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1 - thank god for sunday game blog. you should be on the sox's payroll. dollar dollar bill ya'll. (Comment this)

2 - Great post. I just totally ripped it off on my own blog. (Comment this)

3 - still not sure why people feel the need to get rid of bellhorn..he hasn't been as good as he was last year, but he still has an ops of .740 wth an obp of .360..those aren't great numbers, but they're more than acceptable from a 2nd baseman...as for embree, it would be hard to stick with him much longer - i like the idea of giving one of the pawtucket guys a chance..heard a commentator today mention foulke's knee again..has anybody else heard about this?..at least it would explain to some extent why he's been so awful..looking at where we're at, i still feel like this is a good team, one that should win over 90 games, but i do think i overated the pitching staff..obviously there's been some stuff you couldn't see coming like how bad foulke has been, schilling getting hurt (although when you have pitchers as old as schilling and wells you got to expect that someone's going to land on the disabled list)..that said, i think arroyo and wakefield aren't pitching that much worse than we should have expected..i think it was reasonable to hope for an era in the low 4's from arroyo, he's at 4.5 ...wakefield with a couple notable exceptions, has always been an innings eater with era's from the mid to high 4's, he's at 5 .. now wells, we can expect some improvement from, i think it's reasonable to think that his era will drop to the low to mid 4's by the end of the year, but miller is still a wild card..at this point, he really hasn't shown me enough to think that he's anything other than an innings eater, we know he's more talented than that, but whether his arm will still allow him to pitch like he used to, i don't know...so even if schilling comes back soon and gives us around a 3.5 era (which is optimistic),we're looking at a rotation with era's of 3.5 (schilling), 3.7 (clement), and 3 mid 4 era guys..respectable, but championship quality? and that's not even touching the bullpen...i know how easy it is to overeact to the way a team is playing for one month or even a few months (2004 being a great example), and i think our lineup is so strong that we should still have a decent shot at the playoffs, but i don't think our current roster is championship quality..it'll be interesting to see what theo ends up doing... (Comment this)

4 - J - I do what I can.

Terry - thanks for reading.

Nick - Yeah, I agree... I don't really tink Bellhorn is on the hot seat, but I was just trying to think about who Theo might have been talking about there.

As for the rotation, Arroyo will stay at a low 4's, definitely, and Clement will be better than solid... Miller I think will be back and forth, but will end with a mid to high 4's unless he goes down to injury again. Wake is what he is. The wild cards are Schill and Wells. If Wells can give us consistent quality starts, I can be comfortable with the rotation to a degree. But we need Schill back at at least 80%,I think, to make it so we dont need to make a major SP addition. (Comment this)