Pahk your cah in the yahd: The Bawston Red Sox Thread

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Sweet, I get to make the thread for my favorite sports team of all time.

You are recommended, although not forced, to speak in Bostonian.

 

Um..saw Chowdaw....Chowdaw!

 

I keep hearing on Sportscenter that there is still no progress on the Matsuzaka negotiations.

How is it that Boras (Not to be confused with Borat) thinks his client is worth 100 million?

 

How is it that Boras (Not to be confused with Borat) thinks his client is worth 100 million?

Because he always thinks his clients are worth more than they are?

 

I don't think we're going to make the deal.

By the way, if we do, what's our rotation? Without him we have Schilling, Papelbon, Beckett, Clement and Wakefield. With one of them we have an odd man out? Who is it? Clement? Wakefield?

 

Ewww. I know clemens makes sense...but I dont want him.

 

Nothing official, but it sounds like the Sox might have reached a preliminary agreement with Matsuzaka

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2696321

 

edit: I am an idiot.

Anyways, 6/52 sounds pretty solid to me. Certainly a deal the Sox can be happy about.

 

6y/$52m to him, overall 6y/$103m, or just over $17 million/year.

If he pans out to be the star he's expected to be, he'll be worth it, but thats a lot of money to have on the hook otherwise.

 

Don't forget the merchandising/TV money he can bring in from Japan.

 

Thats true, and that won't be insignificant.

Also helps the chances of the Red Sox getting free agents from Japan in the future to boot.

 

The Sawks ah wicked awsome!

 

Negative.

Clement has to be the odd man out though. Wakefield didn't have that great of a season last year for you guys but Clement simply got shelled.






~Liar, lawyer, Mirror for ya, What's the difference? Kangaroo be stoned, He's guilty as the government~

 

Concern about Drew's shoulder is causing a hang up in finalizing the deal

 

And the Red Sox defeat the Yankees during their only pre-season game, J.D. Drew going to straight-away center for his first homerun while apart of the Red Sox (I forget who he had hit the homer off). Great game, Red Sox pull off a 7-5 victory.

 

Since I am a Cubs fan I am by default a Red Sox fan.

 

As long as they do that, say, around the Sept time-frame, I'll be happy about it.

I have no idea what the heck we're going to do about a closer though.

 

Well I am hoping this game is a sign as to what is going to come during the regular season.

On the closer bit, I really, really liked Papelbon last year, though this year, I am not sure what we are going to do, I just hope this matter is settled by the time the regular season comes around.

 

So true. The opposite goes for me as well.

I'm worried. I'm afraid he will exhaust himself way to fast in the game and not even be able to go 6 or 7. Though he was a successful starter in the minors, so I'm praying that he can adjust back to it well.

 

This thread hasn't been posted in since March 13th, and we've already had opening day at Fenway? My goodness...

I can't believe I *still* haven't caught a game with Matsuzatzka yet... maybe I'll watch tonight? In any case, this should be an interesting year. The media is so wound up, I can't remember how many articles about Dice-K I've seen already, and I've seen a lot of David Ortiz interviews, etc, too...

 

I was at the home opener yesterday. Very good game, Beck did a great job, he was in the zone. He threw a ton of strikes, I think he ended up with about 73 strike percentage, which is better than is norm [like 50/50 ]

Ichi went 0 for 3 and struck out each time. I wanted to check SC to see if that was like a first for him... was it?

 

I made my first trip to Fenway for Wednesday night's game, and for all the Dice-K hype in Boston, you'd think he might have pitched better .

Seriously though, he looked OK, but his opposition looked great in comparison. What a time for the Bosox's bats to go to sleep.

Anyway, Fenway is an awesome ballpark, as I'm sure you're well aware.

Yankees Suck!

 

Daisuke didn't get any run support whatsoever, and you can't win games without runs. He pitched fairly well, in my opinion. Fifteen K's in 2 games now, is it, with only three earned runs in the two. He'll win us a good amount of games if the Red Sox bats don't fall asleep (and I think we all know that's not going to happen too frequently).