Why are the Red Sox 3-8 against Toronto...??

[Irish Jay]

The answer is because Toronto's rotation consists mainly of lefties and Francona playing role as Mister all star manager fiddles with the lineup. Almost all the games against the Jays had a makeshift lineup of Payton in right and Millar at first. This move does nothing but sit two far superior players on the bench (Nixon and Olerud). The sad thing is we have 8 more games left with Toronto and until Francona figures this out chances are the Sox will continue to humiliate themselves against a team who will finish under .500.

 

BTW Tito Nixon is batting .300 against lefties this year!! Millar is batting 270 overall. Therefore Nixon has a higher batting average against lefties than Millar does and supposedly Nixon can't hit lefties..... <_ way to tito continue playing the red sox out of place. your almost there now. yanks jays and o are all right behind us.>

[yeszir]

There's always some team that seems to give us trouble. For the past few years its been Baltimore. It just goes to show how difficult it is to be consistently good against all teams.

[Sox fan in Tex]

Baltimore was the reason we didn't win the East last year. Toronto better not be that reason this year, or I'm going to be pissed off.

[Youk Of The Nation]

*softly singing "Blame Canada" from South Park*

[YanksHater213]

Hahahahaha... f***ing Canadians...

[Sizzlin22]

Two words Hallady and Lilly.

[ARod2212]

3-8 against Toronto is why the Yankees are still in the race despite having a losing record against Tampa Bay. So yes, it is quite possible that the Blue Jays will cost you the AL East this year even they'll be a sub-.500 team.

[Irish Jay]

Hopefully when we play Toronto again the Red Sox can crush them. The 5-2 loss in which Halladay pitched for Toronto should really have been a rout in the Red Sox favor. They had Halladay in jams all day long and scored just one run off him. As I said earlier, until Francona finally moves Millar out of the lineup, the Sox will continue to hold themselves back in terms of being a better team.

 

It is totally absurd that Millar with his .260 avg and 4 hr's continues to play over Olerud who is batting over .340 with 1 hr in FAR fewer at bats. Not too mention Olerud is the far better 1rst baseman. For whatever reason Francona continues to blindly praise Millar as if Kevin has cast some spell over him. The truth in the matter is that Millar is a sub average player who should only be a bench player but instead because of Francona being stubborn and moronic continues to start game after game over a fantastic player in Olerud.

 

As for the comment about Ted Lilly being the reason why the Jays are so good against the Sox, that is quite true. Quite sad but true. Lilly is much like Way back Wasdin against the rest of the league but against the Red Sox he looks like Roger Clemens. However I will stick by my statement in saying that the reason the Sox struggle against the Jays is because of the lefties they throw at us and the fact that Francona sits better players on the bench.

 

I am hoping that come September the Sox mop the floor with the maple leaf waving yahoos from the north of the border.

[Manny Goes Boom]

Yeah, its frustrating seeing them lose to the Blue Jays (Not the worst team but not a team that should give us this kinda fits) when we are a first place team...I agree Irish Jay I hope we mop the floor with them too

[noonanberg]

Hey ARod, I forget, what happened after that Boone home run you've immortalized? Oh thats right the Marlies spanked you guys, Boone got hurt, and then we spanked you. Shouldnt u at least put ARod as your icon, even though he's the reason we beat you guys in the first place.