QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Sep 6, 2010 -> 03:01 PM)
There's no way to know if Thome would have helped us. All we know is that he wasn't a fit here for 4 years. He didn't fit in whatsoever. He never excited anybody, only made them cringe and pray for anything but a strikeout. If you think differently, I have to ask if you ever watched Sox baseball with a big group of Sox fans? If you weren't cringing or pulling hair out when Thome was up at crucial times, then...uh...what were ya doin??? Cheering confidently that Thome was gonna make that pitcher pay??? My ass. He came through like 1 outa 15 times; let his meaningless memory go.
I see this and automatically think football fan more than baseball fan. Like a guy is supposed to hit they way a QB passes at like a 60% success rate or something. Hitting a baseball is failure pure and simple. The sooner you realize that the easier it gets to acknowledge when the successes happen.