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Check that ball for moondust. I hate Barry Bonds. I don't want to be bothered with his stupid quest to dethrone the legitimate HR champ.

No, we have to face an AVERAGE 6-9. This is what the MLB is supposed to be like and how most national league teams operate most of the time. The 1-6 is still disgusting.

You shouldn't downplay it so much jacksonian. It feels disingenuous. This offense can beat any pitcher into submission and I have no doubt they can do it to Dice K too. They did it to Pedro, even in 00 and 01. That was largely a different team, but the philosophy was the same: lots of power, good eyes, great contact hitters.

I have a feeling Manny is breaking out of his "slump" today. Let's hope they coincide.

Clearly I'm unsatisfied with the result of the first beaning. I want him hit on the hand.

I would hit A-Rod again. Why the hell not? Its better than a HR, 2B or even throwing the 4 pitches needed to walk him.

Hey Jacksonian, in case you haven't noticed, you can hit ANYBODY. That's the thing with the yankees. I'm sure you're aware of it.

Now the runs will come. The Yanks didn't knock him out in the first, a few of those close calls go the other way and that's a 123 inning. No big deal.

Is there a way to watch a Japanese simulcast or something? I really can't stand Joe Morgan, and I'm sick of complaining about it. It is always the same s*** over and over and over and over and over again.

The roided one with a nice double.

Tavarez knows hitters, he just can't execute.

Thank you DiceK. Now get out of this, like Pedro would. Oh, he was trying to hit him Joe.

f*** YEAH DICE K You will be a Red Sox champion!!

A few pretty close balls "Gyro" change? Jesus, these guys don't research anything do they?

anything more is roids. I kid. I like Jeter.

Interesting to see Tavarez basically saying "throw it inside and his hands will shake"! I hope Dice was listening. OH NASTY CHANGEUP! "That was something different" it's a change up guys

Yes, Joe. It is the pause in his delivery that is the magic, yet, shockingly, most pitchers don't do it

I'm psyched about this game. Let's get it on!!! (the game that is, I wasn't talking to you jacksonian! )

I think if they're going to knock him out it will be in the 1st. He has tended to start slowly and look at his best in the 5th, 6th and 7th inning.

It seems fair enough to me.

Let me be the first to validate this thread: GO SOX!!

I'm not saying this is the greatest team in history. I'm aware just how young the season is. I just think that the outcome ultimately comes down to the play of the team, from David Ortiz at the top all the way down to Alex Cora and Kyle Snyder. Each game is a journey where inches, not star-power often make the difference. On the aggregate those who tend to get the inches right more often end up being stars, but it is as simple as a release point, or a raised seam, or a bouncing ball. The only thing the FO can do is put a team in a good position to win. This year they picked up a number of new relievers, but people said they likely wouldn't be good--arguing more often than not because it was this FO, which has struggled to put together a solid pen in the past, rather than any coherent argument about the guys who comprise that pen. "Romero is crap!" or "Pineiro sucks" are heard all too often before these guys get a shot. You throw s*** to a wall and hope that it sticks. A guy like Okijima shouldn't really be suprising people too much: he was a very established, life-long reliever in Japan who had had success. The signing of Dice-K was an absolute coup, as he and Beckett will form the core of the SP for a few years to come, just at a time when guys like Mariano Rivera are disappearing, making the Yankees have to figure out who will be their 100%, all-the-time closer. He, more than anyone else, is the reason for their success the past few years and now he's 37 or so and on a decline. Things change in baseball, teams change, players change. I hope people at this point have a little bit of faith that the FO knows what it is doing and isn't just throwing out players to fool people into thinking they're trying to be competitive. Are there still people here who wish we had gone after Zito, or Schmidt? Anyway, long story short, there's still a long time to go here and these games have been very nice lately. I hope that Dice comes out rolling tomorrow with some serious cheese, hopefully my wish will come true and A-Rod will finally get one up and in. And YES SBF, if rivera can pull his s*** together then this season very well could come down to the Sox-Yanks head-to-head records. If he doesn't then the Yankees could be in trouble.