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Hopefully this is what Crede needs to start hitting. It's got to help his confidence, winning the game for us like that.

I used to stick up for Jose all the time. I still like him, but do we have anybody in our farm system at ss who will replace him before long? Or are we void of ss candidates? I hated Clayton cause he couldn't hit the ball. Royce would have fit right in this year with our lack of offense.

.230 is so bad it's laughable. Way to ruin a promising career, Aaron. You are done it appears, until you become a star on some other team after we trade you.

Jim, How can you say we are not a talented team? All the experts had us winning the division. We have good enough starting pitching, we were supposed to have an incredible bullpen and a reliable closer. And we were supposed to hit the s*** out of the ball. I think we are talented.

I'm not ashamed but now I'm really worried after reading the report by one of our posters here on our minor league system. Our current players can't hit and we have no prospects. I would think it's time for Reinsdorf to sell. We are abysmal with no hope on the horizon.

Your report is interesting. Sounds like our future is very very dim if we have no prospects. We have no money and no good young players. Not good if your assessment is correct.

That is nice that Garland pitched well. That was a positive, right?

Could Olivo lead off? that is intriguing. Lee's too slow, but I liked your lineup except for Lee

Allegedly he and Daubach need to play regularly to hit, so we probably won't be getting much production from those guys during their rare starts. I noticed in Teddy's question and answer in the Trib, he thinks JM was wrong in not starting Rios at the beginning of the season and giving Aaron some minor league time to get his swing down. How is Aaron doing in the minors, is he starting to hit yet??

This may be too boring a topic to respond to, but the other day I was in the car traveling and heard an hour long storytelling session of Ron Santo (hey, he played for our Sox, too) and Mike Shannon on some St. Louis station. It was so cool to hear these guys talk about their first at bats, their first home runs. They suggested in the good ol days players cared a lot more. Santo talked about going out with Don Drysdale in Chicago the night before Drysdale was to pitch. Santo told a drunk Drysdale at 4 a.m. he had to take him back to the hotel. When he let him out, a drunk Drysdale told Santo, "Tomorrow when I step between the white lines I have no friends." Santo said: "Just the way I like it." A hungover Drysdale pitched 9 innings the next day with no set up men and no closers involved. No point to this story except ... does anybody else like hearing old time ballplayers tell stories about baseball? It was a classic hour. I was mesmerized to the radio. I would love to hear an hour with a.) Dick Allen. b.) Bill Melton. c) Chet Lemon. d.) gary Peters. e.) Pudge Fisk. f.) Bob Lemon. g.) Ozzie Guillen. f.) Pete Ward. g.) Richie Zisk. f.) Harold Baines. g.) Greg Luzinski. i.) Tom Seaver. j.) Ross Baumgarten. I am out.

I hate to say this, but isn't Jim a sad story? He once was a top prospect and most Sox fans like me loved him. What's his career record going to wind up? It's going to suck. Amazing how modern pitchers can't last.

You tell me why you are not more mad at the three crap at bats in the ninth?? What piss poor at bats by some of our best players. We simply can't hit the ball and still have bad chemistry. Let's face it we all thought Koch, Colon and Daubach would take care of the chemistry issues and we still have no life. I don't know what the solution is. There's only one Lou Piniella in America and he don't work for us. What the flip should we do???? We have no life.

At least we're trying things. Too bad he went 0-fer. It'd be nice for some immediate success, though Crede got off to a nice start this year and has been wallowing ever since. We suck.

I agree with witesoxfan. To blame one guy is ridiculous. We were playing Detroit for Gosh-sakes. We SUCK as a team. To get four hits off Detroit at home is pathetic. This upcoming road trip is going to bury us by the All Star break. We are baseball's biggest disappointment by far and that ain't Crede's fault.

Four hits total against the alleged worst team in baseball at our ballpark... miserable at bats from key players in our lineup in the ninth ... we've already fired our hitting coach and brought in a new one ... it's a hopeless cause. We suck. It's obvious we're not going to fire our skipper cause of monetary reasons and even if we did we wouldn't awaken. Bringing in Walker hasn't helped our bats a bit. Our only hope is to not fall too far behind theTwinks in case we ever fricking wake up.

The Royals are going to try to rob KW. If we give up too much for Beltran that would be horrible. Especially if we can't sign him. He is the best player on the Royals besides Sweeney, but the Royals will be going for blood, trying to get 4-5 of our young guys.

I wish mark cuban would buy the team and keep it in chicago. Or somebody rich from the great city of Chicago who has a clue.

Buy a round on me and just send me the bill in KC. Kidding. Someday I'll buy a round, tho.

I'm glad we won, also. Colon is looking so good. But we still aren't stinging the ball. Eight hits ain't too spiffy. It wouldn't be so bad if we had a stellar defense. But we are gonna have to start hitting or we're doomed. Nice win, though. We'll take it!

Once again, a guy leaves the sox and excels. It can't just be coincidence. We are a jinxed organization with no ability to develop players or put them in position to succeed.

Man, that was a great column by Phil. He ought to be our fricking GM. The Sox need to do what he says. I can't argue with anything he said.

I want to know why we lost three vs. Minn after sweeping the O's. I thought Game Three of the O's series was great. Colon beaned that guy and got tossed showing loyalty to Maggs who got plunked for slamming the game-winning hit. Frank had a big walk when it counted late and we looked like we were clicking. I guess it's simple. We won because we were playing the O's and that series meant nothing.

It does suck that we keep firing hitting and pitching coaches instead of the real problem, KW. But this move had to be made. Our hitting has sucked.

This is a good move ... I hope. Greg Walker had a sweet swing as I recall. Did we go 0-3 after we hired him or is this a recent move? I was in Vegas last week and though I won money on the Sox (their win over Baltimore in Game Three of the series) won me a five -team parlay and I was psyched!

It's definitely time to give Backman a try. Managers can make a difference. Look at Tony Pena here in KC. The players love him and are hustling their butts off. I say we go with Backman (who I admittedly know nothing about) and Greg Walker as hitting coach. Walker was a good hitter, always hit the ball hard, before he got hurt.