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Sox Countdown | What We’ve Been Up To In My Absence

Lets get down to business, Top 3 get photos. I’ve been out for awhile and I figure theres a lot to talk about, so heres my way of saying. I’M BACK, HUZZAH.

HERE WE GO

5) Rocco Baldelli knows whats up
This man knows whats up… He’s athletic, hence his awesome diving catch vs the Indians. He can go deep with the long ball, hence his solo shot during the game with Tampa. He can hit for contact and get runs in, hence the RBI double that took the lead against the Indians. QUITE good. He’s a great cover for when J.D. Drew’s glass skeleton breaks again. He also is, by far, one of the better choices to give Jacoby Ellsbury some rest. When Jacoby is feeling it, he can play, but when he’s not Baldelli can step in and kick some butt. 
Majorly. Word.
4) Senor Lugo, where have you been until now?
He’s back kiddies. Julio Lugo. The REAL Julio Lugo, not that twerp who showed up at the beginning of the month coming off the DL and batting like he’d never seen a baseball before. This Julio Lugo is actually holding on to the ball instead of dropping it during a play and he is hitting the baseball! Dear lordy, I don’t see where this was a few series ago. Well, keep it up buddyboy.
3) Masterful Masterson
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Our boy might be back in the pen next week as Daisuke seems to be heading home soon. Masterson, we’re proud of you. You did better than most bullpen guys could coming up to fill some HUGE shoes. Thanks. We hope to see you back in your most dominant place. Completely destroying everything that moves between the 7th and 8th innings. Maybe someday, you’ll be back in the rotation, but to be quite frank, you’re way too awesome in the pen. Everywhere you are, you are awesome. Also, thank you for signing my baseball at spring training, that was cool.
2) Papelbon 5000
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Before I go into this, lets talk about why I titled this Papelbon 5000. I work at a school, and I tend to talk about baseball a LOT. One of the kids, after hearing about Papelbon so much, as he is my favorite Red Sox player, and I have his jersey (and wear it quite often), decided he’d assign a nickname. He now only mentions him as Papelbon 5000. 
ANYWAY…
Man, Papelbon is crazy. Look at that face. He’s gonna take someone down. Yes, he did take someone down when we played Tampa. He may have gotten two guys on base, but then it happened. The moment of truth. I don’t know, maybe a light turned on, maybe a spark flicked up, a flash of brilliance maybe. The old Papelbon re-emerged. Three STRAIGHT Strikeouts. Thats what’s up. The next outing he had was solid, albeit not quite as amazing. 
The biggest thing I noticed was, Papelbon was getting the high strike again. The rising fastball that made hitters swing came back. That was the ball the made Papelbon the dominant closer he was in the past, and seeing it come back made my day. 
Welcome back, Cinco Ocho
1) J-Bay, All The Way

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This man is a terminator. The terminator. If you are a pitcher. I would not pitch this man a fastball. He will send it VERY far away. You will not see that fastball again. The order of closers has a hit out on this man. He is dangerous, he is mysterious. 
He is… Jason Bay.
J-Bay has become the new definition of clutch. He’s hitting home runs where there should be no runs. He creates comebacks on his own. 
Also, now that Manny is out of the picture with that lovely 50 game suspension, the Red Sox have officially won. 
“Red Sox won what?” you ask. 
We have won the trade. Red Sox Nation is now reaping the better end of the trade. Jason Bay has not only outperformed Manny this year in his time with the sox, causing some miraculous wins and hitting homers like its nothing, but he’s not suspended for 50 games. 
I have two words: Epic Win.
Until I get my act together,
-Mike

Rook to HR-1, Checkmate.

Jonathan Van Every

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This is just some living proof of the Sox farm system. This guy made some great work out defensively tonight but the meat of this story comes to us from deep in the 10th.
It was.. a home run. Solo Shot. Go Ahead Run.
Lifted the Sox above that inning.
Cinco Ocho, being dominant today, shut the door in the face of the Tribe with 2Ks
Nice to see Cinco Ocho up there being scary and efficient.
One thing that was bad that came out of this awesome little rookie home run was this:
MLB Front Page Headline:  ”You don’t see that ‘Every’ day”
I really hate puns. That pun is a terrible pun on Van Every’s name. Its stupid. MLB please learn to write better headlines, because that was REALLY lame.
Before I continue drooling over my team, lets talk about a few things:
Javier “White Flag” Lopez
After last night’s atrocity, why did Tito feel that he was the appropriate fellow to come relieve Lester? He didn’t screw up today, which is nice… but why would you bring him in?
He’s… not good.
Nick Green
Did any of you notice that we won today? Did anyone else notice that the only game we’ve lost was when Julio Lugo was starting? Julio is bad mojo I tell you! Nick Green is a champ, Julio Lugo is a scamp! Nick Green didn’t bat to perfection today, but he sure as hell didn’t make any fielding errors.
Jacoby!
This is the Jacoby we know and love. This is our lead off man.
3 for 5 with an RBI. Thats getting on base.
Word to your mother.
Jon Lester
You need to settle down buddy. You don’t pitch well when you get shakey, and boy do you get shaken up fast. Where is the Lester of yore, the Lester we saw in the last start, the Lester we got to know last year? Bring him back!


Anyway…
The Sox are set to take on the Tampa Bay Cliches…
I need Garza to go down in flames.
FLAMES I TELL YOU
We have Beckett coming in tomorrow. Beckett… you know the guy that don’t take no **** from nobody! Not even Bobby Abreu. (I apologize for that Angels, but it was hilarious to see Torii get ejected)
Lets DESTROY some fish-like-stingy-creatures-that-hang-around-Florida!
(Sorry.. Indians have Tribesmen, I have nothing for Tampa…)
Oh and another thing… So today, I go to work hoping to hear about how this kid I know (who is a major Yanks fan) was so depressed how the Sox swept his team and continued to win until they hit 11 games. 
I go and ask one of the other kids about it..
HE DOESN’T KNOW!
This is going to be a kick.
I think I’m going to tell him.
Should be FUN.
Slowly finding ways to cause an “unfortunate accident” for Julio Lugo, Brad Penny, and Javier Lopez, all at the same time,
-Mike

Baseball Gamers?

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Yeah, I know. I’m lame.
I’m a total baseball gamer.
So to those of you who actually read my ****… 
Who wants to play with me?
I would totally appreciate the company in the little time I have to game. 
My gamertag and PSN ID: MetalGunBlade
Hit me up in the comments.
If you play online, I am challenging you. If you win, I’ll give you a nice little mention in my post, and you get bragging rights on your blog. If you lose, I shall lambaste you publicly.
Bring it.
EDIT: It has been brought to my attention that some people hate certain games. I am here to remind you I have a lot of games. I play games other than baseball games as well, and I’d like to kill you there too.
Someone better take me up on this,
-Mike

!@#$%$

BRAD PENNY, JAVIER LOPEZ, AND JULIO LUGO…. We need to talk..
From the top:

Brad “not even worth a” Penny
Why are you not out of my rotation?:
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Your 2-0 record is by far the most deceptive thing ever. You are not good. You do not win games. You’re just lucky the offense is behind you.
Penny’s ERA tells a better story: 7.50 ERA with only 5 Ks and a 1.67 WHIP and 13 ER
That’s going INTO this game. Watch his ERA jump tomorrow, I’ll give you a post to show you.
Daisuke needs to come back, Masterson needs to take Penny’s spot. Either than or Clay needs to be called up to send this !@#% down to AA ball.

This just in: I’ve found Penny’s new ERA etc.. lets take a look.
He’s still 2-0 because Javier “White Flag” Lopez managed to make himself look like a bigger fool than Penny today.. but I digress:
8.66 ERA => 6 Ks => 1.98 WHIP => 17 ER
There is a good reason that games penny is in end up lit up on both sides by offense. Red Sox offense has to cover his junky pitching, and he gets lit up like a christmas tree.

Hunter Jones is the hero today, covering Penny and pitching 2.1 scoreless innings.. He’s a callup. He’s showing up Penny… this is sad. Our starter doesn’t compare to a rook callup.

I say lets ambush Penny and drop him into the ocean.

Next up:

Javier “White Flag” Lopez
Tito, Stop putting this man in, he blows leads faster than the Yanks blow through money.:
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Javeir Lopez. I hope you leave the stadium in shame today. Javier Lopez played straight little league baseball today. Lets start from the top of the 9th.
Lopez is doing ok… he gets to two outs albeit putting someone on.
Coming around for the third out, there is a runner ready to score. Lopez pitches, Cabrera lines it to Youk.. who makes one of the best plays of the night to get to the ball. Lopez is running to first and gets on first, the play is a routine “pitcher covers first” type.

Then it happens. LOPEZ DECIDES TO LOOK AWAY FROM YOUK AND STARE AT HIS FEET! Youk throws and LOPEZ DROPS THE BALL as the winning run comes in. For shame Javier.

This is why you’re Javier “White Flag” Lopez. When you come in, we lose.

Finally:

Julio Lugo
Hate to say I told you so:
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Ok, you’re not the worst offender of this group. Your bat was quiet decent today. I have to say it though…
Nick Green has outdefended and out batted Julio.
Nick Green was brought in later in the game as a defensive substitute for Julio.
Nick Green > Julio Lugo.
When Youk is making a routine throw to second, right at you, you shouldn’t drop it. You’re a shortstop, its your job to have a hot glove.

Kevin Youkilis
You were absolutely awesome today, and the people around you messed up your amazing defensive work. I am truly sorry. I feel your pain and i sympathize.

Ramon Ramirez
You continue to be a shining light when things go south. You can clean up a mess better than any pitcher I’ve seen this year. Keep it up

Hideki Okijima
Nice to see you’re back in your groove, the past couple games haven’t been nice to you. I don’t worry about you, you always seem to get your stuff back.

That concludes tonight’s post…
Julio Lugo, please get injured again.
Brad Penny, learn to pitch
Javier Lopez, go back to the minors

Not looking forward to class tomorrow,
-Mike

Call Me Worried…

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Am I the only one who is buying a plane ticket to Boston, planning to hide in the bushes, and then secretly get Julio Lugo with a crippling poison dart gun?

Tell me I’m not crazy.

Oh, you think I am? Check this out:

Nick Green: .298/.365/.468

Julio Lugo has in both seasons with Boston never popped over .280 for a season.

Nick Green is rocking right now, he’s solid both offensively and defensively, why change what we love when we’re riding on 11 games?

Add to that: Stories like “PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Julio Lugo went 0-for-3 and drew a walk Wednesday in a rehab assignment for the Pawtucket Red Sox.” don’t exactly make me want to welcome him more.

I mean I’d consider welcoming him, with an anvil trap and a bucket of fire…

I suppose we’ll see… lets hope for the 2005 Julio Lugo of Tampa with the .295 BA

Lets hold on to Green’s cell phone number just in case things go south… I’ve got him on speed dial.

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