Game time: 12:05 pm



Scheduled starters: Brandon McCarthy (1-1, 6.19) v. Curt Schilling (5-6, 6.96)


The game will be on NESN.


Boston weather: 10 am observation at BOS: Few clouds at 5,000 feet, 15,000 scattered, visibility 10 miles, temperature 68F, DP 51F, wind out of the northeast at 13 mph.


Forecast: Sunny and cool. Wind northeast, becoming east at less than 15 mph.

Northeast wind is in from left center, east wind is in from center.


Anni

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LooiesWindup does another cameo and posts the following hard-working Labor Day mojo created by NU50

Monday, September 05, 2005

**MOJO** - Cameo Day 7 (take 2)
It was a rainy Sunday, and Cameo Mojo featuring Bruce Springsteen stepped to the plate for the Boston Red Sox. Mother nature had other plans for cameo mojo, however, and the game was postponed until a later date. Well, today is that later date, and on this beautiful Labor Day Cameo Mojo makes it's return to pick up where it left off... with a nice healthy win streak.

And what better way to announce your return than with one of the biggest cameos of all time: Marlon Brando in Superman.



This cameo is still one of the most expensive in movie history: $4 million for 10 minutes of on screen time. The lesson here is that Brando doesn't come cheaply. But when you want the best, you can't get tight in the wallet. Sometimes you pay the big money so you can get the big talent. And with that in mind, we look to today's starter Curt Schilling and clean up hitter Manny Ramirez to step up and earn those paychecks.

Red Sox Nation needs you to be with them today. Live as one of them, Manny and Curt, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. Always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Manny and Curt, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son.



(for those of you who are big fans of breakfast cereal mojo, fear not for it will be given its chance to win some more for the team)

[edit by LooiesWindup]: As the Caped Crusader emerges from the Phone Booth, Looies calls upon the Red Sox relievers to emerge from the bullpen and triumph over the Bitch Sox and save one for Truth, Justice, and the Fen-way

Today's Haiku-jinx is directed at one Mr. Brandon McCarthy:

"You've had some success
Against lesser baseball clubs
Youth can't help you now"

No JD today, Kapler in CF. ALso, Youk leading off at 3B, no Mueller.

Annie,
Where did you find todays lineup info. I searched all my usual sites and could not track it down.
Thanks DS 67

Schill looking good through 2, now let's see if the offense can get to McCarthy.

I have had it with Manny being an idiot.

Sweet pickoff!

Wow, Rent.

Great job stranding the leadoff triple.

What a job by Schilling and Renteria.

Very impressive.

Runner on third and no outs. No runs allowed. It appears Schilling may just be back after turning the corner in the last game folks.

I am very excited about Schilling so far, he looks back!

Way to strand the runner at 3rd-K, Pickoff of Pods, and a nice grab by Rent!

I have to say, I absolutely love ESPN's K-Zone. Too bad it must be patented, because no other network uses it.

Seems like a generous (but consistent) outside corner today.

We are hitting some hard line drives outs, I think it will catch up to this kid soon enough.

edgar couldn't get the grab on that-one run in for the Bitch Sox. Bend, but don't break, guys...
[edit]: oh, and WTF is with the LF corner today?

Is Manny taking notes? If that's Manny, this inning is over.

These line drive outs are going to amount to something soon...right?....

The kid is unhittable, the shut-out is inevitable, he may be the best young pitcher in the game. Gee, I hope i don't jinx him.

Is there any more a bullshit hit than that little piece of crap?

The fact that we can't hit shit off of McCarthy makes this that much more frustrating.

Grrr...why no pitchout?

Offense needs to come alive.

Some of those hard hit balls need to find holes.

Hopefully these guys bunting instead of going for the big ining will come back to bite them. Was Iguchi's bunt a squeeze? Suicide?

This is the best Schilling has pitched all year, but this damn lineup has got to wake up and get back to business. I think we're the only team in the bigs that can NEVER hit a rookie pitcher. The guy can have a 9.00 ERA and he still shuts this lineup down.

McCarthy is getting hit hard. His luck can't hold up forever.

We are hitting him hard, but we arent Geoff Blum 2-2 with 2 bloop hits.

fastball. outside.

EDIT: I hate being right.

Another line drive out, Graffy's second.

You can hit a guy hard all day long, but if you hit it a mile high every time, too, then it doesn't matter.

This kid has no balls either, every time he gets ahead he just throws it away. My God, they should be sitting on this crap by now.

At least next inning we have the heart of the order.

You mean like we have twice already?

Third time's the charm?

I think we're the only two watching the game Ivebeen. Where's the love on Labor Day?

Maybe if we weren't down by 4.

Now let's actually pay attention to the possibility of the squeeze.

Edit: Nevermind.

Something NEEDS to happen this inning.

Looks like the same Schilling to me, at least statistically. Last time he gave it up early, this time later. If he were anyone else, his starting status would be in doubt.

I think this is one inning too long for Schilling

I'm sure it's a fairly short leash. There is bullpen activity (Foulkie), so I bet one more baserunner will bring him in.

This is stupid

Still excited? He looked pretty good early. But all in all he looks like a decent end of the rotation playoff starter. I wonder how much of it is fatigue - his pitches looked to have more bite earlier on.

nice to see Foulke's speed is 95% of his normal speeds!

Foulke looked pretty good...87-88 on the fastball, decent location. He might be able to contribute down the stretch.

This sucks! we may get shut out, and if that does happen, this will be our 2nd time being shut out at Fenway

Schilling, while he wasn't a number 1, looked OK. Not bad, IMO. Not where we need him to be, though. He has 4 more to get it right. Foulkie, OTOH, looked very good and I'd be tempted to have him go out for the 8th.

This kid has a lot of nasty stuff. I wouldn't be too concerned about the lack of offense.