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Willie's bunt was horrific, but somebody's gotta pick him up. We're playing the 20-win Expos.

You both make some good points. We didn't give up which bodes well and a lot of bad stuff happened as well. On to tomorrow as we continue to be a little better than mediocre team.

You can't judge anything on a guy's first big league start. Talk about how he pitched tonight, but in the ultimate scheme of things, it means nothing. Too many factors on a first career start. One start doesn't mean s***. I know nothing about this guy, but I'd rather examine all his numbers in the minors and opinions of 5 scouts before I judge a guy on one start.

--Who's the next guy we bring up to try to be fifth starter? I don't want this guy who pitched tonight to start again, but at some point we've got to pick somebody and go with him.

Great win! For the guy who called half our team s*** yesterday for not hitting, here's today's report. Uribe 2-6 ... still hitting .310. Excellent. Lee 4-for-6 ... you kidding me? This guy is a god, small g. Valentin 3-5, 2 ribbies ... not a performance to make anybody puke. Crede 2-4 .. nuff said. Nice. Rowand 2-5 ... good game Aaron, and nice .279 batting av. Paulie 0-4. We'll forgive you, guy. Nice season thus far. Decent job, bullpen. On to tomorrow!

He's 25 now. It's time to play him or trade him in my opinion. I hope we play him.

You said: Stick with a god damn lineup for once. Harris is nothing but an automatic out. Valentin makes me want to puke Uribe swings like sosa now. Crede nuff said Olivo cant hit a curveball if his life depedned on it. Our bullpen looks like s***. Why the f*** not use shingo there, Politte is useless. I say: Get a grip. The only player that sucks of all those you listed is Politte. We are what we are ... a team capable of finishing about 8-10 over .500 if everything goes well.

You said: I could care less how nice of a guy he was. He sucked when it counted on the field. Thanks for telling us you suck Billy, like we didn't realize that already. Good Riddance. --Wow, tough crowd. I agree with everybody else who thought Koch was a class act and I wish him well also. He did suck in Chicago, but s*** happens.

We will always be second fiddle as long as Reinsdork owns the team. Big market city, small market team. I just don't understand why we can't be the Twins and be the best of this horses*** division and dominate it year after year. We should be able to at least be the best of these s*** ass fellow small market teams.

We should count how many wins specific guys are responsible for. We lose without him tonite.

I'm so happy for CLee. Class act is he.

Not offering Everett and Alomar arbitration, if anything else, gives the Sox financial flexibility to pay for Garcia, Guardado AND Beltran at the ASB and thusly become a legitimate WS contender. --With all due respect, acquiring these three guys would strip us of ALL our halfway decent prospects. I mean they aren't going to give these guys away. Bye bye Reed, Joe B, Rauch, etc. And there'd be no guarantee we'd win it all. No guarantee at all.

I like Scott Schoenweis but he's not worth doing handstands over.

This is blasphemy but if we can't "afford" Maggs, I hope he goes to the Cubs and sticks it up Reinsdork's ass every fricking game the next 10 years. The Sox are a small market team which is bulls***. EMAIL MARK CUBAN TO BUY THE TEAM NOW!!!!!

Not a good game. Are we in trouble without Maggs?

I'm sick of the topic, too. I want to keep him, but if we don't we don't. We should be trying to win it all this year. We've got a pretty good team that will not be a great one unless we find a closer, fifth starter and get a bit more production out of Crede and cf.

As long as he doesn't use Koch. If that happens, I'll be sick to my gut.

It's got to be closer by committee. If Oz or KW proclaims Shingo the closer, you just know he's gonna blow his first save opportunity. Use Marte and Shingo then throw Koch out there maybe once of every 10 save opps.

I love Koch's quotes. Like you said he's not a bad guy, just a bad reliever. It's KW's and Oz's fault the rest of the way, not Koch's. He's incapable of getting saves. They are capable of keeping him out of save situations.

Donkey, I might be seeing things, but I didn't think he had any velocity tonight. It looked like BP fastballs. His out out was a bullet to Jose V. I keep hearing he's got good velocity then I finally get to see a game on TV tonight and it's all meat.

There's no reason to use him again. I mean ... is he gonna find lightning in a bottle?? We all watched the game. The guy was throwing a meatball fastball. Could it have been over 84? I say no way. His breaking ball was horrific. And like somebody said, he didn't hold runners. I like the guy personally and don't think people should boo him. Boo KW and I guess Oz if he's used again. They are at fault. Koch is trying; he is just no good.

I don't care how much we're paying him. He has to be either put on DL, sent to AAA to get his s*** together (again) or be released or sent to a NL team for a very marginal prospect. He's going to ruin our season almost single handedly.

Jim ... you said it all. I agree 100 percent.

Are we gonna let one player ruin our season?? That is what's happening, folks. Put him on the DL like the Cubs did their horses*** closer. The man has NO STUFF. He singlehandedly ruined the game.

No need to boo him. Release him. He's trying, he just doesn't have anything.