JDavis76

So 2018 is in the future?

The only comparisons I am hearing lately are to the 1998 Yankees team.......

Anything is possible, but that was obviously a pretty epic collapse.

I certainly do know what it is, and your post was a perfect example. Again, care to make a wager?

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Care to make a wager on that or are you just trolling again?

You are what we used to call back in the neighborhood a "mush"

Exactly my point......

I think you meant to say verlander.......

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So, has he or has he not been the GM for almost 2 1/2 seasons by now?

More moonslop. I am simply counting the years that he has been GM. Pretty simple.

I hope the walk helped with whatever you are going through

We are almost 2 1/2 seasons removed from what he inherited. And I think cora's handling of the bullpen this season drags down his score. Granted, hang 'em chaim didn't give him a lot to work with and there are some injury factors. But every team has injuries.

I have a hard time giving any team with a $200M+ payroll that has been mired at .500 or worse for the majority of the season a C+ or better

Just as I thought, guys like Clemens who never failed a test but was named in the partisan Mitchell report are definites but papi is a maybe. You crack me up. Just more moonslop.

Again, who are the "proven 4"?

I think what the astros were doing was next level compared to what the sox and Yanks were doing. And who are the "proven 4"?

mlb.com has crawford and his stellar 8.44 ERA starting for the boys from beantowne.

Or someone in the organization thought it would be a good idea because they weren't naive and realized that every team had people juicing......

And you also assume guys that deny it like papi are innocent......

I'm not assuming anything, but you certainly are.....

That's a bingo!!

Exactly.......

Direct quote from merloni - "And I walk into that office, and this happened while I was with the Boston Red Sox before this last regime, I'm sitting in the meeting. There's a doctor up there and he's talking about steroids, and everyone was like 'Here we go, we're gonna sit here and get the whole thing—they're bad for you.' No. He spins it and says 'You know what, if you take steroids and sit on the couch all winter long, you can actually get stronger than someone who works out clean, if you're going to take steroids, one cycle won't hurt you, abusing steroids it will.'” WEEI-AM’s “Big Show” co-host continued, “He sat there for one hour and told us how to properly use steroids while I'm with the Boston Red Sox, sitting there with the rest of the organization, and after this I said 'What the heck was that?' And everybody on the team was like 'What was that?' And the response we got was 'Well, we know guys are taking it, so we want to make sure they're taking it the right way'... Where did that come from? That didn't come from the Players Association."