, Boone, Javy, MacDougal, Ramirez, Contreras. Not crazy about Paulie, OC, Uribe, Griffey, Toby. Like a lot: Lexi, Crede, Carlos Q, Dye, AJP, Mark B, Floyd, Danks, Like pretty much or are neutral about: Thornton, Thome, Anderson, Linebrink (when healthy), Richard, Broadway. Can't think of any other players right now. So who do you all truly dislike on the team? I came up with eight. Based on my likes/dislikes, this team needed another GOOD reliever and needed yes another good outfielder not named Swisher, Wise or Griffey.

Sox 1844 you are just wrong on this one. He looked like a fool. You answer back with a base hit there. He looked like a complete idiot and then promptly struck out. He was a fool. A total fool. Get a base hit and then bark at the pitcher. I can't believe we're not in 100 percent agreement he was an embarrassment with that episode. Get a fricking base hit. THAT would have been the answer and then bark at him from first base or tell the media after the game WHY you were so fired up to get a hit. Stupid move by OC.

I agree it seemed like Tuesday was our WS. It was a great night, but if it was our WS then at least admit we gave up on the big picture without CQ. Somebody told me to not blame injuries in one thread. Well are we simply admitting with CQ we had a shot and without him merely outlasting the Twinks was our WS?? You can't have it both ways. I truly think we could have and should have won today and agree with the Trib columnist that the Rays do not look like a 97 win team right now. We had them today early but refused to open a massive lead like they would have opened on us had our starter loaded the bases with no outs.

Except for the dumb lead on the Sox fans hating the Cubs you can't argue with Morrissey's take on the Game Two bummer: Missed opportunities piling up, putting White Sox on their heels By Rick Morrissey Chicago Tribune (MCT) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The way things are going, White Sox fans soon will be able to fall back on their natural pastime: the intense enjoyment of watching the Cubs fall apart. That might seem perverse to outsiders, but outsiders don’t know the depth of emotion involving the two teams in Chicago. And they might not know that the Sox couldn’t get a hit these days if you spotted them a ball, a tee and a few blindfolded fielders. When the opposing pitcher throws 37 pitches in the first inning, when you have bases loaded with no outs in that inning and all you have to show for it is a 2-0 lead and vague feelings of yearning, you know you’re in trouble. The Sox left 12 men on base in a 6-2 playoff loss to the Rays on Friday. Paul Konerko popped out to the second baseman with the bases loaded in the first inning and to the shortstop with two on in the second. Rays starter Scott Kazmir was on pace for something like a million pitches. He hit the leadoff batter, walked the second and gave up a single to the third. No outs, the bases jammed and all the Sox got out of it was a two-run lead and not even a stupid T-shirt. “We could have gotten five or six runs,” catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. There was a very palpable feeling inside Tropicana Field that the missed opportunities were going to come back and bite the Sox in the posterior. This being baseball, there was a statistical basis for that feeling. In the regular season, the Rays won an American League-high 28 games in which they trailed by at least two runs. So you can make that 29, counting playoffs. But coming back against the Sox on Friday was like coming back against the targets at an FBI firing range. The Sox can question the eyesight of home plate umpire C.B. Bucknor, perhaps with good reason, but that doesn’t excuse them for what they did in the eighth inning. Juan Uribe, Brian Anderson and Nick Swisher all struck out looking with their team down 3-2. That’s death by silence. Not a very satisfying way to go. “I remember Rod Carew telling me that if you want to get a hit, you have to swing the bat,” manager Ozzie Guillen said. Rod Carew: baseball savant. Go ahead and feel bad that the Sox were without their best hitter, Carlos Quentin, who has a broken wrist. But know that the Rays played the first two games of this series without their leader in home runs and runs batted in, Carlos Pena, who has a scratched cornea. So now the Sox are down 2-0 in this best-of-five AL Division Series, and it’s going to take a huge effort to turn it around. It doesn’t feel nearly as deep as the dark hole the Cubs find themselves in against the Dodgers, but it’s grim. The Cubs are fighting things like nerves, history and, well, nerves and history. The Sox can’t seem to put together hitting and pitching in the same game. In Game 1, starter Javier Vazquez gave it away. In Game 2, Mark Buehrle pitched well enough to win, but help never arrived. The Sox are having a devil of a time with a Rays team that isn’t overwhelmingly talented. Ninety-seven regular-season victories would seem to denote dominance, but that hasn’t been on display in the first two games of this playoff series. The Rays have been remarkably unremarkable. “Sort of the same thing with us in ’05,” Buehrle said of the Sox’s World Series season. “... They have good pitching and defense, and they have guys who get on base and run. They don’t have many big power guys who hit home runs, but they have guys who know how to win.” The Trop is loud, the way domed ballparks usually are, and the sound of thousands of cowbells ringing makes you feel like you’re at a convention of bad ’70s bands. But that doesn’t explain the Sox problems here. They just haven’t played well. Now John Danks, who was stellar in the division clincher against the Twins earlier in the week, gets a chance to save the day and the season for the Sox. He says he’s riding a huge wave of confidence. After an eight-inning, two-hit effort against Minnesota, he should be. One thing you can say about the Sox that you can’t say about a certain North Side team right now is that they aren’t playing scared. That should count for something Sunday in Game 3. “We’ve had our backs against the wall recently,” Konerko said. “Within the last week, we played three or four games where we knew if we lost, our season was over. That’s about the only positive I can say.” OK, so they know what a must-win game feels like. It sure would have been easier if they had just won a game they didn’t absolutely have to win. But how much fun is that? And Sox fans reply: Not nearly as much fun as an epic Cubs meltdown.

Time to go looking for Ozzie quotes on tonight's masterpiece. Peace.

You don't think Joe Crede will be a clutch hitter again if healthy? I'd rather have Joe Crede at 70 percent than Juan Uribe at 110 percent. THe only good thing of him going to the Twins is he won't be able to increase his speed. He'll still be slow on the basepaths.