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  1. a700hitter
    I don't think any members of TalkSox at the beginning of the season expected that the Sox would own a share of last place on the 4th of July. It's really sobering when you think that the results have been worse than had been predicted by even the biggest pessimists.
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    Since the Red Sox are still paying him, he could have been sitting on our bench as insurance for the rest of the year, and he could have moved on after the end of the season. There was no emergency to trade him.
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    He has 6 more seasons under this contract, so he has plenty of time to prove himself, but it will be hard for him to have a representative 2012. If he hits like crazy and goes on a power tear in the second half knocking out 20 HRs, he'll still only have 26 on the season, which would have been below most expectations for him coming into the season. FHe has a big uphill battle to salvage 2012.
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    I think we have to look at our starting pitching with clear eyes. Neither Lester nor Beckett have had anything close to ace-worthy seasons. Heck they have not even had good seasons for a #3 starter. We can't evaluate these guys by saying if you drop this start or that start or a certain month, they are having good years. That just doesn't fly. Buchholz was horrible until June and after a handful of good starts, he goes on the DL with a mystery condition. Look at his overall numbers, not the last month. Look at the whole body of work. It sucks. Bard was a disaster. There's no good way to spin that experiment and anyone that spins it positive risks any shred of credibility. Doubront has exceeded expectations, but those expectations were extremely low. He has been an average #5. Dice K, whose return was eagerly anticipated, is still the same garbage that we remember from the past 3 years. We are left pinning our hopes on a lefty specialist reliever (Morales)and a soft tosser with a long medical history (Cook). Step back and look at the whole picture, not some trends or the last road trip. It is an ugly picture.
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    Going into the weekend series against the Yankees, the Red Sox are 8 games behind them in the loss column, but only 1/2 out of last place.
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    Playing .636 ball for a 44 game stretch is much different than plan playing .654 ball for 81 games-- that's sustained excellence. There will be ups and downs in those 81 games-- they will have to play over .700 ball for periods at a time to balance out the down periods. Just to put it in perspective, not a single team played to such a winning percentage in the first half of the season-- not a single one. I don't think you are being realistic if you think this Red Sox team can get to 95 wins just by getting healthy.
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    How many wins do you think it will take to win the ALE?
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    You are 100 percent right. There is a convincing other side of the argument. I have always been predisposed to make these deals under the old format. That has always been my inclination, and I was willing to pay the price in prospects/cash. This new format makes me less inclined unless the player will help us compete for the division. There's no science involved here from me-- just a personal preference.
  13. a700hitter
    We have been so desperate for starting help that many of us were looking to him as a reinforcement. That really shows the lousy state of our rotation. Dice K has done nothing for this team since 2008.
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    The offense has been good prior to this last road trip. It is not a Fenway effect. Our record at home has not been great. What has happened on this last trip is that Nava has finally cooled off. Aviles has been slumping and WMB cooled off and got injured forcing Punto into the lineup. Until recently WMB had been productive and Nava, Podsednik and others have made up for the absence of Crawford and Ellsbury and we have scored plenty. With those guys cooling off and Gonzo turning into a singles hitter, it is very obvious that opponents are not going to let Papi hurt them. He is not getting challenged, because he is the only deep threat in the lineup. They will continue to pitch around him until Ellsbury and Crawford come back and produce offensively. The biggest problem for our offense is the continued ineffectiveness of Gonzo. He's just a big slow singles hitter. He's what's wrong with the offense. He should be anchoring our lineup, but he is sinking it. Pitchers have no fear of him. They actually intentionally walked Cody Ross recently to face Gonzo. What is wrong with this offense is not the Fenway effect, but rather the AGon effect.
  15. a700hitter
    Youk was under contract until the end of the season. We are still paying him. If he was on our bench, he would have been a nice insurance policy. Right now, he'd be playing, because the kid is injured. It would be much better than Punto. Today, we have some minor leaguer playing 3rd, and I think he is a first baseman. Youkilis was not going to burn down the clubhouse if he was on our bench. There simply was no rush to get rid of him.
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    ^Give it up. You are on ignore.
  18. a700hitter
    An oversimplification, but the still the team's main deficiency. If our starters had been in the top half of the league, we would be right at the top with the Yanks despite the OF injuries. Nava and Pods have hit better than Crawford would have hit. We were very lucky to have them fill in. Our biggest offensive problem has been AGon. That has nothing to do with injury. He is a main cog and he has been all but absent. I am sick of whiny fans whining about injuries. Our starting pitching has sucked-- the Bard experiment was a complete abortion. Dice K stinks. Lester and Beckett have underperformed. Our best hitter AGon has been terrible. We are where we are because of execution not injuries.
  19. a700hitter
    Paul Blair may have been the best CF that I ever saw. I didn't see Mays in his prime. I can't remember Blair having a bad collision in the Outfield. That being said, the collision with Beltre was Beltre's fault. He was out way too far for that ball. He should have expected Ellsbury to be there, and had it not been for Beltre, Ells would have been able to catch that ball without going into a slide.
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    I didn't say that I thought we would drop 3 of 4, but we have had trouble with crappy pitching lately, and their lineup is going to be tough for our pitchers. I don't see us doing better than a split. If we lose 3 of 4, and I have to acknowledge that as a possibility we are 8 games out-- that makes the division an afterthought. I don't think we land a big rental pitcher to chase a wild card game.
  22. a700hitter
    The Yankees have a power laden line up. We have one legit power hitter right now, and they would be fools to pitch to him.
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    The injuries have been to our outfield and Youk, yet the offense has been fine. The Red Sox offense is second in the league in runs scored. The starting pitching has been the problem (11th out of 14 in ERA) and they haven't had any injuries beyond what other teams have suffered. The problem is the starting pitching, which by and large has been healthy. If you can't see that, then you can't see the cold hard numbers that tell the opposite story. Back to ignore. I have no tolerance for a fool like you.
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