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Fedde, Crochet and Thorpe is 3/5s of a a solid rotation. Move Kopech to starter and 4-5 starters are set. Just sayin ...

I enjoy your posts. I guess I'm really sickened by what Clark is going through. She played four years at Iowa. Now she has to deal with Stephen A Smith spouting gobblygook when all Clark wants to do is play ball and get her body through this WNBA season so she can finally rest her body after so much ball. I'd throw in the towel and go play in the Big Three. Why not?

This is the type of game optimistic Sox fans expected. Four home runs will pace even a historically bad team to a win on a given night.

That would be perfect if she joined that Ice Cube League. Clark is trying to be nice and humble and not respond to all this b.s. A great way to respond to all this WNBA resistance would be joining the Ice Cube League as you say and put the WNBA on hold til the league can handle a situation like this better. She has a lot of power and understandably doesn't want to use it. But she may have to use it if this gets any worse.

Lotta home runs. Is Sosa a better prospect/player than Moncada? Is Lee on track for a huge career?

I disagree. Here's the reason Clark was so popular in college and coming into the league and why the unexplainable jealousy and hatred of NBA players and media toward her is so disappointing: It has nothing to do with skin color. She shoots from the logo like Steph Curry which people LOVE. Her long-range shooting is special and remarkable and fun to watch those bombs flush through the hoop. That's why attendance is so high in the WNBA for her games. Also in college she had spectacular passes like Maravich in some respects. Finally she is the bleeping ALL-TIME leading college scorer men or women for gosh sakes. Kudos to Charles Barkley, LeBron, Paul Pierce and some others for speaking out in her behalf. And shame on Stephen A Smith for his little diatribe Friday blasting her. Very sad stuff. If I were Clark I would immediately leave the WNBA (she can afford losing a 75000 salary, big deal there, lol). Sign with a European team for the upcoming season, get a few weeks rest and see if Nike will keep her shoe deal, etc. Get out of that league now where she is considered the enemy and not even getting great support of her teammates. Just my take. (Some of the coaches statements have been disappointing as well re. Clark). Let her play ball. Geez.

That sucks. He just wouldn't ever be negative about the Sox. Positive at all times. The Sox pretty much got to the rest of us.

OK, end part of the hex. PICK HIM UP. Pay him minimum; Astros pay rest. GO SOX! Jose baby!

Whatever happened to the most positive sox fan ever, El Rockin? Is he OK? Bad loss tonight. 7-1 beatdown. Had to be awful watching it.

Thanks for the link. I'm definitely a CC fan. She's even trying with an aggressive antagonistic media that for some reason is mainly asking her societal type questions, nothing about basketball. She's kept her cool and given great answers but I wouldn't blame CC for turning into a one word or two word interviewee. The media for some reason wants her out of the league; the players of course want her out of the league. Bizarre, sad, weird, I guess modern America. We hate each other greatly. We hate everybody.

Nice posts Caulfield. I realize there are some good players who have joined the league of late not just CC with those u mentioned still to come. But why the sudden interest in the actual women's game? They do not dunk. They miss a lot of inside shots. There is absolutely no athleticism. Yes some pinpoint passes are exciting but they've had the passing in year's past and nobody cared. So u are telling me the league is popular and not just cause of CC? Interesting. No offense but I'm not a big fan of the game. I do find CC's deep 3s intriguing though. The way they go through the hoop. She definitely is quite accurate. She puts the rock rite in the middle of the goal. What balance.

Crochet is so good it's hard to believe. Every GM of a contender should be wanting him. You inherit a No. 1 starter who makes no money to speak of. He actually was Sox best top 15 draft pick in eons. Hard to believe they will give one of their own away even if it's for a king's ransom. If some team wants Crochet, it has to be an all time one-sided deal. They get a No. 1 starter who will lead them to a pennant probably and we get 6-8 players, four of which are top 50 prospects. I want to keep him for the record. 13 Ks on the road today? Excellent dominant job by Crochet.

Great post. Can you imagine the hatred that will be involved in that game?? The WNBA all-star team will not want to pass to Clark, their teammate. Meanwhile the Olympic all stars will be out to mug her so to speak. Clark will be pushed, shoved, maybe even a box and one on her. The mission will be to stop Clark at all costs. This is all so stupid and unneccesary. Even LeBron has spoken up for Clark and that did no good. It's going to be ugly in this game you suggest will be played. So ugly. Clark's teammates will 'hate' on her; the olympic team will be out to stop her at all costs.

The jealousy is off the charts. It's as if most of the NBA players would be fine with kicking Clark out of the league. I guess they are offended people are saying the league can't make it on its own (sans Clark). I wonder when there will be a real fight in a game. Which WNBA player is going to flat out slug CC with a right hook?

That's why I'm wondering why all of a sudden there's talk of a HUGE TV contract coming for WNBA. CC can only play in so many games. I guess whoever buys the rights will just show 90 percent Fever games and CC will be on pretty much 9 of 10 games. p.s. Have you seen how many inside shots are missed in women's basketball since the women don't dunk except on rare breakaways? If CC isn't playing is attendance actually up or not? In non CC games in arenas.

For the record, please do not trade Crochet or Robert. You can build teams around these guys. They've done it and will do it. Trade Pham and DeJong and Maldy and Fedde and those guys. Please get rid of Beni.

Is Robert that injury prone? Don't you feel as if his injuries are more legit than Eloy's? Robert isn't an injury waiting to happen is he? Eloy is.

You ain't seen nothin yet til you look at next year's roster. It'll be even worse.

Three hits won't cut it. Embarrassing. At least Cannon looked amazing. Is he supposed to be this good? Sox have lost what? 16 of 17?

I wouldn't mind watching one game. Anywhere i can get it free?

Maybe Nicky wants to be a manager or coach someday. He's one of those players who is a dime a dozen and not really valuable. So study the game and manage someday?

The Sox have lost 15 of 16 right? We're experiencing unprecedented failure.

Hank, I do want our prospects to do well when they come up. As far as the team, we're so far out of it I kind of get a sick delight when the Sox lose. I mean truly any win we get is meaningless. However I want the young guys with a future to do well. And an older guy like Pham and even DeJong. His power surge has been interesting. DeJong might be our all star representative if not Crochet. I did not realize Robert's BA was so low.

u shoulda went and bought a jacket for 300 bucks in the gift shop. kidding.

That's one of my favorite posts ever. Very informative even only a one-game sample size. ... Alarming about nobody except Lee talking to our pitcher. Very very sad. Also funny that you talked to so many players. That's funny you heckled some of them. Very alarming about Robert having no friends on the team. Says a lot about our team's lousy culture. Sounds like a rude dugout if they yelled at you for your one comment on pulling the ball. Obviously they don't like fans much. Did u laugh when we blew the lead again?