sarasoxfan

I dont know what games some of you havebeen watching...but the bullpen with the exception of paps is awful. just awful. The games speak for the themesleves and no statistical manipulation is going to change that. Timlin hasnt been very good, but for the most part fans are delusional about him because they like him. It would save a lot of time if the runners on base when he came were just allowed to cross home plate and get it over with. For what he gets paid foulke has been just plain s*****. How can anyone say he is getting better--better than what...a groundskeeper ptiching?

with those injuries and time, I dont know what makes you think that he can get back to form after so much time and injuries to both legs. A hunch? What have you seen that we are misising.

yeah its april but he hasnt looked like a "premier" pitcher since sometime in 2004, how many april's until we let this chump loose.

man, its way to early for a thread like this. One Red seat brings up a great analogy with Ortiz. Sheesh boston is a tough town, anyway with nixon on the shelf for a few games and same with crisp we;ll see quite a bit of pena. I hope he does well just to shut up the impatient.

foulke is finished and his 88mph fast ball is at best batting practice material...on what basis would anyone say keith foulke is a premier pitcher. he lost us a bunch of games last year, has had one or two bad outings this year..lost his job as closer...to say he will be fine is a dream. In terms of yresterday, sure pena should have held on to that ball, but it still had home run distance. Thank God francona realized that the guy is a stiff early on before putting him in a position to f*** us like he did last eyar.

I wish the rumor was he was going to another team..like say pawtucket.

apparently he should belong to AA as well.

tito grew some balls in the off season, excellent move--particularly that he did it before foulke could f*** us. Typically they give a guy a few chances to explode, like last yea- the seven or eight games that foulke personally blew for us last year cold have been the difference. I was gald to see they arent going to let it get to that. did you see bronson hit a home run.

I was hoping this thread was going to be about foulke.

they actually did say they would get this done-and would try to do it bythe season started. Now it appears they arent. I hope this isnt the start of screwing another guy especially someone like DO. It appears loyality with this management doesnt mean s***. of all the poeple in tworld to screw it surely shouldt be DO. Why the f*** do theykeep doing this-kind of s***..

in other news marte didnt even make the big league roster for the Guardians--though he had a pretty formidable spring training I gotta think they are planning some kind of move-

I take exception to this whole crap about how baseballl didnt ban steroids until recently. In some sense they got specific, but steroids are and were illegal-especially when used ilgeally by a pumpkin headed egocentric ********** like BB and the league has had a conrtolled substances policy for awhile. Just ask steve howe. He has the nerve to play the race card too--poor f***er grew up as a son of major leaguer--he probably cant even spell ghetto. I say suspend him forever...make him share a prison cell with someone like richard simmons and throw away the f***ing key!!

what's next? a new team.

Thought this was appropriate given the now substantiated news that baseball's biggest prick , happens to be not only a serial adluterer but a steroid popping cheater. I was reading about Barry and I came across this article, which is hilarious in a perverse way. Make-A-Wish Foundation Asked To Punch Barry Bonds In The Nuts AMES, IA--Members of the Make-A-Wish Foundation struggled to come up with a response to a dying 9-year-old boy’s request that they punch slugger Barry Bonds in the nuts repeatedly. The boy, Danny Wickman of Ames, Iowa, reportedly hates Bonds and wants nothing more than to see him in debilitating pain. The director of the foundation said that it was the first such request that he had ever received. “That’s a first. Obviously the kid really hates Barry Bonds, as a lot of people do, but I don’t know if we can comply with his request,” said Charles Hopkinton, managing director of Make-A-Wish. “We’ll have to call Barry and see if he’s OK with it. I mean, it is his dying wish, so we should do everything we can to make it happen. What really strikes me though, is the fact that he [Danny] isn’t even interested in doing it himself. He's happy just to watch someone else do it. Now that’s hatred.” Wickman has been diagnosed with tuberculosis and is expected to live another six months. Upon hearing about his condition through a mutual friend, Hopkinton immediately met little Danny to set him up with the foundation. After mulling over his wish, Danny decided it would be fun to watch his least favorite ball player get punched in the nuts. “I kept asking him if he was sure,” said Hopkinton. “And he kept saying ‘yes.’ I offered him all kinds of other stuff, but he was adamant. He wants to see Bonds doubled over in pain before he dies.” Hopkinton apparently offered Wickman a chance to meet Lebron James, have a one-on-one dinner with Brett Favre, and get an all access pass to the Minnesota Vikings training camp. As appealing as these offers sounded, nothing was more appealing than the ruthless beating of Bonds. Mary Wickman, Danny’s mother, said her son has always had a deep, seething resentment towards Bonds. “A lot of people hate that guy, so it should be understandable that he would request something like this,” she said. “[Danny] is not some stupid kid who blindly worships athletes. He only roots for guys who are good people. He’s heard enough Bonds interviews, as we all have, to know that the guy is an arrogant, selfish prick. I’m sure a lot of people in America would love to see the guy gets his nuts rammed with a sledgehammer. I know I would.” Hopkinton has been trying to come up with a way to present the idea to Bonds. He does not expect the slugger to agree to have his testicles punched, but he may agree to make an appearance with young Danny, at which point they could ambush him. “That’s the only solution I can come up with right now,” said Hopkinton. “As bad as it may sound, we might have to trick him into showing up, then just sneak in a few quick cock-punches so Danny can get his wish. After that, we might have to run like hell, but this is a kid’s dying wish. We can’t say no. And frankly, we don’t want to.” The director’s biggest concern, he said, is Bonds willingness to show up at all, even for a brief handshake and autograph session. The famous slugger has a reputation for being ornery and extremely private, even when it comes to cute, dying children. “I know this guy doesn’t do autographs and things like that,” said Hopkinton. “I know he has a track record of turning down charity causes. I know because one time I asked him to send a sick kid a signed 8 x 10 and he said no. Can you imagine that? He just had to sign it and send it out. He said he was ‘too busy.’ Then I told him that he could just have his secretary sign it and send it out, and the kid wouldn’t even know any better. He said ‘Nah, she’s too busy.’ Then I asked him to just turn his head slightly and look in the direction of the young boy, who was sitting behind the dugout. He just said ‘Nah. Got a sore neck.’ That’s why, if we can pull this off, I’ll be the first in line to smack him.” While most sick children request time with athletes they admire, Wickman said he'll be perfectly content to see an athlete he does not admire suffer greatly. When asked why he had such antipathy for the hall-of-fame slugger, young Danny answered with his usual candor. “Why do I hate Barry Bonds? There’s no specific reason. I just think he’s a dick,” said Wickman. “He’s so conceited and he thinks he’s better than everyone else and he’s sits there in that stupid reclining chair in the clubhouse like he’s the king of the world or something. Having this disease really sucks, but I swear I’ll die happy if someone punches Barry in the nuts. It’s easy. All they have to do is get a press pass to go into the Giants locker room after a game, pretend they're a reporter, and give him a couple quick punches. That’s all it takes to really hurt someone. Is that too much to ask, Mr. Hopkinton? Don’t you want to make a dying boy happy?” Read the SI story posted on their website--he is bigger asshoie than even I thought possible..

I saw this in the globe: Johnny Damon T-shirt seen in Florida: ''Looks like Jesus, acts like Judas, throws like Mary."