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Oh well. Ya' walk a batter...bad s*** happens.

If we have Vic and especially if we have Vic and Ells there is nothing scary about those big Western Division ballparks. Heck we can gobble up turf better than they can.

I don't see the Sox naming an official captain either nor do I think it necessary or even beneficial in their case.

I still think that eventually some Manager is going to force his guys to go up and take early against Ueh hoping that he can force Ueh to come up in the zone a bit. Ueh is succeeding at a historic rate. So just continuing to go up to the plate using a traditional approach is just too stupid. He is cutting the league up into little pieces doing that. Gomes got driven to the wall to take a ball in the Friday night game. So a guy can get wood on the ball but I think it is pure luck these days if a guy gets wood on the pitch from Ueh that is down in the zone or headed off the plate low. Guys are going to have to catch Ueh on a night when he is off and up in the zone or force him up in the zone if they can. Just going up hackin' just allows Ueh to continue to hack them to pieces. Getting to the point where no single game is going to be more important than Ueh and Taz's condition going into the post season. Farrell has to make sure he does not put them in a tough spot as he gets through these last two weeks. Oddly enough the way the idiots from headquarters have scheduled things, it looks like the division winner is going to end up with close to an excessive number of days off going into the Division round with even the WC play in winner able to rest and probably even set up his rotation. Uncle Bud does it again.

Ueh hides the ball behind him a long time. The ball is on the hitters before they know what is happening. On tip of that he has an incredible knack for having swing and miss pitches that also stay in the zone. So if you don't swing....you lose....if you swing...you lose. I really don't think I have ever seen anything like it before. But I think it starts with the ball getting onto the hitters very quickly.

I wonder how Sterling handles things like Salty's GSHR..... "Home Run.... Saltamachia".

Bradley is a patient hitter that for now appears to have one big hole at the plate. He sometimes looks like WMB has looked only from the other side of the plate....flailing hopelessly at pitches so far off the plate that he could not hit them with a boat oar. When you have a really big hole as a ML hitter, pitchers just work off of that. Eventually you become a very easy out as the pitcher either has to make a god-awful mistake for you to get a hit or you close your eyes and run into something. He will work it out. He seems to have an inherently good eye. So I expect him to close that hole and turn into a solid ML hitter. Just takes time if you have the God given talent to begin with. Its guys like Nava that are pretty miraculous. He lives off his baseball smarts and that is about it. God did not give him enough of any one thing to say he is talented.....except of a good noodle and a willingness to do whatever it took to get here. There is much to be said for that.

I simply do not know what Joe thinks Preston is going to do. He totally sucks...leaves balls in juicy spots to hit constantly and his pitch has nothing...N-O-T-H-I-N-G....He is my dream come true. I am on happy street every time I see him.

What did I tell ya...just have to be patient and wait for the dinner bell to ring

This Preston s***-For-Brains blows....bend him over the table

Dinner bell ringing!!! As far as the bullpen is concerned....middle relief is the soft underbelly of every team in the AL. Heck if it were not for that I am not at all sure the Sox offense would be anything like as potent as it has been. SFF is right about a fireman though. We don't have one of those.

I thought Joe would go with Karoda here. He has had it going pretty good for the last four innings and Joe does not want to ring the dinner bell for the Sox hitters.

Bres has to see Lackey in the dugout.....not exactly what I would be looking forward to doing.

Jeez...51 pitches in the first two innings and a little over 40 for the next four!!!! Very un-Sox-like

Vic had a much harder time stopping than he had getting started...makes sense with the injuries he is carting around.

This is not your father's Red Sox offense. It has been hard for people to be patient with the process. It probably does remain to be seen how well they will do post season. But there is no sense panicking with this offense. If the opposing starter is still there in the 6th inning and the Sox are behind it might be time to worry a bit. Until then, it is what it is.

Nice play there by Lackey. I suspect this is going to the case of another AL East team coming to grief as it tries to get into the WC sweepstakes. Spanks have been the beneficiary of the last few Red Sos series. Time for them to pay.

They make Felger sound like a genius...think about the relative impossibility of that and you can see why it is soooooo time for D&C to be gone!

They are the worst and have been for a long time. The third guy, Minnahan I think is about the only thing salvageable from that crew and there are times when it seems like he is about to go postal on the other two....not just as a means of livening up the show either.

I just don't even know how college QB's complete a pass to these dolts. This is the best coming out of college? This is the cream of the crop? Tompkins is a complete idiot. He ran a route over the middle and was clearly way past 5 yards, yet he has got his head on a swivel looking at the passing scene, completely unaware that Brady is trying to throw him the ball. He finally gets his head turned around and of course the ball goes right through his hands. I only wish Brady had stuck it right in his stupid face. I can almost see a guy taking a quick peak around just before the ball arrives to prepare himself to either continue straight ahead after catching the ball, make a move or prepare to get crunched. But looking around at the point where Tompkins was in the play was just criminal. All of them just dropped ball after ball, having no clue what the f*** they were doing out there. Edelman was the only guy Brady could though to with any surety that the ball would actually be caught....EDELMAN!!!!

New England has seen a tremendous amount of thunder and lightning since the beginning of September. My pets are all nervous wrecks. They have taken to gathering together in one giant lump and then moving the entire giant lump onto my lap, including a couple 75 pounders. They appear to have decided that if we are going, we are all going together, humans, cats, dogs, the whole nine yards.

I think it is the other way honestly. Nava has seen very little time in RF fortunately. If he had more time out there I think his deficiencies would be that much more glaring. He is a fill there at best. If he had to play RF regularly it would be pretty close to disastrous I think.

Good example of why Nava really can't play RF for more than a couple games before being in trouble. Love him but he is no RFer.

Wonder how many folks will still watch the baseball game tonight with the Pats on. Myself I have such a hard time watching football as it is no longer the game I played and loved when I was young. I have little interest in watching wideouts and slot receivers running wild in secondaries when in truth they should have been knocked on their asses. None of the changes baseball has made like the DH are anywhere near as telling on the actual game as the changes the NFL has made are on that game.

The only part of these last couple weeks that has not sorta' worked out is that as the Sox have gone from one AL East team to another basically ending either any hope of the Division or in some cases even making the WC harder, the f***ing Spanks have been about the only AL East team that has benefited from that. The Spanks never had a shot at the division anyway. But I guess they remain a threat for the WC.