a700hitter

I think that Lowrie will quickly prove that he is the superior offensive player. Ellsbury still has a lot of problems with the inside pitch.

If Ellsbury is not getting on base, Tito needs to move a high OBP guy into the top spot. Having two high OBP guys in front of Papi and Youkilis/Bay will supercharge the offensive production.

I was too fast for you. Four cups of coffee this morning.

I like these, but with the caveat that Carter pinch hits for Tek every game.

I got the joke. I was making a joke too. Wooosh, right over your head. Edit: I would n't have been so sarcastic, but you initially had the "woosh" remark in your post.

. Does he really need a ninth pitch?:dunno:

But it is all from my initial post which you have cherry-picked. Haven't we already done this dance? Only a few posts later I gave a more in-depth evaluation that you apparently forgot, which goes to my point that your memory is selective. Congratulations, you have cherry-picked a post to line up with your selective memory. The rest of my posts in that thread and my recollection of my opinion of him at the time mean nothing to you. You will hold onto one post as being my definitive position on the matter even though it still doesn't say what you recollected. As you noted, you made a few extrapolations and assumptions? Well the subsequent posts in the thread proved those assumptions and extrapolations to be wrong. Your post that started this argument was not a provocative post to generate lively debate. You didn't throw out a provocative player assessment or anything like that. Your post was just a random attack on me that had nothing to do with a discussion of the Red Sox pitching depth as compared to the Yankees and the Rays. The thread was not a discussion of Schilling, nor was it a discussion of the FO. Your post was out of place and it added nothing to the discussion. It didn't provoke a discussion of any baseball issues, but started a flare up of a you said- I said boring discussion. You should be embarrassed that a man of your intelligence stooped to such a level and is fighting so hard to defend his pettiness

Man, your synapses are just not firing right lately. First, unlike you, I will admit an error in judgment when proved wrong. Second, why would I back away from an opinion in the same thread before the player even set foot on a field to prove me wrong. The other posts are in the thread. I said that I thought he could be like a John Tudor type, but that Tudor took time to develop. Such condemnation! You don't have to buy anything. But here's the post once again. http://www.talksox.com/forum/game-thread-forum/5554-official-2006-spring-training-game-thread-13.html#post124705 This is from your post where you recollected what I said: As a rational man, does this seem like an accurate recollection of my evaluation? Here's your entire post that started this whole argument: I don't see Penny's name. Do you? You were comparing my reaction to signing 41 year old pitchers. Here's the link to your post, so you can see that I have not edited your words. http://www.talksox.com/forum/389423-post86.html Do me a favor please. Research your recollections about my opinions before you start posting them, because you are having trouble recollecting your own posts.

Originally, I didn't go back to look when you posted the link because I didn't care enough to press the issue. Looks like my memory is correct, not that I ever doubted it, so I will continue to trust it, especially when the alternative is your ability to retroactively tell us what the meaning of "is" is in a previous post. You are cherry-picking my initial post about Lester, which was intentionally provocative to get *******s like JSinger all worked up. Guess-what? It worked. Some people are still worked up over it more than two years later. After all my years and posts on this forum, you haven't caught on that my method of operation is to provoke and then discuss? If you noticed, my initial post was predominantly a report of what I had observed in the game, but my later posts in the thread gave a more fulsome evaluation of Lester as a prospect. In several posts, I said that he was a couple of years away and I likened him to John Tudor. Boy, what criticism! I wasn't recanting anything, but of course you will tell me what I was thinking, because you are all omniscient. I'll admit that I underestimated him. I didn't think that he would become a top of the rotation guy so fast. I thought that he'd still be a #3 or 4. I was right that he needed time to develop. He didn't arrive as a big time pitcher until he learned to aggressively throw strikes last May. Some of us will acknowledge our misjudgments, but not you who is clinging to a ridiculous position that you would rather have Wakefield than Sonnenstine in 2009. In his last 4 post season starts, Wakefield is 0-3 with a 10.80 ERA spanning 4 post seasons. That is pretty disgusting. Sonnenstine has had some degree of success in his one post season. He's 25 and last season's experience should help his development while Wakefield's torn labrum can only get worse. Yeah, I'm sure lots of us would like to see Wakefield taking the ball in a playoff game instead of Sonnenstine (heavy sarcasm). I am sorry, but sticking to your guns on this one makes you look like an irrational ass IMO.

You are too stubborn to admit that I am right on this, but your last paragraph is as close as I'll get. Sonnestine isn't Roy Halladay, but in 3 post-season starts , he is 2-1 with a 4.24 ERA which is a far cry from Wakefield's record of futility in his last 3 starts.

Excellent news. He can throw 95 pitches and give up 5 runs to minor leaguers. Stupendous!!

. Unless you are Penny's or Smolt's doctor, on what would you base your expectation? You have a hope, nothing more.

I am against trading parts from the bullpen which is the strength of this team. I expect that Tazawa will get the call as a reinforcement this season. He was very impressive this Spring. He has excellent command and plus stuff.