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Hill could have walked the ball to first base and beaten VMart!

Only when he is wearing his XBH goggles.

Minor leaguers and Marlin reject are due up in the bottom half of the inning.

I have no confidence at all when the ball is hit to third.

We signed the wrong horse face.

I think he is channeling Dice K.

3 walks and 3 outs. For Chrissake!

I think it is new.

I think that is the righ call based on the overhead shot where it looked like it just hit the red. Can Lackey capitalize on this?

I don't think so.

What's with the walks horseface? and a HR by Alex Gonzalez?

Van Every, McDonald and Hermida in the OF. Fans should get a voucher for tickets to another game.

Yaz would have smoked a full pack of cigs at BP and chugged a quart of black coffee before he went for his pre game mile run to sweat it out.

Drew has been scratched with vertigo. I guess Ital finally activated him in his league.

THen blackmail.

Charm, hypnotism, blackmail..whatever they have to do. It's their job to get it done.

Hey, the team has been chronic lately not me. Lester worked very nice tonight . He attacked the batters and kept his pitch count very manageable. If the game had been close, he'd have gone 8 innings.

After being a diehard fan for 44 years, I don't need to make you feel good.

I left after the top of the 7th and got back to my room to see the last out. I brought all the good mojo to Fenway. I was in section 3 and Ortiz double was coming right at us. His bat speed looked pretty good to me, although Section 3 is pretty far away. He swung the bat well in the two games he played. Beltre continued with the XBH power and Hermida had 3 very good ABs. Lester looked good. The only blemishes were the two HR balls after sitting for the long 6 run rally.

Holliday was was also available. He's not sucking. Stupid Theo opted for a 37 year old with holes in his abdomen, who wasn't a big impact bat in his prime.

He sucks, but his wheels are just fine. He already has three triples and two steals.

The off season moves were very ill-conceived. The team didn't need a third guy to play third base. After getting Lackey, they needed a big OF stick and a utility IF. They got neither. They got a third baseman that left Lowell with no useful purpose. They have no IF depth, because the utility guy they got (Hall) sucks all around the diamond. The plan was poor, the execution was poor in that they couldn't get anything of value for Lowell, and we are seeing this not bear fruit each and every game.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/sports/baseball/08boston.html?src=me&ref=general This article in the NYTimes is very annoying. The author makes it seem that except for the Sox recent run from 2004 to present that us old time Red Sox fans were used to losing teams that played less than .500 ball. He says that playing under .500 is not so bad. It's not so bad to stink. He says that 85 wins would have been nirvana to him and old time Sox fans. This guy is off his rocker. After 1967, the year that gave birth to what we call Red Sox Nation and changed the trajectory of the franchise, they have finished under .500 only 6 times in 43 years. Three of those years were consecutive under the drug addict retarded Butch Hobson, and one of those was the strike year of 1994. After 1967, they did not finish under .500 until 1983 (ironically Yaz's last season). The other two years under .500 were 1987 and 1997. So, unless we hire Butch Hobson again, we old time Red Sox fans are used to stinking (i.e., playing less than .500) less than 1 time every 10 years. So, Mr. David Margolick please be advised that us old time Red Sox fans are not used to our team stinking, but you probably think old-time means the early 1990's. Oh boy, what historical perspective!