Begins today at 2PM.

My outlook: Beckett with blow it, followed by having another shit year.

i'm not excited for baseball at all. :(

I'm still in Bruins/Celtics mode myself.

English Premier League or bust

Beckett had a shitty year? maybe by his standards, but not by the league's standards

Disappointing year. Especially after the year he had 2 years ago. Definitely a shitty year for a "top-notch" pitcher.

Personally I think there should be mines and other dangerous obstacles on the field to make things more exciting.

"oooh, Manny is running towards home!!" *boom!* "Aww didn't make it.. but his head!" did!

One thing I must say though.. the Red Sox relief pitching (especially 7th-8th inning) has the possibility to be lights out all season long.

Ortiz? He'll suck. If you look at his stats, they line up perfectly with the roid era. He's been a stiff for a while now. 28hr, 101RBI this year. I'd hope 45hr, 130RBI this year but I doubt it. Hopefully his .avg will be above 300.

i can't believe baseball is dropping to my 4th favorite out of the 4 big sports. i never thought basketball would overtake it, but it is.

what a negative nancy lol

EDIT: that was at aril

They will get rained out today anyway.

haha, one must be negative to be a Sox Fan.

not after '04

What you talking about? Fenway's got a retractable roof now?

True, but after losing to the Rays last year and with the powerhouse Yankees this year, the negativity is sinking in again.

lol I'm surprised Lucchino hasn't done that yet

then he could hang people by the legs from the roof and charge $100 for the spectacular, unique view.

Get on it, Larry.

the Yankees will falter again....putting together teams like they do doesn't work in baseball anymore

they'll start out like a house of fire then fizzle out IMO

hell, look at the Redskins, they do the same thing and haven't gone anywhere either

It's gonna:

Sweet, my work is raffling tickets off for Thursday's game. I wrote "MCGUNK" on a piece of paper

EEI just announced the game is postponed till tomorrow

Due to the near certainty of heavy rain in the Boston area this afternoon, today's Red Sox-Rays Opening Day game at Fenway Park has been postponed to tomorrow, Red Sox president Larry Lucchino said this morning on Boston sports radio station WEEI. It will be played at 4:05 p.m. tomorrow afternoon.

More to come ...

damn you

HAHA I BEATCHU

I beat all of you

NUH UH.....unless you are psychic

You will post in this thread again.

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i'm excited for this season, i love watching baseball.

there will def be some porchsitting with radio baseball this summer

haha excellent.

I'm wicked excited that baseball is starting again. Can't wait to listen to games on the radio all the time. The Sox are gonna be fuckin sick this year. Fuck the "powerhouse Yankees."

Of course, for as long as the Cs and Bs are in the playoffs that is all that really matters. Only then will baseball be worthy of undivided attention.

that's pretty awesome with a Sam Summer....baseball on radio > baseball on TV

agreed although i do appreaciate a good remy rambling every so often

Predictions for the 2009 season:

- I will be bored stupid with baseball for several months.
- The Yankees will face injuries to a handful of key players and trade away all their minor league prospects for whatever big name is on the trading block.
- Curt Schilling still can't wait to tell you what he thinks about stuff.
- Dustin Pedroia will continue to be the fucking man.
- Gullible people will still continue to be mad at Manny Ramirez for no real reason.
- Girls will attend baseball games that they lack the ability to comprehend.
- Larry Luchino will block out the sun in a Mr. Burns-esque display of super villainy.
- The supposed ticket price freeze (probably the most backhanded favor ever) will be made up for in a 300% increase in concession prices.
- I will complain about baseball, but still follow it every day, goto games whenever I get the opportunity, and scream at the TV whenever applicable.

Remy is the man....if it weren't for him and D.O., I wouldn't watch the games on TV at all

not at friendly fenway. they have a concession price freeze also, with a discount on food for fans who get to the games early.

I guess the reason why I'm negative about the sox is again is due to my Dysthymic disorder. Viewing the glass half empty ftw

this isn't so much a prediction as it is a statement of fact

i'm negative about baseball. all the steroids and asterisks in the record books are getting me down. maybe i'll snap out of it when the summer hits, but i just don't love baseball like i used to. i'll really miss hockey once the playoffs are over.

As of now I'm much more concerned with Bruins and then the Celts. I really don't get into Baseball until All-Star Break. I'll definately watch and follow, read the globe (if it's still in print) but Baseball isn't Baseball until August.
I'm baffled that they're opening at home this early. I'm also baffled by the surge in pink hats....I know a bunch of girls having opening day parties but still don't know shit about Rich Gedman, the toilet stance or Scott Cooper hitting the cycle.

btw, what's the rotation for the Yankees look like??

Fat Albert Sabathia, Wang, Pettitte, Burnett, Joba

that's way too much pressure for Sabathia.

petitte=old
burnett=brittle
joba=terrible and uglier than a bag full of assholes
wang=good if he's healthy, not as brittle as burnett
sabathia=fat but good

got tix for the aug 11 yanks game

and eascost college students will buy tons of redsox gear to wear to local bars and dave matthews shows.

aww come on man! where's your team spirit? I'm always for them cause they're the best team in baseball no matter what. Red Sox are one of the few traditional saving graces of living in New England for me. Brings back many childhood memories and I love going up to Fenway. I will be there 4/22 for Twins@Sox. They are going to have a great season I just know it.

I hate the Yankees jeter is a fag and I scoff violently at anyone with a Yankees hat on haha that's die hard sox support!

haha, sorry. I honestly hope well for the Sox this year. I've lost confidence in some players though, Beckett being one, Papi the other.
Ellsbury I'm still"meh" about and I never liked GayClay. We will see though, I'm usually wrong about things.

jd drew will continue to frustrate me with injuries.

Bay will a have fantastic season this year.

LOL RAINED OUT BASEBALLFAGGOTS.


SOCCER IS A MAN'S SPORT. BASEBALL IS FOR FAGS.

After one subpar year, that came after one Cy Young caliber year, that came after a year where he was self-admittedly stubborn and would throw nothing but fastballs and gave up a lot of HRs, and you're ready to write off Beckett entirely? That's very, very harsh.

Papi, I can see....I've kinda lost confidence in him too.

Ellsbury is awesome....leave Man Who Runs Like Lightning ALONE!!

Buchholz just hasn't put it together yet, but if his spring is any indication (I don't put much stock is spring training performance, but he looked GOOD), then he'll be in the majors sooner rather than later and fooling dudes with his huge curve

Beckett gets hurt way too much!!!

untrue....he had a blister problem in Florida that he has since corrected, and besides the playoffs last year has been hurt much at all since coming to Boston

GS since he came here: 33, 30, 27

that's a lot

I'm hoping he has another great year. But then again, you'll never know. I just don't have FULL confidence in him like I used to. We'll see.

Also, DICEK. Hopefully he can learn to keep his pitch count a little lower.

Dice has to stop trying to hit the corners all the time....although last year, walking the bases loaded strangely worked very well for him....lol

its almost like he HAS to be in a big jam to pitch to his full potential

I'm excited for this season. It's my first year of doing fantasy baseball and I have Pedroia, Pap, and Lowell.

I think Jason Bay will lead the team in hits and Pedroia will lead in RBI's. Papi will be slow out of the gate until maybe late May or June. The bullpen will rape people all season.

haha, tonight for the yankees:

CC Sabathia
P H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
4.1 8 6 6 5 0 0 96-50 12.46

eh, I knew the format would fuck up. oh well. 6 ER in 4.1IP

he needs to get on base at a decent clip, first.

thank you for making my night!

I'm confident the injin will come around

which will most certainly be combined with puerto rican children knife fighting the the street.

it'd put a lot of lineup concerns to rest.

somebody just handed me a ticket for tomorrow night's game. epic win

hopefully they save it for the 7th inning stretch

jackpot. free ticket to tomorrow's game with the hot office girl and 2 others. I've got the luck of Mat from WoT these days

biggest improvement this season is that the news casters are calling strikeouts as Punchouts now! Beckett beat the shit out of 10 guys in their face today! Great start to the season, what a game.

beckett did great yesterday.
let's hope they don't get slapped around tonight by Kazmir. if they do, i'll be heckling them behind the dugout. great tickets, can't wait.

I actually think they figured Kazmir out last year, or so it seemed.

Lester today, correct? COUNT IT!

yea.. hopefully he'll do better than his last spring outting. he sucked

spring doesn't mean much

I think the Sox are way better than the Rays this year. They rays were playing top-notch baseball when we played them in the playoffs, but over all I don't think they can compare to the depth of our pitching and the little things that make the Red Sox win games.

Mr. Negative has completely changed his tune already? lol

I mean
I think the Sox suck compared to the Rays this year. They Sox showed their true colors during the playoffs when the Rays smashed them. I think their staff is overrated and they don't know what it takes to win games.

that's more like it hahah

CALLED IT

Break in thread:
Vagina.

Papelbon was great last night.

7-0 vs yankees this year so far. can't get any better than that.

I'm glad beckett is back to his old self.

how about wakefield? 8-3. dude is 44 years old and still has it.

biggest disappointment so far: big papi (obviously), dice-k's subpar performances, JD Drew still not being worth his paycheck, and the away record.

other than that, fucking solid pitching staff and pen right now. i'm feeling it again this year.. they got potential

WUT??

went to the game on Tuesday, it was awesome. we had seats under the second tier so no weather to worry about. of course Papi hits the homerun when i am taking a leak. even though i already knew about it i still could not believe my eyes when i saw 8 bucks for a cup of Bud Light/Miller Lite. i'd rather a cup full of sulfuric acid.

good to see my cousin is still active in sports.

that's why you gotta do what that guy did in that taco bell commercial, except replace the nachos with beer. you know, the one with the "pregnant" dude.

I hope fenway burns down hahaha

Fenway is NOT designed for the very tall. i had a terrible time trying to fit in the seats.

yea.. I know what you mean. I had to sit with my legs in the aisle once. was annoying as fuck.
but that's the problem with fenway: they want to keep it as it was with upgrades here and there. I wish they would either build a roof that can retract, or add some nice seats that aren't from 1921

I'm fat, so I hear ya about fitting into the seats, but I still think you can't beat the experience...and I've been to other stadiums, the experience doesn't compare IMO

nothing compares to the atmosphere at fenway.
"getcha sports bah heah!"
"peanuts heah!"
"blowjobs heah! getcha blowjob heah!"

lol yea, that's part of the charm of the park

I'm really starting to hate Dice-K. I think him and Brad Penny are atrocious this year.

Hate Dice-K? You've brought it to that point already?

He is a pretty boring pitcher to watch, only because he takes his sweet-ass time and likes to load the count. The key to him is if he can get to the 7th inning with 80 or more pitches. Pitching 100+ pitches by the 5th inning doesn't cut it. I could do that shit.

Brad Penny is doing fine for a bargaining chip pitcher, but yeah D-Mat is a fucking D-Bag and needs to be traded they would clean up if they traded him earlier in the year but now he's garbage.

they need a solid SS and if Ortiz is still not hitting the rest of the month they def need one more big bat, i dont see why they dont let some of those young guns come up from triple a and give them a go wouldnt be any worse then Ortiz and might actually show they can play in the bigs.

solid middle of the line up though shits crazy.

I think Nick Green is doing a decent job at SS but he's not an every day starter. I heard a rumor the Sox were looking at Jack Wilson from the Pirates. That would be great.

Aril, I only dislike Dice-K so much right now because every time he pitches, he's only slightly better than Ching-Ming Wang. He gives up way too many walks, especially when he's already ahead in the count. It's so annoying. He's not worth the amount of money we spent on him. Hell, he's not even worth sticking in the bullpen.

I think Dice-K's got potential to rebound. He's got good stuff but he has had horrible location since he got back off the DL. His last start was strange because he had excellent location, but everyone hit his pitches. He has to find a happy median somewhere and learn to work the corners more.

Actually I think the Yankees are going through the same thing with their Japanese star - Matsui. They are obviously phasing him out. He plays DH now due to his past injuries and he also ended a 0-16 slump last night against the sox. Dude's only batting .250 this year.

Nick Green isnt even a solid backup, he's helped make our infield horrible. well him and that 9million dollar weight sitting on our bench but yeah Lowrie needs to come back fast. i mean he's no power guy but he's solid on the field, we need a good pedoria on the leftside of the infield.

you know someone who can bat 285 15hr 85 rbi and like 20 sb thats got some range in the field thats all im asking for doesnt have to be gold glove but fuck even john valentin would be better then the doods out on the field right now.

john valentin ftw.

any of you guys ever call EEI? I'm seriously thinking about it.
'you wassup, love ya show, first time callah, long time listenah. lemme tell you somethin you little prick.." Can't wait.

LOL i tried to once but they kept me on hold for 15mins so i hung up

"W3 on a cell, whats up?"
"come see in the shit tonight.."

rather have Green than Lugo...in fact, when Lowrie gets back, I hope they cut Lugo and eat his money

Dice's problem (except for his last game) has always been that he tries to strike every batter out by trying to get swings and misses...he's gotta get it through his stubborn head that in the majors, most batters won't swing at that stuff...he should pitch to contact much, much more (which he did his last start, but his stuff wasn't as good as it usually is)

i think half of dice's problem is all mental. he always looks intimidated when he's pitching. dude needs to relax, listen to some Sigh or Abigail and clear his mind.
he's 1-4 right now, let's hope he can finish the season 11-8 or 13-9, 17-4(yea right)

I don't think that's it...at least not the "intimidated" part

I just think he needs to stop thinking he can strike every batter out...hopefully, he doesn't revert to that in his next start because the Rangers had 10 hits on him when he actually threw over the plate

I sincerely hope he doesn't follow in the footsteps of Hideo Nomo. Dude was great his first couple of years, then sucks horribly after that.

well Nomo i think had surgery on his elbow, and then kinda started getting his shit back i mean he did throw a no no for the sox.

d-bag just needs to stop listening to everyone and pitch the way he did last year if he's gonna take a million years inbetween each pitch i dont care as long as he's getting outs and getting us wins.

-8-0 vs nyy now
-ortiz 3hr in past 5 games
-saito has been much better
-i know hope we don't trade penny away

that win last night looked like a win from back in like 2004 when they'd be down late in the game, then their bullpen (Saito)/defense (Baldelli) would bail them out, and everything else would go right....awesome game

as good as Penny has looked lately, he might have stamped his ticket outta here with that performance last night....his trade value most likely will never be as high as it is right now

yeah thats what i was thinking lastnight. too bad to cause he's looking solid and in all honesty we dont know what we got with bucholz and smoltz yet theyre killing it down in the minors. which to me means jack shit till theyre up in the bigs crushing it.

trade clay boy and get some goods

Hahaha pathetic. Season is starting to look like 2006. We are done!

haahahahahaha @ Ortiz. Fuckin juicer. MLB = cry baby twats

want a mulligan on that one

Smoltz is a joke. God I fucking hate him.

red sox haven't scored a run in 30 innings. this is getting pathetic.

on a good note, the WRKO/WEEI sound guy was playing the Devin Townshend Band in the background. I heard some 'shuggah last night too. What a job for a metalhead to have.

Say goodbye to winning the division.

going to tomorrows game.

V MART fuck yea

ABOUT FUCKING TIME

damon and teixeira.... fuck you

Tazawa starting tonight. Will he do well?

basketball/football season needs to fucking start now.

gotta be better than Smolttz starting tonight....don't worry though, if he does bad I'll leave him in for too long, and if he's doing good I'll take him out early(when his pitch count gets around 100)

Biggest troll ever. Fucking dude got us 2 championships. Never understood all the haters

Well, the Sox season is over. Bring on the Patriots.

Yea right. Still got a month and a half

Time has been flying. Month and a half is like a week to me lately.

wow...baseball season really flies when you're not paying any attention to it.

Too much time with the new girlfriend, eh?

How did you know I got a new gal pal?

I'm a fag, I follow European soccer. Takes up all of my allotted sports capacity.

agreed...every move he makes has a logical reason behind it...no matter if you agree with him or not

this season is far from over...Yankees could bomb out....and I don't see the Sox offense staying this bad for the rest of the season

Also, I figured when I went to a game and saw a no-hitter, nothing would really live up to that for baseball for me.

understand this: the TEAM won us 2 championships...it had little to nothing to do with tito other than he kept friendly w/ all the players. I challenge you to come up w/ one decision he made that led to either of those championships besides sticking w/ Pedroia during his slow start.he's a players coach and 1 more season of the type of decision making he's made this year AND HE'LL BE RUN OUT OF TOWN!

2 off the top of my head:

1) starting Ellsbury over Crisp in the 2007 playoff/WS run
2) starting an unproven David Ortiz (I know when he first got here he was sharing time with Jeremy Giambi, but NO ONE saw him doing anything until Francona started him)

I kicked ass with Jeremy Giambi in MVP 2007...or 2006...I forget.

touche',
just pissing about his pitching decision...especially lately. I think when you get to crunch time in the season as we are now the pitch count should be reconsidered if the pitcher is in the zone and if a game is getting out of hand , don't let the dude keep pitching!!!!

I must have been on peyote. I don't remember ever posting that.

2 rebuttals to that: you shouldn't mortgage your future on one game, so keeping a tight pitch count for some pitchers is the right thing to do....and I think Tito wants to show he has confidence in guys that they can get out of jams, which doesn't always pay off (read: Smoltz x infinity)

its important though...if you take a guy out every time he gets in a jam, the pitcher will lose confidence in you, which is the worst thing that can happen to a coach/manager...but if you leave them in in a jam and they get out of it, his confidence (both in himself and in the manager) will go through the roof

case in point: Jon Lester...he'd get into jams pretty much every inning it seemed for the first 2 years in the majors, and was able to get out of 99% of them...I personally think he wouldn't be the pitcher he is right now if Tito had taken him out every time he was in a big pressure situation

haha you did somewhere. There's no other way I'd know that shit otherwise

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/reds..._bases/2009/08/sox_acquire_ale.html

Red Sox just traded for Alex Gonzo. If anyone remembers him it's because he's a vacuum at shortstop.

^^^^^^^this outa save us

Defense is important, yes, but we need our offense to really kick it into gear if we're even gonna win the Wild Card.

Sox should trade Ortiz and Varitek for someone who can actually hit....

fuck yeah!

KTime to end all chances of a wild card slot after we loose the Texas series again this week! Fucking ridiculous.

Ok maybe not. That was a 9th inning rally and a half. Martinez welcome to Boston. Fuck yeah.

after releasing smoltz, his era is in the .8 range or something and he's piling up the strikouts.
after releasing brad penny (who hasn't won a game since june mind you) he throws 8 shutout innings for the giants.

is this because they can't play under pressure in boston, or is it a testament to how much better the American league is to the National league?

either way, imma act like none of this happened.

hahaha, I said this in april. let's see how close I am to the truth on this one!

hah, been quite the opposite. started out horrible, now they're tearing it up.

the Yankees can't stay this good for the rest of the season...since the All Star Break they've only lost 11 games...that's an insane pace, they can't possibly keep that up

The Dice is back

he did well tonight. looked like he was gonna cry when they took him out, wtf..