Kason Gabbard:
Awesome. When he came up to [Double-A] Portland last year, that was the first time I've seen him pitch healthy. His stuff was unbelievable. Look at him now.Manny Delcarmen:
Javy Lopez came into the bullpen and said, 'Anibal Sanchez threw a no-hitter.' I just saw him on SportsCenter pretty much crying, and I'm real happy for him. He's always been confident on the mound, like Papelbon, flying through the system and absolutely dealing.
15 minutes of fame has it's benefits. D & C plus Miterparel (sp?)spent most of the morning on 'EEI pronouncing his name in different ways before an Hispanic caller corrected them. It's ah-KNEE-bil, not anna-bell. Mercy.
ReplyDeleteIt's very easy to criticize, but I will always go for trading prospects for established players. Hanley Ramirez is good, but he has made 20 errors. Becket may have dissapointed, but maybe next year he will throw a no-hitter and Lowell has been great. You have to take risks and hope there are a couple of more Anibal's in the minors. Lester, Papblebon and Delcarmen certainly had much better records than Sanchez.
ReplyDeleteWhere would we be without Lowell? You'r right! And this to Anibal. Long life, great career, and congrats!
ReplyDeleteHey dipshit, you just posted the same phony-ass comment on my blog. Cut and paste. This person is so clearly a Yankee fan in disguise.
ReplyDelete"here in Boston"
But yet my statcounter mysteriously lists you as being in New York. What a shock!
Yeah, we're believing "sox9"! He must be a HUGE Ted Williams fan!
I answered this on my own blog. I will also leave you alone about this, young Allan!
ReplyDeleteI don't know. Beckett was a big risk for the Sox too. I think the front office gave up a lot for Beckett with his blister problems n all and being from a pitcher's park. I mean, I was excited to get him too when we got him, but when you look back at the facts it's just as much of a risk as playing a rookie.
ReplyDeleteI also don't understand why we take so many pitchers from the national league. They're ERA almost always goes up. Even Schilling's did when he came over, but yet we still go for them. Clement, anyone?
Anyways, I'm sure there are tons of you out there that disagree with me and will be list all the NL pitchers to come over and their ERA's and then you'll say that if Beckett has pitched like he did in FLA I wouldn't be saying this. And you're probably right, but that's mostly because there would be no reason to say it in the first place.
Alright, sorry to rant. I'm done.
Also, please ignore all grammatical and spelling errors in that post, and focus on what I'm trying to say. That's for all of you english teachers out there or people with OCD and/or low self-esteem issues.
ReplyDeleteHindsight helps no one......
ReplyDeleteMiguel says "Hanley Ramirez is good, but he has 20 errors." A guy named Jeter had 22 in his rookie season.
Did anyone disagree with this trade in November?
Yes, but that's because I don't like trading away prospects and then seeing them prosper on other teams, i.e. Jeff Bagwell... and the Beckett trade pretty much cemented that belief.
ReplyDelete9Casey said "Did anyone disagree with this trade in November?"
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I was intrigued. I concluded that the computer geeks in the Fenway basement got tired of looking at spread sheets, computer sims etc. and talked the big wheels into constructing their own case study. How about trading kids for vets and see how it shakes? Pick kids that aren't going to play much in the show in 06 cuz Tito can only work in a few, trade them to a shit franchise going nowhere, plus get a stud pitcher in-waiting who has already beat the skanks in the big one. Swallow the bloated contract of a maybe has-been (what is a 'slow bat', anyway?) and see how it all goes down? Whatever happens, between the cartel and our matchless spin machine, there is little downside. Larry and the boys liked it, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Honest, that's really what I thought at the time. Sox front office playing Frank Lane, trading Colavito for Harvey Kuenn, only with more moving parts and putting a hypothetical to the real test. A PR dream.
Boy, I really don't know what I'm doing. Sorry for all this. I'll stick to TV and leave you young folks alone.
ReplyDeleteNo need to run off and abandon us whippersnappers. Please, feel free to keep commenting.
The bandwagon has officially emptied.
ReplyDeleteI hope so.
One thing I will give the Yankees and New York: it's always baseball season in their world. They live it 24/7/365. Here in Boston people bail at the first sign of trouble.
I've been a Red Sox fan since 1976 and I lived in New York from 1987-2005 (both when the Yankees were shit and when they were great) and all I can say to this is:
You must be on drugs.
Some serious, CIA-grade, mind-altering drugs. The kind Keith Richards dreams of.
Perhaps it's "always baseball season" in NYYland because they do whatever's necessary (i.e., spend $200m) to ensure they're always at least in the playoff hunt? Or is that too obvious an answer? I'm guessing if this absurd downward spiral had happened to Georgie's crew rather than our guys, you'd see a similar number of empty seats in the Toilet.
ReplyDeleteAs for Anibal - well, I'm glad for him, but it's hard not to be frustrated that we seem to have traded some of our best young guys (him, Cla Meredith, Freddy Sanchez, etc etc) and kept some who have so far seemed suspect (MDC, Hansen). Maybe it's just the vast difference between the AL and the NL, but I'm starting to think our prospect evaluation process might be a little suspect, particularly in the pitching department. ;)
One thing I've always wondered is whether the instability in our pitching coaching staff has had an effect, what with Dave Wallace's health problems and all... nobody ever mentions this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's been a major factor in the terrible pitching at points this year.
One thing I will give the Yankees and New York: it's always baseball season in their world. They live it 24/7/365. Here in Boston people bail at the first sign of trouble.
ReplyDeleteOh my.
Oh my oh my.
I lived in New York City from 1983-2005. Pre-1983 lived in the near suburbs. Attended Yankee games from 1975-2003.
I also have been intimately related to the Red Sox and their fans for, shall we say, quite some time.
And I will confirm the opinions of our esteemed host:
You are on drugs.
If you are not ingesting the aforementioned mind-altering substances, then perhaps you are insane, or just dropped in from another planet, or are a troll, or some combination thereof.
I don't know who Sox9 or Sox99 is, but Statcounter is not an accurate indicator of where someone is posting from. The NYC law firm where I used to work had an IP address from Baltimore. My current Toronto employer has one from Calgary.
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