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  1. SoxFanForsyth
    I try to stay even keeled but sometimes I can't take it.
  2. SoxFanForsyth
    Never know with knucklers. He's been pretty good lately though. 2.60 ERA in his last 4 starts, averaging 7 IP/outing.
  3. SoxFanForsyth
    Warren vs Dickey and Pettitte vs Happ? I can definitely see the Blue Jays winning both of those, or at the very least splitting.
  4. SoxFanForsyth
    Hey. Sometimes I get emotional. Funny how the whole board was trying to calm me down after that loss, and now I'm trying to calm down the whole board.
  5. SoxFanForsyth
    XB is going to be light years ahead of Pedroia in terms of power. This is a perennial MVP candidate according to a lot of scouts.
  6. SoxFanForsyth
    I will admit, I would have loved to have seen Ortiz up with the bases loaded and nobody out in the first against Vogelsong instead of Carp.
  7. SoxFanForsyth
    Yeah that was a Villareal situation (Monday night) if I've ever seen one.
  8. SoxFanForsyth
    Soriano isn't white hot anymore. He's 2 for his last 18 and 0 for his last 14. He's cooled of completely. Kuroda is pitching like an ace and that's fine. But they have no #3-5 starters. Their SP is awful. CC: 4.83 ERA, 7.86 ERA in his last 6 starts. Pettitte: 4.39 ERA, 5.27 ERA in his last 3 starts. Hughes: 4.88 ERA, 7.43 ERA in his last 5 starts. So these pitchers have been awful all year, and even more so in their past few starts.
  9. SoxFanForsyth
    Everyone (including myself) is overreacting to a tough stretch. That's all this is, a tough stretch. The Sox have gone on a few of these this year. May was bad (.500) too. The good thing is that this team is able to turn the page quickly and rebound. They'll come out tonight, pound the baseball, Doubront will throw a good game, and they'll take this series and go to LA on a good note. They'll have Lackey Lester Peavy throwing in LA against Nolasco Ryu Capuano, so I like the matchups there too. Then we have 18 of the following 30 games at home, where the Sox play .635 baseball. Buchholz will probably get back around 9/5, but I think the Sox will push off his 1st start back to 9/7 so that he can face NYY - TB - NYY in those back to back to back series.
  10. SoxFanForsyth
    And besides, you invest entirely too much stock in a 10-12 game span. Remember when you were saying "Don't count the Jays out" because they won like 12 in a row? Same exact situation.
  11. SoxFanForsyth
    I didn't mention Kuroda because I was mentioning how often they have to run out bad pitchers. Great. They run out Kuroda every 5 games. That's 20% of their games. With 37 games left, he'll start 7-8 more games. That leaves 30 starts left to Pettite, CC, Hughes, and Nova. You could argue that Nova has been good too, which is why I left him off, but still that leaves 22-24 starts between that gruesome trio of starters. Not exactly inspiring.
  12. SoxFanForsyth
    Oh geez. Turns my stomach. Too many.
  13. SoxFanForsyth
    Not really. They're on a good run. But they still have to run out Pettitte, Hughes, and CC in 60% of their games. Not old CC. The CC who could barely beat Dempster, who is the Sox 7th best starter. Sorry, not gonna happen.
  14. SoxFanForsyth
    The Sox are winning the AL East. The Rays play horribly out west. Look at their last trip - 0-6 against ARI and LAD. Not to mention the Sox have more home games than away games and the Rays have 21 away games, where they are a .500 team. Red Sox 93-69 Rays 91-71 Yankees 88-74
  15. SoxFanForsyth
    See This Thread.
  16. SoxFanForsyth
    To be fair, Gaudin was set to pitch yesterday and he was scratched at like 8 pm last night eastern time.
  17. SoxFanForsyth
    err....not really. they had an outrageous stretch. they'll lose today. they're not really very good. plus they haven't made their west coast trip either. and even outside of that, the Rays have a crazy schedule. 3 v NYY this weekend, travel to KC on Monday to play 1, back Tampa for 3 v LAA, then a 10 game west coast trip
  18. SoxFanForsyth
    Excellent post. Thumbs up. We're so close to the Sox that watching them struggle night in and night out gets insanely frustrating when we know they are better than this. This is about as fortunate as we can get, though, only losing 1 game to the Rays and 1.5 games to the Yankees this month while playing sub-.500 baseball. Like I said in the GT. Turn the month around today, and get back on track. Win today, worry about tomorrow when it gets here. Hellickson vs Chen tonight in Baltimore, I like the Orioles chances there, so win today and maybe pick up a game on the Rays.
  19. SoxFanForsyth
    You also have to factor that if he was to get a hit, the runner on 1st would then be in scoring position with less than 2 outs, which would then increase their odds of scoring the go ahead run as well.
  20. SoxFanForsyth
    Yeah, lets let the reigning NL MVP have another shot to give the Giants the lead. That's silly. You take the out from Posey everytime, even if it ties the game. Tazawa has a huge HR problem, and Posey can absolutely mash. You catch that ball every single time with Posey up.
  21. SoxFanForsyth
    They're 9-10 in August and they're 16-15 since the ASB. That's hardly "house of cards falling". Even if they continue to play .500 baseball, they'll still win 91 games. For the Orioles to win 91 games, they have to go 24-13 the rest of the way, or .649 baseball (105 win pace). For the Yankees to win 91 games, they have to go 25-12 the rest of the way, or .676 win baseball (110 win pace), and they have Hughes, CC, and Pettitte starting 60% of those games. Color me not worried. The only thing I'm concerned with is whether or not the Sox are going to be able to win the East.
  22. SoxFanForsyth
    We also lost to the Rays 2-1 on that Nava blown all in the 11th loss. So 6 of the past 11 losses have been by 1 run. Makes me think it's just a minor tweak that needs to be made. We're not getting blown out. We're just not exactly right.
  23. SoxFanForsyth
    Yup. It's just another .500 month. Just like May. Gotta bounce back the same way as June, when they went 17-11.
  24. SoxFanForsyth
    This is something that ebbs and flows through the season. There's no rhyme or reason for it, it just happens that way. It'll turn. We have had a couple stretches like this already this season. They'll snap out of it.
  25. SoxFanForsyth
    I will say this, though. This team hasn't won 2 games in a row since playing the Astros 8/6-8/7. Sound familiar? Pretty much the exact same thing that happened in 2011. The Sox won 2 straight on 8/27/11 in a DH against Oak, then did not win 2 consecutive games again until April 13th and 14th, 2012. This team will right the ship, starting tonight, but it's just a strange coincidence. Also, the Sox are 16-15 since the ASB, so it's not like they're playing .333 and winning 1 and then losing 2 like Sept of 2011. They're winning 1 and losing 1.
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