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Part of their problem early was the pitchers weren't doing enough to control the running game. Throwing over regularly, especially against a team that always has the green light on, for everybody, is how you do that. Did you guys prefer it when they stole like 10 bags in one game?

Deepest part of the park (410), and opposite field for a LHH. To hit it out there for a LHH, that's an impressive poke. In all his games there, Ortiz has zero HR to that spot.

Link? I think she's kinda hot, in that she looks like she's a dirty little slut. Something in her face, maybe it's the smirk she has during her reports.

Kay is worse than James Carville when it comes to spinning things.

Where do you get acquiring Mauer out of that? I'm using him to show the magnitude of difference from one catcher to the next, so it isn't random. Get it? You are way off here.

Irrelevant, particularly since it is your opinion, humble or not, because 5 wins is 5 wins, which is the deficit we are looking at right now. That I looked for the guy on the list who was 5 wins away from the best is not a coincidence. I used the game's best to have players with whose play everyone is familiar.

I get that, but your agony doesn't make the impact more than it really was. The stats are pretty clear. Mauer to Molina is 5 wins over a whole season. "Backup Schmoe X" to Cash isn't going to be a greater difference than that, and even if it was, over two weeks you are talking about less than 1/2 a win.

Kevin Cash is horrible, but he also only plays like every 5th game. The upgrade from Cash to a schmoe like Barajas is minimal when it's only impact is once every 5th game. You are probably talking about something along the lines of less than a half a win over a full season, much less just the last two months. This is not the type of thing that makes up the 5 games they currently trail by. Five wins is the difference from Joe Mauer to Yadier Molina last year, over the whole year, at the cather position.

The Yankees sent them Zach McAllister, who's probably comparable, in terms of performance, to Felix Doubront. Do you give up the potential future of Doubront to add a platoon OF to this team (again, with all the underperformance and injury to date)? 2/3 of your moves would have cost Ryan Kalish and Felix Doubront in order to add Matt Capps and Austin Kearns to the current, crippled roster (neither of these mitigate the impact of losing their best two hitters, nor do they help overcome the ineffectiveness of Beckett/Lackey).

I disagree. Standing pat is standing pat, not folding the tent. They had some attractive pieces that could have helped other contenders and brought in future talent for the Sox (Beltre), and this would have occurred if they folded the tent. And, while they didn't fold, they didn't go all in either. Given the cards they were holding at the deadline, that doesn't look like an unreasonable way to play it. I've said it before, but I think it bears stating again, and I'd like to hear your thoughts on the matter, I don't think the current team is one you go all-in with in the trade market. They aren't one piece away from becomming strong favorites, or even viable contenders, IMO. Sure, you've thrown out some cliche remarks about how one addition can turn a team around, but nothing specific. Do you really think this team gets over the hump with one more RP or an OF? Do you give up on the future of someone like Ryan Kalish for a Matt Capps, or someone like him, to improve the chances of this team with its current underperformance and amount of players who will finish the season with bandages on?

But the primary gripe by you guys has been that you think the Sox should have paid that rate to get a guy like Capps.....even with Papelbon and Bard. Our need is not the same as the Twins, and our #2 prospect at the time of that trade was probably Ryan Kalish. No, I don't make that trade.

Reasonable cost? I'd be pissed if the Sox traded away their #2 prospect for someone like Matt Capps.

He bitches about umpiring more anyone.

Don't walk the mongoloid.

This is the primary reason I would have let Lester keep pitching.

Dude is getting torched.

Absolutely. His leash is determined by what they do this inning at the plate.

David Price, property of Victor Martinez.

You must have the Tampa feed, and that would be The Poodle, Dewayne Staats. He's dreadful.

Hey, I drink the stuff, but that doesn't make it stop sucking compared to really good beer.

So much for the baby not keeping him up at night on the road gambit. More guesswork.