Game Thread 6-10-08
by Drugs Delaney
on Jun 10, 2008 6:05 PM EDT
Ellsbury did seem aware the team needed him to play, even with the soreness in the right wrist. And he appeared prepared to do that, though manager Terry Francona said he wanted to see how Ellsbury got through batting practice today. He said he always could insert Brandon Moss into the lineup in Ellsbury's place.
"I'm definitely happy with the turnaround from when I did it to now," Ellsbury said. "It's still sore, but you can play through soreness.
"I was pretty worried, how it felt right as it happened. It was nice to get the X-ray right away, the MRI right away, to see that everything was all right. Once you know there's no structural damage, you can play through the soreness. There's a big difference between hurting and soreness. It's going to be sore for a little while. You're never feeling 100 percent throughout the whole season on any body part, so it'll be fine."
Line-ups:
Red Sox
1. Jacoby Ellsbury, LF
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. J.D. Drew, RF
4. Manny Ramirez, DH
5. Mike Lowell, 3B
6. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
7. Jason Varitek, C
8. Coco Crisp, CF
9. Alex Cora, SS
Josh Beckett, SP
Orioles
1. Brian Roberts, 2B
2. Nick Markakis, RF
3. Melvin Mora, 3B
4. Aubrey Huff, DH
5. Kevin Millar, 1B
6. Luke Scott, LF
7. Ramon Hernandez, C
8. Adam Jones, CF
9. Freddie Bynum, SS
Daniel Cabrera, SP
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Anyone around?
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 6:11 PM EDT 0 recs
Yup, for a while at least.
Good old MLB.tv, still showing the Griffey 599 advert…
Bottom 9th B:1 S:0 O:0 With Bill Mueller batting, Dave Roberts steals (1) 2nd base.
by britsoxfan on
Jun 10, 2008 6:13 PM EDT
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They kept the Manny 500 ad on for a while too
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 6:14 PM EDT
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Well, that's two bases right there...
Bottom 9th B:1 S:0 O:0 With Bill Mueller batting, Dave Roberts steals (1) 2nd base.
by britsoxfan on Jun 10, 2008 6:14 PM EDT 0 recs
Only if Dusty takes a pitch or two
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 6:15 PM EDT
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Or if he doubles, I meant to say
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 6:16 PM EDT
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Welcome back, Jacoby
Lead-off single …
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 6:14 PM EDT 0 recs
Hey, hey...
Scrappy-Doo returns!
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by nuthinboutnuthin on Jun 10, 2008 6:16 PM EDT 0 recs
Loaded for Cap'n Jack ...
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 6:19 PM EDT 0 recs
Drew can take a clutch walk, I'll give him that.
Bottom 9th B:1 S:0 O:0 With Bill Mueller batting, Dave Roberts steals (1) 2nd base.
by britsoxfan on Jun 10, 2008 6:19 PM EDT 0 recs
Hey there people
Manny with the GIDP, 1-0 Sox.
(shit!)
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by MerryGoByeBye on Jun 10, 2008 6:21 PM EDT 0 recs
Anyone read about
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 6:22 PM EDT 0 recs
Between that, Giambi's thong and Joba's nipple piercings,
the Yankee clubhouse is like the last days of Caligula.
Bottom 9th B:1 S:0 O:0 With Bill Mueller batting, Dave Roberts steals (1) 2nd base.
by britsoxfan on
Jun 10, 2008 6:24 PM EDT
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Caligula's Horse
Would probably do a better job of managing than Joe Girardi
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 6:27 PM EDT
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Caligula's horse =
Andy Pettitte?
Bottom 9th B:1 S:0 O:0 With Bill Mueller batting, Dave Roberts steals (1) 2nd base.
by britsoxfan on
Jun 10, 2008 6:28 PM EDT
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What did Caligula's horse do to you?
Don’t be mean to the poor animal.
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 6:29 PM EDT
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There is an uncanny resemblance, though…
I’m sure Caligula’s horse took the Wistrol just to “heal from some injuries and help his teammates…”
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by nuthinboutnuthin on
Jun 10, 2008 6:30 PM EDT
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We're sure...
...that they’re talking about on field performance, and not banging 15 year-old country music singers, right?
(which isn’t really funny, I suppose)
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by nuthinboutnuthin on
Jun 10, 2008 6:26 PM EDT
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Hey, corking your bat is cheating ...
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 6:31 PM EDT
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Beckett is taking a lot of time between pitches
This inning.
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 6:35 PM EDT 0 recs
Isn't that illegal now?
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by nuthinboutnuthin on
Jun 10, 2008 6:37 PM EDT
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It's night and day
Between Beckett in the first and second …
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 6:38 PM EDT 0 recs
Seriously...
I’m on GameDay, did anything happen (injury, sniper, run over by a giraffe?)
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by nuthinboutnuthin on
Jun 10, 2008 6:42 PM EDT
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I don't know
Maybe Beckett just struggles against crappy hitters
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 6:44 PM EDT
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Freddie Bynum?!?!
WTF?
By the way, nice relay Coco …
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 6:42 PM EDT 0 recs
Yay!
Thanks, Beckett…
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by MerryGoByeBye on Jun 10, 2008 6:43 PM EDT 0 recs
Crap!
The ball is really carrying …
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 6:46 PM EDT 0 recs
Alrite this is boulshit
Beckett reverting to 06 form and the wind out to left giving the O’s two cheap ones.
"Check out these guns." -Dustin Pedroia
by 15-58-46 on Jun 10, 2008 6:46 PM EDT 0 recs
I'm on gameday
Is Beckett looking as bad as it seems like he’s looking? He’s slow, and getting hit a lot.
He’s being looking worse than his numbers would tell. He’s not looking anywhere near to being our ace.
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by MerryGoByeBye on Jun 10, 2008 6:49 PM EDT 0 recs
The Sox are without an ace at the moment
I actually feel like we have the best chance of winning when Lester or Wake is pitching.
by soxaholic on
Jun 10, 2008 6:50 PM EDT
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Seriously
Someone get him some Viagra!!!
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by nuthinboutnuthin on
Jun 10, 2008 6:50 PM EDT
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Beckett
He can’t control his fastball, can’t get the curveball over which has been going on all year, is getting hit hard, and the wind out to left has hurt him bad.
"Check out these guns." -Dustin Pedroia
by 15-58-46 on
Jun 10, 2008 6:51 PM EDT
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Beckett sucked that inning ... but
if the ball is carrying, I think the Sox should be able to score more than a few runs off Cabrera and the O’s pen.
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 6:50 PM EDT 0 recs
That Manny GIDP with the bases loaded killed us
The O’s just did what we weren’t able to do.
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 6:51 PM EDT
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I miss Hanley
There, I said it. :(
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by MerryGoByeBye on Jun 10, 2008 6:50 PM EDT 0 recs
I don't think
We’d have had the ‘07 championship or anything close without Beckett and Lowell.
by soxaholic on
Jun 10, 2008 6:51 PM EDT
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And .. we have a CF in Ellsbury
Hanley will end up an OF like BJ Upton
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 6:52 PM EDT
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100% agree
"Check out these guns." -Dustin Pedroia
by 15-58-46 on
Jun 10, 2008 6:52 PM EDT
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with soxaholic
"Check out these guns." -Dustin Pedroia
by 15-58-46 on
Jun 10, 2008 6:53 PM EDT
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I agree
We wouldn’t have won nothing last season without Beckett and Lowell, and at the worst they’re solid to very good players. But Beckett is supposed to be our ace, and after such a great season it hurts me to see him struggling like he has been.
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 6:55 PM EDT
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Two on ...
Anyone think Cora is swinging away?
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 6:54 PM EDT 0 recs
He shouldn't give up an out here.
"Check out these guns." -Dustin Pedroia
by 15-58-46 on
Jun 10, 2008 6:55 PM EDT
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Especially with ridiculous numbers against Cabrera
Though, he just GIDPed, so I eat my words on that.
by soxaholic on
Jun 10, 2008 6:56 PM EDT
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He should have just taken the K
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 6:56 PM EDT
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I think Beckett
...ends up with a short outing here. He’s up to like 700 pitches at the moment.
Has anyone read anything about what ’s happened to him since ‘07? It’s not like he’s chronically sucking as bad as he did last inning (4 ER on 37 pitches, btw), but he’s not his dominating self. I find myself – in the dark nights of my Fenway-loving soul – whispering “regression to the mean.“
Say it ain’t so.
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by nuthinboutnuthin on Jun 10, 2008 6:55 PM EDT 0 recs
2 DPs in two innings, F@#*
Not the recipe for victory
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by 15-58-46 on Jun 10, 2008 6:57 PM EDT 0 recs
We don't like beating the O's
That’s the only way I can explain it.
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by MerryGoByeBye on Jun 10, 2008 6:59 PM EDT 0 recs
Could this be...
... Lugo’s fault somehow?
=)
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by nuthinboutnuthin on
Jun 10, 2008 7:01 PM EDT
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My thoughts exactly
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 7:02 PM EDT
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Are you kidding me?
...Of course it is.
"Check out these guns." -Dustin Pedroia
by 15-58-46 on
Jun 10, 2008 7:03 PM EDT
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Lugo would have BOMBED that pitch Cora grounded into a DP
And it would be a tied game.
Now, wait a minute…
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 7:04 PM EDT
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Are you suggesting...
...that Julio Lugo would somehow prevent a double play from happening while at bat?
Sir, I take offense at your dastardly statements!
=)
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by nuthinboutnuthin on
Jun 10, 2008 7:07 PM EDT
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Well
Lugo can always go down on strikes. :)
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 7:08 PM EDT
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But he hates it...
...feeling it to be a waste of a perfectly good out.
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by nuthinboutnuthin on
Jun 10, 2008 7:11 PM EDT
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A litttle timidness from Jacoby due to the wrist?
I don’t think so, but its a possibility that he didn’t go all out for that sinking liner due to his sore wrist.
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by 15-58-46 on Jun 10, 2008 7:06 PM EDT 0 recs
Manny would have had it
But, then again, he would have been standing right where the ball landed
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 7:08 PM EDT
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What would take us to get Ben Sheets?
I mean, not because Beckett’s poor start. I remember the time there was a talk about we trading for him. He’s a great pitcher when not injured.
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by MerryGoByeBye on Jun 10, 2008 7:08 PM EDT 0 recs
Too much
The Sox have a lot of pitching. And, as long as Papi comes back (and can hit), they don’t need much.
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 7:09 PM EDT
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A lot of pitching?
Well, I disagree. Sort of… If Colon and Masterson keep giving us good starts until the end of the season, if Wake don’t go down to some kind of injury (which is not very likely, but, then again, he’s old) and if we call Bowden up (I don’t care if it’s a little early, he deserves it), then we’ll have a lot of pitching. Beckett is not looking very good lately, Lester is great and has been great for quite a while, and Dice-K is good-to-great. But we don’t know if Curt can give us anything yet, and Buch has not been good at AAA.
It’s not like we need another starter or reliever, but, come on, it would make us stronger if we somehow got any pitcher cheaply.
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 7:16 PM EDT
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Any GOOD pitcher, that is
I don’t want Kei Igawa.
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 7:18 PM EDT
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Name a team with more?
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 7:19 PM EDT
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We're 10th so far in ERA
Which is okay, so as I said before, we do not need to trade for a new starter, but it would make us stronger if he can be good.
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 7:30 PM EDT
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In May, the Sox were 6th
The Sox aren’t going to add an injury-prone 29-year old starter, who makes over $12 million. The FO has stockpiled young arms to keep costs down.
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 7:35 PM EDT
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Well
Ben Sheets wasn’t the best idea ever. What about Bedard? Bill Bavasi is an idiot, so we could get him cheaply I guess. Or Sabathia at the end of the season. I don’t know, really. The Sox don’t need an average pitcher, but like any other team in the league a very good one would not be bad, and that’s my point.
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 7:41 PM EDT
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I can't see the Sox throwing money at Sabathia
They’ll save that for Beckett. I also don’t see them making a pitching move this year, unless they have to. Right now, they don’t.
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 7:48 PM EDT
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I don't think we'll sign Sabathia either
But I’m just saying names we could somehow get. We really don’t have to make a move for a pitcher, but we’re in the same spot as every other team in the league: getting an ace wouldn’t hurt us. :)
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 7:56 PM EDT
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The Sox have an ace: Beckett
Beckett is better than all the pitchers you’ve mentioned: Sheets, Sabathia, and Bedard.
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 8:01 PM EDT
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I'm not saying a new ace
But getting a pitcher with ace stuff. Halladay, Lackey, Zambrano, Harang, and so on (I’m not even saying Webb or Peavy). We won’t be able to get any of those, but if we somehow had the chance, I think we should make a move.
Pitcher with ace material. Not to replace Beckett. And we also don’t need to trade for, but would make our team stronger if we manage to get , like it would make any other team in the league stronger. That’s my point.
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 8:06 PM EDT
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The thing is
None of those guys are available, and the Sox aren’t going to empty their system for one player.
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by Drugs Delaney on
Jun 10, 2008 8:08 PM EDT
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I know and I said that
But we never know when one might become available. It’s a pipe dream, it would only happen with the combination of 2 things: a team start sucking, and a stupid GM. We don’t need to trade, but if Bavasi start telling everybody he’s shopping King Felix, why not offer him Timlin + Lugo? :)
It’s not doable, but if something like that (not Timlin + Lugo, but other prospects that are not on our top 10 list) happened, hey, why not?
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 8:13 PM EDT
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The Dodgers seem to like CFs
How about Coco for Kershaw?
Manny ain't the only bad man.
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Jun 10, 2008 10:00 PM EDT
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Hahah
But, really, never underestimate the stupidity that some GMs are capeable of. :)
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by MerryGoByeBye on
Jun 10, 2008 10:22 PM EDT
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It would probably take Bowden or someone around there.
Just for a starter who will piss you off by being on the DL more times than not.
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Jun 10, 2008 7:10 PM EDT
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Two hits for Dusty
If the Sox limit their DPs, they’ll score 6+ tonight.
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by Drugs Delaney on Jun 10, 2008 7:12 PM EDT 0 recs