Lisa's PSA

Lisa the Temp:
Remember, peeps, while the Soxaholix are on vacation, that masshole Dog Roy continues to Tweet.

 

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Comments

[Bob]

Despite Lisa's deformed, 4-finger hands, I continue to worship her.

Interesting "other side of the story" article BTW.

[COD]

It's hard to feel any sympathy for a guy worried about "job security" when he has made over $100 million in the last 8 years playing baseball.

[Harwich Rich]

I always thought Lisa was wicked PSA :) BTW-have a safe trip Bob.

[louclinton]

what, what? how is she working in the office when she is on vacation? oh, lawdy, I'm confused.

[yazbread]

Not much enthusiasm for the team today. Anyone else coming to the conclusion that the season is entering its death throes?

[Kaz]

While hb is enjoying his vacation, I thought I might point out an interesting post over at Surviving Grady (my second favorite Red Sox blog to check on). It's the one about hometown loyalties. I wrote a pretty huge comment over there explaining how I left Baltimore for Boston near the turn of the millennium. It might be an interesting read if you're looking for something to do.

[Scott]

Yaz,

I concur. They have wilted when faced with the best teams of late. Not encouraging. Time to look forward to next year. What can they get for Manny? Do they want to keep him? I don't see them making it out of the 1st round of the playoffs.

[denversoxfan]

I want Matt Kemp and some prospects from LAD in exchange for Manny.

Engage the trade machine!

[80sParisian]

This is the same team that had most of us sh*tting ourselves in late August and September of last year, convinced that they would miss the playoffs or go quietly in the first round. Instead, they won the division and then the World Series. I think we should wait at least until the team is (a) not in the lead for the Wild Card and (b) more than a game or five out of the division lead before we throw in the towel. Remember, it's a pretty soft schedule the last few weeks of the season, so if the Sox are still within striking distance in late August, a little homestand hot streak may be all it takes.

FAKE EDIT: Rotesocken just updated me on the Texeira trade. Never mind the above, repent, for the end is nigh!

[sonomasox]

yep & when the yanks get a-rod, the sox will never win again...

[h.b.]

///This is the same team that had most of us sh*tting ourselves in late
August and September of last year, convinced that they would miss the
playoffs or go quietly in the first round.//

Couldn't agree more. As late as Sept 15th last year they were playing uninspired ball (along with every other adjective use to describe recent play) and nobody held out much hope that they'd do much in the playoffs let alone do what they did.

[Daubie]

Just a friendly reminder:

IN THEO WE TRUST.

[Bob]

Okay, almost off to S.F. See you creepy people Friday (or Monday).

BTW, what a dog of a game last night, huh? The Angels are beating us worse than Michael Vick treats his puppies.

[yazbread]

Someone stick a fork in the team. See if they're done.

[Bob]

Well, since they're currently playing like undercooked muffins, maybe we should stick a toothpick in them and see if it comes out clean.

(God, that was a stretch, huh?)

[Scott]

How many running backs will the Pats keep on the roster this season? ;)

[Bob]

5.

[Kaz]

Less than the number of QBs in Green Bay?

Give or take 2.

[Jason O.]

Doug's making fun of Barack Obama?

Fucking racist.

[sonomasox]

Bob - if you're missing home in your day-stay try to hit the Conn. Yankee.

Thought Doug would be crying today as one of his favs (Ted Stevens) is wounded.

[paddy24]

Kaz, OK now you've confirmed a few things that I suspected all along. 1 - You're a bandwagon jumper, coming onboard during the early beginnings of the Manny/Pedro era. Forget Rice, Dewey, "Rooster" and Yaz! You came on board 15 years after "Oil Can", Hurst and "Hendu"! 2 - You abandoned your team. - paddy24 (proud Red Sox fan since 1977 (age 9).

[COD]

Age 9? Lightweight! Some of my earliest memories are of sleeping in the living room in a sleeping bag at age 5 or 6 so I could listen to the Red Sox on Armed Forces Radio. We were in Spain so the games were broadcast live at about 1 AM.

Oddly, I have a very specific memory of them getting blown out be the Royals in one of the games.

[sonomasox]

please...in utero bitches!

[fernco]

It scares me everytime Hansen is warming up. The guy just can not string an inning together without giving up inherited runners or his own! Not ready to give up the ship this season because I think the doldrums they are currently going through is caused by Manny's distractions.

[Kaz]

paddy, if you can read my entire post over at SG and come to the conclusion that I am a "bandwagon jumper" and that I "abandoned my team", then you confirm my suspicion that you have difficulty with reading comprehension.

I didn't abandon the Orioles. Angelos abandoned me and all of the other O's fans. I didn't jump on the bandwagon, I was told there'd be good baseball eventually and that new owners and new management would deliver it all within an amazing ballpark.

Bandwagoners jump on at the peak and jump off at the first low. I was there before 2003 and still went out and bought a mini-season plan that same October after being crushed. I'm never going to say I was there through it all (Boyd, Yaz, Rice, etc) because I wasn't. I barely remember the *year* 1986 in Baltimore, let alone what went on in the World Series.

paddy, take that noise and shove it in a pink hat.

[paddy24]

Kaz, OK, well now everyone knows how lacking in historical context your long-winded, pretentious posts are. Me, I had you pegged right from the beginning. For those that do care to read your daily post, at least it is very easy to get right at it - it's always the longest, most "clever" post of the day. - paddy24 (proud Red Sox fan since 1977 (age 9).

[Natalie]

Where's BigBri when you need him? Then at least we are all turned against a Yanks fan instead of each other. Again, hb goes away and becomes all Lord of the Flies around here. :)

Natalie- proud Red Sox fan since 1982 (age 7) and that was down in central NJ in the pre-cable/Internet days, where I could only watch the team when they were playing the Yanks, had to suffer through WPIX and Phil Rizzuto, and my only newspapers were either the Trentonian or NY Times. So there. I win.

[yazbread]

Kaz didn't jump on the bandwagon. He jumped off the manure cart because he could not stand the smell. Angelos has driven the O's into the ground and the future is bleak. God forbid that a disgruntled fan finds a new team. Only in Boston would you be forced to wear a scarlet letter around your neck or be denied membership in RSN unless you came over on the Mayflower.

[Soulie]

Y'know, as someone who's ancestors came over on the Mayflower, I think I win, Yazbeard.

George Howard Soule descendants in the Hizzouse!

[Kaz]

Lacking in historical context? Someone should tell all the history majors in the world that their degrees are meaningless because they didn't LIVE in 15th century England. Talk about pretentious...

As for how well you had me pegged...It was never a secret, boy-o. And that September 2006 post is only from a quick search to try and find the first time I mentioned my Baltimore roots here.

As it is, I've been posting here since 2005 (joined as part of the exodus from bambinoscurse.com who stopped posting at the end of the 2004 season, the same season h.b. started Soxaholix). On first search, the earliest here that I can find mention of a paddy24 is 2006. So, I guess it's unfair of me to assume you'd have any historical context to my posting here and are just now figuring out my style and the origin of my fandom. - Kaz (proud Soxaholix fan since 2005).

[Kaz]

Look what you made me do, paddy...so pissed, leaving off the html end tag...

[louclinton]

anyway, the sox suk right about now.

just my $.02

lc

[chris]

uh, guys, we're all on the same team here. we all love the sawx, none of us wear pink hats, and we can all recite last years rotation when quizzed. if someone is a "transplanted" fan then i say welcome to the family. is manny less of a US citizen because he wasn't born here?

i've never lived in boston - born and bred in columbus, o-h-i-o. but i've been a sox fan forever because my family moved here from weymouth the year before i was born. does that make me less of a fan? should i cheer for the indians even though i have no attachment to them?

we all know what a true fan is, and i'd say that everyone here (except BigBri) passes that litmus test.

[soxdownunder]

Tampa won. Yankees won. [gulp] Go Sox.

[yazbread]

Yanks just signed Pudge Rodriguez.

[chris]

yanks just signed pudge. [double gulp]

[chris]

dammit yazbread...

[yazbread]

No need to panic. Theo soon to announce that the team has picked up the option years on Lugo and Crisp.

[agman2]

For Kyle Freaking Farnsworth. Does Cashman has dirty photos of the other GM's? Its hard to believe the trades he's pulled off over the past week. Depressing. Does anyone have positive news about the Sox?

[Kaz]

I do, agman2, but I'm having trouble making the info long and "clever" so you'll have to just wait for someone else to break it.

[chris]

come on, kaz. you know you can't tease us like that. spill it already!

[NYSoxfan]

in the words of Yosemite Sam, 'Frizzle fraggin'! Scraggin' raggin'... varmints!'

[soxdownunder]

//Does anyone have positive news about the Sox?//
Um, not right now (2-6 top 6)...

[Jason O.]

The Red Sox will trade Manny and sign Barry Bonds. IMO.

[birthofasoxfan97]

Jason- if that exact scenario happens, I will buy you a drink. Might as well, because I'll have to go live in a bar, so I can drink morning, noon and night. GOOD GOD, I am freaking out about Manny. I know, I know, I know this is like Nomah II, but I didn't really like Nomah. So this is different. For me. And that's what matters. To me. And even Rice is dogging him as I type...

[Designated Sitter]

Latest rumor is Manny to the Marlins, Jason Bay and a reliever to The Sox and some Marlins makeweights to the Pirates. I hope not.

[Natalie]

Manny's comments of (I think) yesterday leave me cold- and for the first time, really done with him (I was squarely in the "Manny being Manny" indulgent camp for a long, long time). I wish these overpriced babies would just sit down, shut up and play baseball.

Wouldn't trading Manny to sign Bonds be a little like beating cancer and THEN starting smoking? Although we do need to do SOMETHING. This team is moribund.

Maybe I should make the transition to following football now....

[ParkerStPete]

Jumping a little late on the bandwagon bandwagon: I was born in Washington DC and grew up rooting for Frank Howard. (Became a Sox fan while attending a "superior northern ivy" in the mid-70s -- could hear the Fenway noise in October '75 from the Master's rooftop garden at Quincy House.) Given the shitter the Sox are in think I'll go back to being a Senators fan. Oh, wait...

[jar in chicago]

Bay and Grabow for Manny?? This last week has totally sucked. I have accepted all of the crazy moments of Manny because it is a wonderful sight everytime I see him hit. But it is time for him to go and be somebody else's headache and I am as sad as I have ever been as a Red Sox fan.

[Daubie]

at the risk of getting banned for life, where have you gone h.b.????? this is primo material for the strip and we hear nothing but silence. of course, i have nothing but respect for Mr. b.