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Cause OC is trying to hit a hr just like BA was.

Horse s*** at bat by BA; dont need fly balls.

Sox badger with all due respect you are wrong. There was a man on first base. You have to try to retire Longoria with your best stuff. If he hits it out, fine.

OC turned into a Cub infielder. You don't barehand that, period.

You have to give him a chance to tie the game. You don't walk him. Are you crazy??

Uh oh, Cub disease with the bare hand. 2-2 with Longoria up?

I dont konw what you call Wise horrible when he hit a 3 run homer yesterday. I'm not a Wise fan but WTF?

Yeah, good explanation. I just wish the guy would deliver. We coulda been up 4-0 easily and probably shoulda been.

Does Juan Uribe ever get a big hit? Just asking. Crede at least delivered in the clutch A LOT.

To not send Cabrera on that base hit is inexcusable. I don't understand this baseball team.

I think you are wrong bout the fans caufield. They have no reason to be anxious. They have a young team of nonames who are becoming names. OC helped the Aussie reliever start to get a name. I hope that Mark can shut 'em down and we can hit the dude's heater. Fastballs are a comin according to Grandy.

They need to tell the fans to only wave the white when Rays are up. It could really baffle our hitters, the white with the white ball. Why they wouldn't just hand out White sox is beyond me. White Sox giveway would be special; white towels is copycat of the Twinks.

I simply cannot figure the manlove for Swish. Wise should have been the hero yesterday. It aint easy to hit a two strike, three run home run on the road in the dome. Had Javy not pitched like a BP pitcher and other Sox decided to stroke some clutch hits, Wise would have been hero of Game One. I hope Swish gets three hits today but he's just as apt to whiff every time up. I applaud Oz for playing him just because of the lefty thing; Wise probably woulda been overmatched. But the manlove for Swish baffles me. Wise gets three of our four RBIs yesterday; everybody but Wise s*** their pants. Paulie's homer was great but too late to mean anything.

Aint that the truth. It would help if Juan would get a clutch hit once in a month.

It was total bush league and fired up their wacky pitcher. We are about to see how much it has fired up their crowd and their team when he takes the plate. Very stupid. You get a base hit and that shuts the pitcher up. It was very very dumb to do that on the road. Stupid f***.

No offense and I wish him the best today but Swish sucks. Thanks, OC, for making sure the Rays fans will be fired up out of their minds when you come to the plate in the first inning today. Stupid stupid move by OC yesterday. They are gonna want blood all game.

I wish we'd keep Alexei at 2B for the next 10 years. But I bet they move him to ss. Hope he's not a sieve.

Man I watched the replays of the homers and shot to center. My god it's like Javy is steering it right to the bat. Shows you how pitching has deteriorated in baseball that that guy was a game one starter in a playoff series. That was brutal how much he got roughed up. And the OC thing truly was embarrassing and just fired up their crowd more for when he leads off tomorrow. Not good at all.

I'd love to see the entire Lou interview. But Fox doesn't show much of it. Wonder why? If Cubs do somehow win this series we know it definitely is their year cause no team could ever have played worse tonight. What's with the Cub infielders grabbing balls with the bare fists. If you are a cub fan the only word truly is "embarrassing." Kinda like I felt when we were tanking in Minnie and the first two vs. Cleveland.

Wow. What a reminder the playoffs are a whole different entity. It just seems so amazing how quiet Wrigley was the past 2 games. Eerie quiet. I could hear the pitch hit the mitt on TV. Think of how nuts that is compared to the regular season when those crazies were going wild a majority of the games. Do you guys think the Cubs FOR CERTAIN are dead? Or will they bring it back to Wrigley. The Dodgers actually aren't that good. Is it OVA? Man I hope we win tomorrow and get it to the Cell 1-1.

Excellent column in my opinion by Couch. Have to nod my head in agreement here. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/couch/11994...g100308.article

Was Joe spraying champagne in the stands? That's so cool. I always loved that guy.

I'd hate to see Crede snatching every grounder and liner we pull toward third 18 games a year and getting clutch hits and homers in The Cell vs. us as well as OC deciding he wanted to bury us every time he plays us. -- Is it just me or does Bartlett hit way over his head against us? Is it him being a former Twin? He f***ing kills the ball vs. us it seems.

Thanks to Jordan4life for shedding some sanity on the situation. I think he's right. Who knows what Clayton would have done starting? He mighta been wild. I will say at the point of the game he was in, he looked good against their lefties. I think Jordan4Life's post is valid, though. We sort of had to start Javy unless we did the 3 day's rest thing again with Mark. I would think at some point that 3 day rest thing would really start to blow up in our faces.

I think if we win tomorrow with Mark I'll start getting whacked out again. During the game I'll be happy with fairly low expectations again. But today I was calm the whole game. After what we've been through since the Yankee series and especially the 3 elimination games it was tough to get all worked up today. When Wise whacked the homer I didn't even get in the competititve mode, but if it woulda been 3-1 after 6 or so, it woulda been interesting. Like you all said, it is gravy. I truly think T. Bay has a better team. I do not blame injuries and haven't seen anybody blame injuries. But when Evan L. hit 2 dingers I couldn't help but wonder what would be up if Carlos Q was healthy. You do need some young guns who are studs and step up. IT AINT OVER YET!! GO SOX!!