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Everybody's assuming Garcia is going to pitch well. Sure hope that assumption is a damn good one.

We panicked and overpaid. Good GMs trade horses*** prospects to teams willing to deal a Garcia. We traded Olivo and Reed. Ben Davis is pure horses*** by the way. That guy is hopeless. Let's see if we can win with no catcher, now.

I thought this was an automatic loss. Thank goodness our guys stepped up to break Zamby's streak.

You said: Valentin couldn't be traded for a bucket of bad water drank by camels. Good line, but I can't see why some hate Jose V. so much. I mean Clayton was and is worthless. Valentine is a damn good player who is a difference maker. He's won us a lot of games.

Ten in a row is a good one. I was way wrong on the streak issue. We need one of those this year or else need to dominate the Twins the rest of games against them.

next year as in he actually stays on the club the whole year or at least starts on the club at the begining of the season gotcha, my bad.

Shuf said: "My dad says it best million dollar talent, and a brain worth s***." Now we know why you cuss so much if dad taught you well. Just kidding but the sophomoric cussing does come across as a drunken rant. I agree with the Reinsdork comments, but the rest of your rants are bandwagon jumping of the cliched degree. You did proclaim the Sox had so much heart after the Montreal game and now you again say they have no heart. I'm sure you liked Lee when he was hitting in 28 straight games. I agree about Gload and also hate Reinsdork, but I think with Maggs we have a pretty OK team, albeit streaky. Without him I think we suck. The bottom line is Reinsdork sucks, but if you were running the team there would be NO payroll cause you'd fire the manager after every tough week and have a roster that totally turned over every week. Reinsdork does suck, tho!!!

They're all big, but I understand what you are saying. What's our longest win streak this season. We haven't put together a monumental win streak the past two or three years, have we?

Next year? He's in the rotation this year. Jeckle, good job sticking by your guy. I wish I could have seen the game. Sounds like he pitched well and we sure needed it!!

Nice post. Excellent points I feel. You said: I absolutely hate the idea that KW and Ozzie havent wanted to call up Reed or Borchard in order to give Gload and Timo more time. --Me too. You said: If Borchard is not better than Gload is right now, then trade his ass before he's 35 years old. --I agree 100 percent. I mean if he's not better than Gload, why is he still in our organization. How can anybody argue his point about Rowand also? Our talent is down, but I still say with Maggs we are a 10 over .500 team. Without him 10 to 20 below .500. First, the talent level on the Sox is terrible right now. If the Sox arent facing a lefty or a running team, Olivo should not be in the lineup. He's clueless against righty pitchers. Also, Rowand leading off is a good idea vs lefties. However, he should be way down in the lineup vs righties. You play the players that can excel best at that position. . Just look at the talent gap between the Sox and Cubs right now. I hate those f***ers from the northside, but their lineup is 5 times more talented than the Sox is.

The scouting report on Uribe is pretty simple. He doesn't take a walk, so throw it out of the zone and he'll swing at it. If this is true, he better change. You gotta take some walks or you are doomed as a player.

Garland is worthy of being a starter on our staff. So what if he's not a 1 or 2 starter. Who said he was?

Brando, good post listing many many reasons why we lost, then you end up blaming Judy. I think that's stupid and ruins a good post. Garland is a big leaguer; Gload is not.

p.s. We need a good lefthanded bat as well as the other areas that have been well discussed.

Why do you think trading Loaiza, Paulie, etc. is going to make us a better team?? Yes the Cubs are going to beat the s*** out of us tomorrow. But it's not time to sell the whole f***ing team. Sometimes I think some fans act like we are a team with money. We can ship all the players we want, we are still going to have holes as a small market team. You said: "Maggs and Loaiza. And if anyone wants Valentin, they could deal him off as well." I can't believe some front runners who are fans. Love Valentin when he wins a game; hate him when he has a bad day.

His value is none above a #4 starter. Fine, make him our No. 4 starter. He's a good guy to have on our staff. It ain't his fault he's not a No. 1 or 2 at the age of 24.

Hopefully the players will win so Oz can stick around a while. It should be incentive. They could have a grump as skipper. If they want Oz to be their skipper, they ought to bust their ass and win as many as possible.

Do we lead the league in homers? We've bashed quite a few, also.

Aaron Rowand is becoming a fine ballplayer. Jose V. is a home run hitting machine. Nice win.

You make some good points. My only hedge is we don't have Maggs right now.

Is it a slump we are in or does Cleveland have a better team than our Sox? I find it difficult to believe Cleveland and Minnie have better players than our Sox, but it is possible. We're creeping mighty close to .500. Is it safe to say we are a pretty s***ty team minus Maggs??

I won't defend their lapses. I say fine them, but like Man of Steel says, they are great players. s*** happens and they must be forgiven. There are other reasons we got beat once again. The sad thing is we didn't win after yesterday's dramatic win. I thought that would turn us around for good.

He's gotta go. He's Koch-like. Unsaveable.

Wasn't our bullpen considered a strength in the preseason? It shows you how that didn't mean squat.

Man of Steel said: Well I dont care how Carlos plays, im glad hes on my team well, if he became like full out lazy and no hustle then i would care... but admiring what he thought was a HR... it happens to the best of them... hell Frank did it too right before him --I gotta back Man of Steel on this one. s*** happens and it happened to Carlos. I mean go ahead and fine him for the play, but I don't hate him for doing it. s*** happens when you are scuffling and we sure are sucking.