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Not excited at all; Drew was really starting to hit when he got hurt. All I was implying is that he would not be back in two or three days as some people said, and the remark about being right trumps all else came as a retort when y our friend User made the crack that my comment was why some like to get on my case. Well I would rather be right and have people on my case than be liked and be wrong. If those people had not attacked me for predicting a longer hiatus for Drew none of this would have happened. I've said it before----if you disagree with me let me know why and try and make me see your point. If you attack me I will attack back. Speaking of a hiatus, I'm going to go on leave from here for the next week or so. Just sitting here typing this is not enough for me to get over what happened last night, and for the record, in my opinion Farrell played F rancoMa last night when he failed to bring in Koji to start the ninth inning. Most know that he is better starting a clean inning than coming in with inherited runners. Apparently, someone who didn't know was Farrell. Alex Wilson? What the eff is he even doing on the team?

Well we all have our peccadillos Forsythe. I've been panned for my wish to get Matt Garza on our staff. Even my close friends on this board look at me weird when I say it, but I think Dojii and others have people they think will help the team. Even my sometimes foil User was beating the drums for Koji to be out closer early on. Of course, he seems to have struck gold with that at the moment. To me Garza is what we could use; for Dojii he likes Santana. Whoever can help the Red Sox is just fine with me as long as we don't have to give the store away to get them. You say go to tomorrow's game? I have to make a decision in the next minute or two. My wife Linda just suggested I go to both games. Whatever, wish me and the team luck.

SFF--I don't know if we will be coming down to earth but you have to admit we are playing some outstanding baseball. When I think of the collapse of 2011 and last year's train wreck I keep wondering if and when the other show will drop. How can a team so crappy one season be so resilient and commanding the next? Oh yes, there are some new faces and they are performing terrifically, but we also have some of the old cast members too and all I can come up with is that people like Victorino, Napoli, Gomes, Koji and the rest of the new crew have injected this team with a competitive fire that is almost hard to believe. Let me put it this way Forsyth----this team looks like is has terrific chemistry and they know how to win. Let's just see them keep it up.

I'm no more excited about Drew being out than you are SR so cut the crap. When I said a earlier in the week that I expected him to be out for a lot more than a couple of games, instead of just saying you thought otherwise, some of you decided to rip me for my prediction. When you get personal with me for what I predict you're damn right I'm going to revisit the issue and remind you and others of it. I also insist that Stephen Drew has become injury prone lately and stick by that belief. I'm reminded that the Arizona D'Backs called him out and said the same thing about him when he lolly-gagged and refused to play even after the medical staff cleared him completely healed from his ankle injury, and for the record I hope when he does come back he tears up the league. What's aggravating is that when he start to get hot at the plate some setback forces him out. Hell, if he can help the team I will cheer as loud for him as anyone else. Now let's put this to rest.

OK, I'll end it too. This is no time for arguments or any type of recriminations at all. The team is doing well and we should all be happy, though truth be told, I'm still not sure if this is all for real or whether we are coming back down to earth. Last night might have given a shove in the former direction, and now I have to decide whether to go to tonight's game or tomorrow's. As for getting on anyone's case, it's part of the game on this board. This is one tough neighborhood.

I have to decide in the next hour or so whether to go to the game tonight or tomorrow evening. I hope I choose right. Keep some good thoughts coming my way guys that I make the right decision.

I would only trade Bogey or Bradley (not the two of them under any circumstances) only if we are talking about an ace pitcher, a No. 1, a horse. Since none of those on the market this talk of any trade for those "B" boys in my opinion is both premature and ridiculous. Who is going to trade us an ace anyway?

Right you are SR---and we seem to be doing very well with the people we currently have in the lineup. Let's not spoil that chemistry. OTOH, I would like to see another reliever or two.

Well some of you were telling me that Drew was not going to be out for long......and you and they were wrong!!!! I said he would be out at least two weeks and I was right. For that I don't give a s*** if you and a couple of others get on my case as long as I'm proven right. That's a fact. Besides, those who get on my case as you put it are few in number and the ones that count like 700, Sox Sport, iortiz and others don't do it. Those that do aren't friends of mine anyway like the one who was trying to stir up personal crap a couple of days ago. Being right trumps all else and Drew is not going to be in the lineup for he duration of his stint on the DL and maybe not when he gets off it either. He has become very injury prone the last few years and he IS a Drew.

No more of those West Coast death marches. This year the way the team has been playing and their refusal to quit under any circumstances, they have the chance to bury those west coast blues once and for all.

SFF----and let you be the first guy to tell me to shut my pie-hole of a mouth where Doobie is concerned. I was nervous as hell knowing he was opening up for us against the Angels and that lineup of theirs, but he did a damn good job and as you said I'll take 6.2 innings of winning pitching against that team. A friend on another board informed me that in nearly the last two months his ERA has been 2.87---with the caveat that it was done ugly with walks and a lot of pitches. I think I was concentrating more on the latter and not as much as should have been on the former. Now we have to be sure to win this series. The hat trick would be even better if we could swing it.

I knew it, I knew it. I argued this with a few of you a few days ago, those of you who said it would be a short stay out of the lineup for Drew. ********!!!!!! I saw this coming. He is a DREW. He is injury prone, he is soft, he is a candy ass and he will be out for another two weeks at least. This may be a surprise to some of you, and you know who you are, but this is no surprise to me at all.

When the Twins see a Yankee uniform they s*** in their pants. This has been going on for over a decade and time and again the Twinkies lose in the late innings. You could almost set your clock by it. They are the biggest disgrace in baseball because there is no rhyme or reason for one team to be so inept against another as the Minnesotans are against New York. What further infuriates me is that Minnesota is my least favorite state and Minneapolis to me is the slag heap of the Mid-West. Besides any state that can elect that miserable piece of s*** Al Franken to the US Senate should be bombed out of existence.

And I think we ought to start considering the idea of signing him to a new contract after the season. We will be hard pressed to replace him as a leadoff hitter and 300 hitters do not grow on trees in the Major Leagues. Ells has quieted his critics and rebounded nicely and has stayed healthy up to now. It now seems those past injuries were more freakish than anything and we do not know how long it will take for Jackie to hit ML pitching on a consistent basis. I would like to have both of them in the lineup for us next season.

Well we will certainly see about Doubrant tonight when he toes the rubber against the hot Angels and attempts to get the Red Sox to a positive start on this 10-game West Coast trip. He most certainly didn't much of anything good when he faced the Angels in Boston and he is the last guy in the rotation I want opening a long trip with. I certainly hope I can eat my words tonight but except for one terrific game against the Yankees he has been the weak link in our rotation---a five inning pitcher, too many walks and a poor WHIP. He has been out of shape and lazy for much of the time the past two seasons.....when he has been healthy and not on the shelf, that is. I hope the rumors of Pedro Martinez getting in his head and helping him is true. This is one series I do not want to lose and will be very upset if we do.

I'll be sleeping for the rest of you guys in the East, but more than likely I will be tossing and turning and replaying those games over and over in my mind. I just want to see the Red Sox go home from this long trip with a winning record for a change. This is a different team from the others we've sent out here; I expect the results to be different too.

Besides that Ted we have a hole in our rotation with Doubrant. He still has not emerged as the pitcher the Red Sox were talking about him being. I think we can do better there whether it's Garza, Pevey or someone else. Tomorrow he will attempt to give me a chance to eat my words when he opens up the series against the Angels out here, and frankly I'm worried about him getting lit up badly. I want to see him pitch well on this road trip because for the most part he hasn't done so this year with the exception of that great game he hurled against the Yankees the last time we played them. Today Webster pitched better than he has before but was that him or are the Padres that weak a hitting team? Buchholz is the key and we need him back but by now we know those injuries he suffers tend to lag on and on and on. Pitching is going to be difference in the final analysis and in my opinion we are not completely up to snuff there, either in the rotation or the bullpen.

I think it's a good idea to have a second team just as long as it is a very distant second, and I'm sure that applies to you as well as me and anyone else who has another team they sometimes follow. Of course, it would be better if that team was in the other league except when you have to play them as we had to in the current series. Both my wife and I like the Padres which gives us some basis to unity since she is a diehard Angels fan and me a Red Soxer. There might be a little tension this weekend in the Peritore household.

They say cigarettes and girls are the vices of danger, but the problem is that there is usually too many cigarettes and not enough girls. Can I remind anyone who doesn't know yet that the Orioles lost today to the White Sox and that puts us four games ahead of them. To me that is a nice 4th of July present.

And please my friends, not any more about trading this guy. Yes, he needs to make adjustments and he's smart enough to do that. When they feel he is ready to come back, then let them call him up and install him at third base and let it go. Of course, some are talking about moving him to first so Bogey can play third. Frankly I don't care about the alignment, I just would like to see both of them in the Red Sox lineup....and for a long time. Say though, that Brandon Snyder hasn't done badly either. Maybe all this guy needed was a chance; something like Mike Carp, another surprise for us. Only this year the surprises seem very pleasant in comparison to the year that will not be mentioned.

Said the same thing earlier in the day SFF and it sure seems that way. Another nice win, but truth be told we did a little too much pissing around before Gomes ended it, and, BTW, it seems like he is finally getting himself untracked. He's had some big hits for us recently. Now can we hit a little better tomorrow and can Webster go out there and pitch a gem I would like to see us get the hat trick.

You're a sad and sorry piece of work mvp and you may have some serious bedroom problems. Haven't talked to Ted over the horn in about a month but always look forward to doing so since he knows baseball inside and out. You don't belong in the same world with him.

No I don't. He has made some good moves over the past winter and while a couple of them were poor, on balance it has been a positive development. In addition, I think he is holding his cards close to his vest right now because I don't think he knows how good his team is, and I'm still not sure myself, only that we seem to be over-achieving. I do think, however, that after our West Coast trip he will have to decide to either stand pat, make some fine tuning with the roster for the bullpen and an additional starting pitcher, or go out and make the big deal. I lean towards the second right now. I think Ben has grown into the job and hope he makes the right move(s) to make our team even better.

Ted, I think that after our West Coast trip Cherington will have a much better idea of which way to go---hold the fort, make a few fine tuning changes, or make a big trade. After this series with the Padres (and we shouldn't take these guys lightly at all) we embark on a tour of Anaheim, Oakland and Seattle, places where in the recent pass we have a big letdown. If this 2013 version of the Sox is the real deal and we come back in good shape with a winning road trip, it then will fall on the GM to decide what to do. I still feel Lee would be too expensive in both salary and what it would cost us to get him, and, sorry, I still like Garza for an upgrade in our rotation unless Doubrant can start eating innings and winning games. Of course, being as old as Methuselah, it always has to be one year at a time----if you noticed your friend's asinine sarcastic retort to what I wrote.

Sure, you do not want to forego the future but it is possible to plan big for the future and still do some fine tuning with the team BSN. Hell, your suggestions to improved this year actually outstrip what I want to do-----Lee is too expensive but I don't think Garza would be since he has only a half-year remaining on his contract and Epstein is smart enough not ask for the moon for him. Cherington is also wise enough to call a halt should Theo get greedy. This could all me moot if the team slumps and goes into the tank, but as this season wears on it seems the team might be headed in the right direction if their record is of any indication. At any rate, Cherington will have to make some decisions pretty soon. I think most of us on are board with that.