Red Sox

[Yankee_Vol]

Nice throw from 3rd

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Lets go Yankees chant in fenway. Ow.

[amazingGRACE]

Ciriaco is 10-12 with 6RBI in his last 3 starts. I'd say that's a pleasant surprise.

[ionaVOL]

Originally Posted by V4L

Ciriaco is 10-12 with 6RBI in his last 3 starts. I'd say that's a pleasant surprise.

Someone must have told him it was spring training all over again.

Good to see Ellsbury back in the lineup last night along with Middlebrooks.

Buchholz is back tonight, hopefully Gonzalez joins him and we have a somewhat normal looking major league lineup in place.

Crawford played 9 innings last night, will play 9 again tonight and then debut on Monday at Fenway against Youk and the White Sox if all goes according to plan.

Also I saw that Bryce Brentz homered in both ends of a double header yesterday.

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Hits at fenway since trade : youk 3 Middlebrooks 5

[Toujours Pret]

Originally Posted by Dbake005

Hits at fenway since trade : youk 3 Middlebrooks 5

Youkilis was a cancer on the team, has been for a few years. Good riddance to bad trash.

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Lol

[Toujours Pret]

Lol all you want. I understand its easy for the classes of '04 and '07 to love Youkilis.

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How was bad-trash-cancer?

[amazingGRACE]

Maannnnn I really hope Papi doesn't go to the DL. Was having one of the best years of his career.

On a positive note, it's great to see Ellsbury and Crawford back in the outfield.

[ionaVOL]

Originally Posted by V4L

Maannnnn I really hope Papi doesn't go to the DL. Was having one of the best years of his career.

On a positive note, it's great to see Ellsbury and Crawford back in the outfield.

3 steals from Crawford? Was starting to think I'd never see that again.

On another note, Lester is looking pretty awful and making it pretty clear that this team needs to be a factor at the trade deadline to either improve starting pitching or start selling assets and play for next year.

[amazingGRACE]

Originally Posted by ionaVOL

3 steals from Crawford? Was starting to think I'd never see that again.

On another note, Lester is looking pretty awful and making it pretty clear that this team needs to be a factor at the trade deadline to either improve starting pitching or start selling assets and play for next year.

How do you feel about Dempster? I wouldn't mind it but I don't know who we'd give.

[ionaVOL]

Originally Posted by V4L

How do you feel about Dempster? I wouldn't mind it but I don't know who we'd give.

I'd pass personally. This team needs young starting pitching IMO, not giving up prospects and/or spending more money on retreads.

Perfect world, I wish they could swap Beckett, Lester, Buchholz, Lackey for King Felix. Those 4 guys I can't even stand anymore, just bad attitudes bringing the whole team down IMO. I think individually they can all be good, but they are just complacent and/or lazy. Its just ridiculous how much money they make for the return the Sox are getting. So sickening.

/rant.

On another note, just got this heads up from my boy who is a huge Marlins fan...

@BNightengale "The #RedSox insist they are not shopping Crawford, but don't deny that #Marlins and possibly others have approached them."

Edit: Fun while it lasted, apparently the Sox are asking for Reyes or Hanley in return, not likely to say the least.

[amazingGRACE]

All 10 runs tonight came from Ross and AGon.

Ross thought he had a 3rd home run and gave a nice little bat flip but the ball hit the monster Lol.

[ionaVOL]

Pedroia is back tonight and Buchholz is starting in place of Morales who is back in the pen. Morales said he is indebted to Bobby V for giving him a shot in the rotation and letting him show people what he is capable of. For now he is a second lefty out of the pen, but a great option to plug into the rotation at some point if needed.

I'm taking a shot at guessing the lineup tonight with Petey back against lefty Jose Quintana...

Ellsbury - CF (L)
Crawford - LF (L)
Pedroia - 2B (R)
Gonzalez - 1B (L)
Ross - RF (R)
Middlebrooks - 3B (R)
Salty - C (S)
Gomez - DH (R)
Aviles - SS (R)



Also, where has Jmoore been? He had better be on some tropical vacation or something, he brings a lot of great info that I am way too lazy to look for hah!