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  1. seabeachfred
    Weaver got a new lease on life with the Cards. He looked like an entirely different pitcher with them than he did with the Angels. We saw Weaver throw a few times last year in Anaheim and he was hit all over the lot, that, and falling behind one batter after another. Either the NL is even a weaker league that I thought or he suddenly found a pitching coach who could turn him around. Just the same, I would pass on him.
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    rician, the Red Sox just signed some guy from Japan who used to play in the Majors back in 2003, You or anyone know about this Ochoa guy? I remember he was supposed to be a great prospect but flamed out badly. Why in hell would we want to sign another stiff like this? The only reasons I can think of is to stock the Pawtucket team so Epstein can avoid the waiver wire later in the season if something goes wrong. Of course, if this guy is as bad as he was when he played in the Bigs that ought not to be an improvement. The way this Drew thing is not going it could be we will have this guy, Murphy, Pena, HInske and half the outfielders in the system vieing for RF.
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    I think all of us would be sleeping better if we could get our closer situation settled and sign Drew to that contract. Right now it seems everything for the coming season is up in the air. I just wonder if Theo is just going to say screw it to Boras and move on. Epstein plays things pretty close to his vest so no one knows what he has up his sleeve. This waiting on J.D. is getting a little old from where I'm stting and I'm also begining to believe the closer situation will not be resolved until ST, if even then.
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    You're damn right about Pedroia. I saw him in college and he was a helluva player there, one of the best in the country, and Arizona State has one of the best programs in the country and plays a ballbreaker schedule. As I remember, Dustin cleaned up on that level. However, Ex, I still think the first time around as a full time regular in his first full season, start him at No. 9 and let's see how he progresses. No doubt in my mind he will be a good No. 2 hitter with a year or two. In fact, I think the guy can be a 300 hitter in the Majors. Why not? He has hit better than that everywhere he has played. I think a lot of people are selling this guy short.
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    Riverside, I think Pedroia will settle in the No. 2 spot by 2008 and by 2009 he and Jacoby Ellsbury will be our No. 1 and 2 hitters. I think this year, however, since he is coming off a shaky start and has many fans wondering about his ability that he should stay in the ninth hole. However, no way do we put Crisp there. If Lugo decides to run I can just see Coco hacking away a foul ball. No, at least Youk can work the count and will take a pitch to two if he has to. One thing Kevin has to do, though, is cut down on strikeouts, but to me he is the right guy to bat behind Julio. ------------------------------------ One day, a man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very sexy nightie. "Tie me up", she purred, "and you can do anything you want." So he tied her up and went golfing.
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    Right now Hoke, projections and predictions are all we have going for us. This is the dead time for baseball, the five weeks before pitchers and catchers report, and, frankly, there isn't a whole lot else to talk about unless you want to speculate as we have since the prehistoric period as to when Drew will get signed or who will be our closer. I wil agree with you that predictions mean crapola. They're as wrong as much as they right and even projections are often off the mark. I would just like to know what Theo is up to right now, and whether he is still in the market for a closer and how close we are to getting J.D. under contract.
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    Frankly my friends, I would rather Jon Lester take it nice and slowly in his rehabilitation from that dreaded disease. Who knows how much progress he's made until we see him perform in Florida. He might need to go slowly at first and he might wind up at Pawtucket the first part of the season. Since he is young and strong he might just be able to make it back to Boston in the second half of the season. Everyone I know wishes him the best; I happen to have seen the last game he pitched. It was against the Angels and he was struggling throughout his five innings. I kept wondering why he was doing so poorly, having no idea what was ailing him. As it was he pitched well enough to get the win.
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    Since that is your gut talking, who would you think would take his place in the rotation? We would need a guy in that spot who could at least get us a win a little over 50% of the time. Wake would move up to 4th on the list, I suppose, but he's coming off an injury and off season and he's no sure thing for a good season. I still think if we could get a solid closer, yes, I mean solid like Cordero we could be ready to challenge from the opening gun. Remember 2003? We fiddled half the season with that closer by committee and when he finally made our move that summer we were too far behind to catch up to the Yankees. I lost count of how many blown saves we had up to that time. Someone said 14 That's a hell of a lot. This year I would like to jump out front and stay there.
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    Hey guys, I decided to get back on a day early. Missed the whole crowd except you know who. Closer? I haven't a clue. I still think we should trade for one.
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    Right Crunch!!! The fourth game of the 1983-1984 NBA Finals. We had just obliterated your Celtics 134-101 in the third game of the series when McHale sent Rambis reeling. It turned the series around and you guys beat us again. That was the key play of that series. The next year, though, we decided to play rough and we had three guys hawking McHale, fouling him and trying to goad him into a fight. We elbowed that guy every time we had a chance and finally took you guys as we did again in '87. I have to admit, though, I always worried about the Celtics. How could I not? McHale was, after all, a great player, Parrish, too. As for Bird, if I pick my all time fivesome in NBA history he is my small forward. I can't believe, though, that Magic and Kareem didn't concern you much. Magic was the one player in the NBA who loved played at Boston Garden. They were some great games between our two basketball teams. Thanks for reminding me of the memories Crunch.
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    Crunch, since you brought up people in other sports let me drop Kevin McHale on you. As a Lakers basketball fan I absolutely despised that son of a b@#$h. He was always cheap shotting some one, then complained and moaning when a call went against him. LA fans absolutely hated this guy. No, my love for the Red Sox is not transferred to the Celtics. When I was a kid in NY it was the Italians on the Yankees that pissed me off the most, maybe because I'm a Dago and didn't like the idea they played for a team I despised then as well as now. I absolutely hated that little squirt Rizzuto, couldn't stand hard ass Vic Raschi, Billy Martin was nothing but a foul mouthed punk, I got sick just looking at that creep Berra, and DiMaggio came across as some high and mighty noble. I still reek when I think of those guys today. Amazing how some things stay with you.
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    I can't help like Jeter. The guy is a helluva ballplayer and a money one to boot. I remember in that five game debacle last August when we had a 5-4 lead in the ninth two outs and a guy on third and Jeter up. I was screaming at the TV set for the RF to come in a few steps because Derek was going to to that way as he has done so often at Fenway. No one heard me and ball was hit there, dropped in, game tied and we lost it in the 10th. The guy is a come through player and you just have to give him his due. Mariano rates high as well. I mean, he is as good a closer as there has ever been in baseball.
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    SCM, ever think the Front Office is taking all of us for a ride? I'm beginning to think they believe we are a bunch of rubes that will believe anything. Runny Hernandez? Joel Piniero? Manny Delcarmen? The only thing that will stick against the wall with these guys is the smell. I will tell you this. Without a closer and a J.D. Drew batting fifth for our offense, we might be looking at another lost season unless the strating pitching is so fantastic as to rate as one of the best staffs in AL history.
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    Jack, if we have enough "B" games and split squads this spring we might give these plethora of pitchers Theo has come up with a chance to show what they can do. However, it looks to be like this is just a lot of quantity without all that much quality. What the hell has Piniero done the last couple of years to warrant the possible closer's role? Then there's headcase Hernandez? I still think we have a ways to go before we can say we will beat the Yankees this coming season.::dunno: :dunno: :thumbdown :thumbdown
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    That's exactly what the Red Sox need, a s***** pitcher that stays healthy, especially when we face your team. As Eli Wallach told Yul Bryunner in "The Magnificent Seven"-"I don't think you've solved my problem."[/b]
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    Have you ever coached baseball Jackson? You sound like a fellow coach emeritus. Yes, you are very correct. Throwing across your body is absolutely taboo and will destroy an arm more than most other things will. However, opening up too soon should can be corrected without losing movement on the ball; it all depends on release point and how you hold the ball. I suspect there was more to the change in Hansen's delievery than meets the eye. I hope they work on that in ST so he can get that great movement again. That might result in his being the type of reliever we believed he would be when the Red Sox drafted him.
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    Jackson, too bad there couldn't be a happy medium with altering a man's mechanics and keep him effective. Good point on Wood but remember Wood came over the top and was mainly a fast ball pitcher; Hansen's best pitch is a hard breaking slider and he comes from three-quarters to sidearm. We still need a closer, though, and he might have to be given a shot at it. God help us all.:thumbdown :thumbdown
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    Ex1, I have full faith in our scouting department; they have done a magnificent job the last few drafts. No; where I have some doubt is in our minor league coaching system. The guy who screwed up Hansen's delivery and release point may have rendered that young arm useless to us. The guy's pitches really moved and darted all over the place when he was signed and brought up for a cup of coffee in '05 only to have some yahoo mess around with him and turn him into a wildman and a batting practice pitcher when he did get one over the plate. Why can't these guys leave well enough alone? I coached baseball for 30 years and had some players, both pitchers and hitters, who were very unorthodox. I left well enough alone. If a guy can hit standing on his head---leave him alone. If a pitcher can throw from under his legs---leave him alone. I have seen this happen so often since I've followed baseball. What a stupid waste.
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