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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.

With our luck, his back will be fine (ala Magglio recovering from his injury) and he'll have clutch hit after clutch hit vs. us.

Uribe ... he'll probably be the last remnant of 05 when the rest are gone. If he'd have steered that line shot to right into the seats we'd have won Game One. Alas no big hit from swing from the heels Juan.

I didn't but now I do. Still ... Do you want to go against OC 18 times and Crede 18 times?

If we had an outfield of CQ, Torii Hunter and Dye this year with Lexi at ss and Richar at second base would we have won it all?

OC was not the answer this year; Tigers not happy with Renteria either. How bout Javy to the Cubs for Fukodome?

What's the experts' opinion on Lexi at ss. Is he supposed to be a great gold glove type? Or an Alan Bannister? Or something in between? We could be hurting without a veteran ss. What do you guys think will happen at 2b and ss for next season? -- I don't want to play against Cabrera 18 times and definitely not Crede 18 times.

I forgot about the ankle. So case closed on that. Harold Reynolds, who I like, I don't think even mentioned that. He was moaning about the station to station baseball or not moaning but pointing it out. That's a good point about the ankle. 2 runs sucked in the first. At one point I thought we might just get one.

Very weird having Danks back on the mound in a similar elimination game situation. Can we expect him to do the same as before?

You guys are making me smile with your arguing. Funny stuff on a not so funny evening.

I disagree. Today's game was winnable folks. And if we win we're tied 1-1 and the city of Chicago is GOING NUTS over our chances. We'd get homefield vs. Boston. We came out today and had great momentum early. We loaded the bases for godsakes and their pitcher was horribly wild and shaky. I may be FOS but I thought OC shoulda been sent from second on the single to set an aggressive tone for godsakes. (Though Fathom just told me OC had a bad ankle and couldn't score so my bad, there). Be that as it may we get 2 meager runs. Just two. And Kasmir Sweater continued to suck in the second inning. We still had mild control and Lexi makes a dumb dumb throw basically giving the Rays their first run when Mark woulda cruised out of that inning still us up, 2-0. Two runs in the first like somebody said ... not enough ... set tone for a disastrous hitting performance. Why in god's name does Juan fricking Uribe swing so hard??? Just drill the ball to right field instead of making out after out with men on base (nice single late though as he finally got a hit). And Reddy with all due respect how the heck do you still love Swish??? He did get on base the first three times up which is very nice, but I dunno what he was thinking on that at bat where he whiffed and failed to be a hero (again).

What a piss poor 2 games at Tampa Bay. Nice job of wasting 12 hits today, my god. What bugs me is we had the bags full and nobody out in the first and got 2 runs. With some clutch hitting we actually could have put a major dent in the game and with Mark going probably would have won the game. At 1-1 we'd all be excited. Now it's a prayer. Our only hope is we again have that magic at home. Very disappointing loss today. Answer me this: Am I anal or is anybody else mad we didn't score OC from second on the single in the first? I know we got two whole runs, but I think OC chugging in from second might have made us a bit more aggressive in trying to knock out Kasmir early. Am I a moron and should this idea leave my brain immediately? Or was anybody else perturbed by this?

Bless you KW, just find a way to keep us in the hunt for a division title and get us the pieces to make us more competitive outside of the Cell. I'm surprised we're not getting all the calls; you'd think baseball would want Chicago to advance over a small market florida team.

See ya in Chicago, Rays. We are the White Sox, a very very ordinary road team. (Yes I realize it mighta been different with CQ and Crede, yes Crede, who is a clutch hitter who might earn some respect finally considering we cant get a clutch hit to save our lives).

Cause he can't put down a bunt. Hed f*** it up.

Wowsie. Station to station will work if somebody will bring em in with a ding dong!

He won't bunt this time; so maybe Paulie will launch one. This series is soooo winnable. The Rays ain't that good.

Will one of our boppers hit a HR off this turd?

Our only hope is to hit 3 one run home runs starting now? Question: When we have big homer games do they ever come late in the game? We only win when we hit 3-4 bombs. We don't believe in clutch gappers that could have won this game in the first third of the game.

Several of our guys got hits tonite, but never at the clutch time. Weird. It's like the curse is on us on the road.

Now we may get hosed by the bunt.

The bunt did its job; OC got owned again moving him to third and Swish pulled a Wise.

Nine left on base is all ya need to know.

Sox on the road equals a very mediocre baseball team. Blown opportunities. So sad.