7/17 v White Sox

[VA Sox Fan]

Well' date=' I'll be there tomorrow. Hopefully I'll bring them some luck.[/quote']

 

Please do and enjoy!

[SoxFanForsyth]

Lester is unbearable. I cannot stand watching him anymore.

[wyo-sox]

Well if we win tomorrow, and we will, we will have taken 2/3 with our first couple of series out of the break. That will be a good start.

[NativeBostonian]

Dear FO,

Next time don't trade a guy to the AL!

[a700hitter]

Ugh.

 

Eat s***, Lester. That was a complete piece of s*** outing. Absolutely terrible.

it's great that we have our guys back in the lineup. It sucks that Ortiz is out, but even if the whole lineup was intact, it is the pitching. We are going nowhere if we start every game in a whole and dig a bigger hole as the game goes on.

[VA Sox Fan]

Well if we win tomorrow' date=' and we will, we will have taken 2/3 with our first couple of series out of the break. That will be a good start.[/quote']

 

It's a 4 game series.

 

Hated losing this one!

[SoxFanForsyth]

it's great that we have our guys back in the lineup. It sucks that Ortiz is out' date=' but even if the whole lineup was intact, it is the pitching. We are going nowhere if we start every game in a whole and dig a bigger hole as the game goes on.[/quote']

 

I just cannot fathom how they can possibly be this bad. Hell, give me Morales over Lester right now. This is ridiculous!!! He's got a 4.80 ERA!!!!

[Bellhorn04]

Hard to believe, but Lester is killing us. 7-12 in his starts.

[jung]

Correctamento 700. We don't get better starting pitching than what we get now there is no amount of nothin' that will make up for it.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Well that was certainly disappointing. I wish we knew what was wrong with Lester. He's been so great in the past that it makes it that much harder to watch him struggle.

[iortiz]

it's great that we have our guys back in the lineup. It sucks that Ortiz is out' date=' but even if the whole lineup was intact, it is the pitching. We are going nowhere if we start every game in a whole and dig a bigger hole as the game goes on.[/quote']

 

It's unbelievable that we didn't address this issue in the offseason, simply unbelievable.

[SoxSport]

Is Lester pulling a Youkilis? Don't bet against it on this club. Some of those guys are still pissed at the manager change. They don't have it so easy anymore.

 

4 SBs tonite for Ells-CC. That wouldn't have happened with Tito. V just opened the speedgates.

[2004 ALCS]

Don't worry guys, Daniel Bard is gonna be a great starter.

[mvp 78]

It's unbelievable that we didn't address this issue in the offseason' date=' simply unbelievable.[/quote']

 

With who? Roy Oswalt?

[a700hitter]

It's unbelievable that we didn't address this issue in the offseason' date=' simply unbelievable.[/quote']But this was so unexpected, my friend.

[SoxSport]

Dear FO,

Next time don't trade a guy to the AL!

 

Yeah, that was a stupid f*cking deal giving him to the White Sox.

[jung]

There is little sense in focusing on any one of them...tonight its Lester...tomorrow its Beckett....then its Buch....blah blah blah....they are as inconsistent as a bunch as I have ever seen....EVER.....with the exception now of Lester who is consistently bad every start now.

 

I still predict that Buch will be the best of them out the season as long as he does not have to miss starts. But the rest of them are on a death march from what I can see as you just cannot rely on them at all. In Buch's case you are always waiting for the next illness or ailment unfortunately.

[a700hitter]

With who? Roy Oswalt?

There were a lot of pitchers available and we watched as they came off the board one by one until only Oswalt waw left.

[iortiz]

With who? Roy Oswalt?

Plenty of options were there.

[2004 ALCS]

With who? Roy Oswalt?

 

Gio Gonzalez would have been nice. I suppose it could be worse though and we could have traded our best prospects for Pineda.

[iortiz]

There were a lot of pitchers available and we watched as they came off the board one by one until only Oswalt waw left.

 

Exactly.

[a700hitter]

There is little sense in focusing on any one of them...tonight its Lester...tomorrow its Beckett....then its Buch....blah blah blah....they are as inconsistent as a bunch as I have ever seen....EVER.....with the exception now of Lester who is consistently bad every start now.

 

I still predict that Buch will be the best of them out the season as long as he does not have to miss starts. But the rest of them are on a death march from what I can see as you just cannot rely on them at all. In Buch's case you are always waiting for the next illness or ailment unfortunately.

I think you are right. Buch may end up being the most reliable rotation guy.

[SoxFanForsyth]

It's not that we didn't have the pitching. It's that the pitching that we have is underperforming to an unbelievable degree.

[SoxSport]

Lester needs to go to bullpen purgatory.

[VA Sox Fan]

It's not that we didn't have the pitching. It's that the pitching that we have is underperforming to an unbelievable degree.

 

This. Thanks. So true.

[mvp 78]

Plenty of options were there.

 

Which option did you want?

 

I only liked Buehrle.

[VA Sox Fan]

Which option did you want?

 

I only liked Buehrle.

 

Of course....hindsight is 20/20

[SoxFanForsyth]

You want any impact SP last offseason via trade? Say goodbye to Middlebrooks and say hello to constant drama between Youkilis and Valentine.

 

You want the Sox to go out and dump more big money on guys like Mark Buehrle (5.1 K/9)? He would get hammered at Fenway as a soft throwing LHP.

 

You want the Sox to go out and get Roy Oswalt? They tried, first off, and 2nd off, he's got a 6.26 ERA.

 

What pitcher did you want the Red Sox to get in the offseason??

[iortiz]

Gio Gonzalez would have been nice. I suppose it could be worse though and we could have traded our best prospects for Pineda.

 

I wanted Kuroda or Buehrle.

[Divinity]

sort of surreal

 

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