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I'm pretty sure nobody here can claim anything, since nobody here was on the either team. I laugh when people boast on the accomplishments of others. If you didn't do it, I don't really care.

His lobotomy.

The quote.... link Is that person in the "loop" none other than John Heyman, mouth piece of Scott Boras? Don't know, but I'd expect something like this from Boras to push Boston's buttons while things are going well for NY.

Source? If someone who covers the sport, then I'm interested in discussion. If it's your cat, don't really care.

Baseball can fix the "neighborhood" call. The rules allow some latitude that could fix it, IMO. I agree that the intent is to keep the fielder safe from injury, and that's a worthy intent. That brings up the issue of why the fielder needs to protect himself from injury. It's the bogus slides that occur going into 2B. Guys slide 4' off the bag with their arm out, come in high and hard, and some occaissionally come in spikes up. Eliminate that. Start calling runner interference whenever the slide is not directly into the bag, low, and feet down. Runners will change their approach if the umps start calling the game the way the rules allow.

Offer sent YH213.

There's no worry. My only concern is accuracy. You made something up. I called you out on it. Simple as that. You could have just admitted it, but instead made something else up, the strawman. That square peg isn't going into that round hole.

It is. Fenway's RF supresses power. Someone at bbtf calculated park factors by field a couple of years ago, and from CF to the Pesky Pole, Fenway has about a .75 HR factor. It's hell on lefties who pull the ball.

9 times out of 10, the type of hit balls in that inning result in 0 runs. Hell, realistically, Lackey should be through 1 2/3 IP.

Four pitches into the Jeter AB and we've got a high sheen applied by Buck and McCarver.

Furthermore, if you look at the total body of work for the season, he had 11 good starts compared to 5 bad ones. Against .500 (+/-) teams, those starts break down to 11:4 and 4:1. When he's on, he's good against anyone, and vice versa when he's bad. That's inconsistency, something you expect from a young pitcher. It says nothing about being able to beat good teams. That said, we are wasting our time. 700 will bitch about him not being good enough until he is, and then he'll want to brush it under the rug once we've moved on and he's bitching about the next young player getting his chance.

Phillips floated this idea back in May during a Sox game. I think it was a Yankee game actually. This is right around the time you started pimping the idea. Please don't act like this is your idea.

As the rosters stand right now, they are a top-3 offense. They are because they scored the 3rd most runs in the league. You suggested they need improvement to be a top-3 offense. You are wrong. Deal with it. As far as forecasting if the same group would be a top-3 offense next year, I'm not interested in speculating on what will happen for each team and their offseason player acquisitions and how that will impact team scoring. You apparently weren't either, because you didn't say they needed to acquire a player to "stay" in the top-3, but to "get" into the top-3, as if they weren't already, which as established above, they are. Your first-half / second-half point is bunk too. Using the All-Star break as the dividing line, like most people do when talking first-half / second-half, the team run scoring breaks down as follows: 1st half: 5.28 R/Gm 2nd half: 5.5 R/Gm They were in 3rd place in total runs scored at the break. They were in 3rd place at the end. They are a top-3 offense. This doesn't mean I don't think they could stand to improve, but that doesn't change the fact, and it is a fact, that your original premise was dead, flat wrong. If you don't like that, sorry. You can avoid this feeling of faliure if you think a little more before you post next time.

One, Wagner appears to be interested in retiring, perhaps you should modify expectations to account for this. Two, it's actually your logic that is very flawed, and I'll show you why. You said you hoped they could become a top-3 offense with an acquisition. It was brought to your attention that they are already top 3. You attempted to invalidate that ranking by stating they only ranked that high because of the s***** pitching they face in the regular season. For this invalidation to be credible, it would mean that all the other teams faced only good pitching all season long. Do you not see this? The reality is that everyone faces bad pitching, and the offense that scores the 3rd most amount of runs is a safe bet to put in the top-3.

That's a rather blanket statement from a700 concerning the use of prospects in the trade market. Willingness to entertain moving some prospects for some very specific players does not signal a paradigm shift. As always, each proposed transaction has its own merits, and whether a person looks favorably on the proposal will signal one thing only, that they think the merits of that trade are worth the cost. It does not signal a change in guiding philosophy. Furthermore, how someone can call Youkilis and Pedroia non-impact players with a straight face escapes me. If they aren't then there are only about 10 of them in all of baseball, and a large majority of the teams do not have them.

Papelbon was much worse. I know he didn't put those guys on, but a guy he was facing drove in two in the 8th and he only got out of the inning with a pickoff. He got two batters out and 5 runs scored when he was on the mound.

Why is everyone sleeping on the Dodgers? I picked the Cards to win that series because I thought their 1/2 of Carpenter and Wainright would prevail in that series, not because the Dodgers don't rate. The Dodgers are legit.

Well, I need to keep getting production from WRs because my RBs are producing absolutely nothing. Speaking of which, I need some RB help. Matt Ryan or Aaron Rodgers are on the table for a good RB. I'd prefer to just make it a straight up trade, but I'll consider moving a WR or TE (not Johnson) if someone needs help there.