mvp 78

"We're going to the game pops" "Crying.... Who's pitching? "Clay Buchholz." "Crying harder."

That mop on his head though.

Farrell killed JBJ's streak.

Clay Buchholz: killer of mojo

Get hype. First they came for Pablo. Then they came for Rusney. Now they are coming for Clay...

Reminds me of a Price start.

Hope his arm falls off and he retires?

It was just one bad start.

f*** that lousy drunkard Wade Boggs.

One of his best starts of the year was simply "below average." Ok?

I like to mix it up just so that people forget I'm a bot.

Stop it! He's already dead.

Just one bad pitch!

He had really high mileage on his arm before we got to him.

4 games.

People bitch about everything. I thought they should have picked up Kenta Maeda, but people would just whine about how horrible DiceK was (even though he was pretty good).

Or any number of other pitchers...

Swihart goes back down when Holt comes back.

And factually, his option should not have been picked up because it was reasonable to expect these results...

I thought high A was comparable to D1, not low A?

VA for mod.

Oh, so it's better that the Sox hired a roid dealer who wound up killing people?!? Great! Boy, this team is squeaky clean. Nothing to see here folks!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/175226-the-majority-of-boston-red-sox-used-steroids "I'm in spring training, and I got an 8:30-9:00 meeting in the morning," said Merloni, 38, a native of Framingham, Massachusetts and graduate of Providence College who played five seasons on Yawkey Way as an infielder from 1998-2003. "And I walk into that office, and this happened while I was with the Boston Red Sox before this last regime, I'm sitting in the meeting. There's a doctor up there and he's talking about steroids, and everyone was like 'Here we go, we're gonna sit here and get the whole thing—they're bad for you.' No. He spins it and says 'You know what, if you take steroids and sit on the couch all winter long, you can actually get stronger than someone who works out clean, if you're going to take steroids, one cycle won't hurt you, abusing steroids it will.'” WEEI-AM’s “Big Show” co-host continued, “He sat there for one hour and told us how to properly use steroids while I'm with the Boston Red Sox, sitting there with the rest of the organization, and after this I said 'What the heck was that?' And everybody on the team was like 'What was that?' And the response we got was 'Well, we know guys are taking it, so we want to make sure they're taking it the right way'... Where did that come from? That didn't come from the Players Association."

http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2009/08/02/sox_fired_two_in_steroids_case/ The security staffers said they were dismissed after what they termed a cursory inquiry by Major League Baseball, and very limited questioning by the team - even though one of the guards says he swapped advice about steroids with David Ortiz’s close friend and personal assistant. Both men said they told investigators they had no direct knowledge of steroid use by Red Sox players, including Manny Ramírez or Ortiz, both of whom were named in a New York Times report last week as having tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. But, in interviews with the Globe, both revealed clubhouse details that could have fueled a more zealous inquiry. And the investigation did not even resolve the basic question of where the steroids the security staffer was caught with came from. “I’m sure they were hoping I didn’t know anything,’’ said Jared Remy, one of the security staffers who lost his job. “It’s like they didn’t want to know. It’s like: Do we really want to know or do we just want it to go away?’’

And the vast majority of Yankees noted above were pre-Mitchell Report too.