Tek4pres

Personally, I just think it's fun mocking classless jerks who get their kicks by creating threads to antagonize a bunch of loyal fans. And let's face it, anyone that creates this kind of thread on a rival's website either thinks their team's troubles are over just cause you jumped into first place for a day, or you're just a classless jerk. Since as you say you aren't a hypocrite, I'll just take your word for it and assume you're a classless jerk.

Well, I was looking around for the 1st place Yankees to say hello to them. But my standings say that some team from Boston is on top of the standings. Boston? I thought the Yankees played in NY.

Thought occurred to me as well. Mussina and Park in a pitchers duel in Tx, 0-0. Though Mussina may be replaced to start the 7th. Rodriguez is warming in the bullpen.

Cue up the Standells with Dirty Water. Let's root for Tx to pull it out so we can start a thread titled - "Your first place Boston Red Sox."

I think MC Hammer is right. Mueller made it so that if they tried to get Varitek at the plate, he'd be in scoring position. When it was cut off, he checked to see if Tek scored before he let himself be tagged.

My god Olerud isn't in there for his wheels. Lugo had time to knock the ball down, bobble it, get a beer and Fenway frank, call his agent and still get Olerud by a step.

Better yet, break it open and get Gonzalez in there to finish with a six run lead.

Great idea. Especially there's the option to nominate the dumbest post of the day. Though the competition for that might be too fierce.

Nice play by Cora. Ballerina throw and all.

No problem. After watching Kazmir last night he's still haunting me too.

Manny finally hitting a ball over the wall instead of going inside it. Good sign.

Wow. Kazmir is unreal. He can shut down the Sox just by sitting on the bench after pitching last night. Fossums not doing too bad a job either.

Did you believe it was him, or did you steal his pants?

The Reds don't want to trade Dunn. They'd rather trade Griffey. And in case you were wondering, Mark Bellhorn was second in MLB last year in K's to the guy who set the record for the highest season total, Adam Dunn. I would imagine that's we can list this one under slim and none.

He's hot. But he's no Willie McGeehttp://hogwild.net/images/Misc/baseball-willie.mcgee.jpg

Wow, yeah you're right they're in first place. For one day so far and you come around and spooge all over the site. Have some class and act like you been there before.

Tony G has played a number of games at 3B. Could this be a setting up an eventual move with Mueller going to the Twins?

No I think when he comes back you'll probably see a platoon. Tony G can play every infield position and could spell both Bellhorn and Youk if the Sox decide to trade Mueller.

Where does Hyzdu fit in with Stern and Kapler? Is this basically just a deal that sticks Hyzdu back in Pawtucket again?

Grafanino is pretty patient too. 22BB's and 3.88 pitchs/ab. Doesn't have too much of a drop off against RHP (actually better against righties this year). Seems to fit in really well to the Sox lineup. Interesting splits: Avg at home this year: .224 Avg on the road: .358 Kaufman Stadium is a pretty big park so his numbers could go up at Fenway. (Though he hasn't actually had an AB in the past three years there.) Probably looking at a platoon when Bellhorn comes back.

There are a few wrinkles that allow a drafting team (Red Sox) to take other action on a player besides keeping him on the major league roster, the easiest one being sending another player to the Braves. Once this is done, the Sox could send Stern down to the Pawtucket. The Braves may do this rather than taking Stern back because Stern would have to clear waivers before he went back to the Braves at which point any team with a worse record could take Stern and keep him as long as he was on the major league roster. Once this is done, I am guessing that the Sox would own his rights and be able to trade him away. Though I'm not exactly sure on that point.

I think that if this deal goes through, it will be in a bit altered form. I'm not really worried about it. Besides, as the past few summers have shown, the deal that the Red Sox are going to make is generally the one you don't read about in the newspaper.

It comes down to money. The media is trying to make some for themselves, and both the Red Sox and the Yankees have it. Yet if you want to talk about ultra modern history, the Yankees have had the highest payroll in baseball for sometime now and still don't know how to use it. They've got a depleted farm system with no signs of turning things around, an aging team which they'll have to overhaul by overpaying for free agents and have lost four years in a row to teams that you classify as unsuccessful on a historical scale. Boston used to be a team that was haunted by the history of a move that one dumb executive made. But we've moved on and now it's the Yankee fans who are clinging to history. Not only are we running neck and neck with you now, but we're turning into a great developmental organization on top of being a successful organization now. So while you guys keep trading for and signing injury prone veterans, we'll keep building from the bottom while keeping the Major League team strong. If I were the Yankees, I'd better hope we win now, because resource wise you're about to get outclassed by that "historically" unsuccessful organization you seem obsessed with. Keep your history. We'll take the future.

Francona has said in the past that he'd use Youkilis at 2B. It will be interesting to see if he becomes the every day second baseman ahead of Cora. You sacrifice defensively, but Youkilis does a lot more offensively to help the team win than Cora can.

If Bellhorn goes on the DL, I think I'd rather just see them bring up Hanley to back up Cora rather than find room on the 40 man roster for Pedroia. I don't think either of them would see that much playing time except for a start here or there. If they want one of these two to start every night, then I say go on and make the roster move and get Pedroia. Who knows maybe he'd make Bellhorn the next Wally Pipp.