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  1. a700hitter
    I think he can be an ocassional spot starter, but I don't think he is a great option if we have to hand him the ball 15 times. We can differ, but that's my opinion. He's never performed well outside of the role as swingman.
  2. a700hitter
    So, I don't get baseball. You threw around the term "small minded" in your last post. Now you call me ridiculous, sleazy and dishonest. Seriously, what a jackass. First of all, you misrepresented what I wanted and expected the FO to do this off season, because you are intellectually too lazy to look back to see what I recommended from the beginning of the season. ^ This s*** you are spewing is overboard. Go take your meds or eat something to stabilize your blood sugar. Just go away with this jackass nonsense.:thumbdown
  3. a700hitter
    We continue to disagree about the quality of our depth. You like it. I am underwhelmed by it. I think 2 injuries to any of our starters would devastate the 2013 team. Maybe De La Rosa has a break out year, but no one is predicting that.
  4. a700hitter
    Let me get this straight. Adding Josh Johnson, Mark Buerhle and RA Dickey to Brandon Moorow is only an improvement for the small-minded, but the addition of Ryan Dempster as you put it "did a fair bit to strengthen our rotation." You've got to be kidding.
  5. a700hitter
    Injuries to any 2 of our pitchers will sink this ship. It doesn't have to be Lester or Buchholz. We don't have depth that can take the ball every 5th day for 10-15 starts. The rest of your post is a hopeful statement. Spring is the time for hope, but there are no trends by any of these pitchers which would lead someone to be encouraged, so I can't get to the point to conclude that our pitching is significantly better. I don't buy into the "addition by subtraction" theory. We read a lot of that theory after 2011 when we replaced Lackey and Wakefield who had been horrible in 2011. The addition by subtraction theory didn't work out well in 2012, and I suspect that it will not do much better in 2013. We have added Ryan Dempster to one of the worst staffs in all of baseball since September 1, 2011. That's not going to cut it. The other addition is Lackey who only one year ago people argued that his absence would benefit us in 2012. He was part of the addition by subtraction argument for 2012. Now, people are trying to sell me on Lackey being helpful in 2013. I'm not buying.
  6. a700hitter
    I was hoping for moves that would make this a respectable team, possibly competitive for a second wild card, but at the least, I was hoping for some meaingful games at the beginning of September. I was under no delusion that this team would return to prominence in 2013. However, in light of their off season moves, I think respectability will be a stretch. I have not set my self ip for frustration. Those people who think this will be a competitive team are setting themselves up for disappointment.
  7. a700hitter
    Yeah, I don't get baseball. It wasn't my plan to build the top of the rotation, because those guys are rarely available. So, tell me smarty pants what we have done this off season to strengthen the rotation other than get Dempster. I have my doubts about his prospects for success. Other than that, what did we do? Put Lackey on weight watchers?
  8. a700hitter
    I wasn't pointing at you or anyone in particular. I was just noting the sentiment that takes over the board right before Spring Training starts. Afterall, we all need hope.
  9. a700hitter
    This is the part of the off season after all of the moves have been made where we try to convince each other that we have a good team.
  10. a700hitter
    I disagree. Their efforts were misdirected. If they wanted to field a competitive team, they needed to strengthen and improve the starting pitching. They did not. This is a 79-84 win team most likely. If everything breaks right, maybe 88 wins. If there are one or two injuries to the starting pitching, it will all unravel again like last year. This team may sniff the second wild card, but it will be an uninteresting team that will have trouble staying over .500.
  11. a700hitter
    Does anyone, with the possible exception of his mother, care about what Steven Wright thinks?
  12. a700hitter
    Winning is every teams goal, but this roster doesn't shape up as a winner.
  13. a700hitter
    None of the guys we got will sell tickets. With the lack of interesting players, they will need to win to sell tickets.
  14. a700hitter
    I can't imagine what moves Henry could have been alluding to. I don't think we will be adding help to the starting pitching. There is little left from which to chose. Plus, Cherries is on record saying that he thinks the starting pitching is much improved.
  15. a700hitter
    Will any of our starters be pitching in the WBC?
  16. a700hitter
    There will be injuries. It just a matter of when. The last time the Red Sox had 5 starters take 30 all of their turns was 2004. Every year since has seen substantial time lost ot injury. Not to worry, we have plenty of depth.
  17. a700hitter
    Donkey?
  18. a700hitter
    Did he lose that stupid horseface along with all the weight?
  19. a700hitter
    Lester needs to find the 3 inches of movement that he lost on his cutter over the last couple of seasons. If he can do that, he'll be 2010 Lester. I don't know how easy that will be to do.
  20. a700hitter
    This last place team is already taking shape.
  21. a700hitter
    But now that he has lost so much weight, he is only hitting 50 pn tjhe gun. LOL!
  22. a700hitter
    And so it begins.
  23. a700hitter
    Low to Mid-70's. Wake's fastball topped out at 72-75.
  24. a700hitter
    I think his stuff is gone.
  25. a700hitter
    ^ We need to send our TalkSox hitman SFF for the frisbee.
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