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Yeah, I feel like an idiot making fun of you guys for not making the playoffs when, if fact, you...didn't make the playoffs. Wow, I must've really gotten under your skin at some point here, huh Joe? You can do better than this, though. Take a look at any argument between Mr. Plaid Shorts with Tube Socks and me and study hard. Maybe I'll even let you be my little helper.

I wouldn't drag Osi and Strahan into this.

Isn't that the outfit you had on in the picture with Biggie at the wax museum? No, sorry, those were white tube socks.

Lorf, understand- this is a fan of a team who spent more than the Sox and didn't even make the playoffs (although I'd question how much of a fan he is, considering most of his Yankee posts suggest a very limited knowledge of the team and the game). He realizes he's a nitwit, but he's got nothing else to throw out there.

Yeah, fuck it. He's also a fat ass gimp who wears my grandfather's plaid shorts- with white tube socks, no less. What a mess. Talking about Hank Steinbrenner, of course.

lol I think somebody thought you were referring to them with this description, Lorf. Not that I don't see the connection (at least in the loaded and dimwitted part).

Just read that they are taking a hard look at Texeira. That would seem puzzling considering the fact that they have Youk and Lowell. Could they possibly be thinking about moving Youk to LF and trading Bay, maybe for a catcher? Trading Lowell and moving Youk to third? I don't see what they could get for him without eating most of his contract. Youk, Drew and Bay in the OF, trade Coco, Ellsbury off the bench? Not sure if Bay or Drew can play CF every day. Lots of possibilities. Wish we weren't pondering them all yet. :brooding:

How is throwing a fit on the field and yelling "Fuck you!" to your head coach on national tv "keeping it in house"? Not saying the guy needs to go, but let's not sugar coat it, either.

Don't know, or pretend to know, what goes on in the Giant locker room, but I know I didn't like what I saw yesterday. No player, especially one coming off a suspension for insubordination, should be yelling "Fuck you!" at the head coach in his first game back, after taking a stupid penalty no less (granted, the original call was horrible, but there's no need to compound the problem). Not to mention it looked like Plax took more than a few plays off (something he's been known to do, even when things are going well). This has clearly reached a breaking point. I'm not so sure if things can be rectified between Plax and the organization. I know everybody wants to focus on all of the good things Plax has done since coming here, including possibly being the single biggest factor in us winning it all last year, but it may be time to start exploring our options. I think Fitzgerald for Plax and a second rounder is laughable (why exactly would AZ make that trade?), but there has to be some kind of market out there for him. This guy is so hard-headed, though, that I don't think he can ever put that suspension behind him.

Yeah, I guess when your organization is in disarray, you're reduced to rooting for other teams. Luckily for the Sox, we always have hope that our team can win it. Who knew you were clairvoyant, Joe?

Think about the embarrassment we'd feel if we doubled our payroll, and missed the playoffs altogether.

True. The Yanks don't stick around 'til game 7 anymore. Come to think of it, they haven't even played in a best-of-seven series in four years. Yeesh.

That would've been early September, so I guess you were just following the lead of the majority of Yankee fans. Can't say I blame you.

Glad we could give you guys something to do for the last three weeks.

...and nobody blamed it on injuries. At least we still have our dignity.

C- 'Tek has to go. We need more production, and the defense ain't all that great anymore, either. Keep Cash as a backup. 1B- Youk 2B- Pedroia 3B- Lowell is signed for another 2 years, so we have no other choice. SS- Lugo is signed for another 2 years as well, and nobody wants him. Looks like we'll have to continue to go with him tutoring Lowrie. I like our infield bench, but like you said, most of those guys are gonna want to start elsewhere. LF- Bay was nice considering they could've gotten absolutely nothing for Manny, but this is the one position where they have an opportunity to go for a little more thump via a trade. CF- I guess we'll have to keep going with the Ellsbury/Coco platoon. Both are great defensively, and very suspect offensively. This position, more than any other, is a drag on our offense. RF- Drew SP- Dice, Beckett (who needs to come into camp in shape next spring), Les are definites. I would make a serious run at Burnett. I know he's injury prone, and has a history of pitching well only in contract years, but we can afford to take that chance where other teams can't. And he kills the Yanks. I'd show Wake the door. Let Buchholz continue to develop in the 5th slot. Can't see them going after Lowe as he was a partier while he was here, and I've heard that hasn't changed. Always liked D-Lowe, though, and I wouldn't mind him being the 4th starter. Pen- Pap, Delcarmen, Oki, Lopez, Masterson (who could even fill that 5th slot in the rotation, but that leaves a big hole in the 'pen), then fill the rest of the slots with acquisitions.

Yeah, not overly concerned, yet, but some of the throws by Eli were alarming. The one that went back for a touchdown was inexcusable. You can't try to squeeze that one into that tight a spot, in that situation, stepping backward in the pocket.

The basic logic of your argument is flawed. Nobody saw the Sox as David to the Yanks Goliath. People were intrigued because a.) The Sox hadn't won in 86 years and b.) No team had ever choked up a 3-0 lead before. As for this year, the Sox are drifting further away from the Yankees in terms of payroll, not closer. Honestly, by looking at the title of your post, I thought you meant that they're choking in the postseason (though I don't see it that way either- Tampa's just the better team thus far), and that's what makes them the new Yankees.

You could really go with either one. They were both huge, at the plate and in the field.

Could see this one going seven. The thing that worries me is that there were several games this year where we could've brought the Rays back down to Earth with a victory, and they won the game every time. They definitely have an '04 Sox feel to them- loose and hungry. I think Becket will be the key. If he can shake off the start against Anaheim and revert back to postseason form, I think we stand a good chance. If not, it will be tough.

You know, I've actually been watching him the last couple of nights and I don't think he's doing the gum/tobacco thing. I know he has tried to quit that for a long time. It looks now like he's eating some kind of seeds or something.

No, I hated them before that because all of my friends growing up were Met fans and we always used to argue about which team was better. '86 didn't help, obviously, but I still root against them hoping that those guys are out there, somewhere, suffering.

He mixes bubble gum and chewing tobacco together and chews it. They usually show him during a tense part of the game, and that's when he starts chomping on that stuff. I never heard of mixing the two together before him, and it would seem like it would be pretty nasty.

Yeah, I think the pressure on the Rays will be ratcheted up as they move along, and I also like the fact that their pitching seems hittable so far (the White Sox just can't seem to come up with the big hit). Still, they haven't been fazed by anything (pennant race, ALDS) yet this year.

Trying to put the old whamma-jamma on us, huh nj? Still a very long way to go. We haven't proven that we can beat the Rays in a big game yet this year. Then there's Manny and the Dodgers looming on the horizon.