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That is from Rick Morrissey's column in the Trib. He says Sox should resign Joe and his agent is talking nice about the Sox as well. Say what you want, but there is a lot of "infatuation with the next new thing" regarding sports today. Joe is a good player and should remain a Sox as he currently wants to do.

Goodbye Broadway and Fields and Danny. Could be risky with Joe being a free agent.

I don't know, but when I went to the Sox-Royals game last week and sat down in Row 12 30 minutes before the game with my food and drink in hand, the first words I said to my friend who went with me, were, 'I love baseball.'

That might be a good arm to add, but at what cost? If Lexi is moving to short next year, we may need Danny. How many years is OC under contract?

We know many hate Paulie; isn't it a broken record? There should just be a code word that suffices for those who want to blast Paulie. Rush Limbaugh has "dittos" Why not write "Pauliesucks" and then just move on to a new idea. Is there any more to say? People want him released, benched, sent down, most feel he won't be traded cause of the clause. Aren't Paulie posts pretty redundant? We know many despise him. So just write Pauliesucks from now on and we'll get the drift. Those of us who like Paulie can put Pauliewillrebound and you'll get the drift.

I don't know. Some of those recent wins have been really exciting. It seems losses this year on the board have been harder for people to stomach. Some of the road losses have been frustrating/ugly. Lots of venom for Oz, Walker, Thome (before this streak), Paulie, Crede, Javy, Jose, Wise, BA. Only people to escape the anger of fans after losses pretty much have been Carlos, OC, AJP, Dye, Lexi, Danks, Floyd, the middle relievers and Bobby.

Yes it does. Booing Paulie would be the lowest moment in Sox history after all he's done for the franchise. I would hope our fans would not do that. I'm saying judging from the hate on here he probably will be booed and that would be bulls***. Yes that would matter.

Somebody needs to do an inquiry and find out how old Jose really is. If the guy is 48 he needs to be released.

I think my comments were not outlandish. Does anybody out there think the Cubs will not cruise?? As much as I love the Sox, this team is highly dysfunctional and no, I do not think we'll cruise. I think Detroit will be right there as well as Minnie. I hope we roll, but I don't see anything wrong with my analysis. The Brewers and Cards do not have what it takes. Also the Cubs picked up Harden. Sabathia is not god. That's pretty much a wash there, as long as harden stays healthy. And I do not like the Cubs.

If Oz thinks Swish at first and BA/Wise platoon is better for the team, then why not trade Paulie to the Mets? I love Paulie but if it is time to run him out of town, why don't we make some kind of deal? Other teams make deals during the season. I prefer keeping Paulie but it is going to grow old seeing all the rips of the Sox legend the second half of the season. He's been so good in a Sox uniform I'd think he'd be exempt from such harsh criticism.

Jose really looks like a long middle reliever in blowouts right now. Man he looks bad. I saw that game in KC and he was hopeless. Oz and KW should take a few days off then meet and figure out how they want to attack the roster to start the second half.

Can you believe so many guys in our lineup had incredible stat lines offensively and we lost? Not a good sign. We need to play much better on the road the second half to make the playoffs IMO.

If Soxtalk.com is any true indicator, Paulie will be booed the entire second half of the season at The Cell.

What's Swish hitting since June 26 ... just wondering.

Sounds good to me. He's horrid right now. I don't know why I want to stay with Paulie and dump Jose, but that's how I feel right now. I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot from Oz about Jose in the papers tonight/tomorrow. Time to check the Websites.

The Sox sure have a lot of problems when they play in Texas. The bright side is we are in first place as you all said. I think KW should make a deal this year. Why not? When we are going well, it looks like the team is set. But this year I'd be all for a deal. What deal? Dunno. I trust KW to make a good one.

Uh, if he goes 3-5 Friday I will come in and say how good a game he had. You can count on that. GOOD QUOTE BY OZ on the AP wire: “This was the worst baseball game I’ve ever seen. ... The pitchers should look themselves in the mirror and be embarrassed,” Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen said. “That was ugly. That’s the worst I’ve seen in a long time.”

Soxtalk.com will be so cliche the second half of the season. Paulie equals the devil now. Any good game by Paulie will be ignored. Any bad game ... wow let the venom continue. I still like the guy. I still think if KW and Oz decide he can play, then maybe he can contribute. Oz said in the papers the leash is short on Paulie so we shall see.

Would you have said that if Konerko got 2 hits today and we won? This team is what it is (cliche). But to say we're going to be in "serious trouble" the second half off today's game is stupid. I tend to overreact myself, but people are out of control with their overreacting after losses and being giddy after wins. My god there has to be some halfway ground. So Oz has been blamed for every loss this season. No different from EVERY OTHER MANAGER. You always can second guess. Somebody also said: "Guillen needs to be crucified in the media if he sticks with Contreras very long into the second half of the season" --It won't just be Ozzie's call. We also have a GM who makes decisions on personnel.

Man he's in the tank. Completely. I have no idea what they should do. I'd DL him as well for fatigue, but he's got to come back at some point and that might be ugly as well. Does Broadway have the stuff to come up now?? Can Haegar pitch?? I just picture the knuckler getting rocketed off fence after fence all over the league, but you guys would know better than I, those who follow the minors. Jose is beyond bad right now.

Yeah, if Paulie goes 0-fer and the Sox lose and if Jose gets rocked again I'm sure they wlll be attacked. It's the way it goes.

I don't know about all year. We have been shut out I think 9 times and in some of those games the Sox looked hopeless. Baseball is a marathon as everybody knows. Some days we suck; some days we don't. Hopefully Jose will pitch seven shutout innings Sunday and we'll look good again.

A no name lefty facing us. That often turns out badly. Hopefully Jose can rebound from his weird start in KC and Paulie can keep it up.

BOO as well. Paulie four hits ...nice. Swish very nice pick. Ozzie nice move with the defensive switches late.

Are you serious? They were base hits that fell in easily. So what if the bats are built like s*** these days and they broke. They were hits. And that last out was a bullet. Boone sucked. I blame him, not Ozzie for yanking him for Thornton, who got rocked as well. And Dotel also sucked.