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And Ozzie put him in the lineup because his boss acquired him. We should just hire a different manager every year to have the honeymoon period and keep people happy.

This was in DeLuca's column on Javy sucking. We are 9-11 in September. What a joke. If we are 14-6 we win the division easy. f***heads.

Javy sucks at times like tonight. Nice job Javy. Way to come through in the clutch. That said ... my prediction is tonight Ramirez costs us the game. And ... is there a worse player in baseball history than Boone Logan? My god that guy is so bad it is hard to fathom.

I wish we'd pick a different team to acquire players from than the Royals. How bout the Pirates in the future. Some of their guys might be good. They should be our new farm system.

I agree Big Hurt, but it's KW who went out and got Griffey.

Orlando Cabrera can f*** off. He's part of the team. Where are he and Swish, Mr. Clubhouse Presences? f*** you OC. You lead!!!!!

Wow caulfield, well thought out post. But did you mean 2009-10?

Here's a bright spot. Here's how the Minnesota paper wrote up the game, not exactly the tone of believing the Twins deserve to win the division: By Joe Christensen Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) MINNEAPOLIS — The White Sox might still hold on to win the AL Central, but they can’t clinch at the Metrodome. The Twins saved themselves from having to watch Chicago celebrate in their beloved indoor playground with their 9-3 victory Tuesday night in the first game of this pivotal three-game series. An announced crowd of 35,225 at the Dome watched the Twins trim Chicago’s lead to 1 1/2 games, while looking nothing like their alter egos, who struggled to a 35-46 road record. Jason Kubel led the offense with two home runs, and Scott Baker overcame his past struggles against the White Sox, holding them to one run in seven innings. The Twins are 50-26 at home, including 6-1 against Chicago.

Well, we all know our team needs a nut check on the road. They played pussy ball tonite.

I feel your pain, but a lot of teams with much higher payrolls than the Twinks have fared way worse than the Twinks. In reality, we have the team that could/should win at least a division title this year (likely won't, I'm not drinking any koolaid). We have name pitchers in the bullpen (Dotel, Linebrink, Thornton, Jenks) that on paper are good enough to play on a division titlist. Considering Floyd and Danks have been terrific, we have the starting staff on paper good enough to win a division. We have tons of power hitters and a good backstop. We have a good enough manager though many of you disagree. All we lack is outfield defense and speed ... on paper. We have the pieces any general manager would be satisfied with, we just can't beat the Twins. That said ... if we blow the division title I could see KW blowing it up. That doesn't mean we'll be a better team next year or five years down the line. No guarantees. We had the team on paper this year to do it.

Our only hope is a Buehrle masterpiece. Preferably a shutout which is impossible considering he doesn't strike out a ton and we'll boot the ball around in the humpdome. This edition of the White Sox is the most maddening winning team (16 over .500) in baseball history.

I was hopeful we'd wake up this time in Minnie, which seems like a dumb statement considering we have 86 wins and are 16 over .500. But same ol s***. We can't beat good teams on the road. If we continue our trend, we might be able to win one here and that will keep us afloat. A sweep is likely, however, since we can't compete with Minnesota in Minnesota. So disappointing. We got our asses kicked tonight and our only hope at winning a game is if Minnesota lets up at all and actually is overconfident since they routinely beat us like a drum. Ramirez pitched a scoreless inning tonight so if it's a close game Wednesday we'll probably use him and he'll get lit up. Fathom was right weeks ago in assuming these 3 games would be losses. We had to go in with a 4-5 game lead if we realistically hoped to win the division. Crazy thing is we could have and should have had that 4-5 game lead. I still am 30 percent hopeful we can snake out one win in the three games, not because of our ability, but the fact the Twins are not a great team. We shall see. Very disappointing tonight all the way around. Total joke of a performance. In fact, embarrassing. I'd have taken everybody's whipping boy Judy over Javy tonight on the mound.

The crowd will be very ugly if we blow the title. Only good thing is Mariotti isn't around to write the carnage. I'm still hopeful we can get one this series. Not holding my breath, though.

We gots a bunch of pussies playing out there tonight.

We have to hope for one win and to squeak out the title. We ain't going to compete for it obviously.

My answer: Who cares? Javy didn't respond. Who cares?

We all were hopeful, but I'm sure none of us are surprised.

At least the mystery is over. We now know what's going to happen. One win at best this series.

I'm not feeling it either just because. But even though KC is truly horrible, they had won seven in a row before we went there and won 2 of 3. So maybe we're playing better on the road?? maybe.

Just win, baby. Then do it again Wednesday.

CQ will step up. Oh wait, he would have stepped up if not for the wrist. The key to the series is Dye, Thome, AJP, Konerko, Javy and Mark the vets. It's their team. They should hold a team meeting of just those six guys. Do they want the postseason or not? Strange as it sounds, I'm sure some big leaguers would just as soon have it all be over. I think those six have balls.

Only lefty we can halfway trust is Thornton. Put Boone or Ramirez in and we're doomed. I mean any Twin lefty will clobber either of those two hacks.

Sure does. I don't remember being this scared in '05 but I'm sure I was. Mariotti was reminding us of the monumental collapse he was hoping the Sox would fulfill.

You said it all southsideirish. I hope Ozzie reads some version of your post to the team. This is not just another series. On a side note ... are any of you too scared to watch? Not flaming, just asking personal preference. Would you rather not follow the game on tv or online, on the gamethread at soxtalk.com? Will you just wait for the final score or watch every inning??

Common knowledge that the Sox are a bad team? No matter what happens in Minnie they were not a bad team this year. This was a Jackyll-Hyde team, skitzo, but not a bad team. p.s. Please Ozzie, do not pitch Boone or Ramirez this series. If you do put them on the mound, it means we lose that game.