Agreed. The Sox are always one of the top teams to make it to the playoffs, cuz of being in the CD, the last 4 years. With the SMARTEST aquisitions for the 2005 season still ahead of us....they are on pace to make it 5 years of being a playoff contention team, though they made it only one year in the last 5. Where pitching, injuries and just plain sucking it up has been the excuses. With the talent the team has had in recent years they should have at least made it in 3 of the last 5 years...but haven't performed.