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Everything posted by a700hitter

  1. a700hitter
    Managers are a very stupid species.
  2. a700hitter
    Yes!!! Jacoby come through!! BTW, If I am Buehrle, I would be about ready to strangle Gibbons.
  3. a700hitter
    Thank goodness Buehrle is out of the game. The guy has been cutting through our lineup like a hot knife through butter. Gibbons demonstrating true managerial genius goes to the pen after a walk to get a 40 yr old lefty to replace the lefty Buehrle. This could be a huge break for us.
  4. a700hitter
    The bats and base runners have had a nice rest too.
  5. a700hitter
    Buehrle expands the zone as he goes deeper into games, and our guys are swinging early in the counts. They need some patience for crying out loud.
  6. a700hitter
    Agreed, but I am always surprised when one of our OFers throws out a runner at home. I got used to pop gun arms in the OF. Victorino can throw.
  7. a700hitter
    Melky always seems to be a thorn in our side.
  8. a700hitter
    Farrell should consider moving Ells to to bottom third of the order until he starts getting on base. The guy is killing the top of the order.
  9. a700hitter
    What does this do to his prospect status?
  10. a700hitter
    Gone fishing?
  11. a700hitter
    I have to change the sig. SFF hasn't hurt one of our guys in a long time.
  12. a700hitter
    I love that Buehrle pitches like he is double parked. Games would bean hour shorter if everyone pitched like him.
  13. a700hitter
    Do any of our statheads know the correlation between 1 point of fielding percentage and runs scored?
  14. a700hitter
    It doesn't look good for them right now. Johnson was a high risk proposition due to his injury history. Dickey was high risk due to the inconsistency of knuckle ballers. Melky was a risk due to PED performance. Reyes and Buehrle were supposed to be the low risk reliable guys. Reyes is on the shelf and Buehrle is s***ing himself. If those guys don't play to career norms, it will get ugly for the Jays.
  15. a700hitter
    Nostradamus
  16. a700hitter
    They took a shot. They have been waiting on prospects for years prior to this and their team went into the toilet and their fans abandoned them. They did succeed in temporarily improving their attendance. That could reverse if they don't improve their play. As for ruining their future, the best prospect that they traded was the catcher who was stuck behind Arencebia. The other were not all that. If nothing else, they have a great young great dynamic Shortstop who will be with them for a few years. I think some Sox fans were surprised at the way he dismantled us in our first series against the Jays. I was not, because I have seen a lot of him with the Mets. He is a great player.
  17. a700hitter
    We will probably find out that Overbay took Cashman's call at a bowling alley.
  18. a700hitter
    You are free to disagree out of your ass as usual.
  19. a700hitter
    Overbay hit his 6th HR tonight.
  20. a700hitter
    A complete game shutout. It's nice to get one of those once in a while. It helps refresh a tired bullpen.
  21. a700hitter
    We should be beating up this has been.
  22. a700hitter
    You are free to disagree, and my statement was a broad generalization. Nevertheless, none of the pitchers that you mentioned belong in Papelbon's category. Bell never had a season with more than 2 saves until he was age 31. By that time Paps had 262 Saves. Also, by big, I didn't mean fat. Paps is 6'4". Bell is only 6'3". Similarly, Valverde's first big season was at age 29, but that big boy has been pretty durable if not consistent. Francisco Cordero had his first big season at age 28 and he never was Papelbon's equal. He stayed pretty consistent through age 36, so he too is durable. Two of these 3 guys you brought up support my statement that it is hard to wear out the these big boys at the rate of 60 innings a year. It should be pretty easy to come up with a few exceptions to such a broad general statement, but you whiffed on all three like a bad Salty plate appearance.
  23. a700hitter
    Papelbon is as steady as they come and he hasn't had any arm or injury issues since 2006; At the rate of 60 innings a year, it will take a long time to wear out a big boy like Papelbon. Look how long Big Lee Smith lasted.
  24. a700hitter
    I get what you are saying, but I look at it differently. The GM's and FO don't play the games. I don't cheer for them, because they are not on the field. They are not the performers. They like managers will be second guessed and dissected, but that comes with the territory. I wouldn't feel sorry for them. They have pretty sweet jobs and I doubt that they read message boards.
  25. a700hitter
    No one is saying otherwise. It is pretty well accepted that they couldn't sign him because of their massive budgetry mismanagement. No one is crying over spilled milk. I still reminisce about Yaz playing LF and Rice hitting huge HRs and Dewey throwing peas to 3rd. When the great players leave, all you have left is memories and comparisons to their successors. Papelbon was a great Red Sox player. He will not soon be forgotten.
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