2008 Baseball Season .........
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As if this whacky season couldn't get any worse for my Red Sox........ they finally are back home and open today against the 0-6 Tigers, who are due to break out.
Now, how's this for a way to kick off your season at home ......... the person who will throw out the ceremonial first pitch today is??????????
Bill 'freaking' Buckner
because we all know nothing says 'Congrats Red Sox on your 2007 WS championship, here are your rings, let's unveil the banner, like the memory of Bill Buckner does ........
- What? Eric Gagne wasn't available? .... he'd miss the plate anyways
- Maybe Bob Stanley? Oh yes that's right, he threw that wild pitch in the '86 series that started the Mets on their way.
- Roger Clemens in his Yankees hat?
-Wade Boggs riding in on horseback from the Yankees WS championship?
I guess it could be worse ..... they could have had Julio Lugo throw and make another error like he did all weekend .........
I can't wait for this one today .........
Now, how's this for a way to kick off your season at home ......... the person who will throw out the ceremonial first pitch today is??????????
Bill 'freaking' Buckner
because we all know nothing says 'Congrats Red Sox on your 2007 WS championship, here are your rings, let's unveil the banner, like the memory of Bill Buckner does ........
- What? Eric Gagne wasn't available? .... he'd miss the plate anyways
- Maybe Bob Stanley? Oh yes that's right, he threw that wild pitch in the '86 series that started the Mets on their way.
- Roger Clemens in his Yankees hat?
-Wade Boggs riding in on horseback from the Yankees WS championship?
I guess it could be worse ..... they could have had Julio Lugo throw and make another error like he did all weekend .........
I can't wait for this one today .........
Tigers now 0-7. Hopefully it gets to 0-9 so they can get the hell out of Fenway before they erupt. Some team is going to pay for this once they get started, they have too much offense. Pitching, well that's another story where they have some real issues.shack said:
How can you explain the entire Tigers regular lineup (other than Carlos Guillen) going cold? I know that Granderson is out but it will take him time to get in the groove even when he gets back, but what about the rest of the professional hitters in that lineup?
Then there's the bullpen - setback for Fernando Rodney, Zumaya may not come back this year at all, and if he does, it's hard to return to 100% from that injury. That team has serious problems.
Then there's the bullpen - setback for Fernando Rodney, Zumaya may not come back this year at all, and if he does, it's hard to return to 100% from that injury. That team has serious problems.
That guy has suffered some weird non-baseball injuries. First his forearm from rocking out tunes on his "guitar hero", then the finger and now shoulder from lifting boxes.Herodotus said:
Tigers will hit, only a matter of time. Just hard to explain why all of them have gotten off to a slow start at the same time. Speaking of slow starts, Big Papi is now hitting under .100. He has been fighting it since that Japan trip, he is really messed up. On a more positive note, A-Rod took the golden sumbraro today with 4 K's.
Couldn't have said it any better myself .......... 7-2 Tigers over a pathetic Red Sox team. It was very painful to watch. Never mind the Tigers pitching issues, Boston also has some. Lester was his usual freaking self - 91 pitches and could barely finish 5 innings after a serious 4 run meltdown. Terrible BP again with more auditions for another bus ticket out of town, as Timlin is off the DL tomorrow. But, hey - they didn't need Santana, Lester is the future.blueline said:
I predicted this team will barely be at .500 come the end of April and it is shaping up that way with tougher teams ahead. Papi hitting .091 and now Lowell on the shelf for who knows how long.
I really think that Detroit will dominate once they get started. As other have said, they have too much talent.blueline said:Couldn't have said it any better myself .......... 7-2 Tigers over a pathetic Red Sox team. It was very painful to watch. Never mind the Tigers pitching issues, Boston also has some. Lester was his usual freaking self - 91 pitches and could barely finish 5 innings after a serious 4 run meltdown. Terrible BP again with more auditions for another bus ticket out of town, as Timlin is off the DL tomorrow. But, hey - they didn't need Santana, Lester is the future.
I predicted this team will barely be at .500 come the end of April and it is shaping up that way with tougher teams ahead. Papi hitting .091 and now Lowell on the shelf for who knows how long.
Boston's pitching staff is overrated this year. They are depending on too many young guys this year. In the Est you need a couple of starters that can eat up innings for you. Boston has Beckett and Wakefield after that there are no guarantees. I really think this is the year the Jays need to make a move because Boston and New York are setup to have strong pitching staffs in the next two years.
Beckett will be a lock but I wouldn't want to rely on Wakefield to be the second man in the rotation. He is getting on in years and was shut down late in the season last year. Plus you cannot expect him to win another 17 games like in 2007. It looks like Dice-K is coming along very nicely, his last two outings were very good, the best I have seen him pitch since very early last season. At 2-0, he could be 3-0 as he left the first game in Japan with the lead. Then Kyle Snyder had a meltdown and blew the game for him. The big worry right now is the bullpen. Their middle relievers have been coming in with their gas cans much like Eric Gagne did and is still doing. If they can ever get to the 8th and 9th with a lead, Okajima and Papelbon are locks more often than not. It is just the 5-6-7 inning guys who are pathetic so far. Expect Brian Corey to be sent packing today or tomorrow.Brownie69 said:
Red Sox-Yankees this weekend and then again next Weds-Thurs.
wtf ........ FOX
was anyone else watching the red sox-yankees game today/tonight on Fox? They went thru a 2 hour rain delay then went back to the game just before the start of a Nascar race. Great battle between 2 of the best in the game - Papelbon and A-Rod. We got to the top of the 9th, 2 out, game on the line, Papelbon gets ready to deliver a 3-2 pitch to Cano in a 1 run ball game, (only the greatest rivalry in sports, mind you) and off it goes to the start of the freaking race ......... what kind of bullshit is that?
was anyone else watching the red sox-yankees game today/tonight on Fox? They went thru a 2 hour rain delay then went back to the game just before the start of a Nascar race. Great battle between 2 of the best in the game - Papelbon and A-Rod. We got to the top of the 9th, 2 out, game on the line, Papelbon gets ready to deliver a 3-2 pitch to Cano in a 1 run ball game, (only the greatest rivalry in sports, mind you) and off it goes to the start of the freaking race ......... what kind of bullshit is that?
I was shocked. It could only have been worse if they'd switched to Heidi!blueline said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game
bigdik said:
lol .......I remember that.
I hear that people watching the ball game in bars on Saturday were freaking out when it cut away to the race. Fox did make an announcement they'd switch over and I kept looking at the clock, yelling at Papelbon to freaking hurry it up, fearing this was going to happen. It only took two additional pitches to finish off Cano, but they had me running to my pc to MLB game day to update my screen, looking for the results. I mean, it's only the freaking Red Sox and Yankees.
Yankees foil Red Sox curse plot ...........
How times have changed. It used to be the Red Sox worrrying about curses ..... Red Sox fans attempted various methods over the years to exorcise their famous curse. These included placing a Boston cap atop Mt. Everest and burning a Yankees cap at its base camp; hiring professional exorcists and Father Guido Sarducci to "purify" Fenway Park; spray painting a "Reverse Curve" street sign on Storrow Drive to change it to say "Reverse the Curse" (the sign wasn't replaced until just after the 2004 World Series win); and finding a piano owned by Ruth that he had supposedly pushed into a pond near his Sudbury, Massachusetts farm, Home Plate Farm.
NY Yankees unearth buried Red Sox jersey from new stadium
Frank Gramarossa, project executive for the new Yankee Stadium, removes a Boston Red Sox jersey with the name of player David Ortiz from the ground at the new Yankee Stadium in New York, Sunday, April 13, 2008. The New York Yankees have ended a construction worker's attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Red Sox jersey. Team officials watched Sunday as construction workers removed the jersey from two feet of concrete in a service corridor of the stadium that is under construction. (AP Photo/Frances Roberts)
NEW YORK—A construction worker's bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday when the home team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot.
more stories like thisAfter locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered through the concrete Sunday and pulled it out.
The team said it learned that a Sox-rooting construction worker had buried a shirt in the new Bronx stadium, which will open next year across the street from the current ballpark, from a report in the New York Post on Friday.
Yankees President Randy Levine said team officials at first considered leaving the shirt where it was.
"The first thought was, you know, it's never a good thing to be buried in cement when you're in New York," Levine said. "But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?"
On Saturday, construction workers who remembered the employee, Gino Castignoli, phoned in tips about the shirt's location.
"We had anonymous people come tell us where it was, and we were able to find it," said Frank Gramarossa, a project executive with Turner Construction, the general contractor on the site.
It took about five hours of drilling Saturday to locate the shirt under 2 feet of concrete, he said.
On Sunday, Levine and Yankees CEO Lonn Trost watched as Gramarossa and foreman Rich Corrado finished the job and pulled the shirt from the rubble.
In shreds from the jackhammers, the shirt still bore the letters "Red Sox" on the front. It was a David Ortiz jersey, No. 34.
Trost said the Yankees had discussed possible criminal charges against Castignoli with the district attorney's office.
"We will take appropriate action since fortunately we do know the name of the individual," he said.
A woman who answered the phone at Castignoli's home in the Bronx on Sunday said he was not there.
A spokesman for Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said Sunday he did not know whether any criminal charges might apply.
Levine said the shirt would be cleaned up and sent to the Jimmy Fund, a charity affiliated with Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Along with that, New York will send a Yankees Universe T-shirt, which is sold to benefit Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
"Hopefully the Jimmy Fund will auction it off and we'll take the act that was a very, very bad act and turn it into something beautiful," he said.
....freaking brilliant. A bunch of union workers digging up this jersey on a Sunday, now they have to fix the hole they dug ....
How times have changed. It used to be the Red Sox worrrying about curses ..... Red Sox fans attempted various methods over the years to exorcise their famous curse. These included placing a Boston cap atop Mt. Everest and burning a Yankees cap at its base camp; hiring professional exorcists and Father Guido Sarducci to "purify" Fenway Park; spray painting a "Reverse Curve" street sign on Storrow Drive to change it to say "Reverse the Curse" (the sign wasn't replaced until just after the 2004 World Series win); and finding a piano owned by Ruth that he had supposedly pushed into a pond near his Sudbury, Massachusetts farm, Home Plate Farm.
NY Yankees unearth buried Red Sox jersey from new stadium
Frank Gramarossa, project executive for the new Yankee Stadium, removes a Boston Red Sox jersey with the name of player David Ortiz from the ground at the new Yankee Stadium in New York, Sunday, April 13, 2008. The New York Yankees have ended a construction worker's attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Red Sox jersey. Team officials watched Sunday as construction workers removed the jersey from two feet of concrete in a service corridor of the stadium that is under construction. (AP Photo/Frances Roberts)
NEW YORK—A construction worker's bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday when the home team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot.
more stories like thisAfter locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered through the concrete Sunday and pulled it out.
The team said it learned that a Sox-rooting construction worker had buried a shirt in the new Bronx stadium, which will open next year across the street from the current ballpark, from a report in the New York Post on Friday.
Yankees President Randy Levine said team officials at first considered leaving the shirt where it was.
"The first thought was, you know, it's never a good thing to be buried in cement when you're in New York," Levine said. "But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?"
On Saturday, construction workers who remembered the employee, Gino Castignoli, phoned in tips about the shirt's location.
"We had anonymous people come tell us where it was, and we were able to find it," said Frank Gramarossa, a project executive with Turner Construction, the general contractor on the site.
It took about five hours of drilling Saturday to locate the shirt under 2 feet of concrete, he said.
On Sunday, Levine and Yankees CEO Lonn Trost watched as Gramarossa and foreman Rich Corrado finished the job and pulled the shirt from the rubble.
In shreds from the jackhammers, the shirt still bore the letters "Red Sox" on the front. It was a David Ortiz jersey, No. 34.
Trost said the Yankees had discussed possible criminal charges against Castignoli with the district attorney's office.
"We will take appropriate action since fortunately we do know the name of the individual," he said.
A woman who answered the phone at Castignoli's home in the Bronx on Sunday said he was not there.
A spokesman for Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said Sunday he did not know whether any criminal charges might apply.
Levine said the shirt would be cleaned up and sent to the Jimmy Fund, a charity affiliated with Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Along with that, New York will send a Yankees Universe T-shirt, which is sold to benefit Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
"Hopefully the Jimmy Fund will auction it off and we'll take the act that was a very, very bad act and turn it into something beautiful," he said.
....freaking brilliant. A bunch of union workers digging up this jersey on a Sunday, now they have to fix the hole they dug ....
A spokesman for the Bronx district attorney's office won't say whether the guy might face criminal charges?! For what? Witchcraft? Littering? They're nuts.
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lol .......... well it looks as though that jersey had something to do with Papi's major hitting slump. While he didn't exacly tear the cover off the ball last night, he had 2 hits..... freaking Yankees, nice to see them chasing the Sox now isn't it?bigdik said:Did they check to see if Hoffa was wearing it?
Why are the Jays playing Marco Scutero ahead of John Macdonald. Macdonald is way better defensively and can hit about .250 rather than Scutero's sizzling .150 average.
Madonald looks pretty pissed on the bench - and rightly so.
JP - gove your head a shake.
Madonald looks pretty pissed on the bench - and rightly so.
JP - gove your head a shake.
I see where Miguel Tejada lied about his age. He is 33, not 31. Geez what is it with some of these Latin ball players. I wonder how old Julio Franco really is? 55? 60?
Blue Jays fans may also be interested to know that SS David Eckstein is actually a junior in high school. He was spotted walking the halls of a local Toronto high school and his cover was blown whe he tried to bum lunch money for milk.
Blue Jays fans may also be interested to know that SS David Eckstein is actually a junior in high school. He was spotted walking the halls of a local Toronto high school and his cover was blown whe he tried to bum lunch money for milk.
