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Duke I think you are overreacting. We may need to make a move of some kind but it's no time to panic. In theory we wouldn't need to panic until it looked like we were down to a five or six game lead in the division or out of the wild card race.

That's what I hope for chisoxfan. Thanks for the post. Maybe Graff would have been the guy to acquire.

He makes very tough plays look routine all the time. He's an awesome 3rd baseman, period. Glad everybody is recognizing Joe's defense. He's damn good defensively and I'd keep him for that reason. If we must acquire Randa or some insurance, do so, but trade some prospects (I'm not so antsy about trading prospects anymore since the performances of Olivo, Reed, Wells, Fogg on other teams). Keep Joe. His defense will save us some World Series games a la Brooksie Robinson in the 60s.

I read somewhere the Sox want to upgrade third base. I hope if they acquire Randa or somebody then don't trade Crede, merely have another guy here to push Joe. I think Crede's a pretty good player. I don't think the organization should take his defense for granted. He's pretty valuable, don't you all agree? I would NOT trade him, not this year, not winning the way we are.

I would think there will be cheers and boos but anything can happen. I will predict more boos. I wouldn't boo him, though. He was a great player for us and I could care less if he ripped management. Management looks good this year with Kenny putting together a fine team, but management hasn't exactly been stellar in the past. Maggs was a stud for us and I hope he's cheered just as Carlos Lee should be cheered if he ever plays in the Cell again. But that's just my opinion. I definitely don't think we should bean him. That's between him and Oz. If they want to duke it out at batting practice, fine, but we shouldn't bean Maggs over a beef with Oz.

Great win. 1-0 has to demoralize the Tribe at home. And Marte and Hermy finished up nicely. No choking, just same ol stuff, winning.

Gload might help us some, but I love Paulie.

I would be most elated if the White Sox were able to win. I would not stop talking about it for the rest of my life. That's the best response. I think that's what I'd do, too. I remember when the Bears finally won it that year the feeling of contentment as they blew out the Patriots. I savored every play of the final half as the rest of the country outside of Chicago grimaced. It would be pure contentment, the opposite of the feeling I got the year Baltimore beat us in the playoffs when we should have reached the Series. Lamarr Hoyt would have won the deciding game on Sunday had Britt Burns' masterpiece on Saturday gone to waste in a 10 inning loss on a homer by some Oriole asshole.

AJ's homer was awesome. That's the top homer. Frank's dinger the other day against the D-Rays was awesome, too. I give credit to Hermanson for his first half also. I think his 20 saves shouldn't be taken for granted. If Hermy would have sucked after Shingo was having problems, we might have dropped a lot more games. It could have been Koch-like. Way to go Dustin.

We need to just pick up where we left off and keep winning series like we did the first half. Anything can happen. I mean who thought St. Louis would get swept in the series last year? Our team is damn good and has spirit, but it ain't dominant. So just keep the chemistry and keep plugging away. We had a helluva first half. a great first half. Congrats to the Sox on a stellar first half.

The tribute thing sounds reasonable to me. Mark B should start.

Exactly Civic. If we don't rally and win today's game (it's 6-2 in the 8th as I write this) somebody in Sunday's papers will probably blast our team as not having enough starting pitching with Contreras and Duque not reliable enough. Anything can happen. We have a very good team and exciting team, so far playing as a team. I'll leave it at that personally while staying confident we have a chance to go far.

I've always liked, more than disliked, him because of his defense. It's nice having a vacuum at third after so many years of shoddy White Sox defense throughout history.

Maybe patience with Crede will pay off as it did with Jon. If Joe is going to emerge as a star, it might as well be with us. Erstad for Garland would have been a disaster the way it's turning out.

Great win today obviously. Congrats Freddie, et all. Our victory followed a bandwagon column by the guy in the Sun Times. He wrote: "It should be clear by now that Guillen's feistiness has a magical effect on the Sox while only magnifying the woe-is-me slumber of Baker." A lot of us were saying weeks ago when Mariotti was telling him to stifle, that Ozzie's personality might be why we are actually winning just about every series and are on an amazing winning pace. Now he writes this?? I say: "Quit changing your mind, Jay! You are a gifted writer but quit bandwagonizing. You can't say Ozzie needs to shut his fricking mouth for a couple weeks then COMPLETELY change your position!" p.s. Keep Joe Crede, Kenny. He is a stud.

Amen, Tony.

Most annoying plays: I saw Amos Otis hit a home run into that deep rcf nook of old Comiskey. It's quite a shot. And I saw George Brett hit a cannon off the upper deck facade in rf.

Kittle hit a roofshot when I was there. So did Luzinski. It's awesome to see the height of a roofshot and no more ball.

I thought Miguel Olivo and Jeremy Reed were going to kick butt this year and be budding if not immediate stars. I see Miguel got sent down recently hitting about a buck ninety and Jeremy has a fairly decent batting average at .271 but doesn't steal bases doesn't hit the deep ball and doesn't have a lot of ribbies. Kenny W. seems to know what he's doing. I must eat crow and say he's doing a fine job. Are any of you equally surprised Miguel and Reed are sucking?

I'd love to get to the yard on vacation this year. I'd go to 20 or more a year when I lived in Chicago but that was right before new comiskey (Cell) was built. I loved the old place. It rocked, literally shook, when there was 30,000 or more in there.

I think Oz is great because of the intangibles. The players seem to like him and he's damn likeable. He may make some bad decisions, but what managers don't? I say we're 30 games over .500 partly because of the attitude he brings. Isn't that a big part of managing? The big picture? You can see Mark B. loves Oz when he comes out to the mound, etc.

I wouldn't mind him if we just ship them 2 bad prospects. He can split duty with Crede and/or push Crede to get his act together more consistently at the plate. I don't want Randa to be our everyday third baseman in the playoffs and/or series. Do you folks?

I thought Rocket returned to baseball merely with the stipulation he pitch in his hometown. He was done and ready to retire, but for that money and getting to pitch at home and be with his family, it was worth it to him to go on. Why do the national pundits think that's changed? Won't he just retire if he gets dealt?

We got a great team and crowds have been good of late. We should be drawing a minimum of 30,000 a game from now on in, but that ain't gonna happen. I have a question for those who have been going to games loyally the past 5 or so years. With the renovations of the past couple summers ... is the park much more attractive than it was before the renovations? Just curious. I haven't been to a game since the renovations and was just wondering. Has the rooftop, etc. made it much better? Just asking.

I wouldn't underestimate Joe's glove. It's pretty comforting to have him at the hot corner. I wouldn't trade him for Randa. Joe frustrates me as much as anybody with his inability to break through as a hitter, but he's prett damn good on d.