Comments on: Bruins Fall in 2nd Straight Shootout

By: Angry Old Bastard

Angry Old Bastard — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:41:53 +0000

This is exacty why I don’t read Ron Borges. There is no doubt in my mind that if he was questioned about his Maroney comment (“Ron, do YOU KNOW the extent of Maroney’s injury?”) He would blame it on Belichick, (“well, this kind of speculation is what happens when the head coach is so secretive about injuries”)
no doubt in my mind at all.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:40:42 +0000

“Benny Green with the TD!!!” [/Gil Santos]

By: Jason Coyote

Jason Coyote — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:48:05 +0000

Sam, the beauty is that the Red Sox have the resources to sign a big-name hitter like Teixeira and a big-name pitcher like Sabathia, which obviously only a handful of MLB teams can do (in fact only a handful of teams could afford one of them).

I would like to see the Sox hang on to Youkilis as well. Right now it is far from a given that Lowell and/or Ortiz are going to remain healthy for an entire season, so they are going to need production from as many sources as possible. To be honest, the way Youk plays the game I wouldn’t be surprised to see him sustain an injury at some point as well.

Perhaps getting into the Tex bidding will merely be a tactic to drive up the price for whoever does land him, but I think the Sox are serious in their pursuit and they should consider him, as their lineup has some problems in the ALCS against Tampa Bay’s good young pitching.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:47:16 +0000

What do the Sox do if Lowell and Ortiz return healthy, and now they have 4 guys for 3 positions? Sit one every game? That’s really cost effective. Of course it’s not as bad as paying a guy 14 million to only play 109 games. I don’t think they should trade Youk; he produces, he has gotten better each year, and he’s signed for cheap money. The only interest they have in Texeira is to drive up his price to the Yankees. My point is more towards the absurdity of the article since it doesn’t make sense for the Sox to do it, and potentially have so many guys for so few positions. Now spending the money on a good starting pitcher, not Burnett, makes more sense. Having too much starting pitching is a good problem; too many positional players doesn’t work.

By: Jason Coyote

Jason Coyote — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:16:48 +0000

Sam, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you don’t care much for Youkilis since you never want to type his name.

You could have made the same argument before the ’08 that the Sox should have dealt Coco Crisp because there was no place to play him, but look how much he wound up contributing to the club.

The point is, Lowell and Ortiz are both injury risks given their ages and recent history, so I don’t think it would be that big a deal for the Sox to sign Tex and hang on to all three of those guys. It would probably wind up working itself out. But it’s a moot point because I doubt the Sox will give Tex the best offer.

By: Jason Coyote

Jason Coyote — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:12:48 +0000

And has parts of three other Patriots’ names in his name–it’s like Ben Watson, Jarvis Green and Ellis Hobbs collided into each other and out came a young running back.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:05:42 +0000

How can you not like a guy who has two first names and two last names?

By: DaveR

DaveR — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:02:52 +0000

The best thing about BenJarvus Green-Ellis? His name sounds like a Dr. Seuss book.

By: NP

NP — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:56:21 +0000

The Bruins were 6-7 in shootouts last year. The other 65 minutes is more important.

By: NP

NP — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:22:34 +0000

What do you mean? The shootout takes away all that crappy stuff, like hitting, passing, screening, unexpected bounces, defense, board play, power plays, face washes, cross checks, poke checks, offsides, cycling in the corners, slap shots, deflections … and it turns the game into baseball, and who doesn’t like baseball better than hockey?
The sooner those inu-nit-wits poke their heads out of their igloo trailers and figure out that the only way to make money is to get rid of their commie team-first attitudes and glorify individual accomplishments, the sooner they’ll realize that there is no “$” in T-E-A-M!