by PSF
Quite a lively discussion going on here…
Nice to see people come flocking back to chime in over the past couple of weeks.
I’m still sad to have seen Manny go, but I suppose 10-3 since it happened does say a little bit about how good it may have been for the Sox (and good for the Dodgers as well). They face some good pitching tonight, let’s see if the hit parade continues.
I’m headed to Boston tomorrow for the game…here’s hoping Beckett spins a beauty.
Resume comments!
What a great column by the Herald’s Tony Massarotti today.
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/baseball/red_sox/view/2008_08_28_Theo_Epstein_has_all_right_moves:_Midas_touch_puts_Sox_in_full_swing/srvc=redsox&position=3
I like CHB’s headline even better….he knows how to rub it in and be an asshole eh?
Dan Shaughnessy
Turning out lights
This isn’t even that much fun anymore. Burying the 2008 Yankees has become too darn easy – like practicing layups on an 8-foot rim or beating a 4-year-old at checkers.
I just hope we all dont have to eat those words…..
In the 2007 edition of “Turnkey Team Brand Index,” a study that ranks the brand strength of 122 teams in Major League Baseball, the N.F.L., the N.B.A. and the N.H.L., the Red Sox finished fifth in fan loyalty among all major franchises and first in baseball. (The New York Times Company owns 17 percent of New England Sports Ventures, the parent company of the Red Sox.)
“We asked fans how much a team is a part of their daily routine, to what degree do they support a team, how often do they watch them on TV and how much they go to games,” said Len Perna, the president of Turnkey Sports and Entertainment. “There is no doubt that their performance on the field over the past few years has had an impact on their brand, but there are other teams that have won and don’t have the same glow.”
Lighten up, people.
Cater used to piss me off as well; but after all these years, you grow to tolerate and understand him. And he’s not the only one…there are plenty of people who come in on a regular basis who I once considered grade A douchenozzles.
We’re here to shoot the shit about the Sox, and when some of us have been doing it together for nearly 10 years (holy shit, that’s pathetic), there is a little bit of a comfort level that newer people might not totally understand.
Just roll with it, and don’t get so perturbed. It’s the internet, for chrissakes.
oh, and I don’t give enough of a rip roaring shit to dig through chat archives just to settle a squabble. Fight amongst yourselves.
TY timmy
*monitor and the merrimack*
for verocrab, the sox just choked a sweep and lost a game in the standings to the rays. should i kiss theo’s ass, or be pissed that the sox have yet to solve their middle relief woes. should I cheer the defeat? I want to follow your lead on when I should be excited or happy about the Sox. . .Yay Theo!!
Kotsay got a double in his first AB. Just missed hitting it out in the 9th inning. Okajima choked, not the team. Pawsox are doing great, 18 hits per game. Lester pitched brilliantly. Too bad about Beckett, glad that they are being extra careful with him, other teams would go ahead and pitch him and ruin his career, but not our FO, they look far down the road. You forgot to tear into Tek for not holding onto that 3rd strike before the Giambi bomb. My glass is still half full.
A NJ writer gets ecstatic on how well run the Red Sox organization is.
http://www.nj.com/sports/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/sports-3/1219904933118050.xml&coll=3
Nice detailed article on the “Monster Seats”.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-08-29-bestseats-fenway_N.htm
Nice win by 8-0, great offense, including Jason Bay, good defense, Dice-K was great, even Timlin was good. Good news concerning Beckett, a good day overall, nothing to bitch about. Now, if only the Patriots would get out of their funk. I suspect that the Pat’s FO sucks.
Pretty amazing when you think about it…..
Lowell, Drew, Youks,Beckett,Casey, and Lugnut..er…I mean Lugo…., all out sick or on the DL….that is 4 starting position players and certainly three of those players are considered the “heart” of the batting order. The teams Ace….and it’s best bench player….
All out.
Playing the division leading Chi-Sox……the team that leads MLB in dingers…..the team that has a vaunted pitching staff…
A AA 21 year old kid pitching in his major league debut….in FENWAY!…….
Holy shit!
Wonder what the odds in Vegas were for last nights game?
If games like last night don’t get you excited….then you need someone to dump 2 yards of dirt on top of you….
The amazing Rays are incredible…but so are our boys…emphasis on BOYS….in fact, right now, the Sox may have the youngest and most inexperienced line up in MLB.
Half-Pint is, right now, everything that Jeter ever has been…and I’m starting to swing my MVP vote from Youks to the little shit who can do it all. Tough choice really…..nice to have them both on the Sox eh? Gotta love that slide into 2B last night…picking up his arm to avoid the tag….AND, LOVED the fact that Tito came blowing out onto the field to bitch about the call only to find out he needed to scuttle back into the dugout…..hilarious…and you know that Pedrioa aint gonna let him forget it……..good times.
04 was deliverance.
07 was a statement ( We are still here…and aint going away)
08, if it happens, will be just pure fun. All the kids are making impacts…….* clearing throat*….the kids that this FO drafted.
Manny who?
BRAVO Wally! Couldn’t agree more. Who would have believed Pedroia being intentionally walked.. LMAO @ Ozzie saying he couldn’t believe he intentionally walked a jockie… Quite a fun game to watch.
*Ice Road Fuckers*
- rich, cater, neighbors on the medford malden line
Well….down the home stretch we go….
Lowell and Beckett back on Friday….hopefully well rested and healthy. The rest may of been a blessing in disguise regarding Beckett especially……gonna need his best for the next two months.
Colon is getting to the point where he can return…surely adds much needed depth to the pitching corps in this critical time of season. Would he be willing to pitch out of the pen for the remainder of the season?…he sure could make a huge impact in that role methinks.
Drew is ready to come back…and his best numbers, last year, were produced in Sept/Oct.
Bats are humming…defense is rock solid…pen is looking far more consistent….cant see the Sox not improving with the return of these veterans.
My biggest concern is the number of innings that Lester has pitched to this point. He’s having an incredible year, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see his pitch count and innings pitched be closely monitored through-out the rest of September,,,and that makes sense. Need him long and strong in the playoffs.
Tek should bat RH all the time….better bat speed and far more solid contact….he’s hitting .277 from the right side.
Sox should consider bringing up a burner for pinch running.
Should be another win tonight for the Olde Towne team….has Lester ever lost to the O’s?
Finally, I have spent the last two days doing what we call here in Maine a “Yahd sale”…dragging all sorts of shit out of the garage and barn and laying all of it on tables and blankets in the yard to sell to passersby. What a pain in the ass….but I made $270 on shit I’d likely pay to get rid of at the local transfer station at some point…..I’m considering taking a portion of my new found wealth and investing in a Lugo jersey for my wife.
You see…the last four sports jerseys that I have bought for her, (at her request) were Law, Petey,Damon, and this spring, Manny……..
She wants a Brady jersey….I told her “No fucking way”.
What did she say after you told her ‘No fuking way?’
crab-
DC lives in Revere. He works for the town.
She has not uttered a word to me since, rich.
What’s your advice?
If i may “chime” in Wally, buy her a Cassell jersey, tape brady over Cassell’s name and when Cassell is either released or sacked 8 times in brady’s spot, you simply remove the tape and no harm is done.
fred from medford
Those from Medford, go to lunch at 3 pm. Nice win today Chucks in the 8th and 9th innings. Nice for a team that sucks. Was wondering, can we take up a collection so that Cater can get Nesn.
I have to admit…I have been one of those who has commented on Cora negatively over the past two seasons.
After being the “super-sub” and setting expectations p[erhaps a bit too high for himself, he had seemed to tail off…
However, over the past month or so he has once again made a huge impact, and in typical Cora non typical ways. Smart heads-up playing and sort of odd plays that one doesn’t see every day.
Im glad they kept brady out of the preseason. Sets him up nice and fresh for the seasons opener.
Hey!- i can ses cater playing with his kids from my living room window.
herb from the medford/ malden line.
I hope I am wrong.. But I could have sworn I just heard some report that said Brady was done for the season??? SAY IT ISNT SO!!!!!!
Incredibly, Brady sufferred multiple injuries to his leg. It is now 3 inches shorter than the other one.
And counting.
Kasselll was on eei this am saying he feels uncomfortable being the starting qb. Hes most at ease with his history of being the number 2.
In related news, Paul Seymour wants to renegotiate his contract, and Mike Vrabel says this will be his last season- assuming he makes it thru.
herb
Somehow the Red Sox have mancaged to steal the thunder from the Pats. Somehow Crisp is hitting. Somehow Cora is hitting. Somehow Byrd is the team’s stopper. Somehow Bay isn’t hitting as well as Manny despite averaging an RBI or more per game. Somehow Cassell is the starting QB. Somehow Brady is lost for the season. Somehow the Sox will find a way to win the AL East and not play the Halos, at least not until the ALCS
*mancaged*….nice
Somehow the Pats FO was not prepared for this situation. Unless, of course, that Cassel proves everyone wrong. Then we can say “Somehow Cassel was better than we thought”. The Pats FO is full of “wicked pissars”, real smaht staff in recent years, so don’t sell them short. Somehow when they lost Drew Bledsoe, Tom Brady came out of nowhere to become their star. Somehow, Pats fans will enjoy the season, turn on your big screen HDTV, drink down some Sam Adams, eat the shrimp and chicken wings, and enjoy the ride. The Super Bowl victory party, you can put on hold, just enjoy the ride and the moment. Don’t let your tears spill into your beer. Somehow, life will be worthwhile and the Sun will rise again tomorrow in the East. Somehow.
it’s “Pissah” ty
Hate to see the golden boy go down… I was distraught… but, in case you didn’t notice….. Our beloved are knocking on the door of 1st place in the AL East. I will worry about the pats in November ty. This team is fun to watch………….
Sox will be in first tonite and for the rest of the season
Cassel from the 1 on 3rd and 11…BOOM 51 yarder to Randy Moss
who was Brady when Bledsoe went down.
Cassel has been waiting this moment all his life – is he going to miss his chance? No way – he’s going to lead them to the promise land.
It will be an unbelievable story!
CITY OF CHAMPIONS…and counting
“BK for Shea looks like the real deal” (last post I viewed from PSF)
Back to 2008 – tough two losses to end Rays series. Third game especially – at 9th & 10th innings it became frustratingly apparent with the large number of runners continually stranded that that Sox were not going to win that one…
Fred and Herb, weren’t they the two characters on the Piels beer tv commercials in the 1970s? Oh no, me bad, that was Bert and Harry. They were both from Framingham (like Lou Merloni) and not from Medford and Malden. Then later was Olive and Popeye on the DelMonte ads selling spinach. Rumor has it that Pedroia has spinach at every meal now just like Boggs did with chicken. If only Lorreta had eaten his spinach like his mother had told him to.