rangers batting .600 when they don't strike out.

standard 2009 red sox

just got back from the gym..... plz explain this bet to me.... I got no idea what you were asking me to bet

just in case you guys haven't had it yet on the Sox broadcast, the Rangers broadcast updated the Ellsbury exit as a right shoulder strain

god it looked like even the rangers first baseman gave papi a tap on the ass for getting a base hit.

just the game, it was 157 ( made mistake)

nice series for ur rangers, dice k sux, i never want to bet on him, but ima degen

Ty ty....

FWIW, I got alot more respect for the Red Sox nation than the Yankees.... So it means more to win a series from you guys. Ever since ya'll bent the Bronx Bombers over and made them your B!tch in 2004 thats exactly what they've been.

Texas vs. Boston mark my words your 2009 ALCS matchup.

sawx/yanks tonight. beckett/brunett. good pitching match up.

God you are such an idiot. Texas getting to the ALCS is a complete joke. And the Yankees will win this series. They'll split the first two games and the Yanks will win CC's start on Thursday. The best team in the American League is the New York Yankees.

O rly? first of all I'm not the Yankees homer calling himself RedSoxFan whats that all about? Secondly the Yankees are a collection of talent they are not a team and that might not matter in the regular season much, but it matters in the playoffs. Think of it like the difference between A-Roid reg season and A-Roid epic fail playoffs, LOL


I cannot wait for the playoffs its going to be so much fun to look so brillant


Edit: the Red Sox are a team. Every one of their starters aside from Bay is going into their 3rd season or longer with the team. Along with the majority of their pitching staff and bench players. You're just going to throw C.C. AJ Tex and Swisher in together and expect magic? Take 4 new guys all with the roles as important as they have onto an aging roster and seriously call them the best team in the American League? It must be fun to have your head that high in the clouds.

Sweet! Listen to that crowd!

Visine is working

FYP

Plz to never be trying the hit-and-run with Lowell on base ever again, kthxbye

--This is one of the most dominating pitching performances I've ever seen. Only one hit so far, and only because Pedroia couldn't rope in the wet ball. Beckett is making it look like men against boys. How many 5-year-olds could Beckett strike out?

--This Tomko works slower than any pitcher I can remember. Maybe their strategy is to keep Beckett in the dugout for 30-minute stretches, and hope he stiffens up.

--BTW, I know you're all waiting for me to weigh in on the new Ortiz. I haven't been able to watch ANY games for about a month, except for one game at Detroit, and tonight. I don't know if the improvement is sudden or has been gradual. But he doesn't look hapless up there any more. Visine ftw? Could it be that simple? I can't tell you how excited I am at the prospect of having a DH again. If he can start contributing again, then all we need is a SS, and the world is ours.

GG, Sar'Major!

What I'm thinking as they post Bay's 11 for 21 against the Yankee's is how much it would suck if ends up in pinstripes next year.

personally, if i were a red sox fan, i'd be happy if the yankees locked up another aging player to a massive, long term contract.

He'll only be 31 at the start of next year.

yup, which is right about the time he should start declining.

This. WTF is up with the sox running all these slow guys all of a sudden? It didn't end up mattering, but we would have got an extra run if Lowell stayed put. At least it was a HnR and not a straight steal.

Nice game tonight guys. The only thing as good or better than a Mets win is an embarrassing Yankee loss. The Mets beat the Phillies and the Red Sox beat the Yankees yet again.

day one of draft

r1 reymond fuentes speedy HS OF
r2 alex wilson college reliever good stats. they always take this guy here
r3 david renfroe hs ss. should get the biggest bonus of any sox draftee by a lot

Heh, I just saw a crawl on the bottom of the local channel that said a local kid got picked in the third round of the draft by the Boston Red Sox.

I don't understand how a #3 can command a much bigger bonus than a #1 or #2.

Also, I'm reading Sparky Lyle's "The Bronx Zoo" right now, and he says that he got no bonus when he signed (then later learned that he could have got at least ten dimes, if he had only asked for it). Lyle said the size of your bonus determined your worth to the club. If they had $80k invested in you, they felt the need to nurture you and get their money's worth. If they had $0 invested in you, they didn't give a damn about you.

(BTW, that book is about the '78 season. I'm just now up to September, when the Yanks came to Fenway and clobbered Boston for four straight games, to catch them in the standings and rip their hearts out. Lyle says the only reason the Sox folded that year was injuries. "Yaz has a bad back, Fisk has cracked ribs, Hobson has got arm troubles, Evans got beaned last week, he's still dizzy," etc. Then again, the only reason the Sox had such a big lead that year was all the injuries the Yankees suffered--Hunter, Rivers, Randolph, and Dent all missed significant amounts of time, and Munson's knees/legs were in terrible shape. They're just rolling now in September, and I'm not looking forward to reading about the one-game play-off.)

would absolutely love to see jj hardy or yunel escobar type players end up with the sox. but i don't think the sox make a deal for a ss if they require 5 mil a year like hardy or even the fact that a lot of clubs won't give up a player like escobar. if we do get a ss it probably won't be a huge improvement

Having grown up a Red Sox fan, I was always pretty ignorant when it came to the virtues of having a solid defensive SS.

Then Orlando Cabrera and Alex Gonzalez came into my life. Sharply contrasting that was Julio Lugo.

I'm not familiar with the shortstops you mentioned, but if they can flash the leather as well as O-Cab or A-Gon, I'm all for it.

(A lot of teams would send us their starting SS tomorrow for Buccholz, or Bowden, or maybe even Penney.)