I've read in a couple of places that Mike is on the DL and Jed's been called up in his place...can anyone confirm that?

(My hands are shaking like crazy...)

Never mind it - there's a link here. It's confirmed.

Speedy recovery, Mike! (goes back to hyperventilating)

yup it's official and looks like Cora might be right behind him. I doubt Lowrie will play tonight (I know he's not in the lineup) as he played this afternoon in Pawtucket.

Yeah - I watched the Pawtucket game, and I was expecting Joe Thurston because he was out of the lineup today. Hmmm. I was (pleasantly) surprised.

yup it's official and looks like Cora might be right behind him. I doubt Lowrie will play tonight (I know he's not in the lineup) as he played this afternoon in Pawtucket.

They could bring up Thurston is Cora ends up with Mikey on the DL.

Hey all, just blew in from work and will be following the action on Gameday, posting here, and trying to fool with e-mails, all at the same time. Gotta change into something comfy and throw supper together. Back in a few...

That wouldn't surprise me one bit. The PawSox do have the depth to cover the middle infield whilst they're gone (Velazquez and Spann), so they should be fine down there - and if need be, they can even bump somebody up from Portland.

...I'm a little concerned with the injuries coming this early, though, I have to say. But the DL is a good idea so we can have Mike and Alex when we need them.

Cora's injury sounded a bit like it was fluke injury.

And i just realized something. We won't get the game in HD since it's on the NESN Plus channel.

I won't even get it on TV anyway. I envy all of you (but in a nice way, I promise!).

I am totally moving to New England after school. I need NESN so badly...and there's lots of history up there, so getting a job shouldn't be so hard...

ooh, Don just said Lowrie is playing tonight!

and during the entire pregame show, they didn't mention Cora's injury.

...Don said Jed is in?

(starts hyperventilating again) I'd just started breathing again, too!

Lowrie isn't in the starting lineup. He said "Jed Lowrie comes up from the Pawsox"

(calms down again) Okay, good - that'd probably been too much for my lungs to take right there. Jed already played today, anyway. He needs a break...

damn. I guess I'm too hopeful..

Steph i'll have a present for you in a minute.

He's here! Oh my god!

He's in the dugout, though... well, he might play today!

I'll be here on and off--I've got to eat and do some work. But I will be here!

Let's go Sox! :D

You're too hopeful? I'm the one with a tag that reads 'I am obsessed with Jed Lowrie' on my Livejournal...

See? I'm not lying.

That's okay, 1863, we all have our obsessions

We're in similar situations as far as media coverage. I saw your posts about Gettysburg, etc., during last night's game. Very nice area! But far from all things Sox. As for me, I'd have to move 1000 miles to get to New England. :-(

Good lord..they even have towels in Montreal!!!!!!!

Nice one, Youk!

Towels? Good thing I'm watching the Sox. Ugh.

My computer DVR wouldn't let me take a screenshot for you Steph. I tried though.

It's a lovely area - and I'm surprised how many Sox fans are at my college! (There's even a guy with a Portland Sea Dogs hat!) I finally caved and got the Gameday audio - the radio's lovely to have, and it's a huge step over Gameday. (Oh, and it costs less than $20 per year.)

Awww, don't worry about it - it's okay.

...I need to get computer DVR. It just sounds amazing.

You can sign up for the 14.95 Red Sox Nation package and get game day audio for free with it.

For those who are in the Boston area--I'm loving this beautiful weather today! I spent so much time outside this afternoon. Perfect temperature.

Wow. Youk finally gets a chance to show off his range. He has such fabulous all-around defense.

Steph, it's the same thing as having TIVO or a DVR. I just have a TV tuner wit the DVR program.

I signed up for the audio independently, but it still cost roughly the same. It's a good deal either way.

And it's better than staring at the screen and waiting for each pitch to come on delay. (I once compared a game on TV to Gameday, and the pitch delay was something like 30 seconds. Ugh.)

I don't have TIVO (I doubt my college would allow it), but I'd love to get it at some point... (puts it on her 'things to do when she graduates' list)

Is the Red Sox Nation package something on mlb.com? The way I'm going, I may just need that!

Pretty bunt by Lugo.

Oh yes the weather was lovely here in CT too. I went down the beach and did a little walking.

This is the Red Sox Nation package.

ECL here's the link.

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/fan_forum/redsox_nation.jsp

steph beat me to it. LOL.

Ya reckon if Lugo keeps up the good work the fans will quit hating on him? I just can't get with all the nastiness on the part of sports fans, especially towards someone on their own team.

Lugo is feeling the pressure because Jed is currently in the ballpark. Okay, I'm kidding.

I try to follow the Japanese style of cheering for your team - that is, cheering for slumping players in order to encourage them to start hitting again. I've always liked it better.

Very obvious "FUCK" there by Pedroia again.

Bruins down 2-0 16 minutes to go in the first period.

Dustin and his fuck's.

That's the way it is ECL. J.D, drew got it from the fans last year, the new york fans do it all the time.

the shift should be outlawed.

how many double plays have I seen in the past three days?

Steph - Agreed. The only players I would ever, ever boo would be Johnny Demon and Alex Rodriguez.

Thanks for the link, y'all (youse guys). Bookmarked to peruse at my leisure.

1863, that's a great idea. Isn't that what finally snapped the 0-33 last year?

Oh maaaaaan....PAPI...what's the matter with you? :-(

Ugh--the shift and the DP. No fun.

C'mon, Wakey... strikes are good.

Steph are you cheering like the Hanshin Tiger Fan club

Ian, who is the most likely of the Yankees to feel the wrath of the fans? Is there a perennial goat, or does it change on a whim? Just curious.

I am really, really hoping that Jed gets an at-bat in the Yankees series against Mike Mussina. That would crack me up so bad...

(For those who don't get it, both of them went to Stanford.)

(is in an ouendan!) Okay, not really, but I'd totally love to be in one. They're awesome!

My guess it tomorrow night it will be AROD and Johnny Demon.

Ecl - I know A-Rod gets a lot of it (by the media, anyway). And he gets even more once October rolls around.

Oh, Wake. That was close.

But it really all depends. They will heckle Mariano Rivera.

In the 2005 opening day introductions, Mariano was the only Yankees player to get a cheer. But that's because he chocked in the 2004 ALCS.

Last year was AROD with the blonde masks. Could possibly be Giambi with the steroids. all i know is it's going to be a raucous crowd

Hey, the Bruins have scored a goal!

But Cash, that wasn't so nice.

I have always, always found A-Rod really annoying.

Did Cash just throw a knuckleball out to Pedroia

Oh, Cash. Throwing quickly is good, but throwing wildly is worse than throwing slowly.

That is why I wanted Dusty Brown to be the backup catcher.

I know I'm going to jinx him but coming into tonight's game, Cash has no passed balls in 91 innings with the Red Sox. Most of those innings are catching Wakefield.

That's pretty damn good if you asked me.

Ian, I won't get to actually watch until Saturday. I can't even imagine the scene inside the stadium!

Whew...what a relief....

(knocks on wood) That's excellent. If only he had Dusty Brown's throwing arm, though...

I am going on the record as saying that I would legally marry Dusty Brown's throwing arm.

Yay Youk! Phew!

Cash's defense is superb. It's just that Dusty Brown's is kind of better.

Manny, what was that?

JD! haha, yeah!

HA. That would've been an amazing play if he'd actually caught it.

That sounded SO weird over the radio...

It essentially was a bad snap by the center to the QB

Jacoby and Lowrie moment!! Aw, Steph, you missed it!

Anyway, they were leaning on the dugout fence and chatting. It was very cute.

Although, not to go all shallow on you guys, anything Jacoby does is very cute.

...I MISSED THAT?

(dies a little inside)

-hey, has anyone been to the National's new stadium? I'll be in Washington for a while and wanted to know if a trip would be worthwhile..

by the way, awee, Jed & Jacoby.

Lots of Lowrie shots this inning.

I should probably explain - for those who don't know, Jed and Jacoby have known each other for about seven years. They played together on an all-state team from Oregon in high school, then against each other in college, and were then drafted together. It's kind of remarkable.

Another Lowrie adorable moment--

He went to spit something out over the rail but somehow didn't get it all the way so he had to pick it off the arm of his sweatshirt.

Aw, Coco.

(cracks up - bad) That's just...so Jed.

Hey Liza -- no shame in "going shallow!" We may have different taste in guys, but I definitely have my awwwww moments when it comes to baseball.

Poor Lowrie having to take care of that sweatshirt, LOL.

Youk's getting a workout down there at the hot corner tonight.

It's so fun to see him play excellent defense that doesn't involve mostly catching.

Nate Robertson could take some advice from Lonie Paxton.

P.S. to the above...I definitely agree that Jacoby is cute. It's just that I'm older so notice the 30-somethings.

There is only one ballplayer I've ever fallen ridiculously hard for in my entire life...and he's just been called up tonight. And I'm loving every minute of it, even though I can't see him in the dugout with Jacoby right now.

oh, Wake..

Another HBP. Jeez.

The radio confused the hip and the shoulder. Chris Carter is not amused.

Liza, you took the words right out of my mouth.

1863, nice profile he's got!

Timmy.

euh..

Come on, Wakey. Strikes go above the plate. Remember that.

Ugh, 62 pitches in 2.1 innings? No fun.

That picture was taken by the best Red Sox photographer in the world.

I have that one printed out and up on my wall. (grins sheepishly)

This seems eerily similar to the 2nd inning.

Cabrera looked totally lost against that knuckler.

1863, oh my, oh yes. As a fairly new fan I've done some digging for websites, and her work is awesome.

Nice strikeout, Wake!

(crosses her fingers and knocks on her wooden desktop)

Steph you know that most minor league games are available for free on MiLB.com?

"Again, the bottom falling out of this curve--uh, knuckleball."

Oh, Remy...

On the radio that is.

I do catch quite a lot of them, although a good bunch are played when I'm in class (I missed a good chunk of my PawSox's game today). I usually just use Gameday, though, because I don't want the radio broadcast sound to clash with them...

But on off-days, I know what I'll be doing this season.

If you would like to listen to any of the games from your favorite Red Sox minor league team, head over MILB.com Gameday Audio. It’s free to sign up and to listen.

Thanks, Julio!

Wakefield is exceptionally good at getitng himself into and out of jams.

Nice job Wakey. time for the bats to wake their arses up.

These Olympia sports ads are getting annoying

I've been using MiLB.com Gameday Audio, actually - I did my PawSox Opening Day live-blog to it. It's wonderful. It's just a bit hard to have two radio broadcasts going at once...

Wake = the new Houdini? (JoS refers to Lester by that name...)

Hmmm...it didn't like my brackets.

What I MEANT to say was...relieved!

Oh, and don't ask why I refer to George Kottaras as "Georgie Sparkles." It's a long, long story...

I think there's something in the coding of the site that doesn't like brackets.

Ian - agreed. "The GLOVE, kid, spit in the GLOVE." It was funny the first time, okay the second, and annoying after that.

YEAH, Casey!

Yay Casey!

Francona said he wants Jeter to take his time coming back from the quad injury.

``Always. Always. . . . You can never be too careful with those quads.’’

Yay Sean! Woohoo!

I'm not digging Kev's soul patch.

Steph - Amalie Benjamin agrees on the Houidini count.

Way to squander that double, boys.

Yay Amalie! I can't take credit, though - these fine people here first called Lester Houdini. I'd imagine that Wake can join the club, though...

Okay, Wake, that's more like it. Don't make me post that cat macro again! (I directed it at the offense, but you're not immune.)

That is too funny.

dear red sox, please stop failing. thank you. love abby

there goes the no-no

*grumbles*

I was about to say that!

OK that one was my fault. i should have never said anything. Places self in a timeout.

That happened because the radio said there could be an inning-ending double play. You don't say those things if you're a commentator!

Thank you, Coco! Kept it to one run...

Timmeh.

I was totally gonna say how good Wakefield looked, too.

Oh, Tim--I answer the phone and come back and you've let up a run. I can only say that I hope the same happens to Robertson.

*two runs

Ugh. This is not fun. I'm getting another FAIL macro ready for you guys...end it.

Polanco is not having a good series.

Can't the Aflac people come up with new commercials? This one was annoying by halfway through last season.

I have my second FAIL macro ready to go if we need it. The offense needs to wake up now.

(Hint, hint, Tito - Jed should be awake because he's just been given a cup of coffee! Okay, bad joke.)

Okay, time for our sleeping giant to wake up.

*sleeping Papi

Even though I couldn't see the pitch, I'm not buying it. Ugh.

awe, man.
he didn't go around..

-lets go Manny.

Bad call on Papi there. Should've been called a check.

Has his batting average ever dipped this low before? It's bizarre and downright scary to see him have the worst BA on the team.

Robertson--keep up this crazy pitching. I like it.

JD, my darling, my love..
lets do something!

I approve. C'mon, J.D.!

C'mon, JD!

Let's gooo, JD!

HELL YEAH.

Oh, Manny. We love you.

And not to forget JD--love, JD!

Manny said F you to the stop sign there.

WOOOT WOOT we on da scoreboard

I can't decide if that was good or bad by Manny. Yay though.

YES! Go J.D.! (And nice running, Manny!)

Woo HOOOOO!!!!

If the throw isn't cut off, Manny's nailed at the plate probably

bahah, Manny can do whatever he wants to do.

COCO!!!!!!!!!!?!??!?!?

nice job coco. we are tied now

Coco!!

On radio delay - I'm assuming that's good...and it is! YES! YAY COCO!

...but damnit, we could've had two!

Oh, man--that EASILY would've been a triple. Come on.

that was a great camera shot. The ball actually hit off the foul pole on the bounce and wasn't touched by a fan.

Yeah. Wow. That was weird.

C'mon, Casey!

Ecl wishes she could actually see what's happening on the field...

3-2! Yeah Casey!

(Sac for those who're on delay)

woohoo

Yay, it's a lead! Good job, Sean!

CASH!!

ZOMG.
this is fun now.

And the cash man delivers

Yay Kevin!!

...yay Cash? Wow!

Bruins down 3-1 late in the 2nd

(Sorry if I don't comment as much as usual - I'm in the process of drawing Jed with a literal cup of coffee in his hands...)

Nice running by the slowest guy on our team

I think he's my new Sox crush.

Yeah Cash! Again!

...wow. Cash with a stolen base!

nice, again, for Cash!

And there we go.

4 runs, though!

ass commercial!

and now we get the Papelbon ass smacking ad.

PAPELCOMMERCIAL!

I hope you're not complaining about seeing the Papelbon ass smacking ad - some of us would be very happy to not have to go onto YouTube to see it!

Will we "out of region" folks get to see such things as Papelcommercials when the games are nationally televised, i.e., this weekend?

I'm starting to realize that it's hard to watch a ballgame and analyze Kurt Vonnegut at the same time..

Vonnegut's awesome, though! (is a satire geek) I was upset when he died...

Ow! Something's up there with Cabrera... That looked like it hurt.

Gameday screen says "injury delay." What happened?

Texy has the ad right here.

http://www.outincenterfield.com/blog/2008/04/papelbon_is_taking_over.html

and i doubt the ad will be a national one since it's a regional promotion up here

Hmmmph. I guess he couldn't have been too injured.

Can you say... pinch runner?

Also, funny throw by Coco there.

...wow, that sounded like a homer for a moment there. That was close!

analyzing takes all the fun out of everything though.. :[

-I'm in PA and I see all the Boston commercials with the MLB extra innings thing..

Ecl - Cabrera grabbed at his hamstring after a swing. His next few swings looked really awkward.

MDC warming up in the pen

Manny Del up in the pen.

B&W that's because you're getting the NESN feed probably on the Extra Innings package. They aren't going to run special ads for that feed.

(whistles) Gorgeous.

Thanks for the clarification, Liza, and for the heads-up, Anonymous. I saw that there was Papelstuff when I was on here while at work, but didn't explore further because I'm not supposed to watch videos from the office. So many things to play with here at home...so little time!

Wake's gonna be done. He was over 100 pitches. Anybody got the exact count?

UGH! My roommate just decided that it's nap time! Now I can't even celebrate or curse people out!

...this is why I'm getting a single room next year.

108 pitches

Dusti--NO.

Well the leg looks fine.

Damnit, Dustin! You should know better!

that was an absolute cannon throw by Cabrera

Thanks, Ian.

C'mon, Papi! Wooohoooo! Let's run this starter's pitch count up and OVER 108.

Papi is making me a sad, sad, panda.

...Poor Papi.

Let's go Manny?

C'mon Manny...

Have we forgotten how to work counts?

Have we forgotten what a strike zone is?

Also, that "2. K. K!?" commercial is pissing me off.

Delcarmen.
*glares*

(Scanning Jed in. If I don't talk much, I apologize!)

I'm trying to check e-mail so am being sporadic here as well. And I hate the 2KK commercial too.

Yay Cash! Nicely done there!

Hey! The radio just informed me that Harden is on the DL! Hmmm.

...I like the 2KK commercial.
oh well.
-nice, MDC.

UGH. I just got some seriously frustrating news--I might've been able to get two loge box tickets for April 23, against the Angels... but I'm in NY then! Mmmf.

Nice inning by MDC there, though.

Good job, Manny Del! Very nice. Let's do more of that!

Harden has a shoulder something, apparently.

Hopefully the Red Sox can beat up on the Wang tomorrow

Athletics placed RHP Rich Harden on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to April 3, with a strained back muscle.

Nice catch by Maggs.

Also, Clay biting his nails? That was adorable!

Hi All!

I just got home from my daughter's track meet...yeah we're ahead!

I'll have to read to see how Wake did.

I love me some JD.
always will.

I have Clay's no-no on my iPod, and he bites his nails during that game, too! I highly suspect that's why he chews on his glove when he's nervous.

...I know way too much.

(Also, Jed with a cup of coffee! He deserves it!)

Bye-bye Robertson.

Also, Wang annoys me. He isn't even particularly good.

very nice steph

I love how he chews on his glove. I've started doing it during softball practices, to tell the truth.

Also, awesome picture. Hah.

Nice picture!

Aww, thanks! It's a bit sloppy, though - I kind of rushed it.

I try to pitch like Clay when I play the Wii, and since I literally wear my glove when I do that I've added the glove-chewing to my impersonation. (I have no life.)

Where's our fearless leader Texy tonight?

"If you can tear yourself away from Bruins playoff action, the Masters coverage or the Frozen Four (BC! Notre Dame!) tonight, there should be a heckuva showdown to determine who will take home the series victory between the Sox and the Tigers. Or, better yet, do like I'm going to do and go to a sports bar so you can watch all of that at the same time."

As quoted from, uh, the post...

can you tell i didn't read that

I came over from my blog and clicked on teh comments and started spewing words.

Silly Ian... :)

Casey's gum has something to say about that!

Ugh, sorry, Sean. That pitch was nasty. Well, it sounded nasty over the radio.

oh it was nasty

Did anyone else get that weird "PEW PEW!" sound effect right as Cash made contact?

Well, at least he was tenacious enough to work 10 pitches.

And again, as Maggs fouled one off...?

"PEW PEW!" It was like an effect from a sci-fi movie.

And again! What is this?

gross.

It's the pitch speed thing on the score thing.

And dammit, MDC was pitching so well too.

Maggsssssssssssss...

More like--MDC!

This isn't coming back, is it? Argh. At least it was a solo shot.

...I should knock on wood. (does so)

Ian - Ohh. That makes sense. Thanks. It's pretty annoying though.

It appears as though anytime anyone throws a pitch over 95 MPH, they are making the sound effect.

sigh...

Oki doke time

Yeah, that makes sense.

OKAJIMAAAA!

Okieee

Good thing there's no Zumaya right now, then! That sound effect would be on constantly...

Okaji in!

Hi, everyone! I'm late (we had a school band concert), but I'm here now.

I was reading some of the comments above about GameDay, and found this site below that anyone who's using GameDay without any audio might want to check out:
http://www.freebaseballradio.com/

I would blast Okajima Oki-Doki right now but MY ROOMMATE IS SLEEPING.

Is it a bit hypocritical that she can sleep through the radio and the television and even my pencil sharpener but not my voice, even if I'm talking very quietly on the phone or something?

Yay J.D.! He's been on tonight!

Let's go Lugie!

Got the XM home unit cooking tonight! No listening through the garage door....

When was the last time Papi was 0 for his last 22?

C'mon, Ortiz...

Stolen base for Pedroia? What?

Dustin, Baby!! Way to go!

...what? Yay Dustin! (idly wonders if Jacoby and Jed totally talked him into it from the dugout rail)

alright, Manny!

J.P. warming up....Mr. Butt Slap....I DIDN'T GET MY TURN YET!

Well, at least Ortiz's on base. He kind of just dropped the bat after ball four though. Just dropped it where he stood.

Let's go Manny, let's go! -clap clap-

I heard Pap got an ass double for that commercial, though...

Bruins just lost 4-1. =(

Thanks, njdevils, for that link. I've been searching for several minutes with no luck. Guess I'll try again a different night. For now, I'll just sit back and enjoy the pitch-by-pitch.

Awww, man. Gagne's still got Boston's number. (He's originally from Montreal, actually.)

yeah - heard that....but it's the thought that counts...heh

c'mon, Manny....pimp another homerun, will ya??

wow, Miner looks just like one of my 8th grade social studies teachers...

*random*

And Manny strikes out. Wait a minute, he fouled it off. Great announcing by Donnie O

MANNY!!!

MANNNYYYY

YES MANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY

Hit one for me, Manny, pretty please, pretty please?

YAYAYAYAYA!!!

Oh, Ecl, you and your poor radio delay...

Well that was nice.

Delay, but YES! GO MANNY!

Woot nice time to walk into get the game on! Go Manny!

yay manny!!!!

WOOO!

And THAT is why Manny is one of the best hitters in the game!

Pinch runner! :D

(/shallow)

Liza, I'm blushing with shame here. It's Gameday delay, actually. No radio. It was apparently stuck on the foul right before he hit the double. I had no idea he had gotten a hit. I'm glad he did, though!

Jacoby, Baby!!

OH NOES JED AND JACOBY HAVE BEEN SEPARATED.

Just kidding. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Jed said something to him about Taco Bell just to kid him a bit.

LOL, Liza. Fanservice?

Liza, you said it for me. :]
-Hecklers are more drunken sounding.

INTENTIONALLY WALKING JD DREW!

I love this. So much.

Ok who ever thought we'd see JD Drew get intentionally walked???

well he does have 3 hits

Faaaaaanservice indeed!

And ass-slap is up in the pen!

yea he looks like a different player this year, hopefully he'll keep it going

shimmy shimmy Coco Puff!!

lets goooo Casey!

JD finally found some way to get his swing under the ball, I think. It's certainly working for him.

Bases loaded for Sean!!

Oh this is too much fun!

This is fun stuff, isn't it?

YES!!!!!!!

this is too awesome.

all hail the mayor

WAY TO GO, CASEY!!

woot Go Casey!

YEAH!

YES! GO SEAN!

(celebrates quietly because of her annoying roommate)

no more papelbuns warming up, it's yo-yo

HAHA - papelbuns ....I LIKE that!

Yo-yoooooooo

As a relative newcomer, someone will have to please explain to me how he came by the nickname Yoyo.

This is for you, 1863:
1-800-54-GIANT!

Bun-Buns is just stretching now....

>_

NO MORE WALKS

Nice recovery play by Coco. Jacoby still has to learn to use the Monster, it seems...

Oh, my FAVORITE commercial EVER!

The worst part is that in this part of PA the biggest supermarket chain is called Giant.

(One wonders if Jed is going to tease Jacoby about that missed catch later. He wouldn't be above it. Hey, they've known each other for seven years now...)

Tavarez is scary.

1863 where are you from? I'm from PA as well.

For some reason ive never liked Tavarez. He Even signed a baseball for me last year and i still dont like him for some odd reason. is that wrong of me?

...
bad things.

Come ON, Tavarez. STRIKES. OUTS. They're GOOD...

I'm actually from New Jersey - I'm a college student, though, and my school is in PA.

damn - a WALK

Oh FUCK, Julian.

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!

...at this rate Jed might as well pitch.

And he's never done that, to my knowledge.

c'mon guys, lets make this snappy. Paps is warming up now...GOOD!

This is for Tavarez:

Um.....take him out?

Please?

If I remember Yo-Yo's nickname came from how crazy he was/is and emotions are like a yo-yo.

and this isn't good folks

For the record, I've always hated Tavarez. And I groaned when I saw he was coming in.

take. him. out.
oh my god..

Double Damn!!!!! Get Mr. T. outta there, Tito!!

Do I need another macro, Julian? I have several FAIL macros you might like...

Some people post LOLcats. 1863 posts LOLfails. Cracking up despite the grim situation.

GET HIM OUT OF THERE.

But Pap probably isn't up to the point where he can get six outs...?

OUTS, Tavarez. Ever heard of them?!

(He's annoying me.)

LUGO! YESSS!

ok um why is tavarez still in??

Yeah for Lugo

YEAH!!!!!!!! Double play for Lugie!!!!!!

well that was decent at least. why couldnt he get that a batter or 2 ago?

Tavarez better be careful or he's going to blow the lead

ABOUT FUCKING TIME.

I'M SHIPPING UP TO BOSTON WAAAAYOOOOOO

Sure would have been nice to not have Papelbon need to work tonight, considering he'll absolutely be needed this weekend. Thanks a lot, Julian.

so much for a night off for papelbuns

I also post LOLStanfords because I am obsessed with Jed Lowrie.

(Installment 2)

If you ever wondered what Jed Lowrie and Chris Carter looked like in college...yeah. (Jed had an interesting haircut...)

Thank God for that double play, too!

Bring on the PAP man so we can get this over with!

papelbon. Hurray! they might not blow this yet!

phew...c'mon Paps.

Taverez.

:: spit ::

Go PAP!

My stomach is all knotted up...

PapelYAY.

The game could get banged tomorrow night. It's supposed to rain up here.

wow.
that inning nearly killed me..

YES. ABOUT TIME.

That was Easy.

I wish the Monster Membership came with MLB.TV premium, watching the games in 400k is painful sometimes.

Lets get another win, Pap! See, he'll get the job done right so the Yankees can come to town and stink up the visitors locker room.

According to weather.com, at game time tomorrow, we're just looking at "few showers" so we'll see how that goes.

GOOD TIMES NEVER SEEMED SO GOOD...

C'mon, Lugie. Let's make this easy for Pap.

Did Casey yell something along the lines of "THAT'S MY BOY!" after that double play?

WHAT????????

wow nice throw, gotta give him credit

Yeah Dustin!

YAY! Go Dustin!

Yup your right. they changed the forecast.

C'mon Papi... you are SO due for at least a hit...

Also, I'm totally tickled that Jacoby's hitting cleanup. Ha.

Jed: Intense.

NESN bastards didn't say they put the game back on NESN. at least now I can watch the end in HD

nod jacoby is quite the cleanup hitter. guess we'll find out in a sec here

Another walk!?

I'll take it...

C'mon Jacoby!

a walks as good as a hit Papi

Oh, he'll fight it for now, but you know Jed is going to have a good laugh over Jacoby batting cleanup later. He's literally the most easily amused person I've ever seen in my life...

Jacoby hitting cleanup?
heeheehaha.

Ian - thanks for the heads-up. Go HD!

Bases loaded for JD! AGAIN!

Yoooouuuukkk

bases juiced for YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Whoa. right. Youk.

Silly me...

YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK!

Biting knuckles...holding my breath...

Cleanup walk! Oh, you know he's getting it later...

NESN should now cut to a shot of the dugout so they can catch Jed and Clay laughing - because I'm positive that they will be.

JD's next... heh...

YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK!

10-6 with runners on second and third for JD!!

I can't scream..
my "roommate" is also sleeping..

YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wooooooooooooooooooot YOOOOOOOOOOOOOIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

YAY! Even with radio delay! NICE!

Woot YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUK!

Yooooooouuuuuuuuuk!!

YES!

that'll get a run in

Come on JD the Fantasy team needs ya!

I squeaked at that hit... it fell short but YAY, 11 runs!

yay, Jacoby!

Yea!

Woot Worth an RBI and a run to the fantasy team. i'll take it!

Nice! Honestly, like anyone could throw out Jacoby on that one!

and because of yo-yo we had to waste Papelbuns

Thoughts, keep papelbon in now, or not? still a save situation technically.

The radio said Aardvark's stretching...

Apparently Aardsma is stretching in the pen...

Well if Tito manages like he did last year, he takes him out. They haven't said anything about anyone warming up in the Sox pen though

it'd be nice if RemDawg and his sidekick would tell us that.

NESN hasn't said anything about Aardvark.

YEAH COCO!!

wow, Coco!
woohoo.

Radio estimates over 300 pitches total have been thrown in this game.

Yay Coco! Way to go!

I'm going to say he's definitely coming out now. And finally RemDawg mentions something.

No one warming in the pen since they are showing it right now.

Now nobody's up...

yea NESN hasnt said anything about anyone up. Ooh go CoCo drive up that trade value! Ok they just said noone is up in the pen

no one in the pen as they're showing it..

It's nice that the Red Sox are playing yet another 3 hour plus game with the Yankees coming to town when we all know those games are good to go at least 4 hours.

Steph - It'd be interesting to see, wouldn't it? The game's been super long--3 1/2 hours as of the bottom of the eighth. Wow.

C'mon, CASEY!

I'm totally looking up everyone's pitch counts after this game. Yay random stats! (/Chadwick mode)

Sam Fuld is influencing my decisions now, apparently.