Can we PLEASE talk about the idiot that is Heidi Watney? Ugh SO many questions to ask these guys yet she asks the most irrelevant and one way answer ones.
"How do you feel about playing for the Sox?" I will hand a million dollar check to the one that says 'I HATE IT!!!' : ) She gets all dolled up to interview certain guys and by the look on their face they really don't give a shit and look rather bored outta their trees. Sorry Heidi, working at NESN won't get you a Sox boy! : )
"Manny Ramirez will not be in the starting lineup for this afternoon's series finale in Seattle.
Red Sox manager Terry Francona said Ramirez showed up this morning and said his right knee was sore, an overnight development that the manager said caught him by surprise. The trainers had not communicated any issue to Francona after the game.
"He showed up this morning, I wasn't ready for that,'' Francona said. "He said his right knee hurts.''
Francona then joked, "The (expletive) jaywalking, if you do it right, you won't hurt your knee.''
Ramirez told reporters his knee has been bothering him for about a week."
I had the luck to be able to meet him when he was down in Pawtucket, and he was wicked nice. I've followed him up through the leagues, so I'm already biased towards him. Still...nice to see him doing well up here. =D
P.S. What is that around Clay's neck? Is Josh lending him larger hemp necklaces in order to keep his head from bobbling around up there?
The 23-year-old Sox starter has allowed seven first-inning runs over his last three starts. "We talked about it a little bit just as far as maybe doing it all the same in warmups and maybe when I get about three-quarters of the way through, maybe sit down for a little bit in the bullpen for about five minutes and then get up and finish the rest of it," Buchholz said of his pregame bullpen routine. "And then go back and try to manipulate the sitting down and getting back up for the first time and see how that works and maybe we can break that first inning barrier that's there right now."
His "ritual" is just a new way of working in the bullpen. He does some work, then sits down, waits a bit, and then starts again. It's sort of like a simulation of a first inning start which - they were hoping - would erase Clay's first inning blues.
If I ever get Monster tickets when I go to Fenway and Clay's pitching, I'm going to do that...it'd be hilarious. That'll be the day, of course, he strikes out only one. And I'll be up there with my sign that reads: BuKolz.
Ha ha Lulu awwww I miss JTavs :( hope he's happy being a brave Brave! (unless he's somewhere else now, making him another pitcher-turned-latch-key kid)
Hey all, just checking in from work, where I will be for at least another hour.
Are you guys serious about Tavarez and sacrifices? Is he a devotee of Santeria? I know there's someone else in the big leagues who is, can't think of who at the moment.
Lulu, you didn't scare ME away...I'm just working and only checking in here and there. I was interested in the answer to my question, though, since you brought it up!
Oh! Um, I wasn't being serious...I just read about Tavarez and his blood sacrifices on various Sox blogs and I assumed they were joking. But...now that you mention it...who knows? I'm not really familiar with Santeria.
I don't know if anyone's made the comparison, but you know how mark hamill- luke skywalker- looked normal in star wars, but then looked all weird in return of the jedi? has clay undergone a similar change since returning from pawtucket?
Off the top of my head (because I've forgotten the particulars that I've read previously and don't have time to look it up right now), Santeria is a traditional religion that is practiced in the Caribbean, among other places. It does involve blood sacrifice of chickens, etc., if I remember correctly.
Clay is likely changing in appearance because he's maturing...going through that transition to full-grown manhood. Happens to a lot of guys somewhere around 25 and it can be rather startling.
Well, his hair used to be longer (like, pretty damn curly) and now it's shorter. Also, he's got this weird little goatee (which looks hideous) going on...like a catepillar started crawling over his face, and stopped on his chin. Throw in the overload of necklaces, and you've got Clay as he is now.
I've damned and blamed The Catepillar (as me and my friend have unaffectionately named Clay's attempt at a goatee) for basically everything that goes wrong with Clay. When he was cleanshaven, he was doing well. He started growing it, and he started pitching poorly. Shaved it for a bit, and he did well. Now it's back, and look at his last couple starts.
Pretty much everything J-Mast says makes me laugh. For instance, his interview with Heidi Watney (hate her...) when he started going off about cow tongue tacos, and she was looking all OMG EW and he's just merrily going on about it.
I follow Justin's interviews/post-game/etc almost religiously. Most amazingly awesome pitcher personality-wise.
Yeah, apparently Big Papi took him and some other guys out for goat, and most of the guys were all skittish about it. But Justin was all, "Ah, but that's nothing to these great cow tongue tacos...man, they're so good. -insert adorable crooked smile-"
"I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf."
Aaaah, how cute -- Papi giving him a taste of Dominican cuisine, no pun intended. And he does have an adorable crooked smile (Justin, I mean, of course Papi does too).
Great quote by Ichiro. My husband and I just started playing golf (well, I'm brand new at it, he used to play). It's a blast! I can understand Ichiro's frustration. Every course with caddies, eh? wow.
Oh man, I'm looking at tickets to see the Mets at the Marlins. You know you are not that good when 1st row is only 20.00 Wouldn't that be nice at Fenway? Behind the dugout.
Oh man. I'm typing on the computer, which is in a separate room from the radio. I vaguely heard Joe and Dave getting excited about a high flyball and got freaked out. Yay for Jells!
Awww, jules, that sucks. Is there any way you can get an excuse to get out of it? Young child at home or something like that? I've talked my way out of jury duty a couple of times for hardship reasons and finally got a permanent (to my knowledge) medical waiver.
If I don't get paid for six weeks, yeah, THAT'S a problem. If my workload remains as it is, THAT'S a problem (50+ hours/week). We'll see what happens. I have to send in the form in five days.
Hansen on the mound. I hope he's *on* today. Winning this will be so good.
Jules, the first time I wiggled my way out of serving on a jury, it was because it would have impacted an already crunched department at my then job. My story was true, but the back story is that I want no part of jury duty for a lot of reasons. That said, I was pleasantly surprised that the judge let me get away with it.
I don't know if the "I'm busy" excuse will work. I know if I go to work tomorrow with this news, heads will explode. At least it's not until September.
If you don't get paid for jury duty, they won't use you for a 6 week trial (I actually WANTED to serve and they told me no because I wasn't getting paid). That being said, I do believe in the "jury of your peers" thing, although it never seems to work out that way.
I think the time I went it was $5.50/day. Sad. I have jury duty on Monday but I'm looking forward to it (we get paid for it and it doesn't come from vacation or sick time).
Jennie, that would be awesome! I've visited Boston a couple times--LOVE it. My BIL and family live there (they hate the winters, tho). It's a beautiful city and the history is wonderful. Of course, there's that whole baseball thing ;-).
Thank you it is over. And I am headed to bed, exhausted from last nite. Plus all the grief and emotions that go with it are wearing me down. I will be working Friday nite, and busy Saturday nite. So next time on, is Sunday.
I know! My daughter's "job" is to pour the chips into the bowl (each batch uses four bags of chips). Whatever chips don't make it in the bowl are eaten ;-).
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on July 23, 2008 4:29 PM
Can we PLEASE talk about the idiot that is Heidi Watney? Ugh SO many questions to ask these guys yet she asks the most irrelevant and one way answer ones.
"How do you feel about playing for the Sox?" I will hand a million dollar check to the one that says 'I HATE IT!!!' : ) She gets all dolled up to interview certain guys and by the look on their face they really don't give a shit and look rather bored outta their trees. Sorry Heidi, working at NESN won't get you a Sox boy! : )