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QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 01:38 PM) Since this thread is active, figured I'd get the most responses here: if you could amnesty one contract with the Sox right now, who would it be? Rios, for sure.

This is fun.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:52 PM) Yeah, going by ERA. I've never used WAR for anything. Well, there in lies the problem.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:48 PM) Am I missing a page? I see Humber 4th on this list. Did you change it to sort by ERA or something? By WAR, he is 26th on that list.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:43 PM) And how many are still pitching? Almost all of them..... http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=...0&sort=18,a And I did that w/ a minimum of 120 IP, which actually puts Humber at a disadvantage on that list because he is at 123, while a bunch of other guys on the list are at 170 innings+

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:38 PM) Dating back to last year's ASB? No, sorry, I edited it. There have been 25 worse than him dating back 1 calender year.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:30 PM) I wonder if he'll use the elbow excuse again to explain his suckiness this season? He's literally been one of the worst pitchers in baseball over the last year. There have actually been 22 worse starting pitchers this season than Humber. EDIT: Oh, maybe you meant over the past calender year. In which case there have been 25 worse starters than Humber.

Another fun stat other than the 2 out runs one..... Every time the Sox have scored in an inning this series, the Tigers have scored more than that in the bottom of the inning. We haven't even lead for more than a half inning this series.

Well that was fast......

Ok, come on Hawk, you can't complain about Humber walking Jackson there, he just fouled off like 6-7 pitches. It was a great at-bat by him, not bad by Humber.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:15 PM) How so? I assume he meant De Aza's blast to CF.

I don't really give a s*** about what he did 6 years ago. You can root for a player to succeed for the team, not for personal gains. There have been plenty of players on my favorite teams I have hated, but that doesn't mean I root against them if they need to step up. If the Sox are winning/losing by a ton and he comes in for mop-up, then fine, root for the worst, but if he is in a tight ball game, then hope he does something to help the team.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 11:58 PM) It's not just a slump. There is more wrong than just that. I didn't say it was just a slump, but I guarantee you he won't continue like this for the rest of the season. He WILL get hot again, and then he WILL get cold again. It's just how it goes.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 11:26 PM) "and theres a hit by paulie,what new" i miss hearing hawk say that. Or..."Look at this....is that sweet or what?" But honestly, no one can answer this. We just have to be patient. Remember when people were honestly weighing his chances at .400? I told them to calm down, he will probably end up around .320 this year. And presto, it happened. As the old saying in sports go.... "When you are going good, you aren't good as you think you are, and when you are going bad, you aren't as bad as you think you are." People and players get too caught up in the highs and lows, when the middle is usually where they will end up anyway.

Your title threw me off. It made it seem like it was a multiple answer poll. I meant to select Sale, Viciedo, Reed, and Jones. But since Jones was my last selection, it's the only one that counted.

Cose with an awesome start.

I noticed Rios isn't a big fan of diving. Seems to try reach and stab.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 06:03 PM) Probably the biggest pitching matchup we have had all year, adrenaline is surely to be high in all the players competing today. Sale vs. Price looked damn good on paper.

Astros just pulled the rug out from under the magnificent AA.

TRY THE VEAL! TRY THE VEAL!

QUOTE (soxmaniac! @ Jul 19, 2012 -> 12:45 PM) im glad this has finally been brought to soxtalks attention. trolls and flaming have gotten out of control. as stated above, we dont want this to be another red scare. people that we dont think to be trolls COULD be trolls, and we dont even know it. hell, some admins could be trolls and we have no idea. this needs to be stopped before it gets too bad. If he looks like this, he is PROBABLY a troll.....

The only person I think of each time I see this thread is [deleted]. That dude has some pent up anger or something. Hell, that tagline in my signature is one of his many insults towards me, but I thought it was cute, so I adopted it.

Hector needs to be a starter, somewhere.

QUOTE (SnB @ Jul 19, 2012 -> 11:08 AM) I'm really hoping that you're just assuming your thai friend will only eat thai food. That's kind of what I was getting at.

You are meeting your Thai friend at a Thai restaurant......hmmm.....