The Sox payroll this year looks to be 7-8 million less than last year's and if they trade Crisp and/or Tavarez it could be 15 million less than the year before - which is pretty impressive considering they are keeping the World Series Champions intact.
Well, I was close the Sox payroll this year is 10 million less than last year's and they brought virtually everyone back.
Also, we're now 4th in payroll so hopefully all the talk about how the Sox are buying titles will stop for awhile.
Dice K looked great last night if anyone stayed up to watch him. And Papelbon just blew away the A's batters in the 9th.
Definitely a great site, but it can get preachy at times. I find it helpful when having to deal with some of the more outrageous comments about the sox here. I'm just a lurker (americantrotter) I like reading it as it has brought me more into the game's inner workings and I understand things better than just knee jerk reactions now.
Went to both Sox v A's games over the past few days.
Dice K was dealin' .... was a bit worried after he gave up the homer to Cust then immediately went 3 - 0 on the next batter, but man, he came around, that showed me something.
Lester looked good today, but, one thing that worried me, all three of his walks ... came on 3 - 0 pitches ... he was a bit erratic and the A's hit into 3 double plays which really helped. Still, I'll take that from the mid/back of the rotation young guy.
Papi's HR today was c-r-u-s-h-e-d ... laser shot.
On to Toronto ... admittedly, I'm a little nervous about Bucholz.
"You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Didn't see the game but the box scores looked nice. I'm registered on SoSH but I'm restricted to posting in the Sandbox...I lurked for a long time and applied for full membership several years back but was never granted it. It's a good resource for inside information. I was there constantly during the Santana trade talks.
I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me.
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Check out the old school uni's on the Blue Jays .... awesome ....
yeah, the Brewers really did hit on a great idea, and the Jays are going to emulate them this year
those jersey's do look pretty sweet
I had one in the late 1980s when I was like 10, lol
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
they just announced on the Red Sox station that the JAys will do this every Friday ("flashback Friday")
Man, now if we could only get the Astros in their old Juaquin Andujar / Mike Scott rainbow uni's again!
yeah, every Friday home game is flashback Friday, just like the Brewers did last year. I am sure some other teams might start adopting it if they see an increase in sales from the jerseys. lol @ Andujar, the A's and Pirates could bring back those old yellow jerseys, or the Twins used to have powder blue and red I think back in the day, the White Sox would have tons of old uniforms to choose from for a flashback night
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Check out the old school uni's on the Blue Jays .... awesome ....
I wish they'd were those uniforms all season, much better then the other ones, so here's hoping the Jay's stick with red sox and yankees and make the al east real exciting this year
London 2005
Toronto 2011 night 2
Hamilton 2011
London 2013
The Sox finally return home for Tuesday's opener against the Tigers who are incredibly 0-6. Should be a good series and the Sox desperately needed to be home after going to Japan, then Oakland and Toronto.
7/13/98 Los Angeles 9/13/98 Hartford
8/29/00 - 8/30/00 Mansfield 11/5/00 - 11/6/00 Seattle
4/25/03 Cleveland 4/26/03 Pittsburgh 7/2/03 - 7/3/03 - 7/11/03 Mansfield
9/28/04 - 9/29/04 Boston
5/24/06 - 5/25/06 Boston
6/28/08 - 6/30/08 Mansfield
Boston 2010
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
I do like a lot about their team ... the big question though, health. Burnett, Ryan, Thomas ... Halladay's a different pitcher these days, can he still be succesful? HAve to rely on the youngin's like McGowan and Marcum. They are better than people give them credit ...
But still ... it's week 1 of 26 ... in regards to the Sox, I'm not worried. Chalk it up to the long travel hangover. This week, they'll be refreshed FINALLY getting back home.
"You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
As a Jay fan I do want to tip my hat and give credit where credit is due ................Thank You Mr Lugo!!!! Three errors in series finale!!!
Van 92.07.21 / Van 98.07.19 / Sea 98.07.22 / Tor 98.08.22 / Sea 00.11.06 / Van 03.05.30/ Van 05.09.02/ Gorge 06.07.22 & 23 / EV Van 08.04.02 / Tor 09.08.21 / Sea 09.09.21 & 22 / Van 09.09.25 / Van 11.09.25 / Van 13.12.04 / Pem 16.07.17 / Sea 18.08.10
Another Sox fan here. I haven't been paying too much attention to the season yet, I just wanted to post so I'm subscribed to this thread. I don't really get in to baseball until after basketball is over.
Just need to get the bullpen settled in, and getting the starters finally stretched out, getting timlin back and jettisoning the dreck at the back of the pen should help.
I know Lopez gives us a second lefty, but outside of the occasional ground ball he is a gas can. He should go when Timlin gets back.
they just announced on the NESN broadcast that Neil Diamond (who was there with Tom Werner) will actually come to fenway at some point this year and lead the crowd, live, in the bottom of the 8th "Sweet Caroline" tradition ...
got to admit, this ownership sure knows how to market to non hardcore baseball fans pretty damn well ... sigh ...
"You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Another Sox fan here. I haven't been paying too much attention to the season yet, I just wanted to post so I'm subscribed to this thread. I don't really get in to baseball until after basketball is over.
I am with ya on that one. The season is too long.
I have to watch the Celts win the championship then I can get excited about the Sox season
There's the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
How do you all do getting tickets to Sox games? My gang spent hours and hours online and waiting in line to get tickets this year - we were able to get tickets to 12 games including 3 Yankee games this year!
We've been on the season ticket list it seems forever! I'll probably be 100 before we get to the top of the list though.
How have the rest of you fared getting tix? Have you gone to see the Sox at other stadiums (we saw them in Baltimore last year - nice ballpark but I prefer fenway).
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Well, I was close the Sox payroll this year is 10 million less than last year's and they brought virtually everyone back.
Also, we're now 4th in payroll so hopefully all the talk about how the Sox are buying titles will stop for awhile.
Dice K looked great last night if anyone stayed up to watch him. And Papelbon just blew away the A's batters in the 9th.
- 8/28/98
- 9/2/00
- 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
- 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
- 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
- 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
- 8/2/07, 8/5/07
- 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
- 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
- 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
Great game by Dice K. He finally stopped nibbling. Oh, and being 4th in payroll is awesome. Should shut up a few people on here.
Yep, I'm registered as Solat13 on there as well. I had been lurking on the site since college until finally signing up for an id in 2005.
Lots of interesting stuff on there.
- 8/28/98
- 9/2/00
- 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
- 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
- 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
- 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
- 8/2/07, 8/5/07
- 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
- 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
- 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
Dice K was dealin' .... was a bit worried after he gave up the homer to Cust then immediately went 3 - 0 on the next batter, but man, he came around, that showed me something.
Lester looked good today, but, one thing that worried me, all three of his walks ... came on 3 - 0 pitches ... he was a bit erratic and the A's hit into 3 double plays which really helped. Still, I'll take that from the mid/back of the rotation young guy.
Papi's HR today was c-r-u-s-h-e-d ... laser shot.
On to Toronto ... admittedly, I'm a little nervous about Bucholz.
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
__________________________________________________________
Shameless beer-related plugs:
Instagram/Twitter/Untappd: FtMyersBeerGuy
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
yeah, the Brewers really did hit on a great idea, and the Jays are going to emulate them this year
those jersey's do look pretty sweet
I had one in the late 1980s when I was like 10, lol
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
they just announced on the Red Sox station that the JAys will do this every Friday ("flashback Friday")
Man, now if we could only get the Astros in their old Juaquin Andujar / Mike Scott rainbow uni's again!
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
yeah, every Friday home game is flashback Friday, just like the Brewers did last year. I am sure some other teams might start adopting it if they see an increase in sales from the jerseys. lol @ Andujar, the A's and Pirates could bring back those old yellow jerseys, or the Twins used to have powder blue and red I think back in the day, the White Sox would have tons of old uniforms to choose from for a flashback night
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Once I get out of this town
9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
I Cant believe its time to talk baseball already!
Lets not forget the Celtics.... Its almost time for GREEN 17!!!
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Toronto 2011 night 2
Hamilton 2011
London 2013
8/29/00 - 8/30/00 Mansfield 11/5/00 - 11/6/00 Seattle
4/25/03 Cleveland 4/26/03 Pittsburgh 7/2/03 - 7/3/03 - 7/11/03 Mansfield
9/28/04 - 9/29/04 Boston
5/24/06 - 5/25/06 Boston
6/28/08 - 6/30/08 Mansfield
Boston 2010
wonder if it was because
[size=+3]JAYS SWEEP !!!!!!!!!!![/size]
[size=+3]JAYS SWEEP !!!!!!!!!!![/size]
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
I hope they solve this bullpen issue, and most of all I hope that Lugo forgets where Fenway is.
I do like a lot about their team ... the big question though, health. Burnett, Ryan, Thomas ... Halladay's a different pitcher these days, can he still be succesful? HAve to rely on the youngin's like McGowan and Marcum. They are better than people give them credit ...
But still ... it's week 1 of 26 ... in regards to the Sox, I'm not worried. Chalk it up to the long travel hangover. This week, they'll be refreshed FINALLY getting back home.
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
EV: 8/09/08 8/10/08 6/08/09 6/09/09 6/18/11
Time for Dice-K to keep the Tigers winless.
Just need to get the bullpen settled in, and getting the starters finally stretched out, getting timlin back and jettisoning the dreck at the back of the pen should help.
I know Lopez gives us a second lefty, but outside of the occasional ground ball he is a gas can. He should go when Timlin gets back.
REDEMPTION
I was on an effin conference call ... I assume he was cheered wildly ...
glad to see him back, I know he wanted nothing to do with Boston for a long time after he hung 'em up.
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
i'm attempting to paste the picture of buckner but it keeps updating and links to a completely different picture
got to admit, this ownership sure knows how to market to non hardcore baseball fans pretty damn well ... sigh ...
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
I have to watch the Celts win the championship then I can get excited about the Sox season
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
We've been on the season ticket list it seems forever! I'll probably be 100 before we get to the top of the list though.
How have the rest of you fared getting tix? Have you gone to see the Sox at other stadiums (we saw them in Baltimore last year - nice ballpark but I prefer fenway).