Mike:
I love this line
from Mazz in today's Globe
…
Mike:
"Theo Epstein is taking care of his to do list as if he were strolling through the produce section, locking up home-grown budding stars to long-term deals at a time of economic turmoil."
Bill:
Yeah, and how about this headline at MLB.com — "Farm to Fenway pipeline still loaded"?
Mike:
How nuts is it that a guy like Daniel Bard is going
to have to wait for a spot
with the big club?
Bill:
The kid's on fiah. Hitting triples digits on the gun consistently.
Bill:
Striking out the side against Puerto Rico on Thursday then doing it again Sunday against the Rays.
Mike:
Joe Castiglione said
this is the most impressive effort by a youngster in spring training he's seen since Clemens in 1984.
Bill:
Wow, that takes me back.
Bill:
You know with the last 15 years or so with Clemens it's easy to forget just how amazing it was when he came on the scene in '84.
Bill:
Right from the staht he electrified this town.
Bill:
You know even with the glory that is the 2004 and 2007 World Series wins, those first couple years of watching Clemens go from gangly prospect to the most dominant pitcher in baseball stand on their own as some of the most heady times to be a Red Sox fan.
Bill:
Still amazes me how quickly the moment turned sour and was gone.
Mike:
Well, it's like Proust says in
Remembrance of Things Past, "The only paradise is paradise lost."
