TheMeanWalrus

What exactly did Pedro Ciriacco do to earn the promotion from lead off to ninth? I know Podsednik is hitting well and all that but why mess with something that isn't broken (I am speaking in terms of the 9-1 line-up positions) I would say I never hen-peck the line-up but I am doing it right now so that takes "never" off the table. So RARELY do I scrutinize the line-up the manager puts out but I don't like this one at all whether they score 1 run or 15 tonight. Ellsbury is not a #3 hitter I guess Valentine is jammed up a little since Ortiz appeared to hurt himself running last night after one game back from the friggin' DL. Still a glaring lack of power in the Sox line-up so that hasn't really changed. Oh well f*** it It's gonna be interesting to watch this team for the rest of the year. But that will pale in comparison to "watching" the off-season

Swisher is an interesting thought although I think he is over 30 by a couple of years now and his best years are probably behind him. He'd hardly represent a "splash" in the FA pool, and really, what would the expectation be for him here? .260 20-25 HR 75 or so RBI Plus he's a Yankee so he has cooties now. Melky Cabrera is clearly tarnished now Signing him is begging for trouble

John Henry has never expressed any interest or desire to sell this team. THEY MAKE A s*** LOAD OF MONEY The trades that they made with LA have nothing to do with selling the team. It's a rubber stamp on wiping away the disastorous last few years of Theo's tenure. Theo spent the last few years here spending money like a drunken sailor. He devolved from being a GM to being the guy who handed the biggest FA NAMES a blank check and this is what started us down the path to where we are today. Theo started collecting players and stop building teams. There is a huge difference.

Let me take a pop at this: 1) How can the Red Sox compete in the FA market (without offering those huge contracts), i can't believe that there isn't a huge scarlet letter on this franchise. Why would there be a scarlett letter on the franchise? Boston is, and remains, one of the most attractive spots for a potential FA. Granted this is largely due to their capacity to spend, but there is certainly no "scarlett letter" 2) some people are touting going out and getting a Josh Hamilton, which i don't understand. Wouldn't that take a contract just like the ones we got rid of? And how would he survive in Boston with the media and pressure? How high risk is he to start his bad ways again? It's only gonna take one team to give Hamilton what he's looking for so my guess is he will get it but given his history of addiction, two KNOWN relapses, age (32 for next year) and borderline great numbers, I think the offers for his services are gonna be limited. Hamilton is one of the most over-hyped players in baseball. He has a great story, if he stays clean, has very good numbers, but the hype is all around the big HR Derby he had in NY, the four HR game and hot streaks he goes on where he is unconscious. If you look at his entire body of work, he is not an elite player and i think its clear his best years are behind him. I do not want him in Boston 3) There are no real FA this year - who is avail in 2014 Felix Hernandez will be the prize going into 2014. But there is some talk about an Ellsbury, Lester and prospects deal to bring him to Boston sooner. It's not on the immediate radar but don't be surprised to see these "rumors" heating up this winter. 4) Do we really want to spend the Boras money on Elsbury? No. And neither do the Red Sox. 5) Could we get Felix? Really the only franchise game changer out there right now (IMO) See above but you're right, he is the MAN TO GET right now and I can't help but think that a lot of the salary they free'd up today is slated for Felix's pocketbook As for John Lackey, he is the last of Theo's mistakes. He's gonna get his money, whether he ever throws another pitch in the majors so we all have to deal with it. Hopefully the TJ surgery helps him and he can develop into a #4 starter. No one is gonna take him off our hands, not at that price, and Lackey ain't going anywhere with all that cash on the table so we're gonna have to live with him. Like I said . . . if he can be a solid #4, I think we should be "happy"

what a f***ing game again today in death valley

a career is fisting movies cant be far off for ole heidi the homewrecker

if you wanna talk classic busts think Matt Young and Jack Clark signing as free agents in the same off-season If you wanna talk internal to the Red Sox busts in terms of expectations: Sam "Pass the Buck, Sound the" Horn

I know its early and there's still two weeks left in the season plus the conference championship games but i am gonna take a stab at predicting the big bowl games so I can prove once and for all that i don't know s*** about college football Here goes: Jan 2nd, 1:00, Gator Bowl Ohio State vs Georgia Jan 2nd, 1:00, Outback Bowl South Carolina vs Michigan State Jan 2nd, 1:00, Capital One Bowl Nebraska vs Florida Jan 2nd, 5:00 PM, BCS Rose Bowl Wisconsin vs Stanford Jan 2nd, 8:30 PM, BCS Fiesta Bowl Arkansas vs Oregon Jan 3rd, 8:30 PM, BCS Orange Bowl Clemson vs Cincinnati Jan 4th, 8:30 PM, BCS Sugar Bowl Alabama vs Oklahoma Jan 6th, 8:00 PM, Cotton Bowl Kansas State vs Auburn Jan 9th, 8:30 PM, BCS Title Game Oklahoma State vs LSU

I'm with you Except for the faggy rainbow "M" i like the jerseys Hats are mezza mezza Miami is a great city, maybe thats sku-ing my judgement? I'd like to see them add those guys they made offers to. Pujols especially. I like the Marlins frnachise ever since 20 yr old Josh Beckett took NY outta the 2003 world series in Yankee Stadium. BWAHAHAHA! That was great. Almost as great as 2001 Ok, how I drifted of course to a Yankees Take It Up The Ass commentary, I don't know. But I like it

he should thank whatever god he prays to that he didnt have to live through that

Why the f*** would you want to watch Game 6? Or Game 7 for that matter, which remains one of the most courageous pitching performances in Red Sox history by Bruce Hurst. He just ran out of gas and the rain-out of the Sunday game pushed Game 7 to Mon night and allowed Hurst to go on 3 days rest

Well, out of all the games you'd want to be at as a Sox fan, that was probably the one, although Hurst shut em down in game 5 too but if I recall correctly, it wasn't with the sheer brilliance of what he did in Game One. There's still part of me that can't believe I can actually talk about what happened over those 9-10 days in the fall of 1986 Looking aheada day in my little stroll down memory lane, I think the Clemens vs Gooden game two match-up was the single most hyped baseball game I can remember. Except maybe for the two Pedro vs Clemens game which would come years later. Clemens sucked in Game 2 So did Gooden

10/18/1986 Bruce Hurst's three hit shutout and the Red Sox 1-0 win put them up one game to none in the the 1986 World Series I remember this like it was yesterday And in the aftermath of the Sox game one win, all attention was focused on the pitching matchup of the century Dwight Gooden vs Roger Clemens And the legend of Clemens ****iness would begin that night More to come later, as the 25th anniversary of the day my childhood officially ended approaches

Pick Six Vick looks pretty good LOL

a mile wide and an inch deep, those yankee people

another banner saturday on the grid-iron the consistently great games every weekend is insane red river shootout at noon florida at lsu at 3:30 auburn at arkansas at 7:00 + georgia at tennessee ohio st at nebraska at 8:00 god bless saturday in the fall

another banner effort by arod alex? alex?? alex kitner hits better in the clutch and Jaws ate him on his raft in 1975 0-4, 3 K's another classic arod effort when it matters bwahahahahaahaha!!!

bwahahahahaha completely gutless

I'm just here to do the Lord's work

It's gonna be difficult to NOT cheer for that TB team over the next few weeks

Probably their VORP

I'm just old and soft now, Ellie Mae

Really? That’s how it ends in 2011? Fitting I suppose. Like the late Senator John “Bluto” Blutarsky said to the Delta Tau Chi house at Faber College, “Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts?” They had none of that. They are the Yankees Northeast Chapter now, a collection of hired guns, with no collective identity, no heart and no leadership. The new age Red Sox fans are even worse. Never thought it would get any worse than the Pink Johnny Damon Shirt Wearing Bandwagon Sheep of 2004 but now-a-days? The sense of scumbag entitlement, and general lack of knowledge, is stretching the fan base to resemble the mile wide, inch deep base that exists 190 miles southwest of here. I hope this atrocity, the most collossal regular season collapse in BASEBALL HISTORY, even by the standards of the franchise that wrote the book on heartbreak, leads to some major changes at Fenway. To sum it all up, its time to give the Red Sox back to Boston and take them away from the f***ing Nation. The whole organization needs an enema All that being said … If you weren’t watching last night, then why watch baseball at all? Seriously. Probably the single most awe-inspiring 6 hours in 125 years of organized baseball, and emotions aside, if you’ve any doubt in your mind after what happened last night in Baltimore, Atlanta and Tampa Bay that baseball isn’t the greatest sport ever invented then start watching Liverpool with John f***ing Henry The beauty, the grace, the horror, the skill, the ineptitude, the courage, the wonder, the awe, the triumph and the heartbreak all wrapped up on one magical night with an Act III that dwarf’s any Shakesperean tragedy ever written. Mark my words. . . They’re gonna write books about what happened on the night of September 28, 2011 I didn't sleep particularly well last night once I finally got to bed. My mother said to me in an email this morning that I should have gone to bed at 10:00 No I shouldn't have Baseball is still a special game. And when you take away the guys making $25,000,000 a year, the steroids, the sabremetrics, the lawyers, and the teams raking in billions of dollars in a dreadful economy on tax-payer subsidized stadiums, you're still left with nine guys playing nine guys, and a pitcher vs a hitter, on a pitch-by-pitch basis playing out the greatest drama any of us could hope to see. And last night, 6 teams played arguably the greatest 33 innings of baseball since they carved the first bat out of an oak tree 125 years ago and, for the final act of those 33 innings, the game of baseball shined like the brightest star in the galaxy. I'm not happy with the outcome But I am truly grateful I went along for the ride