G@%&*@amned Useless Mo@%*$&%facking Red Sox

You know, I thought we had a chance this year, but it’s becomming apparent that we really don’t.

My boys can’t beat The Most Badly Misnamed Team In Baseball (TMBMTIM) for the title in the Eastern Division, because Toronto, Baktimore, and Tampa actually decided to field competitive teams this season. Therefore, win/loss records in the East will be lower, and it thus follows that the Wild-Card team isn’t coming out of the AL East.

Yes, the Yankees (TMBMTIM) have trouble with what is the customary core of their success, starting pitching, but the Red Sox are right back to to the same hell they were in last year.

Relief pitching.

Those guys absolutely sucked to high heaven for the entire regular season, and yet came on like heros in the playoffs. I thought I might witness some similar superior performance during the regular season this year, but I was disappointed.

They still suck. The Sox lost to the friggin’ Devil Rays today, 10-5, and eight runs, at least, were given up by the relievers.

Thank God the New York team got blown out too.

Until you can buy your championships like the Yanks, you’re SOL. I thought you’d be used to the curse by now.

Isn’t four games into the season a bit early to be worrying?

My Twins are 2-2 and you don’t see me crying.

They played Toronto today. And yes, it’s too early to worry.

The Red Sox still have a chance.

The Dodgers, however, were eliminated on March 30th.

Jeepers, it’s the first week of the season. Give 'em till the end of May at least. I mean, the freakin Brewers won their first four.

As a recent emigrant to the Houston area, I’ll admit I have a somewhat academic interest in the AL East outcome. It’s gonna be entertaining to see Clemens and Petitte striking out their former teammates in the World Series.

It must have escaped your notice that the NYY have not won the Series in a few years now.

4 out of the last 8 series? 26 series wins? highest payroll for how many years now? You’re right, what was I thinking?

I am trying to stave off despair as well. I have tickets to several Red Sox games this year at four different ballparks. I will be wicked pissed if my September games are meaningless.

My biggest worry is Pedro. He has seemed to lose a lot of velocity on his fastball and seems to be holding it together by the thinnest of margins. I also couldn’t believe they couldn’t manage a single run against the lamentable Orioles relief staff last night. I have not yet lost my optimism, but the early signs aren’t encouraging.

Oh, come on, the Red Sox will do fine. Maybe it’s a slow start, but they’ll soon start racking up the wins, and by the All Star break will be battling the Yankees for first place. I mean, if there’s a team that can have a phenomenal June, it’s the Sox. Septembers and Octobers maybe could use a little work, though.

Unfortunately, spooje, you are correct. It will be another long season at Chavez Ravine. How are the Padres doing so far? :smiley:

My wife is from Boston, so we bleed for the Sox around this house too. She still has hope…it’s early yet. Save the rant energy for when they punt it late in the season…again.

Ex, Buddy, Relax.

  1. It’s WAY too early to worry.
  2. The Cubs are gonna take the series anyway.
  3. When they don’t, I’ll just say it now. Fuck the Yankers.

Yes, it’s early, but it’s not too early to register my complaint about the level of suck we’re dealing with in re: relief pitching.

It sucks. Period.

Those jackoffs just can’t throw. Are you getting my point? My boys have crappy middle-relief pitching. That’s it. That’s my whole argument. The offence is still capable of kicking all kinds of ass, but it doesn’t do much good if the relievers serve up an average of two runs per inning. They can’t beat the Tigers or the Angels for a wild-card spot, and that’s the only they’d get into the playoffs, because they play in the East.

They’re screwed.

I figure there’s going to be a battle in the West between The Angels and the A’s, and another battle in Central between the Tigers and the White Sox, and the East is going to be a free-for-all.

I think I have a reason to be pesimmistic.

well…last I saw of the game, the Sox led 5-4 in the 6th. I missed the relief pitching. So going by SI.com: they brought in a new guy from Pawtucket who pitched a scoreless 7th inning. Then veteran Timlin took over, and allowed 3 runs in the eighth, so out he goes. In the ninth, Embree allowed 1 run, so they pulled him right away and replaced him with, as near as I can figure, a first baseman. (?) And he allowed two more runs.

ok, maybe there’s a problem here. It’s still early.

McCarty picked up a little pitching in spring training, he’s here for extreme backup.

I think it’s a little unreasonable to be hard on the bullpen today. There was a thirteen-inning game yesterday, and their airplane broke down in such a way that they didn’t get into Boston until 7am. We’re talking a bunch of people who did a heap of overtime work yesterday and then didn’t get to sleep properly.

Actually, three out of four. From the Cardinals. In St. Louis. :frowning:

But, It’s still early.

Yeah, it was the Tigers that won their first four. :smiley:

If that isn’t an indication that things are a little flaky here in the first week, I don’t know what is.

Pfft. At least the Sox don’t have to watch Ramon “Gopherball” Ortiz and Sele “Stick a Fork in Me” Sele battle it out for the fourth spot in the rotation.

And by battle it out, I mean, see who can give up more homers to Texas in one inning. Ugh.

Winning baseball in Detroit.

Isn’t that a sign of the apocalypse??

Hey, us Cardinals fans get to watch a pitching staff that has (so far) allowed an average of 7.2 :eek: runs per game. Dammit Tony/Walt!!!