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Like a pudding pop, except without the annoying stick. I prefer pudding from scratch because it avods all the obscurium, nonsensitate, and balonium oxide they try to slip into the powder packet "for our good."

Only if you consider pouring cereal to be cooking. Of course, the best thing of all to do with pudding is freeze it, cut it up, pick it up and eat it.

Even Matsui was much, much bigger in Japan than he ever was here.

Actually there's a number of Japanese pitchers and players that came over fine. They just don't tend to be the overhyped Japanese superstars that are supposedly guaranteed to be awesome when they came over. Fukudome is actually quite a decent player, about on par with David Dejesus -- not a corner outfielder but average to above average CF. Kenshin Kawakami and Hiroki Kuroda are decent, and we did get some good production out of Daisuke before his shoulder and his arrogance cost us a decent player. Kenji Johjima had his problems but had more strengths than weaknesses for most of his big league career. And of course, Oki and Saito were both big factors for us last year. Soooo... look to Japan for talent, and don't be afraid to take risks to get a guy you think is good, but probably be wary of the overhyped Japanese superstar, since his play is going to trend much closer to average in this league.

Pointless thread is pointless. We're just making that clear.

Haha wimps. Try making it from scratch sometime. Not really that difficult, but if you're making chocolate you have to be careful about the baker's chocolate unless you want an unsweetened lump of yuck in your pudding.

Hey, he raised one to the rafters. If this is it for Doc, he'll be remembered fondly.

Way to bear down kid.

That was strike 3.

That's a nice Kyle Farnsworth impression, DB, but it's time to go back to being an adequate major league pitcher now.

I take a huge radio penalty here because I don't actually see the players.

Learn some economics. The price is what the market will bear. If the players weren't making that money the owners would be making it, it wouldn't stay in our pockets.

Right, and when the manager pulls the starter at the right time, props always go to the starter. Too late or too early though, all the blame to the manager. In other words it's nearly impossible for a manager not to suck in the perception of the fans of his team. Tito does enough off the field to make up for not living up to the unreasonable expectations every baseball fan puts on their team's managers. That skillset probably serves us better than an in-game tactician who didn't have it would. Especially in a sports town as utterly judgmental when things go wrong as Boston can be. It's kinda the Bill Belichick model. The manager manages the media as well as the in-game tactics, and his job is to take as much extraneous crap on his own shoulders, and off the shoulders of his players, as he can. Your skill as a manager or coach is determined by your abilities in both areas. Tito's the master of that in a baseball context. heck, half the time he'll take the blame for things that are only marginally his fault just to allow a guy like Ramon Ramirez, or Mike Timlin back in the day, to continue to function.

I'm past caring about the drew hate. He's worth his roster spot, the money isn't a big deal. The pious pretension to parsimony is absolutely hilarious from any fan of the freaking Red Sox.

A knee-jerk Drew bashing thread. Never seen one of those before.

Listened on RKO. Sorry.

Welcome amica, if you see a good convo feel free to jump in.

Yeah, if he ever gets tired of Minnesota, Denard Span could play for any team he wants to. That combination of speed and hitting discipline is incredibly hard to find. Heck, he's got the stick to grab a corner outfield post even on those teams that have a franchise CF.

Red Sox win.

You are a total bastard.

Beltre and Ellsbury crashed, and Ellsbury took a long time to get up and was clutching his chest.

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I second that expletive.

Ellsbury hurt?

Keystone Cops.