TedWilliams101

Nasty curve, then the K on the fastball away. So far I like what I am seeing today from Gabbard.

Great way to start the game. I hope this turns out like the first game.

Very good at bat thus far from Cora. Lets win the atbat, Cora.

What a strange series thus far.

Hinske! 4-0 Boston.

Bases clearing triple for TEK!!!! Captain making it happen!

Please. Don't. Chase. The. High. Cheese.

Bags loaded, 2 out. Captain make it happen.

JD needs a big hit.

Youk? What were you thinking?

Here we go, lets produce. Manram, lets see some vintage highlight reel Manram.

Youk now with a 13 game hitting streak. Lets go Papi, make it happen.

Come on man, he's a freaken rookie, that was painting the corner damnit. Give him that strike.

Another nice play by Pedroia.

Game about to start?

All I was saying is I think its going to be a very tough game, I'm not about to kill myself about it, I'm just making an obvservation. And my "rant" wasn't about putting someone else on the mound, it was changing the matchup. Id much rather see the 2 rookies going at it and then the 2 vets than mismatch. That was my point.

Hudson vs Gabbard tomorrow. Ugh. I don't like our chances. We could be looking at losing our 3rd series.

I questioned Tito changing the matchups so that Dice-K was pitching against Lerew the rookie, and Hansack went up against Smoltz. Smoltz has always dominated the Red Sox, while Lerew looked very hittable (before the games). I don't like when you switch the matchups to try to garantee a win, and give yourself a very tough game, rather than take a shot at giving yourself a chance to win both. When your hot, you go for 2 wins, not 1. Tito didn't take that route and I think it was a mistake. As I had thought, Lerew sucked, the Sox destroyed their pen, while Dice-K pitched well. And as I also thought, we had a lot of trouble against Smoltz and Hansack wasn't effective. Had we made the right matchups (Hansack-Lerew, Matsuzaka-Smoltz) we could have very well battled out 2 wins, or at least had 2 close games. Instead, we blowout the first and make Matsuzaka's start meaningless, just getting outs, while we then get blown out by their Ace. Its simple logic, when you throw up a rookie against an Ace, generally, the Ace will win. With a team this hot, we should have gone with the ideal pitching matchups in the LONG run. I hate seeing the Sox get destroyed like that when they didn't need to be. I hope Tito doesn't make similar mistakes in the future. When your hot, you go for 2 wins, not an automatic one. And ya, Hansack looked horrible again. We have Gabbard, Pauly, and Bucholz has looked great. Lets see how they can do when we have a spot to fill.

WOW. I think WMP just hit my appartment on Burbank street.

WTF.

Manny would have had that.

Obviously, his contract would be huge, so that would be just dreaming. But maybe...?

How about this. We resign Lowell and trade Lugo, then sign Arod and move him back to SS. We could have Ellsbury drew Ortiz Ramirez Arod Lowell Thats seems pretty nice, eh

Lowell now in the top 10 in HRs and 4th in RBIs.

MIKE LOWELL GRAND SLAM. And he stays hot. What a shot. Nice blowout.