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No one.

Live bat good speed by Reddick

Can Bay PH for Reddick?

Green has actually done a couple of good things tonight in the field.

Cliff Lee went relatively cheap. We didn't get what we needed most-- a starting pitcher. Theo did his ******** menage a trois three way deadline trade which flops more often than it succeeds. He came up empty. If we got Halladay this year and won the series, no I would not give him a pass the following year. Why do you assume that criticizing a particular move or non-move is a condemnation of Theo. On balance the whole FO has done a good job over the last several seasons, but they could've done much better at this trading deadline. I didn't grade them an F. I gave them a B-, which in retrospect was too high. The B- was the result of getting a big name, but I don't think the essential needs were addressed. I'd go with a C+. As for not wanting to see Smoltz vs. the Yankees, I would have taken my wife to the concert regardless of the matchup. However, I'm glad that I will be missing Smoltz' game if I had to mis one of the games. I have a very bad feeling about that game and teh CC vs. Buchholz matchup.

Here's our nemesis, Carl Crawford. Whew, we got very luck there!

Yankees got their both runs on a botched play at 1B by our old friend Millar.

He'll be pooped for the Yankee finale.

Names!! Kilo is getting names!

I forgot are you in the "there are no OFers available camp" or the Camp that believes it is easy to pick up a 4th or 5th OFer?

Joe

Will lowell gat a PH late in the game for suck ass Green?

Reddick seeing that a real major league pitcher can work you over. It's not a knock at the kid, cause he's a kid and he should be learning in the minors. We need additional OF depth. Maybe they could trade one of the 3 first basemen.

This game will be decided by the bullpens which should each see at least 3 innings of work.

Varitek should be sitting too. VMart should be catching.

Today's Lineup: Red Sox 1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF 2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B 3. Victor Martinez, 1B 4. Kevin Youkils, 3B 5. David Ortiz, DH 6. J.D. Drew, RF 7. Jason Varitek, C 8. Josh Reddick, LF 9. Nick Green, SS -- Jon Lester, SP J.D. Drew is back in the lineup but Jason Bay is still out. I don't like this, because Drew did not look very healthy against the O's on Sunday. It will not be good if they both miss the Yankee series. That could result in a debacle.

The Sox are playing the Yankees this week. Nothing else matters, especially not some wet dreams about the Hot Stove season.

Several top prospects have died on the vine in the minors and not made it to the majors. I would hope that the guys that get promoted to the majors can compete. I'm not sure that I understand this thread. We are supposed to get enthusiastic about Red Sox interest in Felix in the upcoming off season with a third of this season left in which only 2/5ths of our rotation is functioning at an acceptable level? I'd be excited if we landed Felix last week. I'm not interested in some pipe dream about next season. Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay were available. We made a move on Felix and we got none of them. That's the story. That's what we should be talking about. We have a 4 game series coming up in Yankee stadium a week after the A's smacked our pitching around in Fenway. That was embarrassing. Two of the games at Yankee Stadium will be started by Smoltz and Buchholz. What is their combined ERA? We will be lucky to win two games in that series. I decided to go to the McCartney concert rather than watch the Yankees administer a brutal beating to old man Smoltz. I could give a s*** about Felix right now, because we will not have to face him until next season.

How is that? Please explain. Do you have any stats to back that up? In other words, prove it, prove it, prove it.

This is not good news about Wakefield. They need to get him back, because we have 3 sacks of garbage in the last 3 rotation slots. Wakefield would be an upgrade and that says a lot. It is a little late for a trade, especially since Cliff Lee got moved and Roy Halladay was available. I think we will soon be looking at Buchholz like Yankee fans have been looking at Hughes and Kennedy, but instead of seeing Johan Santana every time they take the mound, we will see Halladay every time Buchholz takes the mound.