The Roof was scarcely visible

Susan:
So the reticent rookie is starting to strike a peal .

 

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Mike:
You know Gabbard's won all three starts at Fenway in which he's struck out 20 in 19 2/3 innings.

 

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Susan:
And what about Manny and Papi who homered together for the 46th time in their careers?

 

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Mike:
Yet anothah forshadowing of the much anticipated return of the Manny Ortez ginormity?

 

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Susan:
God I hope so. It's just doesn't feel like the right Red Sox when Manny and Papi are non-factahs.

 

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Mike:
Seriously. It's like a pot 'o beans minus the molasses.

 

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Susan:
It's like a town without a commons, a river without an ocean …

 

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Mike:
Gives me shivahs to think that there will come a day when there is no moah Manny and no moah Papi.

 

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Susan:
C'mon now, stay in the present. Don't go into the white light.

 

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Comments

[louclinton]

GBS... I could have sworn Steinbrenner's middlle inital was M.

Oh, you mean George Bernard Shaw, the guy who invented Superman.

I like that dude.

He also said:

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."

and

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

and

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

lc

[Steve in MD]

Regarding A-Rod, you have to look at the alternatives. For the Sox, the alternatives are keeping 0 for 33 Lugo (although he seems to be coming around lately, but it's probably a fluke), or eating a portion of his contract (see Renteria, Edgar) and trading him and some additional quality talent for another shortstop (O-Cab would be great, but that's a pipedream) or trading him (eating contract, etc.)and signing a free agent shortstop other than A-Rod. Anyone we got would have less prodution that A-Rod.

Then we have to look at what happens to A-Rod if we don't get him. If the yanks don't resign him, he would likely end up in Anaheim (at third base) or in Seattle. Both those teams are closer in talent to the Sox than the Yanks right now, and adding a big bat to either will make them even more competitive, and deminish our chances of winning a pennant.

Boston's best strategy, IMHO would be to go after him, and if nothing else, drive up the price so high that the yanks can't both sign him and fix their starting pitching.

[Steve in MD]

/With regards to A-Rod: no way should we get him next year! I think someone in the Sox FO leaked that to a gullible NY paper just to make the Yankees panic./

Isn't the NY Times still an ownership partner in the Sox?

[vermonter]

Tuborg Gold.

[Ghengis Ortiz]

Shaefer long-necks or Ballentines Ale tall boys.

Somebody commented about Millar being available.

Fine, he might not be the right guy but it seems that Papi is getting cranky with his rotten knee and he shouldn't be relied on to be Captain Sunshine every day.

Any dead-pull right-handed 20-30 home run Court Jesters available around July 31, to bring the 'we don't give a f*ck we gonna play ball have fun and win' karma back?

It's nice that Loogie is hitting again...but fuggedabout about A-Rod, what I would give to have Cabrera back...

[Genghis Ortiz]

Mistake above, not Ballentines tall boys, I believe the appropriate term was 'kingahs'

[BlueStatah]

Bob, I lived at 395 Benefit Street in Providence when I was in graduate school at Brown. Then it was a crappy cheap apartment house. Now it's been all gussied up with a white nameplate on the front saying something like "Moses Brown House: 1802" on the front and has been converted from a borderline slum dwelling into Yuppie Heaven. When I revisited Providence a couple of years ago during a Trip Down Memory Lane I forgot to check what had become of the down-at-heel packie across the street, but I'll bet it's now either gone or converted into a Spirit Shoppe. Thanks for the memories, the rest of yez, about Utica Club and Old Munich and other swills of the past. How did my digestive system survive that crap?

[jdog71]

I can't believe no one mentioned GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY! I used to drink that swill by the ($6.95) case.