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I issued a challenge to Example by PM. Hopefully, he'll take me up on the challenge rather than shrink from it.

He should be given the opportunity to defend his crown.

I got the prize $ today. Thanks SFoC!

Agreed. Bullpen is always a concern because there is always a lot of turnover from year to year.

People who are concerned about adding the ace of the staff of the team that beat us in the playoffs clearly need to worry about something. The Red Sox rotation 1 through 3 is the last thing that should worry Red Sox fans. Can Dice K rebound? Can Buchholz step up and come into his own? Can the offense score enough runs? Can Ortiz avoid a major early season slump? Can Scutaro play SS full time and produce like last season or is he a utility player? These are real concerns. Will one of the 1 through 3 starters go down with an injury? That's paranoid.

Lackey is a really good pitcher. It's ridiculous that people are concerned that the Sox have signed a really good pitcher. They should be concerned that an offense without last year's most productive bat can go right in the crapper unless Ortiz starts the season like he finished last season.

I just did. He can't resist a challenge, even when he is completely over-matched.

I'm hoping Example joins so I can demonstrate my superior skill once again.

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I'm not absolving the Yankee organization of any bad behavior. I was just relating a story that I had heard or read about the time when they signed Ellie Howard. I do think actions need to be put into the context of the times before judgment can be passed. I don't think people realize what an act of courage it was for Branch Rickey to break the color barrier. Robinson gets all the accolades, and he deserves to be honored, but Robinson himself humbly acknowledged that he was merely a player in Rickey's great social experiment. You have to remember what Rickey was up against. He was risking his business, because they didn't know how fans would react. Many of the white players didn't like it, because it threatened their job security. He had to worry about sponsors. Financially, there was really nothing to gain by Rickey, and a lot to lose. He did it because he thought it was the right thing for society. Rickey was a uniquely courageous, moral and ethical man. That doesn't mean that the rest of the owners and executives were racist. I hear and read a lot about Yawkey being a racist, but I have never read or heard any accounts about him doing something racist. My recollection is that his players throughout the decades had a great deal of affection for the man and vice versa. I think smearing a man who was so charitable based on nothing other than being a team owner during segregation is a bit unfair.

Two years ago he had 3 years/$60 million left on his contract.

What about Magglio Ordonez as a stop gap?

When the Yankees brought up Ellie Howard, Casey Stengel said "the finally get me 'one' and he can't run." I don't think Casey was a racist. Attitudes were different back then. He used to call Joe D "Big Dago" and of course Rizzuto was not the Scooter to Stengel. He was "Little Dago." He loved those guys, but things were not PC back then.

^ This. If there was no point to the article, he should have had the good sense not to publish it. It had no possibility of being positive for the Red Sox and baseball, and there was no unethical or bad behavior that need to be exposed.

Rosenthal is such a twit. He was trying to be address what he thought was a controversial societal issue, but it backfired on him and he looked like a major jerk.

I was right, but had to concede anyway. It doesn't count in the calcs.

My percentage got dragged down to 99.2%-- still pretty formidable.

I merely channel Clint.