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Rats. 22,000 is a huge crowd.

How do reporters even think of questions to ask? It's like 'what does it matter?' I guess just focus on the individual game and ask Pedro to tip his cap to the opponent and what it did on a given day.

Like the Cleveland announcer said, the 68 team had some fricking good players. Peters, Horlen, Wilbur Wood, Pete Ward, Luis Aparicio, Bill Melton, Ken Berry. At least those guys were actual MLB caliber.

We're already out of the race. Time to have some fun. Let one fan per day who can fit into a uniform sign a one-day deal and get one at bat at least. Maybe a high school or college player in the area gets an at bat. Also, bring back former players and sign them to 3-day contracts. Like Ventura. Let him play 3 games at 3B. Ozzie, let him play SS 3 games. Jermaine Dye if he's still in shape, gets 3 days in RF, Konerko 3 days of DH, Bobby Jenks 3 games; Buehrle one start. Have some fun with it. Let Andy the Clown coach 3B one day. Let famous Chicagoans either get an at bat or coach 1B or 3B. Any other suggestions for fun at the park with this Sox team?

They trot out there a team with about a 1 in 10 chance of winning on a given day. OK maybe 1.5 out of 10,

So true. How many guys in our box score (two hits) are even MLB players? Worthy of being on a roster? Look at this lineup and people are expected to support this?? Grossman (cmon), Vaughn (.180 and officially a bust), Sheets (see Vaughn), Pillar (u kidding me?), Sosa (slow start, not promising), Bong DeJong (my gawd), Remillard (ugh), Fletcher (geezus), Mandy (he's as done as burnt toast), subs today Nicky (he should be in independent ball or a commercial on how to field and never hit), Shewmake (time to get a real job, ain't got a future in ball). Then Crochet (10 strikeouts yeah, but five earned runs in 4 2/3), Garcia, Mama Leone, Leasure suit and Kopech whom I still like. The relievers had a good day on a day we got 2 hits. Blah.

Your story would be great for TV piece in a long dismal season. A Sox fan admitting he went to the game just for the delicious food and didn't even really watch the game. Prolly more Cincinnati fans than Sox fans at the game today I'd think.

I hear you on the food. How'd you get off with no parking fee? Good for u. 40 bucks isn't so bad for delicious ballpark food, the only good thing about a Sox game. Watching Bong play and Nicky Lopez, they should pay the fans money for stomaching that.

Well that is infuriating. Even though he won me the title in 2005 I no longer have positive feelings about him. What is going on now (and the past several years) is unacceptable and infuriating and disgusting. No fan should support what has happened at 35th and Shields.

That's a good pic of all three of these gents. Tony looks way better than he did as skipper. It's great Ozzie over the past few years is totally welcome to work Sox games. He looks great there. Is Ozzie one of those guys everybody likes? Or can he be a jerk? I'm not talking about his statements to media, just his overall personality and demeanor. He seems like a guy folks would want to be around. I could be mistaken obviously.

I wonder who Jerry is blaming for this mess of a team. Surely there are some non 'yes-men' in his life that tease/mock/ridicule him for this sorry excuse of a team. And his choices of GM and manager? Surely some people in his life are giving him hell for owning this awful club. Maybe he laughs at them and just shows them his full wallet.

Milk, no offense meant, but why did u go to the game tonight and how much did you spend for parking, tickets and food/drink? I'm just curious why anybody would choose to attend a Sox game unless it was totally free. More power to you, though.

That Sox pitching really reeked tonight all the way down the line. Yuk. And just a couple hits? I bet those fans who attended had buyer's remorse. Any idea of the crowd? Were more than 5000 in the Cell?

What a blowout. I was in the car listening to Sox broadcast on Sirius. DJ and Len were talking about "something has to be done" referring to starting pitchers only going 4, 5 innings. They were talking about Tommy John surgeries and suggesting maybe 100 mph flamethrowers need to learn how to pitch so they can go seven. Throw 92-95 instead of 100 and learn how to pitch. I was surprised cause I thought this was just a greg thing to b**** about starters not able to go deep in games. They made it sound like an actual problem all over the game of baseball. On another topic I saw ESPN and other cable networks are not pleased at drop in the ratings and may dump baseball. Look, if baseball is a boring mess and other sports like women's basketball actually start doing well ratings wise, maybe the networks will be all in times 10 on NFL and college football and basketball and dump coverage of MLB. MLB is not even as exciting as bowling rite now IMO. So why were Len and DJ talking about stuff that concerns me in baseball.

You are pretty much the only one on this board sticking with the Sox through this stage of abandoning its fans with this gawd-awful rebuild so I would ask you not act like I'm the only naysayer. I like Sheets and Vaughn cause they've waited a long time for consistent at bats, don't get hurt and seems like they care.

I knew he had a good game or two but I also was unaware. I always liked Sheets and Vaughn, guys who have to wait a long time, like Karkovice, but I realized last season neither one of those guys is the real deal. I do like both, however.

I am a lot of (bad) things but one thing I'm not is cheap. And yes I ALWAYS notice which of my friends/fam are cheap. No biggie. But if I go to lunch with let's say up to 3 other people I dive on the check. If it's one person I dive on the check. My dad was like that and I picked it up from him. I just want to pay for my friends or fam who dine with me. Now if it's ridiculous, 4, 5, 6 people of course we'll get separate checks. But when I see somebody counting pennies so to speak I feel sorry for them. I will say if I dine with somebody 3-4 times and I pay every time of course I'll make them pay just to make it not weird. I mean paying for a friend every single time is weird. But I agree, cheapness is a disease. U make money to spend it.

Three to six months?? My goodness.

Cue the song "Dream On" by Gary Wright.

So far everything in the Getz era has been an abject failure. We'll see if the one guy in the Cease deal becomes a star. But right now it is truly sickening that the team's three best hitters (on paper) are already hurt and it's not mid April. Not sure how this bunch won today. I expect a loss every day.

I just heard about Moncada. Is this for real?? The White Sox have lost their three best hitters on paper in the first 10 games. After all the injuries last year, the least the Sox coulda done was devote the entire offseason to working with THE BEST trainers in developing the best plans to avoid this stuff. Prayers up for Moncada. That looked awful. Geez.

Post of the year. RR should still be our skipper.

I'll confess. I never envisioned one game in which the Sox would score seven runs. And without a homer. I wonder how many homers will lead the team this year. Vaughn with 18 or so? Sheets with 11? That said, congrats on the victory. I have to control my bitterness when Sox do win. Looks like the bullpen had a good night.

Exactly. The least you can do when you have a historically bad team is play young guys. Oh wait, that would mean 'rushing them.' When I saw our bottom of the order would be Lopez, Maldy and Bong I knew it was seriously time to abandon ship emotionally at least for now. During the Robin era and Ozzie era and Ricky era there at least was reasonable hope.

Not sure if you are for tanking or against. I'm saying the fact the Sox are tanking again after just completing a tank cycle is unforgiveable. And that's why I'm becoming a fair weather fan of the Sox and not investing my time again until they get serious about winning. The only reason to attend a Sox game in person now are the sights and smells in what is generally regarded as one of the most generic lousy ballparks in the league. And the eats and drinks now are not worth the experience considering what you have to pay to park there. The Sox are even bad at tanking.