Time to give back to the community! I was able to figure this out on my own. I must say, being able to use CSS to control the display of content is valuable. If you are looking to hide the # of Topics within a Forum and the # of Replies to a post, just use the following code in your CSS. This definitely cleans up the look at feel of the pages, IMO:
.h-topic-count-label { display: none; }
.h-topic-reply-count-label { display: none; }
I've tried this out on my site, so I know it works. Enjoy!