TheKilo

All you Drew haters can eat a bag of dicks.

He has to get his timing back. Remy made an excellent point tonight, he got his single off a fastball but got retired on an off speed pitch. I doubt 15-18 ABs, which is all he'll get until the playoffs, will let him get his timing back.

Dan Wheeler f***ing sucks.

Dan Wheeler can go eat a bag of dicks. K'S GIAMBROID!

Drew > Youkilis, Tek, Crisp

Dead arm, they also used the chance to get him some rest.

I didn't update after the last series. Red Sox Predicted - 93-63 Actual - 92-64 (-1) The sweep in Toronto stings, but there is chance to make up the ground lost this week. The Sox miss Haren and Santana, 4 wins out of 6 is not out of the question. Yankees Predicted - 87-69 Actual - 90-66 (+3) Barring a collapse of monumental proportions, the Yankees will exceed my projections for them. I expect 4-2 over the last 6 games (revised from my prior 3-3 prediction, thanks to the s***** team Baltimore is fielding right now). 94 wins from where they were is a complete success.

Drew Brees is available....I'm willing to hear any reasonable offers. Read - Will ship out for $.75 on the dollar. edit - Would really like to upgrade at WR, a possession receiver would be great.

Replace Crisp with Ellsbury and I would really love this lineup.

Probably get him two or three ABs then pull him quicker.

Per WEEI - Manny back in the lineup, hitting 2nd.

Clemens scratched from tonight's start: http://rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.aspx?sport=MLB&hl=224554&id=1417

I completely agree with you, but I personally find that wya of managing to be total BS. I expect Wakefield to be on the roster. If I was making the decisions, he wouldn't be, because I'd try to field the best team.

I understand this, but Wakefield hasn't beaten the Yanks in a meaningful game since '03. When he can no longer win inside domes (Toronto last week and TB this week), it should raise a huge red flag for his health. For the same reasons you caution that Manny and Youkilis be held off the playoff roster, I think we have to look at for Wakefield. An ineffective Wakefield is useless for this team in the postseason, I'd rather see Lester (who beat the Guardians earlier in the year) or Buchholz (ditto with the Angels). True. I hope he never sees the field. I don't think this will be a choice of Delcarmen vs. Gagne....I think it's safe to assume if Gagne's healthy, he's in. I really think it becomes a question of Delcarmen v. Javier Lopez. I know Tito loves his LOOGYs, but Lopez has a reverse split this year against them. Just because he throws lefty and has a funny delivery does not make him automatically effective, and I hope Tito leaves him off the roster. Agreed again, I just can't see this team using a pitcher who was a September call-up in the postseason. If Corey was in their serious plans he would have taken Snyder's place a long time ago... I don't think Snyder sniffs the playoff roster. he's the last guy out of the pen, and Tavarez would be the one to serve as the longman out of the bullpen. How miuch of Tavarez's numbers are inflated due to his starts...when we all know he's better the first time through the lineup? As I understand it he still has over 10 innings until he hits his limit, correct? I see your concerns, but I'd rather have the best pitchers out there in the postseason as opposed to re-treads like Snyder and Lopez. Agreed....another concern to worry about is the amount of rust Manny will have...it will be interesting to see him against Lackey/Escobar/Carmona/Sabathia without playing for a month.

Words cannot describe how much of a moron I think you are. To those saying Wakefield is a lock, why do we need a 10.70 ERA pitcher on our team (Wake's since Sept). And I did say I'd take Cora, however, his offensive suckitude certainly is enough to question leaving him off the roster.

Now that The Red Sox have made the playoffs, it would be prudent to see who makes the 25 man and who doesn't. THE LOCKS PITCHERS: 1. Josh Beckett 2. Curt Schilling 3. Daisuke Matsuzaka 4. Jonathan Papelbon 5. Mike Timlin 6. Hideki Okajima 7. Manny Delcarmen 8. Eric Gagne POSITION PLAYERS 9. Jason Varitek 10. Kevin Youkilis 11. Dustin Pedroia 12. Julio Lugo 13. Mike Lowell 14. Manny Ramirez 15. Coco Crisp 16. JD Drew 17. David Ortiz 18. Jacoby Ellsbury 19. Doug Mirabelli "QUESTIONABLES" 20. Tim Wakefield 21. Jon Lester 22. Julian Tavarez 23. Clay Buchholz 24. Javier Lopez 25. Eric Hinske 26. Alex Cora 27. Bobby Kielty "LONG SHOTS" 28. Kevin Cash 29. Brandon Moss 30. Royce Clayton 31. Bryan Corey 32. Kyle Snyder 33. Devern Hansack Basically, I think there are 19 locks for the postseason roster, and everyone else has some question marks surrounding them. If I had to fill the remaining 6 spots, I would take: Jon Lester Clay Buchholz Julian Tavarez Bobby Kielty Eric Hinske Alex Cora I think 11 pitchers are more than enough. I don't think Wakefield should be on the team, as he has been awful lately and I don't think is fully healthy. I don't think Javier Lopez should be on the team because he can't get lefties out. I'd much rather see Delcarmen or Timlin in the 7th.

I've never watched a single one of these.

I will say this, the ALE may very well be settled on the arm of AJ Burnett. If the Jays win today, the Sox are in great position.

Now that I have had a day to digest things, let me offer some thoughts about yesterday's game: 1. I loved the defensive game plan. As good as Philip Rivers is supposed to be, I completely agree with the notion of making him beat you. The SD wideouts aren't good enough to sustain 60 minutes of football offensively. Gates had a big game, and they let LT break loose for a big play, but the defense overall did a pretty good job making the CHargers one-dimensional. 2. The resurgence of Bubba Franks continues - if he can stay healthy he's a lethal red zone target. I wrote him off at the end of last year, but it seems like the corpse has awakened. 3. Favre has begun to manage the game very successfully. He is going from wild gunslinger to Trent Dilfer before our eyes. Of course, the short passes resulting from a lack of a running game seem to be helping this quite a bit. 4. The Dallas Cowboys are the team to beat in the NFC.

Bump.