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Agreed, he was diehard and should be there. YESS, Leadoff single by Alomar past the reach of the diving second baseman.

Top of the 1st and the Rays go down in order. Nice job Elo

I heard someone say that Farmer doesn't let him yell at the games.

Wow, Jerry wasn't kidding when he said he was going to use a consistent lineup.

Agreed, I just want the Sox to take care of business.

Glad to see Kelly back up here. Its about time Sanders goes down since he never gest to pitch. Sanders is gonna do well, I got faith in him and he'll be back up in September and will be with the Sox from the get go next year.

Cool...I won't miss much of the game then.

The Sox need Elo to go deep, but lets remember the Drays have hit Elo hard in his career. He did real good his last start though.

Is today a 4 o clock start for us Left Coasters?

Stanton would be a great pickup. He's having a down year, but he's always been a good reliever and I think he'd be an excellent choice cause it wouldn't cost anything but Gary Majewski or something like that to get him.

If the Sox are willing to add that contract then I'd rather see them go get Giles and Kendall or someone like Ponson. Now the plus side to getting Benson is you shouldn't have to give up anything for him (If they give up something (I mean a good prospect), then its a horrible move. Benson has a ton of health issues and makes quite a bit next season.

Padres also have awesome fans. I'd say they'd be one of my top places to play.

No way do they move Burroughs. His loved over in San Diego and he's gonna be real good. I see them moving Nevin, Klesko or Kotsay. Burroughs ain't going anywhere. He's the only guy for them to play 3rd. Nevin won't be playing there and if they traded the both of them, then they wouldn't have a 3rd baseman.

2k3...I had never thought about it that way. I think you brought up an excellent point and I got to agree with it. We'd never seen something like that. Usually terrorist take over a plane, land it somewhere and demand for some things. In this case there was none of that and even if we had some reason to believe that was the case, how could you know for sure. Anyone know where the planes were when they found out they were hijacked (in regards to the ones that hit the World Trade Center). I always thought they didn't know until it happened basically and if they found out when they are over New York, they don't really have the option to shoot it down. Awesome analysis.

*going to merge this in with the other one*

I would add Brad lidge to that combo and make it the best 3 combo. Anyone of them can close games and they all throw the ball 97+ I'd take Shuey/Gagne over Wagner/Dotel although the Lefty/Rigthy combo makes it real nice.

Clark I couldn't agree more with your analysis on giving up Colon. That being said I do think the rotation without Colon and with those others would be just as sucessful (At least in the regular season) cause it would also give the Sox a good 5th starter, something I think is drastically needed. Now if I were the GM, and this is probably all a pipe dream, UNLESS, the Sox don't move Lee to the Pirates but instead get the Orioles to take on Konerko and the Sox give them someone like Felix Diaz and Tim Hummel. Orioles takes on a lot of salary and the Sox get Ponson in return. Then the Sox move Colon's salary to the Giants for at least Williams and Foppert and then I'd ask for a 3rd guy. The Sox in those two deals cut around 14 mill. Then they add roughly that by taking on Giles and Kendall meaning the payroll stays at basically the same spot this year. Next year the Sox would have to give Ponson a few mill raise, Loaiza and Buerhle the same as well as Magglio and I think Lee would get around the same amount as well. The Sox payroll jumps up maybe 8 million and they have Giles, Kendal and Ponson. And now the rotation is wicked and you have a great long guy (Foppert or Williams) as well as Wright working to become a closer and the Sox still have Koch (Who could be dealt in the offseason for financial purposes), Gordon (Resign him), Marte and if you don't keep White you sign someone like him. Career wise Ponson is a bit of a step down, but he's been proving this year he can beat the best and his stuff is great. Of course the Sox could just add Ponson and I think that alone would make them really good too.

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Angels Two Guys Donnelly: 0-0, 2 SV, 50 INN, .036 ERA Percival: 0-2, 22 SV, 32.0 INN, 2.25 ERA If you Count Shields: 2-1, 1 SV, 74.1 INN, 1.82 ERA Weber: 2-0, 53.0 INN, 3.06 ERA K Rod: 5-2, 1 SV, 53.1 INN, 3.04 ERA They are right up there though as the best in the majors.

Shields, Weber, Donnelly, Percy Angels pen is freaking awesome. Sox pen is good too. Also like Santana, Hawkins, Guardado even though I don't like Everday Eddie very much.

Maggs

1) Who will win the series (CHW/TB) (2 points) - SOX 2) Will the Sox winning streak get to ten (Y/N) (2 points) - YES 3) How many errors will the Sox make (4 points) - 1 4) Which Sox reliever will pitch the most innings (4 points) - White 5) Exactly how many innings will Loaiza pitch (to nearest third) (5 points) - 8 6) How many hits will Magglio Ordonez have (5 points) - 6 7) How many homeruns will the Sox hit (4 points) - 7 8) Will Frank hit his 400th HR (Y/N) (2 points) - Yes 9) Will Billy Koch's ERA increase (Y/N) (2 points) - No 10) Will Carl Crawford have more than 4 hits (Y/N) (2 points) - No TIEBREAKER: Total bases for the Sox during the series 60

Nope, just NL teams. Many places said he wouldn't accept a deal to the AL, but his agent said that is untrue.

His agent has said he is willing to go to an AL team. Not saying that team is the Sox.

Olivo should never of had that at bat late in the game.