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Kielty Remains!

Bobby Kielty will, in fact, report to AAA Pawtucket this season rather than opting-out of his deal with the Sox. I'm down with this.

Elsewhere in the baseball world, some baseball things happened today. Eric Gagne blew a save, the Tigers' bullpen, surprise of surprises, cost them a winnable game against the Royals, the 2008 edition of the Orioles*gasp*lost a baseball game. Anyone else find it interesting that in the first game at the Nationals' new ballpark, there was a pitchers' duel involving Odalis F'n Perez and the game was won on a walk-off HR by the face of the franchise. MLB couldn't have scripted Opening Night in D.C. to go any better.

Overheard about the Red Sox's performance in their last exhibition game in Los Angeles:

"That's all we got? One goddamn hit?"

"You can't say goddamn on the air."

"Don't worry... nobody's listening anyway."

Agreed, Mike Lowell. Agreed.

Agreed, Mike Lowell. Agreed.

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I love this time of year!!

Erik Bedard starts his time with the Mariners by striking out the first batter, then giving up a homer to Michael Young (Rangers). He gets a ND in Seattle's 5-2 win.

Gagne did indeed blow a save...a three run homer to the new Cub, Kosuke Fukudome in the bottom of the ninth. But the Brewers went on to win, 4-3...the battle between these two teams will be quite fun to watch.

The Nats are the first 2-0 team...and have won both games in the ninth inning (the second, by scoring five runs off of the Phillies' suspect bullpen)

Two teams failed to score any runs on opening day. The hapless Giants lost 5-0, giving Joe Torre his first win as a Dodger and Jake Peavy cruised, pitching 7 innings, hitting an RBI and beating the Astros 4-0

Crazy game of the day goes to Pittsburgh and the Braves - Tom Glavine had an mediocre start, giving up two runs, one earned in 5 innings and allowing 7 hits. However, after the Pirates scored 4 in the eigth and one in the ninth to break open the score, 9-4, the Braves stormed back to score five in the bottom of the inning. It took an Xavier Nady three-run homer in the 12th and some desperation baseball in the bottom of the 12th to lead the Pirates to victory 12-11. Btw, the Braves fall to 0-2.

by jamesvw on Apr 1, 2008 2:41 AM EDT reply actions  

My sister

has season tix to the Braves this year, and is not the biggest fan of losses or extra-inning games. She got the worst of both, unfortunately.

"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Julius Erving is a doctor?"

by Allen Chace on Apr 1, 2008 3:12 AM EDT up reply actions  

What's up with that?

The Braves played on game in Washngton, then flew off to face the Bucs? Weird.

Manny ain't the only bad man.

by tommy.otm on Apr 1, 2008 8:58 AM EDT up reply actions  

I played high school and college basketball with 2 guys who were both 6'8" and nobody ever worked with them. Every year these tall lanky guys would show up and nobody thought they had potential. Now, I cannot take the credit, but all i did was invite the guys to play on some of the summer teams I played on and these guys became monsters. One guy, Eric or Big E as we called him went from weighing 218 to 245 in a year, all muscle and he was a freak, dunking everything after someone started working with him. I believe Big E went to Japan and made 250k a year playing ball over in one of the Pacific leagues...

...my point...Odalis Perez is like Big E., nobody ever really worked with him or realized his potential. A lefty with 4 pitches? umm...yes please we have a spot somewhere. How about we trade Javier Lopez for O. Perez and convert O.P. to the pen. =)

Okie was an average player in Japan, then someone started to work with him and now he is a giant killer. I like O. Perez., maybe I am wrong but this guy should be better.

by SoxAcumen on Apr 1, 2008 6:46 PM EDT reply actions  

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