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http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/making-the-case-for-a-strasburgbetts-trade/

Anyone else read the Betts for Strasburg article?

He faced some ungodly Sox lineups during that stretch.

Nats fans think Rendon is moving to 3b this year.

Sweet Baby Rays is the tits! The sauce is the boss!

I'd prefer Tapatio or Sriracha.

No, I'm on board with this deal. Pedroia's contract is too high. He plays in a manner that will shorten his career. They have a replacement in waiting.

Pedroia for Zimmerman. Get it done Ben!

That's where I read it too. Have never seen this blog before. That's in part why I thought the deal was too good to be true.

Read a report of trade talks involving Craig, Kelly, Barnes and other mid level prospects. That just sounds like a too good to be true offer.

Yup. It's only worth their while if they can get the extension. I'd give up Owens if JZ is signed through 2019.

Yes please! I'll believe it when I see it though. Also, just don't trade Betts/Swihart/Owens and I'm ok with it.

Well, it's a discussion you were interested in furthering. Shrugs.

Then maybe everyone should just call me on the phone and talk to me offline to see what I'm all about then? It's clearly the only way to get to know how people really are on here.

And recently, I've been very nice and respectful to Fred. I have no issue with anything Fred has said to or about me in recent memory.

I have zero motivation to call Fred. He comes across on the board as someone who relishes in misery and complaints about life. I have better things to do with my free time than to chat with him. If he want to hear someone drone on and on about the bums on the Sox, I'd rather just call my wife's grampa in FL. If he wants to be nice, he can just be nice. If he wants to continue to act the way he acts, that's fine too. The fact that he intentionally tries to goad people into s*** (see his "haha I fooled you comment") he has little ground to stand on when he complains about UN to every new poster.

The issue with Fred is of double standards. He calls people out for leaving the board when he has left the board for long stretches of time as well. He calls people that disagree with him "ballwashers, pollyannas and jock sniffers." However, he completely loses his s*** and is offended if he is called a pink hat or a Dodgers fan, which are apparently personal attacks but "ballwasher" is not. At the end of the day, Fred really is no different than everyone else on here, because we all do relatvely the same thing from time to time. The only difference is that the majority of us have not been temporarily banned for being an ******* or had friends permanently banned. If Fred really wants to move on and be the bigger person, he could. It just willmever happen. He pikes going after people. He secretly likes people going after him. The reality is that this place will never change. People will come and go. Imperial will show up and get really wasted and go after A700. People will have disagreements. Game threads will be horrible. People will take things personally. Some people will be banned. Some former posters will post for a day or two. I think we'd all just be a lot happier if NESN were showing ST footage. It's only a few weeks away and we just need to relax. Baseball is coming. Get hyped.

Amaro is a horrible GM.

I guess I don't undrstand why you have to rant about other posters in nearly everything you write.

Didn't you and UN have a bet to be nicer to each other? What gives?

No matter what, the #1 won't be pitching at the first homestand anyway. You'll be getting some combination of guys 2-4.

If you're buying tickets, you're drinking the Kool Aid imo

Ben the boob "If we don't get a true ace this year, we're basically f***ed." Why would he ever say something negative about the team? It's his job to promote the product.

It's why I wrote "could" compete rather than "will." Buch and Masterson are both high variance options. I'm not sure both of them have to be on for the rotation to see success though. One could falter and the rotation could be just fine.

I think the only reason some people aren't freaking out is that it looks like this rotation could compete in a weakened AL East. If they are close at the trade deadline, they could pick up another arm then. I think most of us would rather they get someone now, but it's not the end of the world if they don't.