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[Laser Show]

On the bright side, the Saber Seminar is today.

[E5 Yaz]

[Sprowl]

[Nomar813]

[SemperFidelisSox]

Do you expect me to make the playoffs?

No, Mr. Valentine. I expect you to die.

[rembrat]

[Jed Zeppelin]

Yeah, man. last summer was
a motherfuckin' ball, huh, Jim?

Just seems like a thousand years ago
since last summer, man.

It'll be like that again, man.....

[SoxScout]

[Trotsky]

The last two evening's losses hit me in the gut harder than any others have so far this season.... I felt like after taking 2/3 from the Tigers, we could sweep or 3/4 from the Twins and we'd be in the thick of it and on a roll. Losing those two sounded an awful lot like the season slipping away....
What's the draft looking like? Maybe there's a David Price out there that will fall a few slots to us?

[Norm Siebern]

Are you ready for some football?

[topps148]

Yeah we're drinking and we're dancing
But there's nothing really happening
And the place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night
...
And I lift my glass to the awful truth
Which you can't reveal to the ears of youth
Except to say it isn't worth a dime


Edit:
And I loved you when our love was blessed
And I love you now there's nothing left
But sorrow and a sense of overtime
And I missed you since the place got wrecked
And I just don't care what happens next
Looks like freedom but it feels like death
It's something in between, I guess
It's CLOSING TIME

Edited by topps148, 04 August 2012 - 09:45 AM.

[Jack Rabbit Slim]

I'm not quite ready to give up hope but I think it is time to start seeing what the shuttle guys have in the bigs. Give Lavarnway half or more of the starts and get rid of one of the catchers (preferably Shoppach imo). Kalish gets all the starts in RF with Ross moving to LF and Crawford getting surgery. Do what ever the hell you want at short because I'm not that confident in any of them having sustained success. Shut Doubront down when he reaches his limit and give as many starts to Morales as you can.

[bill]

If anyone is still holding out hope for the playoffs this year as I am, BP says the number is 10.9 percent. The Sox affiliates (who didn't have to face the likes of Jamey Carroll) fared better as all 7 won with Bradley and Brentz homering and Bogaerts collecting three hits. Is there a better name in the olympics than Ranomi Kromomidjojo?

[Curll]

[Foulkey Reese]

Red Sox = Gotham City

Me = League of Shadows

Purge it with fire

[Buzzkill Pauley]

BP says the number is 10.9 percent.

Slander.

I am as confident now that the Sox will miss the playoffs as I was last August that the Sox would make them.

[Jed Zeppelin]

Red Sox = Gotham City

Me = League of Shadows

Purge it with fire

2004-last September = the Dent Act years

Edit: which may or may not mean we need Nomar to come back and save us after he was sacrificed and cast out.

Edited by Jed Zeppelin, 04 August 2012 - 11:54 AM.

[bosox188]

2004-last September = the Dent Act years

Edit: which may or may not mean we need Nomar to come back and save us after he was sacrificed and cast out.

I don't think it's a coincidence that this team hasn't won a World Series since Royce Clayton left town.

[LynnRice75]

I don't think it's a coincidence that this team hasn't won a World Series since Royce Clayton left town.

Relax. He'll be back as soon as he finds his free taco.

Edited by LynnRice75, 04 August 2012 - 01:19 PM.

[notfar]

someone in the FO needs to have the stones to do what this kid did

https://www.youtube....B9NTYD0E#t=178s

[npmalk]

[LeoCarrillo]

Just realized that Colin the Forger from the Great Escape looks like Tito.

Edited by LeoCarrillo, 04 August 2012 - 02:08 PM.

[mauidano]

I'm not quite ready to give up hope but I think it is time to start seeing what the shuttle guys have in the bigs. Give Lavarnway half or more of the starts and get rid of one of the catchers (preferably Shoppach imo). Kalish gets all the starts in RF with Ross moving to LF and Crawford getting surgery. Do what ever the hell you want at short because I'm not that confident in any of them having sustained success. Shut Doubront down when he reaches his limit and give as many starts to Morales as you can.

Part of the problem is that this is who has been playing for the Sox most of the season. We've run the Pawtucket Sox out there for the most part all season. What was the number 23 guys with 27 trips to the DL this season. That is a Sox record and the most in the ML this season. So I'd say we've got a pretty good look at the future and it's here.

Edited by mauidano, 04 August 2012 - 01:36 PM.

[npmalk]

File that under "What the hell was he thinking"

[canderson]

I'm so very happy I didn't get drawn back to being a believer after that rogue four game winning streak.

[bloodysox]

Punto at 3rd today

[Johnny Fashion]

No, no no no. I'm in town for my annual game with the boy on his birthday, and we get Nick Punto.

[E5 Yaz]

1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
2. Carl Crawford, LF
3. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
4. Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
5. Cody Ross, RF
6. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, DH
7. Mike Aviles, SS
8. Kelly Shoppach, C
9. Nick Punto, 3B

[E5 Yaz]

No, no no no. I'm in town for my annual game with the boy on his birthday, and we get Nick Punto.

[Jack Rabbit Slim]

Part of the problem is that this is who has been playing for the Sox most of the season. We've run the Pawtucket Sox out there for the most part all season. What was the number 23 guys with 27 trips to the DL this season. That is a Sox record and the most in the ML this season. So I'd say we've got a pretty good look at the future and it's here.

I wasn't so much talking about this year, more so that hopefully more major league ABs will make them better players and the core of the future team. Might as well see what you have since the vets they would be replacing aren't doing much better.

[E5 Yaz]

ESPNJoeyMac Joe McDonald
Lineup change: Ellsbury out and Kalish in.

[soxhop411]

ESPNJoeyMac Joe McDonald
Lineup change: Ellsbury out and Kalish in.

So he is hurt again?

[Joe Shlabotnick]

ESPNJoeyMac Joe McDonald
Lineup change: Ellsbury out and Kalish in.

If they attribute this to flu-like symptoms, I'm going to send a box of flu vaccine to Yawkey Way.

[soxhop411]

Brian MacPherson ‏@brianmacp
BV: Ellsbury scratched with a "leg issue. It's not an issue, but it could become an issue."

[AimingForYoko]

Hullo all. It's been a super shitty day (wtf Liberty Bank?) but it will all get better once I see my Red Sox play and win.

We can't lose, it's almost my birthday, and that calls for birthday magic from Carl. Win!

[DaveRoberts'Shoes]

That lineup... gross

[SemperFidelisSox]

It's not an issue, but it could become an issue."

"Challenge accepted!" - Red Sox medical staff

[4-6-3]

Brian MacPherson ‏@brianmacp
BV: Ellsbury scratched with a "leg issue. It's not an issue, but it could become an issue."

This team should throw in the towel. A day doesn't go by without a player having to be held out of the lineup for some issue - preventive or otherwise.

[LeoCarrillo]

Are we ever going to see the full lineup, with Papi? It feels like we've been trying to pop the bra strap for four months now.

[E5 Yaz]

Brian MacPherson ‏@brianmacp
BV: Ellsbury scratched with a "leg issue. It's not an issue, but it could become an issue."

This organization is a well-oiled machine

[The Gray Eagle]

This team should throw in the towel. A day doesn't go by without a player having to be held out of the lineup for some issue - preventive or otherwise.

If they were to throw in the towel and utterly give up on any chance of making the playoffs, then they would send out a lineup like this:

1. Ryan Kalish, CF
2. Carl Crawford, LF
3. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
4. Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
5. Cody Ross, RF
6. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, DH
7. Mike Aviles, SS
8. Kelly Shoppach, C
9. Nick Punto, 3B

Good thing we don't have to see that junk!

[E5 Yaz]

GordonEdes Gordon Edes
RT @ScottLauber: Jarrod Saltalamacchia had food poisoning, not an ear infection, as Bobby V said last night

[soxhop411]

If they were to throw in the towel and utterly give up on any chance of making the playoffs, then they would send out a lineup like this:

1. Ryan Kalish, CF
2. Carl Crawford, LF
3. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
4. Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
5. Cody Ross, RF
6. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, DH
7. Mike Aviles, SS
8. Kelly Shoppach, C
9. Nick Punto, 3B

Good thing we don't have to see that junk!

Ian Browne ‏@IanMBrowne
Nick Punto, who is starting at third base tonight, has not made an appearance of any kind for the Red Sox since July 22.

its really been that long?

[E5 Yaz]

@alexspeier: Valentine on carrying three catchers: 'I don't know how permanent the 3 C situation is going to be.'

[Foulkey Reese]

GordonEdes Gordon Edes
RT @ScottLauber: Jarrod Saltalamacchia had food poisoning, not an ear infection, as Bobby V said last night

Pretty much the same thing...right?

Edited by Foulkey Reese, 04 August 2012 - 04:42 PM.

[mauidano]

A Gon leads the team in appearances with 105 games played. Avilles is next with 99 and it drops off after that. Ells now has a "leg issue". WTF is going on with this team? Leg issues, back issues, forearm issues, trap issues, thumb issues, the flu, food poisoning, i'm pissed off issues, WTF!!!!

[E5 Yaz]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- For the second time in three days, New England Patriots players were involved in a full-team scuffle at training camp.
The scrap was one of two that occurred on Friday, and prompted a peeved coach Bill Belichick to order all players to run three laps around the field, from goal post to goal post.

I wonder what would happen if BV ordered all players to run from home plate to the triangle and back three times

[Kilgore A. Trout]

[soxhop411]

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I wonder what would happen if BV ordered all players to run from home plate to the triangle and back three times

Well, most of them seem to be divas, so those "divas" would bitch and moan to ownership.... though I would not be against BV doing such a thing. But with our luck our whole team would end up on the DL tripping over something

Edited by soxhop411, 04 August 2012 - 04:58 PM.

[fineyoungarm]

GordonEdes Gordon Edes
RT @ScottLauber: Jarrod Saltalamacchia had food poisoning, not an ear infection, as Bobby V said last night

Well, clearly then it was ear poisoning.