schillingouttheks

I'm very very sneaky.

Nice analysis.

My words exactly. Beat me to it

Haha, whoa, you don't need to hit the post button that many times. We have 3 of the same thread now.

Ayo, Tony. Welcome to the board.

What he's saying is that it's pointless to analyze that trade because what Atlanta gets doesn't matter to us. We can sit here and say the Yanks got screwed, but it doesn't matter because even if they got the worse end of the deal, they still got John Smoltz, and we have to worry about that. It's not a question of being the Sox GM, it's realizing that the Yankees would have John Smoltz and that it's a bigger deal than just laughing and saying that Hughes was thrown away. Hughes hasn't pitched in the majors yet, and Smoltz could very well bring them to another world championship this year if he ends up there. Yes, it bothers Red Sox fans.

First off, I refuse to refer to the Angels as from Los Angeles. I hate it. It's Anaheim, damn it! I had a few requests for some "schillingouttheks" mojo, and since I have not started a gamethread in quite awhile, I figure, why not? All the games are starting to count now with a 5 game weekend series (including Monday) with the Yanks, and other series with the Jays, Twins, White Sox and Tigers coming up down the stretch. Go Sox! Game Info: Date: Friday, July 28th, 2006 First Pitch: 7:05pm EDT Location: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts TV: NESN Starting Pitchers: http://i.a.cnn.net/si/images/baseball/mlb/players/5841.jpghttp://bellsouthpwp.net/c/h/chinigor/TALKSOX/VS.GIFhttp://soxprospects.com/players/images/lester.jon.jpg http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/mlb/images/team_logos/50x50/ana.gif# Kelvim Escobar (6-9, 3.88) http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/mlb/images/team_logos/50x50/bos.gif#62 Jon Lester (5-0, 3.04)

The Twins have one of the hardest schedules left out of all the MLB teams, and most of their games are on the road where they have struggled this season. I don't see them as legit, and thank God because in a postseason series we won't have to deal with Santana-Liriano as the best 1-2 punch in baseball. I wouldn't be surprised if the Red Sox or Yanks took the wild card, as now even the White Sox are starting to fade with a 2-10 record since the All Star Break. They too have one of the toughest remaining schedules. However, I agree with you in that we need another starting pitcher. What we have is not good enough to go deep in a series no matter how you spin it. Winning the East would be nice, but like you said, we're not built in such a way to go deep. Then, if we take the wild card, we'd have a harder time going deep into the postseason because of the difficulty of our first round matchup. Schilling-Beckett is in no way the 1-2 punch of '04 with Schill-Pedro, though I would love to see what Beckett can do in the second half of the season since he is historically very good down the stretch. Not to mention what he did in '03. I just hope he can get through a playoff series matchup of 2 AL teams instead of 2 NL teams. I know he did well against the Yanks, but that was 2 games against an AL opponent the whole postseason. We have the team to win it all, we are just a veteran starting pitcher short. If trading someone like Hansen means bringing in a veteran to solidify the rotation to make us a solid contender, then so be it. I'm against waiting around to see if our future studs can bring us a title. We live in Boston, we want to win. Of course I'm against trading kids like Lester and Papelbon and Pedroia, but anyone else I don't see as untouchable, even Delcarmen. I wouldn't trade both Delcarmen and Hansen though. Now, back to Wily Mo. If they traded Arroyo only to trade Wily Mo somewhere, I will be very disappointed. At the time I was happy with the trade because no one could have thought that we'd be having these pitching problems with the surplus of pitching that we were blessed with at the beginning of the season. We had all the pitching in the world, but as we've learned (unfortunately, the hard way), you can never have too much of it. Arroyo led the league in "quality" starts and everytime he took the mound I was confident that he would give us a chance to win the game. So, we trade Arroyo for what? Another piece of trade bait? That's stupid. If Wily Mo stays here and gets to play, then I'll judge the Arroyo/WMP trade in 2 or 3 years. But if he's traded away I will view it as a stupid move. Unless of course, the likes of Cabrera or Willis come in return.

Whoops, can a mod move this to Other Sports?

Floyd Landis, the American who won the '06 Tour De France, tested positive for high testosterone levels. This means that he could have had an illegal performance enhancing drug in his system which helped him cheat his way to victory. If this is true, it would be a "dark day not only for cycling, but for all of sports." http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/columns/story?id=2531597 Like the article states, if he indeed cheat to win, can we ever trust anyone again?

Wait, wait, wait. You're saying that the bottom of the order is going to drive Manny in? No. Manny's job is to hit homeruns, and drive the leadoff and number 2 guy in. That's why he's the cleanup hitter. Any time your cleanup hitter gets walked 200 times he becomes useless.

Gehrig

Jerry Hairston. The same bumb who f***ed up in the outfield like 3 times in the first game of the series.

Un-f***ing-believable. Not only does that most likely let the Yankees gain a game on us, but Otuska's ERA is going to look terrible for my fantasy team

Well, Otsuka has been the only reliable arm for them. Although, didn't Posada hit a walk off against Otsuka earlier in the year?

I stopped. It really is boring and useless. The only important thing to do is to let long streaks go uninterrupted.

Are you sure? From what I saw more than half of the time, he looked just as bad as Seanez or Tavarez. He had his share of bright spots, but then again, so did Seanez and Tavarez.

The funny thing is, I wasn't planning on reading your post, because I'm lazy right now, until I saw the word cheeseburger sticking out on the side

At least Stinnett wasn't LeCroy

It hasn't. It was just an idea.

Trade Foulke!!!!!!!!!!!

Soxfan, what the hell?

Oh God.

Wasn't Lawton caught red handed with steroids or something?

Yes, 2nd best in AL is good enough for 2nd best in majors, FYI.