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Post by michaelrichards on May 24, 2007 13:49:25 GMT -5
finally the sox are off when i have a baseball game.
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Post by comebackkid on May 24, 2007 13:49:33 GMT -5
What do you think of the new username, Asia? That is the greatest thing ive seen on these boards My dream of a WF NL Central is complete God Bless you
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on May 24, 2007 13:53:41 GMT -5
Yanks will be fine it is early. They are 14-3 on my MLB 07 The show PS3 season LOL If the Yankees were lucky enough to go 14-3 in their next 17 games I think it would be safe to say that their season would be saved....But I don't think that's going to happen. The Yanks aren't dead, but they certainly do have a tall task ahead of them. Last year on June 30th they were 4.5 games behind the Red Sox....They are 9.5 back right now.....they have 37 days to pick up 4-5 games and they will be right on pace. I'd like to be only 4.5 - 5.5 back on June 30th, or maybe even less if something crazy happens....but considering how far we were back and how bad things have been, to be on pace with last year at this point is all you can ask for....I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
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Post by bjd on May 24, 2007 14:09:25 GMT -5
The Red Sox have also been an overachieving team, who have had just about everything go right for them in the first 1/4 of the season.
One minor injury to Josh Beckett. Thats it. Baseball is a marathon, especially for pitchers. The season is an endurance test to see how well your pitchers hold up. The Red Sox staff currently has an overweight 40 year old, Injury Prone Josh Beckett, Julian Tavarez(need I say more), and Matsuzaka... who mark my words, is going to be worn down at some point in his contract. Japanese pitchers always tend to have poor life spans to their careers. When your most durable pitcher is a 40 year old knuckleballer, your staff is not as solid as you think.
Has this season been embarassing? Very much so... Especially Robinson Cano, Bobby Abreu, Mike Mussina and Mariano Rivera at this point... not to mention Carl Pavano. However, I have yet to panic... I think this is going to be one of those seasons where the Yankees creep back into first place, and everyone is shocked by it....
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Post by comebackkid on May 24, 2007 14:20:56 GMT -5
Yanks will be fine it is early. They are 14-3 on my MLB 07 The show PS3 season LOL and Craig Biggio leads the league with 32 homers in May in my game OMFGZ ASTROZ IN O711!
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Post by Jean-Ralphio on May 24, 2007 14:41:22 GMT -5
Yah I dont think the Yankees will creep back into first place, I am sorry, they gained 1 single game this weekend when they had their 1,2,3 starters lined up. The Red Sox had their 3,4,5. Yes Schilling is a #3 now.
Josh Beckett has not been injury prone in Boston, he cut his finger, it is not like he tore his ACL. Cuts heal within 10 days. He will be back on Tuesday.
Matsuzaka, again, is not like every other Japanese pitcher, I agree he will wear down, everyone does, but this was the best starter in Japan, you can not compare Nomo and Irabu to him. Just because they all look the same does not mean they are the same.
I actually disagree that the Red Sox are overachieving and heres why:
Manny Ramirez, future first ballot Hall of Famer is batting: 250/7/28.
JD Drew, who is a ****, but a lot better than: 237/2/13
Julio Lugo, beats his wife but again, is a lot better than: 236/3/27
Coco Crisp: NOTHING OUT OF HIM: 240/1/13
So essentially the Red Sox are the best team in baseball when 5/9 starters are having awful years.
The Yankees have 2 offensive players sucking, and the rest of the offense is at least contributing.
The key is pitching and the Sox have the better staff, argue all you want, but you wont see Curt Schilling like that again. People may say Josh Beckett is overachieving but this one of the most highly regarded pitching prospects since Clemens, he has great stuff, hes still young, what he is doing in 2007 is what he is supposed to be doing.
The Yankees are not dead, I am not buying my ALDS hat yet, but to say the Red Sox will be so bad again that the Yankees can catch em right now is ridicolous. You made up 1 game over this weekend with your best pitchers.
The breaks the Red Sox have been catching is based on talent, Mike Lowell is obviously on a contract year but people forget how good of a player he is, same with Youkilis, and Ortiz. This team is as talented as the Yankees, but when the Yankees slump its ya know just a slump but when the Red Sox do well its overachieving. Which is a joke.
I am back by the way.
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Post by bjd on May 24, 2007 14:47:56 GMT -5
We'll see... quote me on it by the end of the season: The Yankees will finish first in the AL East. I will not back down or concede from that statement until mathematically impossible.
Stranger things have happened... divisions are not clinched in May.
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Post by michaelrichards on May 24, 2007 14:48:05 GMT -5
raaaaaaaaaaalpho.
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Post by Jean-Ralphio on May 24, 2007 14:50:31 GMT -5
You are entitled to your opinion, and thats fine, but 2 games in the middle of May dont make or break a season and if the series went the other way, 2/3 to the Sox, I dont think you would be making that declaration.
Oh well, thats what summer baseball is all about, I've seen collapses from the Red Sox, I dont think it will happen, but after the Celtics the other night...anything in this city is possible
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Post by comebackkid on May 24, 2007 14:52:40 GMT -5
Brian you forget the AL East is a very tough division, its not the NL Central where 5 games can be made up in a week
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Post by Bubbles on May 24, 2007 14:52:52 GMT -5
last night.....i don't even want to talk about. idc that we got the W but we also realized this team isnt going anywhere without a bull pen.
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Post by Jean-Ralphio on May 24, 2007 14:54:18 GMT -5
Josh Beckett is going to come back and be dominant, as will Matsuzaka. I just dont see a collapse happening, now if Beckett sucks and goes on the DL then i will say were in trouble. The Sox have the pitching, I mean our #1 pitching prospect out-pitched Clemens last night, we have Lester who 2 years ago was the 2nd best pitching prospect in the majors behind Liriano waiting in the wings, and Gabbard who is gonna be a 4-5th in the majors outpitching Tim Hudson.
Pitching wins and the Red Sox as of now have the better supply of arms
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Post by T R W on May 24, 2007 15:01:03 GMT -5
The shot of that guy in the backwards celtics hat crying was priceless.
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Post by Jean-Ralphio on May 24, 2007 15:02:28 GMT -5
The best was Doc Rivers expression when they announced it, looked like he was about to cry and he just aged 20 years.
Heres a lesson kids, inept management, bad cap control and awful drafting can ruin one of the most prolific franchises in all of sports!
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Post by bjd on May 24, 2007 15:02:59 GMT -5
Brian you forget the AL East is a very tough division, its not the NL Central where 5 games can be made up in a week I don't think the AL East is tough this season. Toronto was eliminated from contention as soon as BJ Ryan and Roy Halladay went down. Tampa Bay has no pitching, and Baltimore is always a pushover. Its a two team division again with Toronto's injury woes. The Yankees are very capable of getting hot. The pitching is not as bad as the numbers indicate. Andy Pettitte has pitched like a Cy Young contender. Wang will be fine, Clemens will be fine... Mussina does worry me right now, but should turn things around enough to solidify the back of the rotation. And Clippard, Hughes, Desalvo or whoever can fill the 5th spot... Boston has Tavarez as their 5... that says enough. I know a lot of people are laughing... but don't be surprised if the Yankees come back and take the division. We've been down this road before where everyone writes the team off... Lets just see what happens before we start engraving those Red Sox World Series rings just yet...
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2007 15:06:54 GMT -5
jays are going to finish first in the AL east. so quit worrying about it. geesh
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Post by Jean-Ralphio on May 24, 2007 15:09:24 GMT -5
The Yankees have never come back from a 10+ game defecit this late in the season under Joe Torre, but no one is engraving the rings yet, and if they are its on ESPN who blow either Boston or NY depending on the day.
You talk crapabout Tavarez but look what he did to the Yankees and to the Tigers: 12.2 innings 7 hits 3 ER. I'd rather him than Matt DeSalvo or whomever, and again, we get Lester back who was 7-2 and a better pitcher than Clippard/DeSalvo etc.
It is going to come down to Boston and NY, Toronto will start selling pieces off real soon and until the Devil Rays know how to construct a team they are just basement fodder.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2007 15:13:17 GMT -5
late? lol
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on May 24, 2007 15:21:36 GMT -5
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS! OF ALL THE DRAMATIC THINGS....OF ALL THE DRAMATIC THINGS I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.....RALPHO IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No fights or arguing for over a week....its time to put our gloves back on boys, HE'S BACK!
Who's going to get the next week ban?
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Post by comebackkid on May 24, 2007 15:24:33 GMT -5
lol
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