I think you're right. Halladay is on the shelf, Lee has a 5.10 ERA in his last 7 starts. They need Hamels very badly and as you say, they have demonstrated a willingness to pay premier prices.
Plus the odds are against the White Sox being the team we have to beat for a WC spot. The Rays, Baltimore and the Angels all have better records. The White Sox also have a good shot at winning their crappy division.
I don't know which one of those would make me sicker. Nava I can possibly understand, but why in the f*** would they trade Ross? The guy is killing LH pitching. We need his RH power.
As I recall Tito expressed some regret about Meredith. I think the Sox bullpen was really short-handed for that game and Tito had to plead with Epstein to bring up a reliever. He said later he wished he hadn't rushed Meredith into that situation.
Ha ha, look, this FO ruins everything it touches, and as for Bard, as you can see in Fred's post above, he, Elk, Pumpsie, Muggah and Brennan called this.
Fair enough. I've been watching the Sox a long time, though, and I haven't seen many players have a better on-base stretch than he is having for this long.
I think a guy who could help Bard is Varitek. Bard had amazing success throwing to Varitek.
Career IP ERA OPS K BB K/BB
Varitek 80.1 1.79 0.523 95 20 4.75
Salty 75.1 4.66 0.690 64 45 1.42
Vmart 51.1 3.16 0.669 51 23 2.22
2011
Varitek 31.1 1.44 0.472 33 5 6.60
Salty 39.2 4.54 0.579 40 19 2.11
Youk was a huge contributor for several years and an integral part of the 2007 championship. I'd like to see him get traded to an NL team and have some more productive years.