2008 Baseball Season .........
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Same freaking story tonight after that pathetic outing by Wakefield Sunday night. Clay Buchholz's line ..... PATHETICblueline said:don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!!!!!!!!!
Thank freaking goodness another one is gone. Corey gone to the Padres. Look for Timlin to be next as he has given up more runs than IP. Only problem is that Tito is loyal to a lot of his guys. With Colon throwing 97 and making some progress in AAA, he may be up soon. Casey was actually back on Sunday but they were keeping him off the active roster til after the Sunday game. It was expected fireballer Craig Hansen would go back to Pawtucket. He may soon replace Manny DelGagne as the 7th inning guy.
Now if someone can step up, throw freaking strikes, get some outs, keep pitch counts under 100 before the 5th-6th innings, they will have the looks of a decent pitching staff. Right now it is very shakey. Luckily they keep averaging 10+ hits and 5+ runs per game, so they are never out of a game.
That's 2 arsonists sent packing. Now if Sox can find someone who will be willing to take JD Drew and Julio Lugo (and his league leading 11 errors for SS), we could all come down off the roof.
4.1 IP
8 hits
5 BB
4 K
7 R
7 ER
89 Pitches
This guy does not belong in the big leagues.
This team will never win with only 1 reliable starting pitcher and 1-2 relievers who are on most of the time. Papelbon had 2 blown saves last week.
Oh, another 10 hit night, so far after 6 innings, from the offence.
Boston is still in first place and I believe will still win the East. Give them some time as they only have played about one quarter of the season.blueline said:Well I know one reason why HRs are down in the AL this season. Red Sox pitchers don't give up as many as other teams. That's because they freaking walk so many!!!!!!!!
Well their pitching has been terrible and the division is much more competitive this season. It is not just a 2 team race anymore. TBay and Jays have arguably, the best pitching in baseball (Arizona isn't too shabby either). Jays bats will come around and they will compete. Yankees always find a way to get back to the pack. TBay has a very good team with the best prospects in all of MLB so they are only going to get better. Once Boston's offence comes back to earth they are going to be in big trouble because most nights they can't hold a lead. Up 3-0 last night in the first inning, that lead soon evaporated. 2 starters do not belong in MLB, another one is a 41 year old who is 50-50 at best, another one is 6-0 (thanks to the offence bailing him out - how does 6.61 runs per game for support sound, second best in the league) who can barely last 6 innings and has nearly as many walks as K's. How the hell does a pitcher have 1 K and 8 BBs and still win a freaking game?lawyerman said:
As a staff, they allow an average of over 4 BBs per game. Fuck - Curt Schilling would go many games without giving up any walks and now we see at least 4-5 nearly every night. Pitch counts reach near 100 by the 5th inning, thus exposing and over using a weak bullpen. On the day they released their long relief/mop up guy (Tavares), Clay Buchholz goes 4.1 innings. Thanks for showing up bud.
Middle relief? Pathetic is the only way to describe them on most nights. 3 are gone (Tavares, Corey and Snyder - in AAA), DelCarmen has a terrific arm but most nights he looks like Nook LaLoosh. If there was a freaking wooden bull in Rogers Center left field, Frank Thomas would have been eating steak all weekend when Sox visited. You can't get enough stewardesses for the balls that fly up into the skies above. Timlin's days are over. Oki and Paps are going to be burnt out by August from over use. Paps blew 2 saves in a row last week and Oki seems to allow more inherited runners to score than I remember from 2007. Oki showed last year how he can't last a full season. He has been brought in for the 7th and 8th more than a few times already because Tito can't trust anyone else. Their offence will take them a long way but unless their pitching improves considerably, the East is up for grabs. Unfortunately, Beckett can't pitch every game.
As good as he has looked at times in his way back, I hope Sox do not put too many eggs in Colon's basket. He may eat them.
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No kidding .........guyroch said:
TBay is going to be around for a while. Marlins just locked up one of the brightest young stars in the game - Hanley Ramirez. Hmmmm, I wonder where he came from?
However, the deal contributed to a World Series win and brought over two star players in Beckett and Lowell. It would be nice to have Ramirez at SS in Boston, considering all the problems they have had at that position over the last few years.
Manny being Manny .........
I just saw one of the greatest Manny plays of all time today. During a game against the O's a ball was hit deep to LF with 2 men on base and 1 out. Manny makes a great over the shoulder catch, keeps running into the padded wall, climbs the wall ...... then proceeds to high five a fan in the front row, lands back on his feet, fires a strike to Pedroia who guns it to 1st for the inning ending double play.
Freaking awesome ........... look for it on the sports highlights tonite. I have never seen anything like that. Not just the catch, but giving the fan the high five. The players were all huddled around the camera in the dugout watching the replay and they were killing themselves laughing.
Way to go Manny!!!!!
I just saw one of the greatest Manny plays of all time today. During a game against the O's a ball was hit deep to LF with 2 men on base and 1 out. Manny makes a great over the shoulder catch, keeps running into the padded wall, climbs the wall ...... then proceeds to high five a fan in the front row, lands back on his feet, fires a strike to Pedroia who guns it to 1st for the inning ending double play.
Freaking awesome ........... look for it on the sports highlights tonite. I have never seen anything like that. Not just the catch, but giving the fan the high five. The players were all huddled around the camera in the dugout watching the replay and they were killing themselves laughing.
Way to go Manny!!!!!
I don't like the Bosox but Manny is one of the great characters of the game. He's fun to watch and that play was a joy.
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No relief pitching for the Bosox in the bottom of the seventh. Blueline is probably contemplating cutting his wrists!
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No, he's on the ledge with me.jwmorrice said:
If Okajima and Papelbon can't pitch, we're screwed!
I lock up all the sharp objects before every game.jwmorrice said:
I also keep plastic fruit on the coffee table, otherwise I would break the shit out of my tv with whatever I can find to throw. It is only freaking May and I may go on the DL soon, needing fucking Tommy John surgery. Bloody slider I threw on that plastic apple today fucked my elbow.
Hey BD, I called this one perfect today. You notice the last several games they have lost, a little bloop hit or a play that a fielder didn't make has contributed to a loss? Soon as Pedroia didn't come up with that play for the third out, I said it's over. Lugo did it in the Papelbon blown save, then Lamb that little blooper to win the game for Minny. Drew had that play last night when he hurt his wrist. Van Every in CF today missed that play on the dive. Always seems to be a bullshit play that gets things rolling.
Another thing I see so many freaking times. A reliever will come in, get two quick outs then all hell breaks loose. Same thing today. Oki can't pitch with runners inherited. They had a stat during the Payton at bat. He had only prevented 27% of the inherited runners from scoring, something like 3-14. Now its 3-17.
This team is in huge trouble because it is not getting any better. It is the same thing every game.
Oh - what's that now 4 GIDPs today? They must lead the freaking league.
Here is the link for Manny's catch. Unfortunately, it doesn't show the best part, the feed from NESN where the players in the dugout were watching the replay and killing themselves laughing.
http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp
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okay the Indians starters are out of this world right now. Their 4th shutout in 5 games. And the 5th game, Lee shut the Jays out for 9 innings. This is pretty impressive, I'm curious if anything like this has happened ever before.
Mets imploding early?
I hate the New York teams (along with Boston!), so, on that level, this is nice to see. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...lly_wagner_rips_mets_teammates_for_duc-1.html
However, I always thought Carlos Delgado was an okay sort of fellow so too bad this is largely about his lack of production.
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I hate the New York teams (along with Boston!), so, on that level, this is nice to see. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...lly_wagner_rips_mets_teammates_for_duc-1.html
However, I always thought Carlos Delgado was an okay sort of fellow so too bad this is largely about his lack of production.
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