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whats really point then of sox keepin him so far, best if they trade him and try to get schmidt, or just ride out the rest fo the 1 year contract he had signed

more that im thinking about it, id rather have wade miller move to the bullpen. much like better to have rotation be: 1. Schilling 2. Clement 3. Wells 4. Wakefield 5. Arroyo

hey i would, ya know hes gonna get $$$

papa jack and dave wallace should replace johnny and trot in the late innings, haha

exactly about Lilly, game i will be crossing my fingers about is when roy halladya comes to town for the 3rd game of the series. cy young material with that 2.40 ERA

i watched a nesn pre-game report asking several emails from the mail bag to nick frede and he was aksed about the current slump bellhorn was having that got his average to .220... and he had said that indeed several times each week during batting practices some of his teammates and papa jack have been working with him on his stance and everything, id say its working out so far. beginning of sesaon its been mainly each game one K or more, now hes been toning it down in past week. Plus of course better contact with the ball. I mean he has now reached safely in 9 straight games, including walks and hits

ted lilly has only been effective against the sox in his park. At fenway, it does soemthing to him, the games he pitches against the sox there has a 6.5 ERA and 0 - 6 record. So far Clement is pitching at fenway with just amazing 1.5 ERA and 6 - 0 record. im hoping for stats like that bode well for our boys tonight

haha i saw on mlb.com in the insider section, now new rumor yanks would now like to trade sheffield for marlin's burnett. no doubt even tho they cancellled trade talks, hes making life miserable for them in the clubhouse.

i watched a nesn pre-game report asking several emails from the mail bag to nick frede and he was aksed about the current slump bellhorn was having that got his average to .220... and he had said that indeed several times each week during batting practices some of his teammates and papa jack have been working with him on his stance and everything, id say its working out so far. beginning of sesaon its been mainly each game one K or more, now hes been toning it down in past week. Plus of course better contact with the ball

hope the sox can agree with him for a 3 or 4 year contract. but, yea the mets or the nationals, that way only chance to see him would be a rare interleague series, or even the world series matchoff if it came to it. It would feel weird to be at fenway and root against johnny seein him in another team's colors. Besides with the Mets hed be reteamed with Doug and Pedro

gotten 5 of my buddies today to vote the max you can which is 25 each--my guys and me now have added 150 votes onto Johnny's count. Im very optimistic about the outfield lineup cuz ya got manny, johnny, and vlad, i would like trot who does great defensive plays, but man vlad is a power hitter glad to have on the AL side

oh please dude its not as if im ripping johnny, oh yea i want him f---ing gone, huh--besides im seein like each day on here people predicting the season ending win/loss record, which will be around time johnny damon talks come into play

((gulp)) which team would you rather see Damon play for, if he does leave the sox? Johnny Damon is one of the greatest assets to our teams and it shows with such a great all star season he has been having. So far im hearing it still is possible johnny would like a 5 year contract, which by that time he will be 37. Red Sox would probably offer him a 3 year deal that includes club option for a fourth season. Regardless, im just curious what everybody thinks about that, I'm leaning towards the Mets. Be a good fill in for center field, cuz i got a feelin yanks might go for Mets' Cameron in the offseason. Plus may johnny be on another team that is a big rival to the pin-head stripes Note: listing these teams, because johnny had said if he does move to another team wants it to be a northeastern located team

i was wrong about one thing..... I said Randy Johnson would be on the DL at this point in the season at least once... as i remember correctly back in may he was out for couple of weeks, pulling his groin muscles, which was when chien mien wang was called up to take over the duties. he stayed as another starting pitcher went onto the DL. so another prediction you were right about

oh yeah in his last 4 games, bellhorn gotten 5 RBIs across the plate

1-Oh I am sorry I forgot to put “a” before “starter” and “closer”. I do not proof read when I write to adults. 2-“Payton as Nixon's replace”: means if Nixon is not playing, then use Payton. It does not mean you take Nixon out and replace him with Payton! 3-Using Miller as (a) closer is just temporary until (a) closer is found. If he can’t take care of 2-3 outs every other day, then get rid of him. Arroyo is (a) better starter than him. 4-Millar is very smart guy, and can be trained to play second. I just wanted to give him more playing time and give less playing time to Bellhorn (tired of his strike outs!), and yes he is kind of overweight, but note that Ortiz is doing good job on 1st! I do not believe playing 2nd is rocket science. 5-Francona has made many errors in the past. On scale of 1(worst)-10(best) I give him 4 because I must admit: he works very hard. 6-I looked back at my previous post, but could not find any reason why some are so hostile! In forums you should always expect to hear different ideas, and opinions. You need not trash others who differ with you. If you do, then you do not belong to forums. Thanks. if wade miller averages 20 - 35 pitches his first inning of the past 10 games hes started and allowed 11 runs total during just the 1st inning in 10 games. how does that qualify him to be a closer??? im going with obvious backups of timlin and arroyo. bar none a miracle, there is a reason sox just signed him to a one year deal, has been shaky in each of his starts and lasts at the most 6 innings. Do you remember Francona making the riskiest calls during the games of October, and ya know what i think they had worked. ok yes true ortiz is a big guy to have at 1st base. But, he plays at the most 6 games a season in the interleague games at first base out of the total 162 games played. his job is mainly to go out there and hit... 2nd base is much tougher job than 1st is, cuz you have to move around more, other than 1st base where just really stay at the bag. Millar is going to get loads of playing time this summer with Olerud to be the perfect backup guy in the late innings. That idea of millar at second will never come across I assure you. its more likely for hanley ramirez to be bumped up to the majors as a second/shortstop backup and vazquez to be sent off the team. i only bash those ideas who dont have what is called common sense. and the games that payton comes in, have 95% of the time, been the reason for him to take over trot's duties, so dude thats already being done

so funny that as its lookin right now there will only be one yankee goin, which is a-rod--all other yanks are trailing back deep behind other players

hey i voted 50 times online for damon, as well as my other boys

And another thing about millar play second, are you serious, second basemen need to be light and nimble. millar is a great defensive player by just standing at the bag, he cant run for the life of him. i went to a game that was against the yanks, he had a chance to stretch out his hit to a double, and he actually tripped over 1st base. plain and simple dude schillings gonna come back, which will move bronson to bullpen to be a 7th/8th inning setup pitcher. talks bronson could pitch as closer, very intriguing since he finsihes the 1st innings quick around 15 pitches. Joe, embree was warming up when it got to 2 outs. but it was too late to bring embree in, cuz he just started to warm up. god you gotta learn how the game is played and all aspects, i know it all my life and played in high school.

i can only see, from what the bullpen currently has, the closer should be timlin. and have arroyo as a setup man. dude cmon have wade miller pitch as a closer?? are you insane, cuz each game there is i write down the pitch counts... on average wade miller has gone 20 - 35 pitches his first inning, and get this 11 runs have scored in his first 10 games, im not even sure if red sox should renew his contract at the end of the season. Francona kept him in cuz like everybody, we remember the top closer of last season. fouke's ERA has gone up past 6, given up 8 homeruns, same as last year--25 runs scored against him---last year in 83 appearances, just 22!!!! the way foulke has been pitching and those assinine ccomments he made about red sox nation fans, he plain and simple doesnt care when he goes up to the mound

according to tom caron and nick frede he was waiting for the media at the clubhouse entrance, he knew what he was gonna say. Even tho first two runs were charge to mike timlin, it doesnt matter--he had given up 7 runs in the 8th & 9th innings--fans were booing cuz this is nothing new this season of him blowing saves or barely gettin out of situations

im just looking at one game at a time, i wont think about september/october games until those months arrive

yea him dissing the fans at fenway saying what does he care about johhny from burger king, then johnny in the locker room--a lil bit putting him above on a pedestal. are we foulke? snap out of it!

well everybody was waiting for george to do somethin, this move didnt surprise me, relief pitchers for the yanks who had held down the bullpen in the first half. Look George to go after guardado, fuentes of the rockies, schmidt possibly if they move wang as a setup man