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Harden close to being traded to the Red Sox now. Looks like Clay Buchholz injury is more serious than originally thought.

Rios getting booed on the final play of the inning. Pendulum swinging back to KW in the idiot of the moment in the Ozzie/KW battle. Ozzie very close behind for not benching him. It would be perfectly hilarious if KW tried to order Ozzie to bench him in the middle of the inning...went down to the dugout or onto the field. That would be total awesomeness.

Someone like Baines should have walked out all the way to CF and dragged him off the field. Fisk would have done it. The stolen base parade continues.

PULL RIOS. Now. Eat his whole contract. They can't win with him. It just is. Lollygagging....back on his heels. Shades of Lillibridge early in the season. Can Rios actually be embarassed for himself or for the Sox or the paying fans?? Even Beckham dropped the throw, but 95% of it's on Rios.

It's like one of those movies where they ask the protagonist to shoot someone (who's blindfolded) in the head to see if he'll go through with it...only later does the shooter find out he actually didn't kill anyone. It might work...but it's foolhardy as a long-term method of "honest dealing." Win the battle, lose the war, etc.

With Jackson's stuff, he really should have a better IP/H ratio, but he's been a bit better than expected...not by much. And not nearly as good as he pitched with DET in 2009 or with us for most of 2010. And the wild pitches were an issue. But that's nitpicking.

They should if they were around for the Sirotka/David Wells trade.

Dunn and Beckham will be back for sure. Doubt it on Rios/Pierre/Morel. Morel needs some more minor league seasoning because he's just not capable of putting up even a 650 OPS right now.

But doesn't that open them up to having to at least give Ubaldo a pretty thorough physical exam and battery of MRI's before it's approved? Especially if his velocity was noticeably down?

Ubaldo deal close to official to CLE. RED SOX interested in Willingham/Harden/Crisp. Twins will be just 5 GB if they win tonight. You know you're in trouble when AJ and Pierre are K'ing.

The Tigers are getting huge crowds every game...their fans are buying into it, at least. And the Twins are least selling 40,000 tickets per game.

Konerko back to life. 3 career homers against Lester. 53rd on all-time career homer list, tied with Craig Nettles.

If Youkilis makes a great play against Rios, how will we be able to differentiate which is more powerful, the YOUK cheers or Sox fans booing? Lucky for Alex.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 08:01 PM) Anyone know how to make the font smaller on soxtalk? Give Adam Dunn 100 blindfolded swings with your computer hanging from the ceiling...it has to be the biggest laptop in the history of the world suspended in the middle of an imaginary strikezone.

Red Sox radio guys urging a Sox selloff since we can't seem to get past the .500 mark and "that's a hallmark of a team that's just not going to be able to contend or put a run together." Oh...they probably don't even glance at the AL Central standings until the final week of the season when the Yankees/Red Sox determine who their playoff opponents will be.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 08:05 PM) Dumb? I imagine the reason they started him was to get that 4th player from Cleveland... They might be losing Pomerantz or White the way this is going.

Shades of Sirotka/David Wells???

It's not yet pumpkin time...and the pitchforks are out. Bale pitched for the Royals a while back. Would have been hilarious if they would have embedded the time Christian the actor went totally berserk and it was audio recorded....

Jimenez and Ludwick could be teammates in a day or two for the Indians. So weird.

OOOPS. Almost a great play by Ramirez but couldn't complete the throw. Goodbye Ohman.

DJ, Farmer and Rongey running a Hollywood-worthy PR campaign for Beckham to get the Gold Glove. That will never happen with Cano and Pedroia actually being able to field as well as hit.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 07:54 PM) If Viciedo's thumb is still in one piece, the time is now to call him up. This lineup just sucks so much against LHP, and can't afford to drop Sunday and Monday's game just due to a s***ty lineup like the one tonight. No Rios please, no Dunn either. It has to be tomorrow. Monday is already written off. Shouldn't be, because of the beginning of the game against Verlander this past week, but we always get rolled by Sabathia. Doesn't matter what team he's pitching for... 3-2 the next five games is probably the best-case scenario.

There's no way you trade everyone away in 19 hours. But you can trade away a few smaller pieces and start preparing mentally for 2012. You have to be very, very careful with Humber and Peavy. They're set to be the keys to next year...and you can start looking at Stewart/Santiago/Sale/Infante/Reed as well. They'll need to make a determination on Frasor and Bruney, too. Probably not until the final 1-2 weeks of the season, unless the Yankees and Twins just bury us this week. Who knows with this team?

QUOTE (mcgrad70 @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 07:46 PM) Hopefully, trying to see if he can trade himself. Whatever we get in return would be his greatest acquisition. They call it addition by subtraction. Wonder how long it would be before Hahn dumped KWJR from the Sox minor league system? One week? Or he'd just let him quietly "retire" and offer him an internship in the front office? The other reason this season sucks is we can't even see what we might be working with going into 2012 with Sale as a rotation member. Can they send him to the AFL or has he spent too much time on the major league roster? Is there a rule on that? Winter ball?

Wonder how desperate the Yankees will be to add Floyd or Danks? They've got CC, but out of Hughes/Burnett/Nova/Colon/Garcia...who do you go with for Games 2-3 in a playoff series?