TheKilo

Carlos Lee Manny Ramirez Alfonso Soriano Ryan Braun Matt Holliday Carlos Quentin

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/baseball/red_sox/view/2009_04_15_Sox_ready_to_place_Daisuke_Matsuzaka_on_15-day_DL/srvc=home&position=recent DL'd, Hunter Jones up, Jones won't be available for gametime

Windy day in Oakland today - this spells trouble for Wake. He'll have to take one for the team if he doesn't have it.

I for one am not pleased, this is good news for the Yankees. Swisher is a better player. I suppose this does mean they have to play Gardner all the time now, though.

Doubtful, he can't do anything even with the hottest hitter in baseball behind him. God forbid Youkilis goes into a slump.

Going forward, having Teixeira's bat in the lineup over Lowell's is a significant improvement and really can't be refuted otherwise.

This offense is going to struggle all year and it's up to Varitek, Lowell, Ellsbury, and Ortiz to prove me wrong. i think Bay, Drew, Youk, and Pedroia will be fine. The reason I'm saying this is the margin for error this season is razor thin compared to previous years', and it is frustrating to watch a team play uninspired baseball out of the chute. They look old.

You're not wrong. You're queer bait whose sole purpose of visiting this board is to troll. Tell me where I'm wrong.

It's not defeatist. Varitek was cooked at the end of last season and after his few bright spots in the TB series has reverted back to black hole status. Mike Lowell is coming off a serious hip injury and does not look right - he can't drive the ball let alone elevate it. Big Papi is dead. David Ortiz continues to struggle. Last night is a shining example - he is late on an 89 MPH fastball from Russ Springer in the 9th and then pops out on an 83 MPH cookie right down Broadway from Ziegler in the 10th. Depends on your definition of "blown out". The Sox have two lost two games by 5+ runs, I call that getting blown out. They do have three one run losses, and maybe that's your point, but don't say we haven't been blown out. Pretty lame excuse - the Rays series was at home (and if the Sox have any dreams of winning anything this season they need to win series in Fenway nearly all the time) and we had our best starters lined up. The Angels are not the same team from last season, in fact they are worse due to the loss of Teixeira and the lack of Lackey, Santana, or Escobar in their rotation. The A's are not a very good team - and again, with Lester and DiceK against Dallas Braden and Dana Eveland, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect one out of two. Again, coming out of ST (where everyone except Lowrie was presumed healthy) and having your best pitchers lined up makes a 2-6 start pretty much inexcusable no matter who you are playing.

Here's something I don't want to hear: "The Red Sox were never in the mix for Mark Teixieira because he and his wife liked New York better the whole time."

This team is offensively cooked at 3B, C, and DH, and the suck at SS and CF. They added no offense this offseason except for Rocco Baldelli. The Yankees and the Rays improved themselves quite a bit. I'm looking at an 88, 89 win team right now and that's just not going to get it done.

At what point do you come to the realization that this team just isn't that good?

You're slipping, that's a weak trolling effort.

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/baseball/red_sox/view/2009_04_15_Jed_Lowrie_preps_for_possible_surgery/srvc=sports&position=also Not good news.

I hate you so much, you have no idea.

I said it in the GT, but: Big Papi RIP 2003-2007

Lopez faced three LHH that inning and didn't retire any of them. Why is he on this team again? Why didn't papelbon pitch the 12th? Terrible job by Francona - but hey, it's not like these games count or anything

One run, don't care how you do it.

Has to be Papelbon here, right?

lol this team is so f***ed this season

HOLY f*** LET IT HIT YOU