It's the first day of the rest of the season

Al:
Well, well, well, hello .500 baseball, nice to see you again, did you lose weight, you're looking really swell.

 

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Mike:
Speaking of looking swell, John Lackey anyone?

 

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Al:
The stahting rotation is actually, maybe, quite possibly settling into a groove.

 

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Doug:
Oh, yeah, and BTW a funny thing happened when I was on my way to get pahts for my DIY Jack Kevorkian suicide machine — The Boston Red Sox now rank #1 in the AL in SLG (461), and numbah 3 in runs.

 

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Doug:
That's not to say I won't need the machine, just that there's no immediate hurry related to its assembly.

 

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Mike:
Breathe from the abdomen... One game at a time.

 

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Comments

[Colin]

I personally just think the aura of win from the Bruins and Celtics are permeating into Fenway's soul.

Just a thought.

[Bob]

Tonight it's our old nemesis Kazmir -v- Mothra. Then it's the Skanks, and Hughes, Sabathia and Burnett (and their combined 11-1 record and 2.06 ERA) against Beckett, Buckholz and To Be Announced.

I've heard good things about To Be. Supposed to have a hell of a cutter.

[ponch]

please, please, please Sox, can you thump Hughes around so I stop having to listen to NYC sports radio already giving him the Cy Young?

[Steve in MD]

Uh, according to the boston.redsox.mlb.com/stats/, we are tied for fifth in runs, and more importantly, fourth in the AL East.

[Steve in MD]

While checking the stats for my previous comment, I came across this:

Big Papi: .171 avg, 4 hr, 7 rbi, salary $13 M

Teixeira: .178 avg, 2 hr, 14 rbi, salary $20.6 M

Big Papi's a bargain!

[vasoxfan]

Steve et al,

I got 11th in the MLB and sixth in the AL for Runs.

http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/sortable_team_stats.jsp?statType=1&timeFrame=1&Submit=Submit&c_id=mlb&groupByTeam=true&baseballScope=mlb&timeSubFrame=2010&sortByStat=R

and #1 in AL for SLG and number 2 (behind AZ?) in MLB.

http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/sortable_team_stats.jsp?statType=1&timeFrame=1&Submit=Submit&c_id=mlb&groupByTeam=true&sitSplit=&baseballScope=mlb&timeSubFrame=2010&sortByStat=SLG

Sorry about the crappy HTTP links.

[Jim S]

didn't the spankies pull Burnett because of the pressure of pitchingin Fenway?

[Jim S]

nvm.. it's Vazquez they pushed back in the rotation because of extreme suckage.

[Steve in MD]

vasoxfan, they are listed sixth, but actually tied for fifth with Detroit at 139 runs scored.

While looking that up, I discoverd something really scary - the Rays are actually plaing worse than there expected win/loss ratio (based on the pathagorean theorem of baseball).

[vasoxfan]

Steve,
Gotcha. Sorry I missed that.

[Devine]

11-5 in their last 16. Those Rays are a monster, though.