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Screw with the beard. Anybody see his fiance???? http://www.boston.com/sports/nesn/gallery/...eard_shave?pg=6 Love her quote too. (It's much better taken out of context. )

I'll take your word on it. I don't notice such things... 7-4!

7-3 with the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th still yet to play (batting against TB!).. Anyway, Lowe's a head-case. But the one thing about Lowe is he always, eventually, pulls his head out of his ass. He'll be good for around 12-15 wins, but he's also not a high priority F/A-wise. So jumping off the bandwagon isn't such a big deal. Don't get me started on Bellhorn's "RBI". Ya know a single would have helped more.

HAHAHA.. Slow down. It's pretty sad I'm the "voice of reason" here, but it's only the end of the 3rd. Down 7 against the Rays for God's sake. I'm ok with this. I want to see a comeback. I also want to see the new guy pitch his first MLB game. His name escapes me.

DAMN. The MLB Extra innings broadcast tonight is a Fox Sports Net - DRays feed... I don't mind watching the other teams broadcast sometimes because it offers some new perspective. But these guys SUCK. They sound like sad triple-A announcers. What exactly separates a Slider from a "Power" Slider anyway??????? AND WHO THE HELL CARES???? I now understand why nobody watches the DRays in Fla. And why Remy, McDonugh/Orsillo, Joe and Jerry are so good.

OH MAN! YES! The Heckler has chosen Bellhorn this year. Oh, this is gonna be one great series!!!!!!!

Bring on the BELLI!

You'd be smart...

anyone else wanna slam me now for favoring Arroyo over Kim? Arroyo is a better-than-#5 starter.

Saw the replay of Mueller busting his knee-cap in Wrigley. Man, I hate watching stuff like that. It's amazing he came back and won the Batting Title last year. Oritzzle hr!

Knee for Mueller. He's supposed to be back on Tuesday. Good for Youkilis (You-Kill-Us)! Bellhorn will have a negative impact on this game. Trust me

Bellhorn and Crespo will be the end of me. 3-3.

I think Beltran's making 9 million this year... http://dugoutdollars.blogspot.com/2003_12_...rs_archive.html

We should also probably move this to the Rumor Mill

Damn you. I just read the thread title and spilt water all over my computer... Anyway, speaking of the rumor mill, the whole Nomar tearing a sheath on this achilles tendon? It was reported on bostondirdogs.com but the souce is from redsoxnation.net. Here's the original quote: "NEWSFLASH: My girlfriend works for an HDTV service in NYC. Nomar and Mia are contributors to a program called SPORTSKOOL where they are filmed instructing kids how to play certain sports. Anyway, my girlfriend had to speak with Victor Garciaparra, Nomar's uncle and private manager today regarding some business. Get this: It turns out Nomar actually tore the sheath surrounding his achilles tendon, which is much worse than a bruise. The Sox and Nomar agreed to call the injury a "bruise" due to the many obvious factors involved. According to Victor, Nomar will be back with the team the first week of June and will start rehabbing with the PawSox at the end of next week. This is first hand info. guys. Wouldn't play around with this. " It's way down on this page http://redsoxnation.net/index.php?showtopic=4538&st=50 I guess it could make sense. It would explain why he had to wear a cast for a week or two. But if it was a tear in March, would 2 months be enough time for it to heal? If so, it's probably not too big a tear to begin with. Either way, he's supposed to start playing some next week!

Swig 7. He ends the 8th with 2 runners on. Ya know he hit 27 hrs one year!

4 swigs so far. I'll add another 2 for that OUTSTANDING PLAY in foul ground to end the 7th. Oh, nevermind.

Terry was smart enough not to use Bellhorn at 2nd on turf. THANK GOD or else we'd still be in the second.. It's gonna cut down on my drinking though - which sucks.

I'm starting a new drinking game tonight and you should play along! Every time Bellhorn botches a play, take a swig. Every bobble of the ball. Every out-of-position play. Every bad throw. Every swinging 3rd strike. Every passed ball on a pick-off play at second. Every bad baserunning play. Every time another player gets an error because Bellhorn can't catch a ball thrown to the right field side of second. Every messed up DP. Every time he hits a pop-up with a runner at 3rd and less than 2 outs. Every time he can't advance a runner. Every time he blows a bunt. Every time he takes a called 3rd strike and stands there staring at his feet. Oye. I already feel a hangover coming on.

What did you expect? Blowhorn SUCKS. He sucks on Defense, Sucks on Offense. He's no Todd Walker. That's saying quite a bit.

Hoss has arrived... Welcome to the site!

I was thinking a while back that it would be cool to have a thread devoted to links. The problem I assumed was that it would get spammed all to hell. Any ideas on how to get one started?

I'm glad Arroyo is getting the nod. I want to see what this guy can do. I always get ragged on for picking Arroyo over Kim for the #5, but have any of you looked at Arroyo's career numbers and put them into perspective? First, he's a winner. In his minor league career (including 177 starts) he was 83-44 with a 3.81 ERA. 852 K/ 290 BB. In what amounts to roughly 1 year of service (203 innings) he went 9-14 with a 5.19 ERA for the crappy Pirates. Since his call-up last year in boston, he's gone 44 IP, 37 H, 18 ER, 3.75 ERA, 37 K, 13 BB. Certainly good enough for a #5. On top of that, he's been consistant and shown he can pitch through the Yankees - even in the playoffs. He's only 27 and I don't think he's injury prone. I'd really like to see what kind of numbers he can put up over, say, 10-15 starts on a good team. http://www.sports-wired.com/players/profile.asp?Name=BCIC

The best thing about a Kim start is knowing Arroyo is backing him up.

Pokey rocks. I can't wait for Nomar/Reese up the middle! Loved the curtain-call. I'll stick by Bellhorn sucking.