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Just clarifying things ORS, I thought Crunch was still around! WAKE UP Guardians!!! WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP!

Anyone watching? If there is already a thread out their, my apologies.

Byrd BLOWS! The Fraud....ugh DAMMIT!

f*** him. I'm more afraid of Wang (the pitcher).

Byrd is stinking a little...sorry, should be in the Yankee in game thread. Apologies.

Ditto Crunch!!!! Nice TEAM effort. Nice 15th for Beckett. Ok Guardians, take care of the Skanks!

Ok, now, finish this off J Pap!

Or maybe he had to pee b/c he's back on the bench. Good at bat by Huff.....get him out!

114 pitches.....now 2 runs.....Good game Josh!!!! Ok Manny D....finish this off

Olson was in the starting line up but they may have just called him up.

What guy?

Well said Seano! Good at bat and rbi 1B for Dustin!

I'm going to the game Sept 8th. A great time meeting up at that game!

Coco's struggling today.

Love the amount of Sox fans at this game!

JD comes thru again....

Figures.

I was out drinking and watching the game at a sports bar. DAMMIT it sucks out loud to lose a game like that!

Happy Birthday BoSox21! Thank you for the line-up as usual riverside! SOTK.....good Dave MOJO......we'll win this series bro...... Let's GO Red Sox!!!!

Bottom line, hind sight is 20/20.

Son's crisis put a scare into Drew By Daniel Malloy, Globe Correspondent | August 3, 2007 The hamstring problems, subpar batting average, and any other woes from J.D. Drew's season became trivial in an instant last week. Drew's 17-month-old son, Jack, needed surgery. Drew and his wife, Sheigh, had noticed Jack walking strangely, but when he fell and broke his collarbone last week, a trip to the orthopedist revealed that Jack had developmental displacement of the hips and would require surgery. It was a shock, but the timing was fortunate. Catching it before 18 months is critical, and the Red Sox were about to play three games in Boston, home to some of the finest medical care in the country. "It all kind of fell into our lap and we really needed to get something done, and this was the only time we were going to be home over the next couple of weeks, so it worked out that way," Drew said yesterday, his first day back with the team after Jack's surgery Tuesday. "I know God has a hand in everything, and it was just one of those situations where we're [in Boston] for a reason, and I think that may be one of them. I think we got some great medical attention and some great doctors in this area, so it all worked out well." The surgery lasted six hours, with another 45 minutes to put on a cast that extends from Jack's chest to his ankles. J.D. had planned to play Wednesday night against the Orioles but didn't get enough rest. "We didn't see him open his eyes until about 1:30 [a.m.], so we just didn't get much sleep," Drew said. "My wife slept for about 15 minutes, and I actually went home, and he had a bunch of spasms throughout the night, just trying to fight off the anesthesia and the cast that he has." Jack was released from the hospital Wednesday night. Sheigh, who is expecting the couple's second child in November, and her mother took care of Jack yesterday when J.D. decided to return to the team. "It was hard walking out that door this afternoon," Drew said. "You hate to leave a little guy like that crying for his dad when you're walking out." After staying later than he thought to help Sheigh prepare for his nine-game road trip, Drew didn't arrive at Fenway until less than an hour before game time, and was scratched from the starting lineup. But he returned to a receptive and sympathetic group. "Tito [manager Terry Francona] is incredible and very understanding, and all the medical staff was helpful in terms of telling me what doctor to go to and things like that," Drew said. "I talked to [owner John W.] Henry in the dugout right before the game started; we were talking in the tunnel. And that's great when you got people dedicated to family. That's important to us." Drew took some swings in the batting cage, then ran for Eric Hinske in the seventh inning and took over in left field. He flied out to left in the eighth. "He hadn't even probably picked up a bat in three days, and I'm sure he felt like he was in the middle of quicksand," Francona said. "But he got an at-bat and he got in the outfield almost like taking batting practice, trying to get back into the rhythm a little bit. I'm sure this six-hour flight will be good for him." The at-bat was helpful in returning to the game, but meaningless for Drew when compared to Jack lying in a cast back at home. He will be in the cast for 6-8 weeks, and though the long-term outlook is good, there is no way to know for sure. "We just kind of play it by ear," Drew said. "Hopefully, everything forms as it should and there isn't any recurrence of surgeries or anything like that. But there's always a possibility that they have to go in and restructure some stuff the older he gets." After he finished speaking with the media, Drew headed for the bus to the airport, where a plane to Seattle awaited. He said he would use the trip to catch up on sleep on the way to the West Coast, where his mind, no doubt, will frequently wander home. "It will be tough to be away," he said. "But I think my wife and her mom will be able to handle it for a while."

We just need to keep winning series. We have Lester, Matsuzaka and Beckett going, I feel pretty good about our chances....