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So, the terrible starts with all the gopher balls don't concern you at all? How will you feel if the whole season is riding on Buchholz in the first big game of his career?
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You will probably see him hit into a few DPs
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Buchholz is going tostart game 3. I don't get it. He has thrown 2 major stinkers in a row. Dice K has pitched well and he has the experience advantage.
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82 pitches in 2 2/3 innings.
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The Sox owners were in the room. They asked what he was looking to get. He told them and they left. Deal closers don't leave the table until there is a deal. I'm sorry, but they messed up. They had access and the Yankees didn't. He threw out his number. The Sox should have said, if that's what you want let's agree now, or we are done with this negotiation. It would take a pair of brass balls to let them walk away after they had agreed to his terms in hopes that the Yankees would give him what he wanted. You can try to argue that he knew he could get what he wanted from the Yanks. If that were the case, why was he talking to the Red Sox at all. He was talking to the Sox, because he didn't even know if the Yanks had any interest in signing him.
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Political capital at home and abroad is the Chief Exec's most valuable asset. He squandered some with this. If I was advising him, I would only have recommended that he go if the bid was in the bag for the US. Maybe they thought it was in the bag. If so, someone duped them.
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I've got 17,000 + posts. I've been high-jacking and diverting threads for some time now. Anyway, the press over here is already blaming Bush
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Obama went begging for the Olympics like some life insurance salesman. He took his wife too. They were turned away. What a humiliation! I thought the World was supposed to love this guy. What a wake up call for this guy who has made a favorite past time of kissing up to the world by bashing the US. Well, guess what fool. In their eyes, you are one of us, so they hate you too. He degraded the office by going abroad to solicit business, and he failed miserably. Good move... fool!
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10/1 vs Indians "Regular season finale"
a700hitter replied to BSN07's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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10/1 vs Indians "Regular season finale"
a700hitter replied to BSN07's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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It will be interesting to see how many Chicago politicians get convicted for bribery and corruption in connection with the Olympics.
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People have opinions. Just because he is a good player doesn't entitle him to being popular. He probably doesn't care.
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Do you think that he gives a s***? I think he is getting his due once a month when the enormous check hits his bank account. Bigger stars have come through this town and been trashed by the press and booed by the fans. I haven't seen any feeding frenzy on J.D. No sad songs for me about him. He's doing just fine on the field and off the field as well.
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If you are the opposing pitcher, would you throw David Ortiz a strike?
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I'm not saying that young pitchers never do well in the post-season. I am saying that a manager who has a choice between throwing an experienced pitcher versus an inexperienced pitcher in an elimination game would opt for the experience. It has nothing to do with games where a young guy beat an experienced guy. Would Scioscia have started Lackey in game 7 if he had Curt Schilling available? In 2007, Lester pitched game 4 to closeout a sweep. He would not even have pitched that if Wakefield had not been injured. Game 7 would have been Beckett or Schilling. In 2003, the Marlins were not facing elimination when Beckett pitched game 6.
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Not only is it onlynone example, but I think it was the only time that a rookie won a deciding WS game in history. That's how rare it is for a manger to hand the ball to an inexperienced rookie in a big post season game.
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I have identified the 4th vote for Dice K as coming from one of the laptops stolen by Clay Buchholz.
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I think this is an unfair characterization of his performance. In 7 post-season starts, he has really had only 1 maybe 2 stinkers. Yes, he throws a lot of pitches and has trouble completing 6 innings, but he almost always keeps the team in the game. Even in the game he stunk (2008 ALCS game 5), the Sox came back to win. That's no credit to him, but he usually does keep us in the game and the Sox have won 6 of his 7 post-season starts. In ALCS game 1 last year he threw a 7 inning 2 hit gem. His post season experience hasn't been all bad. I think it has been more good than bad.
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Will Michael Bowden be a starter next year for us?
a700hitter replied to PWNdroia's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I think he will be a major league pitcher, but I am not sure that he will be a very good major leaguer. He may only be average or worse, and he may never earn a starting job. One thing that I am fairly certain about is that he will not start 2010 in the Sox rotation. He'll need more than a solid spring training to earn that opportunity. -
When Buchholz leaves his fastball up in the zone, it gets crushed. The adrenaline of a playoff game can cause a pitcher to miss his spots more often than usual. Like Schilling used to say, the difference between winning and losing is how the pitcher executes 5 or 6 pitches. I'd put my money on the cool head with experience to execute those pitches in a high pressure game. I'd go with the experience almost every single time. I'd only opt for the inexperienced guy if his stuff is postively overpowering. There are very few of those guys in each era. Clemens had overpowering stuff, but Dave Stewart ate his lunch every single time.
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I think the 2008 team was an excellent team and heading into the playoffs, Pedroia was as hot as any hitter that I have ever seen. The Sox were a better, deeper , more well-balanced team than Tampa or the Phillies. Tampa was a 1-year wonder, and we never should have lost to them and we wouldn't have if Beckett hadn't torn his oblique, which is why I am worried about these 3 cortisone shots. Even Remy said that he never heard of 3 shots on the same day. I think you are being overly critical. To appreciate how good this team is you need to watch more of the other teams. Most of the other teams really have lots of glaring weaknesses. This team can go all the way. They need to be healthy and play well. The Yankees are very formidable, but the Sox can beat them even if they are playing well., but they can't spot them 3 games.
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No injections or anything? I think he is very important. Having him in the lineup give us a very strong 8 hitters, provided Tito can avoid the reflexive action of writing in Varitek's name, and if I have to I will give Kotchmann 4 flat tires before every game, cut his phone line and jam his cell signal.
