Mr Crunchy

ya,good points,houston has some holes elsewhere there o line has some issues but for a fledgling team looking for some interest and marketablility ?? i think reggie wouldve been a no brainer

in 04 joe nathan blew 2saves and the yanks got by minnesota 3-1 iffffffff joe nathan dont blow?? and they didnt have liriano at the time they had carlo silva or lohse and radke looks better now than he did in april plus those bats are very live theyre better than in 04 and if im not mistaken theyve got the best record in baseball since june 1st i thought that theyd fold when liriano went down but their pen has been strong and radke stepped up this should be an entertaining 5 weeks till 10/1

not drafting reggie bush because of a questionable decision his parents made maybe the dumbest thing in football this year really youre houston and you got a good recieving corps,a decent and up and coming defense and a good qb...youre missing a playmaking back....and you draft a d/end?? didnt their gm resign already??

ya schillings #s didnt move at all in the move from 'zona

as of this hour i agree with you mr lite becks was on his way to a cy young till that friday nite in toronto when he had a 6-2 lead in the 8th inning and drilled the leadoff hitter in response to a sox hitter being drilled he aint been right since i saw him lose 2 games last week in person the detroit game and the debacle against the yanks(9bbs 9earned??) it was pitiful i wanted to strangle him and at the same time i wanted to give him a hug because there were 35,000 others who wanted to strangle his ass too that being said hes got some talent,a rocket for an arm and he competes all 3 are essential for a power pitcher what he needs to do is get some command of that breaking ball and learn to change speeds and i feel he'll be good,perhaps great some day in anaheim he had command of the curve ball it boston he couldnt hit the monster with it?? how much does he need a veritek or like his succussful days in florida a pudge rodriguez?? sit his ass next to schilling until he gets bum sores maybe he'll learn this isnt clement there is some hope here

i dont want to see zito here the man cant beat ny... can you see him after a 3/40M deal and he goes 0-3 against the yanks with an era of 7.00 before the allstar break?? ive pondered about this guy since he won the cy a few years back i dont think hes worth what it will cost us and that being said the yanks will be the team he goes to 1st i feel..they can have him schmidt on the other hand?? now we're talking being leery of the nl to al move i dont think this effects the power pitchers as much as the soft serve maddox/glavine types hed be a nice fit between schilling and becks with a healthy lester and wake rounding out the rotation that is a good pitching staff my friends and the innings for the bullpen will be dramatically reduced when you got guys who can give you 7 each time out

ive said this 100 times in the 04 offseason there were 2 guys who were wanted pavano and clement i wanted pavano so much more than clement i was puking liver bile in my mouth for a month after the yanks got him and rj and we got clement and wells after clement made the all star team it looked like theo was a genious ha they both should have publically funded sex changes done by one of those indian eunichs have cable tv do a ppv event and the money raised will offset their salaries 2 of em both fukin disgraceful

i love the wheel arod great job

boston has the worst record in baseball since august 1st incredible collapse but 1 we saw coming whats worse? they dont seem to have any direction as to where to go next are they rebuilding for 07? are they looking to 08?? is theo working on his music career?? keith foulke was amazing last nite 34 pitches,3 of them went yard there wasnt a single member of the world series team in the starting lineup last nite be be your future see see your future

im not a zito guy the fact that he gets killed by ny would only make us crazy around here despite our glaring need for a lefty stud the spacious oakland colliseum makes his #s better than they really are based on this team taking it like france these days its hard to judge who is and who isnt a good arm out west...

you research the contract i'll watch the waiver wire for a 5th wideout to replace branch.

problem with petey is hes gone 7ip once since june twice since may a patient team will get into the mets bullpen quickly as the yanks used to do to him here glavine?? i dont know,hes ted lilly with a bit more mileage maybe petey is saving it or the mets are hoping hes saving it from my view point he had nothing left the last 3 starts in any case we'll see soon enuff

i would have no objections if they started to stretch paple out now but i dont think that'll happen with a month left here. my feeling is the front office is uncertain,100% confused as to where we go from here is paple going to the rotation?? is hansen the closer?? can he close,will we move a premier closer to the rotation and create another need?? what of manny dc?? is he the set up guy? lots of questions not a lot of offseason help available either

i see who are the yanks starters that i missed?? if youre comparing your rotation to ours then you got a point if youre comparing your rotation to a legit playoff team?? i dont think you got a leg to stand on jarett wright sucks and wont make the october rotation god willing for your sake rj got killed last october,want to see his box score against the angels ?? lidle?? come on this is the american league mussina is banged up although i love the guy and look for him to be back even at 75% hes better than most wang is decent and has been the most consistant of the yankee starters the bullpen has rivera innings 6-7-8 are up for grabs ron villone??korky farnsworth,scott proctor?? i watch the games i have the luxury of watching them with my own eyes rather than reading what joel sherman or mike vaccaro have to say in the papers

meche looked good yesterday but his history isnt conducive to a boston atmosphere imo

spending only guarantees you an equel playing field tell me how is cinci or the nationals going to go after say santana when he goes free agent?? theyre not 3 teams maybe 5 could 2 in ny and 1 here in boston and maybe the teams in l.a. the rest of the league cant compete which makes it unfair and will ultimately turn mlb into the nhl someday

as far as the yanks go?? please theyre more f***ed up than we are as far as their pitching goes theyre 0 for the century in world series and will be bounced in the 1st round again this year wang is good mussina is good the other starters?? ha

theyre trying to move manny as i type this as far as schilling goes, he is their best pitcher and although he isnt on the upside of his career he has some pretty good #s considering the injury from 04-05 and the big games he pitches in its tuff keeping an era under 4 when 8 starts or 25% of your games are in the al east this is why i felt they shouldve shot the sherbert and gone for it this season schill only has a couple yrs left tops,maybe only 1 here in boston manny will be moved and tek isnt getting any younger loretta and agon were our best double play comb since remy and the rooster next year pedroia and ?? will have their hands full trying to duplicate what our middle did this season i think the front office wants to win and i think they also want a limited payroll you can have both if youre very very lucky however luck and this team dont go hand in hand faaaaaaaaaaak this was the year to get it done but thank god i can still hang my hat on 04

have they tried vagisil with pavano yet?? as we prepare for fall and the icy world of the off season i think its the only thing that can get warriors like matt clement and pavano on the field due to that painfull itch

i believe they call it pitching but then again that wouldnt explain the 12-8 game from saturday the angels do pitch very well for whatever reason we match up better with them than ny does i think they'd be hard to beat in a 7game set

point taken however he had as much experience as i did catching the knuckleball the kid we traded to cleveland has seen a lot of playing time this season as well hey its been a disappointing season all around

im not arguing about bards ability im arguing that the front office had nobody to catch wake after flash retired so they had 2 guys,an untested rookie and a 40 year old hasbeen in line to handle the knuckleball and neither panned out we were discussing this ad nauseum the other nite i got a friend that says veritek shouldve stepped up and demanded to catch wakefield as he was the captain and saw the rookie obviously struggling to the point of breaking records for past balls i was of the opinion that it was theo or titos job and not teks to decide who catches wake in any case we had a 200+inning knuckler who was turned over to a hasbeen and a never was to start the season and it was a disaster,this isnt up for debate. anyone who saw wake pitch to the best catcher in the american league(tek) with great difficutly and didnt see a rookie or a hasbeen having troubles handling him shouldnt be in baseball and it has nothing to do with hindsite

im sure belichek sees this as an oppurtunity to prove his system in the meanwhile i want to choke the snot out of little jonjon kraft as branch looks elsewhere we'll be waiting for the waiver wire castoffs just like the summer team did the difference is we didnt have to have it this way in foxboro and with the team kicking ass like they have in the preseason many are going to be dismissive of branch and let things lie as they may

the front office packed it in a long time ago we were the fools who went along for the ride now a family of 4 can spend 1000.00 this september to watch kason gabbard throw to a guy named huckaby with a middle of alex cora and dustin pedroia with who the f*** knows on the corners...the tickets are already sold so dont expect a letter of aplogy for the inferior product on the field just remember this next time your kid wants to go to a game drive him to ny,get a hotel,watch the yanks play and go out for a steak dinner its cheaper than sitting in fenway

f*** toronto and their bandwagon fans they drew 4M back when they won it all and they were the team to offer clemens 32,000,000.00 for 4 years in 1996 they were also big players in this offseason,givin burnett 49M?? f*** THEM they really should shut the f*** up theyre as responsible as anyone not named ny in this mess