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QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 6, 2010 -> 05:11 PM) If you can get a Nick Markakis-type player back for him, I say why not? Sell high on Danks. It'd be funny to trade him back to Texas this offseason, wouldn't it?

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Aug 6, 2010 -> 03:26 PM) I've never understood the "Danks has to be traded" theory. Is it because he turned down the lowball offer by the Sox? Really? Buehrle and his 14 million dollar salary come off the books after 2011. Danks will be in his last year of arbitration at the start of the 2012 season. I'll be somewhat shocked if Danks isn't locked up long term before the start of 2012. I don't think it has anything to do with Danks, in particular. I think the market for young stud pitchers, especially lefthanders is so ridiculous that it requires you to have a lot of cheap pieces elsewhere on your roster if you want to keep a guy or a few guys like Danks around. Secondly, I think that most of the time these ginormous contracts for pitchers end up coming back to haunt you. The Peavy contract makes this awfully difficult too. My instinct would be to trade him after this season.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Aug 4, 2010 -> 06:14 PM) Ranger this approach you are taking is way too simplistic. Its not black or white that Kotsay will cost the sox a game or he won't. Baseball is typically not that dramatic of a game. Aside from a great or horrible pitching effort, you usually cannot chalk up a win or loss to one player. Its an accumulation of efforts that decides the game. To say that Kotsay isn't costing them anything is absolutely false. Based on your argument it doesn't matter who is in the lineup if either (1) we can't point to a specific at bat that cost the game or (2) everyone else sucks. That is really nonsensical. Your opinion that the Sox will win or lose based on pitching is valid. You say if they don't pitch well they won't win. Obviously that is true, but if they don't hit well they won't win either. If they lose 2-1 or 3-2 is that the pitcher's fault? Why not strive for a better offense to help win those games where the pitching is poor? Also,why are you simply referring to the last two months and the 11 (now 12) losses? Certainly the first two months the Sox lost a ton of games. If Kotsay was a factor in those losses, why don't those count against him? I didn't go back game by game but I can remember a specific game against Texas where he left 7 or 9 guys on base. That loss I attribute directly to him. I am confident there are others. I don't see why you think the Sox should settle for a below average hitter in the lineup, especially at a offensive position like DH. Like I said above, a baseball lineup is an accumulation of hitters. The Sox should have the best possible hitter in the lineup at DH to have the most effect on the runs scored. It is evident that Mark Kotsay is not that player. No one seems to want to recognize this, but I think a lot of what Kotsay costs us is not so much the poor ABs he gives us, but the ABs he takes away from guys like Viciedo and Lillibridge, who have been nothing but outstanding for us. And that doesn't even get into the roster spot he is taking away from someone else.

Oh it's hard to be angry at Mark personally...it's not like he's trying to hit .218... Ozzie is the one who keeps throwing him out there in a position to fail.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 11:00 PM) Hey, if the catwalk in their stadium continues to screw over Tampa, then I'm all for it. 7 more times. And that won't be till mid September. That's the A ring to you, buddy. We will likely be struggling a bit too in mid September...but if we can go 33-21, we may be able to sneak in there...

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 10:57 PM) I still see no way the WC isn't going to Tampa Bay or the Yankees. Whomever doesn't win that division. We are coming, my friend...

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 10:47 PM) I honestly don't blame him one bit. Trust the process.

My guess is it'll take 95 wins to take the WC this year.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 10:40 PM) I think we're five behind TB? Yeah, I've been watching this myself. I would like to get into the WC race a bit just to have a backup plan in case Minny goes off the charts and wins 40 of 56 or something. If we keep playing well, I figure we can get into this WC race by the end of the month...

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 07:11 PM) I wouldn't be able to convince the 21-year old version of myself of this, but I'm getting annoyed that I can't stop this stripper from randomly sexting me. Yeah, you have to knock that off...not something you want your wife to find...

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 09:09 PM) Heh, I was going to go for it no matter what. I just like to see different peoples perspectives and we sure got a lot in this thread and everything was entertaining so good stuff. If anyone cares, tomorrow will be the day stuff does or doesn't happen. So there ya go. Do tell...

QUOTE (girlslikebaseballtoo#26 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 11:05 AM) IDK if Soxy is single, but I'm not ..sooo, that only leads to me to believe that something went right in the beginning for Chase and myself ..I obviously can't speak for every single woman out there, but I know a lot of women, and they would all agree with me. Right...

Kotsay!

Great win, boys

I wonder if we could put Jenks back in again here, if he would blow it again...

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 02:16 PM) f*** it. I'll say what we're all thinking. Santos should be the closer the rest of the way. I want Kotsay to close. No, honestly, I want Putz.

This game is very similar to the Twins game today. Except we didn't cheat to take back the lead.

Who wants to bet Rongey shows up tonight to tell us about how Kotsay single-handedly won this game, but hasn't single-handedly lost any for us?

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 02:10 PM) Jenks blows a save and blows up Soxtalk. Kotsay has 4 RBI, both in clutch spots and Soxtalk is humming fine. That says something about our posters ha. Actually, I did get one server error when Kotsay hit the triple. Just a double short of the cycle.

Hands lower again for Alex. Although he's raising them early still.

Way to go SS

Fat guys should not wear their socks high like that.

Well, s*** happens. Have to figure out a way to win this one.

How could Bobby honestly believe that his goatee looks cool?

Here we go. Fasten your seat belts.