The 2010 Boston Red Sox Call All Destroyer Tells Us What He Thinks Thread

I will say that when JB came in the game (and lester was on some other-type shit yesterday; dude was awesome) everyone in DNYS was like "the game is over." funeral-level quiet. And dude deals in a way that JP doesn't. when papelbon came in and everyone got excited again.

also, JP is irritating to watch live, whereas JB is clearly interested in going home as soon as possible.

papelbon looked as good as i've seen him in a long time yesterday

when you say JB you mean Daniel Bard right?

his stuff was fuckin SCARY. the YES commentators (ugh) pointed out that at one point he threw what looked for all the world like a 98-mph sinker.

wow i just saw video of the pitch that struck out swisher

yeah that's the pitch

sort of a slide-sinker.. thrown at 98mph

yeah bard. I was thinkiing josh bard lol

accuscore says 14% chance of making playoffs..

but i do think Francona for AL manager of the year would be deserved.

lupica still the best at this kind of thing:

Now Bard, Boston closer of the future, came in to face Derek Jeter and Nick Swisher with the game all around him on the bases. Here is what happens next at the Stadium, like fireworks:

The captain of the Yankees takes a 97 mile per hour fastball for strike one. Fouls a 99 for strike two at the plate. Swings through a 98 he probably heard in Victor Martinez's mitt before he ever saw it. Strike three. No chance. Two outs.

Swisher next. This is how it goes for Swisher against Daniel Bard:

Takes a 98 mph fastball for strike one. Fouls off a 97. Swings underneath a 99 like he's trying to hit the wind. Strike three. Inning over. Maybe there has been another pitching moment like this at Yankee Stadium this season. Name it.

i just watched the vid of that. wow.

bill hall is going in

wow I hate Lupica

why??? dude makes every moment seem amazing

Is Saltys problem of throwing back to the mound a mental or physical thing? Although, i hope he works out well...I think Tek should be a good influence on him.

he's not the first catcher with this problem but in the other cases i've heard of the catcher was working through an injury that caused a mechanical change and then he psyched himself out. there doesn't seem to have been an injury with salty.

he caught the 9th last night and looked fine.

he's starting today i read. of course we all know theo has a habit of coveting these guys and they never work out....Lugo, Drew, renteria....

salty is more like a hermida (buying low on a guy who was well-regarded at one point and now is having issues) though unlike hermida i think salty is at worst a major-league backup at his position.

god hermida was an unbelievably shitty outfielder.

there doesn't seem to have been an injury with salty.

he had shoulder surgery in september.

oh really? my bad

hermida was shit all around. one of those fucking guys that i drafted every damn yr in fantasy baseball only to be disappointed each and every time.

wish everyone would shut up about mike lowell...its almost as if people are happy that our best player got hurt since it gave him a spot to play

lol

PAPELBOMB

he's almost surely getting non-tendered this winter unless he takes a pay cut, redsox are too smart to pay over $10M for a declining reliever, right? right...?

nah he'll be back

smdh btw

fucking lovely.

saw Beckett throwing BP to the Rangers earier

lupica is the best at nothing -- except when he dies, then he will be the best at dying, for that day

the problem with Lupica is that he writes in the voice of Bob Costas.

noooooooo that is heresy. he writes in the voice of damon runyon!!

LESTER BESTS TEXAS

whereas I write in the voice of the Boston dirt dogs - which hasn't been updated in a few days

guys i don't think we're gonna do it

by the way there is at least one silver lining which is that shithead josh beckett is currently pitching like a shithead and heaping hate upon himself

its too late for that, we've already got him for 3 more years

man, remember back in march when the sox had a championship level team and a top 5 farm system? those were the days...

i seriously hate josh beckett even more than i hated curt schilling

1. lester
2. buchholz
3. doubront
4. wakefield
5. louis tiant

wonder when red sox fans will notice that tim wakefield hasn't had a particularly good season since the 90s

the point of tim wakefield was not to have "particularly good seasons" but to have average, innings-filling seasons for cheap

yeah i realize that but people i talk to tend to want him in the rotation over guys like beckett who are way better when healthy

yeah i hear you--it used to be "you know what yr getting" vs beckett's talent but inability to put it together. now you don't even know what you're getting with wakefield because his body is breaking down.

i dunno if beckett's "inability to put it together" has ever been an actual thing beyond health. if people were expecting him to put up the same numbers in Boston as he did in a pitcher's park in the NL then they're just setting themselves up to hate him.

he sets himself up for me to hate him by being an insufferable douchebag

i'd probably hate him even more if he was winning tbh

i agree ciderpress tho i do wonder about his conditioning

yeah when i say 'health' that includes the fact that he's gotten pretty fat since coming here

if beckett can stay healthy he would be a pretty great third starter, problem is that he's never healthy and his contract is inane