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I do respect you pinstripes, but I look at results. He did win 19. And we got Ritchie who killed us at 5-15.

My final thoughts in terms of grades. Lofton - D. What a joke he was. Ray Ray - D. What a joke he was. Have fun winning the World Series now that you are trying, Ray Ray. Alomar- D. I have no doubt he tried, but he stunk. Royce - D. His attitude sucked, but he could field. Around the diamond Paulie - A. Great year. Harris - C, definitely has potential, but can he hit? Jimenez - B. Nice job, I'd say. Jose V - B- He did drive in some runs. Graff- B. Nice utility man when healthy. Crede- A minus. Did a great job. Olivo - dunno, you tell me, didn't see enough games, but I like him. How bout B. Mark Johnson - C-. Disappointing. Josh P - C. Carlos Lee - B-. Nice finish to season. Was he better on Defense this year? Rowand - B. Is he a good enough hitter to play every day? I like the fact we won with him in there. Maggs - A plus. One of bestplayers in league. Liefer- D-plus. Didn't do much, did he? Frank - C plus. Decent numbers, clueless first half of season. Joe B - incomplete. Garland - B plus. For his age, he had a great year. Wright - B plus. For his age, he had a good year. Mark B - A plus. Amazing. Foulke - C minus. Ritchie - F. Really killed us early, all season as a matter of fact. Biddle, Glover - ? Middle relievers at best? Osuna and the rest of th erelievers B. Comments? Manuel - D plus. KW - F. Jerry Reinsdork - F.

Seems we were destined to finish .500. Win one, lose one. Maddening, but we're not nearly as bad as half the AL. Even though this series meant nothing, don't you think the fact we got swept again shows we need help? If I was GM I would sign Thome (great guy, great hitter) and I would sign two pitchers. I know .... we have no money. But if we added Thome and two GOOD pitchers we'd win the frickin World Series. p.s. David Wells won 19 games. Nice move keeping him, KW.

Mark B really does need to be making at least 2 mill a year. As a gesture of good faith the Sox need to pay him a few bucks extra next year.

I can't wait, either, but again, these losses are proving we ain't gonna win the division next year as we stand now. Unless the Twins disband their talent like the Indians did, they remain better than our Soxx.

Why we are keeping Ritchie is beyond explanation. The guy sucked. Let him go elsewhere. I'd rather see Rauch take his starts.

I think we need another lefty. How bout Moyer?

It's probably good we lose all 3 to the Twins lest our GM think we are ready to dominate next year without some changes. We need some tinkering though we've been great the last 30 games or so.

14-12 doesn't sound so bad on paper, does it? Had Ritchie gone 14-12 would we have thought he did what we wanted him to do, give us innings? I am hoping Wright and Garland can be consistently good next year like Mark B, but that may be wishful thinking. I think Moyer is the answer to all our problems.

We can't afford Clemens, Maddux or Glavine. How much will Moyer want? 8 mill? Our only hope is Moehler or Byrd and they could suck.

good point chick. i love your posts.

I wanna know why we are going to offer Todd arbitration. Let's cut our losses. Let Todd go!

I give Frank credit for putting up some moderately decent numbers. He had a nice last five weeks or so. It'd be OK to keep him as our DH except for the money and it ain't our money it's Reinsdork's.

How come some of our starters can only go 5 inns? Thank goodness our middle relief has been good of late.

I'm glad we finished .500. It seems like we were a worse team than a .500 team. What a bizarre season though. After two weeks I thought we were gonna have an incredible season, then we sucked up until the point we brought up Crede. For some sick reason that disappointing loss to the Yankees helped cause our quick and lengthy demise. That is Manuel's fault. We need to find a way to better react to crushing losses in the future. That Yankee implosing was one fricking game and our team acted like it was 10 losses in one! Cmon Manuel ... do a better job next year!!

Good point by Mathew, Harris hasn't dont anything yet. And he showed lack of character in my mind by not coming to the aid of the Royals' coach when attacked by those two morons. I may be out of line on that, I am not in Chicago and haven't read Harris' explanation, but it to me looked like he looked right at the poor coach and didn't step in and be a hero and stop those two morons from pummeling the poor 54 year old coach.

I''d say two, but one who is willing to go to middle relief if Garland and Wright start the season off powerfully. We can't afford to have Garland and Wright suck in April and May if we are gonna win the division. We know we ain't gonna win any wildcard.

Congrats again to all of you who told me Crede was gonna be OK when he started 2-for-24. He has been awesome. We need to lock him up and not trade him!

Two starters would probably be a good idea. They both can't flame out, right?

You gotta love em both! Who says we sox fans are only negative? Way to go Maggs n Paul

I agree moving Jimenez all over could mess him up badly. It may have messed up Jose. I wouldn't mind dealing Jose if we're sure Harris can hit .280 and steal 50 bases

Seriously if they are gonna lose some players we better be the ones to pick some up. They got some good talent. We could use Guzman, Jacque J, etc. I still think the Twins will beat us out next year unless they have the overhaul you suggest.

I think our everyday lineup is pretty good. We need pitching. I think Jose V should start at ss and Jimenez at second. Keep Harris around. If Jose V sucks early, let Harris and Jimenez be our 2b and ss respectively. Moving Jimenez around, however, might mess with his psyche. If Harris had shown a little more, I'd say go with the two young guys and trade Jose V. But Jose V probably should stay now for his leadership and the fact he's pretty reliable.

Congrats to Big Hurt on a nice last five weeks or so. He's closing in on 30 homers in an off year. It's hard to hate the Big Hurt even though he sucked when we needed him early. Hopefully he'll have a big year for us next year.

the twins are not lousy. Are they really gonna have an overhaul? That would be nice. We could use Jacque J., Guzman and others.