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QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:03 AM) Also, Hudson has outplayed the hurt version of Brent Morel. The bar was unbelievably low, but he's above it I disagree, Hudson's horrible defense has cost us way more than Morel's terrible offense has. And this is coming from someone who hates Morel.

Sucks we let Braun hurt us there. Oh well, lots of runs to be scored against these mediocre starters

Balta, you really think Youk wouldn't be better than Hudson? It is hard to play worse than Hudson has with the Sox

Jeez. You have to fight that off. Bench continues to suck.

Big chance here for Lilli. Hudson 0 for last 17

Crazy game so far

Nice job Tank!

Nice start here, AJ has to avoid the double play

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jun 23, 2012 -> 11:41 PM) Viciedo needs to erase the deficit. Wolf is the perfect pitcher for him to crush

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jun 23, 2012 -> 11:39 PM) So wat did Dayan do, for those of us who arent watching? Routine double down the line bounced away from him, allowing the runner to score. Took a bad bounce off the wall, but it made his effort look very shaky on it.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:36 AM) throw him a high fast ball out of the zone Every pitch away in that AB?

Bad play, he got way too close to wall. Viciedo's June has been quite atrocious.

FWIW, Lillibridge has taken much better swings of late. His swing looks significantly shorter.

Nothing Hudson can do about that. Both of these pitchers might get their fielders hurt tonight.

Umpire has a small zone. That's going to make things tougher for Axelrod.

Time to pick up a game on the Indians and Tigers. Should be quite a few homers hit by both teams tonight.

It would be nice to break up the Rios/AJ/Viciedo/Alexei part of the lineup with someone that can draw a walk. Only 43 combined walk for those 4 guys this season.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jun 23, 2012 -> 08:49 PM) Jim Bowden says the Indians are in the hunt. But keep in mind this is the guy who said we acquired Adam Dunn a few years ago. Red Sox trying to play rivals against each other?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jun 23, 2012 -> 07:48 PM) Yep since Ventura didn't give him the opportunity to close. Thornton's done nothing the last two years to justify being the closer. He's getting paid a ton of money to do what he does.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 23, 2012 -> 08:36 PM) Yeah, but I feel like he offers the team something, even if we had to use him in lower-leverage situations. I am just really afraid Youk will offer us absolutely nothing. Not only that, but you would hope to get more back for Thornton if you trade him at the deadline.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 23, 2012 -> 07:37 PM) The product is not worth the cost of the entire experience. That's my opinion. Too easy to attend a minor league game if you need a ballpark fix (sights, sounds of a ballpark and a 1 dollar hot dog instead of a five buck dog). Minor league games are terrible for the most part.

No way it's legit if no one else is reporting it and they're getting quotes from Youkilis already.

That would be a terrible trade by KW

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 23, 2012 -> 06:18 PM) Judging by the time of season, Youk would have about $6.8 mil left on this year, plus another million for the buyout of 2013. So if they pay for 2-3 million of that and don't give up anything of substance from the minors, that's fine with me.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 23, 2012 -> 07:13 PM) I'd be OK with picking up about half of the contract for a nothing prospect. Any more than that, I start Escobar for while. Not to open up the whole "finances" talk again, but I have no problem with the Sox taking on a few million for Youkilis....as long as it wouldn't prevent other deals this year. KW probably wants to go for it now and give himself until the end of July to see if they should become sellers.