Rowand44

Out of all teams the diamondbacks. Wow absolutely unbelievable. Maybe the dodgers will trade him now that the streak is over.

Oh yeah that's a great idea move Jose the better fielder to 2nd or 3rd.

I'm tired of all this billy beane praising. Beane is a good gm but he's overrated if you ask me. His sabermatics bulls*** didn't get him anywhere. What got him places is that he has good minor league people working with him in their drafts. It's mulder, hudson, and zito that have got the a's to the playoffs every single year and those guys aren't their soley because of billy beane. To him obp is the only stat that means anything and their offense always seems to be a problem every year. OBP is obviously a huge stat but it's not the only stat that matters.

I should rephrase that a little bit. What I mean is you can bet that kenny will make a call to arizona, maybe not a legitimate run we both know that would all depend on how much jr will up the payroll.

Jose is a better defender. Right now he's a better hitter also, take nomar out of fenway and he isn't a great hitter. Jose is also the only left handed power bat we have and getting nomar to get rid of jose would hurt this ball club.

Nomar has obviously had the better career but this year Jose is WAY better. I would not even consider a jose for nomar swap right now.

The sox are not getting randy johnson. Hell Yeah I would absolutely love to have him but it just isn't going to happen. If he becomes available I guarantee kw will make a run at him but rj will not come to the southside, unfortunately.

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I agree with a lot of your points, however I do believe that Borchard has much more potential, while reed is definitely the more sure bet. For me it's almost impossible to say which one I would have rather gave up. I've always been a huge borchard fan because I love his work ethic and that's why I still have a lot of hope that Borchard can be a special player because he is such a hard worker.

Hey dan do you know bmac's line so far: walks, hits, k's. I'm sure he's doing awesome because he's one hell of a pitcher.

Yeah good point, forgot all about that. That plus the bucket boys and I think I'm at a bulls game.

Beat me to this thread. Also just saw the commercial, it's a really cool commercial. Brooks is doing a great job and I've loved everything he's done so far.

Harvey isn't as good as pauly but unfortunately the royals need a representative. If beltran isn't traded pauly or frank are in this game. But because kc needs a player to go it basically had to be harvey, kc doesn't have any other players that are even close to all star caliber this year.

It's because the al west only has 4 teams so you have to play those west teams extra games to make up for a lack of a 5th team.

What the hell, since when is Buehrle a number 3? Haven't you said all year that Buehrle is a number 2.

I really like Jason Kendall. I would love to see the sox acquire him if the pirates ate most of his contract. I like kendall alot because he's a solid defensive catcher who's got good speed and a good obp that you can put at the top of the order.

Oh, I never heard that Miguel was untouchable. I remember I heard bruce levine said that kw contacted riccardi about acquiring batista and that they weren't ready to deal him yet. I really didn't know if that meant he wouldnt trade him or if they just wanted to wait. But yeah that makes sense that they wouldn't trade him, he's signed for 3 more years right?

I definitely can't argue that he's drunk.

Speaking of Batista, I wonder if kw is still going after him, I'd love to some how acquire Batista.

He's dusty baker jr. They're great player managers but they suck at in game managing. That being said I would have also had rowand bunting, it wasn't ozzie's fault joe couldn't hit a ground ball.

First off why do you just make fun of people who disagree with you. You think the cubs are a lock to be in the ws and that's just ridiculous. You seem to love stats so why don't you look at nomars splits away from fenway, the flubs can have him. Zambrano was awful in the playoffs this year and he gets way to pumped up for big games and that really hurts him. Maddux right now is the defintion of mediocre. The flubs have no closer and really not a very good bullpen. The flubs have a very good team but they seem to be in 2nd place right now so I wouldn't say they're a lock for the world series.

Brando, I honestly think you've convinced yourself that the flubs have already won the world series. They aren't even close to a lock to being in the playoffs. Are they talented.... sure, do they have a chance to win it al, of course. But you make it seem like they can't lose. The flubs still have holes just like every other team.

Well I disagree with that also. I don't think we have any shot at rj but would love to get him. The best team in baseball doesn't always win the world series a lot of time it's the hottest team in the league. Lets say we get a hot pitcher like beckett was in last years playoffs, with a healthy magglio there is a good chance to do some things.

Well the flubs didn't see garcia, maggs, only saw frank for one series and only saw buehrle once. Talent wise the sox were the better team last year but they never put it all together for the stretch run. This year I really like this team once magglio come back and when frank is in the lineup every day. Loaiza will get things straightened, he's not going to pitch like last year but he'll be very solid down the stretch.

All good but just go with We're in First Place because not even those morons can debate that.