RedSoxRooter

Is that humanly possible?

Of course... I make this poll and WHAM. I suck.

I say Bellhorn. Crespo does suck, and as they're both are a void at the plate, Bellhorn is worse than Crespo and Walker when it comes to D. Woohoo, Bellhorn can walk, but that's it. How the hell is Bellhorn still in the Majors????

I used to live 7 minutes away from it. I once won $50 with a single quarter! The place is tacky though.

Weird start. I was ready to cash it in and start bitching about Pedro. Now he has a possiblity to pitch a complete game. 70 pitches in 6 innings with 7K. Call me Orbital...

I don't care how many of you love Kim... Arroyo is currently the better pitcher for #5.

"5 across the eyes" as described here. http://maddox.xmission.com/beat.html

You're right. You know I'm glad he freaked out. He looked so stupid and in the end was wrong, that's why I'm not freaking out now... I'll tell you what though, Bellhorn's on my Crespo list.

You can't just make somebody Captain, a la Jeter. They have to step up on their own and become the leader like Mo did. I would agree with Tek being the go-to guy, but I don't think he'll be around much longer in Boston. I would much rather they start a Kangaroo Court like they had in '86. If you started whacking players 50k for not running on a play, players will step in line.

I couldn't have said this any better... From Projo: "Bill Reynolds: If you want to leave, Pedro, do it quietly 01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Memo to Pedro: Shut up and pitch. Because your act has grown tired. Your whining. Your petulance. Your propensity for making yourself the center of attention. Then again, self-absorption has a short shelf life, and you became a poster child of that a long time ago. This latest little diatribe was vintage. In a season where, once again, you've essentially been incommunicado to the media, you elected to lash out at the Red Sox for their failure to give you a new contract, using selected media members as your messengers. No matter that this is only the beginning of May, the Sox are in the middle of a great start, and a new manager is learning how to negotiate the unique terrain that's baseball in Boston. You fired a verbal blast at the Red Sox, one that changes the landscape, serves notice that odds are you will not be here next year. Which is all part of the biz, I suppose. But you didn't leave it at that. "I'm just really sad for the fans in New England who had high hopes that at this time I could say, truly, that I was going to stay in Boston, but now they're going to have to compete with the rest of the league," you said. The fans? Please. Don't insult our intelligence. This has nothing to do with fans. This is all about an attempt to get more years of big money, one last score. If you can get it, fine, more power to you. If you can't? You're just finishing up a contract that reportedly has given you $90 million, so don't expect someone passing a collection plate in your behalf. The point is, this is business, one that should be conducted between you and the Red Sox in private. To bring the fans into it is disingenuous. You've been bordering on being just another Jock Brat for a while now, what with your penchant for doing what you want to do, damn the consequences. Then again, you long ago learned we always make allowances for talent, that as long as you still can get people out, both the Red Sox and many of us will make every allowance for your behavior, bring out the excuses like managers bring out pinch-hitters in the late innings of a losing game. But this is poor timing. The Red Sox are off to a great start, with maybe the best pitching they've had since the Truman Era, and you clearly are one of the centerpieces if this. The last thing this team needs is you being a distraction, the portrait of an unhappy Pedro, feeling as if the Sox are playin' with your future, your baseball life. The last thing this team needs is for you to be the center of attention for all the wrong reasons. Don't misunderstand. You are a great pitcher, as good as anyone I've ever seen. You are one of the best pitchers of your generation, and it's been a privilege to have had the chance to see you at your best. But maybe a better phrase is, you were a great pitcher. In your prime, you were all but unhittable, doing it with your own particular ?lan. You also seemed to have a certain undefinable spirit, a certain joy, a love for what you did. You were bright, you were funny, and in the aftermath of Roger Clemens, whose tenure had grown embittered in his last few years, you were refreshing, like a clean wind blowing through a dusty hallway. That's been gone for a while now. In its place has been someone who seems to move through the latter stages of his career with all the emotional maturity of a 15-year-old. When things are going well, you're fine. When they're not, you're something less than that. You have become our baseball diva, tempermental, thin-skinned, believing that the moon and all the stars spin in your personal orbit. You also are not the pitcher you once were, not that that should come as a surprise to anyone. You will be 33 in the fall, and that's a lot of pitches thrown, a lot of wear and tear on a frame not designed to throw hard forever. Power pitchers who last are usually big and strong. History tells us that. Still, you are remain very good, even if you now need more finesse, more guile, and pinpoint location, all to compensate for the lack of the big gun. Even if it's never going to be 1999 for you again, you still are going to have games when you give us reminders of the way it used to be, for on memory alone you still are better than most of the pitchers in the game. You also are under contract for this year at more than $17 million a year, and one of the unwritten rules of that contract should be that you shouldn't be a distraction, In other words, spare us the melodrama. So if you want to be a free agent at the end of the year, throw yourself into the open market. That is your right. If you want to go somewhere else next year and pitch, that is your right, too. Until then? Just shut up and pitch."

I still agree with the Schilling decision (save the bullpen for the Yankee series) even though the outcome was not perfect in Toronto. Saving the bullpen for the Yankee series - how did that work out?

It's "Petey being Petey"... It's selfish to bring it up now, after a great start. I say let him walk. Something to consider: Pedro, RHSP:17.5 Tek, C: 7 Lowe, RHSP: 7 Nomar, SS: 11.5 Those are the numbers, in Millions, the Sox will have to play with to fill each of those positions. 43 Million. 1 third of your payroll on 1 sixth of your players? And by my account, these players haven't won anything yet... You think with that kind of cash we could get a 2 year catcher, a 2 year SS and a couple of starters (maybe even a lefty!??) I think so. It's not managments fault that all those players contracts came up at the same time. If this happened at the end of '05 or '06 it wouldn't be such a big deal. The timing is just off by a year or two.

Ok, I'd be pissed, but it's downright hillarious... They took the tarp off, then put it back on. The sound guys are now playing old show tunes and some bum ran out on the tarp and slid into second. The only fans left seem to be Red Sox fans. The rain delay is at 3:14 minutes. Being Texas and all, they had a blooper where they had a racist radio spot that they stopped half way through.. and now the game has just been called! Doubleheader starting tomorrow at 5:05pm. God I'm a dork for waiting.

It looks like the grounds crew it removing the tarp!!!!!! Looks like the game's on! The fans are moving back down to their seats!

Well, I was wrong... It's still raining - not too bad. But still, ya gotta think if they can't start the game by 10pm TX time they are probably gonna call it. They could do a day game tomorrow or Sunday as part of a doubleheader.

If I were to guess, I'd say another 10 mins and the grounds crew can start to clean up the field. It's really tapered off. It was probably a good 40+ minutes of rain.

Well, it seems almost over. The hail was crazy bad. The outfield was almost white! Then the downpoar afterwards has been pretty neat. It was a ton of rain... The sox are hamming it up in the duggout. Lowe's been picking his nose for half an hour. Short right field is a pond, but the rain seems to be slowing down. The outfield is going to suck tonight. I don't know why they just didn't play 6 innings, let it rain for an hour, then play the rest.

The lightning is starting

Yeah. This sucks - sorta! As you may know I don't live in NE anymore, so I have to catch the games via MLB Extra innings or Web broadcasts over MLB.com. The thing that sucks is when there's a rain delay, MLB Extra innings just has this cheesy "Rain Delay!" screen. So I have no idea what's going on, how bad it's raining and can't watch any of the filler on Nesn or whatever channel is carrying the game. Tonight I got sick of that and went to my MLB.com webcast. It's almost cool. I got an update (major T-Storms around 9 est), a view (stadium cameras around the field), and the stadiums rock soundtrack. UPDATE: Thunder, lightning, golf ball sized hail, 85mph winds baby (just reported by the PA guy)! I get to watch the whole nasty storm on my computer!!! Woohoo! I love a good lighting storm. Southern storms are brutal but quick. Hopefully they get the game in, I'll keep you posted from The Ballpark if I hear anything else. What are they showing on NESN? I think this is the Rangers feed.

Great minds...

DAMMIT. You beat me. You can kill my post.

Well, after going 15 - 6 against the AL East, it's time to take the cowboys west. First game tonight at 8:05 at The Ballpark in Texas. Bronson Arroyo, making what could be his last start for a while, faces Ryan Dreese. Pitching matchup BOS: RHP Bronson Arroyo 0-1, 5.79 ERA in 2004 Did not face TEX in 2003 Has never faced TEX TEX: RHP Ryan Drese 1-0, 2.87 ERA in 2004 0-0, 13.50 in 2003 vs. BOS 0-1, 9.00 lifetime vs. BOS Go Sox!

9 outa 10 if I'm not mistaken.

If I'm not mistaken, Manny's a Monster in TX - and they're next.