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Posted Friday June 13, 2008, About: Indians ready to shop Sabathia?

According to Stark, the Indians have a lot of interest in the Sox farm system.

Posted Sunday May 25, 2008, About: Did gym owner supply Clemens?

"To all you pats and sox fans lets not talk about cheating ok. and its only a matter of time before you here about papi and manny sticking needles in there rear."

Typical ignorant Yankees fan.

Posted Monday February 25, 2008, About: Studies: Jeter poor defensively

LiveFreeOrDieHard....read any of Jim L's posts....

Posted Sunday February 24, 2008, About: Studies: Jeter poor defensively

As hitters over the course of their ENTIRE CAREERS UP TO THIS POINT, they're close to even. Manny's OPS, OBP, and SLG% numbers are all slightly better than A-Rod's.

The fact that A-Rod supplied such great numbers at SS, and had speed on the basepaths probably makes him a much better player overall, but as hitters they're comparable.

That said, it looks like Manny's starting to decline, while A-Rod's in his prime. By the end of their careers, A-Rod will be the better hitter.

Posted Friday February 22, 2008, About: New Pats Spygate claims surface

End this story now. We've heard about it for months. Belicheck cheated, everybody knows that. It doesn't really matter when he started cheating, the fact he cheated is enough.

That said, almost every other team in the NFL cheats to a degree. It doesn't make what the Patriots did right, but it's definitely something to consider.

Posted Monday February 18, 2008, About: Athletics waiting on Red Sox?

I agree with hyper on the fact that Crisp + maybe Lowrie or Lars is a reasonable price. Unfortunately with the price of pitching nowadays, Beane would likely demand more.

Either the Sox feel confident enough with what they have, or believe Schilling will be back in a couple months. If they really wanted a starting pitcher, I think they would've grabbed Livan Hernandez or somebody else on the market.

Posted Monday February 18, 2008, About: Athletics waiting on Red Sox?

"I am trying to remember the last pitcher the Sox traded for that worked out for
any extended period of time. Not something that often works for them..
If they go after Blanton, giving up a young pitching prospect would be a bad move.. "

I'd say Schilling worked out pretty well. Sure, he hasn't been truly great since the 1st season he came over, but without him there's no way the Sox win 2 Championships.

Posted Sunday February 17, 2008, About: Study: Jeter worst AL shortstop

NY Giants 17, there was no measurement on that 4th and 1 play....I think the Patriots would have lost anyway, but the official shouldn't have stopped the clock.

In any case, as hyper said before, making 1 nice play in the field doesn't by any means make you a great fielder. Say Nick Young of the Wizards shot a buzzer beating 3 pointer to give the Washington Wizards a playoff win. Would that make him the greatest 3 point shooter of all time?

Posted Sunday February 17, 2008, About: Study: Jeter worst AL shortstop

"I love how all the Red Sux fans laugh when Yankee fans come to Jeter's defense. It's like the reactions I get whenever I say how Schilling is a big, fat, over-the-hill has been of a pitcher, who should have retired two seasons ago."

I guess you didn't watch the playoffs last year.

I think Jeter is overrated defensively. It's a little hard to believe he's the worst, but I give the guy that wrote this report credit for having the cojones to come out and talk about Jeter's (lack of) fielding ability.

As for those who believe the "stat geeks" should keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves, the Red Sox are run by stat geeks, and have won 2 World Series' in the past 4 years, and stand a strong chance this year.

Posted Wednesday February 13, 2008, About: Pettitte: Clemens admitted HGH use

Later, 64.

I believe Clemens originally said that he wasn't at the party at all, but later stated that he stopped by.

According to the nanny, she remembers him being there, but not for how long. She does remember Clemens' wife + kids staying over at the Cansecos.

There's some interesting stuff about Clemens in Canseco's last book.

He talks about how trainers would claim to give B12 shots, but were actually giving them steroids. Eventually, it became a joke, and even the players got it on it. Clemens and Canseco apparently joked around about 'B12 shots', although Canseco was fairly adamant about Clemens not using any steroids, nor giving him any.

Posted Wednesday February 13, 2008, About: Pettitte: Clemens admitted HGH use

Congrats with the girl! Hopefully she doesn't force you to cut down on your fannation time.

Posted Wednesday February 13, 2008, About: Pettitte: Clemens admitted HGH use

Great minds think alike?

There of course, are the syringes, but I thought those looked like they were kept in bad condition. Even if the feds found Clemens' DNA on the syringes, couldn't Clemens just claim that they were B12 syringes?

Canseco's role in this is really mystifying...his affidavit conflicts with the nanny's....God this thing is mess.

Posted Wednesday February 13, 2008, About: Pettitte: Clemens admitted HGH use

"So Clemens is just sitting there, lying through his teeth on nat'l TV, knowing he's facing a perjury charge if proved to be lying...and he's just talking through his *ss?

I just find that harder to believe than a lot of people."

You could argue the exact same for both McNamee and Pettitte. The question is who stands to gain the most by lying. Answer? Clemens.

One possibility is that Clemens is too deep in his lie already, and perhaps feels that there's no real, hard conclusive evidence that he took steroids, just a lot of witness testimony. I doubt that they could convict either Clemens or Mcnamee for perjury.

Posted Tuesday February 12, 2008, About: Sources: Pettitte backs McNamee

This is a little bit strange to me.

Clemens meets with all members of the committee, and merely days before the hearing, they decide Pettite and Knoublauch's testimony aren't necessary?

Posted Monday February 11, 2008, About: Clemens' lobbying under scrutiny

Otherone, they name Mo Vaugh, Donnely, and Jeremy Giambi in the report, all of whom were on the Sox.

Posted Monday February 11, 2008, About: Clemens' lobbying under scrutiny

Ha, I like the Tek-Arod pick too, nfl. It all began from there...

Back to Clemens though, I really do think Clemens has reacted really strangely. To me at least, he's gone about this mostly the wrong way. The statistics report seemed like a good idea to me in principle, but they might have wanted to ask for the opinions of a few professionals before circulating it. Now Clemens looks even more foolish for that. Don't get me started on the phone call either.

Posted Monday February 11, 2008, About: Clemens' lobbying under scrutiny

That really struck me as odd, nflyoubet. The entire time he talked about never sacrificing his own health for short term goals. Then he goes out and talks about how he pitched with injuries, and took an incredible amount of pills.

Posted Monday February 11, 2008, About: Pro Bowl crowd boos Patriots

New England almost unseated Bush in 2004 with Kerry...

Posted Monday February 11, 2008, About: Clemens' lobbying under scrutiny

"Basketball Jesus: Cockfighting is legal, and Pedro didnt do anything wrong. Just some weiner reporter trying to make something out of nothing. Pedro did the right thing, just put his head down said I don't care, its legal here. No story at all. What was its life span, maybe 2 days. Its ridiculous how overblown this stuff gets. How much you want to bet, Pedro was at that same cockfight 2 years ago, and nothing was said. But now with Michael Vick..."

I'm not saying that Pedro was wrong in how he responded to the entire episode.

However, I don't see how you can justify killing animals for the sole purpose of pleasure, legal or not.

The focus of what I said wasn't really on Pedro anyway. Just that because something is legal doesn't necessarily make it 'right'.

Posted Monday February 11, 2008, About: Clemens' lobbying under scrutiny

Silver, lobbying itself deservedly has a negative connotation. It gives corporations yet another way to control politicians and thus America. Just because it's deemed legal based on law doesn't mean it's an immoral practice.

You could argue similarly for cockfighting in the Dominican Republic. If you're unwilling to censure Clemens for participating in a legal activity, why should Pedro Martinez be criticized at all? Of course, I'm not advocating animal cruelty at all, but BASED on your viewpoint, I could state, cockfighting is legal in the Dominican Republic, ergo Pedro did absolutely nothing wrong.

Posted Sunday February 10, 2008, About: Mixed signals for Crisp in Boston

Kielty's coming back, so I don't see how it's possible for Crisp to stay in Beantown.

I'd like to see the Sox give Crisp up for a young catcher. Have Tek tutor him for a couple years, and once Tek goes, let him start.