We've got a lineup filled with lefties and no catcher...your 2011 Boston Red Sox thread.

not that im complaining...but you know I am a Red Sox fan.

Maybe Salty will be good! Who knows?

I haven't worn a baseball jersey since jr high, but I'm seriously considering an A-Gon replica.

so how many articles will be in the vein of 'O FUC THIS ADRIAN GONZALEZ WHERE DID HE EVER COME FROM HE IS AMAZING' and be published on the east coast?

dude is going to have a big year. happy hes gonna get paid.

I hope you guys won't mind if I quietly root against A-Gonz out of pure bitterness.

will knit sox paraphernalia for every thread poster

You're on. What are you gonna knit me?

Hey - come visit this season and we'll go to a game!

i'm pretty excited about adrian hitting in fenway, i won't lie

yes -- plan on it E!

:-D would be so sweet

Lackey loses 15 pounds, grows bigger teeth.

im just excited about this team in general. hopefully they stay healthy.

this team seems fake

what do you mean?

I might roadtrip for a game in Fenway if the seat is < $75 btw

what do you mean?

― ciderpress, Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:39 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the team this year is like if you simulated the first season of a video game & then made some moves in the off season to ensure that your team was unbeatable

We should just admit that every AL East team is flawed now, so we have room to be surprised later.

i don't think they're unbeatable, the talking heads on nesn are already suggesting this could be the first modern sox team to win 100 and i'm thinking geez they're really setting up everyone for some major potential disappointment

i think last year's yankees looked about as good on paper at the beginning of the season. and they were good, but they didn't win the division or the WS.

the yankees staff was/is shit

does anyone have a not gay RS blog that they could point me to so I can get a handle on this team?

oh totally xp

yes -- plan on it E!

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Tuesday, February 15, 2011 3:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I might roadtrip for a game in Fenway if the seat is < $75 btw

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:41 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

omg yes everyone come!!

Would be awesome, right? I haven't been to a game since the year before last so I'm really looking forward to going this season.

i didn't make it to fenway last year either (but i did see the sox in baltimore which is a MUCH nicer park imo. would be totally jealous if the O's were any good anymore)

already have tix for one game this year, pretty excited

yea ive not been to fenway since the mets series 2 yrs ago i think...under $75 is probably doable for anything non-nyy & non-interleague right?

yeah I usu pref to see BOS or NYY in Baltimore

xp

i haven't been to a game since 1999 when my friend with season tickets moved. I cant afford it.

under 75 is no prob fellas

i would love to take my son and wife, but thats a $300 day right there.

I'll stick to sitting in my backyard with a 12 of high life and the game on the outdoor speakers.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5641/vwpapi2011lowres.jpg

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/183689_501768631765_39399781765_6719015_7328741_n.jpg

spring training pic

wtf @ ortiz/llama/majorette/vitamin water/elephant furry

can't wait 4 the masshole conventions @ camden yahds

I dunno, I don't sense this team as being leaps and bounds better than last year, and I'd never start expectations at 100 wins w/ the Yankees and Rays.

i still have a soft spot for papelbon

that vitamin water pic is too much

aaaaaarrrrggggh i just bruised my coccyx, i'll be out for 4-6 weeks.

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2011/02/16/drew2__1297868583_2047.jpg

gonzo hits off tee...getting ready.

can we talk about te wera bishop

sure!

ok wtf @ te wera bishop

lol @ red sox scout speaking to new zealand news:

“He's a catcher, and in my reports I put in to Boston I said he has a chance to be a power hitter, to hit the ball over the fence,” says Red Sox scout Jon Deeble.

LOL

scouting the pacific rim must be pretty weird.

i like the interview where he says "its a hollywood movie...for me"

but srsly wtf @ signing this guy

saddened that he goes by "beau"

eh no one would blink if it was a 17 year old dominican kid; the fact that he's playing softball not baseball is more or less immaterial.

fast-pitch softball, it's worth noting, is extremely difficult for batters! so if he's holding his own than he has as much of a chance as anyone (i.e. not all that much) of being able to hit pro pitching in 4-5 years.

i think they would if it was a dominican kid who had never played baseball!

softball is really hard for batters but its also very different w/r/t angles, techniques etc

just because its hard doesnt mean excelling at it it makes you cut out for major league baseball imo

http://www.spasifikmag.com/images/latest%20updates/February%2011/08%20feb%20PoriruaPlayer%20Te%20Wera%20Bishop.jpg

broseph not looking ready to contribute anytime soon

hahaha

well yeah i'm speaking mostly about being able to catch up to an 80 mph softball pitch from 45 feet away or whatever it is....if he can do that he's on his way tbh. not sure what you mean by angles and techniques?

as far as catching goes they seem to like his arm strength--that should translate fine.

ahhhhhhh i thought he was a HITTER

between this and the thread about how i met your other on ILE i seriously thought i was in the twilight zone

yeah they'll have to try to teach him to hit and i guess that will pretty much decide how far he gets.

what this real speaks to is the complete lack of good catchers in baseball these days.

otm

cad otm here and upthread

ie it's all a crapshoot, why not buy a lotto ticket on another catcher.

the team this year is like if you simulated the first season of a video game & then made some moves in the off season to ensure that your team was unbeatable

in 9 Innings 2011 (iphone and ipod tooch) my first "trades" were to get crawford and gonzalez. (and neftali feliz). this was in, like, october. o_O

yeah i dont understand their reasoning behind softball guy.

the catcher position in the mlb is so weak that this guy might be able to make it on defense alone

esp w/ some of the catchers that the red sox have thrown out there in the past few years

The new BP annual's blurb on the '11 Sox says their agenda is "Balancing their catchers, laughing at other teams' lineup cards"

Francona so tactful:

“I think it hit him in the temple,” Francona said. “I bet you it felt like a bolt of lightning. That’s not really what you’re expecting. It’s just a fluke thing. Fortunately, it hit Beckett in the head. It’s better than hitting him in the shoulder.”

Dizzy Dean meta

well at least it didn't hit beckett in his beer gut.

kinda LOL @ the optimism in this thread... "video game team"?

If your video game team is starting JEllsbury, Scutaro, Ortiz, JDDrew, Salty you are doing something wrong (or you might prefer a more "challenging" mode). That said RSox are solid from #2-#5 in their lineup, but compared to the Yankees, gtfo.

Obvs. pitching/defense is the difference in the fan's mind. Yet I could see them finishing 3rd again this year with <90 wins. Tampa continues to kick these guys' asses day in/out and nobody remembers that *shrug*

The 2008 tigers taught me to not get my hopes up over these 'OMG THESE SUPERSTARS WILL SCORE A JILLION RUNS' predictions in the off-season.

if your video game team is starting jeter, russ martin, swisher, granderson, b. gardner.....

I don't know what video game you guys are playing but when I play I use the Padres, so I would not mind having some or all of those dudes on my video game team.

i was gonna say hella optimistic, but the positivity makes me happy and i dont want to jinx

i'm going deep into projection systems and came up with this guy: http://www.soxprospects.com/players/schwindenhammer-seth.htm

great name and he might even outsell salty's uni

scutaro is awesome in 9 Innings 2011

dice k vs. marlins today: 3IP, 7R, 5ER, 6H, 2BB, 1K

ST results are meaningless fyi but it looked like he had no command today which is kinda par for the course for him

hard living with a phillies fan right now

i think it's safe to say that dice k's not gonne be giving a full return on the sox's $200m investment

it was only 100m or so but yeah yeesh

as successful as the red sox have been under theo, he really does not have a great track record with big contracts

isn't it his salary + the $60m or w/e they paid just to "bid" on him

yeah they bid 51m and gave him a 51/6 contract, dice-k himself isn't actually making that much money

he makes 10m this year and 10m next year and then he's gone

damn, for some reason i thought his salary was up around the hundreds

$400/week

rumor has it that yu darvish is being posted next offseason, will be interesting to see how wary teams are with him in the wake of dice-k

hard living with a phillies fan right now

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/196162_192895247411022_100000716454502_532689_348324_n.jpg

otm

Godwin's magnetic schedules

i'm gonna be soooo pissed if the sox turn andrew miller around

hahah, curt young baby.

looks like salty is knocking the shit out of the ball this spring. Honestly im not worried, im warming to him...especially with Tek to mentor him. God i cant wait until opening day.

and this gives me a half a fatty.

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110306&content_id=16840460&vkey=news_bos&c_id=bos

if he is the true red sox ss of the future it means hes going to be traded and his place will be taken by either a mediocre vet or a bust of a FA signing

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH NO.

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2011/03/19/1300516736_0413.jpg

HELLO!

i am cooking boston baked beans, chowder and a boston creme pie for dinner tomorrow night and if my philly phanatic BF doesnt like it he can change sides

so excited to have MLB network during spring training!!

mute the 'analysts'

o we do

"One time last spring Pedroia was showing [Jose] Iglesias how Boston shortstops take cutoffs on balls in right-center field.

"'Listen to me,' Pedroia told him. 'You're with the Red Sox now and here I'm Fidel Castro'."

-- Peter Gammons, "One Family Under the Nation," Baseball America, March 21-April 3, 2011, page 6

ah petey.

the twins, more like the tweens

lol @ announcer "Tsuyoshi NITCHY WAKA waiting in the on-deck circle"

Good job, Bobby boy.

Thought for a second that the scoreboard misspelled Lambin's name as Labia. (It was Labin.)

hey lets go ahead and put the b squad in and chew gum and lose

"It's not like all of a sudden they have the ghost of Ted Williams playing for them," C. J. Wilson told reporters Thursday.

MAYBE THEY DO

what do yall think of ellsbury @ the top

he should be batting 11th

lol

youk

what happened to gonzalez

oh. thought he was gonna be batting 4th

lol roxy the same thing happened to me

gonzalez currently on pace for 1458 rbis this year

and trending worldwide!

MIKE NAPOLI

fuck

lester always starts off the season like this

lester will be beasting by may chill out

lester currently on pace to allow ~100 homers this year

ok. enough of that.

and 60 hit batsmen

well the "on pace to" stuff is pretty silly this early on

cj wilson on pace to allow 200 runs this year but only 100 earned runs, and something like 250 Ks.

josh hamilton's projected .000/.000/.000 line is historically awful

hahaha

roxy why do u hate fun

what are you even talking about!

this got out of hand in a hurry

Well the good news is that Bard got the first strike out for the Sox...

roxy, the "on pace to" stuff is pretty silly in early June

otm

i guess i have to bookmark this now? went out to dinner @ 5-5 and well we know how that went

i drafted daniel bard in two of my fantasy leagues cuz i was convinced that he was gonna take the closing job from paps by july but idk

tbh since they have jenks as closer insurance i don't see bard doing it this year

what do yall think of ellsbury @ the top

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Friday, April 1, 2011 4:10 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i mean he deserves a shot and they don't have anyone better for that job

crawford batting third is already getting the gasface from me

yeah i don't get it--the best hitter is supposed to hit third and he's maybe the 4th-best hitter?

a gon/youk should be 3/4 in whatever order -- figuring out where crawford/pedroia hit should be secondary

ok where u put papi

after the guys whose contact skills haven't started eroding yet

idk -- one problem is that there's a ton of lefties in that order

ideally i think you'd have crawford batting first, pedroia second & ellsbury last or ellsbury first, crawford second and pedroia fifth but idk if you want ellsbury & crawford hitting back to back

yeah i think the most important thing is pedroia-gonzalez-youk for 2-3-4, everything else doesn't matter much if you've got that. sticking your best hitter at 5th is nagl

Adrian Gonzalez = fat dave navarro

i think sabermetric cw is that the most important lineup spots are #1, #4, #2, #5, #3 (in that order) - and that its a fun thing to debate but ultimately not a big deal (ie. the difference between the best and worst possible lineup over the course of a season is a couple dozen runs at most)

that said, i'd never hit ellsbury higher than 6th, and definitely never ever leadoff... you gotta be able to take a walk or two man

that intentional walk made me really mad about this team i don't even care what the results were

J. Lackey 22.09 era

http://s.sfwgifs.com/img/2778/john-lackey.gif

crawford 3rd is nonsense. should be gonz or youk

wow, if there's any way this thread could be made longer and more unbearable, it's these 2 games.

ts: yankee hyperbole vs red sox hyperbole

ugh

Buster_ESPN
Carl Crawford hitting seventh today for the Red Sox. Presumably, Terry francona has seen anxiety in his swing and is trying to ease it

alexrodriguezmindgames20042009inclusive.xls

Insane game, I didn't think we'd see any homers, the wind was blowing in hard from left field the entire game.

Go to a Rangers-Sox game in the last decade and ~1/2 the crowd were Sox fans and no one gave you shit. Rangers fans were a lot cockier this year.

Props to the guys in my section who sang "Sweet Caroline" for the entirety of the 9th, though.

Seasons over fire tito!

I kid

It's funny seeing how tan everybody gets when all their games are during the day. In another month Buchholz and everybody else will be back to their normal pasty selves.

Really glad I wasn't watching when Jacoby struck out to end the only Sox threat of the night.

I'm not worried about this team. They are going to be great, I think.

jacoby is brown as a berry

don orsillo is bright orange.

2011 - The lost season?

http://sonsofsamhorn.net/topic/64491-series-recap-41-43-at-texas/page__st__20__p__3422103#entry3422103

Fucking Beckett. Get one bow lef

Leg

9.30 SP ERA

Off to one hell of a start. Seriously, where there about 1000 people at the game last night...how far you've come Cleveland.

why is everyone confused right now

i just turned it on and its muted....weird dbl play?

oh lol great time to turn it on

oh my

tek making retarded mental error is a true nadir

bases loaded, chopper hit to youkilis at 3B, as he was throwing home to force the runner he stepped on the third base bag thus removing the force at home, the runner ran right by varitek who thought he had forced him when it was actually now a tag play, and the run counted

― ciderpress, Wednesday, April 6, 2011 9:45 PM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he should have tagged him anyway tho?

i was gonna make a crack about dan wheeler being in but apparently this game is only in the 6th inning?????

by law all red sox games must last at least 3.5 hours

xp if youk hadn't tagged third base it would have been a force play at home since the bases would still be loaded, hence no tag required

xp yea varitek probably did not see youk step on the bag tho

weird play anyway, sucks that it turned into a big inning

Indians play by play guys have been bitching about the length of the game since the second inninng. "Hope you packed a snack" they wagged.

oh cool a montage of missed opportunities

lol brownie

that's like 30% of the time i watch any NL east game i hear the announcers make a crack about how the marlins have no fans

7th inning strecth is going to interfere with tomorrows noon start was another zinger.

god with my spelling

i expect at least one game this weekend will run longer than this one

they all will

this is a sick AB

oh man that was the best AB ever

dude is good

:-0

a gone was best lefty vs lefties last year

if you try to park-adjust his SD numbers into fenway he turns into pujols practically

yeah he needed to get the hell out of there

not a Sox fan but I think it's cool that Wakefield is still in there

Red Sox Working Hard At Not Panicking is the best headline i've seen today

lol

Jordan Panicking at Not Working Hard <---- my life

haha amen

*drains bottle of Chardonnay*

Every team to lose its first five games not only missed the World Series but went on to suffer at least 15 consecutive losing seasons.

that sounds like BS is it real

No

im pretty sure teams have started 0-5 and made the postseason!

this is tho http://twitter.com/#!/JeffPassan/status/55813105007079424

well one of them xp

castrovince
The 1974 Pirates and the 1995 Reds are the only two 0-5 teams to go on to reach the playoffs. Ever. I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

the Giants last year started 1-6 (if i remember correctly) and won it all, i would not worry about it too much.

that kind of stat is stupe

umm the giants won their first 4 games last year

by 1-6 i think you meant 6-1

yeah i think you mean 6-1

xpost

just imagine how much media panic there would be if the team with the best record in the league last year started 0-5 instead!!

It was a torturous 6-1, though.

"the last war in the middle east lasted a few weeks (if i remember correctly), i would not worry about it too much." - bee ok on libya

sorry, i was the year before the Giants opened 2-7.

last years trip through Southern California they went 1-5 but that didn't start until April 16.

i should have been it

just remembered wrong as this last trip was very similar to last years April.

BEE OK YOU ARE A TREAT FOR ALL TIME

bullshit

Neyer:

"According to the preseason predictions and projections, one of the [0-5] teams is (or was) great (Boston), one is good (Tampa Bay) and one is lousy (Houston).

In 2010, only one team (Houston) opened the season 0-5.

In 2009, only two teams (Cleveland and Washington) opened the season 0-5.

In 2008, only one team (Detroit) opened the season 0-5.

Some of these teams were expected to be better than others, but I think it's safe to say that none of them were expected to reach the World Series, as so many of expected the Red Sox to reach the World Series this year.

But we can chase our tail around all day, and wind up devouring ourselves. The Red Sox' start probably doesn't tell us a great deal about how good they are ... but it does tell us, in the most concrete of terms, that they've dug themselves a hole. Not a massive hole, perhaps. But if the Red Sox are going to win 90 games - a rough minimum for a real shot at the postseason - they now have to go 90-67 the rest of the way.

Which of course is far from impossible if they're as talented as we thought, just one week ago. But each new loss does make us question our judgment just a little bit, doesn't it?"

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/4/6/2095885/history-not-kind-to-boston-red-sox-start

is there some rule that to be an umpire you have to look like a nazi

stop leaving men on base you fucking assholes.

This "...to begin a season" stuff is a bad case of compounded small sample size.

Extrapolating results based on not just 5, but the first 5 concurrent games of historical data?

How about these guys find out how many playoff teams had at least one 5-game losing streak during their season? Boston might not even have another streak like this all year.
Losing games is not good, but suddenly everyone forgets why this team was unanimously picked to make the playoffs.

I know this kinda thing is easy fodder, but wtf come on

No MLB team in history has ever won a world series after starting the postseason 0-5.

Who is J Saltalamacchia? And does his name fit on the jersey?

from elsewhere

FWIW, the longest losing streaks of the '04 and '07 teams were 4 and 5 games, respectively. So, we are close to the point where we can stop saying that every team loses "x" number of games in a row at some point.

tense game

sox need to win this one obviously

or just outplay the Rays from May thru Sept.

Guess what? The '04 world series champs lost 5 games in a row starting with 3 against the rangers and 2 against the indians

did anyone see what happened? squeeze?

yeah fucking awesome.

squeezed him home from third

noooooooooooooooooooo

is NESN not gonna show a reverse angle on that play

hey its the red sox of old.

just gonna get easier this weekend.

Video game team?

they're playing on 'hall of fame' right now

yeah my mlb 2k11 sox team is 26-9.

i'm starting to think the yankees may sneak away with a playoff berth in this weak division... : /

could this be the year that we get a non-AL East wild card

they're playing on 'hall of fame' right now
haha, yes

cheaper tix on StubHub for u whiners

panic on the streets of boston
panic on the streets of framingham

i have to be rational and discount all that bullshit about no teams ever making the playoffs or winning a championship after starting out this bad...but as a completely irrational life long sox fan im about to jump out the fucking window.

lol i no longer get emotional about this team, or baseball

its better that way

that said ive been crying for days

jk

ive been emotional about this team and the bruins for as long as i can remember, never gonna change.

on the bright side, they will suffer no indignity worse than losing to mark sanchez at home in the playoffs

i was 6 years old the last time the sox had a single season as shitty as what the pirates or royals have year after year, i try to keep this perspective

on the bright side, they will suffer no indignity worse than losing to mark sanchez at home in the playoffs

― J0rdan S., Thursday, April 7, 2011 3:10 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

otm

jordan..not funny. haha.

is it possible to have gonzalez hit and pitch?

on the bright side, they're unlikely to blow a 3-0 lead in the playoffs (and again in game 7) the way the bruins did last year

yeah but who cares about hockey

wise ppl

for about 5 seconds I tried to remember who Mark Sanchez pitched for

(no other sports plz)

i'm scared to even talk to my dad after this

FUCK OFF MOOKIE! HAHA.

Boston Herald one week ago:

http://www.bostonherald.com/galleries/index.php?gallery_id=9&p=7

Boston Herald this morning:

http://news.bostonherald.com/galleries/index.php?gallery_id=10

buchholz was really ecstatic about that headline

lol

sigh

hang the GM
hang the GM
hang the GM

lol

u know, if the Mets had started 0-6, there wd be posts like this:

http://www.nlhs.com/images/hindenburg/big_hindenburg_explodes_over_lakehurst.jpg

yeah especially because analysts were united in their belief that the mets would make the playoffs.

;)

Well, yes! Because you're fun to poke with a stick! xxp

any day now Shank will revive the Curse.

the curse of schilling's 2008 extension

well we'd have to use a metaphor because i think the whole "wilpon family invests $1 billion with bernie madoff" thing is the hindenburg

http://3putt.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dan-shaughnessy.jpg

if that aint the most handsome man in america then i dont know who is.

Ah but Morbs, the Mets are wont of going 0-6 to end the season, not the start.

lol

yes, we know. or the middle.

and the middle.

jacoby is brown as a berry

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Monday, April 4, 2011 11:11 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IqWOPMHbs0E/SRg89DNp26I/AAAAAAAABSE/-aKk45Tv464/s400/crying_indian.jpg

lol most presshah-packed home openah evah

luckily they've got the man for the job, john lackey

"FUCK!"

see w/ his Angel rep I don't know if that's sarcasm; no memory of last year

xp

oh it's sarcasm

so i'm excited about this season guy, when's opening day again?

guyS GUYS

anyway, we so excited

friday
friday
gotta get a win on friday

uh huh

and here we go with loss number 7.

Lackey body language IN EFFECT

he is one massive oaf.

fucking hell.

http://bostondirtdogs.boston.com/march10/BDD_KL_calif_2.11.10_gett.jpg

fucking hell.

http://bostondirtdogs.boston.com/march10/BDD_KL_calif_2.11.10_gett.jpg

YIKES

had to do that twice.

he loses a game and gets to go home and bag that. life is not fair.

Getting rid of the ball no problem for Salty

fuck off

well that was quick

on the bright side, lackey may not make it past 4 innings

anyone who had a chance to watch angels bball for the past decade would tell you that lackey was a shane reynolds type who was lucky to have a superior team behind him to pad his win totals and make him look a little more schilling-esque. reynolds was also washed up by age 32-33....

waste of money he is. ^^^ agreed.

Mike Napoli probably doesn't miss having to catch Lackey and Jered Weaver.

Lackey is carrying a 3.21 WHIP right now... which is pretty hard to do for a starting pitcher.

unless your on the red sox.

about fucking time petey...LAZER SHOW

"marco scutaro with a chance to do some damage"

*grounds out just softly enough to avoid a double play*

LAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR SHOW

ok, now this is the Red Sox i know...minus horseface.

this is gonna end like 13-10 isn't it

^i'm sure

Pedroia, Granderson turn the Sox' season around.

yep at 7 pm tonight.

P Hughes 16.50
J Lackey 18.47

lackey's number doubles a shorthand for both is earned run average and annual salary

is it possible that saltalamacchia will be the worst everyday player in baseball

yep. i dont think this experiment with him will last long. fly in mirabelli.

memo to sox: the pitch from colon will be a fastball.

i think bengie molina is still out there...probably better than salty.

memo to sox: the pitch from colon will be a fastball.

― call all destroyer, Friday, April 8, 2011 3:14 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

i swear i saw a game once where colon threw 89 fastballs

when he was on the indians

then he ate 89 more.

speaking of eating, it's too bad that heidi didn't sample some of the fenway sushi in her report

i swear i saw a game once where colon threw 89 fastballs

― J0rdan S., Friday, April 8, 2011 3:19 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

i totally believe this

she needs to sample my sushi.

can we get lackey out, please. Doubront.

lackey is so bad

mirabelli! lol. how could I have forgotten the great mirabelli airlift of 2006??

fatolo killing it.

lardolo

omg

beefolo

dying

chubbolo

jabolo

LACKEY YOU PIECE OF SHIT.

can you pull him please.

i would like to see usher literally taken away by ushers like a fan that threw a soda on the field

lol usher -- lackey***

for committing an obscene act in the ballpark

lets get back to olo's.
blimpolo
blubolo
chunkolo
dumpolo

goddammit stop talking about bonds - fuckin costas he does this in every fuckin game he calls

best part is he's such a non-accountable jackass he is probably thinking like "oh well basically one run an inning is decent"

jarmarcusolo

wait who is Costas doin this game for?

mlb network

Lackey will blame everyone but himself..

salty is 4-33 with the sox. HOW ABOUT WE STICK WITH HIM AS OUR NUMBER ONE CATCHER.

the beckett & lackey contracts might slightly tarnish theo's legacy

also the yankees line up is much deeper than boston's

and lugo and drew and renteria and whomever else he falls in love with.

awwwwwww yeah

http://www.toadalamode.com/graphics/mrsalty.jpg

ok, i take back what i said about Salty.

haha.

gonna say stamina might be an issue with big bart!

can someone let the NESN announcers know that it's cool for them to just say "salty" -- it's laborious to listen to them say his full last name three times an inning, i can't even imagine what it must be like to say. no one is pretending that home baseball announcers have to be professional, it's cool

nah, he'll grab a dog, sports bar and take a shit between innings and be right back out there.

i've always wondered what happens if you have to take a dump when your in the middle of a game.

there was a good story about that last year i forget who it was

i mean when i played high school sports, you just went a took a dump. i imagine its different for pro's?

actually maybe i'm thinking of miguel olivo passing a kidney stone between innings

aceves--ppl were randomly excited abt this guy for some reason

unless your manny and you just go piss inside the monster.

theres a bathroom like right behind the dugout though for that purpose

aceves was pretty decent w/ the yankees, i think people were just excited that the sox stole a non-terrible player from them

i wonder if they have a sign that says "employees must wash hands".

hahah

i wonder if bartolo could fit inside the monster's bathroom -- i feel like it would be one of those things where the fire department has to rip out a wall to free him

bring him out on a stretcher and he would hold up one finger. i would pay to see that.

i want to see bartolo walk onto a mound and the mound to slowly deflate beneath him

hahah

lol

aceves doing weird things with his mouth/jaw

lol jeter

speaking of eating, it's too bad that heidi didn't sample some of the fenway sushi in her report

― J0rdan S., Friday, April 8, 2011 3:21 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark

did anyone see Heidi at the Indians day game yesterday try the waffle chicken sandwich and spit it out laughing at the concession people. it was intense.

that's what i was referencing!

she also bought a 4-pound soft pretzel in texas. are they trying to fatten her up so she doesn't fuck any more players?

who did she bone

supposedly tek

him? really?

Nick Green....

this seems relevant http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/04/manny-ramirez-retires.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

lolwtf if this is true

yeah i dunno about nick green but i've heard tek enough that it's gotta be true.

oops lol rays

espn as well

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6310125

he blew another drug test looooooooool noooooooooo

"mlb notified manny of an issue under the drug prevention and treatment program"

is that PEDs or shit that gets you high? or is it all one program?

joe maddon: (*hangs up phone, thousand yard stare*)

its time for johnny damon, designated hitter

aw man, it would've been so funny had papi homered 20 mins after manny retires

joe maddon: (*hangs up phone, thousand yard stare*)

― omar little, Friday, April 8, 2011 4:26 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

papi is faster than carlos beltran

hopefully the yankees can keep this at 3, i would like to see some papelbon fireworks today

this may really be one of the best seasons ever

omg they referenced rebecca black

typical manny being a baby though, can't face the music...fuck it i'll retire.

he would have had to sit out most of the rest of the season if he hadn't retired, and who the hell is gonna sign him next year after that

i love manny going into the off season being like "i'll just roid up & if i get caught then i'll retire with my $200m to the domincan republic"

i still like manny a lot, gonna be a bummer when he doesnt get into the HoF

i like him too, he was a loveable lug.

time for the full jonathan papelbon experience

whoa he's got the splitter working again?

damn paps looks really good right now

his command is sick right noe

and here we go with loss number 7.

― Zero pumps, massive boner (thebingo), Friday, April 8, 2011 2:07 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Roxy, I lied

LACKEY DOMINANT IN FENWAY DEBUT

OUTDUELS YOUNG YANKS ACE

YANKEE BATS LACK-ING AGAINST BOSOX PITCHING

one of my professors thought i was sneaking a beer in class today bc i had my diet coke in a sox coozie

Rock it baby

you had me until 'diet' xp

haha well

raised by a pair of diabetics

game thread here?

if ken rosenthals's speaking cadences weren't bad enough he's added dandy bowties.

Fucking mccarver

the rosenthal bowtie thing is actually for charity so I can forgive him for this..

Rosenthal is an All-Star break removed from pocket squares color coded for the type of bondage he's into.

love the dandy bowties

Rosenthal is an All-Star break removed from pocket squares color coded for the type of bondage he's into.

― sanskrit, Saturday, April 9, 2011 2:08 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

this sentence!!!

v. glad to see beckett looking good

he's looked amazing tonight

yah i haven't seen all that much but this is the vintage shit--he's even mixing in the changeup and making that work

his fastball command has been awesome

considering the line up (even without alex rod) there might not be 3 better games thrown this year

hahaha freddy garcia

hey freddy garcia facing mike cameron -- it's 2002 all over again!

looooool that strike call

that was not even remotely close

xpost

lol @ that last called strike, but what a well-pitched game

teshera is a whiny prick at any rate

im so proud of beckett. pedroia and scutero also to a lesser degree

i meant to say tushera and now my horribly formed joke is ruined

teshera is a whiny prick at any rate

tru

he, like matt damon, looks as though he smells of peanutty farts

by the way, just me or is it weird for a team's captain to be a bench warmer who may get 100 ABs this season? give petey the C, already

^^^agree

ABs have nothing to do with being a captain to be fair

they only made him captain as part of his big contract because he was feeling under-appreciated or something. baseball teams do not need captains.

its honorary iirc

they made him captain of banging watneys ass.

jeter and varitek are the only captains in MLB right?!

think so.

its honorary iirc

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Monday, April 11, 2011 10:33 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

right--that's why it's dumb.

yeah, i was supporting what you said tbh

oh wait - konerko's one too. 3 in all of the mlb

oh ok :)

it seems like a resume builder but do we really need resume builders at this stage

tek and jeters seem to be done out of respect for their commitment. hey why not.

captains must be gritty and tenured and ideally in the decline phase (konerko seemed to be but then last season was one of his top 3 ever, maybe they should give the "C" to AJ?)

aj is a dick. never happen

the white sox are just hilarious enough to do such a thing

ROFL DICE K WTF YOU ARE SO BAD

for the record i made that post BEFORE dice k gave up a double to john jaso

http://www.eriklunsford.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/funeral_wp_small.jpg

i dont understand how dice-k manages to always finish the season with an average ERA, he literally never has a good start

MORE LIKE YIKES-K

ok i guess he had that one against the phillies last year where he took a no-hitter into the 8th but that was his only good game i've seen since 2008

Tampa owns him.

god he is the worst

how come he never throws the gyroball anymore

Fuld woulda had that one, obv.

i like fuld but why do they keep zooming in on his dick

jewish, circumcised (?)

9th inning, up by 10, Fuld needs a single for the cycle, cracks a double, makes it to second base...how many players stop at 1st there?

probably none since they'll get fined and benched?

yeah right!!

fuld is a real hustler. i like him a lot. always painfully flopping his entire body down on the ground, and always with a smile

xp someone find me a case where this has happened pls!

2007:

After fouling back a good pitch on Bootcheck's first offering, Huff took a ball and then smacked the third pitch inches foul down the third-base line. If it had been fair, Huff could have easily reached second, and he said he wouldn't have stopped at first -- even to complete the cycle.

"In that situation, I'm going two [bases]," Huff said. "I feel like you cheat the game if you stop at first. I wouldn't even count that as a cycle."

1987:

In the 7th inning of a June, 1987 game in San Francisco, right fielder Kevin Bass needed only a single to become just the third player in Astros history to hit for the cycle. With the Astros leading, 6-2, the game seemed well in hand. So when Bass lined an easy single to left field, he seemingly joined an exclusive group. But Bass was not thinking about individual accomplishments, but rather making sure his team won the game. Instead of stopping at first, he hustled to second and barely beat the throw in to pick up a double. He lost the distinction of hitting for the cycle, but won a place in the hearts of countless Astros fans. For that, he deserves consideration on this page. Bass batted #5 in the lineup behind Glenn Davis. Jim Deshaies started for the Astros against Kelly Downs. A summary of Bass's game:

you said none stop at first in that situation

why would he have won a place in the heart of astros fans if he did what every player did

i think "won a place in the hearts of astros fans" is sports-cliche bullshit.

everyone wants to IMAGINE that most players would be selfish in that situation, but i can't seem to find an instance where it actually happened!

Reaching second when you need a single for the cycle should count as a cycle, like how you still get a double even if you're thrown out trying to reach third.

so should we count a triple as a double? or a HR as a triple?

Jeff Frye:

Frye got the hardest part of the cycle, the triple, out of the way in the second inning. He then doubled in the fifth and barely cleared the left-field fence for his second homer of the season in the sixth before facing Texas Rangers rookie Kevin Foster in the seventh inning.

With a full count, Frye hit a liner to the gap in right-centre field for what should have been a double. After rounding first and looking at coach Garth Iorg for advice, he trotted back to first base and received a standing ovation.

"Before I went up there I asked (Jays hitting coach Cito Gaston) what I should do if I hit a pitch like that," said Frye.

"He said `stay at first and tell them I told you to.' So if he says it's alright then I guess it's alright."

(x-post) Perhaps not a HR as a triple as that's such a specific and tricky skill. But 3B as 2B makes sense. Yes I know I'm being arbitrary and it'd never work!

lol nice job thermo

i think they should stay on first. when you're up by 10 in the last inning it's no more selfless to take the double than take the single. it's just silly. get the cycle. those are pretty cool.

btw i am coming from a position where i think the cycle is the dumbest, most arbitrary thing in baseball that ppl get excited about.

"the distinction of hitting for the cycle" is sports-cliche bullshit. A double is better than a single. WE'RE NOT PLAYING FUCKING CARDS HERE!

XP

hi-5

i bet Harold Reynolds loves cycles

cad; it is stupid, but I remember when the Brewers 5th outfielder hit one last year, and it got them the lead on Sportscenter for the first time in forever. I mean yeah it's a dumb accomplishment but people do think it's nify and if nothing else it gives you a lot of free publicity (for you and the team). Besides, up by 10, last inning...what how much more WPA do you really get for a double there? Like .001%?

we are playing a game however, and hitting for the cycle happens rare enough that it's kinda neat when it happens. i'm not so attached to it tho so don't feel a big need to convince me. i just enjoy watching stuff that rarely happens, even when it's totally arbitrary and meaningless. it's not totally meaningless obv -- it means you hit a HR, a triple, four hits in a game, etc etc, but the combination obviously doesn't matter and something like this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_hitters_with_four_home_runs_in_one_game - is obviously way way cooler.

cycle smycle....got to cut losses with Dice K.

mordy i agree it's kind of neat if it happens, i just think it's super weird to force it by pulling up on a clear double!

anyways, it's not even about wpa or whatever, it's just like, you got a hit, take as many bases as you can--that's how the game is played.

it's a dumb accomplishment but people do think it's nifty

kind of like voting for Obama

way to derail the Red Sox thread

anyways, it's not even about wpa or whatever, it's just like, you got a hit, take as many bases as you can--that's how the game is played.

I dunno, it's the same as like stealing bags or swinging on 3-0 when your team is up by 10, it's like yes "that's the way it's played" but it's still kind of unsportsmanlike, you know

yeah back to what to do for a fifth starter...no wakefield please.

xp wait, are you saying that going to second on a double while up 10 is the same as stealing bases while up 10?

No I'm just saying that "the way the game is played" changes when one team is up by so much that the other team would have to pull a historical comeback to win. I think there's a point in the 9th inning if you're up by so much where some managers stop putting in actual pinch hitters and just send up their relievers, for example. Like, I wouldn't blame Fuld if he just took the cycle there.

it's not like a team has never had a 10-run inning btw

I very much enjoyed this: http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_15453769

pedroia had one of those 'overcycles' a couple years ago where he needed a single to complete it and hit a double instead

xp I loved that game too XD but in all honesty your WPA goes up so slightly with a double instead of a single there that he maybe should have taken it just to get the Rays in the news for something positive for once

the rays have been an excellent team for like three years!

in the news for

true, it's not like ppl are out there writing entire books about them

you're right, everything an "entire" book is written about is news

lol i'm not sure what you're arguing? that the rays don't get press? prob not. so a guy hits for the cycle--big fuckin' deal. i watched sportcenter at the gym today and the sox/rays highlight was basically all fuld--mission accomplished!

I was at that Jeff Frye cycle game. What made it awesome was that Kelly Gruber - the only other blue jay to hit for the cycle - happened to be in town that day and ran onto the field to congratulate him, it was pretty epic. Apparently Kelly was across town and they called him up to tell him that Frye only had a single left to complete the cycle. Pretty bullshit move to stop at first imo, but when you're there at the time and you're killing the other team it seems ok. Especially if the rest of your career is completely unremarkable :D

that the rays have gotten a lot of bad press lately???? same as frogbs iirc

what, by lately u guys mean the first week and a half of the season?

thats what i meant and assumed frogbs meant

you know, NEWS!

hahaha ok that still seems bizarre to me but whatever

yeah I don't mean the Rays in general but I mean for the season so far, yeah

I mean look at the first 10 games; you got the team hitting like .136, the horrible 2-8 record, the team somehow losing on Manny which was supposed to be a "win-win", I mean it must be demoralizing especially considering that they were supposed to have a shot this year...all I'm saying is that hitting a cycle is usually a big story and you can argue it picks up the team, so whatever. I know to you and most people who think critically about baseball that it doesn't mean anything really and I'm not going to pretend that it does, but smacking a double with a 10-run lead in the 9th doesn't really mean much either

btw for the record no team has ever came back by scoring more than 9 runs in the 9th inning, that's why I said historical

yeah i guess i would say that putting up 16 on the even-more-hapless red sox ought to accomplish the same thing, in the more valuable context of winning a baseball game. but ok.

ought to. maybe it will because it's in the AL East. from what I've read most of the discussion was "Dice-K GTFO". maybe I'm just biased because I remember the only time my team ever really being a big story on SC was when someone hit a cycle (iirc he was released like 2 months later, so it wasn't even like a name player)

iirc your team was a big story in 2008 when they were rolling down the stretch and CC was pitching out of his mind

Sorry I meant to say "last year", yeah their 2008 run was a pretty big deal, but nowadays I'm wondering if the only reason that was a big story was because they knew Sabathia would become a big star next year in FA, most likely with the Yankees. I mean if Sabathia pitched a 1-0 shutout where he scored the only run (say he's the DH this game too), I'm guessing Sportscenter/ESPN.com would go apeshit over it, but for small market teams that's pretty much a non-story, gripe gripe gripe

i remember that yovani game! so it must have at least been some sort of story since i didn't follow the brewers then

anyway i still think the sox are fine, the only AL teams that don't look significantly worse to me are NYY, CHW, TEX

Not gonna lie, picked these guys to be ALWC but this -32 run differential is alarming... no other team is close.

ive been emotional about this team and the bruins for as long as i can remember, never gonna change.

― Zero pumps, massive boner (thebingo), Thursday, April 7, 2011 3:08 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

was thinking about this post and imagining the extremely rough stretch you must be going through, and will continue to go through because the bruins are fucking terrible

beckett's looking really good again, would be awesome to get a full healthy year from him

how are the bruins terrible?!

it's been the same team three years running--high expectations and they won't make it out of the second roumd.

there's still some quality talent on the ice regardless of past playoffs. living in Toronto i can tell you there's people here that would stab their own mother in the face to have the team Boston has!

lol remember when toronto traded for phil kessell lol

just realized the rotation roulette for the game i have tix for lands on dice-k

lucky you!

thermo i feel ya but did you see the game tonight?

i saw simmons' tweet tonight about how it always seems that the bruins have a "lukewarm goalie" when oh yeah tim thomas only broke the nhl record for save percentage nbd just saving 98% of shots

also the bruins have scored one (1) goal in 2 games

but i digress

with the goals mtl is getting the goalie is def not the problem

thermo i feel ya but did you see the game tonight?

yup. i will shut up now about the bruins.

guys you need to follow -

http://twitter.com/#!/LouMerloni

If Carl Crawford's OPS were his BA, he'd be tied for 36th in MLB.

the game's at 11 this morning?!

yep, happy Patriots Day!

Thermo,

The 3rd Monday of every April is a Boston city-wide holiday... Boston Marathon and 11am Fenway action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots'_Day

this has been very educational!

also crap 1st inning.

lowrie killin it today. and jd drew really hitting like lead off hitter has a double, a walk, and an infield single

Crawford breaks his hitless streak by "doubling"* to the Green Monster.

*a pop-out in every other park.

good effort today by dice-"k"

what would *you* do about Varitek?

V-tek can't hit at all, but he seems to be the only guy behind the plate who can control the staff. Salty is a deece hitting catcher but can't seem to call a game...

salty may not even be able to hit, but otoh i don't want to believe that there is a correlation to how the pitchers perform.

is there much consensus about salty j

hah no i don't think there's much at all.

Where is the stat for ERA allowed by Catcher?

well thank god that is over.

the day i drop matsuzaka from my fantasy team :<

sox had exactly the same record at this point last season iirc

so earlier in this game, the sox had pedroia on first with two outs and gonzalez at the plate. pedroia steals second and injures his left ankle while sliding (he did stay in the game). gonzo is then intentionally walked, because marco scutaro was batting in youk's spot (youk having left the game earlier after fouling a ball off his foot). scutaro then grounds out or something.

this just really annoyed me--pedroia came up limping and they took the bat out of the hands of the best hitter in the lineup with no one batting behind him.

dice-k:

In doing so, Matsuzaka became just the third pitcher in Red Sox history to pitch seven innings or more without allowing more than one hit in back-to-back starts, behind Howard Ehmke (1923) and Pedro Martinez (2002). He’s only the 15th pitcher in all of baseball history to do it, and the first since Vicente Padilla in May 2009.

That's a surprising stat, that only 15 have ever done it.

Meanwhile, Red Sox starters are 6-1 with a 1.01 earned run average in the last seven games.

headline from paper today: "lackey refuses to blame teammates"--wow what a guy!

That's a surprising stat, that only 15 have ever done it.

ie, it's way more impressive than a single no-hitter! I wonder how many millennia it would take to convince ESPN of that.

drunken "USA" chant by 4 losers at deserted Fenway

thx 4 update

what happened to beckett

2 hour rain delay

ah

oh i didn't even realize this game was on TV. just assumed it was in ANA.

Lackey sucks

lol at the last few updates here

so was anyone up for the last out at 2:45 this morning? musta been quite a cross-section of "humanity" in the stands at the end.

http://30fps.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/2011-May-5-2-40-0.jpg

you are correct

2011 Catcher's ERA:

V-tek: 2.88 (#2 in MLB of Catchers with >13 starts)
Salty: 5.60 (#66 in MLB)

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/fielding/_/position/c/league/al/sort/catcherERA/qualified/false/order/false

so you're saying Varitek catches Lester and Beckett?

Beckett yes, Lester has no preference.

The fellow in the green shirt MUST excel at his profession.

18 million for lackey...good god.

look on the bright side, it's only through 2014.

Besides Yadier Molina (who actually has a '12 club option that will most def be exercized), there are slim pickins in the free agency market for catchers after this season. We may see a trade before it's all over...

who are they going to trade though? lowrie maybe? after the a-gon trade they're pretty much out of guys who have enough value to return a worthwhile player

Rob Neyer wrote the other day that Lackey can be straightened out, maybe (a new pitch?)

i saw a video interview w/lackey today, he sorta sounds like barney gumble

Meyer also thought jeter would straighten himself out this year

Neyer** (phone)

maybe wakefield can give him some tips

idk guys, another reliable Sox workhorse getting lit up again, sub-Mendoza Salty behind the dish.

what in the world is reliable about tim wakefield in 2011

Nice to see Iglesias come on and throw Alexi Casilla out to end the game!

rumors have Sox negotiating with semi-retired Bengie Molina...?

who's older: Tek or Bengie?

tek is 39, molina supposedly is 36.

molina is 52

stones

haha.

Haha so a day after Iglesias comes onto the field on the ninth and gets the final out, he comes on as a pinch runner... and scores the winning run! The Show ain't so bad, is it.

Boston have been after Chris Ianetta before, and he's recently heated up (he beat the Mets single-handed last night), so that's a real option perhaps.

ok, officially hating v-tek again

Lackey's last 2 starts: 10.2 IP 19 H 17 ER 8 BB 2 Ks

he's probably hurt

he's certainly killing me

handwringing on sox message board is unreal right now:

Trust me, this is going to make the Lugo signing look like a defining action to balance the federal budget and pay off the national debt.

yeah, weei was awesome this morning wrt this and the celtics loss

man carl crawford is a lot worse looking without a baseball cap on

gonzo is murdering the ball

looked like a thrilla last night

THANK YOU BASED GON

^ i lold

SALTY?

a salty salute

SALTY?

― J0rdan S., Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

further proof that anyone can hit it out to right in new yankee terrordrome. 1st hr by a sox catcher this year btw!

absolutely nothing is funnier than yankees pitchers staring bitterly into right field after a bloop homer

Wish they would fine these guys for every minute they go over three hours when they play each other.

seriously. you can't even watch this shit anymore.

wait, they haven't been playing on national TV for the past 30 hours straight?

Holy shit, they finished before it turned into Monday.

.500!

guys, big papi!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf3uu4EL9jE&feature=player_embedded#at=96

BEST VIDEO OF ALL TIME

i didn't get a hug ;_;

how can anyone dislike papi.

ugly night so far--lackey goes on the dl (fine), daisuke gets hit in the ribs on a liner by the first batter, it's cold, rainy, and miserable, and now daisuke can't throw strikes.

ok that turned out pretty cool

lol @ 4 hours tho

how much money could i make off THANK YOU BASED GON shirts

there was no way k gregg was not blowing that save imo

^^^^totally otm. i would have been more surprised if they lost.

how much money could i make off THANK YOU BASED GON shirts

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 16, 2011 11:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i will cop to the fact that i would buy one

*scratches chin*

guys, big papi!

http://www.youtube.com/v/kf3uu4EL9jE&feature=player_embedded#at=96&fs=1&hl=en

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 16, 2011 12:29 AM (22 hours ago)

^_^

gonzalez is a stud.

dice-k with seven walks! o_O

SEVEN??

i think taking a shot off the ribs in the first at-bat may have been involved.

dice-k on dl with sore elbow.

i'm actually really stoked to see bowden come up - 28/4 k/bb and 0.84 whip in 22+ innings in pawtucket so far as a reliever

J Saltalamacchia doubled to center, C Crawford scored.

:-O

indeedy do

5 in a row...on fire.

nothing quite as sweet as winning a 1-0 ballgame.

maybe seeing heidi watney naked.

another reason to hate v-tek iirc

okajima dfa'd

Enjoy Franklin Morales, Boston. He could be SO good. Hint - make him a starter, he's better at that.

lefty w control problems - loogy 4 life i'm afraid

i want a thank u based gon shirt

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zjUVbhueNwQ/S-Ri33xDtgI/AAAAAAAAACo/1dUa__AK6W0/s1600/dustyp-1.jpg

7-0 in bottom of the first. sox on fire.

just pray bard doesn't come into the game

didnt matter in this one.

2011
Varitek CERA: 3.02 (21 Starts)
Salty CERA: 4.76 (30 Starts)

Obviously, Tek benefits from being Beckett's personal catcher, but the rest of the rotation isn't particular.

matsuzaka to get third opinion from Mr Miyagi

lol @ vtek & paps both ejected by randazzo in the 9th

For the best, imo

Aceves is the fuckin man today

aceves has been good.

A teix message from Lester

0-2 breaking pitch = not likely ya?

I just wanted to type "teix message"

haha, i know... it's a good one.

no gloating up in this bitch?

hey YANKEES suck my hairy red sox schlong.

sup doodz

http://grab.by/cBJB