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  • Forum Post: Release Mike Napoli!

    Posted 07/01/2013 10:19:47 EDT

    Matter of fact, in July of 2009, when Bay was in the worst of his slump and waving feebly at outside breaking pitches, I remember some murmurs about trading him. He ended up with a .921 OPS, 36 HR and more »

  • Forum Post: Release Mike Napoli!

    Posted 07/01/2013 10:15:49 EDT

    Cross your fingers, basically, and hope he's like Bay in 2009.  Bay had 2 great months, then 2 horrible months, then 2 more great months.  Then we can all say 'that's baseball, folks!'.

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  • Forum Post: One more time: why are LH hitters better against RH pitchers and RH hitters better against LH pitchers?

    Posted 07/01/2013 10:10:13 EDT

    This question has come up before but I'm not sure I've ever seen a definitive answer.  The funny thing is that it's one of the gospel truths about baseball but nobody ever talks about why it works tha more »

  • Forum Post: Biggest Surprises of the 1st Half

    Posted 07/01/2013 09:59:38 EDT

    Dempster being much this much better than the rest of the Dumpster Brigade like McCarthy, Haren, Marcum and Edwin Jackson is a pretty big surprise.

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  • Forum Post: Overrated stats - HR's, K's, RBI - truth or fallacy?

    Posted 07/01/2013 09:53:10 EDT

    In response to moonslav59's comment: Hitting in the clutch is really not a sustainable skill, in my opinion. That's one reason I have to chuckle when posters blame the GM for not acquiring clutch hitt more »

  • Forum Post: Best short-lived bands

    Posted 07/01/2013 09:36:23 EDT

    In response to ZILLAGOD's comment: New England Ha...I think you are one of the few people that knows this band, which doesn't surprise me.  Some friends of mine were in a covers band and they did two more »

  • Forum Post: Angels and devils

    Posted 07/01/2013 09:32:15 EDT

    Fallen Angel is a very popular title.  Besides the two already listed there are different songs with this title by King Crimson and Robbie Robertson.

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  • Forum Post: CONGRATS ALL, I sense ................

    Posted 07/01/2013 09:26:32 EDT

    Don't worry, softy is harder to get rid of than the Yankees, or cockroaches.

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  • Forum Post: Biggest Surprises of the 1st Half

    Posted 07/01/2013 07:00:59 EDT

    I think Lackey is definitely the biggest surprise. As for Iggy hitting over .400 this long, I would call that more of a phenomenon.  One of those oddities that occurs in baseball for a period of time more »

  • Forum Post: Overrated stats - HR's, K's, RBI - truth or fallacy?

    Posted 07/01/2013 06:53:10 EDT

    In response to BOSOX1941's comment: Way back in the 50s, fans liked to insinuate that Yogi Berra was a better clutch hitter than Ted Williams.  A sports writer did a study and found that, in the "clut more »

  • Forum Post: Angels and devils

    Posted 07/01/2013 08:41:21 EDT

    More heavy ones:

    Fallen Angel - Blue Oyster Cult

    Shame the Devil - Robin Trower

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  • Forum Post: Overrated stats - HR's, K's, RBI - truth or fallacy?

    Posted 06/30/2013 11:21:22 EDT

    I've been reading quite a few comments this year on the question of whether or not HR's and K's are overrated.  Just look at yesterday's game thread for examples. I'm going to add RBI to the mix becau more »

  • Forum Post: Why are these guys hitting so well?

    Posted 06/30/2013 10:57:12 EDT

    In response to youkillus' comment:  Good job Moon, Jim is out to lunch on this supposition thing. Here's how it works, a player will duplicate his minor league production in the majors to a strong deg more »

  • Forum Post: Game Thread 83: Blue Jays at Red Sox

    Posted 06/30/2013 10:49:52 EDT

    In response to Joebreidey's comment: Yup.  These games happen, but they are frustrating as heck. Pedey lead-off 2B-stranded Salty lead-off single stranded 2B-1B-1B and -0- runs due to Butterfield brai more »

  • Forum Post: Revisiting the big trade....Dodger/Sox....how are some of those guys doing?

    Posted 06/30/2013 10:08:10 EDT

    In response to youkillus' comment: The A-Gon fiasco, and it is a fiasco, is one of my favorite subjects. I'm including CC in this subject matter. With Crawford, the intent seemed to be to keep him awa more »

  • Forum Post: RELEASE HIM!!!

    Posted 06/29/2013 12:10:56 EDT

    In response to Joebreidey's comment: I'm convinced that a fair amount of posters don't care what our record is.  And that they'd be just as happy with last year's record, if that meant we could get ri more »

  • Forum Post: RELEASE HIM!!!

    Posted 06/29/2013 12:03:36 EDT

    In response to emp9's comment: To Bailey's credit, he looked good for the first two batters he faced, then left up that fastball to the third ( Encarnacion- to whom he definitely should not have ). I more »

  • Forum Post: RELEASE HIM!!!

    Posted 06/29/2013 11:52:13 EDT

    In response to georom4's comment: If Middlebrooks needed to be sent down to work on things, why isnt bailey? Interesting double standards....then again Middlebrooks wasnt traded for by Blundering Ben more »

  • Forum Post: Can We Please Trade for Papelbon!?

    Posted 06/29/2013 09:14:12 EDT

    I was interested in this at one point but Paps loss of velocity and K's this year is a major red flag.  He's also blown 4 saves in the last couple of weeks.

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  • Forum Post: Angels and devils

    Posted 06/29/2013 09:10:58 EDT

    Zilla's monster thread gave me the idea for this one.  I'll start off with two of my all-time favorite late guitarists: Slumming Angel - Rory Gallagher Shake the Devil - Tommy Bolin (any of you guitar more »

  • Forum Post: Name the artist that recorded the song named after a monster.

    Posted 06/29/2013 09:08:10 EDT

    11. Judas Priest

    12. Eagles

    13. Black Sabbath - very appropriate to make them #13!

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  • Forum Post: Why are these guys hitting so well?

    Posted 06/29/2013 08:59:11 EDT

    Yeah, a lot of guys contributing is a great thing.  Last night was a perfect example.  Drew with a 2-run triple, Gomes with the huge pinch-hit.  Cherington deserves a lot of credit, he seems to have h more »

  • Forum Post: RELEASE HIM!!!

    Posted 06/29/2013 08:55:47 EDT

    Bailey's last clean inning was on April 24. 

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  • Forum Post: Can the Yankees get better this year?

    Posted 06/29/2013 08:53:50 EDT

    The lineup they are putting on the field these days is so decimated, it resembles the Red Sox after the trade last year.  Their pitching is still decent. But no, I don't think they're going to get bet more »

  • Forum Post: Revisiting the big trade....Dodger/Sox....how are some of those guys doing?

    Posted 06/29/2013 08:42:34 EDT

    And on top of that the Dodgers give Greinke $150 million.  And with all this high-priced talent they're 36-43.  It's comical really.  Talk about learning the hard way in a hurry. 

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