I was a little worried when I first heard this...until I heard that Youuuuuk is back!  This is great news.  Thanks to Steve Buckley on the Big Show from WEEI for sharing.  It sure made my day a little better. 

Keep the Faith.  

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I’m not gonna lie, I was very disappointed last night.  WHERE WAS HEIDI?!

Okay down to business.  Obviously last night was a great game.  Although it wasn’t so great that Byrd gave up three homers, they all came with no one on base.  In addition, the offense did what it’s been doing best as if to say “Hey Byrd – don’t worry about it! We’ll take care of this.”  With that kind of attitude from the bats as well as Byrd’s criticism (towards himself), our ballclub has a playoff attitude and I couldn’t be more proud.

Another thing on Byrd – I give all the credit in the world to the Sox front office for getting this guy.  No, he’s not lights out, but we were in desperate need of a decent pitcher to fill the 5 spot in the rotation.  Paul Byrd has done just that.  As mentioned before, he also is hard on himself.  One might say that he’s being too rough, but I think he’s being a big leaguer.  Good for you Byrd.  We know you’re out there giving it all you got.  RSN supports you.

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I noticed that whenever a relief pitcher goes a long time without pitching, their next start isn’t so good.  Because of this, I think it’s a good idea to do what Francona did today, allowing Papelbon to come in when it was clearly not a save situation.  Now he’s gotten that shaky outing out of the way and he’ll be ready to pitch again this series so we can get back in first place.

Well even though today was a great game, last night wasn’t good.  Who knows what went wrong with Wake’, but honestly, let’s leave the guy alone.  He’s not going to pitch any better in his next start if we ask him over and over what went wrong.  He looked miserable in his postgame interview last night, and I couldn’t feel more bad for the guy.  He’s been on this team for what seems like forever, and I know I’m going to miss him a lot when he leaves.  I know we’re in a playoff race, but let’s try to enjoy the rest of his games this month…it might even be his last. 

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This was brought up last night during the Red Sox broadcast by Joe Castiglione and Dave O’Brian (680 AM – WRKO).  Castiglione said that this was definitely a possibility, and I can’t say that it’s out of the question.  On Monday night’s pregame show (also on WRKO) Hale spoke to Castiglione, saying that Managing was certainly one of his long time goals that he hopes to achieve. 

Well it’s certainly hard for us as fans to pick which third base coach we’d rather have as a manger (and lucky for us, we got Tito so we don’t have to worry).  But if I had to pick, I’d stay away from Dale “The Windmill” Sveum, who sent around any runner that came to third base, regardless of where the ball was.  A few years ago, back when we still had the displeasure of having Sveum as our third base coach, “The Big Show” on WEEI (850 AM) did a bit on Sveum, where he was a crossing guard.  “Hey buddy, you look pretty fast, why don’t you run along there.”  To which the person replied, “Are you serious?” And then after much deliberation, the person ran across the street, but failed to make it to the other side.  That, in my opinion, was a perfect summary of having Sveum as our third base coach.  And now he’s a manager?  I guess things really are different in the Nation League. 

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I was walking across campus between classes today when I saw something that I know I have never seen before.  I saw not one, but two people wearing Tampa Bay hats.  After Tampa won the last two games against us, I felt like knocking their hats right off their heads.  But then another thought came to me:  When’s the last time I felt annoyed by a baseball hat that didn’t have an NY on it?  I don’t know if it’s ever happened.  The closest thing I can think of is a friend of mine, whom we all call Colorado (guess where he’s from?)  He was proud to wear his Rockies jersey last October, and we all gave him a hard time when we saw it – that is, before the series was over. 

Anyway, back to the point:  Who would have thought that Tampa Bay would have been the team that would be bugging the crap out of us come September?  I forgot how annoyed I had been because I was in such awe. 

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