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  1. User Name
    I'm arguing against trading for Upton or including top prospects/Rusney in the deal. I think that's pretty clear in my post.
  2. User Name
    Playing through those foot issues cost him essentially two years and shortened his career.
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    The irony is palpable. You're the one saying people wouldn't welcome him back, which literally no one has said, what has been said (and is what I said above) that you're minimizing how hard being a baseball player (DH or otherwise) really is.
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    He has people to do that for him.
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    I'm speaking from a physical perspective too. I compete in powerlifting meets, but I have a bursa issue in both my elbows. Now I don't do it for a living, so when it hurts not only can I just stop lifting, I can take whatever supplement I can to ease the pain. Chronic issues hurt even if you're not actively engaging the damaged area. Sometimes my left elbow won't let me sleep even if I haven't been lifting. Imagine that being a job, where you have a responsibility to a fanbase as furious as this one to produce, while being away from your family and dealing with the hectic schedule of a MLB'er. I'd take him back with open arms ( no one would not) but minimizing the guy's plight seems unfair to me.
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    BJ has fallen off the map after a scorching start (steal of home notwithstanding). Rodney is a good year, bad year guy who seems to be on his game, so he may be a good get.
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    I'd love Shields, but as a straight salary dump with a middling prospect, not Swihart and Devers while taking on a crappy OF and inconsistent reliever.
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    The game would have been tied, because he blew two calls in that at bat. We know there would have been a tie game, had the umpire made those two calls correctly, therefore, the blown calls directly cost the Red Sox a loss, by not allowing them to tie the game. And the point is that it should not be part of the game. The strike zone is clearly defined and instituted in the game's rules. Trying to stop the calls from being as accurate as possible because of "the human element" is just illogical in many levels. The beauty of it is that umpires don't even need to be replaced nor their roles reduced, they can be fitted with the technology to improve their call accuracy. The "part of the game" argument is the literal definition of failthought, because nowhere in the rules of baseball does it say that there's an acceptable percentage allowed for missed calls because we don't want to improve the ball-strike system, or that umpires should be allowed to have their personal strike zone because "the human element".
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    http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/images/players/head_shot/573186.jpg Stroman (5-1, 4.46) vs http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/images/players/head_shot/453214.jpg Wright (5-4, 2.45) Stroman has had moderate success (3.66 ERA, 1.16 WHIP) vs the Sox, but the Sox have pounded him like Jenna Jameson in her prime this year (10.13 ERA, 1.96 WHIP in two starts spanning 10.2 IP) Let's continue the pounding. And Wright better not f*** this up. WIN!
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    Giving up Devers and Swihart in the process? That's insanity.
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    Did you spend essentially six months of your life being held hostage by an MLB team's schedule? And if you have chronic pain anywhere, life in general is a grind, let alone playing baseball. Just because you played baseball as a pastime doesn't mean you understand what it's like doing it for a living, and it certainly does not invalidate others' opinions on the subject.
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    It means you're starting to be right about things.
  13. User Name
    "Not great"? It's highway robbery!
  14. User Name
    It's two months into the first season of his contract. Reactionary much?
  15. User Name
    But it's not consistent. Fairness is consistent. There is no consistency in inconsistency (which is fitting). Not all blown calls have the same amount of leverage, as David Ortiz will be more than glad to point out. That blown call to Ortiz literally cost the Red Sox the game, for example.
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    And for his awesome hair. Don't forget the hair.
  17. User Name
    The Yankees or preventing fairness.
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    I trust you but if we lose, I'll have to hunt you down and kill you.
  19. User Name
    Pass on my end. Hate his mechanics and inconsistency.
  20. User Name
    Swihart and Devers for an aging Shields, BJ (yes, he's BJ) Upton, and Fernando Rodney? That's just a terrible all around trade proposal.
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    Thunder better not f*** this up.
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    I'd rather 6 IP/4 ER consistently than 2.2 IP/8 ER any day of the week with this offense, but that's just me.
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    Not disingenuous, I made a mistake in recalling Price signing before Hill signed form memory. No need to call me a liar, as the point stands. Sox were in hot pursuit of an ace, were going to get him (and eventually did), and they offered Hill a similar contract than Oakland did. He chose Oakland because it offered a clearer path to playing time. Ultimately, it's the players' choice. Sox could have offered twice what Oakland offered on a 1-year deal, and he probably still chooses Oakland because if he's betting on himself, he has to go to the place that offers a clearer path to playing time so he can parlay that into another contract/more money. If anything, the one true mistake the Sox made was keeping Buch and trading Miley, who at least provided IP. Also, no way to know for sure Hill would be maintaining the same numbers he is now pitching consistently at Fenway/Camden/Rogers.
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    Even so, you were certain the Sox were going to get one of Price/Greinke, and were already "6-deep" (relative term) with a couple guys like Brian J. right below in the depth chart. If I'm Hill, I sign with Oakland 10/10 times. It's people we're talking about, who are looking out for their own interests. They are not machines auto-convinced to sign with the Red Sox just because they're the Red Sox.
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    At the time Hill signed in Oakland, the Sox rotation consisted of Price, Buchholz, E-Rod, Porcello and Miley, with Wright and Kelly on the outside looking in. If you're Hill, do you sign with the team seven (although the term is relative) starters deep, or the team in dire need for rotation help? Part of the problem we have as fans is that we tend to see everything in a vacuum. Life doesn't work like that.
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