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Gavin looks great tonight

Have a feeling Quentin is going nowhere now

Holy f*** does Wakefield have naked pics of this ump? This is horrible

This umpire is a joke, as is all of our hitters trying to hit it to the concourse

Wakefield's knuckler is insane tonight (oh, and our lineup is freaking brutal)

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 12:45 AM) I can't get any satisfaction from that. Can you really? I'd rather he go to the Cards and suck than to go all C.C. to the Brewers on us.

Edwin Jackson looks terrible against the Cubs at least

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 12:39 AM) One of those voices is wimpy. It's Huff with Pat Fitzgerald in the booth

Great to hear booing by our fans. Play the circus music...and blow it up Kenny

Great to hear booing by our fans. Play the circus music...and blow it up Kenny

There's that damn slider by Gavin. He needs to keep throwing curves until the opposition shows they can hit it.

Tigers on their way to winning...Gavin hangs a pitch, and it's 1-0 Boston

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 01:29 AM) is the knuckleball really dancing or is it the usual pathetic offense to blame Both...with this umpire and his knuckler dancing like crazy, there is a no hit possibility tonight.

Nice breeze provided by Dunn in that AB. This umpire's strike zone is as big as I've ever seen.

Does Ozzie know that Wakefield has been really bad against righties this year? Lillibridge should have gotten the start somewhere, as he looked great against him earlier in the year.

So Peavy is complaining again about that relief appearance?

Ozzie's use of Peavy this year has been horrible. Talk about not knowing your personnel

BTW, don't think that the Phils getting dominated by the Giants pitching the last few days wasn't a huge boost for the Sox with regards to Quentin's value.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 04:11 AM) Retooling on the fly! Yep, and there's no better time to do it than now. As we've been discussing, you couldn't ask for a better market that what currently exists for guys we could trade for value in return (Quentin/Thornton especially).

KW is flipping this roster trying to make it more flexible financially in the coming years. It's not hard to understand. If he trades anyone from our core roster, it will be at a position where we have a replacement (ie: Viciedo for Quentin, Ohman/Sale for Thornton). It's why you don't see him trying to trade AJP or Alexei right now.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 11:50 PM) Kenny Williams has done to the Sox what Martz is doing the Bears what Booth did to Lincoln. Which is.....

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 12:38 AM) I disagree. Give me Albert Pujols over 2-3 above average players every day. Above average players make you good, but great players make impacts. Totally agree

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 11:07 PM) i dont know how to feel about trading quentin, for the future obviously its good but imagine how much worse the offense would be(if thats possible lol) If they trade Quentin, it's because they don't believe they have what it takes to win this year (IMO). Sure, Viciedo can put up some strong numbers, but if you're going for the pennant, then you don't trade Quentin. I'd be so impressed by Kenny if he does this, as if you're going to turn over the roster....you go "all in" with players available. I look at our roster, and there's not one person outside of Santos that should be untouchable.

QUOTE (daggins @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 11:18 PM) Look at it this way - The Sox aren't winning anything this year without Dunn and Rios coming around. If those guys start hitting then they can win with Dayan in Qs place. I love this point!

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 08:36 PM) Stay away from Minor. Braves fans dislike him. 90 mph fastball straight as an arrow. Interesting...saw him pitch last year against Cubs and he looked dynamite. However, I think if you're trading Quentin, you have to get a lot more than him.