4/23 @ Twins

[SoxFanForsyth]

Hes a proven closer?

 

Weird, I must have missed something.

 

He's proven himself in high leverage situations while pitching in the AL East.

 

Would you really rather have a guy like Heath Bell who was a product of Petco Park and NL West lineups but has recorded a few saves instead of Bard??

[iortiz]

Hes a proven closer?

 

Weird, I must have missed something.

 

When he give us at least 30+ SVs, I'll call him proven closer, until then... He is an interesting promise.

[TheBardoftheBullpen51]

Here comes a lefty! A-Gon takes one opp field! Everything has been going out that way!

[SCM33]

He's proven himself in high leverage situations while pitching in the AL East.

 

Would you really rather have a guy like Heath Bell who was a product of Petco Park and NL West lineups but has recorded a few saves instead of Bard??

 

Id rather have just paid the guy in my sig and kept Bard in the 8th. Those 2 turn baseball games into 7 inning games. That way, Bailey and Melancon never happen......but we dont need to go down that road.

[kapsis21]

Agony if you have any man balls left you will go yard

[Laser Show]

Gonzo has warning track power!

[kapsis21]

Agon whore

[SoxFanForsyth]

Id rather have just paid the guy in my sig and kept Bard in the 8th. Those 2 turn baseball games into 7 inning games. That way' date=' Bailey and Melancon never happen......but we dont need to go down that road.[/quote']

 

Yikes. That would have taken our payroll for LT purposes over 200mm. They're trying to get under $189mm by 2014. Signing a closer to that deal is not cohesive to their plans.

[NativeBostonian]

Agony if you have any man balls left you will go yard

 

He left his balls in san diego.

[iortiz]

And here comes the pen.....

[jung]

Funny...Twins afraid to go to the pen and the pen gets Ortiz out for the first time tonight...thats baseball

[NZSox]

What's up with A-Gon?

[SCM33]

Yikes. That would have taken our payroll for LT purposes over 200mm. They're trying to get under $189mm by 2014. Signing a closer to that deal is not cohesive to their plans.

 

His contract status was status quo for 3-4 years. They could have signed him well before this offseason.

 

he deserved it more than any of their other disaster moves.

 

.......and I always have this argument with one of my Sox buddies, since when were we too cash strapped to avoid a luxury tax penalty? They spent 170 million on a soccer team this offseason.......why was a penalty a deciding factor in offseason spending?

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Not what I like coming home to after work.

[Whatsinaname]

And now it goes pear shaped

[kapsis21]

He left his balls in san diego.

 

True that. i cannot recollect agony giving us a timely hit all last year. He hit the ball in the first 1-6 innings. and then never got a hit that got us in the lead. I know he had a couple against baltimore but orioles don't count

[SoxFanForsyth]

His contract status was status quo for 3-4 years. They could have signed him well before this offseason.

 

he deserved it more than any of their other disaster moves.

 

.......and I always have this argument with one of my Sox buddies, since when were we too cash strapped to avoid a luxury tax penalty? They spent 170 million on a soccer team this offseason.......why was a penalty a deciding factor in offseason spending?

 

Well you can't just say "He deserved it more than some of our other mistakes, so we should have signed him"

 

Those other mistake signings are the signings that prohibited us from signing Papelbon. I'd absolutely rather have Lackey than Papelbon, but we have Lackey, so they couldn't spend the money on Papelbon.

 

By no means am I defending some of the signings that this team has made, but at the same time you have to realize that the mistake signings are the signings that prohibited the Papelbon signing.

[SCM33]

LOL.

 

Hurricane Bullpen and defense happened again......

[NZSox]

Lol. Bullpen time. And a hit.

[Wil Corderos Wife]

Well this could go a couple ways now......they lose another heartbreaker late at the hands of the bullpen and deflate even further, or they pull out a good win, feel warm and fuzzy, and gain some momentum. What's it gonna be?

 

GOGOGO!!!

[SoxFanForsyth]

Love watching hitters get beat on a fastball and somehow it turns into a triple.

 

And by the way, he was off the bag. Get a better view you POS ump.

[iortiz]

Well you can't just say "He deserved it more than some of our other mistakes, so we should have signed him"

 

Those other mistake signings are the signings that prohibited us from signing Papelbon. I'd absolutely rather have Lackey than Papelbon, but we have Lackey, so they couldn't spend the money on Papelbon.

 

By no means am I defending some of the signings that this team has made, but at the same time you have to realize that the mistake signings are the signings that prohibited the Papelbon signing.

 

Charge that issue to Theo.

[NativeBostonian]

And here it comes.

[NZSox]

Oh, a triple. Joy.

[kapsis21]

Game over f***

[ellsburyforMVP]

Well you can't just say "He deserved it more than some of our other mistakes, so we should have signed him"

 

Those other mistake signings are the signings that prohibited us from signing Papelbon. I'd absolutely rather have Lackey than Papelbon, but we have Lackey, so they couldn't spend the money on Papelbon.

 

By no means am I defending some of the signings that this team has made, but at the same time you have to realize that the mistake signings are the signings that prohibited the Papelbon signing.

 

There were opportunities to " dump " lackey in the off-season... Would of had to eat some salary, but it would of went a long way to resigning pap

[SoxFanForsyth]

Charge that issue to Theo.

 

That's fine. I agree.

 

But you can't say "We should have signed Papelbon" because we didn't have the cash to sign Papelbon.

[SCM33]

Hurricane Bullpen is at gale force again tonight.

[Station 13]

the bullpen folks.

[SoxFanForsyth]

There were opportunities to " dump " lackey in the off-season... Would of had to eat some salary' date=' but it would of went a long way to resigning pap[/quote']

 

You're trying to tell me that there were teams who were going to take on 1/3 of a pitchers salary who just had TJ Surgery??

 

There was a zero percent chance that this team dealt Lackey this year. None.