Who should bat 2nd for the Red Sox in '09?

by Randy Booth on Feb 19, 2009 5:56 PM EST in News

OK, now I think we need to go all the way down the order. The "leadoff" poll was great success, so why don't I keep doing polls until we figure out what the OTM community things should be the lineup? This one should be an easy one, but I might as well do it if I'll do one through nine.

Poll

Who should bat second for the Red Sox in 2009?

Dustin Pedroia

226 votes

J.D. Drew

7 votes

Kevin Youkilis

13 votes

Jed Lowrie/Julio Lugo

7 votes

253 votes | Poll has closed

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I fail to see how we have 144 people who think Taco should leadoff

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by MerryGoByeBye on Feb 19, 2009 6:13 PM EST reply actions

I think it’s called democracy, but let me check.

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by Randy Booth on Feb 19, 2009 7:02 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, that's not what I meant

I mean, it’s odd when pretty much everyone in the comments is saying that Drew should lead off while in the polls Taco wins by a lot.

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by MerryGoByeBye on Feb 19, 2009 7:33 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, I know. Just messing around with you :)

A lot of people lurk on Web sites like this. It’s easy to vote in a poll with two clicks than formulate a response in the comments…

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by Randy Booth on Feb 19, 2009 7:41 PM EST up reply actions

I... umm... agree?

Ah, forget it. [Races up to vote]

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by bdalebs on Feb 19, 2009 8:21 PM EST up reply actions

Anyway...

its been established that the cleverest of us OTMers are commenting as evidence by our support of Drew leading off. However sanity is prevailing with Dusty in the #2 slot.
Though one voter went with Drew there, I’d love to hear the logic as I can see it, but having Pedroia just nullifies any arguments.

by sydneysox on Feb 19, 2009 7:45 PM EST reply actions

Syd.

The interesting thing would be to know whom the voter selected as their leadoff option. I guess it depends on whether they voted on the first poll or not, but it could essentially be a vote for a lineup like:

DP/Youks-Drew-DP/Youks/Bay-Papi-DP/Youks/Bay-Lowell-Lowrie-Ellsbury-Tek

Which isn’t entirely crazy.

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by Allen Chace on Feb 20, 2009 2:42 AM EST up reply actions

That'd be fun.

The DP, DP, DP, Youks, Bay, DP, Papi, Lowell, Lowrie lineup. I think four lineup spots is just about enough to contain Pedroia’s outsized personality.

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by 0157H7 on Feb 20, 2009 11:21 AM EST up reply actions