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Nah, it won't at all be like signing Ortiz in 2003. When we got Big Papi in 2003 he hadn't broken out yet because Minnesota had mishandled the big guy. We got a bargain on Papi. We'd be paying full market rates for Fielder. When you bear in mind that Carlos Pena may be a FA, I'm not sure shelling out the talent price for Fielder would be a slam dunk. Adam Dunn will probably be have his sentence in Washington suspended for good behavior as well.

http://thesituationist.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/david-ortiz-complaining.jpg http://www.japantimes.co.jp/images/photos2009/sb20090908a2a.jpg Dunno, think they might notice? On the other hand, if his knees bear his weight as he gets older, Fielder is a prototypical Boston slugger type, with his brash, demonstrative style, it's how we've pretty much always separated ourselves from the sham that is Yankee professionalism, so I'm all for bringing him in.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100228&content_id=8632528&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb ... I'm still not sure exactly what this is, much less what it means. Thought it might be worth a discussion though.

If that player is 39 and was brought in to play CF, that's a greater than average incitement for a response like that. Especially when he was brought in instead of signing Jason Bay.

Good thing we have Kalish, Reddick and Nava for emergency callup duty.

This is on me guys. I had to watch the overtime.

I guess I was on a bigger tape delay than you guys. Too easy to see that coming.

Too many one-timers by the US. They need to get in there and get a man on Luogno unless they're trying to lose.

Canada with a lot more energy.

Canada sharper out the gate in OT.

I can't not watch...

Dangit, I am cosmically forbidden from watching playoff games. Every time my team does something good, it's after I've already turned it off and went and did something else. What think guys, do I sabotage our chances by turning it back on? Right now it's off, I'm only tracking it with the scoreboard at NHL.com, which seems to be OK.

Holy crap. Less than a minute to go.

I wouldn't regret a 2-1 loss to Canada that much,.

Tug Hulett :harhar: Actually bringing in Hulett or another 2B type, and letting Pedroia "do a Youk" could work.

Decline? Plenty of reason to fear it, but no direct evidence yet. i'm gonna hold to my initial prejudice on the kid unless I'm given a reason to think otherwise. Besides, there's no reason to fear for his defense, or his ability to hit from the right side, so I'm not that worried.

People are much too cool on Lowrie than they should be right now on the basis of one injured year. You need people like me to balance that.

Stop icing it...

I said "glimmers." Hints, flashes, evidence. That's all you can really say about a SSS anyway. But his 2008 sample showed elite potential, and his 2009 sample, small as it was, reaffirmed the defensive side of things at least. This guy is a good defensive SS, if his offense comes in a bit slower than expected he'd still be a starting caliber as long as he could stay on the field. Unless his injuries make him tentative, I'd expect him to continue to be an above average defensive shortstop, and that can cover a lot of offensive sins. Which is all the better because I don't expect Lowrie to need to cover many offensive sins at all. A player who's solidly above average in all facets of his game IMHO jumps up into "elite" on the strength of the entire package. If Lowrie combined defense near the level he showed in 2008, with a .350 OBP or more and 15 HR's, all of which are within Lowrie's demonstrated potential, "elite" might not be an understatement. As for his injury's effects on his offense, worst case scenario IMHO is that Lowrie has to give up switch hitting and become a straight RHH, which I have little reason to doubt that he could adjust to. RHH has been his stronger side for awhile anyway.

Combine that with his UZR/150 over his current big league sample and you have not a good shortstop, but glimmers of an elite one.

Which direction? Down 1 towards St. John or up 3 towards Fredericton? EDIT: Yeah, forgot the third option, but frankly with the new highway expansions I don't think St. Andrews is an hour away anymore -- besides which I could climb in a boat and be there in 10 minutes if Customs would let me.

No, I live in Washington County, Maine. Specifically, in the wannabe "City" of Calais. Basically a sleepy little border hamlet with delusions of relevance. My church is hardly the only organization here that straddles the border. St. Stephen and Calais mingle a LOT. A lot of Ameri-nadians here. My best friend married a Canadian, and my brother dated one for years. Heck, if the border wasn't there Calais and St. Stephen would have incorporated into the same town ages ago. When we can pull our heads out of the 19th century when Calais last mattered, we can look right across the historic St. Croix and watch the cars putter down St. Stephen's street. St. Stephen's major industry is the Ganong cnocolate factory. Calais's major industry is Welfare, Disability and Unemployment. Makes for an interesting dynamic. For the most part we're all Sox fans and ALL of them are Bruins fans so that's OK lol.

They're both spin jobs. Actually IIRC what was damaged wasn't Lowrie's wrist, it was a bone in his forearm just above the wrist. A "wrist area injury" would be more apt. So he came back too soon and reinjured it. I wouldn't call that a whole different injury. Maybe that's just me. Either way, I'm pretty sure the Sox will learn their lesson and not let the player make the call on when he comes back -- if the wrist is fully healed THIS time, reinjury is a concern but not a huge one.

I go to church in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. I suspect the gold medal game will be a subject of conversation tomorrow.