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I say the knuckleballer deserves the nod.

I think Darrin is over the hill so I voted the other way. I just don't think Erstad was a smart pick up. We should trade him if anybody will take him and play some young guy even if the young guy hits .195.

The bar district in KC is Westport. There's a good bar in a hotel across the street from the stadium. Come to Lawrence if you are a basketball fan and want to see the KU museum of hoops. It's a normal college town, nice downtown. The Plaza is nice in KC if you like to shop at nice places and/or buy expensive gifts. Good bbq like they said. Gates in KC or Grandaddies in Lawrence. Golden Ox is a good piece of beef in KC. p.s. Are we going to win at a .200 clip the rest of the way because of our bullpen? I'm serious. We are going to lose 8 of every 10 games if this continues.

I don't know if he can learn that all of a sudden. Seems to me you either have the talent to do it, or not. But maybe like Crede he'll come on later.

Another guy with a rocky beginning in the majors for the Sox. Our guys always seem to be fighting uphill battles.

And we trust KW to get good impact players for these guys DURING the season? The guys we get in these trades will be vital to our team's future. No way he can pull it off now. He'll have to trade them in the offseason. I'd only trade one "key" player now. Whether it be Dye or Contreras.

Uribe does stink. Where we gonna get a good shortstop. Another guy we suddenly need on our wish list.

It doesn't matter what Ozzie does. Our relievers suck. A lot of people were singing the praises of MacD, Thornton, all the rest. They all suck except for Bobby. Every one of 'em sucks. Pure and simple.

This is why I hate when we have no urgency right out of the gate after a crap spring training. You can get buried early and that's what happened to the Sox. Nobody sensed anything was wrong. There was a lot wrong right out of the gate when the team was lingering around .500. Now it will take a miracle just to get back to .500 anytime soon.

I don't think the meeting is that bad. I think it's good they included Konerko in it. The article said other GMs are like vultures right now. For now KW accepts Konerko's assertion the team hasn't given up and can still get it together. That doesn't mean he's not going to consider possible trades to pull the trigger on before the deadline. I think it's refreshing a player was included in the meeting.

I like the optimism and can only hope, but the team does appear to stink. The only hope for the kind of run you suggest is to hit like tonight. Thirteen hits a game every game and I would believe we have a chance. But that isn't going to happen. With our s***ty bullpen it is going to take so much offense game after game to put a streak together. The Sox have not shown that. Like one of you said corpseball gives way to one decent game per week.

We need Ichiro. Keep Iguchi and sign Ichiro. I see Ichiro's style of play as something we desperately need. It'll wake up eveybody.

Oh boy. He and Olivo will go off this series. It's been that kind of year. Maggs, Hurt, Rowand, Marte, Howry, Sammy, Kip (kidding) where are you guys now that we need you?

Ventura i may buy some tix if i can make it home this summer. You got good seats? I haven't been to cell in a while and it'll be less crowded this summer.

Jenks as you all said is the only candidate. If they had an all star game for name players who stunk the first half, however. On the team would be ... Paulie, Uribe, Dye, MacDougal, Iguchi, Crede, Erstad. AJ would be an alternate. Oz would be on there as a member of the coaching staff.

It's been said before by many but the retooling of our bullpen since the title season has been a major joke. I don't know what KW is going to do to fix it for the future.

Sox are so bad it's beyond belief. Of course the Sox are done.

Just curious. You are saying we basically should trade the whole team. Do you realize putting AA and AAA players on the field and the mound will mean we are the Royals for the next 10 years? Who are we going to get in return from contending teams worth a bleep? They want our players, yes, but they are not going to trade the Sox any of their good players. If you think the Sox can win with minor leaguers the next 10 years think again. The Royals have proven you can lose year after year after year.

You know what's wild? KW could make some trades that really turn us into the Royals for years to come. Mark B is one of the best pitchers in Sox history. He's about to be let go? The Cardinals better give us some damn good players for him. I mean losing Mark B and Dye will not improve this team. Are we planning on losing 110 games???? Be careful what you wish for with trades this time of year. Our minor leaguers haven't exactly come up and looked like studs. I can't believe how s*** we've become since winning it all. It's the 85 Bears revisited. It could be a long time before we contend again.

Now even Danks sucks. Man are the Sox going to have a lot of no shows at the Cell the rest of the year.

The team stunk in spring training and didn't do much of anything once the games started to count. No turning point. We were .500 for a while then the bullpen completely rotted and we started to lose or win ugly every single night.

How can a team with this kind of starting pitching be so horrible? Sad.

"The Sox don't stink anymore" was a great banner one glorious season. The Sox do stink now. What a pathetic team we have out there, injuries of course part of the problem to go with the awful reworking of the bullpen and sudden lack of home runs.

Is Mark the best pitcher in White Sox history? It's possible, isn't it? Who else might be better?

We need to do what the Yankees do and trade all our prospects for proven players. Right now we should start to rework the team by trading any decent prospects for veteran middle relievers (I know, none are available).