5/17 Vs Baltimore

[iortiz]

Albers isnt a starting pitcher. Hasnt been since 2008

 

he has shown consistency and arguments, give him the opportunity, If we gonna lose, I prefer with this guy than those bulks.

[Cocos Disciples]

Aceves hasn't started since 2009, and even then he started one game and went 3 1/3.

[iortiz]

Aceves hasn't started since 2009' date=' and even then he started one game and went 3 1/3.[/quote']

 

good point.

[SoxFanForsyth]

I would 110% much rather see Brandon Duckworth or Andrew Miller take Lackey's starts instead of Wakefield.

[RedSoxFaithful]

I like that Rotation' date=' but i would sent Wake to BP and put Albers... And keep that way at least a couple of weeks and see how it works. For me, Lackey and D-K can stay @ DL all season long and give the opportunity to our farm to start games.[/quote']

 

Why the hell would we use Albers as a starter? When first of all he isn't a starter and second he has been our only reliable option in the pen besides Bard and Pap.

 

I would like to see Bowden and Dubront get a shot and I think Miller could have huge upside and is pitching well in the minors

[snydersminipretzels]

Why the hell would we use Albers as a starter? When first of all he isn't a starter and second he has been our only reliable option in the pen besides Bard and Pap.

 

I would like to see Bowden and Dubront get a shot and I think Miller could have huge upside and is pitching well in the minors

 

Miller has no control. He's walked 24 in 30 innings.

[RedSoxFaithful]

Miller has no control. He's walked 24 in 30 innings.

 

So he has Dice-k's control but can throw harder, we have put up with Dice-K why not Miller?

[snydersminipretzels]

So he has Dice-k's control but can throw harder' date=' we have put up with Dice-K why not Miller?[/quote']

 

If he had Dice-K's control, Miller would be starting for the Detroit Tigers.

[iortiz]

Why the hell would we use Albers as a starter? When first of all he isn't a starter and second he has been our only reliable option in the pen besides Bard and Pap.

 

I would like to see Bowden and Dubront get a shot and I think Miller could have huge upside and is pitching well in the minors

 

The important question is not "is he a starter?", it is "can he be one?", he's around 28, i wouldn't say he's a rookie, and the most important thing, he has shown consitency and arguments to become one. I'll prefer all the times gain a starter than lose a reliefer and mostly given the circunstances ("DLs") and poor performances (ERAs) of Lacky, D-K and Wake (use them as a reliefers if u want after the DL but not as starters plese). What can you lose? Send him back to the BP?, What can you win? A decent starter.

Any experiment at this point is better than D-K, Lackey and Wake.

[iortiz]

So he has Dice-k's control but can throw harder' date=' we have put up with Dice-K why not Miller?[/quote']

 

When you say, "he has D-Ks control", seems to me like he has control, and D-K Matsuzaka has not control and command at all, thats why he walked 9 people the other day and he's been Walking a lot in the past... If he has that "control" and throw harder, what u would see For sure are walks, but now, by a hit my friend.

We don't need another walker-pitcher throwing harder.

[Cocos Disciples]

Nobody remembers the GT rules. It saddens me. The team needs the mojo!

[VA Sox Fan]

Nobody remembers the GT rules. It saddens me. The team needs the mojo!

 

Did someone try to start today's other than BPEF????

[Palodios]

Did someone try to start today's other than BPEF????

 

Yep

[italstallianion]

Did someone try to start today's other than BPEF????

 

 

And often times the offenders are people who have been here long enough to know the rules. We should seriously post a sticky note about it.

[Palodios]

And often times the offenders are people who have been here long enough to know the rules. We should seriously post a sticky note about it.

 

Everyone always mentions the possibility of a sticky, but no one ever has the guts to do it. That's a thread that will last forever, I know I don't want that kind of pressure.

[VA Sox Fan]

Yep

 

Was it one of the many newbies or a longer time poster?

[italstallianion]

Everyone always mentions the possibility of a sticky' date=' but no one ever has the guts to do it. That's a thread that will last forever, I know I don't want that kind of pressure.[/quote']

 

 

Can't a mod just make it "unsticky" once he feels like it's served its purpose?

[DirtDog]

I'm a newbie and a longtime poster. My join date trumps a lot of you but my post count doesn't.

 

We kind of need a new gamethread for today. Whats the practice is a poster fails to follow through on a winning series of gamethreads?

 

Anyway here's today's lineup, PapiEnFuego can copy this over when the thread is made.

 

RED SOX (21-20)

Ellsbury CF

Pedroia 2B

Gonzalez 1B

Youkilis 3B

Ortiz DH

Lowrie SS

Cameron RF

Crawford LF

Saltalamacchia C

 

Pitching: RHP Clay Buchholz (4-3, 3.94).

 

TIGERS (22-19)

TBA

 

Pitching: LHP Phil Coke (1-5, 4.54)

 

Game time: 7:10 p.m.

[Palodios]

Can't a mod just make it "unsticky" once he feels like it's served its purpose?

 

There will always be new posters.

[WhiskeyBreath]

So, they getting this game in tonight?

[boston22407]

i hope i cant live with 2 straight rain outs

[SoxFanForsyth]

Per weather.com -

 

Chance of Precipitation:

 

7:00 - 85%

8:00 - 75%

9:00 - 100%

10:00 - 60%

11:00 - 70%

 

I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but man I just cannot see us getting this game in. This storm is absolutely brutal.

 

EDIT: Then again, this is the Tigers only trip to Fenway this year. They basically have to get it in.

[Palodios]

Per weather.com -

 

Chance of Precipitation:

 

7:00 - 85%

8:00 - 75%

9:00 - 100%

10:00 - 60%

11:00 - 70%

 

I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but man I just cannot see us getting this game in. This storm is absolutely brutal.

 

EDIT: Then again, this is the Tigers only trip to Fenway this year. They basically have to get it in.

 

Rainouts two days in a row? Oh man, that's not good. I'll probably have to go read a book or something<_>

[yeszir]

BPEF WHERE ARE YOU

[BigPapiEnFuego]

Didn't know what the deal was for rainouts. Sorry. Making thread now