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So Sano's desire for a homer or strikeout gives us the win. That ball 3 woulda been 3-0 and he'd have ultimately walked him. Homers and K's are not always the best strategy.

Whew. We win.

If we win, it's luck. Sano is aggressive; Coloma ineffective.

I thought fricking Cruz was out for the year and dropped him from my teams, damn.

This guy could end the game with one swing (either way, homer or pop up, nyuk nyuk).

Colome isn't exactly Mariano Rivera every outing.

I'm glad the ump is OK. Quite a shot to the mask.

I picked a good guy for my favorite player. Nice play there by Jose who also homered and drove in 3 tonight. Hope he enjoys a cold beer if we win.

Is he a FA this offseason? He's cheap and we need a RF and he loves the Sox. Hmmmm ....

That was pretty apparent. Good post by kite.

I didn't hear it but I know what Stone is getting at obviously. Let's say Sox lead by 3 in the ninth and Colome gives up two. Big deal. We win. Let's say he's being used just to get some work and gets rocked. Big deal and ERA explodes. How many times have you seen stuff like that? But if we are up by one and he retires the side ... that's the value, not the overall ERA.

It's not difficult. Collins and McCann are the Sox 2 deep at catcher the next 10 years or so. Keep both. Though McCann might want to be guaranteed starting job after this fine season. Collins is ready. If McCann won't agree to split time we may have to let him sign elsewhere.

Guess what? You are not smarter than Stone. Nobody on this board is more baseball savvy than Stone. Now I've seen and read it all. If any other posters want to say they are smarter than Stone, do so here so I can make a list.

Then why would a player be assured Hall of Fame if he knocked in 100 RBI or more in say 7-10 seasons? You advanced stat people can never convince me RBIs mean nothing. Look at the players who knock in 100. They are pretty fricking good players. Just cause you guys say it doesn't matter doesn't mean La Russa will agree with you. ... I'm assuming to the stat people only WAR matters at all. It should pretty much be the only thing looked at regarding Hall of Fame admission. I wonder if the baseball arbitration judges only look at WAR. ... Tell me ron, do you know more than Steve Stone? Are you a better baseball mind than Stone? Try telling him RBIs mean NOTHING. Get back to me on how that goes.

Geez GreenSox, numbers aren't great and he's going to hit 30 HRs and knock in about 100 to 110. And as far as the funk in a meaningful month? Please ... we had no meaningful months. This team was never going to contend. The roster overall blows.

I don't know why his time appears to have come. He's going to hit 100 RBIs very soon unless he goes into the tank during another meaningless month of baseball.

Not going to jump off the Cease bandwagon as he strikes out a lot of people and is still learning and appears to have the 'it' factor when watching him pitch. ... However some of his pitching lines have been pretty average so far. This series was a bonus really. Sox won one game. Considering the two teams' rosters, that's a moral victory. Anaheim has much better roster.

It seemed like we really didn't want Harper cause he was an outfielder and we're kind of set there with Eloy, Robert and Rutherford for 10-15 years.

It's funny how we tend to resemble some certain posters and are at the oppo spectrum of others. I tend to agree with Vile a lot. It's like I am Vile. There's somebody else like that on the board who I agree with all the time. I forget the name right now for some reason. Sunday night blues I guess. I agree with Vile that MM's behavior was a huge red flag.

I'm good with Jerry spending Jerry's money if it guarantees titles. Do I think it's necessarily wise? No. If I was a GM and my job depended on it, I'd figure out a different way. Because you sign one guy for 300 million, odds are decent he'll get hurt or flop and frankly at that point you fire the GM. I'd figure a different way to spend Jerry's money. But if you guarantee me a title or two I'm OK with it. Not my cash.

Sometimes guys click with their new team like Flowers in Atlanta; just make McCann part of the team's future plans. Whatever that means in terms of signing him, just do it. He's proven he fits on this team and is as good as anybody we could get right now. It's not rocket science. Pay the man and keep him around.

Good post, Tray. Homers and strikeouts. The new rage.

This opens up a can of worms so to speak. So do individual coaches matter? You think Abreu doesn't talk details with some of the younger players? Or Shields when he was here talk to the younger pitchers? ... Or some of the older guys talk about positioning and baserunning? I would think if leadership does not matter at all either does individual coaching. It's an individual sport, so Coop and Steverson don't help either, right? And Ricky?

If the Sox have to pay exorbitant contracts in order to win it all I'm good with it. Again, I'm never upset when the owners have their profits cut into. They don't care about fans; why should fans care about them? Manny didn't float my boat but he's a good hitter. Our front office has signed some free agents; most of them have stunk.

The change was great It's a once in a season thing. Obviously even doing it one more time this season would be a huge mistake. And doing it for Field of Dreams game would be an unmitigated disaster. That's going to be a special game, too, but the game will stand on its own. This Walton thing was genius: Two sub .500 teams going nowhere. Walton being from Cali and being the Sox color man and pretending to love the Sox. Priceless. I challenge you to watch two plays. When we squeezed the run in and when our reliever botched the bunt on defense. Walton ripped our reliever mercilessly. It was hilarious. And the squeeze call was sensationaly funny saying Ricky's move was "brilliant" and he deserved a contract extension. Anybody find the links for me, please put here. ... But my point is only once a season. I'd bring him in for a home game next August. Let him do one at The Cell. Hell, he's a great advertisement for the city of Chicago. He knew enough about Chicago last night. Studs Terkel indeed! Love Bill Walton!