Canucks center Manny Malhotra thinks that Aaron Rome's blind-sided headshot on Nathan Horton was “a very clean hit.”

I understand sticking up for your teammate, but cmon. You cant be THAT ignorant.
Malhotra should be taken to Mass General to have his head examined.

By the way, he just put a HUGE target on his back for game 4. Seriously, the target on his back is bigger than the logo on the Target in Everett.

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No team has ever lost its first four games of the season and then went on to win the World Series.  Actually, no 0-4 team has ever even made it to the World Series.

So I guess its over.

That kinda sucked. The Sox haven’t even played a home game yet and they have all but been eliminated from World Series contention.

Well, at least it was quick and painless. They didn’t wait until August to rip our hearts out of our chest, stomp on it, douse it with lighter fluid, light it on fire and watch it burn into a rubble of nothing.

Sports Illustrated predicted the Red Sox would win 100 games. ESPN said the Red Sox were a lock to win the AL East.

An M.I.T. professor predicted that the Red Sox would win 101 games based on “statistical models for predictions of the future that are reasonably accurate based on years of data on every player.”

Um…okay.

This is all so disappointing considering the high hopes. The Sox signed the two biggest free agents on the market during the offseason. They shored up their bullpen. Yet today I learned they wont win the World Series.

I guess 2011 is just a wasted season. Maybe 2012 will be the year. Too bad the world will end December 21st 2012...so we wont have much time to enjoy the World Series victory.

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So, accoriding to the NY Daily News, the Yankees are going to let Derek Jeter “test the free agent market” huh?

Interesting stuff considering Jeter is only 74 hits away from 3000 hits for his career. And did I mention that no Yankee has ever reached 3000 hits? The Yankees career leader in hits is Lou Gehrig with 2,721 hits.

Just imagine how sweet the juice would be if Derek Jeter were to leave the dark side, come to the Red Sox and get his 3000th hit in a Red Sox uniform.

That wouldn’t necessarily heal the pain of seeing Wade Boggs leave the Red Sox to win a World Series with the Yankees or seeing Roger Clemens leave the Red Sox to eventually ending up in New York as a World Series champion.

But it would feel pretty damn good.  And it would be great for NESNs ratings.  Derek Jeter getting his 3000th hit as a member of the Red Sox would probably break ratings records for NESN.

Jeter batted .270 with 10 home runs and 67 RBI in 2010. Those numbers are very similar current Red Sox short stop Marco Scutaro who batter .275 with 11 homeruns and 56 RBI.  So he wouldnt be much of an upgrade statistically.

BUT wouldn’t it be worth the extra $10 million a year in salary to stick it to the Yankees?

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	HELL NO. Use the money to re-sign Beltre, and/or Carl Crawford. The Red Sox have two credible shortstops for the short term in Scutaro and Lowrie, and Iglesias is hopefully one year away from Fenway. Most Sox fans who think logically want to WIN, not make the Yankees angry. And it isn't about Jeter's personal accomplishments or stats, the only stat that counts is the "W" column in October. ...View More...View Less 12/01/2010 12:10 PM
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It looks as though the Red Sox will exercise the one-year, $12.5 million option on David Ortiz’ contract.

Ortiz loves playing in Boston despite the scrutiny he has faced from the media over the past two seasons.

Last week he said the following:

"As soon as you struggle for a week, it's going to be the same thing. People saying you are old, saying you have no bat speed anymore. People talking all kind of crap.” [source]

“I want to give this team another World Series, and dealing with all the other crap with people telling you you can't do it no more, or this and that, I have no room for that.” [source]

If the local media had any common sense, they would know that David Ortiz will start of slowly in 2011. And he will finish with respectable numbers. That’s been his forte for the past two seasons.

In 2009 he got off to a slow start and finished the season with a .238 batting average with 28 homeruns and 99 rbi.  He got off to a slow start in 2010 and finshed with a batting average of .270 with 32 homeruns and 102 rbi.

But history to these people is yesterday’s newspaper. God forbid they look as far back as last season and learn from it. And two seasons ago? Well thats ancient history.

What's scary is that the media in this town knows David Ortiz’ history…yet they have reacted the same exact way for the past two Aprils when he gets off to a slow start--they get nasty, they get negative and they perpetuate his struggles.

Well, at least Red Sox fans are smart enough to know that a slow April doesnt translate to a bad season, even if the media isnt.

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	and no matter what anyone says those April and May games count. this was cash better spent elsewhere 11/05/2010 7:18 PM
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	Papi is happy to accept the 1Y/$12.5 million because the market for DHs collapsed with Vlad Guerrero, Manny Ramirez, and Johnny Damon all hitting the FA market. This was the best offer he was going to get. 11/05/2010 9:35 AM
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Last night Josh Beckett gave up 4 runs, 11 hits, 4 walks and had 5 strikeouts.

Beckett is 6-6 on the season with a 5.78 ERA.

Gee, I wonder if his four-year, $68 million contract extension that he signed at the beginning of the season has anything to do with stinkah of a season.

If Josh Beckett had gone 20-3 this season with a 2.23 ERA, he gets paid $68 million over the next four years.

If he goes 6-6 with a 5.78 ERA, he gets paid $68 million over the next four years.

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