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Papi with a rare infield hit and more flopping around like a flounder by Youkilis.

. . . And a miscreant of the lowest order. The two things usually go hand in hand.

Screw Smoltz. He's though, done, finito. It's ovah for him.

I heard that he did well tonight. Was this his first rehab appearance. I wonder if there is any chance that he takes Tazawa's start against the Yanks on Sunday. I wish they would flip Lester and Penny so lester could open the Yankee series.

They say he is done for the night.

Three balls have gotten by Youk. Does Lowell get any of them. I think he gets the first one that happened a couple of innings ago. Is Clay looking to blow this game?

Wow, only 5 innings by Halladay. Good job by the offense getting him out of there.

Bay and Ortiz with the long ball tonight. Yes 5-1. Youk was flopping around at second base like a freshl caught flounder.

It's hard to walk Encarnacion. You have to try hard to do that.

DP on a change up would be nice.

I wonder if Varitek's neck spasms were caused by going down on Heidi Watney all the time. Self-indulgent bastard! BTW Thanks Heidi for getting Tek out of the lineup.

Been there. Done that. It's an amazing feeling, but as you point out, it was all about you. It was your feeling and emotion. A thrill? Yes, but a self indulgent one IMO.

Those of you who predicted Papi's demise may have been a bit premature. If he gets 30 HRs those who disagreed with me should send me some El Presidente.

Self indulgent bastard!

You know I raised and vigorously discussed an issue in a controversial manner. Although you all strongly disagreed with me, there was no name-calling or demeaning rhetoric. Well, except for Dipre who made a ridiculous analogy to slavery. We all know that he has a short fuse. Thank you all. Now, it's game time. Crespo, great line about emotional availability. I will use that. I apologize in advance for stealing your material.

I did suffer from and was treated for anxiety for a period in my 30's so I know a lot about it, and I know the enormous effort it took for me to go to work everyday. If my family wasn't relying on me, I would not have made that effort.

Exactly. Common sense would dictate that a doctor, nurse, fireman, or just about anyone other than a dopey profesional jock determine whether you are healthy and in need of medical attention. Would anyone here want Pedroia making health decisions for them. That would be beyond common sense.

I am not disgusted with Pedroia. He's just following society's conventions. My father was and still is the best father that I could imagine, and if he witnessed my birth, it wouldn't have made him a better father or husband (married to my mom for 60 years and they still lovingly take care of each other). As a society, we are so busy indulging ourselves in our own emotions that the truly important aspects of relationships are lost. No, that is not Pedroia's fault. I don't blame him for playing the role that society expects him to fill.

Don't look for them to contribute two night's in a row. If they were that good, they wouldn't be the top of the order. As for Pedroia... no rants. Today we deal with his 3 day baby sabbatical. Last week, it was Drew'as groin that was good enough to hit a HR and play RF for a couple of innings on Friday, but not good enough to play the next two games against Texas. Next, I guess we will have a guy go down with anxiety disorder, and we'll all feel sorry for him too.

When it comes to raising children in this country in this day an age, I am just amused at what people conventionally believe to be important. Being at the birth is of paramount importance even though we have no memories before the age of 4. So many parents are asshats after that. We have parents driving drunk, some with their kids in the car and engaging in so much other bad behavior, or they ignore there kids throughout their teen years not noticing that their kids are unhappy, direction-less and are getting involved with dangerous behavior. Those same jackass parents will tell you what a great experience it was when their kid was born. I'm sorry, but that great experience of birth is a bit self indulgent to me. I experienced the same rush, but you know what... birth is a miserable painful traumatic experience for the child. What's important is what kind of parent you are for the rest of your life and the examples you set for your kids, not the euphoria of the "look what we made" emotion that lasts for a couple of days. It's wonderful that the baby is healthy and that Dustin and his wife are happy, but save all the other ******** about this. It is truly not important that he be there for three days, but he will be and the Sox will play without him and everyone is okay with it. I just find a lot of society's conventions to be phony and superficial.

True.