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Boston Red Sox (9x World Series Champions)

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billmac91;1299124; said:
Just a general observation, because you could easily be correct....but it seems like from year-to-year previous seasons mean jack-squat.

I wouldn;t be shocked at all to see Tampa finish 3rd or 4th in the East next year. It seemed like 75% of baseball analysts were picking Cleveland to go to the World Series this year. Chicago won the World Series a few years ago and din't make the playoffs the next year.

But yes, talent-wise, I'd say New York is a distant 3rd maybe even 4th in the East behind Toronto.
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I really think Tampa will sustain. They are young and good. Kazmir, Garza, Sheilds and Price is a hell of a staff. Then you have Upton and Longoria as the young heart of this team, a take charge catcher in Navarro and good vetrans in Pena and Crawford. They play smart, agressive and deep into their roster. They gave Boston headaches even last year... and they play in the toughest division in baseball.
 
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starBUCKS;1299181; said:
I really think Tampa will sustain. They are young and good. Kazmir, Garza, Sheilds and Price is a hell of a staff. Then you have Upton and Longoria as the young heart of this team, a take charge catcher in Navarro and good vetrans in Pena and Crawford. They play smart, agressive and deep into their roster. They gave Boston headaches even last year... and they play in the toughest division in baseball.
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I think they have the young talent to sustain a stretch of success but history has taught us that in the AL East you better be willing to spend money. You know the bastards in NY and our Sox will both go out and find pitchers and hitters that can confound the Rays, or anyone else who rises up in the division, and pay any cost to get them in the lineup or rotation. Look out west at the Angels, they can continue a long line of success with a relatively unchanged lineup. That just doesn't work in the East. As long as Tampa builds on this season and becomes willing to get active in Free Agency they can sustain or even increase on their success. But if they put the same lineup on the field for opening day next year I don't think you will see the success of this season. Fair or unfair that is life in the AL East.
 
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Ortiz reportedly tried to help Manny but knew Boston days were done

Manny Ramirez protected David Ortiz in the Red Sox's lineup, and Ortiz backed his friend to the media. But even Ortiz knew Ramirez had to go.
Speaking to WEEI Radio's Dennis and Callahan show on Wednesday, Ortiz admitted that Ramirez's tenure with the Red Sox had gone downhill.
"The Manny situation was a tough situation for the team, for us the teammates, for him as a player," Ortiz said. "He was trying to get to be out, everybody knows, it's not news, for the past few years and it was something that it was getting worse and worse and worse every year."
Ortiz said he urged Ramirez to get along with the front office, his teammates and the media.
"Everything started one day that I told Manny: 'Hey look, look at the numbers that you have put up your whole career, and you have never been able to win an MVP, there's a reason why,'" Ortiz said. "And the media is our family."
He urged Ramirez to "pull yourself together and start getting connected with the media because that's how you express your feelings and people get to know more and Manny's good things, that people don't know about Manny. And he agreed with me."
Ramirez did begin last season more open to interviews than in the past, but then "Manny being Manny" went to another level.
In June, Ramirez pushed the team's traveling secretary to the ground. The next month he commented on the Red Sox's hesitation to pick up his option for 2009.
"I want no more [expletive] where they tell you one thing and behind your back they do another thing," he said.
Team owner John Henry publicly took exception to Ramirez's comments, and finally after 7? seasons in Boston that included two World Series titles and eight All-Star appearances, the Red Sox seemed to have had enough. They traded their left fielder to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a three-team deal that brought Jason Bay to Boston.
Ortiz was asked Wednesday if Ramirez quit on the Red Sox last season.
"Well, to tell you the truth, it was something going down between the Red Sox and Manny Ramirez that I can never really break that down for you because there's some personal reasons that he has with our owners and I never got to the bottom of it, and [he's] got his feelings," Ortiz said. "You know, Manny was, he got to the point that he really wanted to get to play for someone else."

Entire article: ESPN - Report: David Ortiz knew Manny Ramirez had to leave Boston Red Sox
 
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Red Sox tried to formally suspend Ramirez before trade


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How hard was Manny Ramirez trying in the weeks before he was traded? Not hard enough, apparently. The Red Sox were ready to suspend him.

A week before Boston traded Manny Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers late last July, the relationship between the Red Sox and their left fielder had grown so contentious and strained that the club was prepared to take the extraordinary step of suspending its best hitter, ESPN has learned.
According to multiple sources, Boston management had drafted an official letter of suspension for Ramirez, and delivered it to him at Fenway Park at around 11 p.m. on Friday night, July 25. For the second straight game, Ramirez had refused to play that evening, and the Red Sox lost 1-0 to the rival New York Yankees in front of a boisterous and sold-out home crowd.
The letter informed Ramirez that the suspension was to go into effect the next day, Saturday, July 26. It said Ramirez was being suspended without pay for being unwilling to play. Copies of the letter were also sent to Major League Baseball, the MLB Players Association and Ramirez's agent, Scott Boras.
Suspensions in baseball are not unusual for players who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs or who are involved in fights during a game. It is extremely rare for a player to be suspended, or threatened with such a suspension, for refusing to play.
Within two hours after Ramirez received the letter of suspension, the Red Sox received two calls, according to sources. The first call was from one of Ramirez's teammates. He told a member of Boston's front office that Ramirez would play in Saturday afternoon's game against the Yankees. Within minutes, the second call came in from Ramirez himself, who confirmed that he would be available for Saturday's game.
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Entire article: ESPN - Boston Red Sox were ready to suspend Manny Ramirez
 
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Report: Japanese pitcher Tazawa agrees to three-year deal with Red Sox

ESPN.com news services
Updated: December 1, 2008, 10:55 AM ET

Japanese pitcher Junichi Tazawa agreed to a three-year contract with the Boston Red Sox after rejecting offers from three other major league teams, The Boston Globe reported.

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:slappy: There are some ghosts in this thread :lol:


In... 2003? 04? I was at Fenway in April for a Sox-Blue Jays night game... it was classic April baseball in Boston - about 45 degrees with strong wind coming off the water and Wakefield pitching knucklers that you could see moving from the outfield bleachers, where we were sitting. I'm a Yankee fan, but this was a Sox-Jays game, so I was not being vocal about it...

There was this couple 6-7 rows ahead of me and my buddy. They were trying to be cute, the girl had on a Nomar jersey, the dude a Jeter jersey. The crowd is messing with them, obviously, but nicely. Just jokes and some popcorn throwing. The dude in the Jeter jersey is taking it pretty well, basically saying to everyone "yeah, I'm the asshole." The game goes on, and the bleachers get increasingly drunk (think geometric growth, not linear)... the game is boring (Wakefield pitching in the wind) and its cold, so dudes are coming back from concessions 4 beers at a time. People start really laying into the Nomar-Jeter couple, until finally someone throws a full Coke that hits the Nomar-chick and splashes all over both of them.

Jeter's had enough. He turns around to look for whoever threw the Coke. Of course there are thousands of Sox fans in the bleachers, so the dudes who threw the Coke basically point themselves out, like "what the fuck are you going to do?" Mind you, Jeter-dude was about 5'8"-9", 145. Maybe. Didn't stop him. He jumps 2-3 rows of bleachers, throwing punches while in the air. Lands on the Coke-throwers, still swinging. About 30-40 dudes converge on the scuffle, swinging and pushing. Nomar-chick is terrified. After about 2-3 min, security is on its way to the huge pileup... Before they could get there, Jeter-dude somehow, miraculously, emerges on top of the pile still swinging. I've never seen anything like it. Basically took on the Fenway bleachers himself...

Security comes... one dude was kicked out / arrested... Jeter. Offuckingcourse.

Whole thing was awesome, though. Uh, I mean, wicked awesome.
 
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