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We may be about on par with last year's 95 game winner, but last year's team didnt go 25-25 since the beginning of May. Will we snap out of it? Yes. Will we snap out of it in time to fight the yankees and the AL west? Who knows.

So far: 0 pms sent to me. First person to get one in takes the lead!

Francona is managing against his former team where he went 285-363 in 4 seasons. Not too impressive. From the game preview: Looks promising if you ask me. Hopefully petey can be dominant, and we can get back on track and sweep the phucking phillies.

Tonight, he faces off against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. I'll make a post after the game.

Well, Texas is in first as of right now. Dotel will change that. And also, the way the sox are playing, Anaheim is only 1.5 back in the wild card. I know its early, but if Anaheim sucks so much, why are they so close? Oh, I know the answer: the sox suck right now.

Whether Mueller's problems stemmed from that injury of his is to be seen when he comes back eventually. Personally, I think that other factors were contributing to his lack of production. His knee certainly may have been a factor, don't get me wrong, but I think that we'd be off base to predict another batting champion season out of Mueller. He's a career .291 hitter, and we can expect that from him from now on I think. True, Youkilis does have a small sample size, and true, he has had some trouble adjusting to major league pitching, but I dont think that pitchers will figure him out. A perfect example of what you said, trot4mvp, is Clemens, who, after dominating the NL, basically fell apart once teams faced him more than once. I dont think this will happen to Youkilis simply because a) it hasnt happened yet, and he has faced the same teams more than once and B ) he's too good of a hitter to fall into that trap. As of right now, I guess it's a toss up between Mueller and Youkilis. But for the future, I dont think anyone is arguing against Youk.

It is the same team as last year pretty much. The same one that really showed no emotion after losing you know what against you know who, except for Trot who killed that water cooler. I guess they just have the little league "at least we had fun" mentality. Kevin Millar may be at fault here.

The A's were only a closer away from being dominant. Now they have that closer, and will go on to win the west. Dotel completes their team. The sox now need to step it up to win the wild card if they can't win the east. Things just got a lot tougher.

Lol, post padding. They're gone.

Not knowing anything about Basketball, did the Celtics do well?

Nice, lets hope its for real.

Is this a joke?

Pokey also would not have gone 2-4.... Manny looked downright horrible there, I pin the inability to score on him. Also, how come to Twins can make a catch in the stands with both of their players colliding? Had that been the sox, both players surely would have gone on the DL, the ball would have been dropped, and the next player would surely have hit a homerun.

Lol. Anyway, welcome to the site chrup!

I'm going to merge this with the already existing thread

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/reds...e_red_sox_fall/ His thumb this time. Last time he tore this ligament, he missed the rest of the season, but the ever optimistic Bill Morgan says that he'll be back by the weekend. Sounds like we should expect less from Pokey if he comes back soon.

Maybe it was just magnified since I was at the game, but there were 4 times where the sox could have/ should have turned a double play but failed to do so. Does anyone remember if this resulted in any runs for the Twins?

Oh well, it was fun to be there. I really thought that we'd come back after Nomar got that double, but oh well.

It's June 24th, not 24nd, and game threads are not to be started until the day of the game. This will be closed until it is deemed right to start a game thread for tomorrow's game.

Peter Gammons mentioned this last night on Baseball Tonight. I think it makes sense for all teams involved really.

I'm going to the game tonight (good seats too!), and I'm actually excited to see Lowe pitch this time around, because, as you said bueno, he has a .95 ERA in June so far. Also, it'll be the first game that I get to see Nomar in person. I went against the Dodgers, but he wasn't in the lineup. Exciting stuff all around.

3-4-5 hitters really got it done. Yea, its been slow for the past few days, go figure.

2-1 still, at least we're winning, right?

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