a700hitter
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We are coming up on the middle of December. When are the Sox going to do something?
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and Epstein has a SS in Castro so he has no need for him in Chicago.
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If they are thinking of getting through this season on the basis of a year long celebration of Fenway's 100th birthday, that will not go over well with the fans if they don't build a team to win in 2012.
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When I was a little kid, my Dad would call be a chowder head. I should sue Legal Seafoods.
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Fred, I agree with almost everything in your post. A lot of things need to go right for the Sox this year to be a strong playoff team. We have both been around long enough to know that when you enter a season with lots of "ifs" it almost always turns out bad. The only disagreement I have is with the suggestion to dumpster dive for a 5th starter. That has a low probability of working out. That's why it is not "low risk high reward" like Theo used to like to call it. They are long shots which by their nature are high risk, no matter how little you spend on them. Theo either had a fundamental misunderstanding of investments or he was just deliberately misleading the fan base when he used that completely ignorant term.
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The drunk was shown the door. He's in Chicago now.
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From Cafardo's article today:
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When did he have his TJ surgery?
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I am not crazy about the bottom of this batting order-- 6,7,8,9. Ortiz will not see anything to hit with this behind him. Even if Lavarnway can be a real big league hitter, I don't think he'll get enough ABs, because he will probably only be Salty's backup. Replace Lavarnway with Salty in that lineup and I like it even less. If you could add Beltran to this mix and put Reddick on the bench, the lineup would rock.
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It takes energy to hate. I have no time for it, but I will never stop hating the Yankees.
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In the end, it is just more fun to like me than to hate me.
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I am old and experienced enough to know that I wouldn't waste my time arguing for positions that are wrong.
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You can put whatever spin you want on it. The fact is that you seized upon the "cleaned our clock" language in my post which was not really the point. Let's call it hyperbole. The point of what I was saying is that there is no reason for the Rays beating the Sox that excuses the Sox. As I said in that post, the Rays, had to rebuild their entire bullpen from scratch in 2011 and they still "beat the Sox" (replacing the hyperbole "cleaned our clocks"). Let's hope Benny Boy can do the same with our bullpen. Theo never did.
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I see Tex as below their level, not a lot, but definitely below.
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Puljols should tear up the league.
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as I said, the reasons for Tampa's success don't matter, because they are not excuses for beating the Sox that had four times the payroll. Picking up 9 games on a team in September is cleaning their clock. It really is.
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I have some pictures that I took at the old Yankee Stadium in 1973 where you can see lots of empty seats against the best teams in the league-- the Tigers, O's and A's.
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It's hard for the young Sox fans of today to understand what you are saying. I think that you needed to live through that season to understand it. It was the birth of Red Sox Nation. Yaz and the '67 Sox gave a rebirth to baseball in all of New England and we were the original fans of what is now Red Sox Nation.
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Where are the years before 1985. The Yanks had the highest average payroll in the 1980's. The fact the the amounts were much lower doesn't change that the Yankees spent the most in the 1980's. Proportionately the Yanks were pretty close to outspending the Sox by the same amount as they do today. As I pointed out that in 1992, one of the few years when the Sox outspent the Yanks, the Sox came in last place with an under .500 record -- the worst year for the Sox after 1966.
