Official Boston Red Sox 2005 Thread

[deeman11747]

Quote: Originally Posted by ILLCHILL

Well, Manny gives his team chances to win and is an integral part of the offense. Brown just sucks. Manny only does this ocne or twice a year anyways, so whatever. AND WE WIN!!! WE WIN!!! Great play by Olerud. What a heart-pounding game. We need to take the next one and face Minniesota with some momentum. Now onto the SP trades thanks to Crawford's liner.

I'm aware of the slight difference in current talent between the two, but how can you like a guy getting paid more money than you can ever imagine that just dogs it and acts like he doesn't care. It just seems like a waste of talent when he acts like that and it makes it hard to root for a guy you feel doesn't care as much as someone else.

Obviously he's not the only one who does this, but he makes it extremely obvious and he should be taking a leadership role on the team as a veteran but I don't think you want a guy that won't run 90 feet to help his team out to by your leader.

But thats just my two cents.

[GBrushTWood]

That was one of the better regular season games I've ever seen, as good as the 2003 Labor Day game vs. Philadelphia, and the 2004 Bill Mueller walk off game vs. Rivera.

Schilling was extremely shaky in the 10th. I just hope we can attribute that to being a little bit overworked in the last 2 days, because the Red Sox really aren't going far if he can't get guys like Damon Hollins and Travis Lee out. The old Schilling would overwhelm these guys.

How about Manny Delcarmen too? He was pretty nasty, and maybe he can somehow step up. I saw pretty solid command from him, and obviously sweet velocity, as he topped out at 95 MPH. The command is the big thing with his fastball though. The curve ball still seems a little shaky, and kind of a show-me pitch.

Obviously, Damon was outstanding. The catch he made is one of the better catches I've seen primarily because there's 0 margin for error. If he screws up at all, the game is over and they lose. Just perfect execution, and the home run was just a total 'holy f'n ****!' moment.

In addtion, they won this game IN SPITE of Manny Ramirez, who had his head up his *** all game long. I'm one of the bigger Ramirez supporters, but I wanted to chuck a brick at his head when he literally (anybody who watched knows I'm not exagerrating) walked down the 1st base line on a DP ball in the 10th inning.

[APD0290]

Quote: Originally Posted by Longhorn6

Looks like we'll be calling up Halama again, because we have no one other than J. Gonz and Schill who could go into the rotation while Matt's out.

Halama was actually DFA'd, so I don't think they can call him up. Could be Abe that gets the call. Maybe even Anastacio?

Also, Nixon has a strained oblique. He'll probably go on the 15 day DL. Maybe Petagine will get a call up from Pawtucket?!

FREE PETAGINE!

[Stu]

Quote: Originally Posted by GBrushTWood

In addtion, they won this game IN SPITE of Manny Ramirez, who had his head up his *** all game long.

Except for the 2 hits, HR, 2 RBI and 2 Runs.

I don't find it real tough to root for the guy. He's leading the AL in HR's and MLB in RBI's and people are concerned because he didn't run out what should have been an automatic double play? 95% of the players in baseball with Manny's speed don't run that out, but because it's Manny he gets criticized. Guy just can't win.

[Stu]

Quote: Originally Posted by APD0290

Also, Nixon has a strained oblique. He'll probably go on the 15 day DL. Maybe Petagine will get a call up from Pawtucket?! FREE PETAGINE!

I can't see them carrying 3 1B's. Kapler was coming up this weekend anyways so he's the logical choice. I just hope they don't bring up Petagine and put Millar in RF.

[APD0290]

I forgot all about Gabe. I would still love to see Petagine somehow get onto this ballclub.

[Vince]

The D-Rays have been hot in the second half and I expect them to be a huge thorn for a lot of the contending AL East teams.

[elicoleman]

**** Baez.

The end.