Boston Red Sox

FenwayFaithful wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

FenwayFaithful wrote:

How quiet all the shit talkers are on this thread when we're winning...

What a play by Pedroia in the 8th last night to get out of the jam.

I actually haven't watched you guys play in a week or so. Can only beat who you play but not the most difficult part of your schedule. Beating the teams you're supposed to beat though, all you gotta do.

They've looked shockingly good lately. Winning 1-0 in a pitching duel this weekend. They're also winning with offense. I couldn't believe it that Ryan Sweeney has 14 doubles in limited play this season. Sweeney, Darnell (who had a homer last night) and Cody Ross have picked up the slack for Jacoby and Crawford.

Can't believe I'm writing this, but Dice K apparently looked real good in his rehab assignment and I think will play a big role on this team in the dog days of summer. I just really hope they don't rush him too much. Could see DiceK winning 10 games in the last 4 months of the season.

Word. You may want to stop making predictions about players making an impact though. It seems like everytime you say Crawford is going to have a big year, he has a setback.

Wow. So sad.

Carl Beane, the public address announcer at Fenway Park since 2003, was killed in a single car crash in Sturbridge on Wednesday.

Beane, 59, was pronounced dead at Harrington Hospital in Southbridge shortly after the crash. Officers were alerted to the crash on Holland Street at around 12:40 on Wednesday afternoon by golfers at Hemlock Ridge Golf Course, which is located close to the scene of the accident.

Beane, a native of Agawam, began his broadcasting career in 1972.

http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/this-just-in/21198016/sox-pa-announcer-killed-car-crash

:( just saw this on ESPN

A heart attack while driving is a pretty awful way to go out. It's a good thing nobody else was hurt. It's a shame that he had to die a such a relatively young age.

Beckett really is an ass. He can't be that clueless that he doesn't see why it's a problem to play golf a day after your team announced that they were skipping your start due to a tight lat muscle.

From the AP recap of his disater of a start last night:

Beckett was unrepentant about his golf outing, saying what he does on his day off is his business. But what he failed to understand, it seemed, was that fans were upset about him golfing when he was supposedly too sore to pitch rather than about him simply hitting the links on a normal off day.

Later in the article:

In his postgame interview, Beckett grew more terse each time his golf outing was mentioned.

"We get 18 off days a year," he said. "I think we deserve a little bit of time to ourselves."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseba ... =hp_t2_a12

When your team is paying you around $15 million to pitch and they're worried because you reported tightness in your lat muscle and decide to rest you to avoid making it worse, maybe you should consider not spending that off day playing a sport that involves swinging a club and trying to hit a ball as far as you can. "I spend my off days the way I want to spend them." That's all well and good, but you better not pitch like crap if that's your attitude because the fans will boo you like they did last night.

pitchers are weird, they need to be to do well (or in Beckett's case poorly)...if I were a Sox fan this would be the least of my worries.