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Quiz was awesome til his last 2 seasons. Man did poor Dan Quisenberry get rocked! I hope our new closer has the movement on the ball Quiz didn't have late in his career.

Good point by Baggs; let's find out once and for all. Ditto Harris and Uribe. If they suck early, dump em baby, dump em.

I hope this guy is the answer. It can't hurt giving him a shot, but if he sucks I hope we make him a middle reliever.

I'd rather start Rowand than Harris, but that's just me.

I love Cooper. Grilli will grill the competition.

Great post again. I am feeling better about our Sox after reading recent posts. You said: "Crede, Olivo, Rowand and Harris are all capapble of doing much more. I can envision Crede and Rowand taking major steps forward. If Harris can hit .260, draw some walks and steal 35 bases, I'd be thrilled." For some reason, I am not worried about Crede and Rowand. And I sort of like Olivo's potential. I am worried about Harris though. If he comes out sucking; I mean hitless in our first four games, I hope we start platooning him or benching him. He and Uribe scare me. I feel KW will be in love with both and they will hit .051 in the first two months and again we'll be buried.

I don't have Everett, but for some reason I think the loss of Alomar is greater than Everett. I can't believe having Sandy here didn't make Robbie desperately want to stay in Chicago. What a creep.

I am not a big Everett fan. Sorry. I don't think he's that good.

I honestly feel better about the team after reading this. Alomar and Everett weren't that good. I guess we could be decent if things fall right.

No offense, but why would anybody buy season tix at this point for our Sox? I mean I love baseball and love the Sox, but in this day and age of high ticket prices and no player loyalty, why would anybody buy season tickets for a team that has the potential to suck?? I could see buying single game tix We've added nobodys and are hoping that many many question marks come through for us to win. We can win if ... Rowand is great. Jon is great. Uribe is great. Harris is great. Loiza is great again; Mark B is great. It's scary how bad we could be if Loiza and Mark B suck.

I liked Robbie's defense, also. It was comforting. But HSC's biggest fan made a good point. Robbie was one of the bum's who did not come through at the end vs. the Twinks. I have mixed emotions, but one firm emotion, I don't like Willie Harris. And our new ss doesn't thrill me either. I've already forgotten his name. Maybe somehow Reed and Joe B will make the team and have big years and Olivo and Crede will turn into major studs and our big three of Mark B, Loiza and Garland will excel and we'll kick ass. It's possible.

Yes thank goodness Rios is gone. He and Ramirez make me sick.

For some reason he doesn't wanna play in a big market either. --I don't want to be a smart aleck, but we aren't a big market under Dork. We have proven we are a small market team. We should win this division every other year if we'd just spend some loot.

Q-Why don't we sign him to a one-year deal?? A-Cause we are cheap, cheap cheap and our owner cares not about the fans.

Yasni, that is an awesome story! Thanks for sharing. I remember one game Peters batted I believe seventh in the order cause he hit so well. Also thanks for the Buddy Bradford stats, but didn't it say he hit .220 career? That ain't too spiffy.

I see it happening. It seems we are bound and determined to get rid of my favorite Sox, Maggs. And it seems the Bosox would love to dump Nomar. Hopefully it's all been sportstalk and KW isn't gonna trade Magglio.

Yasny: Gary Peters pitched and hit when I was a little kid and I loved him. My dream is still to talk to him. He lives in Sarasota I guess. There's a good Sox book with a story on him and I guess he was a pretty nice guy. I'll never forget listening to a gam eon radio next to bed and he hit a pinch hit home run vs. cleveland. As you can recall, he could hit the baseball.

Baggs and Spat rock along with all of the regulars. Go Sox! p.s. where is roman??

Wow, we got Uribe to play. I am hoping upon all hope he isn't another Jimenez. Hopefully Jose will play second, but this doesn't sound good shifting him all over the field again. If that's the case, I'd trade Jose. He's not valuable roaming all over the diamond. My big fear is we start Harris at second, he sucks, Uribe doesn't hit and we have a s*** April and May again until we get those two off the field. It happened the one year when KW played that fricking stiff Ramirez. I hope you guys and girls that have praised Harris are correct. I am not wanting him to fail, I just have a sick feeling that Uribe and Harris will not remind anybody of Jose and Alomar. In my mind this is a bigtime downgrade, especially with the Royals acquiring several players that should give them the division title, considering they have awesome pitching in the minors about ready. Zack Grinke (sp) is a fricking stud!!! And Gobble ain't bad.

I really do hope I'm wrong but I can't see Harris being the answer. Ditto this new ss we got. You've got to wonder what's going on when Robbie, who has a beloved brother with the Sox, signs with another team for $1 million. I will miss the fact Robbie was a defensive whiz.

great names, but didn't buddy bradford stink?

I love it! Gene Freeze and Ken Kravec. What great sox fans we have on here. If we're gonna go that far back then I'll add... Pete WARD and Wayne Nordhagen.

I've officially lowered my expectations. We are over budget. We are a low budget, low market team in one of the biggest, greatest cities in the world. We are a small market team, folks. We're gonna have to get by on scraps and hope lightning strikes one of every 10 seasons. Amazing.

Who are your favorite sox of all time that were not stars? Mine ... --Chet Lemon. --Jim Spencer. --Carlton Fisk (OK he was a star) --Gary Peters --Tony Graff. --Harold Baines --Barry Jones (the one good year) --Bobby Thigpen --Jose Valentin (for his key hits the year we won it) --Tom Seaver Least favorite --The Dybber

I don't blame the Veeck regime for any bad trades. Veeck truly had no money, unlike Dork who has some cash. I love Veeck.