Strawman

Jason Varitek For Mvp!!!

I repeat:

As long as Coco keeps making plays on the field, I'll be all right. ...For now.

Loretta-Papi-Manny: fingers crossed.

Johnny who?

Yay! Radio transmission is fixed. O man, that is MUCH better

The Captain leads by example.

Damn, Nix is making some plays.

SCHILLING FOR CY YOUNG Hahaha

It's ok, the radio feed is having technical difficulties too.

Coco Crisp is stepping in....

Oh man, so close! My radio reception BLOWS

O man, I am so ready. Plus, it's a very slow day at work what with my supervisor out for SOME reason. All the more to devote my attention to the radio.

There was no way to know it'd turn out like this, though

Huh?

Not if you traded him last week!

Did that game end up getting called for rain? I watched until the delay started and when Miller said that it could be hours before the rain let up I decided that that was enough for me.

Nebraska! What's it like over there? Is there more corn than people?

Ok, I'll be the token guy Nomar (away) Jully 31 2004: Traded as part of a four-team deal with the Cubs, Expos and the Twins with Matt Murton going to the Cubs. The Red Sox got Dave Roberts, Orlando Cabrera, and Doug Mientkievicz. I loved Nomar and was very bummed to see him go, but this was such a heads-up move, that even today it amazes me.

To be fair, C to D+ MRP that he is, he is an excellent (B+ A-) LOOGY

Anyone giving odds the O's lose 100 games?

Johnson is uberquestion mark, Pavano not so much but still a question. Who knows if Small can repeat in any way at all resembling his 05 performance, same goes with Chacon, and there's not much of a bullpen in the long relief. Their lineup is good, but it's still very top heavy. Conversely, the Sox don't know about Schilling, the shelf-life of Beckett, whether Clement will ever function post ASB, or what performance if any we'll get from Foulke, Lowell and A-Gone (whose "A" may stand for "Already"). But we have Papelbon and people like Meredith, Alvarez (though not as likely as), Hansen to fill in holes that might pop up and Snow, Youk, and Choi for those infield questions (granted that Snow may be as big an offensive liability as Gonzalez.) Crisp has potential to be, ahem, the next Johnny Damon (tongue in cheek), and Damon was a question mark for us for a lot of 05, despite his many hitting streaks, and is already looking like he's on the same track. So while we may have the same number of questions in our starters, our questions are not nearly as imposing and we already have a number of answers prepared, whereas the Yanks have very few contingencies.

How long's your hair?

But if there are two other teams in their division scoring 900+ runs, won't that render their effort substantially ineffective? re: Roger Clemens' stellar 05 starts but paltry backing offense.

While I wouldn't necessarily mind the Jays winning it all, I still have yet to see someone explain it in a way that makes sense.