The settle down was directed at everyone. The rest is: Who cares if he pitches? That's fine if you want to use a reply to my post to tell the board to settle down, and I am fine with ripping posts that are dumb and/or overly negative including mine, but I mean it's a question I was wondering because he's done it before (albeit in the World Series which is a big difference) Sometimes people ask questions because they want the people that are baseball smarter (like you) to give a reasonable answer so that we can all be smarter. Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to rip you or anything. I literally have just been skipping over the fatalistic posts, though. So I saw one that was an actual question and thought to respond. I don't really have an answer to it, other than that they would be doing it out of desperation or silliness. He just came off a game in which he had a heavy workload, and he looked bad last night. I'm just not afraid of facing him for a couple innings on two-days rest, when he was imminently hittable just yesterday. But that's beyond my worries, because right now I am sad, angry, and confused. And I just want Lester to pitch well.