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I can't imagine anybody flat out quit. I mean what does "quit" mean? They still take b.p., infield, try to get hits, pitch and win.

If Brian Anderson got 500 at bats he's probably be hitting under .200. He wasn't ready for prime time at the plate; may never be. Now if they have a designated fielder ... he can play on any team, any day.

How can anybody argue with this? Anderson truly truly had many horses*** at bats this season. Yes he was a good fielder. So what. At some point if you want to be a big leaguer you have to have somewhat of a clue at the plate. Anderson had a bad season at the plate; great season in the field and we had nobody on the roster capable of subbing for him. Mack was a disgrace and there was NOBODY else.

I like your enthusiasm but with all due respect you are nuts.

Finally a post about Brandon I can agree with. Tony comes through. I can buy this; I can't buy the fanatics who think Brandon is a phenom who was "misused" by Ozzie and that's the only reason he sucked.

The Sox are as done as a steak cooked by a 12 year on dad's grill. We should all make our own proclamations If the Sox make the playoffs I will .... -- donate 1,000 bucks to my favorite charity. I would say 1,000,000 bucks but I ain't got that much saved. Not gonna happen as we all sadly realize.

I agree with critic. I wish we were in, but I think we're done. One frustrating thing: If we won our next 7 games we'd be in the playoffs. We would pass Detroit. One fricking week of games. 7-0 and we'd be in. But the team is totally incapable of that 7-0.

Welcome to the world of the high paid ballplayer. The Sox are not exempt to this attitude apparently. Why do you think so few teams repeat. At least Boston made it back to the playoffs after their title.

True Milkman. But in my mind there is no perfect ballplayer. At some point you have to tip your cap to those who have had incredible seasons and overlook imperfections. I can't see how anybody could criticize Jermaine Dye unless you are looking for perfection. No he is not perfect. is that what the Dye naysayers are trying to say? OK I admit. Dye is not perfect. He goes get a solid A for this season however.

I think we'll go 4-9 starting with going 1-2 vs. Detroit and 2-2 vs. Seattle followed by 1-2 vs. Cleveland and 0-3 at Minnie. We already swept Detroit and did nothing after that. We won't sweep them again, in fact we won't win the series. And the poster who said Oz may call out a player or an anonymous player may call out Oz could very well happen. I'd suspect it'll be an anonymous source like a Riske or somebody not worth a s*** anyway.

This is what I was trying to say in regard to my position on this thread. The Critic said it for me. I agree wtih The Critic wholeheartedly. This is my stance on the season from my perspective as well. Though I would add the bullpen also faltered and we had the automatic out in cf coupled with the butcher on days the automatic out didn't play. As well as the automatic out in lf. I realize I'm being too hard on BA. I know, he hit .300 the last 3 months; but like some other poster pointed out he wasn't exactly mr. clutch.

Um, I beg to differ on that. I do agree with you however we underachieved. No doubt. But cmon.

Fathom I'm sure you'v enjoyed some of the games this year. If not forgive me for misreading you. There have been plenty of seasons worse than this one.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 18, 2006 -> 03:16 AM) So you reference a game we eventually lost, and 4 out of 6 wins against one of the worst teams in all of baseball? Yep, I had fun watching a lot of games this year. Sorry, but I did.

You want to know about more disappointing seasons? Ones where we were out of it in early summer! I've been a sox fan my whole lilfe and 20 games over .500 is NOT nearly the worst season I've gone through. There were some great games to enjoy this season. I remember one game where it looked like we still had the magic of a year ago when I believe it was Iguchi hit a bomb on a sunday night game. The four of six versus the Cubs were good. We had a lot of great wins. Only one team can win it all. This season unraveled unfortunately when we were keeping within striking distance of Detroit, a team that just would not lose a series except when they played us. Then we finally had a s***ty week and the Tigers kept winning and upped their lead on us to 8 games or whatever. We lost the magic and it was time to start blaming whomever you wanted to: Oz, Pods, bullpen, KW, everybody had their favorites. Oz mostly. If you want I'll go through the list of Sox seasons year by year and tell you ones much worse for me, but I don't feel like doing that now. and yes I've watched the Royals, a once proud franchise be out of it before the All Star break for the last 10 years now. If we are in "contention" all year I don't consider it a wasted season to be a fan. There were some great games this year. We just don't have what it takes to get in the playoffs. Baseball is a great sport and I'll be sad when there are no more games to play in a couple weeks.

No it isn't. Are you serious? There have been plenty worse than this monstrocity of mediocrity. Many many many worse than this.

What a predictable capper to our strange letdown of a season. Chants of MVP, MVP as Frank beats us in two of the games. My gawd. I hope next season is better. Remember Boston at least made the playoffs after winning the WS. Then they had a worse year this year. We did not follow it up with a playoff berth. Hope we can rebound next year. As fathom said ... Frank embarrassed everybody in the sox organization this weekend. he got the last word. Good for the Big Hurt.

Well then chalk that one up as a big negative toward Oz, cause Alomar sucks. Give Oz a D- on his performance appraisal for that one. I never said the guy was perfect, but I don't see how the cf disaster can be blamed all on Oz. Ditto the bullpen blowups. If our starters were pitching worth a damn, even Oz wouldn't have made the mistake of asking for alomar. But if he wanted Alomar, dock his pay next year for that one.

Why should we quit talking about the guy who helped bury our chances yesterday? KW wishes Frank would go away. The A's GM is laughing every day at what a steal he got in Big Hurt.

KW worked on a lot of possible deals if we are led to believe the papers. He didn't back off because of Oz. Of course Oz is going to say he likes his current team. The team is incredibly inconsistent in all areas. How is that Oz's fault? It's obvious Oz got sick of BA's outs early and gave up on him as an everday player. If that bothers some of you, fine, but that's what happened. The other options were not there, so Mack is the platoon guy and he is a butcher. Who else did you want out there? Also Pods became a disaster making 2 of our 3 of positions pretty weak. Our ss position didn't hit, we got no backup catcher the days AJ doesn't play. Our bullpen has not been winning caliber. Our starters have performed average at best, terrible during the stretch Detroit pulled away. Oz's big crime in my mind is for whatever reason the magic was gone this year. If the players are sick of Oz and quit on him, I guess KW must find that out and if it's the case, Oz probably will be discarded like Ditka.

How can anybody complain at all about Jermaine Dye? What a season! You know Sox fans are spoiled when there are any complaints about that guy. There are no perfect ballplayers. If we had Ryan Howard we'd probably have some complain after he popped up in the clutch.

Mack was acquired as a super sub expected to play. Who are the better options?? BA has NOT been the answer. Second guessing is very easy of the GM and the manager. In hindsight, yes we shoulda done all we could to pick up Soriano.

Why is it so hard to realize Ozzie does not make up the roster. He uses the guys provided to him by Kenny Williams!!! Think he wants to put in Boone Logan??? You guys sometimes act like Ozzie is the do all. He didn't make up this average roster; KW did!

In retrospect, I'd rather have had last year's team and made no changes. We won the World Series with Rowand, Thomas, Blum, etc. This year we are not going to make the playoffs. Thome turned out to not be a big upgrade over Hurt. Our new bullpen is not good. And Mack turned out to be just another guy. BA was a downgrade in cf. KW gets a C for his effort this season, worse than the team which probably deserves a B-minus.

Next to BMac, Thornton gets let off the hook more than anybody in the world of Internet fan. For some reason those two get a free pass by many fans.