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April 2, 2010 · 5:55 AM

AL Preview (Part 1)

I say part one just because today’s preview is only going to be the AL East. Monday I’ll take a look at the rest of the AL and then hit up the NL on Tuesday.

It all starts Sunday night, Easter Sunday specifically, with the Sox and Yankees at Fenway Park.

The rest of the division is going to be behind the Sox and Yanks. Sure the Rays will stick around till June or so, but they’re not going to be in the dogfight with the Sox and Yanks.

Infield:

So you have Youk, Pedroia, Scutaro and Beltré for the Sox vs Teixeira, Cano, Jeter and A-Rod for the Yankees. As much as I love Pedroia and Youk, I don’t think the infield as a whole can match up to the Yankees offensively. But that’s OK because Theo is selling the fans on the great defensive team the Sox will field this season.

Advantage Yankees

Outfield:

Cameron, Drew and Jacoby for the Sox vs Brett Gardner/Randy Winn Nick Swisher and Curtis Granderson. OK, so neither one really gets your heart pumping. In fact I’d call it a draw in the outfield. They’re both a shade better than OK, but if Cameron continues to build on his hot spring I’ll give the advantage Sox.

Catcher

V-Mart over Posada. Hands down. Offensively anyways. Posada is probably better defensively even though neither one can throw runners out. Hopefully with a whole spring with the staff V-Mart will have a better ERA with the staff. Advantage Sox.

DH:

Big Papi vs Nick Johnson. I’m taking Johnson. I’d love to be wrong and see Papi hit 40 home runs but I think his prime is behind him. Sure Johnson will strike out a lot but the Sox showed interest in him for a reason. Advantage Yanks.

Starting Pitching:

I’m not going through all the names but I give the advantage to the Sox. They have three aces and not a huge drop off when they get to Wake and Buchholz. I just think that the Phil Hughes question mark on the Yankees side along with Pettitte’s age and the possible Burnett injury bug showing it’s head will derail the Yankees starting rotation. Advantage Sox.

Bullpen:

Again, not going through all the names but I’m taking the Sox. Even with Papelbon struggling last season he’s still younger than Rivera who could be in his final season with Joba possibly taking the job starting next year. I’m just more confident in the arms in the Sox bullpen. Advantage Sox.

So pitching and defense go with the Sox, but offense to the Yankees by a lot. With that i mind I’m giving the division to the Yankees.

So my AL East preview breaks down like this:

Yankees
Red Sox
Rays
Orioles
Blue Jays

Back Monday with the rest of the AL preview.

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June 12, 2009 · 5:47 AM

Great Eight

Did you go to bed early? Did you miss it? Give up after the A-Roid two run double and go to bed?

Yankees Red Sox Baseball

Well the above catch saved a possible fourth run from coming across the plate for the Yanks. Then the Red Sox stepped up in the bottom of the eighth. I look at my buddy and we both said, if Nick Green can get on base, there may be a rally. Then our boy gets on base. Little Dusty walks and then Drew scores Green on a single. After a Youk single the bases were loaded for Jay Bay. What has Jay Bay done all season? That’s right come through in the clutch.

Bay ripped a single into left on a high fastball. Then the game started to get really boring. Sure Lowell got the go ahead run home with a sac fly but will someone please tell Joe Girardi he’s not a catcher anymore. The pitcher sneezes or misses a spot and Giardi is out of the dugout wearing down a very clear path to the mound. You wonder why the game ends around 11PM, well Giardi doesn’t help speed up anything. Clearly he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He left CC out there too long and his team lost because of it.

Da Guy said it two days in a row:

The Yanks are soft, and they now have “2004 anxiety”. Ever since “The greatest comeback in sports history” the Yankees’ 400 championchips no longer matter. The Mistique and Aura are long gone. The Stadium is gone. Tino Martinez is gone. Aaron FUCKING Boone is gone, Joe Torre is gone…. are you getting the point yet?

The payroll has tripled, the talent has dwindled, the new stadium is a joke, and it all cost just under 1.5 BILLION dollars!

Ever wonder what happens when you make a deal with the devil?

you can quote me on that…..

Our scrap heap pitcher, Brad Penny, that we signed for cheap money, one year $5 million, dueled against the Yankees $23 million a year prize free agent CC Sabathia. I think you pay a guy $23 million a year to stop skids, to prevent stuff like last night from happening. Their other prize in the off season, Mark Teixeira? That’s right $22.5 million a year gets you a strike out (thank you Matty O) line out to end the game.

No way that the Yankees come back from this. They’re a defeated team and all the money in the world isn’t going to make this team better. Sure they may compete for a playoff spot but their psyche is all kinds of messed up. Back to interleague play for the Sox tonight. Let’s hope they ride the momentum from the last three nights while they’re playing at Home Run Field in Philly.

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May 19, 2009 · 5:30 AM

Rumor Mill Churning?

So yesterday I rip into the fact that Ortiz isn’t hitting and needs to be sent to Pawtucket to rediscover his swing. Well, it turns out that Theo Epstein may be a step ahead of the game yet again. From multiple sources the rumor mill is churning that the Red Sox are in discussions to acquire Victor Martinez from the Indians.

Nick Cafardo at the Globe:
There has been talk among scouts that the Indians might be willing to deal 29-year-old catcher/first baseman/DH Victor Martinez for young pitching. Martinez, who earns $5.7 million this season and $7 million in his option season next year, is hitting .409 with 7 homers and 25 RBIs.

Ken Rosenthal from Fox Sports:
Among rival clubs, however, there is a growing expectation that the Indians soon might explore the market for Martinez, a switch-hitter who leads the majors with a .401 batting average. At least one club — the Red Sox — already has been in contact with the Indians about Martinez, according to two major-league sources.

And finally from a Buster Olney chat today:
Miller, Munnerberg, OH: Regarding your LaPorter rumor looks like Theo and Shapiro were a bit ahead of that, but with Victor Martinez as the centerpiece. Report is out today that Sox and Indians have already talked about a deal with Buchholz and perhaps Lars Anderson for Martinez but all the pieces could not be agreed upon. Yet.

SportsNation Buster Olney: Miller — It’s a good concept, but I do wonder if the Red Sox would want more on their end of the deal. Martinez is having a great year and he would be a great fit in a lot of ways, but Buchholz would be a big chip to give up…

So I know it’s only speculation but would you pull the trigger on this deal? Well, yeah you would but at what price would you say “no”?

Lars Anderson and Clay Buchhols? You got a deal. They want to add Michael Bowden or Daniel Bard to seal the deal I may have to draw the line. But no exaggeration, any two of those four guys and I make the deal. Not only can Martinez catch, he can play DH and first. So after Lowell’s deal is up, you move Youk to third and have Martinez as your first baseman. Varitek sucks too much, you dump him and you have a catcher that’s batting .400. That’s double the productivity.

I know the age old adage is that you never trade pitching for hitting. You do the opposite. Well, this is a case that you’re getting a proven commodity for unproven minor leaguers. I pull the trigger so quickly. I want this more than I ever wanted stupid Mark Teixeira.

Dear Theo,
Make is happen. You have my blessing.
-Jay’s Sports Blog

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January 7, 2009 · 8:07 AM

Teixeira Is Whipped

You know what, listening to highlights of the press conference yesterday, I’m glad the Sox didn’t get this pussy whipped son of a bitch. Here’s a highlight from Yahoo!

“…she’d always say, ‘I just want you to be happy.’ Finally she said, ‘I want you to be a Yankee,’ and it was a done deal.”

Funny thing is that our boy Pete Sheppard on WEEI called it the day the signing became official. He blamed her for him choosing the Yankees and he’s proven to be 100% correct.

So now a guy that I had talked myself into accepting ended up with New York. Good. Anyone that let’s his wife decide his career clearly has no balls and isn’t the kind of guy I want playing on my team in the first place. To top it off he’s a fucking liar to boot:

“My dad would take me to O’s games and I’d wear a Yankees hat, which wasn’t too safe in Baltimore back in the ’80s. But it was worth it. There’s something about being a Yankee, no where you are there are Yankees fans, and I’m glad to be a Yankee today.”

Really asshole? Just like I wore a Yankees hat to Fenway. Are you fucking high? Before Camden Yards, Baltimore was a dump. If you wore that hat in Memorial Stadium you and your Dad were probably pissed on by drunk O’s fans. Eat shit you coward. Oh and did I mention the fact that the 80′s Yankees teams sucked? Yeah, you wore the hat of a loser in Baltimore? Maybe it’s you secretly were a loser and just needed a hat to justify it. You’re a fucking liar!

Just step up to the mic, say, “I did it for a shit load of money…and because my wife told me to.” Then go back home, open the cabinet under the sink, say ‘hi’ to your balls that I’m sure are in a jar and call it a night.

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December 24, 2008 · 8:13 AM

Happy Festivus!

I know I’m a day late, but what the heck. What’s Festivus you ask? I’ll let Wikipedia explain:

Festivus is an annual holiday created by writer Dan O’Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a scriptwriter for the TV show Seinfeld. Many people now celebrate the holiday on December 23, as depicted on the December 18, 1997 Seinfeld episode “The Strike.” According to O’Keefe, the name Festivus “just popped into his head.”

The holiday includes novel practices such as the “Airing of Grievances,” in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year. Also, after the Festivus meal, the “Feats of Strength” are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with the holiday ending only if the head of the household is actually pinned. These conventions originated with the TV episode. Some people, influenced or inspired by Seinfeld, now celebrate the holiday in varying degrees of seriousness; the spread of Festivus in the real world is chronicled in the book Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us.

JC emailed me yesterday with the idea for a Festivus column. Because of the Airing of the Grievances it seems a perfect column for Mark Teixeira.

Dear Mark Teixeira,

You’re a piece of overhyped shit. I hope you get into a motorcycle accident and have inoperable knee problems that put you prematurely out of baseball. I hope the New York media suffocates you and you can’t deal with the stress and need to demand a trade that the Yankees can’t accommodate ibecause you’re batting .263 with 3HR and 21 RBI’s and they overpaid for you. Congratulations, you’ve now eclipsed Gay-Rod as the most hated Yankee.

-Jay’s Sports Blog

For everyone else, Happy Festivus!

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