4/22 vs Oakland Athletics

[VA Sox Fan]

A WIN is a WIN!

 

G'night all!!

[Palodios]

Good game by Napoli and Doubront. The Red Sox picked up a game on the Yankees who lost tonight. 2 games up on the division!

[jung]

Good night A's....you be losin'

 

Sox have won every series opener so far this season.

[italstallianion]

Good work team. Those last few KC games suck but it happens, we got our win. Hopefully Aceves can keep us in the game so our bullpen isn't blown out.

[crazydiamond]

Off to sleep, hoping not to turn gay for of Mike Napoli.

[BornToRun]

Off to sleep, hoping not to turn gay for of Mike Napoli.

 

It's the 21st century. Embrace the gay. Embrace it!

[SoxSport]

Can't pitch Bailey tommorrow night. Does it really matter who gets the save? It's the win that's important.

Tazawa could have finished out the game.

[User Name]

Holy crap Tazawa pitched yesterday too. Can you shut up with the bitching about the relievers. OMG enjoy the win.

[Bellhorn04]

Off to sleep, hoping not to turn gay for of Mike Napoli.

 

It's certainly OK to have a man-crash on Mike Napoli.

 

I know the RBI is not what it used to be, but he's got 25 in 19 games.

[redsoxbeatz]

A WIN is a WIN!

 

!

[Station 13]

Did anyone catch the post game Farrell interview? Anything to say about his bullpen management?

[Palodios]

I am not looking forward to seeing Bartolo Colon tomorrow. I don't understand why the MLB lets him play in the majors. He's almost 40, 300 pounds, and they actually know he has more illegal substances in him than Arod. Normally I don't care about steroids and all that judgement, but Bartolo Colon is a f***ing frankenstein-cheater.

[Station 13]

I am not looking forward to seeing Bartolo Colon tomorrow. I don't understand why the MLB lets him play in the majors. He's almost 40, 300 pounds, and they actually know he has more illegal substances in him than Arod. Normally I don't care about steroids and all that judgement, but Bartolo Colon is a f***ing frankenstein-cheater.

 

He did served 50 games last time. But a 1 year banned should be in place for 1st time violator. It show the players how much they will lose by sitting out a year.

[Palodios]

He did served 50 games last time. But a 1 year banned should be in place for 1st time violator. It show the players how much they will lose by sitting out a year.

 

What Colon has done is far beyond other users. He's had doctors essentially invent brand new ways of cheating for him. His career was over about 6-7 years ago, and he doesn't belong in the MLB.

[seabeachfred]

6.2 IP, 8 K, 3 ER, 3H, 5 BB. That's a very good start for a #4 pitcher.

 

Pretty good, yes Pal, but I still think he has to cut down on his walks and the number of pitches he throws. The amount of pitches he deposits up to the plate has a direct bearing on our bullpen. He went deeper this time out but somewhere along the way we need him to go a clean seven or eight and cement down that #4 spot. The more we have to depend on the bullpen the better chance we have of seeing Andrew Miller and Clay Mortsensen and I'm afraid I don't have much confidence in those two.

[seabeachfred]

It's certainly OK to have a man-crash on Mike Napoli.

 

I know the RBI is not what it used to be, but he's got 25 in 19 games.

 

A few personal observations from what I've been seeing in the first 19 games---admittedly a very small sample. The bad news is that right now we are not a divisional championship team. The good news is that no one else in the division is either. In other words, the AL East is now wide open just as Jacko and 700 Hitter said it would be. For us to make hay we need Lester and Buchholz to keep pitching like the best one-two pitching punch in the division, getting our third and fourth starters to win more than they lose, to give the bullpen a breather now and then, and to get some of our guys hitting to help those who are doing the job----Napoli, Victorino, Pedroia, Ells and now Papi.

 

This is so much better a team to like a root for than the one we endured last season that it is hard to even believe they are the same team. The same name, not the same team.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Youk Of The Nation]

Can I add Jr to the end of it then?

 

What about Nancy Drewnior? More concise.

[Dojji]

I think that hands down the most encouraging thing tonight was the bomb by Middlebrooks. Kid needed that very badly.

[Thunder]

I keep thinking about this team and look forward to all of the games. There is something special happening this season.

[Bellhorn04]

I am not looking forward to seeing Bartolo Colon tomorrow. I don't understand why the MLB lets him play in the majors. He's almost 40, 300 pounds, and they actually know he has more illegal substances in him than Arod. Normally I don't care about steroids and all that judgement, but Bartolo Colon is a f***ing frankenstein-cheater.

 

Amen. Colon still pitching and putting up good numbers doesn't reflect well on baseball's integrity.

[User Name]

Y'all just hatin' 'cause he fat.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Quick update:

 

It took 19 games for Napoli to reach 4 HR and 25 RBI.

 

Last year, it took Gonzalez 47 games to reach the same mark (oddly enough, he hit a HR that drove in his 25th RBI that game).

 

I remember last year a lot of people were worried that Gonzalez's RBI production would be hard to replace. So far, all that worrying was for nothing.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Amen. Colon still pitching and putting up good numbers doesn't reflect well on baseball's integrity.

 

I think it's more of a reflection that 2 of his 3 starts have come against the Astros.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Not sure they're going to be able to get this one in tonight, looks like a lot of rain headed this way, but the Sox don't host the A's again this year so I'm not sure what they're going to do.

 

If they don't get this in, I'm sure the Sox will just skip Aceves' start and go with Lester tomorrow. That'd probably be best case scenario.

[Palodios]

Y'all just hatin' 'cause he fat.

 

Nah, I'm hating because they used his belly fat, turned it into some kind of useable flesh with stem cells, added it to his pitching elbow, and then hid a big ass pile of HGH underneath it. Later, the MLB found synthetic steroids in his piss and he really only missed the month of September. I'm also hating because he was a Red Sox, but refused to pitch out of the bullpen in a 2008 playoff run like a whiney bitch.

[jung]

The number of ballplayers completely flaunting MLB including Colon is in all likelihood what finally forced their hand on the issue of in season or all season testing.

 

Reportedly Biogen alone has over one hundred MLB players on its client roles. Apparently this has forced the PA and MLB to the table to "negotiate" who is going to be suspended. The League apparently does not think it can suspect one hundred players. The real problem is more likely that the number of users in MLB is probably well past one hundred and closer to some number that would have organizations pulling players form A ball just to field a team. They could probably suspend one hundred players but can't really suspend as many as they would have to in order to capture up all the users.

 

I think it would be safe to say that as opposed to the situation getting the least bit better all these years, PED use has just evolved and is for the most part much more sophisticated than it was.

 

Arod apparently is going to turn out to be an embarrassment of epic proportions. Guys like Colon and probably even Braun are not far behind. If I had to bet I would say Colon will likely be allowed to play until we end up with a whole bucket of suspensions handed down at once including Colons. I wonder if the funk the Jays are in is a result of a number of those players knowing their season and their team is about to be blown to smithereens in an avalanche of suspensions. That will likely go over like a two ton bag-o-s*** if that is really what is going on up there.

 

The real problem for MLB may be how the heck do they come out of this with even a shred of credibility left and do they forgive just about everybody to keep from crippling MLB teams.

[Bellhorn04]

Nah, I'm hating because they used his belly fat, turned it into some kind of useable flesh with stem cells, added it to his pitching elbow, and then hid a big ass pile of HGH underneath it. Later, the MLB found synthetic steroids in his piss and he really only missed the month of September. I'm also hating because he was a Red Sox, but refused to pitch out of the bullpen in a 2008 playoff run like a whiney bitch.

 

I'm with you. Colon is a dirtbag.