Monthly Archives: July 2008

Is a midseason trade a must for winning a World Series?

In the wake of the Angels acquiring Mark Teixeira from Atlanta (great move for the Angels, btw) and the Yankees making upgrads to their team with Nady, Marte, and Pudge Rodriguez…I’m wondering about past world series winners and the correlation between a trade deadline deal and winning the World Series.
Certainly, the Red Sox title years [...]

Does 92 Wins Get the Sox in the Playoffs?

92 Wins. That’s what sox are on pace to finish the season with.  It is enough?
Hopefully what it means is the current team hasn’t put it all together yet to play their baseball of the season. And from what I’ve seen, I would say that’s exactly right.  Let’s hope all the pieces fall together in [...]

The Ramirez Situation

My original title for this post was “The Manny Situation”.  But Manny seems like the name of a guy that you would be buddies with.  He’s the guy you call to meet you in a downtown bar when you get off work early on a Friday.  On the Red Sox, Manny would be the borderline [...]

Fake Bill Simmons’ Twitter Updates for 2008-07-25

papi comes back tonight for #redsox ! lineup discussion getting started over here: http://snurl.com/34xbp #
not overly threilled about Rick Reilly stealing some of my sports & pop culture thunder on espn. if he brings up melrose place, he’s dead. #
no manny tonight. http://snurl.com/3518u Return of unstoppoable red sox offense must wait another [...]

Papi’s Back Tonight!

Papi returns to the lineup tonight, and with it comes the wondeful dilemma of how to set up the batting order.  Things are not as they were when Ortiz got hurt.  Pedroia is the hottest hitter in the league.  Drew picked up the slack in a big way.  And Ellsbury is struggling a bit.
Here’s my [...]

My idea to fix the All-Star pitching mess

By mess, I’m referring to the fact that they almost ran out of pitchers because the managers are (justifiably) worried about overusing arms that aren’t theirs to overuse. Even 12 pitchers isn’t enough.
So my idea to fix this would be to add the entire bullpen of a single team in each leagues.  In fact, you [...]

We could use some good news

Sox are fading.  No doubt about it.
Not having Papi around is most likely starting to catch up with them.
The bullpen continues to suck.
The Rays keep piling up the wins.
And, of course, sending this team on the road never helps.
So, here’s the glass half full approach to things
Sox are home at Fenway tonight.  Masterson is getting [...]

What would you give up for CC Sabathia?

It’s that time of the year.  July.  Time talk trades. The deadline is at the end of the month and the big name that will get tons of media attention is CC Sabathia of the Cleveland Indians.

Let’s assume that trading for him means being able to sign him to a long-term contract.  No short term [...]

And now for something completely different

We interrupt the regularly scheduled Red Sox obsessions you can normally find out here to talk a little NBA.  Since Crundy just sent me an email basically asking “Is Baron Davis worth a 5 year $65 million contract?  The answer is no.
At least not for the Warriors and about 20 other teams
Mind you, I think [...]