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• 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?

Before Terry announces anything today, I thought I’d at least capture my thoughts on the rotation for the series:

Game 1 Beckett
Game 2 Wakefield (Do NOT want him pitching in Colorado)
Game 3 Schilling
Game 4 Dice-K

Game 5* Beckett
Game 6* Schilling
Game 7* Dice-K / Beckett

* if necessary