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And a verified idiot to boot.

We give him s*** because: A) He's a f***ing douche. B ) a700 feeds him some of his posts. If he's going to be consistent with the bad English and try to improve by trying, then we won't give him s***. Don't try to white knight here, because it's not necessary or welcome. He keeps attacking people while pretending to be an innocent sheep (with bad english to boot).

When has he ever made sense?

You're rendering the ignore feature useless. I mean who wants to read his hypocritical senseless babbling? Let him grumble in his rocking chair.

Because it's the logical one. You don't assume a guy who's mashed lefties over 1,100 plate appearances to the tune of a .882 OPS sucks because he's struggled over 71 plate appearances. Especially if you know he's been the recipient of extremely bad luck. Then again reaching that conclusion requires some logical thinking......

Thank God you're not the one running this ballclub.

Aside from a slump in the beginning of May, Red Sox defense has been rock solid this season. That's part of the pitching improvement and an important reason for their success.

Also, players usually decline exactly like Teixeira has. Look at Albert Pujols for a point of reference.

Some around here can't enjoy the good feelings of those two months and go around picking fights with others......

It was the definition of a chepy though. He'll hit homers, that's not in question in NYS, it's the rest of his skills that have eroded.

I would. For one, his BABIP was probably affected by a combination of slight decreases in LD%, HR/FB and GB% with an increase in IFFB%. Also, one bad year of BABIP is a fluke, several is usually a trend, like almost everything else in baseball. Your BABIP tends to be low if you don't make consistent hard contact and are slow as molasses. But he didn't do it. And even if he had hit 30, it would still have been the worst full season of his career. The 30 homers isn't the point, that's just the straw you're grasping at. An increase in BABIP by itself does little, unless it's large and sustained. And it's unlikely given Teixeira's statistical profile anyway. Beltre played in Seattle, and he's long been a suspected steroid user. Crawford was coming back from injury and (surprise) is injured again. Lackey's pitched 45 IP, Wells is not a good example, since he had an on-off good year bad year thing going on a la Beckett. You did not provide a single example of what i asked. You're talking like this is something that doesn't happen all the time with baseball players. They decline. Sometimes abruptly. This seems to be the case with Teixeira. Maybe he has some nagging injuries, maybe the whole switch hitting thing has taken a toll on his abilities, who knows? But the numbers don't lie.

I'm beginning to think it may not be him. YOTN has likely read the multiple times he's been accused of being Dutchy and hasn't banned him. He also tends to IP check the new guys, and nothing.

You seem to forget that Drew's actually been pretty good at preventing runs. I like Iggy at the Util spot. Have him spell Pedey, Drew and WMB. He could get work in 4-5 days a week, especially if they play him at SS against lefties.

I highly recommend the ignore feature. It's very helpful.

Which is exactly what i'm talking about. They let him settle down and beat him. That's the opposite of hitting good pitching. By the time the game was stopped, he was dealing, and Kuroda was out of gas.

You're going to bitch about me saying this, but Masterson hasn't been good today. I've been watching this game on tV and following on gameday and he's been over the middle of the plate an awful lot. They certainly couldn't do anything against Buch yesterday, so saying they're "starting to hit good pitching" seems like an empty statement.

That's not the point. He's obviously better than Overbay, and Overbay is probably a better offensive option against RHP than Wells right now. But people keep talking about "immediate impact" like he's 2009 Teixeira. He isn't.

So the four-year downward trend goes completely ignored? OPS by year since 2009: .948 .846 .835 .807 That is the complete opposite of consistent, unless you're talking about consistently regressing. David Ortiz and WMB were "on pace" to hit 30 last year. They had the capability of doing so, but didn't. Do you see why pace means nothing? This is also why the argument holds zero water. He simply didn't hit 30. He could have, but so could David and WMB, but they didn't. This goes completely against everything statistical analysis has shown us over the years about trends in declining skills. What evidence do you have to back up this claim? The trend of declining production is there. You are arguing for the sake of arguing, since there is absolutely no way to back up your position. Show me a player who showed a pronounced decline for several straight years and then stopped that decline and his numbers "stabilized" without the suspicion of foreign substance abuse. I'll wait here.

How the mighty have fallen......

Why is Lyle Overbay playing Right Field?

Oh no you didn't!

He's not very smart.......

Tex hit a YS home run against Justin "can't get lefties out" Masterson. FEAR US

Batting average is next to useless. And using a small sample instead of the larger one to attempt predicting future production is basically doing things backwards. By your logic, Iglesias is going to hit .400 this year. Which is more likely, Gomes starts hitting LHP, or Iglesias regresses offensively? Gomes has a .200 (!) BABIP and keeps hitting warning track shots to the deepest parts of ballparks. Both will correct themselves.