youkilis rules

This is a huge move by the C's. Gives us 3-4 year window that should improve every year. FAs will finally come to Boston too. Good work, at last, Ainge. Some good analysis on a blog I found: http://www.vicksdogs.com

Ellsbury is nearing a promotion.

okay in that case I will go with 7 red sox left on base ( Team LOB )

Again, not to step on your toes here, but I don't believe 5/29 makes sense for the prize. What yeszir said makes more sense.

How obscure can i make this stat? If i can put it really out there I'd like to say: 7 red sox fly ball outs after 2 outs in the red sox' half of the 7th inning.

The prize is for when exactly? 5/29 wouldn't make sense...

I f***ing Hate The Colts. Don't Give Me Any Of This "thanks For The Memories" ********. If This s*** Is True Adam Is Worse Than Johnny. He Is Nothing To Me And We Must Burn An Effigy Of Him Before The Afc Championship Next Year.

Wasn't a big part of our post-season collapse due to Varitek who hit a wall at the end of the season? I remember reading a lot about him just simply tiring out at the end of the year on into the postseason. Because of this I believe the sox will be giving him MORE days off this year to assure he's not going purely on adrenaline come playoffs. What I'm saying is, I see it being HIGHLY unlikely that he becomes Wakefield's regular catcher. Also, does the banning of amphetamines affect a guy like V-tek even further if he's already getting tired when they were legal???

WHAT IN HOLY HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN? THAT'S THE WORST MONIKER I HAVE EVER READ/HEARD.

Right. And how old were you when he left Boston to make you hate him so much? Do you even remember him pitching for the Red Sox whatsoever?

Hey all. So in the middle of poli sci lecture I was obviously F-ing around and writing down some Sox stuff in my notebook. And I came to this epiphany -- what if the Sox legitimitely don't trade D Wells? Personally, I think they will, but comparing a team with D Wells vs. one without, the team with him looks a WHOLE lot better to me. Anyway under this new scenario all I think we really need to do is trade Graffy for a bag of balls. But it looks kinda like this: C: Varitek 1B: Youks 2B: Loretta SS: A-Gon 3B: Lowell LF: Man-Ram CF: Cocoa Puffs RF: Trot DH: Dortiz Bench: Flaherty, Snow, Cora, Mohr SP: D Wells SP: Curt Schilling SP: J Beckett SP: Wakey SP: Clement RP: Foulke RP: Timlin RP: Papelbon RP: Riske RP: Seanez RP: Tavarez RP: Bronson Comments: I'm liking this team A LOT. Now there are a few problems. One is that we only have four bench players -- but I think we really would be okay. Youk could shift to 3B if needed. Or Papi to 1st. Maybe just make sure Cora would be okay in OF too and that shouldn't be TOO big of a problem. The bullpen doesn't have a lefty. But I don't believe this is the end of the world. ALL of those guys are strong pitchers and a few even are pretty effective against lefties. But on to the positives. And I mean mainly the pitching. That rotation is SWEET. Clement as a 5th starter is highly excellent. Our bullpen is AWESOME. Everyone is good! Also, if Curt is hurt or someone is ineffective we got BronBron right there to step in as a starter. I'd say D wells wins 15, Curt 10, Beckett 15, Wake 13, and Clement 13. That's a total of 66. If the seven guys in the bullpen average 4 wins apiece (which they can) thats a win total of 94; mmmmmm. I simply see our bullpen dominating with both papelbon AND bronson. the rotation ain't half bad either. if we get a prospect for Graffy then our minors didn't even take too much of a hit this season either!

nomar is basically a guaranteed injury. so much for stability...

you guys are way off. this is a great trade. marte is arguably the no. 1 prospect in the game!!! i'd like to see us now move Lowell for a package of players (possibly including Romero?). Would be thrilled to see 3B platooned by Youky and Marte and SS platooned by Cora and Pedroia. Then we need to make some sort of move for a nice hitting 1B.

i could be wrong, but wasn't Duchscherer traded to the Texas Rangers FOR Doug Mirabelli? For some reason that sticks with me and it would really be full circle to be getting him back and dumping mirabelli..

sorry if this has already been posted... http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/12/03/ramirez_wells_bring_interest/ i strongly recommend everyone reads it! padres apparently have offered mark loretta for david wells, sooo sweet! that's filling a position we need with great quality in exchange for something i already consider gone.