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Wha, what? Are you sure you didn't just pay for a month?

That was nasty to get Napoli. Now, where was it against Rivera?

This is another guy who lights it up against Boston. It wouldn't shock me if it's tied after the Napoli AB.

That little rat always plays way over his head against the Sox.

Plunk him next time, just for the hell of it.

Haha, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

And you still think I care about the punctuation. Refund, I tell ya.

Not a good first pitch to hack at.

Oh, and I'm not being the punctuation police. I noticed meticulous attention to detail in making sure you got the stress on all the words you wanted to, to varying degrees of stress with the caps, and the bold, and heaven forbid, he really means it, the italics bold, I just thought incongruous for the punctuation to be so perfunctory. That's all.

If this, meaning the thought process on display in your posts, is what you got for that education, you should petition the state for a refund.

It was JD Drew's fault that HR was only a solo shot, because his anti-RBI-ness is rubbing off on Youk.

Since most of your posts are formatted like the spewing of mental diarrhea, which they are, by this I mean the punctuation laziness, why take the time to capitalize anything?

I don't get any sense that anyone is "high" on Beltre relative to all baseball players. The appeal is relative to Mike Lowell and other candidates to play 3B in 2010. Context is important.

No, I don't think it was a smokescreen. I think the current roster can find some success, but things need to go right for it to happen, and thus far it hasn't. Over the course of a season, the roster they planned to take the field with, when healthy, is a good defensive team, despite the deficiencies at catcher. The pitchers they have slotted for the starting rotation are good pitchers. It can work, and it still may. I think they went into the season legitimately thinking the team could compete. I also think the "bridge" comments are there because they recognize that there is less margin for pieces not working out and being covered by other parts of the plan. There's not much contingency in this roster. If the pitching or defense, or hell both which is what happened when the year started, don't play up to expectation, then the other parts of the team - the bullpen, the offense, etc. - aren't going to be able to cover for a deficiency. As far as where the bridge leads to, I can only guess. There's a lot of time between now and then and a lot of baseball to be played to firm up what decisions could/should be made. They'll know more about what they have in the likes of Reddick, Kalish, Anderson, Wagner, Exposito, Middlebrooks, etc. to fill some of the spots that will open. Fielder and Gonzalez are free agents in the 2011 offseason. Werth is an interesting option in the 2010 offseason. The signing of Lackey, actually makes some sense, albeit with some risk. When they signed him and extended Beckett, they've, barring injury, kind of nailed down their rotation through 2012 (Dice is the first to have an expired contract/control after 2012 - Lester, Lackey, Beckett, and Buchholz are all under contract/control through 2014 if you include options). They don't need to focus there. That doesn't mean that everything will work out perfectly and they won't have to address something, but it won't be an area of focus. They can put their focus on improving other parts of the club.

Yeah, he did, and you are the dunce that is just figuring it out in May. Congrats.

That's interesting. I think you should post it in every thread.

BSN has been pimping the Papelbon trade idea for quite some time. I wouldn't expect him to ditch it now, not when Papelbon is trending to an ugly place. If that trending continues, they could dodge a real bullet, and right now, they can probably get some useful offers for him.

Yeah, right now they at a place where everything is breaking wrong. It happens. Maybe things starting breaking right, for everyone at the same time, maybe they don't. No hand wringing here though. I'll take what the season brings, and success or failure, I'll be following what they do in the offseason, like I do every year.

Not even borderline. Throw the bums out.

Should be 0-2. That first pitch was at the belt and almost split the plate.