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Julio Lugo, Beards, and Random Relief Selections

Beckettfail

Before I go into the easily visible reasons why we lost. I’m going to discuss the less visible reason.

I mentioned this before. Nobody seems to listen. JULIO LUGO IS BAD MOJO!
We are now 0-2 for games Lugo has started. I don’t agree with Lugo’s anti-win magic.

The other less visible reason is this: Josh Beckett clearly does not have enough facial hair. Last night was a battle of the beards and Matt Garza’s beard was obviously much stronger in the end. Josh, you need to grow out that patch into a full beard. Get us some wins buddy.

Finally: Weird that my superstitions have been justified. I mentioned earlier that I was wearing Sox shirts during every win on the win streak. One day I had to wear my Braves shirt to coach, but the Sox/Twins game was rained out. I continued wearing the shirts until I ran out one day. That was when we lost our streak. Yesterday, I had to wear my Braves shirt again for coaching, and Sox lost again. I think i really need to make sure I’m wearing Sox shirts every day. I’m gettin some more for insurance… forshure…

On to my anaylsis of the game:

Matt Garza
Ok, this man majorly factored into the loss. He was clearly having a good day as he demolished most of the hitters. You can’t blame all the hitters for having a bad day. In my opinion, there is no such thing as a batter hitting a perfect pitch, there is only a pitcher making a mistake and a batter waiting for that mistake. I tip my hat to you Garza, you pitched very well.

Josh Beckett
Ewww Beckett. BAD day, very bad day. I know this isn’t the normal Beckett. We saw you in the first game on opening day. Where is that Beckett? I’m assuming the same person who stole Lester has now stolen Beckett. Someone needs to catch this jerk. My confusion is Beckett’s 8 strikeouts, which prevented me from taking a serious hit from his performance in this game. How do you manage to strike out 8 and give up 7 earned runs? Thats a major pitching fluctuation. Weird… I’ll have to see what happens the next time Beckett takes the mound.

George Kottaras
I’m not saying this is your fault Kottaras, but I have a feeling you shouldn’t be calling Beckett. Its just a hunch of mine and I don’t entirely have evidence of this. Its very likely that your game calling skills pale in comparison to Varitek. You’ve done decently with Lester though, so we’ll see where you are next time you call a pitcher besides Wakefield.
Javier “White Flag” Lopez
Why did I increase the font size on this one? Its like Tito doesn’t seem to hear his fans crying when Lopez comes out. Someone needs to tell him… NOW.
Only Javier Lopez can give up:
5 ER off 4 Hits in… wait for it….
0.1 Innings
Why is this kid still in the pen?
It feels like Tito is in an abusive relationship with Lopez. He keeps hurting us but Tito keeps putting him up there to give up runs and fail horribly.
I understand that we were behind, and you don’t want to waste your more valuable pen guys, but I’d honestly rather have you put in Van Every for another third of an inning than have Javier Lopez make Tampa’s lead bigger…

Jonathan Van Every
Ok, this really says something about Javier Lopez. Van Every came in for two thirds of an inning and achieved two outs on one hit and no earned runs. Lopez couldn’t even do that and he’s supposed to be a pitcher! Van Every hasn’t pitched since high school!
Either way, good job rookie. Clearly you have multiple uses. Please don’t take the mound again. I feel like you’re accidently becoming a copy of Nick Swisher.

Jacoby!
Thank you Mr. Ellsbury. You saved us from total embarassment of being no-hit and Matt Garza getting a perfect game. You are the tiny light of hope here. Everyone had a bad game but hell, at least you got a hit!

My AL Roundup will be delayed until tonight, so you’re gonna get it later… be patient, finals week is taking its toll on me.

Tonight, we get to see Masterson, our savoir of this whole disabled list problem.
Lets get some quality innings out of your pitching Masterson!
Lets kill those aquatic creatures! I’ll have some stingray soup ready for everyone! Its on the house.

Wearing his Boston shirt,
-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
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