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  1. a700hitter
    My friend, you can certainly defend yourself better than I could. It's a pet peeve of mine when a poster becomes the issue and not his/her posts.
  2. a700hitter
    What a weird thing to say. If you think a person's character can be summed up by his posts on a sports discussion board, that's pretty pathetic. Maybe if you addressed my posts instead of who you think I am, your posts would be more substantive and less snarky.
  3. a700hitter
    same result. 95 wins was good enough 3 times in 13 seasons. That leads me to believe that they were building towards a target (95 wins) that the knew had less than a 25% chance of winning the division. They were aiming too low.
  4. a700hitter
    Iortiz has a body of work here that speaks for itself. I can see no reason for you to make that statement other than to denigrate him. Please explain yourself. what did you mean by posting this? I think you need to be real.
  5. a700hitter
    Since 2002, 95 wins was good enough to top the league only once. It was good enough for the second best record two other times. Perhaps, their goal wasn't ambitious enough. I would build a team to be better than my competitors, not to achieve a target number of wins which is likely to fall short of being the best record or even the second best record in the league, but that's just me.
  6. a700hitter
    ^ I guess the first sentence of your post is also meant not to denigrate him? Too funny.
  7. a700hitter
    Well, pointless snark doesn't prove any intelligence. As for denigrating, BSN's post, it was denigrating.
  8. a700hitter
    we would be better off giving up our first round pick, because it rarely amounts to anything.
  9. a700hitter
    I think there is going to be a flurry of activity very soon. There are a lot of players left unsigned and a lot of teams have holes to fill. There are only 6 week until pitchers and catchers report. This week might be quiet, but then the chips will start falling rapidly. I hope that they have resolved the Napoli issue by then.
  10. a700hitter
    Iortiz likes LaRoche, not Lee;)
  11. a700hitter
    And there isn't anything in those scouting reports that indicates that any of them is ready to crack a big league rotation in 2013.
  12. a700hitter
    Guilty. Now move on to baseball.
  13. a700hitter
    If you think about, I am the one giving the FO credit. I am saying that they have finished second to the Yankees several years because they didn't aim to beat them. I am giving them credit for accomplishing their business plan. You, on the other hand, are saying that they have tried every year to beat the Yanks. If that is true, then they are bigger failures than I thought, because they have beaten the Yanks twice and won 1 division.
  14. a700hitter
    Iortiz is a very smart guy. What can I say? He lis usually right about most basball issues, so we agree alot. I agree with him just as often as he agrees with me. Maybe I am the one who should be criticized. The times that I dont agree with him I am usually wrong. Iortiz knows baseball and the Red Sox. You guys should be ashamed to denigrate him when he is smarter than both of you with half of his brain tied behind his back.
  15. a700hitter
    How much have you seen them pitch? I don't see how you can declare them as good depth without seeing them when they have very little track record to back you up.
  16. a700hitter
    No one is denying them credit. 2004 and 2007 were two seasons where they clearly built their teams with the intent of beating the Yankees. In 2004, they went out and got Big Schill and Foulke and in 2007 they signed their starting SS, right fielder and a starter. Those years they were loaded for bear. Too many other years they were content with building teams that would compete for the wild card.
  17. a700hitter
    IMO this is not good depth at all.
  18. a700hitter
    They should go back to 2 divisions. Keep the game pure. Selig has allowed the game to be sullied with PEDs, hurt the integrity of the 162 game season with wild cards, and instituted unbalanced inter league play for commercial purposes. His reign was terrible for the game.
  19. a700hitter
    Uh but you are being a dick with this. Iortiz can debate in his second language better than most people can in their first language. Also, we frequently disagree about about topics, but we do so respectfully, so people just don't notice. Again, this entire post was unnecessary and yes you were being a dick.
  20. a700hitter
    yes it is, but it doesn't change the fact that the Yankees have won 15 divisions in 17 years. We finished ahead of the Yanks twice and one of those times the Rays won the division. It's just not a great record of success.
  21. a700hitter
    If we start seeing these guys, the team will be heading in the wrong direction.
  22. a700hitter
    If we start seeing these guys, the team will be heading in the wrong direction.
  23. a700hitter
    they made it very clear over many years that it was more important to "line up their pitching for the post season" rather than finish first. That is playing for second.
  24. a700hitter
    The fact is that in most seasons the team was not built to beat the Yanks, but rather to get into the playoffs. The playoffs were paramount under the old wild card system. No one is disputing that, but winning your division does mean that you were the best team over 162 games. That happened once. Their record in that regard was just not very good. They built the best team once. Period. That is their record.
  25. a700hitter
    Are you serious?
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