Posted on 06/04/2007 5:28:07 PM PDT by #1CTYankee
June 5 and the Sox are up 10.5 games, that’s the good news, the bad news is after looking like Cy Young in his first six starts Tim Wakefield has started looking more like Kevin Jarvis over the last four.
How bad has he pitched? how does 23 earned runs in 22 2/3 of an inning sound. I know Tim is someone who is typically great for the bullpen, eating up innings are what knuckleball pitcher’s are great at. Something however has seemed to go awry, Tim’s blistering (Ahem) 78 MPH fastball looks more like 68 and even at that speed he seems to be having problems locating it.
The Yankee series was a big disappointment, not because we lost 2 of 3 or that the starting pitching looked mediocre at best but because the team is leaving so many runners on base.
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Sorry, but BoSox experience tells me they’re about to collapse and blow the lead BIG TIME, then struggle to the end of the season.
The American League East is pretty weak, I expect the Sox pitching will pull them through but not without the usual dramatics.
Red Sox, Yankee Ping!
All I can say is... Bucky Dent.
This is far from the Red Sox of 78" with no pitching and a manager who was a gerbil, not to mention the Yankees had a much better pitching staff at the time.
If you could put up a billboard featuring the persona of the Bombers it would be all the old men on the team.
Different team. The Sox do not have the glaring holes that the Sox of 78 had.
Yanks are hitching their wagon to a 45 year old pitcher with a weak groin! How is Carl Pravano working out for you?
He did pitch 19 strong innings in the past 3 years.
Keep living in the past Yankee Butt Swab!
LOL! I'm a native Bostonian and hate the Yankees. I'm simply a true cynic. I've seen too many collapses (aside from '04, which was a true miracle.)
As far as different teams, how can you say a line-up in '78 that included Rice, Lynn, Evans, Yaz and Fisk were a weaker team?
Difference? I don't think the Yanks had the teams in front of themthen that they do today.
The pitching stank and Jim Rice never hit a home run that mattered.
That Yankees team had not as many but more big names and clutch hitters than the sox.
Also, better pitching staff.
Now the Yanks are betting everything that Clemens will save them. He can pitch at the most 19 games.
Sox make the playoffs, then lose the division series to the wildcard team...
They will be fine as long as the pitching stays healthy. Yankee fans understand that all too well with starters on the DL and the pen getting ground into dust. Should the Sox strut like barnyard chickens over the fact that the Yankees have injuries? I know the Yankee fans would do it if the shoe were to be on the other foot.
Butch Hobson and his 43 errors (bone chips in his arm), Gerbil ruining his closer, Bill Campbell by having him pitch 150 innings a year in 1977 and 1978, sending Tiant back out there to start the 11th inning of a game?
The list goes on and on...
Yet they won, what, 97-98 games that year anyway?
I forgot about Butch. He was a gamer. Was Rick Burleson in the line up that year?
Yes, he was
Ding Ding Ding We have a winner!
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