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It would have been nice if he stepped right in and dominated but like everybody says, he's probably not ready. Since we won the game anyway against the s*** Royals, I'd give him one more start. It's not like he cost us a game.

Eating crow is fine. It's cool you are on board cheering for him in person. I just hated after that one loss he had somebody called him Judy again. The guy is allowed to have some bad outings. I like the way he says he's been watching Buehrle and working faster this year. Nice.

I hope Mark gets the call. Jon would probably do fine, but I would rather see Mark B take the hill as a reward for his year in and out excellence. Plus as a worrier, I feel there's the slim chance Jon could pull an Atlee and not have it, throw meat and have it kill his confidence. I'd love to see Mark start, Halladay to follow, Jon also pitch and Hermy eventually close it out with some other AL studs also working a few innings.

Good post, Jim. I didn't want him back, either. I was wrong and that at bat Sat night was awesome.

Queen it was in the postgame show because they had 15 minutes to kill so we got to see Oz interview. It was funny.

The players bailed out the manager in this one. Good for them. Maybe part of the reason they bailed him out is they like and respect the manager instead of some of the dips*** skippers we've had in the past. You can second guess any manager after a loss unless it's one of those rare 15-1 blowout type losses.

Gotta love Oz, says AJ is crybaby; says he wants to kill Garcia in early innings. Likeable Oz pushing the right buttons! p.s. Politte is 4-0.

3-1 loss thanks to Ozzie's moronic managing. You ever think that Ozzie brings more to the table than mere specific decisions? The guy is a joy and the players like playing for him. What a great ninth inning. Iguchi, Everett, Rowand, AJ, sweet!

Somebody would trade Mark for CC Sabathia? Are you crazy? I would trade him for NOBODY. Today's game may have been one of the best pitched games I've ever seen and I date back to Gary Peters. Fricking amazing. Congratulations, Mark B, you are one of the best pitchers in White Sox history. Right now! Already! Great job. You are a fricking stud. GO SOX!

I wouldn't blame Oz. Maybe it's Oz's personality, etc. that has us with the best record in ball. Did you see Mark B when he got pulled? He laughed and kidded with Oz. The players obviously love him. He is the guy who made Hermy the closer for the 15 saves he's gotten. A couple screwups are inevitable. He's handled this team great so far. It's not like we have a powerhouse here. WE have a nice team.

I agree with Nuke to not jump on Hermy after one bad outing. It had to happen sooner or later. And I agree with whomever said to ride the hot hand. Hopefully Oz will continue doing that. Hermy has been hot as hell, if he blows the next two of three saves or something like that, then it may be Shingo time again. Surely Shingo has been working on something during his demotion time. Or Marte if he's not hurt.

I said and I'm sure most of you did too, that we were gonna lose after the eighth. I thought he was safe at the plate and for some reason I didn't sense a 1-0 win tonite. s*** happens; hope we can win the rubber game. As far as Dustin, you can't be perfect forever, but I still think before it' sover we need bullpen by committee.

We rode Dustin for quite a while. Now it may be time to do the committee thing again for a while. Shingo (gasp) and Marte need to suck it up. I applaud Dustin for pitching perfect ball as long as he did. I agree ... very tough loss. Kudos to Mark B.

I guess even I can learn to forgive and forget. But can KW forgive the fans like us who thought he was horrific? Sorry about the Azod. My bad.

Great points Azod. I just thought in terms of balls out hard nosed play. I'm not a Boston lover by any means. Bullets hit to Crede and he has no problem making it look easy, etc. I definitely tip my cap to Kenny W. who I once thought was a buffoon. He certainly makes anybody like me eat my words. He's put together quite a team.

In watching the game on mlb.com I thought the Sox looked like Boston did last year, sharp, hungry. Rowand comes up with that ball on his diving catch, even though the replay shows he took quite an awkward tumble. Unlike Patterson in the Sox-Cubs game, he comes up with the ball somehow. No excuses, just a great catch to save the night. Crede makes some tough stops at third look like routine plays. Garland gets out of the seventh and our bullpen gets it done. We just looked like a gutsy winning team instead of sleepwalkers.

I can see benefits for the Sox in Jon starting. He'd be used to the pressure if we make the playoffs. I also can see the non-benefits. He doesn't have it and throws BP, gives up 4 homers and is another Atlee Hammaker. I say start Mark B! Congrats though to Jon on 10 wins and that base hit.

Great question. I would say I would like to be in the race all year. But a six game lead all year would be nice. I mean a six game lead is nothing in reality. I don't want to lead by 11, 12 games. But let's face it, it probably doesn't matter either way. There's still that danger of our bats being completely silenced in the playoffs like against Baltimore that one postseason. Minnie sure has sucked in the postseason the past several seasons after winning the division comfortably.

Koch and Ritchie in a tie as far as my most miserable pitcher. I didn't necessarily hate them though, because remember all their quotes? They always took the blame and said how horsebleep they were. I respected them for that.

I won't complain since I also can't go. It to me is sad though that people in Chicago don't want to see the good team, our Sox, play and XXXX the Flubs. I mean we had a lot of Sox fans in Wrigley for that series. I'm just surprised more don't come out. You'd think the Sox would do a quick scientific survey using some company to get the true reasons why we don't draw 30,000 a night. I guess it's all in the one word, Cubs, but not to beat a dead horse, but Old Comiskey was pretty full from June 1 til late August near the end of its life when the Sox had a good team. I say do a scientific survey. Hell there could be zillions of people afraid because of the random bullet incident that one year. Yet they'll go to wrigley where bricks are falling.

I think Mark B, Garland, Hermanson should all be on the team. Also Iguchi and maybe A.J. No Paulie. Anybody else?

Trade Everett; he's no Big Hurt.

I didn't even know there were other sox chat boards. Cut the classless stuff; lets chat Sox!

Amazing start. To go in and take 3 straight in the NL park, very nice. Is Oz a magician?

For some reason the judy references irritate me. He's a good pitcher. He's also human.