GameThread: Boston Red Sox at Atlanta Braves, Jun 28, 2009
by 0157H7 on Jun 28, 2009 1:20 PM EDT
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It's Penny vs. Hanson today. Should be more runs scored than yesterday, with the following lineup, which features 1000% more Jason Bay:
Pedroia
Drew
Youk
Bay
B. Papi
Tek
Ells
Greenie
Penny
And for the Braves:
G. Blanco
Kelly Johnson
Chipper Jones
Brian McCann
Garret Anderson
Casey Kotchman
Jeff Francoeur
D. Hernandez
T. Hanson
Game time 1:30 Eastern. Comment away!
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W...T...F...?
I live an hour outside of Atlanta, and TBS is blacked out on my satellite TV carrier.
THAT'S the money you could be saving with Geico
Oh God, Billy Mays is dead!
What is going on?! David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcet, Michael Jackson, and now Billy Mays!
Saw the headline, can't say I know him.
Walter Cronkite is nearing the end too, I expect an announcement soon.
Manny ain't the only bad man.
How can you not know him?
He’s the guy from every commercial EVER!
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Mays is pretty funny
Especially in the ESPN ads.
See here.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
tacky is deadly
I am kidding, death is always tragic, especially that three of them happened accidentally, and Farah was wracked by metastasize cancer… Ed McMahon cause of death is probably natural causes…
I read that Mays may had what happened Natasha Richardson, a sub arachnoid or a sub dural hemotoma after something landed on his head during an airplane landing.
Nope, no head trama.
He was on a plane that landed at Tampa International and he hit his head on some luggage after the front tires blew out.
OverTheMonster - ALLERGEN WARNING: May contain peanut butter.
And that...
…is why children and small animals are scared of Chipper Jones
Rock me, sexy Jesus...
by nuthinboutnuthin on Jun 28, 2009 1:56 PM EDT reply actions
Hitters are dangerous when they get 4 strikes
Penny’s 4th pitch was called a ball. It was in the zone. If called correctly, Chipper is down on strikes.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 28, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Shhh...
You wanna get ejected?
Rock me, sexy Jesus...
by nuthinboutnuthin on Jun 28, 2009 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Thankfully, Frenchy wasn't hurt
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 28, 2009 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Once through the line-up and Penny has the hardest hit ball
Kinda sad.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
And some luck for The Carcass
That looked like strike 3. Loaded for Ells …
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 28, 2009 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Out of the zone, too.
Lookin’ like the old Ells right there.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Hi USG, that Kelly kid is starting to impress me a LOT
I’m starting even to think that he was the steal of last year draft!
The only Red Sox fan in a country where nobody cares about basball!
Signability issues and the fact that he wants to play SS...
In the first round tends to mean you’re getting top-10 talent. He’s really something else on the mound.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I was starting to like Penny but his inaptitude to go deep in a game bothers me a lot
The only Red Sox fan in a country where nobody cares about basball!
Man the O have been struggling lately!
The only Red Sox fan in a country where nobody cares about basball!
Penny didn't have his best stuff
But he kept the Sox in the game.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
Mainly because Atl has a lousy offense
Kind of the one the sox are showing lately but for the whole season!
The only Red Sox fan in a country where nobody cares about basball!
Can't complain about 6 IP, 2 ER from your #5.
Just his bad luck that he was the only one who brought a bat today.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Penny 6 IP 106 pitches 73 strikes I'll take it!!!
he really does look better every game. And, I like the fact his velocity does not drop or his pitches start to rise. He looks strong every inning even when he is not 100%
I don't get the "He looks better every game" attitude.
He didn’t really LOOK good today. He left balls up, gave up 2 homers, and was wild at times. He got good results, but I wouldn’t say he looked good, and certainly not better than he looked against the Yanks.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
let me clarify in the hope you can comprehend
So much for brevity being the best course of action…he LOOKS good because he pitches out of jams – he regains his control and he limits the runs scored for instance HR’s with nobody on- does that make more sense to you? Looking good to me means even if he is not at his best for the day – he still looks good for the reasons I just mentioned
You don't know that
Lugo has hit well.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 28, 2009 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Entirely bimodal.
He’s either raking or flailing. There’s been very little middle ground this season for him.
I don't like him and I ust try to convince my self
The only Red Sox fan in a country where nobody cares about basball!
I don't dislike him
He just isn’t a very good player. But he’s a good guy who doesn’t bitch and complain. He is a good teammate.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 28, 2009 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions
On the minors front
Indeed
All signs seem to point to Exposito > Portland. Curious they haven’t done so yet.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions
That's what I was expecting but
According to soxprospects.com
The counter-move to Wagner’s promotion is the demotion of John Otness from Pawtucket to Portland. Otness will split time behind the plate with Juan Apodaca, much as the two did when Wagner missed two weeks due to injury in late April/early May.
So Fedex/Expo platooning the C/DH spots?
The only Red Sox fan in a country where nobody cares about basball!
I guess if there's one place where platooning makes sense in the minors, it's catcher.
FedEx is said to be pretty advanced defensively to begin with, and the platooning should keep their knees fresh.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions
RamRam is MIA these days
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 28, 2009 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Anyone know where the Red Sox offense went?
I am going to the game in Baltimore tomorrow night, and I hope the offense shows up.
Good Braves pitching in a good Pitcher's park.
The O’s will be different.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions
What did you end up paying for tickets?
I tried to get two tix to the Sox Nats and I lost a bid for bleacher seats – $110 total – that was my limit. last year, I bought two tix outside Camden for $40.00 upper rows left field Manny hit his 500th homer – the place went nuts
I paid $42, but friends coming down from Boston actually bought the tickets
a few months ago.
It has been my experience that the Orioles don’t sell well and have had trouble selling out Camden Yards especially since the Nationals took half their fan base away. Also, the Orioles are not doing too well. When I have gone down there the last 2 years From PA, more than half the fans werer Red Sox fans!
by NG on Jun 28, 2009 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
yup, that is how it was last year it is nicknamed Fenway South
There were Sox fans telling me it was cheaper to buy tix and take a charter bus round trip…they sign up and it is a package deal – very hard to get tix for a home game
Let's mash this ball for Fuck sake!
The only Red Sox fan in a country where nobody cares about basball!
He stops before he delivers.
It’s just REALLY weird.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions
+1
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 28, 2009 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions
I'll take two of three any day of the week.
Five series in a row where the Sox have taken two of three. And the series before those five, we swept the Yanks.
17-7 on the month.
Manny ain't the only bad man.
Exactly
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 28, 2009 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Nothing wrong
And winning two out of three every time is good for a 108-win season.
The issue is that right now the Sox are in one of the easiest stretches of their schedule. They don’t face a team with a winning record until after the ASG. A few series sweeps would provide a helpful cushion.
Too bad we're losing ground on the division.
Yanks have won 4 in a row, Tampa 5.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, the home-away deal is something I was just looking at.
While the Yanks have gotten back into things in the road-record category because of this series vs the LOL Mets (that being their well-deserved title), the Sox are still going 2-1 ON THE ROAD, which is a big deal. The Rays have been taking advantage of a good homestand, but they still haven’t exactly dominated on the road.
Look at it this way: Every time you win a series 2-1 on the road, it’s going to be a plus over what any AL team will do road-wise this year. No team will finish with a .667 road WP on the year. So long as they take care of business at home, they should walk away with the best record at the end of the year.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
No AL team will, that is.
The Phillies are just weird.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 28, 2009 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
This is wonky, true.
This has to be the strangest calendar that I can ever remember. The Sox are done with their West Coast trips (12 games), while the Yankees haven’t had either of theirs yet (for a total of 13 games!), with the second followed by a series at Fenway.
Mars Attacks!
I want the people to know that they still have TWO out of THREE branches of government for them, and THAT AIN’T BAD! [/Jack Nicholson]
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
There seem to be times when the Sox explode and can hit anyone.
Then there are other times that they have no momentum and only get a few disjointed hits. I wonder what the keys to that behavior riddle are?? Is it just the opposing pitcher, or do line-up structures and state of mind positions determine it? Hmmmmm.
by NG on Jun 29, 2009 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions
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