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Monday, October 01, 2012
RedSox (69-90) @ Yankees (92-67), Monday, October 1, 2012, 7:05pm
BOS:Clay Buchholz (27, RHP, 11-7, 4.22) NYY:CC Sabathia (31, LHP, 14-6, 3.42)
The Primer Chimp
Posted: October 01, 2012 at 10:00 AM | 27 comment(s)
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1. birdlives is one crazy ninja Posted: October 01, 2012 at 05:17 PM (#4250298)Casey McGehee?
Steve Pierce?
Who knows?
In a huge bummer for Pearce, he's not eligible for the postseason roster, because he wasn't on the Orioles on August 31st, even though he was on the Orioles before then.
And since Bucholtz didn't even go 2 innings tonight, the Red Sox should probably bring him back to start Wednesday.
#### you Bobby Valentine, #### you. (y'all got three more days of this).
God I can't believe what a colossal disaster he has been. I'm certainly not blaming 69-93 entirely on him but I think he is a MAJOR part of the problem. Unfortunately, tearing something down is easier than building it up. I don't think I'll need to pay for playoff tickets again until 2015 at the earliest and that's an optimistic estimate I fear.
Of course, I read somewhere yesterday that the loss guaranteed us a top-10 draft pick, which means if we sign a FA who had a qualifying offer made to them we'd only lose our 2nd round pick... But of course I have my doubts we'd sign anyone of that caliber this off-season. Which means we'd have a top-10 pick (currently #9, I think) + something like a pick in the 40s (because there still are supplemental-type picks between the 1st & 2nd round, right? I'm blanking on the change that was made for this year w/r/t that.
So... Who do we want to draft with this pick, which will likely be (or, rather, damn well better be...) the highest we have for some time?
And yeah, the Orioles better sweep because we aren't winning a game this week. Although it would be hy-sterical if Dice-K pitched a shutout on the last day to force the Yankees into the WC game.
I think the yanks have it.
I do wonder if the draft situation doesn't just create an incentive to just play kids/tank if you're not going to make the playoffs. Sure, the fan base might revolt, but in the case of the Red Sox this particular year, wouldn't you have rather they just play Iglesias, etc. the last 2 months and see what they have in all of these kids, and if they lose 100 games, all the better! We get a really high draft pick and more pool $ to work with.
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