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I look at the standings and I keep my cool. The Rays are a legitimate contender until someone kicks them in the private parts. The best part about this? I AM SO HAPPY IT’S NOT THE TYPICAL YANKEE RIVALRY. I yell because I care.

Clay Feet

The Clay Buchholz experiment is simply not working out so far this year. The kid is having a hell of a time adjusting to his first year in the Bigs and it looks like his confidence takes a hit each time out of the gate. I can’t help wonder if maybe a flip-flop between Masterson and Buchholz (starter vs. ‘pen) would have been a better decision; recognizing the no-hitter and the length of service.

It might be time to speed up the progress for Colon and see if he can jump in there for a couple starts.

Manny Being a #$(%$* ?

Listen, Manny can do whatever he wants and the club won’t do much about it. Whatever happens to his contract from here on out is anyone’s guess. Is he worth $20 million per year? Is he only worth that if he’s protected by Ortiz? His mischief does not bug me, but having an all-out fight with a 60-something year-old man wasn’t obviously very bright. He’ll still be here next year, I’m sure. It seems that he’s a necessary evil when things aren’t going his way and it’s a guaranteed hall of fame player when things are. Where’s Schilling in all of this? I’m surprised he hasn’t spoken up about the situation.

With Bartolo pitching as well as he is and Buccholz struggling, the call was made to option the pitcher down to Pawtucket. I don’t blame them one bit. Buccholz and Lester have roller coaster experience this year and no one is sure where they’ll wind up (W or L).

I’m sure with the way Bartolo is going, this wasn’t too hard a decision. One small thing, though, is that Buccholz doesn’t seem to do well when he’s frustrated, so we’ll see if this has any long-term impact.

Curt is still sidelined with very limited participation and I’m not too sure he’s doing any better, regardless of what he says in his blog.

I can’t help but think about the prospect of Colon taking over the 5 spot for the rotation after 7 months of talking about Buchholz (who, incidentally, hasn’t had the best Spring yet).

Last Fall we spoke of Buchholz and possibly Lester battling it out for #5. Funny how things have a way of working out. Although, how much is it working out if you have an $8Million man sitting around with a bum pitching arm?

I’m looking forward to seeing if they bring Buchholz in as a long-relief and then ramp him up to 6 innings if Colon dies on the mound.

We’ll see what happens to Curt after the break.

• Buchholz had a really rough outing yesterday giving up hits to the first five batters he faced (he came in the game in the third). He’s competing with a rejuvenated Colon who threw a bullpen session yesterday and had “good movement and a fastball that reached 90 a few times”. This could get really interesting, folks.
• Terry Francona has decided that Pedroia is a moron and told the Boston Globe they could print it. The comment came after watching Pedroia “Dance With the Stars” for Mike Lowell’s charity.
• Curt’s going to have surgery. Just a gut feeling. This year is probably toast for him.
• Big Papi wants to ride it out in Boston for the next big contract. I don’t know how they’ll avoid paying him a ridiculous amount of money unless he gets hurt or has a crap year.
• Varitek will get a three year, $36 Million dollar deal. Just my guess. We’ll see if I’m right. Also, the Sox don’t seem to do this (publicly anyway), but they should give ‘Tek a Personal Services contract.
• Next stop on the rumor mill? Nowhere. It’s been unrealistically quiet this year (no problem there). Good feelings will occur when real games begin.
• Theo is the next one up for a big administrative contract. He’s rumored to currently pull in $1.8 Million/year. I think he’ll get a sizable bump; how can they not?
• Not too much noise on the center field competition, is there? Must be something happening with Crisp that we don’t know about…

And we find out yesterday that Schilling is going to be a useless roster hog until the All-Star Break. Great. Nice. “Things have changed since then”.

The Red Sox begrudgingly picked up his $8,000,000 contract and told him to get in shape. Then, not even two months later, he pulls up lame on his shoulder. Good. That’ll really be a nice way to end your career.

As for the Santana / Mets deal: good for them. Spending $150M over 6 years isn’t the easiest thing to do, and I’m sure the Sox could afford it. I’m just glad that he’s out of the AL.

So, it looks like Buchholz will get that chance to start. Will the Sox be as careful now? Will he be available for the whole season or will he get shut down so that he’ll be useful in the post season? Will he, in fact, be as good as those couple starts? (Probably not, but he’ll most likely be very effective.)

Wait, does that mean Tavarez pitching days are days off for me to watch the game?