a700hitter

Why is Schilling running for office?

Agreed, but the biggest political amateur is currently occupying the White House.

Drop the mocking, jackass. If you haven't realized, this is a Red Sox forum loaded with crazy Red Sox fans. Speaking for myself, my love for the Red Sox is second only to my family and friends. Schilling was a great player for us, and helped get us to the promised land, not once, but twice. For that he will always be an icon to me. As for his, or any other athlete's personal life, I don't give a s***. This was a business flop, not a ponzi scheme or a crime. Businesses started by athletes flop all the time. Not surprisingly, they are not very good at it. When their businesses flop, their investors lose their money. In this case the State of Rhode Island was an investor. Blame the R.I. politicians. If you don't like Schilling for his political philosophy, fine, but this isn't a political forum. As for your admitted mocking attitude, stick it up your ass. :thumbdown

Some interesting and some funny lines from Peter A's column today: It's amazing that on May 17, the Red Sox have two players on their roster — Daniel Nava and Mauro Gomez — who weren't considered good enough for major league spring training. The Adrian Gonzalez home run drought is beyond worrisome at this point. He has 12 home runs in 411 at-bats since the 2011 All-Star break. He predicted after the game on Wednesday that he would hit one today. Home runs are not everything, but you don't pay a first baseman that kind of money without some expectation of power. Then again, Mark Teixeira has 19 homers in his last 406 at-bats and Albert Pujols 21 in his last 429. Mark Melancon has not allowed a run in 13 innings since being sent down to Pawtucket and he has struck out 21 without a walk. But he seems buried deeper than Jimmy Hoffa at this point. Granted, it's only for $3 million. But Nick Punto has a two-year contract. He also has one more hit in the last month than you do Does anybody else wonder if Theo Epstein feels any guilt for saddling his long-time friend and lieutenant Ben Cherington with this team? Nobody said Epstein had to hang around forever, but he is the baseball equivalent of that Italian captain who jumped off the sinking cruise ship in January.

I always thought Reddick had the more lively bat than Kalish. I have posted about his lively bat for a couple of years. One Spring he just knocked the cover off the ball. Kalish may be the better all around player, but but Reddick has the livelier bat. The ball jumps off his bat. The concern with Reddick is consistency. I think the consistency will come in time.

As compared to his accomplishments, he is humble.

He's closer to Adam Dunn than he is to Pujols, Fielder, Miggy Cabrera, Ortiz and Texeira.

The fan in all of us came out when the kid did well. People were saying that he was for real etc. Maybe he is for real, but not for now.

It wasn't a phony deal or anything. Without the loan, he had his own money at risk.

Any team with Keppinger as the clean up hitter is not a good offensive team.

Yes, it's been reported that he invest a substantial portion of his own funds. Oh, and f*** of with your attitude.

It's about tiome that hje puts some distance between himself and the great power hitting tandem of Nava and Sweeney.

I would disagree just a little bit. Ten HRs at this point in the season is "killing it" in my book. Another minor point of disagreement: we didn't get an established closer. He had one year without missing major time. We got an injury risk who was capable of being a good closer, but I wouldn't call him an "established closer".

Schill earned the Red Sox money-- two championships in 4 years. He was worth every penny. We've won nothing since he left and we can't even make the playoffs in recent years. As for Rhode Island, f*** them and their stupid politicians. They made a very high risk business deal and it flopped. It happens. It's not like Schilling pocketed the money. He lost a good deal of his own money.

We need him to be a force in the middle of the lineup. He's not driving the ball the other way at all.

They were afraid to have him play half a dozen games in RF in interleague to help the tam win some games, but they were fine with letting him take about a hundred or more full out power swings in a home run derby. Unbelievably stupid.

People are demanding that Middlebrooks stay, but it looks ike Nava will stick for a while. Despite the fact that Middlebrooks may be coming back to earth a bit, I'd like to keep him in the lineup for his power threat. Other than Ortiz, we have no scary power threats. Gonzo's power has been non-existent to this point in the season. Maybe he will heat up. Maybe his shoulder is limiting him. He is falling far short of the fanfare and expectations when he was acquired. It was expected that he was going to be a huge offensive powerhouse. Since the All Star Break last year he has produced no power. Hopefully, Youk can bang a few balls out of the park when he returns, because Gonzo isn't going to protect Ortiz if he keeps hitting like this. He is not driving the ball to the opposite field at all.