Something must have been wrong with Papelbon tonight (migraine?), because with the game on the line, Francona chose to go with Corey, Lopez and Timlin. Assuming everything was normal in the pen, that was a shockingly un-Tito thing to do. Naturally, things did not work out for the best.
Red Sox - 030 001 000 00 - 4 10 1
Rays - 101 200 000 01 - 5 11 0
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Tim Wakefield (3.96, 115 ERA+) / Matt Garza (9.00, 48 ERA+)
Garza pitched eight innings over two starts (12 hits and five walks), then went on the DL with radial nerve irritation. He returns to Tampa's rotation tonight.
Wakefield has 2.41 ERA at Tropicana Field over 101 career innings (14 starts and six relief appearances). Kevin Cash will (likely) make his sixth straight start.
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Bobby Kielty had surgery on his left hand and is expected to miss 4-to-6 weeks.
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Ellsbury, CF
Pedroia, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Ramirez, LF
Youkilis, 3B
Drew, RF
Casey, 1B
Lugo, SS
Cash, C
Iwamura, 2B
Crawford, LF
Upton, CF
Gomes, DH
Longoria, 3B
Hinske, 1B
Navarro, C
Gross, RF
Bartlett, SS
early bird
Appropriate, since we're in Florida.
Weei is announcing that last years #1 pick might have to have Tommy John surgery.
Extra Bases had it this AM.
Time to break the two-day curse.
These Sox-Rays games are always odd and interesting. Hopefully I'll be able to catch some of this one - I have a busy night ahead.
Going to have to miss this one. Hope the bullpen holds up tonight. Yet another day off for Tek. I am starting to go into withdrawal.... :)
Enjoy, and GO SOX!
Time for some baseball!
In like, ten min. Whatev.
Very good news: Got my mlbtv working at work!
Not so good: Got Rays TV feed -- and Joe Migraine = mute.
I hate the 7:10 start.
Sent you an e-mail re: MLB.tv, RS.
Sent you an e-mail re: MLB.tv, RS.
oh lord. ball goes into ceiling and friggin stays there...
That fucking catwalk. Jeez.
We're swingin' for the fences against Gahrhrzehrhr.
Easy first for Garza, but boy did Lyndon take that ball for a ride to right.
You all know about Paper of Record dot com? It's got pdfs of newspapers, the key one being every page of every Sporting News through 2003. Free. Also very Canadacentric I noticed.
i think i've heard of that. i wonder how clear their deadball era pages are?
Just checked a page from 1886. Looks totally fine except for a couple folds and tape marks.
another non-error for Youk, and Wake gets out of it with just the 1.
historically, when papers were put them on microfilm, they often did not care enough to make sure it was in focus or cut off or so bright you could't see anything. nicholson baker has written about this. manny issues of tsn when i was researching were horrid.
then of course they toss the originals away -- and you are stuck with a shit microfilm version
way to go with that one, Manny. Rally time for us.
Good evening folks. I come back, and Manny gets a hit. Good stuff.
I see the annoying triangle/cowbell brigade is out in force.
Hi, Joe.
A run in against Pettite and the bases loaded now, 2 out for Casey Blake.
Arrr. No more runs for Cleveland.
I like Tampa's new hats. Classy/snazzy.
mfy return to the scene of their buggy playoff choke tonight.
Hi all, in the Tim tradition of announcing our whereabouts, I was watching the game while folding laundry.
Hey, that is Timlike too!
I have the Fox morons tonight. They couldn't get through 3 pitches without slagging Manny. MUMS is back. They sound like they're stuck in a time warp.
I looked at a few 1887 pages. Very clean.
Drew a walk, 1st and 2nd. Runs on the way.
Jere, why do you hate the 7:10 start?
I was at Anna's Taqueria. But I made it back in time for the start so I don't need to be telling you this. But I still am.
Red Sox Nation drowning out Ray-tion.
i went thru 1903 for most common lineups for sabr's deadball stars books and the microfilm of the sporting news at the nyc main library was unreadable.
i could make out the form of guys' names, which was all i had to do, but as far as numbers in the box scores, forget it.
i'll have to check this out!
I feel bad for Rays fans, although I'm sure there aren't many of them who are 'true' fans. It's hard to build a fanbase when you always suck.
L: Just meant in terms of, coverage starts at 7, you're ready for the game, and then like 8 minutes go by and you're like Where's the game? Just hate the :10, :15, :40, etc. Like the :05.
That website sounds like a giant timesucking machine of the best variety.
loaded
That extra five minutes just kills ya. :)
I do like the 7:05 a lot better than the old 7:35 starts. Since I can't stay up late, every little bit helps.
make only one out here, julio. thank you.
C'mon, now, Slooogie.
"make only one out here, julio. thank you."
That's Kim's trademark line...
this dude can't find the plate
Who posted the YouTube from Flight of the Conchords on a gamethread recently? Friends of ours just lent us the whole season on DVD. We're going to try to start watching it soon.
I didn't realize it was very NYC-centric. They thought we would really like it.
Yahoo!
Red Sox 1, other team 1
are they the T-Rays now?
cash money!, ah never mind. Well 2-1
L: Yes, the Pap. of Rec. thing is gonna be rough. They have a 250 download limit per day. I'm getting close....
2-1 :)
WHY ARE YOU HACKING CASH??? YOU STOOPID DIPSHIT, HE'S THROWN LIKE 38 BALLS IN A ROW. GOD DAMN IT MAN!!!!!
jacobeh
Hey gang - I was sanding my kitchen table and lost track of time. What did I miss?
There's anohter ball. Garza looking lost.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY, a strike.
46 pitches already?
'carves it foul'
I don't know who sent the Conchords thing, but I love that show!
runners will go!
Now that's an unusual delay, sanding the kitchen table. Someone else will have to catch you up, i suck at recap.
3-1
Is Casey limping?
3-1!
Love love love ya, Jake.
I think he's just that slow.
Ball.
Conchords, I am psyched to watch it. I had heard of it but didn't know what it was.
"Hey gang - I was sanding my kitchen table and lost track of time. What did I miss?"
The sides. And the bottom.
Heh slow, yeah, but I think he is limping.
[jere's joke re kitchen table]
[eye roll]
Weak.
^ both the pop out, and jere's joke
Whole game, Sarah?
Crawford tripled in the first and was brought in a by a Sac Fly.
Manny began this second inning with a single and Garza started walking 'em. Lugo walked in a run, Cash brought another in a Sac Fly, and Ellsbury hit an RBI single.
Pedroia fouls out to Hinske; 3-1, Sox.
40 pitch inning!
Crap, you called it L.
Great, more injuries.
sox 2nd:
manny single to RF
yook F9
drew BB
casey BB
lugo BB, RBI
cash FIRST PITCH!!! sac 7, RBI
lyndon single to LF, RBI
FY, PF3
Here's Jedi, in for the Mayor.
HA remy made my point
Mayor impeached.
THESE FOX ANNOUNCERS ARE SO STUPID
!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry
had to get that out
and brak brak knocked in a run for Cle, and HGHiambi with a dong, 1-1.
rays 1st
iwamura F8
crawford 3B to RCF
upton L8 SAC, RBI
Gomes 5-3
How bout a DP, Natasha
THESE FOX ANNOUNCERS ARE SO STUPID
That's why he's Joe Migraine.
And that's why Migraine = Mute.
Is former Yankee announcer Dewayne Staats still the main guy for the DEVIL Rays?
Thanks jere - *I* thought it was funny. It's an old beat up Ikea table, and it looks like an old beat up Ikea table. With some stripping, sanding and a nice new finish... well, it's still going to look like an Ikea table, but a new one at least!
uh oh
needed that dien bien phu
On WRKO today, you can sometimes hear the stats guy feeding Joe the information. "That'll be a passed ball on Cash..." ("Wild Pitch!") "Uh, a wild pitch..."
yep, staats -- whose curly hair is EXACTLY the same btw!
"Thanks jere - *I* thought it was funny."
Approval from Gates herself! Bonus.
I can't mute and thread at the same time. But they are dreadful.
You got somethin against Ikea?? :)
Hey Sarah, would you email me please? I thought I had your address but don't. laurakaminker at gmail.
Doing a little work here during the game, I see the name of one the firm's lawyers in Vancouver -- Barry Dong!
Here's Jere's cousin the pear. Great one for the food team.
Barry Dong?? Get out!!!
No one scored on that? Nice.
one out away, Wake
And he gets out of it!!!
Really.
Employment & Labour lawyer
Nicely done.
the wily veteran escapes trouble.
Oh, trust me, I have NOTING against Ikea. My entire apartment is furnished with either Ikea or secondhand furniture. In some cases, secondhand Ikea.
I just didn't want anyone to think I was working on some sort of nice piece.
I was hoping Bartlett would GIDP because then he would have stranded a pear.
Right, me too. (Furniture.) We have one really nice piece of furniture - four matching solid oak bookshelves, a gift from my mother. All else Ikea.
A 72 pitch second inning
Ten lawyers named Dong listed in the U.S., including a comical Jing Dong.
Nice job on the Bartlett pear.
Barry Dong, that's hilarious.
"I was hoping Bartlett would GIDP because then he would have stranded a pear."
Damn, wish I had said that! My kind of pun.
I was hoping Bartlett would GIDP because then he would have stranded a pear.
Brilliant.
Phrenile with the law registry. :)
Dong must be a Chinese last name. Imagine if there was a pitcher...?
wake got out of that inning? Holy crap!
Somebody must've seen that Bartlett pear episode of Curb. Anybody?
There was also one where a guy has "Groat disease," and Larry starts suggesting the name must've come from former Pittsburgh Pirate Dick Groat.
Can't be on fire if you're gonna hack at the first pitch.
Pettitte sticking to his norm--a hit an inning. But not many runs, unfortch.
More obvious than brilliant, but thanks.
Groat -- that's funny. I'm not sure when we stopped getting episodes. 4th season?
OHHHHHH -- Volume 3 of American Dad is out!!!!
Crap. Giambi with his second dong of the game and it's 3-1 Yanks.
GDGD says Casey left the "due to an injured leg".
Now HGH, he hits some sweaty dongs!
NESN said hip flexor. Flexor? Flexer? Flexah?
I haven't actually seen any of Curb - I had a hated ex roommate who loved it, and I haven't quite gotten over the association. I assume I should? Sounds funny.
Odd PC for Garza:
13-40-9 - 62
BJ's on for Jonny Wad. And he gets nailed.
Ha ha, our speedy guys are better than your speedy guys.
CaSh
Joe gets his mad on
thank you, mister umpire.
Wow, these Rays guys are MAD.
Curb: funny, but best in small doseages. Larry David's character gets REALLY annoying.
Fox morons saying re bad calls "these things happen when the Rays play the Red Sox. Or the Yankees. ... They don't do it on purpose, but these things happen too often."
are the rays TV guys the ones who whine for 4 innings when a call goes against their team? i guess we'll (i mean you'll) find out.
they are showing the ump between pitches all the time, so probably.
"I don't know what you can do about it. I guess you just expect it, you know when this team is in town you won't get the calls."
Geez!
Oh, forgot: that was the Fox morons I was quoting.
Obviously I see this through rose-colored socks, but that was a really close play. Their madness level was disproportionate to the closeness of the play.
STILL showing the ump all the time.
god what fucking babies!
damn it Lugo! Come on! The one time you decide to just not put the tag down, the guy goes off the bag and definitely would've been out if your glove had been there!
close play? he looked really safe to me. flat out blown call.
So, um, we need an out.
we got the original and one replay. One looked liked the foot might not have been there before the tag but it was a bad angle. The other showed the foot was in, but with the glove coming down right after. Looked close from what they showed. Remy did proclaim bad call, though.
That'll do, Tim.
Dear FOX,
Umps blow calls, it happens. Get over it.
Love,
Tek's shouldabeena homer
2 on, 2 out for the Cleveland indigenous peoples.
Until Shoppach ends the inning. D'oh! 3-1 NY(A) after 4.
wake: 14-32-26 = 72
he needs a quick inning to get thru 5.
This Rays logo looks like the logo of a Christian TV network. And not just because the "Devil" is gone.
they need devils to balance out the angels in the west.
You know how annoying these Fox announcers are being, how they won't get over it? That's how I used to feel about Sox fans pre-2004. Much better now. For understandable reasons.
damn, nice catch. maybe they will get over the blown call now.
Damn, didn't think he was going to get there on that one.
Apparently they're giving away cowbells tomorrow.
They're from Newport and they need money? COme on.
(referring to sign in crowd)
Every Sox fan should have gotten the Fox trivia q. What MLB HoFer is also in the Fishing HoF? Very easy.
What did the sign say jere?
ugh, tied
Ted!
well, crap.
=(
Ted. Yes.
For the non NESN people: They asked the easiest trivia question, and Remy blew it. It was Name the former Red Sox who owns the Rays' single season homer record. Remy immediately said " I think he's written a couple books, heh heh." And I'm thinkin', What?? Turns out Remy meant Canseco, but that record was broken last year, and I don't know, especially since he's playing tonight, how Remy didn't know it.
The sign was "Uncle Kerry, vacation rules. Send $$." And on the side it said "Newport."
This is not the short inning we were looking for, I'm afraid.
I have entered, for good, more or less.
That means Wakefield will get out of this jam, and the Red Sox will score some runs.
I'm just being forward about it.
Carlos Pena
Lugo was askin for that one.
For the non NESN people: They asked the easiest trivia question, and Remy blew it. It was Name the former Red Sox who owns the Rays' single season homer record. Remy immediately said " I think he's written a couple books, heh heh." And I'm thinkin', What?? Turns out Remy meant Canseco, but that record was broken last year, and I don't know, especially since he's playing tonight, how Remy didn't know it.
So was the answer Peña? It's a very easy question when I can answer it.
LUGO! The glove is your friend!
Yeah Pena.
Bleh. This half-inning started off so nicely.
My dad guessed Canseco. Already Pena's fantastic season last year has gone overlooked.
Fire Lugo!
2 on 2 out for the Navajos, Sioux, and friends
Pedroia trying to knock down his other ball.
Oi. MDC still doesn't look good.
Ish, I hope 9Casey didn't intimidate you into changing your avatar. I was going to reply to his comment, but I couldn't think of anything to say except shut up.
brak brak! Three run dong!!! 4-3 Cle
WAAA!!!
Manny needs to realize he needs to drive himself home today.
Ish, I hope 9Casey didn't intimidate you into changing your avatar. I was going to reply to his comment, but I couldn't think of anything to say except shut up.
Nope. It was an inspiration. You'll probably see Maddux later in the season, or something else humorous if I find it.
Gutierrez! Back to back dongs! 5-3 Cle. (Looked like a 500-ft shot on the GameDay....)
Being! 3 for 3!
Fricken cow bells.
You're too short, BJ!
Manny ties Pedroia for the league lead in hits.
Here it comes...
Meanwhile, in Bugland, Peralta hits a three run dong to put the Spiders on top.
nice Manny. half-dong.
Garza looks a little like Hinske with the big smile.
Isn't it kind of ironic? A land where bugs can hurt spiders, and not the other way around?
(Sarah, you know what brak brak means, right?)
half-dog = quarter deuce.
Or not...
Pettitte: 100 pitches thru 5. 5 runs on 8 hits.
Quarter Deuce = a Shart?
Bugs and spiders, funny.
Ish, I'm glad it was your own choice.
(yeah, I just hadn't refreshed to see jere's statement before I typed that)
I dunno, I don't think the bugs hurt the Spiders so much.
Over 90 pitches for Wake already. So much for inning eating. White flag should make an appearance later.
Quarter Deuce = a Shart?
Only if it's not expected. i.e., a dropped pop-up.
True about the bugs. Bugs like huts.
Ok. I know ON FIRE is ICE COLD. but still, I want to see me some sweet J.D. DONG.
I'll keep calling for it until it comes.
dumbo dong
Wanna see something funny?
Drew base knock on the cushiony carpet.
freakin Shemp homers. 5-4 Canadian Soldiers.
I love it, Jere!
Another base hit for Lowrie!
gameday showing matsui dong, then Posada ground out to third.
wait -- it was a shemp dong, not a big-earred dong?
Come on guys! Red Sox never leave a man behind!
It was a Shemp not a Po
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