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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."

"Asked about whether he felt he would be booed, "I'm going to hear from some fans and there are other fans who are very educated who have an idea of how things went down and how the Red Sox flat out disrespected me," Damon said. "I'm going to go out and do my thing so I'm not going to worry too much about that. All I can say it I gave it my all for four years. If it wasn't good enough I can't concern myself with that." I hate damon for all the reasons you guys have talked about and now this. He should shut the f*** up and just play. These overpaid pricks, nowadays $40 million is disrespectful?What a terd. I now know why people in Oakland and Kansas City hated the guy, he is phony, big mouthed selfish prick..BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I have to admit I am one of those people who hated schilling the person but love schilling the redsox. I thought he was a big mouth, and his admiration and support of that moron in the white house was just too much to take. HOWEVER, this great article has changed a lot for me and I look at curt in a whole new light. He is indeed very smart and he is a regular guy, who understands a lot more about this whole thing than any of us could ever dream of knowing. This article has opened my eyes to a lot of things, primarily its that he is a fan too, and an articulate guy, I may not agree with what he has to say and I know in the future I wont, but I just realized after reading this article how refreshing iot is to hear opinions and insight, rather than the cliche ******** that most guys throw out there.I have a whole new respect for curt and I am thankful I read that article. Inever thought I'd say this but curt's bg mouth and littany of opinions are a good thing, in this cookie cutter world of overpaid , brainless athletes--he is a welcome change. This article changed my mind and thanks for putting it up as a link.

God willing this is great news.

well, I stand corrected. this might be the first...the first time in history that peter gammons got something right. Granted it was about a month and half after he said it would happen, but it happened. Now if those 20 or 30 big name steroid users are ever announced I'll give him credit for that one too. In any event, Theo is back officially and if he could play center I'd be even happier.

what red seat said minus the edit comment...Oh and the part about the drink.

I want to know how walt weiss got a vote. Is Mrs. Weiss a sports writer?

i dont think the fact that he was a ******* which may or may not be debatle is what's hurting him, it's his numbers just arent enough in the eyes of the voting world and many non redsox fans. There are a lot of creeps in there..steve carlton, etc.. jim rice just didnt play enough to amss the necessary numbers. eddie murray is another guy who probably thought of himself as a proud guy, but he came across as a douche bag...but he had the magic stats..so it wasnt a question. I think I am guilty and the press is guilty of overstating the prick card..It's in the numbers.

john is right..it's a lot of fuss and a not so subtle attempt to get attention. I think he says a lot of s*** that is misunderstood becasue he says so liittle to the press. If he said , " hey you, pass me some mustard". Then fans and the press would spend weeks talking about the ramifications. Did he mean Gulden's, I didnt know Manny liked mustard...He must hate boston, and like Sabrett hot dogs in new york--he wants to play for the Knicks , why does Manny hate ketchup. you know they read s*** in to the littlest burp. I agree with my good friend John...manny is a ketchup hating hot dog loving red sox and will be through the entire contract. Pass the mustard john.

I didnt say that, I just I am not optimistic-at this point. Why do you have charactize everything so simplistically, could it be because you are simple?.....well, anyway, let me make this easy and simple...Jusr becasue someone is critical of the off season moves SO FAR and becasue someone has questions doesnt mean they dont root for or hope we win. It is not moping, it is questioning which is what a forum like this is for--our opinions.., niot simply cut and pasting artciles from the globe. Here's another headline: Riverside is Snow Blind. ' PS you were the only one who gave me s*** for speaking my mind, though.

riverside you are blinded by spin and in your zeal to live by your what will happen will happen philosophy. Loretta and lowell are coming off distasterous years, both. can you say steroids. Snow as well--lousy 2005. your spin, your enthusiasm is admirable if it werent so unrealistic....there are too many ifs, and too many variables back here on earth. Alex cora--you have no complaints with, well, I guess you dont care about offense becasue he has never hit, and couldnt even keep a job with the Guardians.You're honestly saying that your happy with the all defense and manny-papi "1-2": punch...suppose manny gets hurtor has mental breakdown..that leaves a 1 punch. Maybe I'm too negative, but I am realsitic.. Foulke as well. how many guys can have on one roster coming s***** years last year.. Schilling...same, another question mark..mota, clement fell apart...foulke again, he was so bad, he gets mentioned twice. what I am optyimistic about again...every one fo these is going to rebound becasue your so positive about everything. SNOW WAY.