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C'mon Jon G. We need you big guy. Our offense is terrible so we need an awesome outting out of ya!! The Twins keep on winning and our offense keeps on struggling, this is a big game for the team. If Jon G holds them to 3 runs and the bulpen comes in and does its job, we should win this. SOMEBODY-ANYBODY on the offense needs to WAKE UP!

QUOTE(BobDylan @ May 26, 2005 -> 08:34 PM) Eric Chavez. Agreed. Adding Chavez can boost us to the playoffs and can help make us a playoff contender for years to come. Similar to when the Cardinals added Scott Rolen in 2000 I believe? Anyways- if we get rid of Crede and add a new 3B Chavez would be my 1st choice. I would also consider Blalock.

Happy Birthday big guy. See you in 2 weeks (according to KW). We can definitley use your bat right now.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ May 27, 2005 -> 05:29 PM) just so you all know... the rangers 6 game win streak consist of the astro's... 3-22 on the road and the royals who are just as bad... b4 that they faced us and lost 2 of their 3.... so dont look too much into their win streak, but they are still a good team regardless. Good point. The Astros are horrible as well as the Royals. They struggle vs good pitching. The only game i'm worried about- is tonite vs BMac. BMacs last ST game the Rangers killed him. Lets hope he made some adjustments, the ball flys out the ballpark in Arlington. We NEED our offense to get going. There is NOOO wayy we shouldve only scored 2 runs vs John Lackey?!!! Young is a solid pitcher, but we can definitely hit this guy. I say who ever scores 4 runs or more wins this game.

Losses like that suck. I thought we had it when we went up 2-1. But remember we had the bases loaded once with 1 out in the 4th and didn't score. We also had men on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out in the 6th and didn't score. Yes Contreras did make a mistake in that pitch to McFerson, BUT we could've easily won the game 4-3. (*NOTE: From looking at the replays Iguchi was safe at that wild pitch at the plate, and PODS was safe when he attempted to steal 2nd in the 7th. That could've been a couple extra runs.) Not to blaim the umps for the loss or anything. Taking 2 of 4 in Anahiem is nothing to be ashaimed of. The Angels are also a 1st place team and they also have solid pitching. We play Texas next, Texas has the power- but doesn't have the pitching. If B-Mac, Jon G, and Mark B. pitch 3 quality starts, I like the chances of take 2 of 3 against them. If we do that we went 6-4 on a pretty difficult road trip.

According to Scot Gregor of the Daily Herald: "there are rumblings that starting pitcher Naoyuki Shimuzu, the ace of the Chiba Lotte Marines, wants to play for the White Sox next season. Shimizu, reportedly a close friend of Iguchi's. So far Naoyuki is 4-4 with a 2.78 ERA this season." Hmm another japanese import. So far I'd say KW is 2 for 2 on those. I like the idea of bringing him here next season. Although the rotation is set for 2006, i still wouldn't mind the idea of having him in our pen or even putting Contreras in the pen next year. What do you guys think? For the first time that I can remember we have amazing depth in our rotation. If we add this guy to the mix- we could potentially have solid starters 1-7.

Wow sounds like Frank is eager to get back. If I was KW I would make Frank play about 1 more week down there before he brings him up.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 25, 2005 -> 07:23 AM) The Twins, as expected, are not laying down for us. Yeah even though we are 5 games up, I'm still not comfortable. The Twins still scare me. Hmm maybe the wild-card will come out of the Central this year if the Sox and Twins and keep on winning? I am not counting on that though. If the Sox go to the playoffs it will be because they won the Central Division. But lets take one game at a time. C'mon Offense- its time to wake up.

I think BMAC is an awesome insurance man to come up when any of the pitchers go down. If we ended up trading Contreras or El-duque to a team and bring up BMAC to replace them, what happens if some other pitcher gets hurt? Plug in Neal Cotts? Than we will go through another 5th starter black hole. What I'm saying is- its better to have 6 solid starters than 5- in case of injury.

C'mon Freddy! Do what you did @ Wrigley and shut-em down! I expect the Sox to show alittle more offense than these last few games. Washburn is good but he's no Zambrano, Prior, Sanatana?, or Colon. Lets get an early lead and coast.

Colon is dangerous as hell. And since its his birthday- I expect him to be extra dangerous. For us to win, we will need to get into their bullpen. Buerhle needs to counter Colon's zeros with his own. I hope Pods doesn't have the day off today. If anything put Ozuna at 3rd base. Crede is in a 3-35 slump- thats grose.

I don't know about you guys but even a 5 game lead ahead of Minnesota doesn't make me comfortable. Esspecially since its still only May. We need to have a successful road trip. Like split in Anaheim or take 3 of 4 and take 2 of 3 in Texas. If we do that we should be in great shape. I'm not sure how much longer Garland can keep this up, but I like his chances tonite in his home-state. Keep it up Jon G!!!!

Shut em down B-Mac!! I know you can do it!!!!! Can we actually sweep them at Wrigley?!? GO SOX!!

I know this sounds like one of the 'Nightmare On Elm Street' flicks, but FREDDY'S BACK!!!!!!! What an awesome performance.

They just said on the score Carl Everett will be out in RF for tommorows game. Ozzie doens't want him getting stale on the bench. Todays game it appears to be Dye out in RF. Anybody got the starting lineups yet?

Tommorow couldn't come sooner! I hope Garcia brings his A game. I expect big things out of him. He cant lose 3 games in a row!! My pick-to-click for tommorow is Jermaine Dye, call me crazy but I think he is finally locked in. What are your guys picks-to-click?

QUOTE(fathom @ May 19, 2005 -> 10:16 PM) (anyone remember Gload in RF vs the Cubs last year?). Oh yes! I was pretty pissed when that happend. Garland was pitching an awesome game vs Prior that day also. And once Gload did that Garland went downhill and we lost. Last year they swept us at Wrigley. Its pay-back time!! As far as Dye in RF- I agree with ya. Having solid Dee at Wrigley is a must.

Do you guys think Ozzie will put Everett or Dye out in RF? I would assume Dye since he seems to have found his swing again. I'm guessing the lineup will look like this: Pods LF Iguchi 2B Rowand CF Konerko 1B Pierzynski C Dye RF Uribe SS Crede 3B Garcia/Contreras/El-duque Will Everett be out in RF at all this series? I think at least 1 game he will.

I can understand why Beane wants to dump Chavez salary and contract. He obviously wants to rebuild. But I don't understand why KW would trigger such a trade. This would sufficate his chances to re-sign Pauly and Jon G to long term deals. And also damper any chance to make any other mid-season moves. Chavez is also struggling this year (more than Crede). He is signed through 2010- that is insane. JR wouldn't allow KW to make such a move. I believe the team salary this season is around $75 mill. If we add him- it would bump up to approximately $85mill. Don't get me wrong Chavez can do it all. But like you guys said before- why alter a team that is 29-12 and has the best record in baseball? Maybe add another arm down the road, but its only May.

Nice way to finish the series! Now its time for Garcia, El-duque and Contreras to bounce back to beat the Cubs!! The last time we lost 3 in a row we followed it with an 8 game winning streak. Can it happen again? GO SOX!!!

I also think June 13th vs Arizona. Frank is definitely going to wait until he is at home. He loves the homecrowd and i am almost possitive he will get a standing ovation when he is called to the plate for the first time. I like Franks attitude during his time off. He says "don't interview me in the clubhouse, they have great chemistry and I don't want to mess it up, im not part of the team yet." He also said "whenever Ozzie puts me in there i'll be happy." "I expect to get days off and if Ozzie wants to use me as a pinch-hitter im all for that" It sounds like Frank knows he is at the end of his career and he desprately wants to win a title- even if he doesn't play every day. Imagine the look of the opposing pitchers face when Frank comes in to pinch-hit in the 9th? This is going to be awesome!

Its going to be a tough battle tonite. If I recall Cabrera dominated us last season. Freddy will need to hold his own if we have a chance of winning. Should be an awesome match-up. Hopefully the offensive can give Freddy 3-4 runs to work with, he hasn't had that much run support so far this season.

QUOTE(Sox1422 @ May 13, 2005 -> 04:51 PM) Too bad Robin wants nothing to do with being a broadcaster. he couldn't express that enough. Yeah- maybe down the road he will. Hopefully the Sox would consider a broadcast trio of Robin-DJ-Hawk. Last nite was awesome.

Thats great news!! Hey speaking of our broadcasters- I really enjoyed the trio of DJ-Robin-Hawk last nite. There weren't any of those long-awkward periods of silence.

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