Zenny

He's gay and T.O. is throwing him under the bus after their affair ended.

Pe-friggin'-dro is back.

My God, those three managers make me want to vomit.

Lester has been hitting 96 on the gun this year. If he stays away from major arm injuries, he's Eddie Guardado at worst. He could be something special if his arm holds up.

That's what they are considering. Since Dominque was sent down, he had 10 days before he could be called back up. I still think he has three games left before the Sox can recall him. Calling up Shoppach would be a numbers game, though. You'd have to add him to the 40-man roster and drop someone else, which becomes a sticky situation. Then you have to find a place for him on the 25-man roster, although not as risky (as far as potentially losing a player to waivers), it's just as complicated. I don't see him up this year outside a potential September call-up.

Shopp whiffed twice and grounded out tonight, but he also took a walk in a critical spot in the eight inning to extend a key rally. OK, he took a walk and I'm overblowing it. Big deal. Season Line: 227/.310/.461/.771; .31 (37/118) BB/K ratio; 18 2B, 20 HR, 60 RBI

Moss is showing off plate discipline and average in his high-A debut, going 2-3 with a walk and run. Great to see that he's making contact and drawing a walk if necessary. If he keeps it up, he should definitely be in Portland next season.

He's had solid strike-zone judgment his entire career. I expect that to come as he adjusts to the league.

I spell relief F-A-R-T... Oh, we're talking about the bullpen. This team is stacked with some pretty good arms when they are healthy. The pen is the least of my concerns about this team.

Moss finally got promoted to Sarasota and will play tonight's game there. He still has a good shot to be on Portland's 2005 Opening Day roster, but he should've been in Sarasota sooner to give us a bigger sample size.

If Dewon is de-on, the Sox are screwed.

http://www.sports-wired.com/players/profile.asp?Name=DFJ- Tek's minor league stats, by the way. Shoppach has blown him away in nearly every category at the same level at a younger age.

Varitek at 25 was in the PCL (AAA), a good hitter's league, and showed no power and little discipline. Shoppach at 24 was in the IL (AAA), in a neutral league, hit for rediculous amounts of power with some walks and a lot of K's. I think too much emphasis is being placed upon the K's. They happen, lot's of younger hitters strike out. Hell, Varitek strikes out over twice as much as he walks even to this day. If you remove Shoppach's first ten games (standard adjustment period), he's hitting about .250 and has just about an .830 OPS. Also, if you remove the second-half of July in which he has publicly stated that he was run down (he got a lot of rest at the end of July/early August), the numbers go up to like .270/.900. Is he ready? The last two months of the season and Spring Training will determine that. The power, defense and walks are there. The question is if the walks and average will become too much of a damper on the other things.

Good win for the Sox. Arroyo had a good start at home. All this while Kevin (Like to Pack Other Dudes') Brown got shelled.

If Tek's price comes down? Yes. If his agent is still Scott Boras six months from now? No. I think Tek's potential suitors will be the D-Rays, Giants, Dodgers, Cardinals, White Sox, Mets, Astros and Angels. I do not honestly think that we can rationally outbid all of them. Someone is going to give him a gaudy offer and he'll take it.

He needs to catch everyday and continue to make adjustments on off-speed pitches. Why rush him when Tek has the job nailed down for the rest of the year? If he continues to play well, he'll likely be up here in September to split time with Tek and Big Belli.

I don't think Shoppach knows what a single looks like. This is just crazy, he has been feasting on AAA pitching for the past two or so weeks. Today? 2-4, 2B, HR, 3 RBI, 2 R, K. I think he's made the adjustment. The announcer on 790 (I can never remember his name) said that Tim Raines Jr. didn't even move to go after the ball. He hit it to dead center and the guy screamed "No one hits them there!" It was something like 420-430 feet, like the one I saw in Pawtucket, except this one came in Ottowa. A good sign is also that a lot of the guys he is taking deep are guys who have been or should be in the big leagues. He's not feasting off of the scrubs, he's been taking deep the guys with big league experience or the talent to be there. I still firmly hold my belief that the jump from AA to AAA is just as hard or harder than AAA to the big leagues. There are a lot of guys in AAA who belong on a big league roster (or who have been there) and there are a lot of big league pitchers who belong in AAA. You never see anything like that in AA. If a kid is good in AA, he quickly gets the jump to AAA. There's no logjam. It's a totally new experience. The more I think about it, the more confident I am that Shopp could possibly make the jump to start in '05. Granted, fewer K's would be nice, but Varitek had a worse year in '97 in a better hitters' league, was a year older and he still stepped in to start in '98. Season Line: .231/.310/.465/.775; .31 (36/116) BB/K ratio; 18 2B, 20 HR, 60 RBI

Hanley has dropped switch-hitting and is going to be strictly a right-handed hitter from now on. He cites his lack of power from the left-side as the motive. It'll be interesting to see how he handles right-handed pitchers now as a right-handed batter. I think he'll have his growing pains, but by next season, he should be well on his way to producing huge numbers.

Apart from yesterday's game (an ugly 0-4, 3 K's), Shopp is on fire. 2-4 with a homerun, single, walk and two runs scored today. In August, Shopp is hitting .304/.360/.870/1.230 with 2 BB/11 K; 2 1B, 2B, 4 HR. Season Line: .228/.308/.453/.761; .31 (36/115) BB/K ratio; 17 2B, 19 HR, 57 RBI

Yeah, that was me. And f*** The Yankees.

What the f*** are you talking about? Do you see any mention of the Yankees around here?

Oh my God, I love David Ortiz.

This team is going to give me a heartattack.

We have to be crazy to watch this team everyday.

What the hell... Goddamnit, Wake.