Just call me the casbah, cuz I'm gonna be rockin
http://s19.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=s19southeastofdisorderI was watching the Red Sox home opener and am pretty sure the over under on Abe Alvarez pawning his ring off for drug money is 4 years. I am just as sure that Jerry Remy had nothing to do with the world series win, nothing, so how does he get a ring? Shouldn't they of saved some of this ring money and paid Pedro, the guy did pitch a complete game shut out the other day, on the very day that David "Bald Drew Carey" Wells gave up back to back to back homeruns to a sad Toronto team. This really isn't a good situation, how can you have a 160 million dollar pay roll, and not pay the best pitcher (my apologies to el guapo, your close) in the history of your franchise. Now our rotation consists of 2 40+plus year olds (Wells, Schilling) a guy who couldnt live up to his potential in Chicago (Clement) a guy coming off a major injury (Miller) and lastly an extremely streaky pitcher who couldn't break 75 on the radar gun (Wakefield.) Not an ideal situation. Either way they did look good in the opener, the end of the order looked better than the early and middle guys at the plate. The Renteria signing just was not a good one, I don't see why we wouldn't of kept Cabrera, the guy hit like .400 during the playoffs last year and is a gold glover, the type of guy you want on your team. I do miss the "Mental digit" Derek Lowe, turned out despite everyone giving him so much crap for mentally breaking down during the year he pitched better than anyone else on the staff come playoff time. So we got rid of two world series heros, bad idea. In Major League 2 did the Indians get rid of Willie Mayes Hayes, or Pedro Serrano, or Rick Vaughn for that matter? The answer is no. And when is someone from Red Sox management finaly going to tell Johnny Damon to shut up. Every time the guy talks I feel less intelligent for listening. He reminds me of the male bimbo character (Tony) on seinfeld. All that being said, as long as the Yankee pitchers keep pitching like they belong in double A, the Sox are going to have an all right season. While we are on the subject, when is Steinbrenner going to snap and trade like half the team for some starting pitching. How bad is there GM Brian Cashman? His boss basically says here, spend what you want, build me a World Series calibur team, so he proceeds to ignore the fact that pitching wins world series titles. Why wouldn't they of tried to get there hands on Hudson, Zito, Lowe, Pedro, or Clement in the off season, they have the money. They could of signed those guys and built some sort of super staff with Randy and Mussina. Instead they are stuck with Kevin Brown, who the Tampa Devil Rays made a meal of. That's right, the Devil Rays. This season could be a wacky one once Steinbrenner starts moving.
