seabeachfred

Listen bub, only my friends here can call me a jerk since sometimes I do act like one, but you're not one of my friends but most likely a troll. So cease and desist..."cause every little thing is not going to be all right if you persist. Now I have a question for you......who were you the last time you were on this board before you got your ass run off?

You've told me this over and over Ted and, of course, you're right on the mark. What I cannot understand, fathom or digest is how the Mets can play in the biggest market in the world and not at least try to give the Yankees a semi-run for their money. We know the Mets have the majority of fans in Brooklyn and Queens so they have a good sized fan base to draw from but those fans are not going to lay down money to watch a pig of a team, and as we have all seen the standings in the various divisions can jumble one year to the next. The right chemistry for the Mets could see the challenge for a WC spot, at least make a go of it in the division. On a more pleasant topic, I just signed up and got confirmed that I will be going to the Red Sox's Home Opening Series against the Brewers on April 4-6. I will fly out Thursday and head back home on Monday. I've done this opening series stuff fives times before and it is a terrific show they put on, not to mention that this April 4 they will hang down the 2013 WS Champion banner. We're the only team of the 30 in the Majors who will be doing that ----kind of what makes me want to be there. What are your plans? ST, Fenway?

Here it is just about Spring Training and this Stephen Drew saga just will not die. For God's sake will some team not named the Red Sox just give him some money and a couple of years so we can get this "stopgap" shortstop out of Boston once and for all? We have a shortstop, we have a third baseman, and he we have a decent utility infielder. Why the Mets can't pull the trigger on this guy befuddles me. Their shortstop is so pathetic he worse than a pound of s*** in a three pound bag.

Well hell Pal, old Bellhorn was screaming for a punch line so I gave him yours to just quiet the guy down. As for the depth, you've read my posts on the subject so you know there is no argument from me on that score. In fact, if Madson looks good I think we'd be wise to cast our bid for the guy. As we saw last year, two of our "key" relievers went to seed, Hanrahan and Bailey. No, you cannot have too much depth anywhere. Glad you "might" have liked my sense of humor; next thing you know someone will accuse me of having a personality and being a Pollyanna.

There you go Bellhorn, there's your punch line, courtesy of everyone's pal Palodios. Service with a smile:)

During Spring Training, 2007, down in Fort Myers, they had a bunch of mimentoes up for auction and one of them was a 18 by 24 picture of Varitek putting his glove and fist in A-Fraud's head. I made a bid of $300.00 and won. That picture hangs in my Red Sox room on the side commemorating the 2004 World Series Championship season. One of my better investments.....And it is not for sale at any price.

I don't know why a couple of our colleagues here think giving Madson a good look is harmful. First of all the chances of signing him are average since a lot of teams will be looking at him too, but from where I sit you can never have too much depth and to me that is an oxy moron. You need all the arms you can muster because pitchers get injured and they get injured often. Deep staffs suddenly find themselves on the short end when they need a couple of pitchers most. Let's see if we could sign the guy. A deep and effective bullpen helped us a lot last season and something tells me we will need a solid one again. Besides, aren't we looking at Hanrahan too? He was injured even more recently than Madson. Let's not get caught short.

Well Mr. T, apparently there was someone somewhere A-Fraud would listen to and decided upon that advice to throw in the towel. I wonder if he had any other "friends" who convinced him earlier to fight this thing to the end. He has succeeded in turning just about every member of the Players Union against him. That has to be quite an accomplishment.

Well we are at least in agreement on the second part of it.......the sour taste Damon and Nomar left in our mouths. I'll give you the Clemens salad years with the Red Sox because you were there and I wasn't on board then. It just seems to me that he went out of his way to bag on our team, and when you combine that with the fact that he was with the Yankees, it really sticks in your craw. I just hope they never retire his number because he doesn't deserve it IMHO. Let the Yankees retire his; they seem to retire everyone else's.

HEY, don't talk about me that way!!!!!!

Yes, I know, but in my opinion he shouldn't have and he shouldn't be allowed within a block of Fenway Park. He spent most of his Yankee years running down the Red Sox and saying how great it was to be a Yankee and play for a real team. Well let the Yankees put him in their HoF. To me he is a jonah, a liar, chear and clear cut phony. I know you disagree but I hold the guy in complete repute.

Siberia and a suicide watch. Seeing them miss the playoffs again would like hitting a mini-lottery.

Give Bogaerts #21 if you want my opinion on it. It is high time we reissued that number and not treat that filthy phony Roger the Codger like some icon. I have never understood why we withheld doing that and even less so now since that druggie and rotten liar is not going into the Hall of Fame any time within most of our lifetimes.

See, we can disagree about players and still get along just fine. 700 Hitter is my closest friend on this board but I'm happy to say that I don't seen to have any one but one person who I'm at swords point with and I have him on ignore so from my standpoint we're all getting along. Suffice to say if Drew signs I will root like hell for him, but keep in mind that he not only would block Middlebrooks or even Bogey if he should slump, but if it is a two or three contract he blocks Garin Cecchini as well. I really want none of our young players blocked and that is why I want to see Drew play elsewhere. Besides, and bear with me since a lot of you dislike Dan Shaunessy, but he has it right........the Red Sox are playing with the house's money this year. We're all this riding high from what went down last year and I think there is certainly more patience on our part to let these kids play and take our chances, and if a bonkers guy like me shows that kind of mildness I think the rest of you can show it too.

We're not the Blue Sox, we're the Red Sox. I loved the old away jereys---RED dominated and when they went to those ugly ones in 2009 I was royally pissed. It looked like those old tops from the 50's and 60's when the Sox mostly sucked. Come to think of it, we blew the division in 2009, was plagued with injuries in 2010, collapsed in 2011 and descended to the bottom of the out house in 2012. That along with having that jonah Heidi Watney part of the Sox was like getting a basketful of number 13's. I like going back to Red.

I remember that game BTR. A friend called me soon after the game and told me that Papi was the best clutch hitter he'd ever seen. What I also remember was t hat a few games later Nixon and Varitek got injured and the Red Sox collapsed badly, losing a five game series to the Yankees at Fenway Park....that's right; we got swept 5-0.

RDFFL---Listen carefully to this my young colleague....IF THE RED SOX TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS AND PLAY TO THEIR ABILITY WE WILL NOT HAVE TO CONCERN OURSELVES WITH THE YANKEES AT ALL!!!!!!!!! This is one time that cliche "the ball is in our court" make total common sense.

Palodios, a short vignette about KRod. In 2008 my wife and I were vacationing in San Diego and took in a Padres-Mets game. In the 7th inning Rodriguez came down to the Mets bullpen which was right next to the box seats a little down the first base line. I started playing Don Orsillo and replaying Manny's bomb off of him the previous season in the ALDS. He smiled and just shrugged is shoulders. I went up to him and stuck out my hand and he took it. We exchanged a some views and hit if off real well. The guy was a class act and I gained an enormous respect for him. He could have reacted a different way and I would have had it coming. KRod is ok with me and always will be.

Pitching to their ability and achieving or even over-achieving and staying healthy Pal. That to me is the ticket. Maybe then I can make my reservation for the Yellow Brick Road-----or better going to see the WS again. What a season that would be. I'm wondering if we could do it? My heart says yes we can, my head says it going to take a full and complete team effort. What's your take?

So that must mean the odds are pretty much stacked against us Pal, but stranger things have happened. We might be just the ball club to have a redo of the previous season. The way I see it, though, there are about ten teams that have a chance to go all the way this coming season so it looks like it's every team for themselves.

You can bet he will be in my prayers from here on in. Schill to me is on a pedestal and I will never forget that he laid his health and career on the line for his and our team. I hope no one ever forgets that. God be with you Curt.

God, I hope it's treatable. Curt put his career on the line for us back in '04 and I saw him in person throttle the Angels in the 2007 ALDS when he stuffed it to them on guile alone. Personally I owe Curt a lot.

I came on board as a full fledged convert in the summer of 2000 so I didn't endure some of those bad experiences most of my friends here have. I think that's why some of them get on my case and let me know that I know only of the good times so be quiet. Of course the late part of 2001, 7th Game ALCS 2003, Sept., 2011 and 2012? I've had enough bummers there to last for the rest of my life. Unlike most of you, however, I always liked the 2007 team better than the 2004 one----until 2013. Man, that has got to be the best Red Sox year from where I sit.

Station, I had the time of my life last October during the playoff run. I got to Boston the night before the 6th Game of the ALCS and was jumping with excess energy waiting for the game that Saturday. We won and won the AL and so I had three days to relax and see Boston before the WS. Sat in the CF bleachers for the first WS game and, truth be told, those seats are not so bad at all. I was back to the grandstand, one row behind the box seats for the second game, the same seat I had for the ALCS. Unfortunately that game didn't end so well, but it was a helluva trip and I really believed we would come back strong and win the series. Sometimes I get it right.

Gee Jaddy, can I get tickets for the Yellow Brick Road in Pollyannaville? Wow!!!!! I think I would feel like 21 again if what you predicted came to pass. You know that does seem a tad far fetched but I'm pulling like hell for you to be right.....I think all of us are.