GhostofMalzone

Malignant...a obsolete : MALCONTENT, DISAFFECTED b : evil in nature, influence, or effect : INJURIOUS c : passionately and relentlessly malevolent : aggressively malicious 2 : tending to produce death or deterioration ; especially : tending to infiltrate, metastasize, and terminate fatally Benign......1 : of a gentle disposition : GRACIOUS 2 a : showing kindness and gentleness b : FAVORABLE, WHOLESOME 3 a : of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life; especially : not becoming cancerous b : having no significant effect : HARMLESS ign It's not a wonder that most people who talk Red Sox, when asked about this site just laugh and comment about the rudeness of the posters. Yes you people do have a reputation and for a long time I didn't think it was deserved. Guess what? I was wrong and they were right. Live and learn.

NO s***!! Do You know the difference between Benign and Malignant???? What she was saying was.....That three quarters of ALL Americans are dehydrated Athletes included. We live in a COKE and PEPSI culture and most people don't drink nearly the amount of water they should. Sorry you thought that was funny.

My wife is a emergency room RN and she said, "if it was anything serious they would never have let him walk". They probably ran an EKG on him and kept him till after a Cardiologist and team Doctors had looked at the results. He played a day-night double-header and something as simple as a low potassium level could have easily caused it. Like she said to me: "Papis a big man and my guess would be...stress and dehydration, three quarters of Americas dehydrated and they don't know it, athletes aren't any different. If it was anything serious they would never have let him walk."

As far as pitching is concerned I think Tito was kind of lost without Dave Wallace. I don't think he entirely trusted Al Nipper, not the way he does Wallace and that reflected in some of the pitching moves Tito made or didn't make. Now with Wallace back I think you're going to see this staff handled differently and for the better. Al Nippers a good guy. But, hes not a Dave Wallace. I wouldn't give up on this staff quite yet. I've got a feeling he (Wallace) might be able to turn our pitching problems around.

Are the shirts going to be available to everyone or just contest winners?

Now I get the picture.........Wow!

"Sarcasm".........Yeah, but only a bit, lets try an be real here, Lester winning the Cy Young this year is more then just a starch...... it's crazy! He's only got 16.1 innings pitched, I find it hard to believe that anyone who has any kind of baseball knowledge at all would make that kind of a statement. (even taking the most youthful optimism into consideration)

Jesus! This kid only has 16.1 IP, hes given up 13 hits, 5 ER and 9 BB, granted he has 19 SO. But, don't you think it's just a little premature to be mentioning his name in association with the Cy Young Award. I can understand setting your expatriations high, but a Cy Young for Lester in 06 is a little over the top. I don't want to rain on your parade buddy, but you need to click your heels together and try an get back to realityville........Fast.

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The Sox fans I hang with here in Florida call him "The Iceman" because, "He'll Freeze Your Ass At The Plate" Welcome!

Kubek getting the "Rookie of the Year" for 57 has always been one of the great injustices in baseball history. He got it solely because he was a Yankee and for no other reason. Look at the numbers, Kubek, G-127 AB-431 HR-3 RBI-39 BA .297, Now look at Malzone G-153 AB-634 HR-15 RBI-103 BA-.292 clearly who deserved it more. Out of 24 votes for Rookie of the Year, Kubek got 23 and Malzone got 1. From 55 through 64 the Yankees were in every World Series except 59 and only lost twice to Milwaukee in 57 and 58. Mantle was the MVP in 57 and the Yankees had the highest profile manager in the game at that time Casey Stengel. From coast to coast the newspapers sports page's were saturated with Yankee press and all Boston had at that time was an aging Teddy Ballgame, Jackie Jensen, and Jim Piersal and Piersal was about at the end of his wire, a scrub manager in Pinky Higgins who got the Sox to 82-72 16 games out. So the only press Malzone was getting was local. The name Yankees got Kubek his "Rookie of the Year" because it certainly wasn't his numbers that got it for him.

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In 57 Malzone wasn't "Rookie of the Year" Tony Kubek of the Yankees was. But, your right about Hatton and Lepcio, Hatton's best years were with the Reds and they weren't even that good, Lepsio was a second basemen, No bat...good glove. In 56 the Red Sox were trying everyone at third, Malzone was up for awhile and they tried Milt Bolling a second basemen and Billy Klaus a short stop at third. Malzone got the job in 57 and the rest is history. Malzone was up in 55 but only for a cup of coffee, 4 games I think?

"By Gordon Edes, Globe Staff | May 26, 2006 Do you think Terry F. is the right fit for this Billion dollar Team? what I mean is he is a players manager instead of a managers manager (ala Joe Torre, Lou Pinella, Tony La Russa) these guys are chess players and they are looked up to and there is a professional separation. They also do the little things consistently no matter who or what ego is asked to do it. Am I the select few who think he should be coaching in Single-A Port ST Lucie Mets where its warm and he doesn't have shake, pace and rock back and forth and wonder what to do. thanks Christopher J. O'Connell A: Christopher, I'm not sure how many folks share your thoughts, but I'm always left to wonder what it would take to make you happy, other than maybe Joe. Terry Francona's fit for this team, in my estimation, was demonstrated in 2004 and last year's return to the playoffs merely underscored that. I think the players respect Francona, play hard for him, and he is very well prepared. And he wins. What else do you want from a manager? Believe me, every manager makes strategic decisions in the course of a game that are open to debate-that's one of the reasons why we all love the game as much as we do, because we all believe we know something about the strategy of the game, and we don't have to wait to "watch the films" to know what happened. Where we laymen and fans are so often wrong is that the manager often is equipped with an entirely different set of information at his disposal than we have when he makes a decision. He may know who's hurting, who's unfocused, who's confidence is flagging, who needs a blow, who needs the chance to prove himself when it might make more sense to hit someone else, who needs to play, what pitcher-hitter matchup might come up three innings from now. Managing the game is only a small part of being a manager; managing 25 men is the far more demanding task, and I don't know how you can conclude that Francona has done anything but an exceptional job. And guess what: In the Yankees' clubhouse, I'll bet the players would tell you Joe is a players' manager, too."

I assume I'm the "firey Francona fanatic" your referring to? In 1956 I started following the Red Sox religiously from then tell now I've seen a parade of managers pass by, Higgins, Runnels, Zimmer, Houk, Hobson, Kennedy, Williams, Little, and with all the new managers came new players and with every year came new hope. Hope that one of them could pull it all together, and most of them had great players, Williams, Malzone, Jensen, Fisk, Evans, Rice, Boggs, Greenwell, Clemens, and some managers didn't even come close, and some others came close ( Kennedy, Jimy Williams, Little,), and a few came so close you could taste it, (Dick Williams, Darrell Johnson, John McNamara) but the story ended the same way every time, The Red Sox just went home. In 48 of the 50 years I've live and died with this team no manager was ever been able to get it done. "Terry Francona got it done". In my life time I've seen 18 managers try, but only one succeeded. Yeah, he may not be the best manager in the majors, he's probably not the best manager the Red Sox ever had, but he's got something 28 other Red Sox managers don't have, a World Championship with The Boston Red Sox. But, the one thing Francona has in common with 41 other Red Sox managers dating back to 1901 is they all made mistakes, each and every one of them, Hell, I'd be willing to bet that every manager that ever managed a game at any level has made mistakes, and if your a manager in the majors with any time in, I'd say the number is in the hundreds per manager, sometimes it's your fault, sometimes it's not, but your the s*** magnet no matter who's fault it is, it comes with the territory. I don't know what you expect from Francona? You called him a "Field General" that's a football term. I have never heard of a baseball manager referred to as a field general, Skipper..yeah Maybe, you just flat out don't like the guy? Maybe, if he won 162 games the ALCS and the World Series you'd still think he was a bonehead? But give the devil his due....he got it done. You should be ecstatic that Tito's going to be around for awhile. Now you'll have something to occupy your mind after the nice man in the white coat comes and takes the scissors away.