Timlin to be shut down for a week

[Sox fan in Tex]

From the Herald's website this morning:

 

Posted by Steve Buckley at 12:22 pm

 

CLEARWATER, Fla. – The unsettled state of the Red Sox’ bullpen is now even more so, with the team announcing this morning that reliever Mike Timlin, who is suffering from back pain, will be shut down for a week.

 

“He’s going to be one week, no throwing,” said Sox manager Terry Francona. “The tenderness he felt . . . is in a smaller area, which I think is good. But he still feels it, and we don’t want this to turn into a season-long fiasco, where he feels OK, the next week he feels a little worse, and two weeks later he’s worse.”

 

The goal, Francona stated, is to attack the problem now, “so that he can pitch six months pain free.

 

“We’ll see how he gets ready for the season,” said the manager. “I think he fully expects to be ready for the season. But at the same time, the reason we’re slowing him down is because we want him healthy. We don’t want him to limp through the season.

 

“I’m disappointed it got to this point. The doctors still kind of reassure us that he is getting better. But he felt something, he threw 40 pitches (on the side), he threw the ball great, but we don’t want it to be great, good, have it build up to the point where he can’t throw the ball like he can.”

 

Roster moves:

 

The Red Sox are in Clearwater today to play the Phillies at Bright House Networks Field. Before the game, Francona announced the first roster cuts of the spring, with five players being sent back to the minor-league complex.

 

The best-known name on the list is outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, considered by many to be a future star. Also cut was righthander David Pauley, who made three starts for the Sox last season. The other cuts were righthander Edgar Martinez, infielder Chad Spann and first baseman Luis Jimenez.

[jacksonianmarch]

Ellsbury gets cut already? The kid was MASHING.

 

This is bad for the sox if timlin isnt ready.

[VA Sox Fan]

I think it's a good idea to be cautious w/ Timlin while it's early.

[ksushi]

I would have liked to see Ellsbury stick around a little.

[jacksonianmarch]

I would have liked to see Ellsbury stick around a little.

 

I was looking forward to watching him play when the sox and yankees played next week. Bummer.

[Dana Kiecker]

Praise Jesus that Timlin is out of the closer role sweepstakes.. you guys act like you didnt see him pitch just LAST YEAR in a middle relief roll.. he sucked hes 41 and hes a thickheaded pollock that shakes off JVTek waaaaaay toooo much and pays for it..

 

the guy is way over the hill and you are hanging your hopes on him?

 

 

f***in bunch of retards

[TGov]

Timlin's a set-up man, not a closer, I don't know why they consider him closer material, especially when he hasn't pitched at all this spring... I hope Pineiro shines as the closer this year...

[seabeachfred]

Praise Jesus that Timlin is out of the closer role sweepstakes.. you guys act like you didnt see him pitch just LAST YEAR in a middle relief roll.. he sucked hes 41 and hes a thickheaded pollock that shakes off JVTek waaaaaay toooo much and pays for it..

 

the guy is way over the hill and you are hanging your hopes on him?

 

 

f***in bunch of retards

 

Tough talk Dana, and that's fine with me. However, you might interject how you think we can resolve our closer problem. It is one thing to call Timlin a thick headed polock who pays for his stubborness, but that doesn't solve our problem. I got called out by my friend ORS the other day for being in panic mode already but I think one way to alleviate my concern is to start eliminating the plethora of suspects we have vieing for the spot and get it down to three or four so we can get a good feel for who might be the best of the mediocre bunch. That is, if Theo is set on not pursuing a trade.

[Mr Crunchy]

polock??

sometimes they use it in seafood salad and call it crab meat

or

are you refering to polack

 

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

 

Polack

 

SYLLABICATION: Po·lack

PRONUNCIATION: plk, -lk

NOUN: 1. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of Polish birth or descent. 2. Obsolete A native of Poland; a Pole.

ETYMOLOGY: Polish Polak. See pel-2 in Appendix

 

i may agree or may not agree with your opinion of mike timlin but you should know how to spell words of bigotry while your defaming the polish people and calling other members of this esteemed panel retards

[pudge]

Praise Jesus that Timlin is out of the closer role sweepstakes.. you guys act like you didnt see him pitch just LAST YEAR in a middle relief roll.. he sucked hes 41 and hes a thickheaded pollock that shakes off JVTek waaaaaay toooo much and pays for it..

 

the guy is way over the hill and you are hanging your hopes on him?

 

 

f***in bunch of retards

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