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Red Sox must be going for some sort of fly out record today.

You would think the Sox would have pushed a single stinkin' run across by now. A two run deficit is a heck of a lot easier to overcome than a 3 run deficit. 3 runs is not the kind of rally we have seen of late, certainly since the Sox hit a stretch of decent pitching opponents. Had that one blow out in Miami but that sort of production does not do much for me. Sox get way up and the runs keep coming. That act is getting old.

Wow can't believe Atch got there.

I know I missed the beginning of the game but this does look like the kind of ump that eventually gives you your strike if you keep putting the ball in the same spot. dice cannot pitch without getting pitches in his locations and other than that stretch I saw where he started to get in the middle of the plate, he has been hitting his spots and getting called strikes.

Seems like they are all trying to hit one out today. This at least so far has been one of the most frustrating Red Sox teams to watch I can remember.

NESN has been doing some things this year that are really irritating. That clubhouse thing is one of them. Always interviewing a guy from the winning team is really irritating. If the Sox win, interview one of the Sox. If the other team wins just don't.

Lately the way these inter-league games are going we have to clear the pitcher in particular innings and then we have to clear AGons in particular innings, not to mention Youk.

I don't get to see many Wrigley games so maybe somebody else knows this but does it look like they put a stack of seats in both of those places out in the bleachers where fans used to watch from the rooftops across the streets? Maybe those seats have been there the last couple years and I have not had a chance to notice them.

to many mistakes on the base paths...to little situational hitting....Sox have never been good at this manufacturing runs or pushing runs across thing and seem worse lately.

I would have let dice take a cut also. He had already proven he was not going to get a bunt down....hell he might have put the ball in play and Mike was already at 2nd...so DP was off. Not sure I would call it dumb but I probably would have let him take a cut.

C'mon Pedey get us a run here

Geez Mike where the hell did you think you were going?

YEA....Red Sox fan's lawn's 1, Wrigley lawn 0!!

dice is throwing nothing balls right over the heart right now.

Can't remember now if it was Carardo or Abraham but one of them wrote something a week or so ago that implied that AGons was balking at taking a day off and had even gone as far as asking V not to give him a day off. If so, I really wish he would be a bit less stubborn about this stuff. Maybe a day off won't do him a darned bit a good but playing every day does not seem to be getting anything positive done either.

Remy...balls hit to left with a right to left wind kinda' don't get knocked down Jerry...if anything it might have been helped a little.

That was a pretty good pitch for Youk to hit. Not doing anything with pitches like that sure is not going to do his trade value much good.

Boy David must have really been chuggin' down the line to beat that.

If dice can't get any strikes on the black that is an automatic tough day for dice I think.

mvp, I assume you were talkin' about Agons needing a day off....I completely agree if that is who you were talking about. When you are going badly it really does help to watch a game from the dugout sometimes. Geez if this ump has impressed you guys as being inconsistent in only 2+ innings he must be REALLY inconsistent. Wish I had caught the beginning of the game. Feels like I missed a bunch for only missing 2 innings.

I tried going back in the posts to catch the early game stuff. Has this ump already been kinda' unimpressive so far or OK?

It is early in this game but letting the cubs get up on us 3-0!!! I would almost have preferred that they got all three in one inning but 2 runs in the first and I guess 1 in the second! No clean innings yet! What the f***....do the Sox think these inter-league games count for half or something.

Geez I just got in from fertilizing the lawn. Is dice dumping a bunch a fertilizer at Wrigley? 3-0 already?

Frankly for pitching there are quite a number of current roster Red Sox and AAA Red Sox that would not be on any sort of protected list. As far as I am concerned, Salty could also be traded. Would not trade both Lavs and Salty but if I were the Red Sox there aren't many deals that I would close my ears to completely.

I wish I could trust Salty enough to give up Lavs but would we be that surprised if Salty just had a version of 2011 in 2012? The difference is that Salty is swinging for the fences every swing this year. That is actually the best approach Salty can have for his plate appearances. So, I like it. However, at least to this point it does not appear to have made a difference as far as Salty's hot and cold hitting profile. Since that disastrous defensive game for Salty, the one where Cook got injured, Salty's defense seems to have been better. He could still give his pitchers a better target and he still seems to lunge after balls in the dirt. I still think we are going back in time now that the steroid era is behind us. There will be even more emphasis on pitching and defense again with the really prime defensive positions manned by guys that are not defensive liabilities. Those are SS, C and CF. Non-steroid boosted baseball is baseball where you end up manufacturing more runs, pushing more runs across and preventing the other team from doing the same. Errors are more painful with less opportunity for some big boomer to come up and hit you a three run HR. In that sense maybe Lavs is still the better choice since I think most people think Lavs has more defensive upside than Salty. I suppose I would not close off a discussion involving Lavs and maybe it would depend on what else they would want for Garza. Lavs alone sure as hell would not get it done.