HeadOfSoxNation

Any college kids here...check at your school to see if they offer an Economics of Baseball course. I took it this past semester...it'll open your eyes to a lot of things.

Yea I already have the all of the Yahoo! tools, I was just wondering if there were any other sites that people reccomended for research and what not. FYI...I found this one on my own, this is more the kind of information I was looking for: http://www.fftoday.com/rankings/index.html Anyways, sorry to draw such bad blood here...I thought the post was pretty harmless myself...

Umm...I think you have me confused with someone else. I've never mentioned anything about Fantasy Football on here.

Anyone know of any good free websites with Fantasy Football reccomendations? I have a draft coming up in about an hour and could use some advice.

Just a little base hit Alex, common...

How many years of invincibility does Tito get after managing us to a championship? I'm not talking this game, but I'm sick of his garbage. Any chance Sweet Lou would come back to baseball?

I think Tito has gotta give Lester a chance to go beyond 5 innings. I know he shows some signs of fatigue, but I'll take a fatigued Lester over a fresh Taveraz or Seanz. I understand hes' got the kid on a short leash because of his age and lack of experience and what not...but he's gotta give him a little bit of space. Let him go out and try to throw 7. Obviously, if he's getting shelled, you gotta make the call, but lately, if you ask me, Terry's been going to get him WAY too early. If my memory serves me correctly, he doesn't even start an inning and get pulled usually. He's always sitting and they go right to the pen. Give him a chance to get himself into trouble before you go out and take him. Let's face it...the 'pen is going to get us into trouble night in and night out...you have nothing to lose by letting Lester try to go 7 or so.

Dear Mike- I made a stupid play in the field, but I've been one of the FEW Sox consistently hitting. Know your role and shut your mouth. Oh, and get some f***ing outs in the 8th before giving up 3 or 4 hits/walks and maybe I'll listen to what you have to say. Love, WMP

The Yanks still have a 5 game set coming up at Fenway...if we take 4 of 5, we're VERY much in it. I know that's a long shot, but we can't kill ourselves off just yet.

Oh boy...this is what it's all about...

You can want your team to win while still appreciating an outstanding play by your competitors.

Any other stadium besides Yankee, Mora gets applause for that play...

That...was awesome. Alright, I've gotta weigh in on people getting all over athletes for not giving autographs....I think we set an unfair precedent as to what we expect out of these guys. Sure, signing an autograph isn't that big of a deal to us, but then again, we're not asked for 10's of thousands of them over the course of a year. And, to make matters worse, a guy could be the best signer in the world and make it a point to sign before each and every game, but if there's ONE game where he doesn't, one game where he's got something else going on, automatically there's a group of people who think he's an *******. I love it when guys sign autographs, it brings back the player/fan interaction that the game has lost and needs back, but you can't really EXPECT this out of these guys day in and day out. I've gotta say...and I'm going to get jumped allllll over for this....but.... I've been going down to Spring Training every year since I was a little kid and seeing various teams in various stadiums. I saw the Rangers play at Pittsburgh's facility the first year ARod was on Texas. He must have signed 600 autographs that day. He took his BP and everything, and then went to one side of the fence and signed for every single person as he made his way down the fence. Then you run into another issue, and an issue that almost got me into a fight while I was there. You have these freaking old men shoving little kids aside to get their 4th and 5th item signed. These players aren't stupid, they know this dirtball is going to run home, throw them up on Ebay, and get $60 or $70 a pop for each of them. I keep all of my autographed items on display in my office at work and have never sold anything...and to be honest, I could really care less if no other athlete ever signs anything for me. I'm 22 years old, and I've had my fun. It's not my turn anymore. If athletes will agree to sign for young kids and that's it, that'd be totally fine by me.

On pace to lose 27-0 and leave 18 runners on base... I guess we can't go anywhere from here but up!

Make something happen here Youk...

Man...Loretta should have roped that for a double. DFA him after the game.

Alright...I guess that could have been far worse. Let's get someone on for Papi and get the show on the road. Give Beck another chance to get us behind...

Yea, when he'd have a bad start earlier on in the year...I was just saying to myself "Wait another 5 days...the dude is naaaaaasty..." I'm finding myself less and less optimistic by the day.

Anyone see MagPipe's flowing locks? God he's cute... Did I just say that out loud?

Hey, Beckett hasn't given up any HRs yet...let's count our blessings...

I don't know about you, but this is EXACTLY the start I was looking for... Can you smell my sarcasm? Because I'm laying it on preeeeetty thick.

Alright, not a bad walk...could have been worse.

Hardest I've laughed at a post in quite some time...

The only thing that scares me about this is who the Jays could get in return. I hope that it's HUGELY public that Wells doesn't want to stay in Toronto to drive their asking price waaaaay down. I'd have to think the Jays will probably go after pitching in exchange for him, as we've seen that the Jays lineup can produce runs with the likes of Glaus, Rios, Cattalanotto, etc. This just scares me because Wells is an MVP waiting to happen...and a guy like that, if traded, commands a front line starter. Hopefully, with Rosenthal saying he'd go to the Angels, it would be prospects involved rather than MLB-ready players, giving that LAA has a plethora of top-notch guys waiting for their shot. We've seen flashes of Burnett's brilliance this year when he's been healthy, Halladay is brilliant EVERY year when healthy...I don't like the idea of them picking up another solid starter. That's a BIG 3.

My point exactly... JSinger...I think you misunderstand us. No one is opposed to bringing up Pedroia. You're just ready to make the guy the face of the franchise, and none of us are quite as high on him yet. You have a VERY solid 2nd baseman who has PROVEN that he can produce at the big league level. I could really care less that Loretta is batting .086 in the middle 3 innings while playing away on turf in a stadium which is below the Mason-Dixon Line or whatever other ridiculous stat you want to throw out. Fact of the matter is, this is not the time YET for Pedroia. None of us argue that he's our 2B of the future...but to bring a kid up in this kind of pennant race? You're setting the guy up for failure. By the way, Brian Cashman called...he wants his frame of mind back.