No more Schill

Well, at least we son't have to worry about Wellsy's pitching for at least a month. But now we have Schill hitting the disabled list too. That leaves us with a starting rotation of Clement, Arroyo, Wake, Halama and an undetermined. That is, at least untill Wade comes back hopefully on May 9th. If all goes well today and Tuesday in his rehab starts, the Miller gambit will begin to take effect. Let's hope its not like the BK gambit in any way.
Actually, I don't think that its such a bad rotation. If you look at what Schill and Wells have been doing, they had one, maybe two quality sarts between them. I feel confident with Arroyo getting playing time and I like the way Wakefield's been pitching. Clement looks like he's gonna come around as soon as he stops picthing against the big two bats in our division (Yanks and O's), and I think Halama has the experience to step up the game and give us some quality starts. Halama has over 100 career starts. All and all, I think we'll get two over five hundred in the span until Wade makes his first start.
Unrelated to baseball, I was just reading in article in the post (http://www.nypost.com) in which Damon Jones of the Miami Heat (http://www.nba.com/heat/) shot back against Charles Barkley for making comments about his sunglasses. While the article is funny, what got me was when Jones said this, "There's no egos, I don' think so. The biggest ego in the locker room is mine."
Now this got me thinking about the 'Celts and Ricky Davis. Davis is definatly the ego, the Jones character of the Celtics. So when Shaquile O'Neil said "I'm not going to about that nonsense and get too big for our britches," about going up 4-0 against the Nets, it got me thinking that the Celtics should really do more of this stuff. Where are the coaches to stop Ricky from getting too big for his britches. Where are the veterans (Pierce, 'Toine, Payton) to step in and tell Ricky to cool down his mouth? Does anyone remember when Ricky opened his mout during the Celtic's ten game win streak? They lost to the Knicks. Why can't our guys be cool like Shaq? I'm just saying.
Back to baseball, the Yanks lost 5-1 to the Angels last night in the Bronx. That puts them two games behind us after our rain delay. The Sox are off today, so root for John Lackey and the Halos in the Bronx.
Untill next time.

What a disaster!

Does anybody remember last year when we just couldn't beat the Orioles. Most notably the last stretch of the season when we were in spitting distance of the Yankees in the standings and the O's just kept beating us up? Well its happened again and it couldn't have come at a worst time. These are the days when its hard to be a writer for an unpopular blog which nobody reads.
Last night, Matt Clement - my favorite Red Sox acquisition of the offseason - gave up seven runs in less than five innings. Five innings! But the worst part is that this is a game we could have won. I remember switching back to ESPNNews (http://www.espn.com) during commercials last night and seeing the score stuck at 8-7. It was one of those times where you wouldn't be suprised if your team won, but you knew something was gonna happen.
Well it happened in the 8th when Francona brought out Foulke an inning too earlier and he promptly gave up home runs to Tejada and Javy Lopez. Its not like we didn't have our chances. Timlin gave us two solid innings of one-hit ball for the hold. Embree was already used in the fifth to get Clement out of a jam.
I guess Francona was thinking, 'well, we just used our two set-up guys so we mine-as-well go to our closer one inning early. Obviously that backfired.
Meanwhile, gay-Rod hit three homers to lead the Yanks with 10 RBIs over the Angels. This means they're one and a half back with the Moose pitching tonight.
Sox are in second, three games behind Baltimore.
Tonight: Celts take on the Pacers in Indiana. I'll put my money on the bench scoring thirty and 12 assists for 'toine to put the Celts ahead 2-1.

Monday Blues

Wellsy what happened to you?
The Sox dropped last night's contest to the division leading Orioles and the Bad Guys gained a half of a game on us. Man this sucks. Not only did we drop in the division and lose some of our lead over the Yanks, but the Celts dropped a nailbiter at home.
Wells gave up six runs and didn't make it out of the fourth. Meanwhile, surging Bruce Chen was just short of outstanding. Ortiz had three hits and V-Tek homered, but Manny was hitless and all of David's shots were mostly meaningless.
Look at how much Wells has aged for this season. Other than that one gem against Baltimore, he's been pretty bad for us. At this point you'd have to think that he's the one who sits once Wade comes back. Of course, Sox managment would never let that happen now that we have him for two years, but don't you want your best team on the field to play any given game? And at this point who can tell me that they'd rather have Wells in the rotation than Bronson "no more cornrolls" Arroyo? Let's get this kid pitching and get rid of bad news.
By the way, doesn't it seem like we always get the Yankees at the decline in their career (Wells, Cone, Mendoza), while the Yanks get our players who still can rock it (Boggs, Clemens). I'm just saying.
The Yanks had the day off and face Anaheim today. Its Bartolo Colon vs. Pavano and this should be a good matchup. Today the Sox face the Angel's presumed ace, Lopez, with Matt Clement. This should be a W for us and the Yanks, but anything can happen.

Saturday & Sunday: Go Celts!

I really donnot want to discuss Sunday's game except to say that it sucks when you lose a game your ace is pitching to a team like the D-Rays. All I can say about Saturday is Go Celts!
On Sunday, we had a little brawl action and our old friend Kazmir was not even involved. TB pitching behind Manny and then over Ortiz's head was not smart. Manny homered right away and Oritiz had to wait for his next at bat, but he homered too. And of course Bronson retalitates, but this guy hit so many batters last year (led the league) that I am not even sure if he meant to retaliate or not. And how about his move of looking like the village idiot and grabbing his crotch after every time he hits a batter? Is this guy cool or what?
So we are spared the sweep at the hands of the lowly D-Rays and the Yanks discover what Johnson is capable of the first time this season...yet we are still looking up at the birds. Today Wells at O's for a shot of first place. If you are lucky enough to live in a NESN covered state, this should be a good game.
Until next time.

Tough game last night.

Timmy was awesome for the first few games and was solid last night, but the Sox were again stifled by ex-Met Scott Kazmir.
It was Kazmir who the Rays stole from the Mets for Zambrano in possibly their worst acquisition since former Sox MVP Mo Vaughn (where is he anyway? He's still gettin paid, but has been MIA for almost 3 seasons). In his career vs. the Red Sox, Kazzy is 1-1 with a 1.29 ERA and 23 Ks in 4 starts. This guy dominates us.
Tim was saved from the loss, though, when the Sox rallied in the ninth thanks in large part to Bellhorn. Bellhorn, who earlier in the game made an error that led to an unearned run for Wakefield, clubbed a double in the ninth that scored Nixon. Bellhorn moved over on the second sac bunt from Vasquez and scored off of JD's single to tie it 4-4.
It was all over in the ninth though, as Embree gave up a walk-off homer to a pinch hitter.
Bellhorn accounted for four runs in the game as he scored in the fifth, errored in the third, RBI'd in the ninth and scored the tying run.
Wakefield pitched six innings with 7 hits, 3 walks, 2 Ks, 4 runs, 2 earned. He definatly was not as dominate as he had been for the past three starts.

Meanwhile, the bad guys lost in Kevin Brown's home opener. Does anyone else think the Yankee pitchers at some point in this season will implode? Whether its Brown doing something stupid, Johnson out for 60 days with an injury, or the Boss driving Pavano mad, something has got to give here. Are there odds on this?

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Friday 4/21

Last nights game against the Orioles was a gem! Welcome to Boston Senor Matt Clement! I mean, this guy was amazing. 8 hits, 1 walk, 7 Ks and 0 runs in 8 innings. People didn't think this guy could handle the pressure in Boston, but so far Mr. Clement has been pretty decent. Remember, this is the same Orioles lineup that ran thru the Yankees poor pitching not too long ago.
Also, does anoyone else feel really happy for Pedro? This guy is thriving in New York. And aren't we happy that he isn't doing this for the Yankees, but for those once hapless Mets? Congrats to Pedey and Clement on two stellar preformances last night.

By the way, the Yankees barely escaped last night with 2 outs and runners on the corners. If it wasn't for that great defensive play by Tino Martinez, they woulda been sunk. Is something wrong with Mo?

Also, and I know its early, how good is it to look down at the Yankees in the standings? Sitting on top feels better than looking up and wondering if we can overcome a 12 game deficent.

Peace.