Youk Of The Nation

Wait, why do we need the Papelbon smiley? Can't we replace it with a Pedroia smiley? Like one shooting lasers from its eyes or something?

Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of Red Sox radio announcing a tie game.

No, I guess it's okay. Besides, even if you did my high score would be gone.

I think part of the reason no one has expressed concern about the Rays is that the Sox have done remarkably well against them this season.

NOOOO my Tetris score! NOOOOOOOOOO

Hamilton is just terrible in the outfield this season.

Wow. Good job, Bailey.

Brock Holt is an excellent action hero name. A disgraced former US Marshal who fights criminals bare-handed.

I love when the Sox face scrubs who are on two days rest

The next person to hashtag one of their posts will be stabbed in the spine with a polonium-tipped umbrella.

Tazawa is so f***ing intense.

Maybe you could take out your anger on him by beating him with a grammar textbook!

This is a great situation. Trout and Pujols in the eighth. If you get them, it makes the ninth a hell of a lot less scary-looking.

Yeah, pitching to Ortiz in that situation was just idiotic. Good for the Sox though, some insurance on the way to a 5.5 game lead.

Saw that coming!

My biggest surprises: Carp: Batting .300 in limited playing time, comes onto the field when asked to step in and usually makes some sort of impact. Always great to have a backup guy who doesn't mind being a backup guy and plays his hardest when he's in the lineup. Even better when his hardest is actually good. Ortiz: The man is getting old. He's the only player left from the '04 team, and that was almost a decade ago. I thought he'd run out of steam a couple years after that, but here we are, ten years later. I've gone through three or four girlfriends, approximately 3650 toothbrushes, four cars, and almost certainly enough cigarettes to asphyxiate a small city, and David Ortiz is still hitting harder than the hour after the Super Bowl party at Chris Brown's house. Gotta love Ortiz. Nava: What can I say? I thought he'd be, at best, a mildly serviceable backup. Instead he's one of the best outfielders around. From the very first pitch he saw this kid has played his pale, skinny guts out and proven to the Sox, their fans, and I bet at least one high school girlfriend that giving up on Daniel Nava too early just makes you look like the guy who thought computers were a passing fad. Lackey: After one teeth-grinding year of pitching and one year of not pitching at all, John Lackey is the ace of the staff right now while Buchholz is out. He's really taken hold of the reins and horse joke horse joke horse joke. Tazawa and Uehara: The only reason I haven't nicknamed these two incredible guys Hiroshima and Nagasaki is because I am barely clinging to a shred of human dignity and morals and I'm not quite ready to let go of it, at least not until I can transfer my consciousness into an indestructible murder-robot body. These guys are awesome, and deserving of some double nickname that isn't racially, culturally, and morally insensitive. Disappointments: Hanrahan and Bailey- Hanrahan is injured, obviously, and as much as that sucks, it happens and there is no reason to complain about it. He could come back healthy one day and be the closer, so I'll reserve judgement. I am still disappointed at not having him, though. As for Bailey, I thought the bad stretch was just that, a bad stretch, but then it continued. I can't help but wonder if he's injured, collapsing that completely is very odd. Napoli- I am disappointed with the Ks as well as the power outage of late. His last homerun came a while ago. I am pleased that he is working counts and making pitchers labor, but I am a little worried that his tendency to not make contact will doom him as the second half plays out. I hope not, though, and I am sure of one thing: Napoli is the kind of guy who can turn this around. Brian Butterfield: Never thought I'd find myself missing Dale Sveum. Drew: Eh. Every time he looks like he's about to go on a tear, he sputters back down to nothingness.

No matter which image I use, they are all the same size. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

That's the fourth out on the bases this game.

Snyder has been pleasantly surprising. It's still early, but considering how useless I expected him to be, this is nice.

They should not lose a single game to this team. This better end up like the Astros series.

and CD, and Stocker, and CalvnHobs. But not what's his name...Dipre. Man, that guy sucked, I hope he never comes back.

Well, one good thing came out of this- YesZir is posting again!

I think the biggest issue with the colors is that it looks like a Yankees board right now.

Emphasis on "young". I don't want to see promising young kids dealt away for Cliff Lee or what's left of Roy Halladay or whatever.

I like this layout more than the old one, actually. It reminds me of some of the Trek forums I have been a member of over the years. I like the idea of keeping this new layout and just changing the colors to the old TS standard. My one and only complaint about the new layout is that the avatars are tiny.