Jacoby_Ellsbury

OUR SEEZIN IZ FUKED, GUIZ. STOP FUKIN SELEBRATEING!!

And, even if we ultimately aren't in the running this year... so what? Is the world ending in December? We have a good team. I'll gladly go into next season with this team, providing we sign Bay. We might also have a breakout-ready Buchholz to put in the rotation.

It is all day with you...

Yes. The top of the rotation is excellent. Beckett and Lester is an awesome 1-2 punch. As much as I would love Halladay, he isn't a guy we need to get if we're to have any chance to win anything. Depth is where we could use improvement, and since I still really doubt that Ricciardi will actually trade us Halladay for anything less than an obscene package, we should be focusing more on those guys (Doug Davis, Jarrod Washburn). The lineup is slumping horribly, but when these guys are performing up to par (individually), its a good lineup. Is Jason Bay going to keep on declining and end up with .400 OPS for the month of September? I don't think so. And if our big bats do suck for the rest of the year, we're not winning anything anyway, no matter what we do on the trade front. One player doesn't solve everything. If we trade a boatload of prospects for Gonzalez, and the offense continues to struggle, how would you feel then? Again, there's nothing wrong with some bolstering here and there. The bullpen is what it is right now. Its talented, but nothing's guaranteed as last night showed. Yes, we're a contender. We're 1.5 ahead of the Rangers in the wild card, and that's a team I think is destined to fold down the stretch. They haven't been here before, their pitching is still rather limited (albeit a lot better than recent years). Our only real challengers for the WS are the Yankees and Tigers (we dominate the Angels in the playoffs all the time, we're probably in their heads at this point, so I'm not worried about a playoff meeting).

FUK PENNY!!! TRADE HIM FOR DAN HAREN!!!

I'm 94.3% sure this is sarcasm.

Well good for you. I'll never get a decent job thanks to having 'graduated from Farmington High School' stinking up my record.

The difference is, I'm not running around in circles yelling 'MAEK A TRAED!!! MAEK A TRAED!!!' at the top of my lungs. Oh let me guess - that's not panicking, that's just being smart!!!!11!!

One of the 4 of us who hasn't been laid off? Proud o' ya. OH s*** LIGHTNING (at my house)

But he has go to Pittsburgh.

I'm gonna rip Penny's dick off and throw it in the river.

Eat s*** and die, Penny.

And what prior commitments do you have? Summer school?

Poor Tim.

*clears throat loudly* Ban.

Ban.

If the Red Sox acquired Hirsh, I wonder if there would be a thread about it in the Red Sox forum...

Internet = serious business.

Can we like, make an official rule that when you post s*** like this, post the f***ing link with it?

FWIW, its not even on ESPN's page anywhere.

Cliff Lee is a lot less awesome than Roy Halladay, and would have required a comparable package to whatever we would be trading for Halladay. Philly getting Lee is also awesome because it sticks a fork in a lot of Ricciardi's leverage if he really wants to move him.

That was posted at 2:46 EST and it is now 6:21 EST. Either way, I'll believe it when I see it.