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  1. a700hitter
    Koji is in an incredible hot streak. No one even reaches base on the guy. I have to put this streak of excellence right up there with a couple of historic seasons that I have seen-- Eck when he had an ERA less than 1 and about 50 saves and the other was Willie Hernandez for the Tigers when he won the CY Young and MVP. That's how good he has been.
  2. a700hitter
    Wow, Buch has been in dry dock for 93 days and it all started with sleeping on his arm the wrong way.
  3. a700hitter
    Good analysis. The surpirsing thing about Nava is not that he can he can hit, but that he made himself into an adequate option in Rf and 1B as well as LF.
  4. a700hitter
    Very impressive, especially since our #3 hitter is having an off year, and our #4 hitter missed a month.
  5. a700hitter
    That was some group of players, but at least they went down fighting. The Yankees were our equal offensively, but they had the X factor in the pen-- Gossage. That was the one piece that we couldn't match, but we left him hanging on for dear life in that 1 game playoff. Their 99 wins is the most that I have seen. 2011 went down like dogs in very embarrassing fashion.
  6. a700hitter
    I can see Fred at a game wearing face paint.
  7. a700hitter
    1986 was the most crushing, but the season was great until game 6. It was 2 crushing defeats. September 2011 was 30 straight days. For me, it was like doing time in the hole.
  8. a700hitter
    Yes, because day after day after day, you just knew that the team had no chance of winning in September 2011. The Rays weren't playing great ball. We were just horribly bad. The Sox had the worst September ever. In 1978, Zimmer wore out his guys and they went into an August slump. The Yankees (playing around .700 ball) were white hot while we were slumping. The Sox fell out of first in August, not September is my recollection. The Sox made a comeback in the last couple of weeks coming from about 3 games back to tie the Skanks on the last day. I think the 78 Sox won their last 7 or 8 games to force the playoff game. Losing the playoff game was rough, but living with the pain of a one game playoff loss or a short series loss was easier for me than the 30 day water torture of September 2011. I was nauseous almost every night about an hour before game time, because I knew that we were trotting real garbage to the mound every night.
  9. a700hitter
    The timing is very interesting.
  10. a700hitter
    I have seen my share of crushing disappointments over 45 years of being a fan, but last year took the cake for prolonged torture and horrible baseball. Nothing that I have witnessed since 1967 prepared me for such a rotten year of baseball. Beginning in 1967, the franchise turned itself around and has had very few sub-.500 seasons since that season. Last year just and the 2011 collapse were groundbreaking in my fandom.
  11. a700hitter
    It's funny that you mentioned being pissed off about his improved conditioning when he left Boston. I really was furious when I saw how his body had transformed in that offseason. He went from the Pillsbury Doughboy/Michelin Man look-a-like to Hercules. Now, we know how he made that transformation-- the misremembered roids. My recollection is that Canseco was on the '96 Sox-- Clemens last year. Coincidence? I don't think so.
  12. a700hitter
    I think Victorino could use a day off or two, because he is pretty banged up. I never like to sit a guy when he is red hot, and I don't like to sit too many guys on the same day. it would have been ideal to sit one on Sunday and the other on Tuesday, but with Price pitching on Tuesday it would be tough to let either of them sit out that game.
  13. a700hitter
    My Reagan imitation usually makes world leaders shudder, but YOTN is tougher than I thought. Okay, you are right-- no politics.
  14. a700hitter
    YOTN is getting to be a cranky old guy. LOL!
  15. a700hitter
    I thought the discussion in the GT was pretty funny. I particularly enjoyed J_E's threat to conquer TalkSox. It was excellent chain-jerking stuff that was apparently misunderstood.
  16. a700hitter
    Epstein the egotist is only in year 2 of his 5 year plan. He needs more time.
  17. a700hitter
    Bogarts looks to have good hands, good range,a strong arm and a quick release. There's no reason to move him to 3rd. Drew is a nice player, but he will have to find work elsewhere.
  18. a700hitter
    Mr. Gorbachev, reopen the game thread! We've been in Mike Napoli Performance prison long enough.
  19. a700hitter
    He has always been a much better hitter right handed than left handed.
  20. a700hitter
    Oh I see, the 4 of you were commandeering the GTs. LOL! At least I just call myself King. I don't make any rules. Be damned the 4 of you and your arbitrary dictates. . And when I speak of UN, I stress the first half of that word. Long live J_E's mojo, and as soon as he falls, I will be making a GT.
  21. a700hitter
    I wasn't aware of this mojo rule. Are people saying that it is bad mojo to start a GT on an off day? He has the right date on it, so I don't get it. I thought the mojo was limited to the thread starter. We are adding mojo rules? I understand that BTR starts all of his GTs typing with only the pinky finger of his left hand while sitting on the left side of his couch and petting a kitty with his right hand. In the future, ever GT starter should conform to this ritual to maintain the mojo. If you don't have a cat, it will have to suffice that you pet a picture of VA's cat Yaz. Are we all straight on this? The season is on the line.
  22. a700hitter
    There was virtually no criticism of Farrell or any Red Sox personnel in this thread. You people are nuts. LOL!! MVP should go to some games and rant at the fans like he does here. He'd end up lumped up, in lock up with mandatory counseling. What a jackass!!
  23. a700hitter
    Mo is so revered. His save conversion against us is 78%. Big whoop, plus he is a 1 inning pitcher. f*** him
  24. a700hitter
    I don't think he had a chance at that.
  25. a700hitter
    That was some kind of wild pitch.
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