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Chuck,
I think he is unraveling over the course of the year, not just one particular game. The suspension will probably due him some good, missing a start, getting some rest and coming back stronger.
It may be a blessing in disguise.
Susie,
No, Grady left Pedro in and he got mashed.
Torre,
may be related to Grady Little. What do you think?
But on the other hand,
Ozzie is even stupider:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2485365
The point is,
why throw at a guy when you are ahead 6-1? That is just stupid.
Big un it suspended,
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2485909
that guy is really starting to unravel.
You obviously haven't seen Wakefield,
on one of his days. I expect him to have six strikeouts in one inning one of these days before he retires.
Twinds 5 Red Sox 2
Julian Tavares gives up a walkoff grand slam to lose a playoff type game in extras. Really a great game, even if the wrong team won.
Sox and Yankees back in a tie for first. Whodathunkit? ;)
As to be expected,
Santana and Schilling in a beaut. 0-0 in the fourth. Santana reaches 1,000 career strikeouts by K'ing Ortizzle. He is smoking, having eight strikeouts thru four.
Schilling is matching him with double play inducing grounders.
I liked this quote:
"it is like giving a speeding ticket to a guy who died in an accident". LOL
The games don't matter because he is done with baseball. Even his agent seems to feel that way.
Test,
Yeah! I am happy to see the board return to being free again!
Thanks Excel!!
Myst,
Would you mind giving me a setup for PETS? I am basing it on $20,000 and a commission of 9.99 and a minimum purchase/sell of 100 shares.
I come up with: buy multiple of 15 and sell multiple of 2 with an upper band of six and a lower of minus three point five.
Can you improve on that for me?
Xcel,
Crawford is one of the best athletes to get no publicity. That kid can really fly too. I always enjoy watching him when I go to the Trop!
They all showboat today,
Sammy had his hop, Jeter crows on TV commercials how he likes fans in other cities booing the Yankees, Manny stands and watches like it is a golf shot. It is widespread.
I think the whole thing, like most Yank-Sox stuff is just for a story. However, A-Rod may be making a big deal out of it as a way to try to fire the Yankees up.
As for me, he looked lost on the popup homer. Kinda the way he always is. :)
Jeter is as big a showboat
as they come. Wells and Schilling are showboats too, but the Yankees are certainly in the mix too.
Yes, he is that insecure,
now he is telling you you don't know baseball either. He seems to have problems. With his air of superiority you would think he was a Yankee fan. LOL
Ortizzle,
Hasn't been the same since he signed the contract. I think the Tampa Bay shift kinda bamboozled him a little and he started trying to find ways to beat the shift.
Bunting, going to the opposite field, etc. instead of just playing his game. Poppa Jack needs to get inside his head. I think he is pressing to much.
Yeah, but,
When Red Sox pitchers try to go inside, the Umps immediately issue warnings. Also, the Yankee faithful begin to call pitchers like Schilling, Clemens and Pedro "Headhunters".
The whole mindset is totally out of whack.
yeah, the ninth was ugly.
Hopefully the Sox do better tonight.
I wonder if putting Sheffield in against a knuckleballer is the right time for him to come back though. I would thing swinging and missing would really aggrivate that wrist.
Red Sox win 9-5.
No thanks to Keith Foulke and his batting practice.
Yes, it could,
but age plays a role too. If he had gotten a better jump, been able to run a little faster, he wouldn't of been in a position to dive for it.
The Red Sox have plenty of older guys right now too, although they are transitioning into a younger team. I worry about the age and how players will hold up over the course of the season.
These older players will be interesting to watch, especially since the greenies have been outlawed.
Not sure what Clemens has to do with the discussion at all,
but are you trying to say Kasmir was more of an influence than Lowe and Varitek were to the Red Sox? I don't see it as even being close.
Excel,
Yes, that was the trade to Seattle, Heathcliffe Slocum for Jason Varitek and Derek Lowe.
I think if you look back at the playoffs in 2004 both played large parts. Also both were significant players on teams other than 2004 and of course Varitek is the Red Sox team captain.
Slocum on the other hand, did not help Seattle much at all. Usually when announcers discuss lopsided trades, that one comes up.
nope,
The steal of the last decade and maybe longer was Varitek and Lowe for Slocum.
Kasmir was a steal, but the other deal brought a World Championship.
Chuck,
That was my thoughts also. The Yankees aren't his Daddy, his bullpens are his Daddy. He is used to that happening.
Red Sox win 8-4
Two hits by Beckett, one a homer. Varitek finally fails to hit a home run on May 20th after doing it for several years in a row. He did hit one out last night, perhaps he hasn't kept up with the date lately.
He did a fine job today,
Yankees are getting adept at coming back from big deficits.
I wasn't saying he was washed up,
just that he may no longer be number one, that isn't a disgrace, he has been the most successful closer ever.
"When working"
Is the key and the point of the original post. He isn't quite as sharp as he used to be. That holds true for me too, LOL.
Which brings us back to the age thing again. Do you think having all these older vets with long, expensive contracts may be catching up?
I'm starting to worry about that with Boston's pitching staff a little, but we do have a lot of young arms about ready to go.
"Hammered?"
I would call two hard hit doubles to lose the game "Hammered". And just think, Bill Mueller was nowhere to be seen. ;o)
It might have,
but the Texas announcers were saying he was playing in very shallow to be able to throw home if a play came his way. They said if a ball was hit over his head the game would be over, and sure enough, Wright did it.
Normally in the past he has been very good at going back on fly balls, I just think he was to shallow for a play at the plate, as the announcers said.
He seemed to run to first base pretty well on a slow hit ball I saw.
With all these injuries and Johnson's performance, do you think age is finally catching up with the Yankees? It seems that way to me, but I don't see whole games most of the time. Is it just wishful thinking on my part? ;o)
New King of the Hill
Papelbon puts the Phillies down 1-2-3 for his major league leading fifteenth save while Mo Rivera drops to 1-3 as he gets hammered by the Mets.
2-0 on Wilkerson Homer
Erickson in to pitch in the 7th for the Yankees. One on, no outs.
He's had the torn labrum for years.
The Red Sox had nursed him through it for multiple seasons.
If those counts were in chronological order, it appears like a steady decline in pitches he is throwing as well.
I don't think the Sox felt last year or even this year would be the problem, it was paying him year three and especially year four where they felt the risk was to great.
I believe you are being premature in your judgement of how the Red Sox felt in their negotiations.
I guess we still aren't tied,
since the Red Sox lead the annual series. Hmmm, maybe some other time. ;o)
Johnson,
I missed the first inning so didn't see the runs, but he still appears to be throwing high and over the plate this inning and last inning. He isn't getting over top of his pitches.
Bummer,
I was going to see the Devil Rays play Toronto tonight and see Doc Halliday pitch. We went to St. Pete Beach and then went out to dinner and my wife got sick.
We had to turn around and go home.
She seems somewhat better, guess I can catch it on TV since the Red Sox got canceled.
Lang,
I give them more credit than I give you. nuf ced
Langastino,
Trolling again, eh?
Derek Jeter had three hits and three steals in Thursday's loss to the Red Sox.
Jeter also drew a walk while breaking out of a minislump that had lowered his average 60 points over the last seven games. Unfortunately, he had two miscues at shortstop, the second of which was very costly. With runners on second and third and two outs in the seventh, he made a nice diving stop of Mark Loretta's grounder to the hole, but he rushed the throw, pulling Miguel Cairo off the bag at first. The ball got away from Cairo after a collision with Loretta and both runs came around to score. Jeter's steals were his third, fourth and fifth of the season. Two came off Tim Wakefield. May. 11 - 11:17 pm et
That from Rotoworld, miscue is another word for error, it just wasn't called. So you think two runs should score on an infield single? That would have to be some fast cat...
Now go away and keep your personal feelings to yourself, I don't see any vast baseball knowledge coming from you, just someone trying to stir up fights
Any one in Boston,
know if the game is going to be restarted and how long until it gets going? I went to the movies and missed the first six innings.