The Red Sox are done for the year but they play the Yanks 9 more times and could be a pain in the ass. Yeah, their starting pitching is thin this weekend but then you look and see the Yanks counter with Capuano, Greene, and Phelps and nothing feels certain.
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Carlos Beltran DH
Brian McCann C
Chase Headley 3B
Stephen Drew 2B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Ah, never mind the pessimism:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Jo Ann Callis via Magnificent Ruin]
for the first time in my life, i'm wearing a non-yankees baseball t-shirt. check it out:
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[0] Have to chuckle at that headline/picture combo...
These Yankees are all starting to look alike
I don't get what Boston is doing at all. Who will pitch for them next year??
THAT'S HEADLEY!
Grrrrr.
Stabby, stabby.
THE FUCK is Chris Capuano doing pitching for this team at this point?!?!?!?
Is the Capuano era over?
[7] Yes
The trivia question almost has to be Eckersley, right?
[4] Lester, when they resign him, for one.
Really, I love what Boston has done the last few years. I'm curious to see if they can blow it all up again and then get back to the big series in a year or three. It worked last time.
Must. Kill. Capuano.
[10] If they wanted to resign Lester, they would have offered him something closer to market. Sort of like, when you want to move to New York City, you don't move to Houston.
[11] Must. Kill. The. Queen.
Oh, yeah, I remember: Capuano is Doo Doo. Jesus H Christ. Watch the Yanks lose the weekend series to these suck holes.
Well, striking out My Little Pony is always a +1 ... but I'm still seething over having to watch Capuano pitch innings for this team ...
ICHI-GO!!!
[10] Two awful seasons sandwching the WS title..odd.
Completely and doubly safe.
Safe!
YES!!!
I hate the shift.
Hell of a pitch.
THAT"S HEADLEY!!!!!!!
Headley making a good case for keeping him next season. Must (hear) more....
[22] I know it would never happen, but I would actually send Sterling a thank you card if that turned out to be his home run call.
The Prado era begins.
Well, that could have been worse.
Though worse than awful is pretty hard to top ...
[25] Some years ago my niece came back from a trip abroad with a song called "Descamisado" about a happy shirtless glutton cruising the beach and eating every chance he got; each verse began with Walking the prado with Descamisado...; I wish we could remember the whole song because it was pretty funny.
Hmm, wish I'd seen that shot, sounded pretty long.
Capt'n!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
LOAF PINCHER!
[17] ...Odd. Or brilliant.
[12] Maybe. But they may decide in the end he's the best option on the market, in which case they pay market value (which they would have had to anyway). In the meanwhile, they got him for a bargain this year (prorated qualifying offer, which is being partially absorbed by the A's), and they get Cespedes for a year instead of a draft pick. It's a gamble, to be sure, but an interesting gambit.
[30] Yet, that means that everyone else gets a crack at him without having to surrender a compensation draft pick, which matters on both ends.
Don't care what Sterling says, that was predictably anti-climatic.
Yeah, Jetes!
Blargh. Brutal.
A load of bollocks, nothing more.
Pathetic.
[31] Right, a gamble. I would not be at all surprised if the Sox resign him. Anyway, it looks to me like they are building for 2016 more than 2015.