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I wouldn't call Old Comiskey a sad tired relic of graffiti and trash. That's the team's fault if it didn't keep the place in better shape. Trash is trash wherever it's thrown. The neighborhood was bad. You are correct. In fact you had to pay kids hovering in the lots to "watch" your car or you'd come out with 4 flat tires. Just like some are saying if you have a good seat in the Cell it's great ... if you had a good seat in Old Comiskey it was amazing. My dad had 4 season tickets in about the fifth row just to the left of the screen and I took my friends to all games he didn't want to go to with his downtown coworkers. We went to a lot of games and nightly I was amazed at how we were right on the action. I'll never forget the sound of bat on ball at that old park. I need to move back to chicago and see more games at the Cell. It sounds like it's getting more lovable every year. I hope so. I would hope those who disparage Old Comiskey also think Wrigley is a total dump, cause Wrigley still is standing. Is it also a sad relic of graffiti and trash? if not it's only because the team keeps fixing it up.

Why would you hate Joe Randa? First of all he's not good enough to hate. Second of all he's always smiling. Why hate that guy? He's harmless. I second the notion on Clayton. I hated him when he was a Sox cause of his being an automatic out. I can envision starting to despise Erstad if he continues to be an easy out. If he does maybe I'll blame KW more than Erstad. He does seem to try. Clayton was a bum IMO.

Can we win a pennant with Erstad? He's hitting like most of the offseason talk on here indicated he would. Not well.

Johan cause we're helpless against him (thus far). Also Zambrano and CC.

Nice win today. Great pitching again is a good sign. How did Anderson look at the plate? Abysmal or did he have a clue?

Maybe Pablo would be better. I'm not all that high on him either, but I guess he's better than Gload was. Seriously why would Oz not have Iguchi bat second?? This is ridiculous and he and KW have ruined our order with this 1-2 crap. You wait ... Iguchi will be batting second again before long.

That makes me feel a bit better. I just felt our lack of bats really has made the team look lifeless. But I hope what you say is true and comes to pass.

Who do you want out there? If you have a problem with our roster, your problem is with Kenny W. My only beef is Iguchi should be batting second. he stinks down in the order.

I could anger everybody by saying our OF hasn't been the same since the loss of ... Rowand. I better duck on that statement. Would everybody agree our first eight games have not been too encouraging?

I'd rather have anderson in than Erstad but it's not like Anderson is Willie Mays reincarnated. We needed a better offseason upgrade than Erstad don't you think?? And blame Oz all you want, but Jenks sucked. And the offense was pitiful, simply pitiful. Three hits? There's plenty of blame to go around. So what if Pods' defense was a total laughinstock? There are other reasons we lost besides Oz/Pods. It could be closer by committee soon. Poor Bobby. No heat.

We may still have a great season. It still probably will all depend on pitching, but does anybody else think our offseason tinkering stunk? Burn me at the stake but I am not an Erstad fan.

There are TVs in the press room so the media probably is watching it more and more on TV as well being up so high. They'll get used to it. It's a sign of the times like with colleges ripping out press row and putting big time donors right on the court. That's going to blow up in the colleges' faces, however, when one of those fan donors attacks a ref or opposing player. It's going to happen someday. I think a fan taking a poke at an opposing player more likely than popping a ref.

Kong sure looked frustrated after his last at bat, the line out to rf. It's hard to believe one pitcher (Johan) can be so dominant against us. Is this gonna continue all year and for years to come? I hate to be an ass, but for some reason I'm not a big Erstad fan. Just not. At least our pitching was good again today. So there's hope. But I think you all have to admit it wasn't a good homestand.

I think the point of the article was just to say the press now gets the worst seat in baseball at the Cell. Every other park has the press behind the plate. Some of the writers said in the article they'd do the same if they were the Sox. It's OK they point it out to their readers that their seats now suck. No harm there.

Hope we can hit Silva. Our bats were pretty quiet today vs. Sowers who was begging for an early exit with all those walks. Silva is a rag arm and deserves to be battered all over the field. Our bats have not been loud yet. It's time to rough this guy up.

In my opinion, Hawk is great. DJ is OK, too. I wish they wouldn't yell, "put it on the board ... YES" in unison, though. I wonder why DJ started butting in on that. That's Hawk's call and I wish he'd do it alone. As far as blatant homerism, I still think if you watch a full game, Hawk will utter some negative comments about the Sox. Maybe not this early in the season when criticism is stupid, but as things progress he will criticize the Sox some. Except for Steve Stone, I can't think of another announcer who will do so. I challenge you to find me announcers anywhere who will criticize except the old guard guys. Maybe Uecker will do it or Scully. I don't listen to them. But Hawk is great. My only mild complaint is DJ has to also yell "yes" on Hawk's homer call. I don't understand that one. p.s. Anybody who says "I have a mancrush on (fill in the blank) should be castrated. Dumb saying and my new pet peeve.

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't see it. I hope some of our lefty hitters can come up with a similar at bat or two this season, then. Our guys are going to have to start producing. In this division you can bury yourself in a hurry.

If the Sox had a horrific April and you were GM, would you be tempted to go young and tear it up? I know it's early but I think by the second week of May we're going to know if we've got a team this year or not.

The first post says it all. Coop was the darling of all coaches a couple years ago. He hasn't turned into an idiot in 2 years. It's the pitchers' fault. Today's game was a joke because of the weather. We needed to find a way to win and even the series. We didn't. This isn't starting out well. Cleveland already has won the series and is playing with the house's money and a lefty tomorrow. p.s. Thornton giving up a jack in that weather against a lefty??? What's up with that. Our guys certainly are not producing. Get your head out of your collective asses pitching staff!

Time will tell, but how could the Sox be so dominant a couple years ago and be as bad as you suggest now?

Players (mostly pitching and defense) win pennants, not managers. I don't think anybody managing the Sox would satisfy some of the vocal Internet bashers. You wait and see. Piniella will fail this season because the Cubs have no pitching with the Pryor/Wood fiasco continuing. And what will Moronotti write? I guess he'll blame the GM, not the manager since he switches off between those two in his simplistic columns.

A lot of their guys would start for the Sox cause we platoon so much everybody starts a lot. Sox need to suck it up and win this series. 1-2 or 0-3 will classify as a suck start considering we're playing a division rival at home.

One day does not make a season obviously. I wonder if at season's end Freddy will have better numbers than some of our other starters. I'm just wondering if the Sox used up all their good luck during the title season. Should be interesting to see how BMac and Fred compare to the Sox five starters. I hope it was a one day fluke for Jose. Yikes was he bad. Oh well. We need to win Wednesday. It won't be good to have the Tribe come in and win two of three or three.

I'd rather see Erstad way way down in the order or on the bench on Opening Day. Play BA, especially after he had a big opening day last year.

I know you didn't mean anything too negative by this post, but who cares if a few players dislike him? Wait and see how many Scrubs hate Piniella this year. That one Cardinal didn't speak with LaRussa half of last year. The modern day ballplayer hates a lot of things, except the runner who brings him his paycheck.