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This trip is scary because suddenly it's a must we get our act together after that last trip. Best case scenario in my mind with the team's confidence shaken after the last trip is 2 of 3 versus Seattle and SF and 1-3 versus the Angels. That would be 5-5. I'd take that now. I fear 1-2 vs. SF and Seattle and 0-4 vs. the Angels who are good enough to sweep us and that's be a horrific 2-8. If I had to guess, I'd say 4-6.

I didn't know how to do a poll, so I didn't start a new thread asking what everybody thought our record would be on this upcoming road trip. It scares the s*** out of me. The Angels are flat out good. Seattle and the Giants stink. Best case scenario: Somehow win 2 of 3 versus both Seattle and SF and lose 3 of 4 to LA. That would be a 5-5 trip. Worse case scenario: Lose 2 of 3 to both Seattle and SF and all four to Angels. That'd be 2-8 and coming home to play Cleveland we'd pretty much be buried just as we were last year early on. I will be optimistic and say we'll go 4-6. Any predictions?

That was a good article and scary. The article pretty much indicates this team cannot score near enough runs to win. I would suspect the team will start getting KILLED on the road like last road trip and play probably just under .500 ball at home.

He needs more than a day off. How bout a week of Anderson.

Dumb quote by Ozzie. The hitting has been a major problem obviously. Can you imagine what our record would be if the team had hit at all the last couple weeks?

The good news is Dotel and Linebrink got holds. If we are going to do anything (assuming the hitting can scrap together some runs like it somehow did today) we need to establish set up men. Dotel and Linebrink leading up to Bobby is our hope. They did it today. Can the big boppers Thome and Konerko do something in these upcoming road games???

Oz is panicking; we in trouble

Our light hitting shortstop (oops second baseman) one upped their light hitting shortstop.

Holy bleep; you gotta be kidding me.

When is Oz going to start hating Swisher, that is the question.

Excellent job of "knowing your team."

And at home .. and against the Twins.

The Twins' s***ty hitters get hits (Everett), their great players get clutch hits (Mauer). We might as well blow up the team and have all no name players like the Twins. Our name players aren't s***.

Everybody has to read that Downey column. Congratulations Mike on a terrific column.

Dotel and Logan are very important. Nothing will matter if our offense stays this s***ty. But if the offense becomes respectable we still need some set up success if we want to do anything.

90 wins? We still have no team speed. We still have question marks in middle relief big time. Our veterans have not hit for some time now with the exception of Thome and Konerko LATE last season. Swisher and Cabrera are not excelling. I don't mean to be a doomsayer but the middle relief and the offense is quite questionable. I applaud the starting pitching and Bobby. We also can't win at home, or haven't yet. Our home record is a BIG concern to any team that wants to win 80 games, much less 90.

Walker should be reassigned if they don't want to fire him. This team needs to make a change and apparently Oz is safe. Don't fire the guy ... reassign him and make Baines the hitting coach. Just do it.

I like Morrissey's column. Nice perspective as usual. I liked the Brian Anderson mention at the end. Well done column. As far as Mariotti ... wow. If he didn't rip Ozzie and Reinsdorf and KW so much, this bashing of the Sox would be much talked about. He was merciless. But since he rips them all the time, it's just more of the same. But what venom!

Yes, at least he could point out how the Sox have made 10 pitchers this year look like Koufax. Hawk still is critical at times which is more times than any other announcers in baseball who are homers.

At least Swisher finally got two hits. Kidding. There are no bright spots in that joke of a game. Wasserman's line looks like something that should get him a ticket back to the minors.

Minnesota embarrasses Sox should be everybody's headline. What a joke.

what's the mood in this thread been like tonight?

Why do we suck at home? Seriously, teams with our kind of home record finish horribly in the standings.

Maybe the papers should write a story twice a week about how Uribe is about to be let go. Maybe it fires him up when it's reported a team shakeup is coming and all the shakeup involved was sending down some pitcher we won't use anyway.

This soft tosser Livan needs to get abused by Thome and Paulie. How come the ball isn't flying out of the Cell this year?