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In his defense, I don't think he sought on tito and told him he wanted to sit... but I think it was more they wanted to give him a couple days with the off day and give him time to figure himself out because he looks lost right now.

I mean, yeah I think Drew is over payed but seriously, his underrated overrated thing sucks. I'm not saying I disagree that Drew is overrated, because I don't necessarily, but I don't think he sucks, but yeah anyhow... His underrated column was HORRIBLE. Oswalt is not underrated. Trevor Hoffman is not underrated! Hanley Ramirez is one of most talked about young players in the game who might become a once in a generation talent... and hes calling him underrated! Its ridiculous. And Jake Peavy? Are you serious? He is overrated... considering the year he had last year and the people that would still give up their left testicle in a fantasy trade for him.

If anything I would try to make it Dice man, Tavarez, Beckett in light of how bad Schill is, and considering how well the yankees have been hitting wakefield. If we take 2/3 in the june series, this is a one team race the rest of the way.

Seems to be fine for me now, must have been nothing really. It was weird though, I tried to post probably 15 times and got the 404 screen of death.

I would. Retaliation is part of the game. A-rod can't do crap like that in September, so put him in the dirt now and buzz one right under his chin. The guy is a real dirty player.

Yeah I just read that about Hibbert. Sucks. They Celtics are screwed. They need a new GM to come in and blow up this team, I thinks.

Awesome post, sir. J.D. Drew is coming over from the NL, a career NL guy. He is going to have to make some adjustments. Think of it like a rookie pitcher going through the lineup for the second time. The team makes adjustments, and start to hit him a little better, like the braves against gabbard. No hits in the first four, then they started to get to him a little bit after seeing him. Let him get one tour through the AL under his belt, and lets see what he does after that. He'll be good, he has the talent to be an All-Star every year of this contract... not to mention, how good do you feel when you see the ball hit to right field? If Drew can't get to it, I feel pretty safe in saying it wasn't a catchable ball.

The chinese guy, Yi, is a 7 footer that plays like a 3 with the upper body strength of a girl scout. He plays like a 3, but he's a 5. He will have zero inside presence in the NBA. We should trade down and take someone like Hibbard. I don't know though, maybe we should just include the pick in a deal to get us a legitimate talent... I think if someone doesn't come in, Jermaine O'neal is someone I've heard, Ainge gets fired. Ainge is terrible. I didn't know Gasol was 26 before last night, that might not be a terrible idea.

YUCK

Which blown call on crisp?

The most clutch hitter ever was mark grace... go figure.

Who can guess the least clutch player of all time? Oh and according to clutch stats by prospectus, Bill Mueller was in the top 15 least clutch players of all time.

Sean Casey is the man, I love him.

Anyone else getting a lot of 404 errors when they try to post? I've been trying to post in the Talksox forum and in the game threads for over an hour on and off and i can't get a single post in right now.

Now I Can Die in Peace was great.

Can you say why?

Mike Mussina looked very hittable in his last start. Lets get 6 quality innings out of tavarez, and get to moose.

Ellsbury is hitting .239 in AAA right now. He'll shape up and be a player eventually, but you'll be waiting longer than this season.

What have you got to base that on though? No one has said anything to that. What about the Sox says they are overachieving?

Pedroia really puts a charge in the ball. Even when he wasn't getting the hits, every out he made was a loud out. He still slips into that upper cut swing sometimes, but for the most part its leveled out and I like him a lot.

But how can you even say that? Based on what? The only guy on our staff who may have been playing out of his own league is wakefield, and we know what he does pretty much every year... Our offense isn't playing to its potential and our rotation is as expected... Where is the overachievment? Papelbon? Okajima? I dont know.

Our rotation and bullpen are great, nothing short of it. The middle of our order hasn't even begun to start producing yet, and we have the best record in baseball. To say that we aren't as good as our record is ridiculous. We have a very good run differential and the best relative power index in the majors (that means we have beaten the best teams in the major leagues). It's not like we are sitting around beating up on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Texas Rangers, who account for nine of your 20 wins (The rangers alone, no idea how many times you've beaten the rays). So, you have no reason to make that claim other than just to take a jab at the Sox, but if you'd like to back that up, go ahead. The Yankees are definitely better than their record. I don't know if they are a 95 win team like they might need to be to grab the WC or win the division, but they definitely aren't a sub-.500 team. You need to get something out of Mariano. You need Mussina to be right. The left handers, Abreu, Giambi, Damon etc. need to do something. I think they will. I don't know if Mussina will be right. I don't know if Clemens is what you think he is. Mariano looks good... but he isn't. He still has velocity, he still seems to have decent command, hes just getting hit. The Yankees can put it together, but I'm not buying into this crap that they are a "different team" than they were 2 days ago, and "something changed". Bottom line is this, they have the pieces to be a good team, but they've lost ground, and it is VERY hard to make up ground against a rotation like the one Boston has. Boston has the bullpen battle win, but not as much as Boston fans think. Bruney is good for you guys, Proctor is still pretty decent, but we have the closer. The Rotation is head and shoulders better than yours. PettiteClemens, and Hughes > Lester/Tavarez. Any way you slice it, the sox are built around their starting arms, and there aren't many teams in the league than are gonna out hurl them this year. The Yankees offense is disgusting, and Abreu, Damon and Giambi haven't done a whole lot. The Sox are very very patient and remind me a lot of some Yankees lineups of years past that just see a ton of pitches and then tee-off on the bullpen. That said, The Yankees lineup should be the best in baseball when all is said and done. They're ridiculous. That homer giambi hit yesterday was absolutely absurd. The Sox are as good as their record indicates they are. The Yankees definitely are not a sub.-500 team, and they even still scare me a little bit, but I don't buy this crap going around ESPN( Is anyone else getting sick of ESPN's yankee bias, btw?) right now that the Yankees are gonna start chipping away, blah blah. The Sox have only lost 2 series this season. They are good enough to only lose 2 more between now and the All-Star break, and even if those two are Yankees series, it isn't just the Red Sox the yankees have to beat. You guys have to maintain hot-streaks and thats hard to do when your bullpen looks like a girl scout troop, and pettitte and wang are holding up your staff, which until Hughes gets back, is really weak after those two and I'm not even really a wang fan, although he looked great yesterday. If Manny never heats up, Lugo keeps giving us nothing, and Beckett hits the DL again at any point in the season, we might start taking water eventually, but this team is built well, and the Yankees aren't.

Hey A-rod, in case you haven't noticed this is a sox forum, and really just don't troll, that was kinda borderline but I'll admit, I haven't read very many of your posts, but the ones I have have been generally negative. Please, don't troll. That said... erm, pretty uneventful game. Better luck tomorrow hopefully.

STOP JINXING!

Gabbard isn't a set up guy. They won't use him out of the bullpen. He does have great stuff and mound presence and could realistically be our 5th guy till lester comes back. He should have been all along, because he has much better stuff than tavarez.