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

yikes. hoping for a full recovery for him, whether it includes a baseball career or not.

what are boston's chances to win world series in 2010? i haven't really followed the team in a few years, tho i imagine they're still v. good.

as good a chance as any to come out on top of the ALE NYY/BOS/TB triptych; PS is crapshoot after that.

surprised TB is in yr mix. figured they were a one-year wonder.

i say this as a marlins fan, jealous of preserving our top-o-the-heap status among expansion teams.

yeah, yeah, i know the diamondbacks won a WS, too.

if yanquis fall off a cliff (and, as stated before, I have thought the yanquis were due to die for the last 5-7 seasons) and the rays maintain then there's very little way they CAN'T compete for WC or ALE title.

of course, if BOS gives another 900 AB to a .220 hitting ortiz and a .160 hitting catcher then who knows

if ortiz can lay off when it's down and away I foresee great things

"What about Mike Lowell"? Beltre said. "I aint any better player than Mike Lowell, I'll tell you that."

if Papelbon gets shook again then LOL angels

TB had a lot of things go their way in 08 but they're still probably the 3rd best team in the AL and they still have a bunch of good prospects in the high minors to bring up. they'd be tearing up any other division in baseball long-term. xxxp

agreed on TB

the east will even get uglier if baltimore pops in two years and toronto close behind

ya... not sure abt toronto just yet.
and i say this as someone who has forgiven that team for, literally, everything over the years (since '77 tbp).

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2010/04/01/cleaned_up_hitter/

"'I probably smoked two joints, drank about three or four beers, got to the ballpark, took some (amphetamines), took a pain pill, drank a cup of coffee, chewed some tobacco, had a cigarette, and got up to the plate and hit,' Carbo said."

http://mlb.mlb.com/bos/images/email/y2010/jordans_650x400.jpg

i wonder where exactly the sign is

ok, it's the small blue sign w/white lettering in the top middle of this pic:

http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/03/31/fenway539.jpg

extremely unlikely imo

See, they WILL score runs, at least off mediocre staffs like the Yankees'.

Between Pedro, Tyler, and Neil, I'm surprised they didn't roll Ted's frozen head out there.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/everyone-in-red-sox-locker-room-just-assumed-jason,17195/

BOSTON—Catcher Jason Varitek's entrance into the Boston clubhouse Tuesday was punctuated by startled shouts and the clatter of dropped objects, as his Red Sox teammates explained that they had all just assumed the veteran player had died. "I could have sworn he died after the All-Star break," second baseman Dustin Pedroia, who sent flowers and a card to Varitek's family, told reporters. "I don't remember seeing him on base at all last season, much less in the lineup or catching. I thought that's why we got Victor [Martinez], because Jason was dead. Right?" Though Pedroia insisted that it was good to see his teammate again, he was still not entirely convinced that Varitek was not dead after watching him take a round of batting practice.

funny part is the first pedroia quote is totally plausible

victor martinez beastin tonight

when's papi's contract up? dude is a wreck.

"Shit happens. Then you guys talk shit. Two fucking games already. Motherfuckers are going crazy. What's up with that, man? Shit. There's fucking 160 games left. Y'all fuckers go ahead and hit for me."

this is it, since there's no way the 2011 club option is getting picked up.

did you fill in the cusses yourself or did you find this uncensored somewhere

i filled in the blanks then googled

tbh i'm not that worried about him yet. if it werent opening day he wouldnt be starting vs sabathia, and he hasnt been hitting the ball well but he's only struck out once. and its only two games into the season.

"Shit happens. Then you guys talk shit. Two fucking games already. Motherfuckers are going crazy. What's up with that, man? Shit. There's fucking 160 games left. Y'all fuckers go ahead and hit for me."

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, April 7, 2010 1:29 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

roid rage

nice..i dont get YES despite living like 40 blocks from yankee stadium and espn is blacking out the game since im in market

ayyy papi

Papi's getting boo'd, huh?

i hope the bullpen can hold this first inning 4-0 lead we've worked up on KC...

who the fuck is bill hall

more jeremy hermida i think?

what the fuck is bill hall doing at ss

bill hall? ex-brewer who raked for a couple years and then died?

bill hall hasn't played ss since 06

A Callaspo safe at second on error by shortstop B Hall, S Podsednik scored.

he dropped a fly ball!

omg really

it's funny cause that basically makes him a bad outfielder, not a bad shortstop (though i'm sure he is that too)

haha, Bill Hall is from near here (Nettleton, MS) and the local paper was all Hall-this and Hall-that until the last couple of years when he turned EEEEVILLLL

when i finally actually saw that play it wasn't really hall's fault, ellsbury should have made it - it was a communication thing more than anything

hall played SS, LF and RF yesterday, fact fans

papi!

CAUGHT STEALING Ortiz (1)

waht

yeah he just went. announcers had no idea either.

it was respectably close fwiw

oh i was surprised he got on base tbh

it was a walk i think

hermida btw!

ain't no love

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-people-jay-z-ortizlawsuit

The Rockies are really going for it now.

A lot more Rockies fans are distraught at this deal than pleased. Manny could be a decent reclamation project for the pitching staff which has repeatedly proved itself with players like Jorge De La Rosa, Jason Hammel, Matt Belisle among others. However, CB-M was playing well and projected solidly, and only the relative depth of pitching prospects on our affiliates softens the blow. Personally, from what little I know, I think it's a shrewd pick-up by Boston and a good reading of the Rockies farm.

I read that he only throws in the upper 80s/mid 90s. Hes also a little bit old for A-ball. If I were a Rockies fan I wouldnt get bent out of shape. Still feel like the WC is going to be either Phillies or SF.

by mid 90s I mean low 90s.

yay manny d. is off our hands!

MDC occasionally looked really dominant with that changeup, if someone can fix him to be like that all the time then you've probably got a good closer

Yeah he certainly wasn't the worst of the bullpen by a long shot.

no, but he's been getting worse for two years now. maybe he's a change of scenery guy but i don't think he was going to find himself in boston.

is it patriots or bruins time yet?

maybe we'll finally get to see lars anderson now that he's a bust and they don't need to preserve his service time

IIRC, it usually comes down to:
best leadoff man 1st
best overall hitter second
another high OBP/low GIDP guy 3rd
best overall slugger 4th

worst hitter bats eighth

― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Monday, August 30, 2010 6:46 PM (2 days ago)

there's a thread on this!

1st: speed (lefty or switch), high obp
2nd: lefty, high obp
3rd: best hitter (OPS/VORP) on team
4th: best slugger on team

That's why Francoeur hit 4th for the Mets last night.

actually the weirdest thing that comes out of the lineup analysis stuff is that the #3 spot in the lineup is actually the 5th most important spot after 2,4,1,5, and is best suited for low average sluggers e.g. david ortiz, jim thome, etc. the reason is that they come up with 2 outs and no men on base a bit more often than the other slots, so a home run slightly increases in value from that slot while a non-HR hit slightly decreases in value.

it's extremely marginal though and if you have your best hitter in the 3-hole you're probably losing no more than a run or 2 per season

a lot of teams still get the all-important 1&2 hitters all wrong which is a much bigger inefficiency than anything you'll get out of more detailed lineup optimization

LOL at Papelbon opening the floodgates by watching Quentin take (an uncovered) second base on a bloop to shallow center.

Then the bottom fell out. Carlos Quentin doubled to no-man’s land in shallow center, where the infielders and rookie outfielder Ryan Kalish converged but nobody could get to the ball. Quentin raced into second where nobody was covering — and Rios scored. Papelbon should have been at second.

“Yeah, I think he would have been safe regardless,’’ Papelbon said.

Quentin took second because nobody was there, dipshit.

lester killin it

The door is open, Sox, the Stanks are swoonin'.

6 games left vs the bombers o_O

Sox' raw playoff odds at 0.25%. I wonder what sweeping the Stanks wd raise it to?

they'd have to take 5 or 6 of the 6 remaining

i think the A's are more likely to make the playoffs than the red sox right now

i just had that open and through you were right -- you're not, it's 0.26% chance Sox and 0.15% chance Rangers. still.

0.15% A's, you get the idea. i'd love to see that surprise upset.. OR WOULD I.

Sox odds up to 1.13%!

well its almost bruins time.

thank god its over.

dont really mind, lots of fun teams to bandwagon for the postseason this year