a700hitter

Pour it on!!! The kid is going to need all the runs he can get.

Yes, no pop-gun offense this weekend. 7-0 Red Sox!!! Youk!!!

AGon with an A-Bomb!!! Yes!

Tazawa is going to need some luck to get by today.

Tazawa is getting some breaks.

3-0. Pour it on. I hate to see Ortiz slide.

Ortiz still raking.

How could VMart not get a double there? DP will end the inning.

If Tazawa bombs today, we may not have seen the last of Penny as a starter.

.and I'll let you have the last word.

Done

Jacko is the polar opposite of me. He's a diehard Yankee fan living in NE that gets excited about the minor league draft. His point of view, though often aggravating, interests me.

I prefer Jacko, but they are both welcomed in the GT.

And what has any of this got to do with your accusations that I think Drew is a "pussy" and the whole "dirt dog" angle of yours? You can't even stay on the topic that you have been baiting me about. I never said that I was right about wanting to keep Nixon on the cheap in 2006. I'm just telling you as a fact that that was my opinion at the time (2006) and it had nothing to do with grit and toughness and all that stuff that you have been accusing me of. Triple owned for you not even being a consistent baiter. In my post, I mentioned what his performance was like by the end of July 2007 and the criticism he was getting at that time. He was hitting .248 with an OBP of .354 SLG .375 and OPS .725. All were well below his career averages, which were our expectations. Even his OBP was down 36 points from his career average. I never even mentioned RBI in my post, but put more words in my mouth. The logic in your posts is in a death spiral You probably can't.

From today's NY Post.

Hopefully, he finds someone good that can help him and not just throw some pills at him.

That's right I don't. You are wrong on both counts. That's why your attempt at baiting me have been unsuccessful on this issue and you continue to let me own you. I don't think that I have posted anything positive about Nixon in more than 2 years. In the 2006 off-season I thought that Drew was way over-priced, and I thought the Sox should have signed Nixon on the cheap for one year and saved themselves $11-12 million until better OF options became available in 2007. The issue was $. It had nothing to do with this "Dirt Dog" issue that you are obsessed with. I was very critical of Drew's performance in 2007. At the end of July that year, he was batting under .250, with 6 Hrs and a .728 OPS. No one was happy with that. In the middle of that summer, I read an article about his son who had a disease or condition that required surgery where they had to break his bones or something horrendous and that he had to be in a full body cast for months. At that point, I realized that something else was probably affecting his play, so I didn't criticize his play for the rest of that year. So, again you are 100% wrong about both of your assumptions about me being anti-Drew and Pro-Nixon, but you continue to beat that drum anyway. My continued ownage of you on this makes me giggle to myself. So the FO office will not consider that his advancing age might go hand in hand with an increased probability of injury resulting from physical wear and tear, including his prior injury problems to his knee and wrist? You don't think that would reduce his market value? Well, I am glad that you are not running the organization.

You're right. If they don't pull him back and the Red Sox can't make a deal for him, the Red Sox would still have to take him and pay his full salary. The Mets will let the time expire and hand him to the Sox, and the Sox will have to pay his entire salary.

It shouldn't take much for a psychologist to get to the root of his problems. He's had major arm surgery and his career is at a crossroads and he works for possibly the worst organization in baseball. His outlook is bleak, depressing. Instead, they'll load him up on pharmaceuticals.

I have heard a rumor from several reliable sources that the Mets are in financial distress. I don't think the Mets will be interested in getting a prospect. They will just want to be free up from the financial burden. If the Red Sox nickel and dime them by trying to get the Mets to take some of the remaining salary, the Yankees will be waiting in the wings. If the Yankees get him because our guys don't want to take the full salary, that would be a tremendous cluster f***.

Ortiz is still hitting.

The Sox are dead, and one thing we know about the Sox is that they are at there most dangerous when everyone thinks they are dead.