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Obvious, and shortsighted.

This bullpen is a couple of months away from ever being irrelevant. That said, 63 pitches through 5 is nice to see.

Don't worry, neither does he.

I feel this needs to be said. I'm not trying to be a downer on the "optimism", but I think it might need some tempering. Those that point to 2011 and how long it took them to get to .500 in comparison to this year, keep this in mind. When they righted the ship in 2011, they went on an incredible tear over the middle 4 months of the season. I don't think this current roster is capable of that. I think they'll hover around .500 through the end of May, maybe a little over, and it wouldn't surprise me if they were still around that mark by the end of June. When the OF gets Ellsbury and Crawford back, Bard moves to the BP for his innings limit, Matsuzaka returns, if Melancon figures out how get AL hitters out, and Bailey returns, then I think they could go on a good run. But, right now, I'm not sure the current roster can do what last year's team did during those middle 4 months. Which is fine, just stay within shouting distance over the first 3 months, and finish strong. That should be enough to make the October dance, and they could be quite good by then.

Doesn't the fact that you'd need an encyclopedia to catalog all your threads kind of speak to the point? EDIT: The thread you "shouldn't be expected to remember" is three weeks old, not three years. And you made it. Stop being lazy.

Really, that late despite all the evidence that suggests much sooner right now? I think you are sticking to your guns a little unrealisticly here.

So, you didn't like your own, "I liked Bard tonight", thread?

I'm not writing him off, hence the words "likely" and "probably" in my post. I'm just pointing out that the history for pitchers with this injury means expectations that "he'll be fine, just a little later than originally thought" are kind of naive and foolish. Yes, he certainly could come back with no severly diminished ability, but the probability is low.

In accordance with the rules, the Sox rehab assignment to the minors expires after 30 days, and that started on 4/23.......so, Friday 5/25 vs the Rays at home.

Git'r done.

Explain? I need to know what it takes to earn this mythical title.

I'm not pining for Papelbon, but Aceves is not a very good pitcher.

The comment that, " just a few can close", is what I'm talking about. It is not some intangible skill. Those that can all have an identifiable skill, which is something Aceves lacks.

They should involuntarily MRI Youkilis's whole body. They've got to find something to DL him if they do that. Then call the kid up.

I think they get that in the home broadcast market, which is the biggest to draw from, but not nationally, because the only real appeal is broadcasting games, which they can't do out of market.

Hughes got his teeth kicked in again.

Why does anyone care what Cafardo thinks?

WMB is playing a video game right now, with the difficulty on the lowest setting and an aftermarket modified controller.