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The offseason always sucks but in this case it'll be nice to not hear KW, Oz and Jerry make dumb comments for a while. This season is wasted and is Ova. I feel for you who had season tickets. Hopefully the ballpark experience was still fun in this season of no offense.

How come people get so defensive about Thome? I said and many others said we like the guy. But you don't agree his best days appear long gone? He has the back back, I suspect it's been bad even when he's been playing. He's not putting up Thome-like numbers understandably on a team with many guys not putting up numbers. I like Thome but do you honestly believe he's going to bounce back next year and be a true power hitter for the Sox? The team will be weaker without him and I guess I wouldn't mind him returning, but I think it's fair to say he's declining. Maybe he'll have a career year next year, but there should be concerns.

Erstad, Pods, Richar, Uribe, Owens ... bad bad hitters right now. Thome, AJ, Dye, Paulie ... oh my. Bad seasons. KW has a mess to clean up this offseason as well as evaluating which players just had an off year and which are done. Erstad and Pods and Uribe obviously have got to go.

godforsaken team is a great way to put it.

Danks isn't exactly lighting it up, either. If the Southtown is right and we deal Garland, our staff might really suck next season.

But soxfan, don't you agree the signs are there that Thome is on the major decline? Bad back, he's not hitting any more home runs than Bonds for goshsakes. That shift has confounded him this year for sure as well.

I can't believe the Southtown is sold on Owens/Richar. C'mon, those guys may not be big leaguers.

I also like Thome but agree his time has come. The shift is tiresome. He never foils it and he's not whacking home runs. That plus his bad back makes him look like he's on the downside. Not that losing him will help this horrible team. The Sox offense is putrid and losing Thome won't help any. It's amazing all our sluggers are hitting about .260 with decreased homer production. Not good.

So the entire season our offense has sucked. Amazing. Good thing the ball was lively during our WS year. Good to see another rookie suck at the plate in Richar. My gawd, this is the season from hell. Now we are god awful again.

Man, Fields homered again tonight. That guy is blasting a lotta homers. Maybe it's time to move him to leftfield. If Crede comes back he plays third. Of course if Crede doesn't come back then we're hosed in my scenario. But Fields may be the real deal power wise. I don't know why a lot of you are convinced Richar is gonna be good. It's easy to find a serviceable second baseman like Durham and Richar isn't hitting yet. We need a second baseman to hit at least .270. Owens is still a hitting risk in the of. We definitely need to buy some ballplayers from other organizations if we hope to win next year. Fields looks like the real deal; verdict out on most other of our youngsters except maybe Danks. Danks has done decent hasn't he?

That's one of the best lines of this dismal season I think. Keep Dye. Don't you think next year the balls will be flying out of the parks again? After the home run dry spell they'll juice the balls again. I still wouldn't mind dealing Thome. The shift is bothersome and he is I fear on the decline cause of his back.

What are you talking about? I love Oz, just ask Fathom. I was simply making a point that getting shut out by meatball pitcher Weaver could have cost Oz and KW their jobs and deservedly so. But I am an Oz supporter. I want nobody else as Sox manager.

Today Oz and Walker are lucky that pathetic performance against Weaver didn't cost them their jobs. Man do the Sox suck on given days. What did Stoney say about this one??

What he's done is simply amazing. Hopefully his record will never be broken.

I agree with whitesoxfan. Fields will blast 35 or more homers next year. Aren't you all getting sick of all this losing the last year and a half? It sucks.

No .500 for this team. Veterans in the lineup continue to have sub par years for them especially. Even our reliable starters have a bad outing or two out of five. Rookies are doing OK, but not lighting it up by any means. Bullpen still is scary. I'd say we will finish between 10-15 below .500 probably closer to 15 below.

Some people on here said that Crede's defense would be missed. Games are not only won on offense; Crede's glove saved more than a few.

You'd think Buehrle v. Laffey would be a laugher for Sox at home. But nooooo ... we lose. Too bad. The Sox are what they are, not so great.

It may be too late for next year, but everybody realizes Uribe has a ton of talent. He just hasn't figured it out yet at the plate and it's probably too late for him to do that as a member of the Sox.

Great way to win it after some blown chances. What a pitch by Jose to end the 13th. Nasty.

I love Steve Stone! Go Sox!

Cmon Sox, muster a run. Any ol run.

At this point of the night, with a game at home in the 12th inning, with a man on third base, you just win the game. But not the Sox. If we gut out a win here, I'll be amazed.

If the Sox veterans produced regularly ... we'd be in the pennant race. Nice at bat Darrin. You bum.

You got to love the guy. If and when he blows a save I hope everybody gives him a free pass criticism wise. He's deserving of no criticism for a long time after this stretch.