Dirt Schilling

Please David give us one more year.

Still watching but have a bad feeling on this one. Baseball can be so cruel. Especially the last two years.

Have to agree on that one.

I am not stirring any pots. It just seems to me that Farrel has no clue anymore what to do and he is messing everything up by not protecting his prospects. I am sure Bogaerts will be the player that everybody says he will be but I hope it won't be in another MLB team.

I get the feeling that all that shoving him around in defense and the batting line up is killing Xander Bogaerts now. First they brought back Drew and now he is way down in the batting line up. He is incredibly mature for his age but a player can take only take that much dissapointments. I feel that they are toying with him and it affects his game. What are your thoughts?

Yessss! The Netherlands beat Cuba for the fifth time in a row. This was an Epic game that was decided in the bottom of the ninth. On to the final four now. I am hoping for a semi final against the Dominican Republic. I understand this tourney is not every Americans cup of tea but as a Dutchman I really love it. And also Nice to see Xander Bogarts doing well in clutch situations although is batting average is poor.

Well at least next year can't get any worse. I really hope it doesn't.

Got to give him props for lasting three innings. Or were they all 1-2-3 outs?

I say offer him a case off beer and he will be the cheapest buy ever.

Thanks for all the input. I think I am going to force my brother in law who lives in Boston to get me a real autographed ball by Big Pappi.

I am from Amsterdam the Netherlands. It is realy hard to buy some nice fan stuff or memorabilia here I am thinking of buying a signed baseball by David Ortiz or Cody Ross. There are some available on ebay. They come with holographic certificates of authenticaty. My question is how reliable are these certificates and sellers? I would hate to spend 70 or 80 bucks on a fake.

WTF?! I always loved that song from the Boomtown Rats and I never knew it was a racist song.

That's exactly how I felt when I saw Valentine saying he apologized. I couldn't believe my ears. The only criticism I had with Francona was that he never really seemed to get angry at players. Sometimes a player needs a good kick in the butt or a reality check. I thought Valentine could bring this to the team. How wrong I was.