Marty, So many Sox went down that there were rumors of them replacing the Fenway Park turf with Pro Ride.

Somebody please put a fork in Jamie Moyer...

Scuds take -" Bunch of frakin women, That little guy only has a busted toe, if he had any guts he would be out there. And Martinez? Damn ***** has a little ol sore thumb. aint like is ia a good catcher anyhow"

Gales - "Injuries are part of the game and the Red sox were due to lose a few all stars because babe ruth played with hangover and still hit hr's. If Steinberenner were the owner he would have had them in better shape because he is a winner and the redsox r losers"

So many different ways one can go with this...

10-14 at the halfway mark

need to go 16-8 chuck with 17 games on the road chuck , good luck

considering the circumstances, gloating is pretty embarrassing

so is the red sox pitching

Ok Sergio Mitre

chuck you gotta do the work man, do the work , injuries or not , which you are overblowing , the schedule did not set up well for them over this 48 game stretch

Marty, whether the schedule set up against them or not, how could you give an honest evaluation on the team based on all the injuries they have? With all those injuries they would have struggled playing Cleveland, Oakland and Baltimore over that same span.

LOL

They started a guy named Dusty Brown at catcher in place of All Star Victor martinez or his back up former all star Jason Varitek. Dusty Brown has never been a regular at any level of the minor leagues.

They started Bill Hall at 2nd base today instead of all star and 2008 MVP Dustin Pedroia. Last year Hall played for 3 major league teams and hit .201. He is hitting .230 this year and has struck out 58 times in 183 at bats.

They started Jed Lowrie at SS, giving Marco Scutaro a much needed rest. This was Lowrie's first game of the year after hitting .147 last year.

They started Darnell McDonald in left field rather than Jacoby Ellsbury who hit .301 with 70 sb's last year. McDonald couldnt stick with powerhouses Baltimore, Cleveland or Washington. He was a lifetime.230 hitter coming into the season as a 32year old with 147 mLB games under his belt. he was pinch hit and replaced in the field by eric Patterson who has a .223 lifetime average.

Mike Cameron who was signed in the off season to play CF has played 41 of 95 games

Clay Buchholz who was named to the all star team this year was making his first start in close to a month today.

Josh Beckett who was 17-6 last year hasnt pitched since May 18


Yeah I'm sure the yankees minus Sabathia, Hughes, Cano, Posada, Cervelli, Gardner and Granderson wouldn't be hampered.

IF dusty brown was no big deal why was he taken out of deals last year by the red sox

Victor Martinez was not an all star this year , nor was he going to be , how many games would have victor had made a difference in a win/loss , maybe 1, maybe 2?


Elisbury has been out since April , come on chuck

Beckett was out before the bet

Bucholz missed all of 1 start

Cameron had injury issues before the bet

Before the 48 game stretch they had coasted on an easy schedule , this 48 game stretch even at full strength would have been brutal - west coast trips are just brutal and they had 2 on this sequence , the last 10 game trip with the yankees , rangers , and blue jays is just brutal , injuries or not .500 would have been great over this stretch

Pedroia i'll give you and Victor Martinez to some extent , but , there is no way to quantify how many wins these guys would have added to the total

Chuck, Ill take some food.

I might feed gales to you

ha ha ha chuck

gotta go against the Angels new weapon chuck , danny harren

12-16 , it's getting late early

going against the hapless angels could swing things.......

chuck needs help a lot of help

in order to cash he needs to go 14 and 6 over the next 20 games with a brutal 10 game road trip in NY , Tor and Texas to close it out

.700 baseball gonna be rough

^^^^ Huge Indians fan.

Buh bye Yooka.

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/mlb...ory?id=5440748

Without him, why bother making it to the post?

Don't want to jinx this, but I believe the Red Sox record is 23-21.

Papelbon is in the process of blowing a 3 run lead going into the 9th.

*edit* the lead is officially coughed up, now he is holding on for dear life from losing the game......

*double edit* Papelbon gets the hook for Bard........

*Triple edit* 4 runs in the 9th Yadda Yadda Yadda, Gales is one game closer to getting some food at the Spa. Just awful.

chuck has just gotta be sick , just sick to his stomach , injuries or not that was a major major blown loss by Mr Pepblon today

red sox suck
 

Not at all. I think the point i was trying to make has been proven already.

red sox finish 24-24 over the 48 game stretch

looks like gales gets a barbecue


chuck , i might be up wednesday to get my picture taken let me know if you are around

just tell them to put it on my tab.

Funny this was the stretch that was supposed to put the Red sox away yet they are no further behind than when they started despite a unbelievavle run of crippling injuries that only a simple yankee fan would ignore.

You get a tab? Hmmm.....

Actually I opened one up in your name since you are an OTB bigshot now

You played a big part in all of it.

that 48 game stretch did them in bigs , that was just too much too overcome

No sicko, the injuries killed them. The 48 games are just 48 games out of 162. When you are missing 5 or 6 starters they all get tougher.

chuck when are you shipping in to BEL so i can get my sandwich?

The Orioles are something like 26-14 since Showalter took over and all three have to go through them (NYY gets them in BAL, Bos & TB get them @ home).

The Rays have the softest of the 3 last 3 series (Sea, KC, Bal) but Baltimore is no longer a walk through like they were pre-Showalter.

The final stretch may be more exciting that it looks

red sox won't make it , the math won't let them