Official 2006 Boston Red Sox Thead

[TheMojoPin]

<strong>A.J.</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>bronxmarc</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">1. do steroids affect the heart?&nbsp; just asking!</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Let's ask Giambi -- either one.</p><p>Even the one that's just a blue head in a box?</p>

[sailor]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>richg0404</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>bronxmarc</strong> wrote:<br /><p><font size="2">3. as for the cancer, they have an obligation to put out that that is a possibility. it would be wrong of them NOT to mention it. it's not like some tabloid proclaiming in bold script LESTER HAS CANCER!!</font> </p><p><font size="3">Why do they have an obligation to report speculation ? I suppose I could understand if they were speculating about an injury that is related to the game but not cancer. What is the big problem with waiting a day or two until they have a little more information on the whole thing ?</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">he was diagnosed with </font><font size="2"><font>enlarged lymph nodes.&nbsp; this is a fact (based on their sources).&nbsp; they have an obligation to report that.&nbsp; it's not speculation.&nbsp; THEN, they have an obligation to put out that cancer is a possible cause.&nbsp; also, they're reporting that he is undergoing tests for cancer.&nbsp; fact, again.&nbsp; cancer is a possibility, there's no reason to pussyfoot around it.</font></font> </p>

[HBox]

<p><font size="2">he was diagnosed with </font><font size="2"><font>enlarged
lymph nodes.&nbsp; this is a fact (based on their sources).&nbsp; they have an
obligation to report that.&nbsp; it's not speculation.&nbsp; THEN, they have an
obligation to put out that cancer is a possible cause.&nbsp; also, they're
reporting that he is undergoing tests for cancer.&nbsp; fact, again.&nbsp; cancer
is a possibility, there's no reason to pussyfoot around it.</font></font></p><p>Why the hell does anyone except Jon Lester have a right to know about the state of his lymph nodes? There are fucking laws against this kind of shit. Doctor's offices can't even leave messages on your answering machine about appointments unless you sign a waiver. But its OK to upset all of Jon Lester's family and friends by speculating about cancer in a newspaper? Bullshit. They can do it, but they shouldn't. It's just wrong. The idea that they have some obligation to do so or that we have some right to know is completely senseless.<br /></p>

[sailor]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>HBox</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><font size="2">he was diagnosed with </font><font size="2"><font>enlarged
lymph nodes. this is a fact (based on their sources). they have an
obligation to report that. it's not speculation. THEN, they have an
obligation to put out that cancer is a possible cause. also, they're
reporting that he is undergoing tests for cancer. fact, again. cancer
is a possibility, there's no reason to pussyfoot around it.</font></font><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font color="Navy"><font size="2">Why the hell does anyone except Jon Lester have a right to know about the state of his lymph nodes? There are fucking laws against this kind of shit. Doctor's offices can't even leave messages on your answering machine about appointments unless you sign a waiver. But its OK to upset all of Jon Lester's family and friends by speculating about cancer in a newspaper? Bullshit. They can do it, but they shouldn't. It's just wrong. The idea that they have some obligation to do so or that we have some right to know is completely senseless.</font></font><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">so, they should pretend they don't have this info?&nbsp; interesting.</font> <br /></p>

[HBox]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>bronxmarc</strong> wrote:<br /><p> </p><strong>HBox</strong> wrote:<br /><p> </p><font size="2">he was diagnosed with </font><font size="2"><font>enlarged
lymph nodes. this is a fact (based on their sources). they have an
obligation to report that. it's not speculation. THEN, they have an
obligation to put out that cancer is a possible cause. also, they're
reporting that he is undergoing tests for cancer. fact, again. cancer
is a possibility, there's no reason to pussyfoot around it.</font></font><p> </p><p><font color="Navy"><font size="2">Why the hell does anyone except Jon Lester have a right to know about the state of his lymph nodes? There are fucking laws against this kind of shit. Doctor's offices can't even leave messages on your answering machine about appointments unless you sign a waiver. But its OK to upset all of Jon Lester's family and friends by speculating about cancer in a newspaper? Bullshit. They can do it, but they shouldn't. It's just wrong. The idea that they have some obligation to do so or that we have some right to know is completely senseless.</font></font><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="2">so, they should pretend they don't have this info? interesting.</font> <br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Exactly. You need to consider the value to the readship of what you are printing and weight it against the consequences of printing it. Sometimes you sit on shit. It happens ALL THE TIME. It's called ethics.<br /></p>

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>HBox</strong> wrote:<p><font color="Navy"><font size="2"> It's called ethics.</font></font><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Not very familiar with Boston sports reporting, are you?&nbsp; They make yellow journalism look like pulitzer prize winners.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[OGC]

<strong>Tenbatsuzen</strong> wrote: <strong>HBox</strong> wrote: <p><font color="#000080"><font size="2">It's called ethics.</font></font><br /></p><p>Not very familiar with <strike>Boston sports</strike> reporting, are you?&nbsp; They make yellow journalism look like pulitzer prize winners.</p><p><font size="3">There, I fixed that for you.</font></p>

[joeyballsack]

<p><a title="Wells Traded To San Diego" href="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2567879" target="_blank">http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2567879</a></p><p>I dont really get it.</p><p>This is the official write off of the season for me I guess.</p><p>They traded Bard earlier in the season for Mirabelli..now they trade Wells for another catcher that cant hit.&nbsp;Good to see they learned the first time. &nbsp;</p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p><a href="http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/features/261245.html" target="_self" title="catcher George Kottaras">catcher George Kottaras</a></p><p>The Red Sox just picked up a Greek Catcher</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>(Insert joke here)&nbsp;</p><a href="http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/features/261245.html" target="_self" title="catcher George Kottaras"></a>

[lleeder]

Can I route for the Red Sox to beat Halladay if I'm a Yankees fan and want Wang to be a Cy Young canidate?

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Tenbatsuzen</strong> wrote:<p>Not very familiar with Boston sports reporting, are you? They make yellow journalism look like pulitzer prize winners.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There's an old saying about Boston</p><p>&quot;In Boston they love 3 things. Sports, Politics, and Revenge&quot;&nbsp;</p><p>Some of the best sportswriters in the country (Gammons, Shaunessy) are from there, but the average Boston sports reporter is an knee jerk hack. And they routinely get into personal shit that most other town's major newspapers get nowhere near. &nbsp;</p>

[A.J.]

<p>Shaughnessy pisses me off a lot of the time with his criticism.&nbsp; However, in <a href="http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/09/01/time_to_look_ahead____to_07/?page=2" target="_self">today's column</a> I'm forced to agree with the following points:</p><p>Go back to the end of the 2004 World Series and list the good moves made by Epstein. It's tough to come up with many. The GM is in a slump reminiscent of the final days of the Lou Gorman regime. Start with the ill-advised acquisitions of Edgar Renteria (John W. Henry continues to pay for that mistake twice per month) and Matt Clement, and carry on through this year and the disappointments of Coco Crisp (an invisible .260), Rudy Seanez, Julian Tavarez, and Javy Lopez. Trading Bronson Arroyo continues to haunt the Sox and that ballyhooed reacquisition of Doug Mirabelli looks terrible in the wake of what Cla Meredith and Josh Bard are doing in San Diego.</p><p>Still, I'm somewhat glad that Theo didn't make some blockbuster trade in July.&nbsp; Consider these gems from the past:</p><p>Jeff Bagwell for Larry Anderson</p><p>Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling for Mike Boddicker.</p>

[A.J.]

<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/09/01/cursed_reversals/" target="_self">The Curse of the Damonino?</a></p>

[TheMojoPin]

<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/" target="_blank">Lester has treatable lymphoma.</a></p><p>That's really awful.&nbsp; Here's hoping he recovers.&nbsp; Godspeed and good luck, Jon Lester.</p>

[TheMojoPin]

<strong>Bulldogcakes</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Tenbatsuzen</strong> wrote: <p>Not very familiar with Boston sports reporting, are you? They make yellow journalism look like pulitzer prize winners.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There's an old saying about Boston</p><p>&quot;In Boston they love 3 things. Sports, Politics, and Revenge&quot;&nbsp;</p><p>Some of the best sportswriters in the country (Gammons, Shaunessy) are from there, but the average Boston sports reporter is an knee jerk hack. And they routinely get into personal shit that most other town's major newspapers get nowhere near. &nbsp;</p><p>You get guys like that in all of the major markets.&nbsp; Boston, New York and Chicago are all especially riddled with them because those towns have so many teams and the fans are so rabid about them.</p>

[Don Stugots]

<strong>TheMojoPin</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>Bulldogcakes</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Tenbatsuzen</strong> wrote: <p>Not very familiar with Boston sports reporting, are you? They make yellow journalism look like pulitzer prize winners.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There's an old saying about Boston</p><p>&quot;In Boston they love 3 things. Sports, Politics, and Revenge&quot;&nbsp;</p><p>Some of the best sportswriters in the country (Gammons, Shaunessy) are from there, <strong>but the average Boston sports reporter is an knee jerk hack. And they routinely get into personal shit that most other town's major newspapers get nowhere near.</strong> &nbsp;</p><p>You get guys like that in all of the major markets.&nbsp; Boston, New York and Chicago are all especially riddled with them because those towns have so many teams and the fans are so rabid about them.</p><p>i agree.&nbsp; ever read the NYC papers when the yanks lose a game, they pretty much paint the picture that they are the worse team going but when the win they are some kind of unstoppable machine. </p>

[Fallon]

I got free tix to Sundays game. Hope it doesn't rain too much.<br />

[OGC]

<strong>Fallon</strong> wrote:<br />I got free tix to Sundays game. Hope it doesn't rain too much.<br /><p><font size="3">Make note that the game time on the ticket is probably wrong. The game has been moved to 4pm start.</font></p>

[TheMojoPin]

So any word on how badly Papelbon is hurt?

[Fallon]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>richg0404</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>Fallon</strong> wrote:<br />I got free tix to Sundays game. Hope it doesn't rain too much.<br /><p><font size="3">Make note that the game time on the ticket is probably wrong. The game has been moved to 4pm start.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>THANK YOU! I would have been at Fenway all fucking day.&nbsp;</p>

[OGC]

<strong>TheMojoPin</strong> wrote:<br />So any word on how badly Papelbon is hurt? <p><font size="2">From what I have read this morning it is sort of a wait and see kind of thing. If he doesn't feel better today when he comes to the park, they will check it out further.</font></p><p><a href="http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/09/02/papelbon_hurt_in_win_over_blue_jays/?rss_id=Red+Sox+stories+from+Boston.com" target="_blank"><font size="2">check out the article here</font></a></p>

[Fallon]

What a bad game. Hour rain delay, mist throughout and the Sox couldn't play for shit.<br />

[OGC]

<font size="2">How long did you stay ? Were they giving away any hot dogs during the rain delay ?</font>

[Fallon]

<p>Rain delay was an hour. So the game started around 5. I didn't plan on getting beer, but I got bored waiting so I spent $26 on four beers. Outrageous!</p><p>I left after the 8th since I knew with the lineup they have now their was no way they were making a comeback. Would have been nice to see their only run in the 9th, but whatever.</p><p>At least my seats kicked ass.</p><p><img border="0" src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h281/WWFallon/fenway.jpg" />&nbsp;</p>

[Don Stugots]

26 bucks for 4 beers isnt that bad.&nbsp; what were they charging for hot dogs?

[Fallon]

Dunno, I got a cheeseburger, fries and large soda. That was like $16. Then some peanuts for $4.25.<br />

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Fallon on 9-22-06 @ 1:42 PM</span>

[A.J.]

<strong>TheMojoPin</strong> wrote:<br /><p><a href="http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/" target="_blank">Lester has treatable lymphoma.</a></p><p>That's really awful.&nbsp; Here's hoping he recovers.&nbsp; Godspeed and good luck, Jon Lester.</p><p>Thank God that car rear-ended him .&nbsp; If they hadn't been checking out his back for injuries, they might not have detected the lymphoma as early as they did.</p><p>This made me think of my grandfather.&nbsp; He was being checked out for shoudler stiffness when they found his lymphoma.&nbsp; His was more advanced than Lester's but he managed to survive for over 5 years.</p><p>Good luck rookie.&nbsp; </p>

[A.J.]

<p>Welcome back Papi!</p><p><img height="235" src="http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/images/2006/09/05/L7m5dmDH.jpg" width="275" border="0" /></p><p>And Kason Gabbard pitched a great one last night.&nbsp; He finally got his first win in the majors.</p>

[A.J.]

<a href="http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060906&content_id=1649526&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos" target="_self">Jon Lester in his own words.</a>

[cougarjake13]

<p>sawx release catcher javy lopez, i hope they didnt give up anyone good in the trade they made for him</p><p>to replace him they recalled ken &quot;i heart&quot; huckaby</p><p><a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5948598">http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5948598</a></p>

[A.J.]

<p>1 of 3 from the Royals would have been great in 1985.&nbsp; This is embarassing.</p>

[OGC]

<p><font size="3">Come on Red Sox fans. Don't get too down in the dumps
about how this season has turned out, there are a lot of worse teams
that we could be rooting for. I would guess that there are at least 20
other teams that would be happy to have a team as exciting as ours. <br />
</font></p><p><font size="3">This isn't their year, tune in again in
the spring. I consider myself to be a Red Sox fan, but I also consider
myself to be realistic about it.</font><br />
</p><font size="3" />

[Bulldogcakes]

<a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2589493">Papelbon likely out for season, wants to start in '07</a>

[A.J.]

3 of 4 from the Yanks.&nbsp; Way to battle for 2nd place!

[cougarjake13]

<strong>A.J.</strong> wrote:<br />3 of 4 from the Yanks.&nbsp; Way to battle for 2nd place! <p>too bad&nbsp;they&nbsp;couldnt do that a month ago </p>

[A.J.]

<p>Congratulations to former 2006 AL&nbsp;MVP Candidate David Ortiz on tying Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx's 68-year old franchise record of 50 home runs.</p><p>All we have left to play for now are individual records.</p>

[A.J.]

<strong>A.J.</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Congratulations to former 2006 AL&nbsp;MVP Candidate David Ortiz on <strike>tying </strike><strong>breaking </strong>Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx's 68-year old franchise record of 50 home runs.</p><p>All we have left to play for now are individual records.</p><p>Fixed that.</p>

[A.J.]

<p>A perfect metaphor for this season.</p><p><img height="274" src="http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2006/09/27/1159352456_0677.jpg" width="410" border="0" /></p><p>Reminds me of...</p><p><img height="300" src="http://www.ttkool.ut.ee/aef/pics/hindenburg.jpg" width="381" border="0" /></p>

[OGC]

<font face="times new roman,times,serif" size="7">Oh the Humanity !!!</font>

[TheGameHHH]

i know its all over for you guys and everything, but how does 3rd place feel?<br />

[Fallon]

Awesome. We haven't hung out with Baltimore in a while.<br />

[Shamrock]

Now that the Sox season it's over it's time for me to get ready to cheer on my second favorite team...who ever is playing the fucking Yankees!&nbsp; I just hope the Tigers or the Twinkies have it in them to take 'em out, If not they will choke in the series..Go A-rod!

[Kevin]

Always has to be about the Yankees with Redsox fans. Go stalk another team for a change.

[OGC]

<strong>TheGameHHH</strong> wrote:<br />i know its all over for you guys and everything, but how does 3rd place feel?<br /><p><font size="3">It doesn't feel any different than being in second place. Neither team is going to the playoffs.</font></p><p><font size="3">Duh</font></p>

[A.J.]

<strong>Kevin</strong> wrote:<br />Always has to be about the Yankees with Redsox fans. Go stalk another team for a change. <p>Well, they ARE in the same division.&nbsp; It's kinda hard to avoid each other.</p>

[A.J.]

It's <a href="http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060927&content_id=1686451&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos" target="_self">OFFICIALLY </a>the Pesky Pole now.

[A.J.]

Season over.&nbsp; Third place.