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Unless San Diego also wants a s*** load in addition to Westmoreland. Then you tell them to go f**** themselves and enjoy last place and little fans.

Looks like Westmoreland is running into some health problems. FORT MYERS, FL- Red Sox minor league outfielder Ryan Westmoreland has been diagnosed with a cavernous malformation in his brain and has taken medical leave from minor league camp to seek treatment. General Manager Theo Epstein made the announcement. “The entire Red Sox organization stands in support of Ryan as he courageously deals with this issue,” Epstein said. “Ryan is a remarkable kid and a talented player, and we understand that many will be concerned about his health. He is getting the best medical attention the world has to offer, and we will have more information soon. Until then -- out of respect for Ryan’s privacy and at the request of the Westmoreland family -- we will not have any further comment.” Westmoreland, 19, left minor league camp on Thursday, March 4th. He was diagnosed on Friday, March 5th at Massachusetts General Hospital, had consultations with three leading experts in the field, and on Tuesday will have surgery with Dr. Robert Spetzler of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. The Red Sox ask that members of the media please respect Ryan’s privacy and honor the Westmorelands’ request that they not be contacted until later in Ryan’s recovery.

You're preaching to the choir, but I'm extremely biased because I hate the University of Florida. Anyway, the SEC West isn't a very strong division, and the SEC tournament is especially flawed when it puts teams like Ole Miss and Mississippi State in the next round while making better teams in the Eastern Division (ie Tennessee) play in the first round. The SEC should be like the other conferences and simply have the best 4 teams getting the first round bye. I'm not saying that MSU would have lost had they played another game, but they got the benefit of a flawed system. I personally think you guys will be in the tournament, but with each non top team winning a conference tournament, it hurts your chances.

Because you're one of the few who hasn't fought him yet, so he's looking for another check mark in his internet fighting resume. Seriously though, I agree that it would be best for Lowell if he were traded and got more playing time, and I think it would be best for the team if we traded Lowell depending on the package we got in return. Otherwise, since we would have to eat a lot of money to trade him and barring the presence of a worthy package, we would lose very little by keeping him in case Ortiz goes belly up. Either way, there is a lot of sunk $$ on our roster.

I don't know dude. Mississippi State has been one of those "last 4 in"/"first 4 out" for a while. Granted, they have helped themselves by winning games, and have been helped by teams ahead of them losing games. The problem is that with each upset in conference tournament play, there becomes one less at large seed available. For example, with Houston winning the Conference USA title, they get an automatic bid which would have belonged to UTEP, and UTEP takes an at-large bid away from a bubble team. You just have to root against other bubble teams such as Georgia Tech vs. Duke, and Minnesota vs. Ohio State. You have a shot, but your destiny is more than within your own hands. Unless you beat Kentucky that is.

I think it was because nobody gave him crap in his previous robot threads. Usually people just ignored them and let them go to the thread graveyard, but a few posters told him to stop posting and the s*** hit the fan.

Yes, we are all aware of the blockbuster free agent signing and how it's rammifications will effect the remaining 31 NFL teams.

Damn it, I thought Christmas came early.

*Crickets chirping in background*

Benching is another form of pulling him from the lineup. You can pull him from the lineup because he's tired, or you can pull him from the lineup because he's sucking and wasting a lineup spot. Either way, it's still pulling him from the lineup.

I think it's one of those "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" sort of things. We all know how long it took Ortiz sucking in order for him to be moved down in the lineup and for him to finally recover. While he did well after he got into his groove, it still took a painstaking amount of time to get there. Now that we went through that horrific period, we are much more sensitive to the situation in order to prevent last season's disaster from manifesting itself one year later. Hopefully Tito has an equally short leash on Ortiz as most of us had (ie pulling Ortiz from the lineup after a bad April instead of a bad April and May).

That'll make less people hate you....

I wish we could have Tavarez back for the spring roster so that he can fight someone during spring training. Outside of watching prospects in action, this ST has been a wash.

I just wish that they woke up after the Flyers game.

I believe you, that's why I never ripped on you. Granted, to be honest, I rarely read any of your posts/threads, but I never turned on you. Besides, there are many posters worth hating more than you. You're good in my book.

Nobody said that the constitution applied here, or that there weren't double standards. It's just how life works. I think you're taking "Anything Goes" too literally.

You'd be p****-whipped too if you had my girlfriend. You've been eye humping her from the Dominican. See Nate, Dipre and I are friends yet we still rip on each other. I rip on him for being Brown and he rips on me for being a shell of a man because I'm whipped by my girlfriend.

Of course we should, but few people ever do that. Most of us (myself highly included) are too immature to ignore someone's post so if we disagree with something, or think it's stupid, we'll respond to it. I mean we all argue enough when politics isn't involved, so the last thing a site full of diverse angry people need is a political discussion.

I'd go (in no order) Yankees Rays Rangers Phillies then I'd put the Red Sox in a tie with a team like the Twins.

I think that our offense will be our weak point, but that our pitching got better and that our defense got much better to the point that it should more than compensate for our decline in offense. To be perfectly honest, I'm more worried about our bullpen than our offense.

I don't know, Minnesota may have learned from their mistake on the Santana trade. Besides, I don't think there will be much time between when Minnesota says what it wants and a team gives it to them. I bet teams would give a blank checkbook for Mauer. Especially if it's signed Cashman.

Yeah, I was surprised to see them beat the Flyers on the road. I was counting on the game vs. the Bruins as a win, but damn. The Bruins definitely helped themselves by winning.

It's also worth noting that "run prevention" simply isn't only the fact that our rotation is better, but is in the fact that our defense is MUCH better. Scutaro/Beltre instead of Lugo/Green/Lowell. While we'll probably score less runs, we'll give up much less runs. This principle isn't as obvious in baseball, but in cricket, coaches always say that preventing them from scoring runs is just as good as scoring those runs yourself.