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Message: [QUOTE="mauconnfan, post: 3227386, member: 489"] Bingo Dove. I told all my local Sox buddies if you don't take 3 of 4 or sweep the Yanks you do suck and won't make the playoffs. They were pitching well enough to let the hitting win games for a long time but the reality of the pitching was always Tanaka has a crappy elbow that should've been repaired years ago, CC is fn old, Paxton seems to have trouble pitching in/for NY like so many in the past and Germain is tired already from being handled like a baby. Happy was a bad resign they needed to add to the staff and instead Cashman adding the usual. I mean Lemahuie a great p/u and the Urshula trade worked it's way back in but they were in dire need of a #1 and #3 Happ wasn't an answer, there were others out there. Charlie Morton? Cheap and would be your stud, swing and miss. Ridgefield CT kid although a Sox fan growing up I still would've been thrilled to have him. Cole wanted to be a Yankee 2 years ago they swung and miss and too Stanton as their big deal, hows that working out. Paying for nothing. Corbin? They didn't want to pay? LOL This team will not win the east they are tremendously awful right now. This will be an epic collapse just short of the 14 1/2 gam lead of the Sox in 78. even if the remained steady, won games and the East they wouldn't beat anyone in a 5 or 7 game series because their pitching is horrific. So here's the deal, do not even think of giving anyone anything from the minors for a rental or anything other than a stud. Ride out the wave and begin to build a staff for next year, a winning and younger staff. Everyone wants the 20 year old kid, here's what I say BRING HIM UP let's see how good he is. He HAS to be better than what they're throwing out on the mound now I'm sure. [/QUOTE]

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