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No, you're not. Call me crazy, but none of those 3 (Valentin, Uribe or Vizquel) get me really excited. You build up the middle, spend the loot, get a guy in his prime.

Kap, I agree, I think the biggest problem is hitting. I keep hearing people complain and hope for more pitching, I just can't see how that's a prority over offense. If people would take a step back and look at this team, not as Sox fans, but objectively, they'll realize that an every day line up that includes, Crede, Borchard, Harris and Uribe is not going to get it done, no matter who the rest of the line up is, or who is on the hill for us.

Oh yeah, we're gonna 'pull it off' alright.

I was being facetious, your preaching to the choir. Where exactly has Jose led this team? I don't dislike the guy, but it's time for some big changes. Jose has said he'd come back for less money and a lot of people around here saw that as a 'team player-unselfish' move. I saw it as a desperate guy who knows he is beginning his decline, kinda sad.

At what point in what's left of the season? Four games back with 3 weeks left to play, maybe. Four games back with five games left to play, maybe not.

'Beecoz JJJose eez meye leedir'-Ozzie.

I've always thought the same thing. At least the Bo-Sox have GOTTEN to the WS, where's the curse in that?......and the Scrubs at least got to the NLCS last year. White Sox fans won't use a 'curse' as an excuse.

I used to wonder if he had the smarts too, now I think he's just stubborn and maybe even cocky. He has that, 'no one is gonna tell me what to do, or think, or feel' attitude about him.

lol, yeah there is no reason why he shouldn't be able to do it, but you're right, he probably won't.

Well, that's the obvious conclusion, but if he can remain focused, there is no reason he can't go a solid 7 innings every time out.

I was gonna post this earlier, you did a better job. I have no problem with the 1st, 2nd or even the 4th time through the order. It's the 3rd time that does him in. I wonder what % of the runs he gives up come in the 5th and 6th innings. He either loses foucs or gets sloppy in the middle innings.

Ross Gload could be an every day player for a few teams, he's alot like Tony G. For selfish reasons, I'd like to keep him, another part of me would like to see him get his time with another team.

We all know know Willie can run, but he was just FLYING around 3rd last night. I liked the little hop after the slide too.

We have enough problems for 2005, why would I want to look ahead to our 2008 rotation?

Jim, that doesn't change this team all that much.

Jim H, good stuff, best I've read in the short time I've been here.

Munoz is coming up I bet.

Good point and maybe it wouldn't have been enough anyway. However it would have been nice to see what this team could have done with a healthy Frank and Maggs. I believe KW would have given away the entire farm system and gotten R.Johnson, still made the Contreras/Loaiza deal and with the hope of winning, possibly attracted a few other solid rentals instead of R. Alomar and Everett and made a huge push. I think that was the plan, to win THIS year, then Maggs and Frank went down, the rest of the team didn't believe in itself and the wheels slowly started falling off.

thx for the info Cheat, good stuff. Why does it still feel like the Sox are anything but clutch??

If our pattern continues, our offense should go cold tonight and we'll lose like 9-2.

No Chance. The Yankees beat up on the Twins? you mean like last time.

No pressure any more is true, so if this team suddenly plays well for the last month, we'll know exactly what part of the problem is: CAN'T HANDLE THE PRESSURE.

I propose mandatory MRIs for all pitchers on the last day of the season, 2 weeks before spring training and then again at the All-Satr break. No injury hiding.

Thx, I knew someone had the figures. I'm gonna give it another year to find out if it's really due to the park itself.

The Cell has been nicknamed the Coors Field of the midwest by some because of the way the ball supposedly carries out of the park. In Colorado, it's supposedly because they air is thinner so the ball carries better. At the Cell, it's supposedly because they knocked out the top rows of the upper deck creating a new wind swirl blah, blah, blah. I think this theory is bogus and I think the Sox were just hitting real well early in the season.