2012 Boston Red Sox Thread (Offseason edition)
 

Let's start with a clean slate.

And boom goes the dynamite...

can we lock this one too?

And Melancon blows another extra inning lead they got back.

MOTHERFUCKER. :wallbash:

2 ex Yankees blew 2 saves today for you guys.

Awesome.

That's almost as bad as 3 current Yankees losing 3 games.

and the mets are somehow fuckin 3-0

And the Orioles.

and the tigers!

ooops,sorry

2 days in a row...

I don't know what's more shocking them or the mets at 3-0

Not as awesome as the last time the Yankees were 0-3 they won the WS...


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND...

Every Kentucky National Title has been followed by at least 1 Yankee Championship right after...

































We still suck..

This season is going to be epic. In some way.

Yay.

And the Bard experiment is the failure I knew it would be.

And your closer situation is sketchy at best with the injury, so why not move him in there and try some kid in the 5 spot?

Pitching duel going on right now for the rights to this series. Romero rebounding nicely thus far and hopefully he gets this win.

we have some kid in the 5 spot. Bard is the 4. Felix Doubrant is the 5. Partly cause the amazing Jonathan Lackey is out for the year. they should start Aceves and let Bard close though, i agree

THANK you. Bard was groomed as Pap's heir apparent anyway (remember the talk years ago about making Pap a starter?) and he has two pitches in his arsenal so it's doomed to fail. It's a matter of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". They used Andrew Miller as a starter last year and he was due for a better year. This is also why I miss Wakefield: he was a good insurance policy to have in a situation like this.

Your Jays are looking pretty good spoon.

Doubrount is going to be good.

i hope so. he sucks balls in MLB The Show

Yah he did look sharp the other day, but wasn't HE in the 4 spot and Bard last nigh was in the 5th? Did I miss something or are you just giving the true ranks, like how Drabek pitched in the 5 hole but is our actual #4 with Carreno/Laffey in a #5 rotation until McGowan gets back...which seemingly never happens.

Lester
Beckett
Buchholz
Doubront
Bard

Well I know they say be careful what you wish for, but I'm hoping this inning is it for Lester. He's dealing outside of one inning with a few hiccups. Glad Romero is on a nice count and hopefully will not only get the win, but go the distance.

Too much bullpen use early with the first two going 28 combined and needing the pen a lot of late.

all garbage

Lester's been good but hasn't gotten any run support.

Romero isn't getting much either, just a well pitched game overall.

Yet I am surprised to see Lester out here in the 8th. He's up to 109 now, but 2 quickly down. 15 in a row may be what V may be thinking. Seems a little long a start for the second start, but the guy is a bull no doubt.

Bottom line, that's what happens when you're matched up against the other teams ace almost every week until the schedules get a little mixed up later. Both Romero and Lester aren't true bonafide aces just yet, even if they have the stuff and makeup. They just have to assume the role/position a little longer and both are clearly their staff's ace though. I like the way Romero rebounded here, and Lester has back to back impressive starts.

Side not, Davis is fucking fast.

Well, Romero got another one.

fuckin valentine. its the first week of the season how are you letting guys go almost 120 pitches

If there is a God, Bobby V will be fired during the season or shortly afterward and Jason Varitek will be made the manager.

And the guy who should have been the Sox manager long ago is currently in the Toronto dugout.

this is gonna be a long summer

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And Toronto changed a rule JUST to stop Boston from trying to steal him in the offseason. Farrell is staying in Toronto a LONG time!

Santos can dig out a TON with his Toronto future with a clean 2 outs here.

Nervous

His slider and off speed stuff in general is REAL sick. Santos just has to trust his stuff and stop overthrowing his fastballs (2 and 4 seamers). He still is overthrowing them tbh.

Nice job FINALLY by Santos.

At least I have the Nats as my "safety team".

yea, my safety team was always the Braves. Awesome

And this also shows why they should have traded Youk when he still had some value. Fucking Will Middlebrooks has been tearing it up in Pawtucket.

they coulda got a good young starter from someone in a playoff chase for youk too. Someone who would be tearing shit up now

Tito won't be at the Fenway 100th.

Good for him, especially after the smear campaign ownership put him through. Well, all except John Henry who probably busy in Liverpool at the time.

fuck you both, as I only have the Jays!

no safety team you pricks!

There suld be no such things as a safety team if ur a real fan of a team

Thanks literal posters!

How r we to know they're not serious

that's his safety post

mine wasnt so much a safety team. It was realizing that living where i do, being a sox fan, that people would get even MORE pissed if they knew i also rooted for Atlanta. it was partly the mets, but more so, YANKEE fans hated atlanta fans in teh 90s almost as much as Sox fans. So it was natural and easy. Esp cause they were on TBS every day back then.

And no matter how much i love the sox number 1 in my heart, my favorite player ever will always be Ron Gant. And i specifically mean the Atlanta Ron Gant pre breaking his leg fallin off a motor scooter

THE SAME RON GANT THAT WAS PULLED OFF THE BAG BY HRBEK (i think) in the top of the 9th in game 7 against minnie in 91 and was called out anyway cause the ump is a fuckin asshole. They woulda won that game if not for that BS

That was one of the all-time scumbag moves in baseball. I couldn't believe he got away with that.

and the ump was standing like 2 feet away. Staring right at it. i was only like 8 years old and i can still see it in my head

Ellsbury leaves the field holding his arm to his side after going into second hard.

It's going to be a very long season.

Thats gotta suck. He missed most of 2010 and was an MVP candidate last year


Beckett had a good outing today