NFL Week 2

Bills EVEN over Jaguars

Decent play here. Battered Jags against the Bills, who are coming off a great first week. Value play, folks! Lavinius' beloved Bills win a tight game on the road.

Tris Speaker, Wade Boggs, and Dustin Pedroia

Who are the only Red Sox members to have 200 hits and 50 doubles in the same season?

Cash is STILL Money

Byrd vs. the Birds

With his start today against the Blue Jays, Paul Byrd will have faced the Blue Birds in 4 of his last 7 starts. He is 2-1 w/ a 4.03 ERA against the Jays this season.

NFL Power Rankings: Week 2

Cantu's 25th homer makes history for Marlins

Cantu's solo homer that tied the score at 1 in the fourth was his 25th of the season. The Marlins are now the first team in Major League history to have four infielders hit at least 25. Mike Jacobs (32), Dan Uggla (30), Hanley Ramirez (29) and Cantu have accounted for 116 of the Marlins 188 homers this season.

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Let the debate begin: Thigpen '90 versus Rodriguez '08

Thigpen: 4-6, 57 saves, 8 blown, 77 games, 88.1 IP, 1.83 ERA
K-Rod: 2-2, 57 saves, 6 blown, 69 games, 63.1 IP, 2.42 ERA

Thigpen had a significantly lower ERA, averaged more than 1 IP per game (including 9 games with 2+ IP and 2 games going 3 IP). I'll take the '90 Thigpen...
[Thigpen's 1990 game log]

Go home Ike

NASA Remembers...

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Girl caught giving handjob at college football game

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Mancrush v2: Have a Seat

Buchholz, who was sent to Double-A Portland on August 20, will not be returning to the Red Sox for the last few weeks of the regular season, the Boston Globe reports.

Youk...

Youk is the Sox' official team leader in HRs (25) and RBIs (97). Jason Bay has actually hit 26 HRs, but only 4 official AL HRs.

NFL Week 1

Giants -4 over the Skins

Theo: You da man!

You had a ticking time bomb in Manny Ramirez and got us Jason Bay for him. In the same deal, you dumped the enigmatic Craig Hansen and a decent spare outfielder in Brandon Moss that didn't fit into the equation. In the process you fixed that little thing called "clubhouse chemistry" and the team is 21-9 since the trade as of this post.

You resisted temptation with Johan this past spring and instead held onto our talented youngsters Lester, Masterson, and Lowrie. You drove the price up for the Yankees to the point the Twins traded him out of the AL.

You picked up Bartolo Colon from the scrap pile and he ended up giving us some nice starts before he got injured.

You picked up Paul Byrd in a waiver wire transaction for a box of David's sunflower seeds when the back of our rotation was either injured (Wakes, Colon) or just dropping deuces on oneself (Buchholz). What an improvement he's been over the former Mancrush V.2.

You picked up Mark Kotsay for three Slim Jim's and a Powerbar and the early returns are good on that as well.

Gotta say that Sean Casey has been great for the bench and the clubhouse as well.

Just to put into perspective the job Theo has done; last year the Sox used the DL nine times. This year, the Sox have used it 20 times. Rather than fold or use it as an excuse, the team is playing its best ball of the season, and appear to be a virtual lock for a playoff berth with a five game wild card lead.

Here's to you, Theo!

Carlos Pena

...has walked 7 times with the bases loaded this season.

Dice-BB

Number of times Dice-BB has walked:

0 batters in a game: 3
1 batter in a game: 1
2 batters in a game: 6
3 batters in a game: 6
4 batters in a game: 2
5 batters in a game: 5
6 batters in a game: 2
7 batters in a game: 0
8 batters in a game: 1

A little Dustin Pedroia for MVP love

AL RANKS

BA: .327 (1ST)
RUNS: 107 (1ST)
HITS: 185 (1ST)
DOUBLES: 42 (T-3RD)
OBP: .374 (18TH)
OPS: .863 (21ST)
RBI: 70 (T-29TH)

Dude gets serious consideration based on the first four cats listed, but he checks in with very respectable marks in OBP, OPS, and RBI.

Just checked his game log and I counted 57 multi-hit games! :O

Paul Byrd: "I can't say enough about my second baseman. This guy, in my opinion, is the MVP of the league. He's unbelievable. I didn't know he was that good when I came over here."

Ozzie Guillen: "A lot of people talk about Manny [Ramirez] leaving. I wish Pedroia was leaving" (Pedroia went 9 for 12 in a recent series against the Pale Hose)

From 9/1's post-game recap: Pedroia, who hit .374 in August and closed the month going 9-for-12, scored 33 runs last month, the most for the Red Sox since Dom DiMaggio and Billy Goodwin had 35 in 1950, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Cooch's NFL Predictions

NFC EAST: DALLAS EFFIN COWBOYS!
NFL NORTH: MINNESOTA
NFL SOUTH: NEW ORLEANS
NFL WEST: SEATTLE

AFC EAST: NEW ENGLAND
AFC NORTH: PITTSBURGH
AFC SOUTH: INDIANAPOLIS
AFC WEST: SAN DIEGO

NFC CHAMPS: DALLAS
AFC CHAMPS: INDIANAPOLIS

SUPER BOWL CHAMPS: DALLAS!!! (NO BIAS HERE, REALLY!!!)