Gameday Open Thread: Rays 5/3
by Texy
2009 May 3 at 12:45 pm
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Red Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays 1:38 pm Tropicana Field – Tampa, FL SP: Brad Penny vs. James Shields |
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Red Sox
1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
5. J.D. Drew, RF
6. Jason Bay, LF
7. Mike Lowell, 3B
8. Jason Varitek, C
9. Julio Lugo, SS
– Brad Penny, SP
Rays
1. B.J. Upton, CF
2. Carl Crawford, LF
3. Evan Longoria, 3B
4. Carlos Pena, 1B
5. Pat Burrell, DH
6. Ben Zobrist, RF
7. Akinori Iwamura, 2B
8. Jason Bartlett, SS
9. Michel Hernandez, C
– James Shields, SP
Bay’s starting!
Unfortunately, so is Lugo.
Bold fashion choice, Heidi. I like it.
OK, boys. Let’s try to do better than the last nationally televised game, hmm?
Brad Penny – Try not to fuck up.
Unfortunately, so is Penny.
I only wish I could be blacked out of ESPN/FOX broadcasts like I am today for TBS. God bless NESN.
@fc: Yeah, unfortunately x10000000000
YOUUUUUUK !
Youkilis is basically just solid steel and gold at this point. He can do no wrong.
JD RBI OMG
Guys getting it done early. Well, except for Ells.
DRUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Sounds awful weird with just Don in the booth.
Would have liked more runs to compensate for the possibility (probability?) of Unlucky Penny. Oh well. I’ll take one for now.
Hey all — watching the game in two different rooms + multitasking, so don’t know how much I’ll be on here, but wanted to pop my head in. Nice going so far for our boys!
C’mon Penny, get outs.
@ecl1958: Multitasking – I wish. I’m lazing on the couch. Maybe I’ll get up the inertia to go make lunch.
Crap. That first out was a fluke, wasn’t it?
He hit Eva .. wow.
@Clarity: Whos more on-the-edge-of-your-seat to watch, Penny or Dice-K ?
@Sam: He was just flirting with him a little.
@Texy: Already feeding face on couch here. That’s what I call multitasking.
Hoping Penny doesn’t give me indigestion.
Gulp. Gak.
Hey, y’all. Unfortunately, I’m on the road, and the hotel feed is very wonky. So no Sox game for me.
My main comment—if Penny screws up another game for us, we must arrange for stealth ninjas to kidnap him so that we can force him to watch a nonstop Charmed marathon until he cracks or begs for mercy.
@Sam: I’d rather have Dice-K. He usually gets the job done, it just takes forever and a day.
Bad, Dirty, Unlucky Penny.
Oh shiz, where’s Triple-A Clay ?
@fc: Although, given what’s gone on so far, maybe not watching this game will be more conducive to my blood pressure.
@lone1c: They were talking in pregame about his rocky road this year. And in another example of why Wins are the most useless stat ever for pitchers, he has 2 W – but an 8.66 ERA and 1.98 WHIP.
@Texy: Dan Haren is his exact opposite.
:::whew:::
@Sam: The problem is I think the only place we can shift Penny without kissing $5M goodbye is on the DL. We can’t send him down to the minors to fix whatever problems he has because he’s been in the majors too long.
That, and I guess they don’t want to rush Buchholz back up to the majors unless they’re sure he won’t flake out again. (A second flameout would probably kill his career.)
*phew* That could have been worse than it was.
Runs, please!
@Texy: I have to make up for not getting much done yesterday as far as actual household chores, as opposed to computer multitasking, which I did accomplish yesterday.
@lone1c: Probably, but Hughes had 2 disappointing seasons too, and had a good start last start.
@Sam: This is where the Gospel of BABIP comes in to play. Dan Haren’s BABIP shows that his results are the result of fluke and bad luck (same for Josh Beckett, incidentally). Whereas Penny’s BABIP shows he’s getting a little better luck than the average.
@Sam: I’m not arguing a bad single start—I mean a longer-term implosion like what we saw last season.
@Texy: BABIP ? = Batting Average in Balls in Play ? is that what it means ?
@lone1c: true true, if i were him, i’d probably be all depressed.
@Sam: Yup.
Theo talking OBP is music to my ears.
Ah well…even Jacoby isn’t perfect!
Can’t steal all the time, Ells.
I’m stuck watching this on TBS…and I’m 99.9% sure David Wells is already drunk.
@Texy: With respect to Taco?
(Personally, if Ellsbury can bloop, bunt, and walk his way to a .375-.400 OBP, I don’t care if he never hits a HR again.)
@nikster: Is already drunk? That implies that at some point in time David Wells was actually sober. (Well, OK, there might have been that one time back in high school.)
@lone1c: I don’t know – a sexy OPS is even better than a sexy OBP. But I don’t think a Youk-like OPS is in the cards for Jacoby, so with his wheels, I’ll take that OBP any day.
And yes, Theo talking OBP w/r/t Jacoby. Hot.
@nikster: Do tell!
They need to bring Theo up in the booth for an inning every game. He’s dishing all the dirt – I like hearing the gears in his brain turn.
@Texy: So that would make Theo discussing OPS w/r/t Youk of a similar temperature? C’mon, admit it.
That was a refreshing half. Thank you, Brad.
Let it be stated for the record, lest that we forget, that on 3 May 2009, in the 2nd inning, Penny pitched a 1-2-3 inning for the Red Sox.