Comments on: LAA 6, BOS 3: Weaver earns win for fallen teammate

By: marcos

marcos — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:31:00 +0000

I hope he blows his shoulder and elbow. Its time for him to go. Buchholz is wasting his talents at the AAA level.

By: Tom A.

Tom A. — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:21:16 +0000

So who the heck is certain in your book Marcos? Lester and Dice-K were definitely not certain the first time around…are they useless? How about Beckett in the playoffs last year…he was anything but certain. Is he therefore useless too?
I have to say your complete denigration of Wake really gets old in a hurry. We all realize Wakefield’s limitations, but you seem to take it personally (and I believe wished for an injury to him in an earlier thread( and you ignore what has given the team and continues to give the team. Its really sort of pathetic.

By: marcos

marcos — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:22:28 +0000

I call uncertainty useless.

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:31:30 +0000

I don’t call a quality start useless…

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:30:51 +0000

Impressive story.

By: Joe Veno

Joe Veno — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:49:59 +0000

It is definitely not a “must-win” game, although a win would be nice. The offense will come around, I am not sure how much, but it will be better than it has been.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:31:51 +0000

Agree that Wake did his job again, and was again victim of low run support and poor relief pitching . . . which cost him a good half dozen Wins last season, which would have given him an easy 15 win season, again.
I had hoped the Sox would be first out of the gate this year, and take advantage of the absence of Upton, A-Rod, and Teixeira’s slow start. With a 1 – 3 record, they are not in terrible shape, and being 3 – 1 wouldn’t guarantee winning the division, but it would at least be going in the right direction. If Penny has his stuff today, and Beckett is even close to his opener level, the world will be back on its axis. .

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:08:54 +0000

Wake was fine, anytime you can get 6 innings with 3 runs out of your #4 guy, you’re happy. The real goat is the offense which so far has had absolutely no teeth this season, things better start getting turned around soon or I’m starting to feel like this may be a 3rd place team.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:47:57 +0000

Wakefield useless? I mean, hes not a 20 game winner, but he will win 12 games with an ERA just above or below 4 for next 30 years. He is a great element to have mixed in with the power pitchers. You must have been joking.

By: Wooden U. Lykteneau

Wooden U. Lykteneau — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:59:10 +0000

FYI – Shane Loux pitched most of 2008 for AAA Salt Lake City.
In 2007, he tried out the Atlantic League, which holds tryouts in Florida after spring training, but failed to make the cut.
What caught my attention is that there isn’t a Florida-based independent league, and only one Florida-based team, the Pensacola Pelicans, which rarely has guys of AAA-caliber that are only 27 years old.
The comeback story of Shane Loux is, however, the stuff of dreams. After getting cut a second time in 2007, he got a job at a baseball facility in Arizona. One day, while catching/coaching a pitcher he had the kid catch him so the kid could see for himself what he was trying to teach him.
The facility owner, former MLB pitcher Rich Barker, saw something in that moment and dropped a dime to the Angels and asked for a tryout on his behalf. He was signed and made the aforementioned Salt Lake club and then ended up winning 12 games in 22 starts with a 3.98 ERA, in a league that’s filled with hitter-friendly parks (league ERA 5.25 that year), which earned him a September call-up.