a700hitter

Be nice to the Doc. Maybe he can help you get the medication that you need.

I like this forum. It brings me pleasure as does laughing at you. Tick tock on the countdown to your next ban.

He's just a pathetic mess of a human being. I like each of these thinly veiled attempts to troll, because it gives us the opportunity to witness true insanity and to ridicule him.

As I said earlier, I think the biggest accomplishment of the 2004 staff was that all 5 guys took all of their starts, and after July, they almost always went 6+ innings. That was the huge factor in the end of season run. We haven't had 5 starters take all of their starts since 2004. It's a hard thing to do. If this group (2013) makes all of its starts, the team will be successful, even if the overall pitching is mediocre. It is the reason why I wanted the Sox to get one more starter -- a 200 inning guy. No aces were available, so it was my theory to build an inning eating rotation of 5 that would perform in a mediocre fashion. The extended innings would keep the strengthened bull pen fresh, and I believe that it would have been a winning formula. This group may achieve that, but with a post-op Lackey and an out of shape Doubront, we could be dipping into the pen too early during the year. The other difference between this years rotation and the 2004 rotation is that the 2004 rotation had 2 guys that were capable of absolutely shutting down the other offense. Pedro and Schilling were star pitchers with that capability of giving you the dominating game when it was need most. Both of those guys went over 200 innings with more than 200 k's. They were big time horses.

Pal, any rotation with Schilling and Pedro is in pretty good shape. Pedro is a sure fire Hall of Famer and Schilling has a very good chance too. Your arguments based on the 1 year stats is exactly why Vin Scully says that stats should be used the way a drunk uses a lamppost-- for support not for illumination.

Except when he was injured, Pedro was never a mere mortal on the mound.

Yep, when in uniform, they are employees and represent theirr employer's product.

Stats that were smack in the middle of the steroid era.

The biggest plus for the 2004 staff is that they didn't miss any starts and after the trading deadline they went on a long run of 6+ inning starts that kept the bullpen fresh for the post season. The performance of the pen in that post season was remarkable. They were very mortal too, but they were well rested and had more left in the tank than the Yankee pen. Also, the 2004 staff did have two aces that were great stoppers after a few losses.

And there is nothing logical about a highly paid baseball player acting like a prima dona.

But the interest isn't mutual.

Basically, most of the stars from the 1918-1920's Sox teams became Yankees. There are a ton right there. Is there anything to discuss about this thread?

Baseball is not real life. Like Nickelodian, it is entertainment. If the players really want to be frustrated and inconvenienced, they should try working at a less glamorous job where kids don't hold out baseballs for them to sign.

Can't we get a couple more of the armchair GM's and FO toadies to join? This is your opportunity to take on the King of TalkSox in a meaningful way. There's no opinion in the final stats, so take a shot at winning some real bragging rights you damn cowards.

Jacko is moving in on my obsessed trolls? He'd better back off.

How many teams do we have?

I am making a special request of all TalkSox members for the good of the team. Please reach out to any contacts that you may have in the Sox organization or the press to get SFF flown down to Fort Myers for a one on one session of Frisbee with Salty.

Is Middlebrooks starting to remind anyone of J.D. Drew from a Mr. Glass perspective? We need WMB in the lineup everyday and producing. If he does not step up as an offensive threat, there is really no protection in the order for Ortiz. If WMB misses substantial time or underperforms, Papi will walk 130 tome this year. Napoli is not a cleanup hitter. He just is not.

We dodged a huge bullet if it was just scar tissue. He is a major cog in the lineup.

Nice quick release. It was unusual to see from a Red Sox catcher.

Okay, no permanent Frisbee ban, but you are on probation until the All Star Break.

OMG!! You are ruining our prospects one by one.

A tendon injury could be more serious than a fracture. Tendons can take a long time to heal and they can really rob a guy of power.

If Middlebrooks is out for a couple of months and Bogey gets off to a hot start, you don't think they might give him a chance?

I can't be here for all of Salty's mess ups.