YeAuldBroade

How many times has Tito brought an SP that's given up 3-4 runs back for a 6th/7th inning with 90+ pitches only to see him get hammered and watch the game get out of hand? I'm sure there's a stat for it but I'm not a stathead so I wouldn't know. However this doesn't erase anything I've said. If a pitcher ONLY yes ONLY has 90 pitches through 5 innings and has only given up 2-4 runs and I have an unreliable, overused bullpen and a SP that's SUPPOSED to be an Ace.. I bring him out in the 6th. If the first batter or two reach, I get someone warming up in the bullpen. Sometimes the SP will give up the big hit(s) before the bullpen is ready. But that's why you play the games on the field and not on the computer. Answer: Multiple times. All through the season. Mostly with Wakefield available to pitch. I can name off the top of my head at least three Beckett starts, a couple of Lester ones, and a Bucholz one. And i bet if i did some research i could stumble upon at least ten losses in which this has been the common factor. Ok just addressed this. Don't let your loyalties fool you. Francona is a good fit for the Sox, but he's an awful tactician. You missed the point by a solar system. This has nothing to do with Francona. This is about baseball and managing a pitching staff that's SUPPOSED to be made up of Aces. You work with what you have and try to get the best out of it. And sometimes you lose.

Every player at every position can't be a future hall of famer.... To get a guy like Beltre, when every team in baseball knew we needed a 3rd baseman, was a good pickup. Personally I think Beltre was just over-playing trying to win over the Fenway faithful - who can be a damn tough crowd.

Beltre is starting to play like Beltre. His detractors are now sitting down to a steaming plate of crow.

Wakefield - WRONG, WRONG, WRONG They have Wakefield in the pen because they can't work out a 6 man rotation. That's a goofier response than your original comment. Wakefield can't pitch every day even if he is a knuckleballer. The last time he was pitching out of the bullpen he was in his mid-30's, he's now 43 - there are many less options. You don't pull every pitcher, every time they give up a couple of runs in the 4th inning unless you want to manage the worst team in baseball. Pitchers give up runs. Sometimes you leave a starting pitcher in too long and he gives up a 3 run homer. Sometimes you pull him when there's two on base and the relief pitcher gives up a 3 run homer. The better the pitcher the better the chance he gets his s*** together and stricks the f***er out. Even at this point I'd put more money on Beckett, than on Schoenweiss, Ramirez, DelCarmen........... All through the season? Really? It's MAY!

And there's usually a very good reason to leave them in there..EVERY.TIME.OUT! Dipre you know too much about baseball to be saying these goofy things on this thread. The bullpen is and has been beat up all season because of s***** starting pitching. Starting pitchers don't "work it out" in the bullpen they do it on the mound. You leave a Beckett or a Lester in the game to try and get their s*** together in April and May and not still be pitching like Beckett is -- come August. This time of the season pitchers need to get stretched out. If they're constantly pulled every time they get in trouble come July they still won't be able to pitch more than 80 pitches. If you pull a pitcher every damn time he gives up two or three runs, you have no starting pitching only a bunch of long relievers EPIC FAIL.. That's asinine. You dance with the lady you came with dude.

I f***ING FELL ASLEEP! I turned the sound off during Girardi's pissy pants protest and promptly fell asleep. I didn't wake up until 3:30 in the morning. I am so pissed. But I am greatful for these threads, it probably recreates the action better than anything I'll read in the papers. And will someone change Girardi's diaper, it's making him cranky. Protest that you asswipe. I hated him as a player and I hate him even more as a manager. Oh and Chamomile the Yankee fan you described is Diony. Just saying.

I'm watching the game - but I always have so much to do (dishes, laundry) that I can't spend as much time on here as I'd like to.

People my Beckett comment was sarcasm, unfortunately.

Thank God I've already eaten dinner.

Did anyone hear what the controversy was with Lowell and then with Dice-K and Martinez? Remy mentioned that there were problems today but I didn't listen to the pregame show so I didn't get any details?

Beckett's looking pretty sharp so far.

Rain delayed until 8:00 PM... any chance it won't stop?

poop

Defensively - Beltre has had an above average career and a really bad April. May is the norm, April was the fluke.

Did you even read the post I responded to or decide to just make any unrelated wise ass comment? This has nothing to with the post I responded to or what I said in my post.

Cameron is complete trash? Can only play a little D? You know what you said after that may have sounded like Einstein but frankly your first two sentences were too lame for me to continue. I can only assume you base your entire opinion on his age and the fact that he has a hernia because there is no way you know anything about his career.

Welcome to the Village Idiot. Papelbon still sucks.

That does it for the Red Sox. Sorry I'm not usually a pessimist this early in the season but that's going to take the last ounce of heart out of this team. Papelbon is a mess.

Not yet.

f***ING KILL PAPELBON RIGHT NOW!

Well that just added 10 years to my life. Now I can live up to my alias.

Now the Yankee fans all get a woody... I hate the Yankees even more than I hate baseball. Papelbon STRIKE HIM OUT!

I will hunt Papelbon down...........

I hate baseball.