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This guy can throw a submarine 90? That's pretty rare.

I have a great idea. Let's score a run.

Hey, look who just snuck his ERA under 4. Morales looks like he's on the cusp of working out as a power lefty RP

Looks like Morales is trying to make a statement.

So does Tek

That would take like 2 hours the way he said it lol.

COuld just as easily be "smith."

Hmm. I do see your point, especially since Florida kinda sells its soul to college sports, especially college football. If the Rays moved to Montreal I wouldn't object in the slightest. I think the A's are the next team to move though. Maybe when they're done that, the Rays move out west. Or maybe the league simply decides that every one of their expansion teams has at least BEEN to the world series (all of the Rockies, Marlins, DBacks and Rays have been in the last 8 years, which is actually pretty remarkable), and it may be time for another round of expansion to bring both leagues up to 16 teams. My vote would be for Montreal and Austin.

More than a replacement. A true successor, an heir trained by the aging veteran. That's how you keep continuity going.

Not until the Rays cool down a bit and the Florida stadium deal has a chance to fail. Florida is the nation's third most populous state. Two teams isn't really oversaturated. They just aren't attracting fans for some reason.

I hope he's a coach with us. Heck, when someone hires DeMarlo Hale as a manager (which will eventually happen) go ahead and bring Tek in as the bench coach. He's worth that kind of promotion on the simple knowledge he brings to the game alone.

Actually he's out again. Hammy strain since 7/24 per soxprospects.

You know me, I'm the crazy prospect guy, so I honestly thought he had a chance to do this well, at least on the offensive side of the ball. Ran into a lot of skepticism when I said so in the past though so you are right in general. His development defensively on the other hand has been a very pleasant surprise to all of us I think. Why he's outright above average as a defensive catcher, who saw that coming?.

I did. This kid was a very high ceiling catching prospect all the way along. He was jerked around a bit and lost his way for a few years with the Rangers, but he always had the talent to be this catcher. It's just exciting to see a guy like that unequivocally succeed here. Fliers of this nature usually don't turn out this well. Personally I'm inclined to give Varitek the full blame for Salty's Red Sox tenure, and give Salty full credit for being committed to pulling his head out of his butt, learning from the master, and doing whatever it took to be a big leaguer. I'm guessing he knew he might never again have this combination of mentorship and playing time -- it's a rare bit of alchemy, this -- and decided to make the most of it. Good for him.

Salty>Victor AINEC. Salty edges Victor with the bat and dominates him defensively, especially in the arm department. Kid's taken HUGE strides since he started learning at the master's feet. This is more or less precisely what we hoped a Salty-Tek partnership would result in -- and heck, even Tek has improved. He's forgotten more about catching than Salty ever knew, but maybe teaching Salty the ropes helped Tek bring some of his old tricks back. This team needs to bring Tek in as a coach or player development guy to work with our pitchers and catchers. He's one of those guys who made a living being a smart, technically sound catcher rather than getting by on pure talent -- or rather, he augmented his pure talent with plenty of smarts and hard work on the technical aspects of catching. He has a lot to teach any catcher who wants to learn. And he's seen so many pitchers good and bad and helped them along behind the dish that he's more qualified to teach a pitcher how to pitch than most veteran pitchers are. I could see him in any coaching capacity except third base coach and thriving there. I hope we get to see that in Boston. Come September, when he gets called up, I want to see Lavarnway practically joined at the hip with Varitek. If anyone has the credibility to break Lavs' bad habits behind the plate, it's Tek.

You guys are going to be a bundle of joy in the playoffs.

I want it noted that lackey left with a tie. It will be easy to blame this on him. It is also wrong.

That's not what was said. It isn't about predicting it from the beginning that's idiotc, it's talking like nothing has changed that earns you Retard Points.

You mean other than going pretty deep into the game, right?

Morales... JUST FREAKING PITCH.

i'd feel worse about Lackey if he didn't want to be out there and so would you.

It's a better bad outing than he usually gives us. He gave us a chance to win and preserved the pen. Good enough for now.

That was almost a disaster. Glad Crawford hauled it back in.