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I disagree completely. How can having one of the best hitters league be out of the lineup make the games more enjoyable to watch? Now we are considerably weakened. Fans in Minnesota have to be celebrating wildly. This is a huge loss and no way will he be back this season. A broken wrist? They should say he's gone for the year. The odds of us winning now are s***. This sucks.

He was a great White Sox. Has had a darn good career.

I just read that he's out til Monday. Yuk. Read Mark Gonzales' fine copy and weep: Win and survive. That’s the White Sox’s theme for the remaining 23 games this season after a patchwork lineup and the pitching of Javier Vazquez and Bobby Jenks produced a 4-2 victory over the Indians on Wednesday and kept them in first place in the American League Central. The Sox’s task becomes even tougher with the strong possibility that slugger Carlos Quentin probably won’t be available until at least next week’s Toronto series—and maybe much longer. “That’s our hope,” manager Ozzie Guillen said of a return Monday by Quentin, who has 36 homers but has been hampered by a sore right forearm near his wrist. Quentin left quickly after the game and was unavailable for comment. The Sox displayed a sampling of the future without Quentin, Joe Crede (lower back stiffness) and A.J. Pierzynski and Jim Thome, each of whom got a break from the lineup.

I would agree with that take. Completely. Thanks Toronto! Just lose to us when we play you next, please.

I would disagree. I will not be upset if we move both after the season, but the jury is still out on both. We are fighting for a pennant. They can put us over the top, or help put us over the top the next 3 weeks. Neither of them have "sucked" they haven't been so bad you can use the "suck" word on them. I'm not a big fan of either but they haven't totally "sucked."

Nice to win after scuffling of late. 4-6 road trip wasn't great but didn't bury us. We need to compete every day.

Horrible at bat. Will we hang on with our crazy pen. Thornton pitched lousy last inning.

I wonder if he should have taken the whole year off. Maybe nothing would have helped. If you have back surgery and play baseball, how can it not flare again? You are swinging the bat at BP all the time, bending all the time. I'd love to see a study on guys who have back surgery and continue playing baseball and football. How it holds up.

I wonder if the guys from Japan are like the Cubans and older than they claim to be.

I love Hurt, but he's done. Does he realize it is the question. I can't see anybody signing him. He can't run and he's not blasting home runs at an alarming rate anymore.

Is there any way Cleve could win the division?

This pertains to Tues night's loss. Oz in the Tribune on our playing like zombies. ... Guillen found no solace that the Sox remained tied for first place with Minnesota despite losing for the fifth time in their past six games. ”I’m concerned more about the guys giving better energy and seeing a better club on the field,“ Guillen said. ”It seems like we’re tired, it seems like we’re dead. I don’t see the energy. I don’t see the grinder (mentality). I don’t see a lot of things we’re missing now. “... There’s something missing. And we have to find it right away. If we continue to play like that, it’s not going to be easy.”

I don't know about that, but I think many of us will then be hoping for some major changes, even recognizing it's always a pretty good year when you are in the race in September. I also feel bad for doubting our chances, but man to lose five of six this time of year. It's unfortunate to say the least. We have a lot of veterans who should really want to be playing in the postseason THIS YEAR. Hope they can right the ship. Sixteen over .500 is a damn good record, but we are such a Jeckyll-Hyde team it's maddening to me at least.

OM god. MacDougal is back on the team. He's our fricking bad luck charm!!! Get rid of him.

I just got back from a trip to Canada and after not following the Sox closely all weekend I'm suddenly feeling a panic attack concerning the team. Tell me what's gonna happen the rest of the way. Are the Sox and Minnesota going to be within a game or so of each other all frickin month? Are we going to tank the next two to Cleveland get swept at home by the Angels and be out of it quickly? Or are we going to storm through the month like a tank and win the division by four games? What's gonna happen???

I may go depending on work schedule and if they are important games. The stadium is dumpy right now with the construction. There will only be 15,000 fans at the games. I do think the renovations will really help the park. Right now it's a construction zone. Prior to that you rarely heard complaints about Kauffman Stadium. People like it.

I'd love for us to make the World Series then have KW make some major moves in an attempt to keep it going for years on down the line.

Is anybody getting worried that we're not grabbing the division by the balls? This Cleveland series is off to a s*** start.

I would be very disappointed if the Trib hired him. Very disappointed. The guy's take on chicago sports is old and cliche ridden. It's not like he is mike royko revisited. Mariotti isn't that good for the Trib to want him. I would be very disappointed in that paper. I'm sure the owner doesn't care about staff morale, newspaper companies don't care about their staffs, but I'd think that sports section would be so frustrated if they hired a disrespected guy like Mariotti.

OC and all the Sox veterans are in the pennant race as we hit September. They are in the hunt. Guys like OC can be heroes in chicago the rest of their lives if they get the job done the rest of the way. Anybody who hates OC will like him a lot if not love him if he is a September/October hero and helps us win it all.

I believe we have a good team with potential of being great. We just split with Baltimore. Yes I feel we will win one max in Boston.

The only problem is we lost 2 games in Balt this week. That doesn't cut it with the competition about to get tougher. We will win one game max in Boston, folks. I don't think any of you will disagree with me on that.

This baby is going down to the last week of the season, probably the last day. Looks like the Twins are on pace for a .500 road trip. We got to make sure we get the same out of it and it ain't gonna be easy. Tonight was a lost cause. We got killed.

They kicked our ass.

I guess but I think he made his name on shock value and after so many of the same columns there was no shock value anymore. I mean 16 years ago blasting specific sports figures in Chicago was compelling. But it was the same ol same ol at least regarding columns on specific teams. Maybe he even got bored writing it. It was the same formulaic blasts of Oz, KW, Hawk at least as far as his Sox columns. At least the Olympics gave him something new to write about. It must have killed him to write positive columns about the Sox in 05 if indeed he did write some. I also skimmed his stuff.