First comment! Looking forward to hopefully another great outing from Lester.

Hey Jessi!

Another MLBtv blackout for me today, so I'll be trying to keep up on game day!!

GO SOX!!!

Hey there! I've had the Mets/NYY on TV this afternoon as background music to chores. Now I'm ready to sit down and hang out with our boys.

Bethie, why would MLBtv be blacked out in NC? Not like we're in either market...

Have you gotten accustomed to the new improved Gameday yet?

Bethie, if you are indeed in NC then I would try calling Customer Service. I was blacked out from the Philllies games (I live in NJ) and gave them a call. Took about 10 minutes and they found a mistake in the computer. I was then able to watch the Sox win =]

Helloooo, Pedey! And everyone.

PLEATS!

Gameday is growing on me Faith. Still getting used to it.

Apparently this game is part of the whole national blackout on Saturdays. If the start time is after 1:10PM or before 7:05PM (I'm guessing since it's 6:05 in Houston) then it's blacked out every where. It's all FOX broadcastings fault!!! Wahhhhh..:D

Bethie I'm watching the game on mlb.tv right now.

Awww, that stinks, especially as FOX isn't even showing this game, at least not around here.

And I just called customer service and the Sox game is part of the national blackout for today. Ugh.

Oh well.

Then why is Jessi able to watch it? (head explode)

I'm glad you can watch it Jessi. I can't get it figured out and their nicely recorded message just basically told me I'm screwed. :)

I'm so glad my money is going to good use.

I did not enjoy that play.

Hey guys!
I won't be on here too much since I have to fill out Thank-You cards.
Ugh.

But I thought I would say hi!

Aww I'm sorry Bethie. If it makes you feel better the picture quality is dreadful.

Yeah really...that MLBtv is pretty pricey, right?

Nice catch JD!

It's Fat Elvis.

Thank you cards for what, Mary? I can't keep everyone straight sometimes -- did you just graduate?

And yes, sweet catch, my sweet Georgia Peach.

That Fat Elvis is a beefy lad, he is.

I'm on the phone with MLBtv technical support right now. I'm getting ready to chew someone's ass.

I'll be back directly.

Georgia Peach?

Who's Bethie kidding? If she's otp with tech support, she'll be lucky to be back for tomorrow's game.

Hahahaha

He's sweet, he's from Georgia, and he has tawny-colored fuzz. So yes, Georgia Peach.

That inning-ending play sounded like the Keystone Cops or something...mass chaos.

Atta boy Mikey!

Awww, fc, that's cute! Those Southern boys are charming for sure.

MyGlowal!

funny fc. I work in technical support....so I know. :D

And I hate talking to other technical support people, because they seriously talk down to me, and it makes me wonder if I sound like that when I talk to people. :D

Bethis, I RUN tech support so the joke was on me.

Sorry Bethie - typing skills aren't required for tech support.

ha ha. I wish everything had spell check, don't you fc?? :D

Okay, so the little dude I talked to fixed my problem for tonight's game. But he laughed at me when I asked him why I couldn't watch the red sox play baltimore, since I live so close to them and all. *eye roll*

I asked him since they had me blacked out from all Orioles games, if he was going to pay to fly me to Boston and Baltimore every time the red sox play them. Again a laugh. I'm glad I am so amusing. :D

Now he thinks my favorite team is the Orioles. LOL

Awww, poor Jon. Still hitless in the majors.

Holy crap, that boy's bat can't miss!

(Pedey's of course. Not Jon's)

At least he can put the bat on it. He hit that foul ball pretty hard.

We're just lucky he doesn't bat like Colon does.... :D

See? The red dread. It's been there for a few weeks.

...and maybe he should keep it. Go Manny!

Yayy Manny!

Yeah Manny! :-D :-D :-D

WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Red dread FTW!!

Mikey Doubles Lowell

Mikeyyy

Sweeeeet!!!

YAY Mikeeeeeyyyy!

Youukkk

Oh, this is RICH!

And Youk again.
I'm likin this inning.

I predict a short shelf life for this pitcher.

Ecl - Yeah, I graduated at the begining of the month, but since I've been away all month, I'm just sitting down now to fill them out :)

(wow, that took me a while to get to because of these damn cards :P)

Knowing me, in your place I'd probably just stay here and forget about the cards! I'm really bad that way. Kudos to you for your good etiquette!

Well this is not good.

Ugh.

Oopsie.

Am I the only one who didn't think that Jon hit Backe?
It didn't look like it to me....

Didn't look like it to me either. Even with the nice fast forward\rewind graphic that FSN supplied me with....on a loop it appeared. :D

Okay, that's a start. But geez...I just looked at Fat Elvis's BA. Holy moly...Jon, work some magic here, please.

Mary, I missed it somehow so I can't say.

Presto!

Yeah! Go Jon!

fc - I can't say I blame you. It was the first pitch of the inning. it happened like 5 seconds after the commercial brake.

and ecl - I'm thinking that's what I'm going to do. Forget the cards, Lester is pitching :)

sheeyit

*peeks through fingers*

Lester be ok!

Coincidentally, Mary, last night I reread the game thread from Lester's no-no...and I had been about to fix dinner when the game began. It wasn't until the game was over that I finally got dinner together...at about 10:00 p.m. Yep, everything else must wait when a game is going on!

Ah shit. WTF?

So the ball came back and smacked him?

Well shit.

Don't be hurt. Please...

We need a healthy Jon.

ecl, it looks like it caught the back of his heel.

Noooooo!

Well that sucked.

0.0

...........a wha?

Christ almighty.....

Well fuck that.

Heyy everyone. =)

%^&*^%*(
&*E&RTY*(&^T*

GRRRRRRR

Hm, call to the pen already.

F u Loretta!!!

Ugh.

Oh well, we still have lots of time to get it back.

Hey all! Sorry if I've been gone iIwas in the kitchen making dinner.

WTF? that HR was lame.

The Chris Smith Early Rescue System has been activated.

Aaaah, that sucked.

Grrr, Lester was doing good too. I hope they let him come out for at least a little bit of the 4th to see if he can pick himself up

If all this was going to happen, at least it did in the 3rd.

We still have those other 6 or so innings to regain our spot in the ass-kicking :)

Well, doing good until the 3rd...lol

I agree Mary. If it happened in the 8th i would be a little worried. But we have plenty of time to come back. And-- Lester, Jacoby and Dustin!!! Come on boys!! =)

I was in the kitchen making dinner. I missed it all.

I hope he ONLY pitches if he CAN pick himself up.

Well having this happen early could tax our pen.

So how do all of you feel about Heidi taking over Hazel Mae's "Ultimate Red Sox" show since shes gone?

Fortunately, I don't have to miss the audio to make dinner...the stove is just a few feet from the computer.

C'mon bats...

DUSTIN PEDROIA IS A MACHINE

Dear Dustin,

I love you.

The End.

Love, Me.

WRKO called it...they said his next hit would put him above .300.

OH NO JD

Ouch.

Bruised peach.

Well, dinner time (in front of the TV :D)

I'll be back in a little bit!

Time to put the water on for pasta...

Okay, I was on the phone with the game muted. What happened to JD?

Hit by pitch is all I know, Bethie. Apparently nothing serous, as he's still in the game.

Well that's good news. Got a little nervous there.

The ball grazed his ribs and he doubled over but waved Tito & co. back to the dugout and seemed ok after that.

Well clearly they brought the bats on this trip.

That was close but looked safe to me.

SHIT

FUCK!

*grumble*

Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.

Would Lester like to leave?

When they show the replay of that HR pitch, they close up on Jon's face and he CLEARLY yells "FUCK."

:(

Okay, this is not fun anymore.

I hate baseball.

For some reason this game feels interminable...not sure why.

People, it's a 2 run game! Still very doable.

Okay, a walk is a start...

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

Ellsbury!

Is that an error?

he he he he

Yeah Lugo.

That sounded exciting...picturing Jacoby outrunning a deer while Lugo scampers home. :-D

No one else on the team except Coco could've pulled off what those two just did.

YEAH BABY!
What's that, 4 for 4 for our little munchkin?

Thank you Dustin!

YEAH PLEATS!!!!!

fc, and WRKO just reminded us that Pedey was 3-4 last night. Amazing!

See? A tied game. 4-6 is WAAAY too early to hate baseball.

:D

Me? Hate baseball??? Nah.

I just hate opposing team home runs. :)

And I totally missed Pedey knocking in a run. :( I bet it was nice.

Dustin is on fire!!!

Bethie, it'll be up on Gameday shortly.

That's what I'm talkin about.

Thank you MikeyLOL!

Bethie, the video clip is up.

YOOOOUK YES YOOOOOUK

YESSSSS!!!!

Can't wait for THAT video!

Yes Youkk!!

Aww don't argue, you did a good job.

Out my ass. But it's ok, we got the runs.

Yeah

Thanks Faith! I'll go watch it.

YOOOUUUKKKKKK!!!

Aardsma!
I'm glad that I added him to my fantasy team.

I do like Aardsma. He seems so chill.

And pretty dependable.

Not as a hitter though.
That was pretty amusing.

Oops, I'm Anonymous.

Was on the phone...the current opposing pitcher (going by roster photo) looks about as dorky as Gagne.

uh oh

I wonder why they kept Aardsma in after that walk.

My Gameday is frozen up...

Oh man.

Bethie, you should see what's coming this way on the radar. Ugh. I hope I don't have to cut the computer off.

I hate when they show that a pitcher hasn't given up any runs after a certain amount of appearances.

Ummmm....no. Could we not do this please? Please??

Alright Hansen. Please don't screw this up.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

Aaaahhh shit.

NOT COOL

WHAT THE FUCK!

We need an out.

Nooooo

Well, batten down the hatches Faith. Hope it doesn't get nasty.

And I hope if it moves this way it waits until after I leave work at 1.

fuck fuck fuck fuck....

This is when I wish for clones of Papelbon.

I want Papelbon now.

About time they got an out.

Pap worked a little extra-long yesterday so putting him in in the 7th might is probably not realistic.

Or words to that effect. Wish I could edit comments when I type gibberish.

About time... now one more guys!!

Forgot you were at work, Bethie! Let's see...it's basically a big mass of weather that stretches from the Triple Cities all the way to north of Atlanta. It's heading east, so depending on whether the air cools enough to kill it, it will probably get to your area in a couple-three hours.

Okay...one more hout.

*out.

Thought bubble over Josh's head: "EXECUTE PITCHES. EXECUTE MF'in PITCHES"

"THROW F'N STRIKES"

FINALLY!

That works too

(whew)...what a battle!

For goodness sakes. That was almost as long as a Pedroia at bat. :)

As much as I hate to leave in a tight game like this, I have to go drive my sister to friends house. She has no concept of the Red Sox games... but don't worry I'll be taping the outcome. GO SOX!!!!

Do we get Delcarmen now???

We do!

The bullpen guys are going to have no arms left after the past two nights

SHIT

fuck me. i should have stayed away

Aw SHIT!

Or should I say....MFSOB. MFSOB....

Son of a BITCH!!!

Well there goes that 0.00 ERA for the month of June. I swear, these announcers on FSN have jinxed every one of our pitchers tonight.

This is not good.

The hell with stats and streaks. All I care about is the W.

I missed that. I needed a drink, I made a Bellini.

Just heard the first rumble, Bethie.

good thing they didn't take out Manny since he's leading off the 9th

One can hope, Ian.

well that fucking blows chowdah chunks

NOOOOO!!!!!! $&^*()@#$&*(%^$

FUCK!

Fat Elvis, I hate you.

Oh man, so not good.

is fc alive or did she die after that hit.

B-e-a-utiful.

That just gives me warm fuzzies.

Air knocked out - hangs head.

i was hoping for the former by the way

Ian - close!

I'm thinking back-back-back homers would be GREAT

FAT ELVIS CAN SUCK IT.

I'll take at least two runs

And if these announcers utter a single word about how good the Sox are ...

I guess MLBtv knows that the Astros took the lead, cause it won't stop buffering now. It's locked up and it won't restart.

Great.

Awww, that sucks, Bethie. Can you jump on Gameday real quick?

NO
NO NO NO

Awww, Manuel...

there's 1

I LOVE MIKEY LOWELL

MIKELOL!

THAT'S what I'm talkin' about, people!!!

MIKEYYY

God Bless you Mike Lowell!!

Yeah Mikey.

YOUK WTF ARE YOU SWINGING AT

Come on Youk, what was that?!

Wow, no broken stuff. Someone's locker is gettin it tonight.

i hate baseball

Wow that game sucked pitching wise.

Well this completely sucked.

Dammit...so close, just not close enough...(sigh)

can I hate baseball now?? Since I couldn't earlier?

At least it was only by a run. Was a pretty exciting game though.

Oh well, on to Becketty-boo tomorrow.

:-(

OH man, that sucked.

::crossing fingers for a Ray loss::

At least you may have a nice gentle calm rain to lull you to sleep, Bethie. And yeah, it was an exciting game.

Yikes, Jessi, TB is tied in the 9th.

As long as it's gentle or non existent on my ride home in a few hours it will be fine. You be careful in that nasty weather.

I'm not saying this to be a bitch but did the Sox pitching coach visit the mound at all during the game?

At lesat we did score a ton of runs. And this was the worst pitching performance (on a whole) we've had in a long time so hopefully it was only an off day...for everyone.

Bethie, that's what I was saying...it's not nasty at all. A couple of rumbles, but a gentle rain. Really pleasant. I have my kitchen door open and am enjoying the sound and the cool air.

Ugh ecl really? Last time I checked they were losing. We really, really need to sweep them.

oh yes Erin he was out there enough.

Farrel went out several times. Once to Lester, I wanna say once to Hansen...?

Golly, wasn't THAT the truth, Jessi! What was with our pitchers?

Jessi, right now they're still tied, bot 9.

Okay cause I was going in and out of the room during the game and I only noticed him like twice.

he came out for delcarmen as well

The coaching staff knows what they're doing. That was not the problem.

I was in the room when he went out for Delcarmen. But wow the pitching.. I'm not to sure what to say about their performance tonight.

At least the offense did well.

Yeah, both sides had great offense tonight. Ours just fell a tiny bit short. :-(

and Beckett is pitching tomorrow so It should be better.

Do we play the Rays after this?

It should be better. Beckett got to take his red sox buddies out in the woods on Thursday to shoot stuff. He should be all ready to go tomorrow. :D

Did Beckett really do that? Thats awesome

and Yes the Sox play the Rays on Monday.

Night everyone! Don't know if I'll be around tomorrow - volunteering for the day.

Lets hope Beckett executes well!

ecl, is it too early in your training for the lesson on drowing your sorrows?

fc, in case you check back...right now my tummy wouldn't like drowning my sorrows very much. I threw together some pasta w/shrimp and mushroom alfredo sauce. A little bit too rich, although it tasted good. So I'll have to figure out some other way of drowning my sorrows, I suppose!