Dan Gould

That's the problem I don't understand. If you put things in quotes, its not looking for two or three letter words, its supposed to look for the entire quote, verbatim. When the search function was working normally (two "updates" ago) you could put anything in quotes and it worked the way it should. Not anymore.

Not a chance that it happens. He's thrown 140 innings, and like most intelligent organizations, they keep a tight rein on how many innings a young pitcher pitches. Best chance is another spot start or two (Wake isn't certain to make his next start, and Thursday would be Clay's next day anyway), and then he is going to be slotted into the bullpen, as another seventh-eighth inning guy, like Paps was in 2005. Hopefully he doesn't have a problem adjusting to the pen; Papelbon was a closer in college so he knew what its like to get loose and ready in a relatively short period of time. Two other observations: The idea that this will energize the team or that it will be used to get them rolling into the post-season is just silly. Have people forgotten the old saying "momentum is only as good as the next day's pitcher"? Lester returns to the rotation today and its up to him to start some real momentum going forward, and to maybe regain some of the luster that made him such a big prospect. (I'll tell you this, though - I am glad that Clay is going to be ready to step in next year, the rotation should be Beckett, Dice-K, Buchholz, Lester, Wake. If you scale back your expectations for Lester to him being a number four starter, he should be fine. Its obvious that Clay should slot in as the number three and has the talent to excel.) With only two starts to his young career and limited opportunities to pitch the rest of the month, its obvious to me that Clay will retain his "rookie" status heading into next year, just as Papelbon did in 2005. That means that he could get 30-35 opportunities next season to set a mark that will be extremely difficult to match: First rookie to record two no-hitters. Not saying it will happen, its one of the rarest things in the game, but he certainly has the stuff to potentially come through again, if the baseball Gods let him.

Yes, perhaps but a map is also a graphical representation of the physical shapes of continents and nation states. America ain't the Czech Republic - if you are a citizen and can't recognize the distinctive shape of your own country, or its general position on the continent it is part of, you are too stupid to live.

Really amazing accomplishment, in his second start. I noticed with the list of recent rookie no-nos, it doesn't seem like its a good omen for his career (Wilson Alvarez is the only guy to win 100 games). At first I thought his walk total was high but now I realize that two of the three came in that one inning where he lost the strike zone for a second. 9 Ks, 3 walks, no hits - what a night. Who was the last Sox rookie to come close? Some kid named Rohr, I think? Happened in '67, I believe, and Elston Howard broke it up - and the kid won like five more games in his career. Hopefully that doesn't happen here. I don't know what kind of stuff he had, but that curveball and change up are just nasty.

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TALKING ABOUT THIS?????? Everyone knows you don't mention a no-hitter while its in progress!!!! :rmad: OK, whatever happens I won't blame you. The kid has pitched great and had some great plays behind him. They don't need to make a move in the rotation unless Wakefield needs to miss another game, or if they decide that Clay should be the number five instead of Lester.

Alexander, whatever your problems are with Clem, and whatever is going on right now, you need to cut the crap. You know how Clem expresses himself and you know what he is like in this forum. If you can't handle his put-downs, its a pretty simple thing to put him on "ignore". But most importantly, I shouldn't have to post this in this thread. Get over yourself.

Yeah, the first instinct is to say "Division 1-AA, must be patsies" but they're obviously a good team with a winning tradition. But coming to Michigan and pulling off the upset ...

As they say, that's why they play the games.

Considering that she has won two Slams, I'd say she focuses on tennis a helluva lot more than the last celebrated 'tennis babe'. Furthermore, she's been dealing with serious injuries this year and I believe I read that she had to modify her service motion to adjust to a shoulder problem. Considering how many times she double faulted and lost her service in that match, I'd say that was a much bigger problem than not "focusing" on her tennis. I'm quite sure though that both CBS and USA network are very disappointed they won't be able to build their broadcasts around her photogenic form.

Yeah, and at this point, unless the M's turn it around in New York, I have no choice but to hope and pray for a continuous collapse by them and Detroit, to ensure that the Sox still make it to the postseason. With Wakefield missing starts and Manny on the shelf, I now firmly believe that they will lose their lead in the division even before the Yankees come to Fenway to put the finishing touches on the latest monumental collapse. I really can't see how the Sox could blow a 5 game lead at this late date unless they allow the Yanks to sweep them again in the final series between the two clubs at Fenway. Yankee pitching is highly suspect, Hughes thus far is a disappointment and Mussina has been horrible lately. I'll be interested to see how the latest rookie pitching phenom, Ian Kennedy, performs today against the Devil Rays. If he doesn't rise to the occasion also, then I'm very concerned about solidifying at least a wild card spot. So basically we both only see the flaws on our teams. All the Yankees have to do is take care of business against the deeply slumping Mariners and their path to (at least) the wild card will be clear. About the only thing working against that is the fact that the D-Rays are playing their best ball, and as you mention, the Yankees are throwing out another rookie today. Too bad the Red Sox get them next, with Kazmir, their other decent starter whose name escapes me, and the kid who went eight innings in New York lined up for the three at Fenway. In the meantime, suddenly the Red Sox have the smallest division lead in the AL, and critical pieces of the lineup and rotation coming up lame. Their only chance to hold on is if Wakefield doesn't miss another start and Manny is back, at the very latest, by next Thursday when they go to Baltimore. But the lineup is pathetic without him and unless the Yankees start losing, it is easy to imagine them taking over first before they even get to Fenway.

Yeah, and at this point, unless the M's turn it around in New York, I have no choice but to hope and pray for a continuous collapse by them and Detroit, to ensure that the Sox still make it to the postseason. With Wakefield missing starts and Manny on the shelf, I now firmly believe that they will lose their lead in the division even before the Yankees come to Fenway to put the finishing touches on the latest monumental collapse.

It kind of is reflected in the thinking behind the so-called "bullpen by committee" that the Red Sox tried in 2003: some outs are more important than others and they don't always come in the last inning, but to the greatest extent possible, your best pitcher should be on the mound for them. Some managers are beginning to realize that if you don't use your closer to preserve a tie on the road, it won't matter anyway because you'll never get a chance to get the lead. I believe Francona has gone "against the grain" once or twice, but he isn't consistent in doing it. I believe that in the super-late game at Detroit that ended at 3:30 in the morning, Torre used Mariano for one or two innings in tie situation. But the simple fact is that you have to get out of that inning to even have a chance of winning. It only makes sense to use your closer then. Yes, you take the risk of blowing a save an inning or two later but on the other hand, didn't a study show that something like 70 or 80% of the time that a reliever starts an inning with no one on and no outs, he gets the three outs without giving up a run? Bottom line is that if you are going to lose that game on the road, you might as well lose with your best guy on the mound. Hopefully managers are starting to re-think that concept, and also I have to believe that part of the motivation for the Gagne trade was the idea that on the road, the Sox could use a 'set up man' who is in reality one of the best closers of all-time to hold the home team down and still have the true closer to save the game.

I went to bed after he blew his chance in the fifth set, there was no way I could stay up any later, so I was just hoping he'd pull it out. He's my favorite, and the only player I'd pull for against Federer, so I am glad he wasn't bounced out so early.

How about the two SMOKING Coleman Hawkins albums on Crown? They are not reissues, but original sessions. There are Hawk albums on Crown that are "SMOKING"? Details, please.

Chris, I haven't been visiting there very often but its been a matter of insufficient time rather than some sort of "evacuation" - so what has been going on there to drive you away and look for a better home for blues discussion?

I have those, MG, and they are indeed nothing to lose sleep over. I'd change your category to "super cheap" before paying for them.

I have no idea, I haven't been there since last season.

another reason why its a good idea to run the bitch out of the house first.

And its especially nice when the only scoring opportunity goes for naught due to a complete bullshit call by the umps. I defy anyone to say that when Youklis eluded the tag, he was out of the baseline. A-Rod missed him while his feet were on the dirt. Just because his momentum carried him into the infield grass doesn't mean he was out of the baseline when he should have been tagged. What a piece of shit call.

Why do I FUCKING run my mouth like a fool? The ONLY thing they needed to avoid, and they lay down like fucking dogs and give the god damned Yankees all the momentum in the world. I have a very hard time believing that they will hold on to first place while Manny is out. A VERY hard time believing it.

In a nutshell, when there is no commercial release of the material, free is good, provided that the artist is not opposed to the distribution of such recordings between fans, via burns or bit-torrent download sites. Dime is probably the most popular, and it bans torrents that contain commercially available recordings or those by artists who are on record as not approving such things. I myself made Henry Grimes' management aware of the site because I knew that Henry did not allow private recordings of his performances. The site ignored my offer of that information and allowed his shows to be offered, but after his management contacted them, his shows are no longer allowed. Now, as to this particular release - it is widely believed and understood that these Spanish/Andorran labels ignore copyright law and do nothing to compensate artists or rights holders. Call it grey market/bootleg whatever, why should anyone pay someone for a recording when that person has no right to profit from the recording in question? Why should they take a recording that was privately held, distributed freely, and never seen commercial release, and give it a commercial release so that they can profit from it? The bottom line for me is that they can do that, but I would be more than happy to help someone get such music without paying for it. No one in the trading community profits, except in the sense of enjoying unreleased recordings by favorite artists.

Patrick, I think Cleveland is ready to put themselves in a good position, with Detroit still floundering - all of a sudden, the AL doesn't have close races right now, after Seattle stunk it up. Not so the NL, where the Mets suddenly find themselves with a three game lead after last night's "controversial" win. I don't know how others saw it, but it was pretty clearly a cheap shot, sort of like A-Rod's shot at Pedroia earlier in the year. Same throwing of the elbow/forearm, with the critical difference that the Met player sprung away from the base to make contact and A-Rod just sprung up on top of the base. What makes it even more pathetic is that it was unnecessary, Green was going to beat it out anyway and it would have been a tied game.

Well all I can say is thank heaven you did stink up that road trip, for I have no doubt that a sweep will be completed today. Let's see: crappy Schilling vs the winningest pitcher on the Yankee staff. No Manny. The only thing that might work in our favor is that Wang is a demonstrably worse pitcher in day games (hell, the Yanks are just a .500 team in day games while the Sox are 29-12 in day games), but someone is going to bust out with the bats, and with no Ramirez in the lineup and a creaky, pathetic broken down Schilling, which team is most likely to do that? (I am not calling it a "Massacre" because I don't think that applies when the team doing the massacring is still five games out) Which brings me to the one bright spot on this already hot Florida morning: I just saw that the Orioles have lost their eighth straight, and that ace Erik Bedard will miss his Saturday start at Fenway. So maybe, just maybe, the Red Sox will get back to whittling down that magic number once they get the fuck out of the Bronx.

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