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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.

The catch all thread is gone so I started this thread. Marotti has resigned. Moronotti should not be missed by many Sox fans. His rips of Oz and KW and Jerry had no shock value anymore and smelled of vendetta. His columns about Rex were in the same category. We all know Rex sucked. The word Cubdom was dumb. I thought his Olympics columns were supurb. But as a Sox fan I'm glad I don't have to read the same shtick from him regarding the Sox. Hopefully the other columnists will criticize Oz and KW when they deserve it, but not on the weird rant-like way of Mariotti.

there will be a lot of OC Lovers including me if he builds on tonight and we win it all and he's a reason!

Thanks Angels for cooling off Minnie and you M's for winning close games. Wouldn't it be nice if the Twins went to s***? It could happen, look at the Indians on the opposite end of the spectrum. They've won nine in row. Maybe Minnie will lose many in a row. I can hope.

Great win. Lots of hits again. Hopefully the Sox are settling in believing it is there for the taking. Thank god Minnie is playing normal baseball on the fricking road and not winning every game. Thanks Angels for battling back to win the final two games of that series, and thanks Seattle for not being afraid of this Twins team which ain't that good. Oh it's good enough to win the division, but it's not a team to be FEARED! Of course it's one game at a time. How bout one more win vs the O's Mr. danks and the Sox?

Joe's a good player; he's a much better player than Uribe. If he's healthy Joe should play every day.

Who knows? When it's this close, it means drama. Of course even if we had the lead the Cubs had now, we wouldn't be celebrating yet. One bad week and you can blow a 4-5 game lead.

That's wild. I'm surprised prior to our winning it all in 05 we didn't more crying from the Mariotti's of the world about us tanking that year. Don't you agree we were better than Baltimore and would have won Game Five in Comiskey had Dybber not screwed up on the basepaths?? No way LaMarr would have been clobbered in Game Five. It was ours.

In a perfect world, we pull away from them and for good measure win 2 of 3 in that huge series in the Twinkiedome. I'd hate to not win the division in a year Cleveland and Detroit tanked.

I felt weird doing his bio and commentary. Or I should say copying and pasting his bio from the great Wikipedia. I felt guilty cause I don't feel the manlove for CQ yet in terms of him being an all time favorite. He's so new he's not on my all time list yet. He's been great so far. Hope we keep winning and he gets MVP.

Great loss. Can you imagine how pumped we'd be if we had won 2 games against the O's??? That woulda been AWESOME. Oh well. I guess we coulda won Game One then tanked in Game Two as well. Frustrating, though. Twins are 2-3 on this road trip. Sweet. Keep losin!!!!!

I talked to a Twins fan today I know and he said he's waiting for Minnie to fall apart. It seems I hear that a lot, but I don't think that's going to happen ... til round one of the playoffs when they get swept if they do make it.

That line always makes me laugh, but I hope you are not serious. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

That's cool you got a response. I've yet to get a response. When Paulie sucked I begged Oz to bat him 8th.

I prefer to look at it as we won. Crede's defense helped us win. Not just that the O's lost. The Twins, by the way, piss me off. They are up in the 8th and only had five hits entering the eighth. Way to suck at home, Seattle. Oh I forgot Liriano is god.

Hope that's not true. He seems like a loveable lug. He got a lot of big hits for the White Sox.

You mean it was a best of five vs. Balt to decide the AL champ? Are you sure? That was the ALCS??