With September approaching and Beckett kicking into post-season form....does it really matter who they have going?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw8zHUjwvCo

Not much interest in today's game so far.

Many had late nights last night.

I'm a family man, so I woke up rested and ready for church and baseball.

Win!

How about a no hitter just to spite the bashers?

We saw Jason Varitek line a single into right field off of Roy Halladay. Your no hitter is nothing!

NESN.com has the line up as:

Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
J.D. Drew, RF
Jason Bay, LF
Jed Lowrie, 3B
Alex Cora, SS
Jason Varitek, C

Cora over Casey is a fucking crime

Defense downgraded = CHECK

Offense downgraded = CHECK

Why take JD out of the lead off spot? Does dreamboat get to bat lead off for the rest of the year based on 2 bad months followed by ten good days?

This game is far from a sure thing. Marcum beat the Sox the last time he faced them going a strong 7 innings. He also has this season an opponent batting average of .218 which is fourth best in the league. In nine career meetings against the Jays, Beckett's ERA is 4.92. Also Rios is 5 for 16 against Beckett and Wells is hitting .333 with 5 hrs against Josh.
I think we might be in another game where if you give up more than 3 runs you are going to lose.

Remember all that talk about Robinson Cano from Yankee fans about how he is such a great second baseman. They said he'll eventually win a Batting Title and Gold Glove?

Dustin Pedroia.

Mussina having troubles in the first inning against the Royals in NY. KC up 3-0.

Beckett is a stud, who will get this done. Play to win, guys - and do it kicking ass. There is no more snooze on the alarm clock of this season.

GO SOX - WIN TODAY!

Happy Birthday Pedroia!

Brian Bannister is pitching...

3-3

Yankees will win by at least 5

More like 10. And they're getting Shemp back this week, which will get noodle bat Garder out of the lineup. This is FAR from over.

Marcum was very tough pre-injury...since coming back from the injury...

17.1 IP/18 H/9 ER/...color me unimpressed.


I have a feeling Marcum will get his ass handed to him today.

Diggin' the hair, kid

Finish him Josh.

Second batter of the day and Alex Cora's defense has already hurt the Sox.

Fuck you Cora.

Alex Rios loves facing our pitchers.

And now Alex Cora's defense will most likely lead to a run being scored

Nice work

Oh go fuck yourself Rios. Where the fuck was this all season.

Foulkey Reese you are right. Brian Bannister is plain awful. NYY 6 KC 3 after 1.

great movement on that curve

He's not a major league pitcher.

What did Cora do?

Wow, that can't have missed by much.

Let a ball get past him that most high school short stops get

God dammit.

Looks like we're going to need some offense today.

Beckett is not locating his pitches where he wants them. I just hope he doesn't groove one to get a strike and ends up down 4-0.

He got dirty on the play though! NICE DIVING ATTEMPT!

So much for being the stopper.

Josh Beckett. Ace.

E7

Fuck you Toronto. Fuck you, you bunch of fucking assholes.

Fuck. Come on Josh.

Does Lugo get that line drive?

gotta be a hit with an error on bay

ugh.

10 more games against them.....

Eh, don't blame Toronto. Beckett's given up 3 rockets and walked a guy. He's pitching like shit.

Get Masterson up.

Yut-oh.

Another 2-run hole. Not an impressive start by Beckett.

I guess Toronto is the this year's "AL East team we have trouble with."

But it's over. That's what half the board keeps saying.

Cora makes me miss Lugo.

Beckett looks completely out of synch today.

No, but Lowrie does.