Official 2007 MLB Thread

[SpoDaddy]

Yanks are losing again. Torre was into the bullpen after 6.1 innings and Wang's ERA is over 5. I love the Yankees!

Nice of you to wait for Dice-K to finally get down to 4.80 to say that.

[youandwhosearmy]

Nice of you to wait for Dice-K to finally get down to 4.80 to say that.

Go back to being bitter about the yanks pls k thx. :x



And for those not in the know or who don't live in Boston, and might actually want to know what happened with him, the general belief around the Dice-man's wildness probably had more of an effect on how much the red sox changed his routine from the ridiculous thing it was in Japan. They were wary and taking far too many precautions in his warm up routine (which consists of, running heavy sprints before a start, playing 200 ft long toss right before a start, throwing over 100 pitch bullpen side sessions, in between starts, and never putting ice on his shoulder). The Sox allowed him to return to his normal routine after the last two atrocious starts, and it seems to have made a difference. Especially control wise, and the fact that he seems to be able to consistently attack the strike zone after that weird routine has had some time to set in, whereas over the last two-three starts he just kept having meltdowns in innings.

The guy is adjusting. I fully expect him to have a decent season. But if the Sox remain smart and just let him do what he's done in japan as far as warm ups go, he has no where to go but up.

[stormy]

Nice of you to wait for Dice-K to finally get down to 4.80 to say that.

Wang is the Yanks best starter, Daisuke is only our #3 LOL

[youandwhosearmy]

The Sox have just scored 7 runs on Halladay, 6 in the third innning, with wakefield seemingly so unhittable to them that they absolutely refuse to close the roof tonight even though rain is in the forecast (his numbers get better in domes apparently. Mike Lowell is the best goddamn hitter on the Red Sox right now, and has hit his 7th home run of the season, and fifth against Blue Jays pitchers.


Thats it for the Red Sox update. I ain't trying to be obnoxious mind you (I know we all have our teams) but the last 72 hours of Sox baseball has been utterly ridiculous, and worth commenting about.

Btw the funniest thing is, Beckett isn't even the best starter on the Red Sox right now. No one has had better performances on the Sox than Wakefield (2.11 era) going into tonight, but since he gets absolutely 0 Run support, he's like 3-3. He should be easily 6-1. Fuck run support tonight though, now its 8-0 in the fourth.

Amazing.

[Error]

Man what a train wreck the Jays are right now.

[EvilMog]

I look forward to the Brews away series. That got some really legit teams coming up. But they are looking good so far. I think if they can pull a couple series out they are serious playoff contenders. Hooray for now though. Im really happy so far but also uneasy about it. High hopes end in big disappointments.
Its been since 82(I think) since they made the playoffs. A winning season would be insane.

[raystorm]

Man what a train wreck the Jays are right now.

...and now BJ Ryan had tommy john surgery. ouch Not only is he done for the season but who knows when he'll be back. What in damn hell happened to the Blue Jays?? There were a sleeper pick by so many! I figure they would contend nicely with the Yanks and Sawx. Big Hurt has been awful and now good ol' Victor Zambrano goes on the DL.

[stormy]

Thats it for the Red Sox update. I ain't trying to be obnoxious mind you (I know we all have our teams) but the last 72 hours of Sox baseball has been utterly ridiculous, and worth commenting about.

Whatever. We have to hear about the Mets all the time on here. Its about time the sox fans come back out.

[Kinopio]

Sorry for Jans fans. Im dissapointed myself. I wanted a good 3 way race in the AL east.

[SpoDaddy]

Wang is the Yanks best starter, Daisuke is only our #3 LOL

Obviously the Boston pitching has been better than the Yanks' so far, but it's early. Wang has thrown 25 innings and had one bad game. Boston owned the division for 6 weeks straight last summer only to get destroyed in a 5 game massacre and finish third. $20 says Wang finishes the year with a lower ERA than Dice-K (assuming neither has a major injury going forward).