seabeachfred

Yes Red, you made the key point----THE STARTERS MUST GO DEEP IN THE GAMES!!!. No more of this five inning nonsense. They have to go seven and, in some case, eight innings, which I think is very doable. Beckett usually has had a big pitch count but yesterday wasn't all his fault with those bleeders and that error in the second prolonging our agony. If the starters do their job we have only two innings, and sometimes one, to concern ourselves with, and the four relievers mentioned should be able to handle that fine.

Did Singer really say those stupid things? And we thought some of the Boston writers were out to lunch. Someone get that guy a box score of the last two games Dice K threw. I was at one of them and, believe me, Felix Hernandez could have beaten anyone but God that night. Please, though, let's shut up Singer tonight by having our hitters go out there and get about six or seven runs for Matsuzaka. We do that and we take the hat trick in this series.

Great post EX; you hit it on all cylinders. Where I have my doubts, though, are with Pineiro and Romero. Romero cannot pitch worth a damn against the Yankees and if doesn't have his control, which is often, he is not that much help with lefties. If he has his control, then he could be used that way and THAT WAY ONLY. No way he becomes our main lefty in the bullpen, not after shithole seasons with the Twins and Angels. He might be on his way down. As for Piniero, the human pin cushion, the last three years should have told Theo all he needed to know about this guy and that he is a disaster waiting to happen. On the other fronts you were a spot-on. Getting Drew and Lugo strenghtened our hitting attack, Dice K our rotation, and Okajima and Donnelly our bullpen. The only place where Theo "might" have failed is in getting that reserve catcher we all thought we needed, but even here Mirabelli has gotten off to a flying start and in the telecast yesterday Buck and McCarver were bemoaning the Yankees' shortage in that area while throwing bouquets at our situation with Doug. It must have killed McCarver to have to say that, though. Zito is coming around for the Giants, however. He has pitched two gems in a row, and Schmidt may come around when his shoulder inflamation heals. Still, like you, I will go with Matsuzaka. That was far and away the best move we could have made for our starting pitching from my vantage point.

Well as long as we are winning as you said go ahead and keep patting yourself on the back. We are playing very good ball but I am waiting for Manny to join the parade. If and when he opens up and starts ripping the baseball our team can compete with anybody. I do have to admit that the Yankees still worry me. Oh sure, if we play well we can beat them but when they play just about anyone else their overwhelming batting order can keep ringing up those 8-6 and 9-7 victories. That is why in head to head competition this year we have to take them-----pure and simple. It might come down to that in the AL East. Anyone agree or disagree with that?

Riverside, though Beckett gave up four runs in the first two inning, tell me how many of those hits were screamers. One bloop, one off of Cora's glove and another that was of the cheap variety; then Lowell's error gave two more runs away. With any luck Josh would have gotten out of the whole mess with one run allowed. I do think, though, that by the seventh inning he was spent and I was hoping he would bring 'Jima' in to face Abreu. At least that's what I was screaming at the TV. Still, it worked out well even though Josh was spent by the time he faced A-Rod.

EX, I'm sure you noticed how many men we were leaving on the sacks in the late innings. I kept wondering if we wanted to let the Yankees back in the game and, frankly, it worried me, but Papelbon is Papelbon and he found a way of ending it in our favor. Tomorrow, let's get those extra runners home.

Wow!!!!!! Were your hearts beating as hard as mine was????? Paps came through again but I could have sworn that Davidson was squeezing Jonanthan a few of those pitches, especially to the traitor Damon. Anyway, this is a game we should have won. During the game, did any of you notice how many ball we hit right up against the Monsters. I kept yelling get back in the weight room.....Five feet more and five feet high and we might have had three or four more runs. We've not got this series but I'd be less than downright greedy when I say I want the hat trick tomorrow.

When you slice it down and out the case is for Beckett to bow his neck and start pitching like Josh Beckett. We've come back twice now and it is time for him to stop the bleeding. If he does that we ought to win this game. Four runs Josh; that's enough now.

I remember in 2005 after the Yanks had won the first game of a three game series against the Red Sox at YS, Derek Jeter said there is no carryover. He was right. Curt Schilling threw an eight inning three hitter against them the next afternoon and the Sox won 9-2. I had to get a Yankee credit card in order to get two free tickets to that game in New York. It was worth it. Yes, I burned the card after the game. We ought to win today. I am not predicting we will; we just ought to. I predicted we would win last night and if it wasn't for a miraculous comeback against the best closer in baseball I would have been dead-red wrong. We stole one yesterday; would be great to go out there and take care of the Yankees from the get-go.

Yes he did E.D. and I was at Yankee Stadium on September 16th of last year to see it. He went six strong innings and gave up only two runs and I believe five or six hits. He was the winner in that game. Cano hit a two run bomb off him in the second inning and after that he was tough as nails. Unfortunately his pitch count was high and he had thrown over 100 pitches when he finished the sixth.

Zing my ass. He's a first class dickhead; you want to join him, go ahead. I told you, it is going to be tit for tat. You or that fat crud gets personal with me and I'm going to get personal with you.

You aren't stupid jerkoff so you should have known what I meant, but you wanted to act like a fat smartass again. Just goes to show you, once and ******* always an *******.

Crunch, try 1947 for someone who had despised the Yankees for what seems a lifetime, yet I was rooting for them to win in 1996 since they hadn't won a title in 18 years and I kind of wanted to see Joe Torre finally win something. That didn't last too long and I can assure you I will never ever ever ever root for the Yankeess to ever win anything again. That said, though, you have to respect that team. Whether they are mercenaries or home grown products, they are a team that you have to reckon with and you diss them at your own peril. I still think the Red Sox have going to have to win one more World Series Title to finally get that Yankee bone from our throats once and for all.

First time I answered one of my owns posts and it sounds silly to me, but last night we saved Schilling's bacon, and this time the hitting and relief pitching did the job. I guess sometimes things do start to even out and I'd bet Curt would agree this morning. You know if Crisp had somehow caught that ball ( a helluva try) we would have won the game much sooner than we did, but, don't get me wrong, I am not complaining.

Hoke, you sure you don't want to take that back???? If we had A-Rod we would win the East in a walk.

Thanks Crunch for saying that about Jacko. He is a stand up guy and right now he must be feeling the way were in the eighth inning. Amazing how men who truly love their baseball teams take it almost like it was life and death. We got away with one and if our team isn't pumped sky high now I wonder if we even have a pulse.

RED SOX WIN RED SOX WIN, OH MY GOD, RED SOX WIN. OK, Red, hammer me good and proper, me yee of small faith. I did not think we would come back. I only hope I am not thrown off Red Sox Nation. Coco, I love you!!!!! Cora, take over second for a spell. Man, do I feel great.