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Happy Patriots Day!
Commented Apr 19, 2010 on Patriot's Day Special: Rays-Sox Gamer IV at YFSF
Patriot's Day Special: Rays-Sox Gamer IV
Based on how they are playing right now, all we can think of related to the Sox and marathons is this. Hopefully today's game goes better and the Sox finish the season as well as Grete finished her races. Comment about the action here.
It's so early though. Mark my words, too early to overreact. This coming from a YF who was all doom and gloom early in the season last year.
Commented Apr 19, 2010 on Patriot's Day Special: Rays-Sox Gamer IV at YFSF
Patriot's Day Special: Rays-Sox Gamer IV
Based on how they are playing right now, all we can think of related to the Sox and marathons is this. Hopefully today's game goes better and the Sox finish the season as well as Grete finished her races. Comment about the action here.
Sweeptastic.
Commented Apr 19, 2010 on Sweep Dreams: Rangers-Yanks Gamer III at YFSF
Sweep Dreams: Rangers-Yanks Gamer III
Joe Girardi is sitting The Captain because Jeter sounds like Tom Carvel circa 1986. True story. Girardi is benching Jeter because of the sound of his voice. Look it up on Lohud. Meanwhile, the Yanks and Rangers have already started. Pettitte versus Harden. Comment away!
If umpires are getting quoted in the press, then in my opinion, someone at the league office is not doing his/her job. Umps should be in the background, not a part of the story, and not impacting the outcome of the game.
Commented Apr 9, 2010 on Joe Dirt at YFSF
Joe Dirt
Umpire Joe West calls out the Sox and Yanks: "They're the two clubs that don't try to pick up the pace," said West, chief of the umpiring crew that worked the three-game series in Boston. He was the home plate umpire Sunday. "They're two of the best teams in baseball. Why are they playing the sl...
The difference in this series ended up being better bullpen performance by the Yankees.
Dis Theo all you want, but on paper the Sox have a whole lot of pitching talent in that bullpen. Trading one of your best young relief pitchers to Martinez, who is not the long term solution for the Sox at catcher, was a mistake in my opinion.
Mariano Rivera is a freak. Thank god he's a Yankee.
Commented Apr 8, 2010 on Rubber Match: Yanks-Sox Gamer III at YFSF
Rubber Match: Yanks-Sox Gamer III
The saying has been for some time that the Halos had the Yankees number. At least in the case of John Lackey, for some reason the Angels didn't give him the digits. But that's history; he's for Boston now, bringing his remarkably consistent and excellent pitching career to Fenway for his first st...
Why not try Lowell at DH for a few games?
Commented Apr 8, 2010 on 5-6-7 at YFSF
5-6-7
Ok, so three games isn't enough to yank someone from the lineup, and it's certainly not enough to start panicking about David Ortiz, who looks horrible every time he steps to the plate. But surely we can all agree that David Ortiz is no longer the man who needs to be batting directly behind Kevi...
Going to be a great season.
Go Yanks.
Commented Apr 7, 2010 on Another Long Night? Yanks-Sox Gamer II at YFSF
Another Long Night? Yanks-Sox Gamer II
It is not surprising that the two teams scored 16 runs combined in the season opener. These teams averaged over 11 runs combined spanning the 18 games last season. A.J. Burnett had one decent outing against the Red Sox in the Bronx August 7th of last season. In his other three starts, he was clob...
People are overreacting to his start so far for sure.
Also, why is he even batting against a lefty with the game on the line?
Commented Apr 7, 2010 on Another way to say "small sample size" at YFSF
Another way to say "small sample size"
David Ortiz sounds off: "Two [expletive] games already and you mother [expletives] are going crazy. What's up with that, man. [Expletive]. There's 160 games left. Ain't that [an expletive]." h/t Baseball Think Factory
I wouldn't express those concerns about Santana because he's in the NL East.
Commented Apr 6, 2010 on Beckett and Santana at YFSF
Beckett and Santana
Here's a hypothetical: What would the reaction be if the Sox had signed Johan Santana to a five-year, $80 million deal -- which is basically what the Red Sox have committed to Josh Beckett -- this offseason? Given some of the concern I've seen expressed about Beckett's ability to be effective fo...
I have a feeling this is going to be a really fun season. Sox looked deeper, and stronger on opening night than they were at any point last year.
I think that whichever of these two teams stays healthier will win this division.
Commented Apr 6, 2010 on Things We Like: Sox-Yanks Postmortem at YFSF
Things We Like: Sox-Yanks Postmortem
So as not to detract from SF's wonderful picture show in the post immediately following, the rest of this will be after the jump. Things to take away from, remember or otherwise relish from last night's Opening "Day" win: The three new guys in the Sox' lineup: 5 for 9, two runs, three RBI, on...
You guys should set up an Amazon referral account so you get a piece of the referrals this generates.
I'll read this as soon as they make a Kindle version available.
Commented Apr 6, 2010 on 90% of the Game is Half Mental at YFSF
90% of the Game is Half Mental
It's with great pleasure that we report the publication of Emma Span's 90% of the Game Is Half Mental. As longtime readers know, Emma's been an occasional contributor to and old friend of YFSF for years, and always one of the funniest, smartest, coolest voices of the baseball blogosphere. Th...
Results matter?
Commented Apr 6, 2010 on Oops. at YFSF
Oops.
So you thought Chan-Ho Park had a bad night? Joe West begs to differ:
I look forward to watching Beckett's inevitable decline under this deal. Looked like his fastball is already in decline Sunday.
Commented Apr 6, 2010 on Suck on Opening Day, Then Get $68 Million at YFSF
Suck on Opening Day, Then Get $68 Million
Ok, so that's not entirely fair -- or fair at all, actually -- but Josh Beckett has agreed to a four-year, $68 million extension with the Red Sox, joining Jon Lester, John Lackey and Clay Buchholz under team control through 2014.
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