Mark---Peralta does not suck at the plate at Fenway Park. He was the guy whose three run homer in the second game of the 2007 ALCS off of Lester began our slide that sent us reeling to a 3-1 deficit before we turned the tables and came back and took the next three games. He seems to his well in our ballpark and he certainly didn't suck last night. Here's hoping he sucks a big one tonight.
I tried to get Ted on the phone today but left a message instead. We all have to cut this type of shit out because we're all in this together. We will elated and ready to get shitfaced if we win this series and also be knee deep in the blues if we don't. This is the time we all have to pull on the same rope.
I don't give a damn who does it Youk----just so some good mojo to get us all out of what I hope is just this temporary funk. I'll bet dollars to donuts that if we pull tonight's game out of the fire the clamor between 700 Hitter and USER will die down. So go to it; give us some of that good Dago mojo. It sounds good to me.
USER, you and I have had some exchanges over the season and it never dissolved into a hate fest....so please listen up to what I'm saying. You owe none of us an excuse or an explanation for anything. It was you first and foremost who insisted that Koji be put at closer and while I was second or third to support that, it was a distant second or third. That mojo moment made the season because there was no damn way we win the AL East if he isn't put there by Farrell. So in effect you did the gigantic deed for the season right there. As far as any mojo maybe the Koji thing used up most of it. I talk to 700 Hitter on the phone and know he's a great guy and a good friend. He was just frustrated as we all were. Nothing to get alarmed about. If necessary, let someone else like YOUK take the lead tonight. And, again, we are all in this together.
Facing a righty again Bogaerts isn't going to get a start tonight. Fact is, he didn't look too swift at all when batting last night and it is a tough position for a rookie with little Major League experience to be in. Of course, in that he was in good company. None of our guys last night distinguished himself at the plate and, moreover, they spent an inordinate amount of time bitching and complaining to Joe West and wasn't the guy we had to hit off.