I'm harping Looking over the numbers made me feel a bit better about things. I’ve felt, watching the games, that the Red Sox were just generally playing baseball badly.

Wouldn't ST and 13 games be enough time for the IF/OF?

The key question, it seems to me, is when to cut bait on a guy who is long in the tooth and showing signs of utter uselessness.

"I didn't have but two eggs to eat in the house that morning---and the old cat jumped up on the table and knocked them off, and now they're gone...."

As soon as Pedro left, Papi started to stink.

Interestingly, it *seems* that thus far the Sox have played *worse* defense (not just pitching or hitting) than they had to this point last season.

That bunt was pointless

edit - and there is absolutely no need for Tim Wakefield to be on this team - none.

While the steals led to some runs, isn't it a little bit of vindication for the lower priority of preventing steals that the Sox gave up 9 swipes but still won the game?

Well, you'd hardly say the same thing about home runs if they'd given up bunches of them and still won.

sure, but a team scoring 7 runs but giving up bunches (4-5?) of home runs will win that game maybe once or twice a decade.

Was the game-winning hit a lazy fly ball to left? In another ballpark, would the outfielder even have been running hard when he caught the ball?

Was the game-winning hit a lazy fly ball to left? In another ballpark, would the outfielder even have been running hard when he caught the ball?

I'm disappointed in NESN. I know that they were concentrating on the story on the field - the celebration and such. But they showed just one replay of where the ball hit in relation to where the glove was. How much did the ball miss the glove? I don't really know.

I didn't watch the whole game, Dale. And I'm not trying to steal the legitimacy of the Sox win. I was just trying to get a sense about how that particular ball was struck.

His home run earlier probably would have been a gapper in most parks too.

And the 4 or 5 shots to right field-380 that would have been out of Yankee Stadium and home runs in every other park?

"Whether something is a rib contusion or a cold hairline fracture or a mainly displaced or non-displaced fracture of the ribs, all those injuries are treated the same way," said Gill. "So what we do, typically as a medical staff, is always just take the precaution of treating everyone as if they have a non-displaced rib fracture, which basically means you keep people out of competition or you keep them out of playing until they have no tenderness, until they can breathe without difficulties, exert without difficulty, hit without difficulty, swing.

"Once somebody is completely asymptomatic, that's when it's safe to return to play. There really is not a question of whether there's a hairline fracture. We treat all injuries as if they probably are. That's why we typically don't get CT scans or MRI scans right away, after a potential rib trauma. We get the X-ray, and assuming it doesn't show a displaced fracture, we end up treating these things the same way. We'll still continue to treat Jacoby exactly as we did before."

So it sounds like the only issue with the "mis-diagnosis" in this case is the delay in putting him on the DL.