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• gorocks99

  

  Red Sox win their third in a row, 9-1 over Toronto today in Boston. Daisuke with 7 innings and 1 hit allowed. We comin'
• Laley23

  

  gorocks99;743854 wrote:Red Sox win their third in a row, 9-1 over Toronto today in Boston. Daisuke with 7 innings and 1 hit allowed. We comin'

  
  Though youd like to see the 2 big guns signed, Gonzo and Crawford do more than 2/10 if you score 9 runs. What the heck is wrong with those guys (moreso Crawford)???
• gorocks99

  

  Crawford blows donkey. Gonzalez will be fine.
  
  Seriously though, a .295 lifetime hitter and he's hitting .133 in 14 games. It was an issue ever since they signed him, where are you going to best utilize him? You've got to keep Gonzalez/Youkilis in the 3/4, right? And Pedroia is one of the only guys worth a damn on the team thus far, so moving him from the 2 to lower in the batting order would be dumb. If I'm Francona, I keep Crawford hitting in the 7 spot and force him to get himself out of his funk. I expect he'll turn it around soon, but damn it's getting frustrating to watch.
  
  The biggest issue with the piss-poor start has been pitching, but Beckett, Lester and as of today, Matsuzaka have turned in good performances. If those three can keep it going plus Buchholz/Fatty McLackey giving a good performance every couple of starts, the wins will start to pile up for this team.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Red Sox will be fine..national media needed an early season story, and that was it. I fully expect them to be playing in the postseason
• Laley23

  

  gorocks99;743874 wrote:Seriously though, a .295 lifetime hitter and he's hitting .133 in 14 games. It was an issue ever since they signed him, where are you going to best utilize him? You've got to keep Gonzalez/Youkilis in the 3/4, right? And Pedroia is one of the only guys worth a damn on the team thus far, so moving him from the 2 to lower in the batting order would be dumb. If I'm Francona, I keep Crawford hitting in the 7 spot and force him to get himself out of his funk. I expect he'll turn it around soon, but damn it's getting frustrating to watch.

  Id go with:
  2 - Pedroia
  3 - Crawford
  4 - Gonzalez
  5 - You-Kill-Us
  6 - Ortiz
  7 - Varitek
  
  Leadoff, not sure. Ellsbury is ideal, but he has sucked for over a year. Drew is not a lead-off man. Maybe Lowrie...at least ride the hot streak out I guess.
• karen lotz

  

  If Crawford isn't hitting there is no way you can have him batting third. Bump him down to sixth and move everyone up or flip Youk up to third. Hopefully for the Sox he gets going and then they can move him back up towards the top.
• like_that

  

  Did anyone know Crawford was offered a full ride to UCLA for bball, and he commited to Nebraska to play football before being drafted in the 2nd round?
  
  
  What a beast of an athlete.
• Laley23

  

  karen lotz;744023 wrote:If Crawford isn't hitting there is no way you can have him batting third. Bump him down to sixth and move everyone up or flip Youk up to third. Hopefully for the Sox he gets going and then they can move him back up towards the top.

  
  I didnt mean right now, I mean when he hits, thats the ideal line-up, imo
• karen lotz

  

  like_that;744026 wrote:Did anyone know Crawford was offered a full ride to UCLA for bball, and he commited to Nebraska to play football before being drafted in the 2nd round?
  
  
  What a beast of an athlete.

  
  Didn't know about basketball but had heard Nebraska. Was he an option QB?
• karen lotz

  

  Laley23;744031 wrote:I didnt mean right now, I mean when he hits, thats the ideal line-up, imo

  
  Ah, yeah I agree with you then.
• Laley23

  

  karen lotz;744033 wrote:Didn't know about basketball but had heard Nebraska. Was he an option QB?

  
  Is he black?
  
  I kid, I kid...but for real.
• Laley23

  

  Here is his info, fwwi:
  
  "Crawford, a native of the Fifth Ward area of Houston, attended Jefferson Davis High School in Houston, Texas,[1] and was a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. In baseball, he batted .638 as a senior. Crawford was offered scholarships to play basketball as a point guard at UCLA.[2] He also had an option to play college football as an option quarterback at Nebraska,[2] USC, Oklahoma, Florida, and Tulsa. He had originally signed a letter of intent to play football for Nebraska but he turned down both offers in favor of a baseball career."
• karen lotz

  

  I wasn't inferring he was an option QB because he was black, that's just what I thought I remembered him signing as.
• Laley23

  

  karen lotz;744047 wrote:I wasn't inferring he was an option QB because he was black, that's just what I thought I remembered him signing as.

  
  I know. But Im inferring that black QBs are option QBs lol.
• like_that

  

  Laley23;744113 wrote:I know. But Im inferring that black QBs are option QBs lol.

  
  Eric Crouch disagrees.
• SportsAndLady

  

  like_that;744227 wrote:Eric Crouch disagrees.

  
  He's not saying white QBs can't be option QBs
• Laley23

  

  like_that;744227 wrote:Eric Crouch disagrees.

  
  Because Eric Crouch was a black QB who didnt run the option????
• jordo212000

  

  SportsAndLady;743959 wrote:Red Sox will be fine..national media needed an early season story, and that was it. I fully expect them to be playing in the postseason

  Actually I would argue the opposite of this. The media was going out of its way to say "Nope, nothing to see here, the Red Sox will be fine."
  
  I don't remember one place where somebody was saying that the Red Sox were finished. In fact, some friends and I were joking that the Red Sox could be mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, and ESPN/Baseball Tonight would still argue that they will still be fine for the playoffs.
• Laley23

  

  Tim Lincecum with a no-no through 5, versus the best team in the bigs right now, the Rockies.
• karen lotz

  

  Laley23;744338 wrote:Tim Lincecum with a no-no through 5, versus the best team in the bigs right now

  
  Huh? Braves are playing the Dodgers tonight, they don't play the Giants til this weekend...
• Laley23

  

  karen lotz;744344 wrote:Huh? Braves are playing the Dodgers tonight, they don't play the Giants til this weekend...

  
  Full of jokes Lotz, full of jokes.
  
  Through 6 now.
• like_that

  

  SportsAndLady;744231 wrote:He's not saying white QBs can't be option QBs

  Laley23;744273 wrote:Because Eric Crouch was a black QB who didnt run the option????

  
  I took it as if he/you were insinuating only black QBs are fit for the option. My B.
• Laley23

  

  like_that;744370 wrote:I took it as if he/you were insinuating only black QBs are fit for the option. My B.

  
  Im just giving you shit. I was being a racist fucktard with my initial post as a joke anyway.
• Laley23

  

  CarGo breaks it up in the 7th.
• karen lotz

  

  Atlanta has now hit 18 HRs on the year, 16 of which have been solo shots.