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  1. Bellhorn04
    evilhand, man, I like your stuff, but don't lose your cool. I argue with Elktonnick quite a bit myself. He's certainly not a troll. Troll is a very strong word.
  2. Bellhorn04
    At first squeezing Youkilis into the lineup was working OK because they were keeping WMB in there as well. Now that WMB is day-on day-off and Youk is flailing it looks like s***. Trade Youk now for whatever, get it over with.
  3. Bellhorn04
    I dunno...I think Crawford's got 142 million pretty good reasons to recover quickly from the slight John Henry inflicted upon his sensitive soul.
  4. Bellhorn04
    I have to say, the Youkilis situation has turned into just one more major headache for this team. There were some good signs for a while but now his bat has gone stone cold dead again. Meanwhile Middlebrooks has no idea day to day if he's going to be in the lineup. It's quickly become a dismal situation. Maybe the Red Sox don't want to be embarrassed by how little they're going to get for Youk.
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    Another loss. A fast one, anyway.
  7. Bellhorn04
    You forced me to do my homework on this and now that I have, I find that your statement above is totally inaccurate. I read the whole article, then I listened to her followup interview on the Dennis and Callahan show. She specifically says 'I believe Youkilis is part of the solution' and she also states clearly that she doesn't think the Red Sox should get rid of him. She talks about Youkilis's passion and says 'that's what we love about him'. Maybe you should listen to the interview again. http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=jackie%20macmullan%20kevin%20youkilis&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CFQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Faudio.weei.com%2Fa%2F46614208%2Fjackie-macmullan-talks-about-her-kevin-youkilis-story-on-espn.htm&ei=Ap7WT_z0DMjd0QHc0aCKAw&usg=AFQjCNFqpTL_tS2tK1e0zMvOU_hBPAgLIA
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    I do accept her as a credible source. So let's look at exactly what she said: 'Sour and cynical...carping' Yes, I can believe all that. 'Insistence on inserting himself into other people's affairs' That's his comments about Ellsbury. I'd agree that the comments were ill-advised. Did they affect Ellsbury? I can't see how, considering he had an MVP-calibre season. 'turned him into a detriment' That's a pretty non-specific statement. You can put your own interpretation on how harsh of a criticism this was on Youkilis. It certainly doesn't sound to me like anything comparable to a Manny situation. As for what his teammates said, I'm sure if nobody had said anything, people would take that as a sign that the players didn't support him.
  10. Bellhorn04
    See how Mazz slipped that last sentence in? He's not saying Beckett was an ace that year, he's saying he 'appeared to take the baton'. WTF does that even mean? I just enjoy poking holes in the columns of people like Mazz. The thing is that Beckett's ERA and WHIP were better last year than they were in 2007. So couldn't he possibly be good enough to lead a team to the World Series if he did it in 2007, and also in 2003?
  11. Bellhorn04
    There are plenty of reports out there about the Red Sox having already had preliminary trade talks with teams about Youkilis. Pretty unlikely he doesn't get traded by the deadline.
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    Same here.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Jackie Mac is a good writer. But should I put more weight on what she said or on what Youkilis's teammates said about him after Valentine's comments early this year? Pedroia: "I know he plays as hard as anybody I've ever seen in my life. I have his back and his teammates have his back...The whole team is behind Youk." Gonzalez: ""All you can do is tell Youk we love him. All it says is we have each others' backs. We're pulling for each other on the field and in the clubhouse. We've got a strong bond." Exact words, Nick.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Bailey wasn't on the DL at the end of 2011. In his last 4 appearances from Sept 22 to Sept 28 he pitched 4 scoreless, hitless innings. Sounds like a healthy pitcher. Injury-prone, yes, but not injured.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Fred, you have a tendency to not read other people's posts very carefully and also, for your own convenience, you tend to lump people together as if they have identical views even if they don't. So let me clarify something. My argument is not with Youkilis being traded. I have said that he should be traded to make way for WMB. My argument with Nick was that I don't think Cherington is an 'incompetent fool' who made a 'huge blunder' for not trading Youkilis this past offseason (rather than before the July/12 trade deadline). I also don't accept that Youkilis is a clubhouse cancer because some writers say he is. That's about it.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Emmz, I agree. There are always going to be optimist and pessimist views and if people are staying within the rules you can't just tell them to go away. The rest is up to the mods.
  18. Bellhorn04
    The team is playing s***** ball, and that's not because of the umpiring. But as a totally separate matter those charts do show an inexcusable error rate by the umpires. I don't know what can be done about it but it just isn't right. Pitches on the border you can understand, but not ones that everybody at home can easily see are well inside or outside the zone.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Now 14-19 at Fenway this year. That just ain't right.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Man, I cringed when I saw Houston scored 11 runs today, but Lowrie was 0 for 5 with 3 K's.
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  22. Bellhorn04
    I love the stats as much as anyone, but sometimes you can slice 'em and dice 'em all you want and it just doesn't matter. The bottom line is, we're having a f*** of a time winning games.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Gotta think not...I'd expect his first appearance will be 'low-leverage'.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Look, on the one hand you are speculating that Scutaro may have been traded because he was the clubhouse snitch. So if Youkilis was that big a problem, why wouldn't they have unloaded him? It's all guessy-guessy stuff, Nick. Conspiracy theorizing.
  25. Bellhorn04
    It's easy to say 'not moving Youkilis was a huge blunder', but as has been pointed out, he wouldn't have had much trade value in the offseason. They would have gotten very little back and would probably have had to eat most of his salary. As for the problem in the clubhouse stuff, that's all speculation by the writers.
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