Game Time: 7:15 pm

Scheduled Starters: Tim Wakefield (6-8, 3.90) v. James Sheilds (4-1, 4.39)


Tampa Bay Weather: Still indoors...

Didn't realize this was already up b/c Monday's game was bumped.


GO SOX!!!!!!!!

I know this is old, but it always cracks me up. Dougie's going deep tonight.


Doug Mirabelli's day

9:00 shakes off the cobwebs and gets out of bed

9:01 lets out blistering fart and takes 90 second piss on his hands farts 5 more times

9:03 drinks 3 raw eggs Rocky Balboa style and opens the fridge

9:05 take out leftovers from the Kowloon pupu platter for 3 he picked up last night

9:15 grunts at his wife and gives hid kids 20 bucks each to leave him alone

9:17 takes a dump

9:22 sings Van Halen in the shower

9:25 shaves and leaves his goatee

9:30 takes 35 vicious cuts with his bat naked in front of the mirror, screams out loud "Dougie is going deep tonight"

9:45 puts on his cowboy boots and tight jeans and tank-top and gets ready to leave

9:50 grunts at his wife and kids and tells them he'll see them tomorrow

9:57 pulls onto Rt-1 with Led Zeppelin blaring, cuts three people off, gives the finger to all three people

10:15 pulls into Fenway park, tells clubhouse parking attendant to make sure he blocks Youkilis in

10:16 puts the kid in a headlock and threatens the kid and his families' life if there is one scratch on his truck

10:22 walks into clubhouse and calls Youkilis a homo for the first time today and 350th time this month, asks Youkilis if he misses his boyfriend Cla Meridith

10:27 takes a sh*t, leaves door open and yells at anyone who walks by

10:30 gives Youkilis a dead leg and calls him a homo

10:33 stuffs Matt Clement in a locker and pisses on him

10:37 goes through a 10 minute hand shake with his boy Tim Wakefield

10:45 takes AGons headphones off and steps on them, says until he is hitting .200, no music.

10:50 Francona walks by and Dougie cuts him off and says "Is Dougie DHing the first game "

10:51 Francona runs and hides behind Schilling

10:55 Dougie tells Trot if he played 162 Games his numbers would look like this: 375 72 Hr's 52 Doubles 9 Singles 6 Walks 220 K'S

11:17 writes back response to fan's Letter "Hey P*ssy, I don't wear batting gloves because they are for p*ssies like your boyfriend Youkilis "

11:30 Walks out to batting practice with a tank-top on

11:45 after no stretching steps into the cage, ignores the 5 bunts standard procedure

11:47 takes 25 cuts, hits 17 over the monster and misses the other 8

11:48 calls the batting practice pitcher a homo and tells him to go bang Youkilis for mixing in a curveball after Dougie hit one onto the pike

11:55 Tackles Youkilis and gives him wedgie, calls him a pickle smoker

12:00 Dougie's daily order of Double Chicken Parm from Joe Tecci's arrives

12:07 Dougie finishes Chicken Parm and pours the rest of his sauce into Youkilis's locker

12:15 Tito posts lineup, Dougie sees he is not the DH, Calls Francona a p*ssy. Francona runs behind Schilling

12:25 Dougie gets naked and takes 25 swings in front of the clubhouse mirror, announcing "Dougie is going deep tonight "

12:45 Takes a sh*t, uses Youkilis's 350 dollar silk shirt to wipe his a**

1:05 game starts , Dougie tells Francona he is not going to the bullpen to warm up pitchers. Francona hides behind Schilling

1:25 Dougie announces he is ready to pinch hit in the bottom of the first for Youkilis.

1:45 Jon Papelbon comes in, Dougie tells him he sucks and will back at Pawtucket (minor league) by 7 tonight

1:55 Dougies 4 Fenway frank arrive, pays with Youkilis's credit card

2:15 finishes shopping with Youkilis’s credit card, maxed it out at Auto Zone

2:30 dozes off

3:30 sees they are losing and goes back to the dugout and tells whole team they suck except for him and Wakefield

3:33 announces himself ready to pinch hit

4:30 sox lose game, Dougie tells Francona he should have DH'ed him, Francona runs away

5:00 Dougie tells Youkilis singles are for p*ssies

5:30 Dougie takes Batting Practice again, refuses to bunt

5:33 Dougie hit 22 pitches over the wall 11 fair, 11 foul, all pulled, he missed 15 pitches

6:00 Dougie see’s name in lineup, calls Francona a p*ssy for batting him 8th. Francona hides behind Schilling

6:05 Dougie demands to bat cleanup

6:25 announces that Dougie is going deep tonight

6:30 dinner arrives, 2 steaks from the Capital Grille. Dougie pours steak juice into Youkilis's locker, makes Matt Clement eat the fat

6:35 Dougie gives Matt Clement an atomic wedgie

7:00 tells Wakefield the show some balls tonight and don't throw anything in the dirt

7:10 scoreless first. Dougie tells Francona it must be the catching

7:25 Dougie tells fans in on deck circle he is going deep

7:27 Dougie screams at pitcher, tells him he is a p*ssy and he is taking him deep

7:30 Dougie hits bomb off the wall, coasts into second. Almost gets thrown out

7:31 Tells pitcher his fastball sucks. Tells shortstop and second baseman that he didn't get all of it

8:15 Dougie ropes a rocket to third, third baseman takes all day and still turns a double play on Dougie

8:16 fans boo Dougie

8:17 Dougie tells family of 4 to @#%$ off and steals some kids hot dog on way to dugout

8:18 Dougie is tired and is happy he it into a double play, he did not want to run the bases anymore

9:10 Dougie strikes out on inside pitch after crushing 4 foul home runs. Calls pitcher/catcher/ump all p*ssies

9:30 9th inning. Dougie is exhausted. Walks out to the mound and calls Papelbon a p*ssy and tells him to just bring the heat. Dougie wants to get home

9:50 Dougie showers and walks around the clubhouse naked. Tells the Globe's Dan Shaugnessy and Gordon Edes to bl*w him

9:55 Dougie shaves and leaves a goatee

10:00 Knocks Youkilis off his exercise bike. Calls him a homo singles hitter and leaves clubhouse

10:10 cuts off 4 redsox fans. Gives the bird to everyone near him

10:25 arrives at Kowloon Chinese Restaurant on Rt 1

10:45 sits down at bar and digs into his pupu platter for 3

12:00 stumbles home and parks truck on the front lawn, goes for a dip in his above ground pool

12:10 leaves tighty whitey's on his neighbor’s windshield

12:15 walks into house naked and screams "who saw my bomb I hit tonight???"

12:30 wakes up whole neighborhood

12:45 takes 35 swing s naked and orders porn

12:55 pulls out bucket of KFC and gets ready for movie

1:15 Dougie passes out on couch

Do the Tampa Bay ground rules allow the knee capping of Carl Crawford prior to tonights game?

*MOJO* - BOS @ TB - Lawmen Day 1

During the Prohibition Era, the street's of Chicago were ruled by notorious crime boss, Al Capone. After all, it's easy to stay on top when half the city is in your pocket, and the other half is deathly afraid of you. It takes a special breed to stand up to someone with so much power, and unfortunately for Capone, one found him.



Elliot Ness and his team earned the nickname "the Untouchables", for Capone's failed attempts to bribe them on to his payroll. No matter what Capone tried, he could not deter Ness and his team from their pursuit of justice.

It is this determination that the Red Sox need to end their 3 game losing streak against the Devil Rays. And what would go a long way towards making that happen is Tim Wakefield finding his trademark knuckler early, and giving it that "Untouchable" flutter to keep Tampa Bay off the basepaths, an area victimized by a crime spree after the last few games.

If they won't win it for themselves, won't somebody please think of the children.

[codebox]Boston Tampa Bay
------ ---------

Pos Player HR RBI AVG. Pos Player HR RBI AVG.
--- ------ -- --- ---- --- ------ -- --- ----
1B Youkilis, Kevin 10 41 .305 SS Lugo, Julio 9 20 .302
2B Loretta, Mark 3 34 .308 LF Crawford, Carl 12 45 .325
DH Ortiz, David 27 76 .274 CF Baldelli, Rocco 4 17 .344
LF Ramirez, Manny 23 63 .307 3B Huff, Aubrey 6 23 .260
RF Nixon, Trot 6 42 .328 2B Cantu, Jorge 4 26 .274
3B Lowell, Mike 9 41 .300 DH Gomes, Jonny 18 51 .255
CF Crisp, Coco 3 13 .261 1B Lee, Travis 4 13 .203
C Mirabelli, Doug 1 7 .145 RF Wigginton, Ty 16 50 .260
SS Gonzalez, Alex 5 24 .264 C Navarro, Dioner 0 2 .357
P Wakefield, Tim (6-8, 3.90) P Shields, James (4-1, 4.39) [/codebox]

leadoff HBP, like last night...
they keep hitting us. How about retaliation? Well, maybe not with the knuckleball though...

I hope we bring in Papelbon to get him some work..and he EARHOLES Crawford.... I really hate Tampa.

how could that smartass challenge Manny like that? Back to back changeups? And leave the second one right in the middle of the zone? That's just asking for trouble.

It's a good start, finally!

Howz that for retaliation;)

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on me Manny on you!!!

cheers to you
and one for Manny

Lowell hopping around like that...kinda looked familiar.

Baldelli and Huff have not had success against Wakefiled. In 65 (now 67) combined ABs their OPS is below .350. Nice to have them in there in the 3 and 4 spots.

Glad to see nomar make all-star game.

Is it officall yet? I knew Nomar and AJ were leading in the voting. No clue how AJ is leading though, it must be a Chicago ballot stuffing job as no one likes him and he's not nearly as deserving as Liriano or Hafner.

Yup It's AJ and Nomar

The Big Eunich is PERFECT through 4...oops.

Thank you, unholycow.

Way to go Dougie, now lets add a couple of more!

Dougie did go deep tonight!

I guess taking 25 cuts naked, in front of the mirror can help.

David sure styled after that one. How many times this year have he and Manny now homered in the same game?

Now that Ortiz can hit HR's to the opposite field...a few basehits the other way would greatly help.

Treats from the billiant people at FSN Tampa:

"I think Ortiz was just sitting on a pitch low and away."

Carl Crawford continues to show he should be going to the All Star game.

Five of the six hits allowed thus far in the game have been homers.

Coco continues to struggle, I certainly hope he can get things going heading to Chicago.

Watch that fat man run.

Ha ha ha ha ha!
Another treat from the Tampa Crew:

"Dick Vitale knows more about those players than WE do!"

Wouldn't surprise me.

Way to go AGon. I was hoping Mirabelli didn't blow a tire going around the bases.

There was not much movement on that ball that Huff just doubled on.

Good to see Tito with a quick hook tonight.

In other news, Kelly Shoppach just got an RBI against RJ.

Embedded Sox anyone?

Nice, Hansen must be pumped that he didn't get to stay in.

We're gonna need some more runs.

You have that right. I personally am not sold on Lopez yet either.

Whew, Manny got away with a hanging curve ball. I hope Timlin is more effective tonight.

That was a nice little inning there.

Now I'd like some more motherf*cking runs!!

Timlin with a much better inning tonight.



Yes, it would be nice to give Paps a little breathing room.


Well AGon does his part to help with some possible insurance.

It will be interesting to see how they set up the defense with Ortiz up and the bases loaded.

Was there ANY doubt???

Papi tells Paps to take the night off

82 RBI's for Ortiz this year

Thank you David!!!!!

Well, that worked out well!

Salami time? Make mine Genoa!

I guess the defensive plan did not work.

I think Papelbon need the work though.

They need to play 9 defenders in the outfield seats. Ted woulda been proud. Shift? FU!

I would have thought that Ortiz's grand slam would have shut up the loudmouth behind home plare but no such luck.

Summer Camp is in session!

AGon having a hot night, good to see hope it continues into the weekend.

I enjoyed that K.

Dirty Water.

"Salvage." Is there a more beautiful word in the English language?

Well the three youngsters looked pretty good out of the pen tonight. Finally a W ! See you in Chicago!

If the Rays had won it would have been the first sweep of Boston by the Rays I believe. Not sure if it was at home or something but I remember hearing that before the game.

[codebox] Boston ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi w k avg.
Youkilis, Kevin 1b 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .304
Loretta, Mark 2b 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 .305
Ortiz, David dh 4 2 2 0 0 2 6 1 0 .277
Ramirez, Manny lf 4 1 2 0 0 1 2 1 1 .310
Kapler, Gabe pr-lf 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .370
Nixon, Trot rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .323
Lowell, Mike 3b 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .298
Crisp, Coco cf 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .254
Mirabelli, Doug c 4 2 2 0 0 1 2 1 1 .169
Gonzalez, Alex ss 5 1 3 1 1 0 2 0 0 .272
Totals 38 12 11 1 1 4 12 7 9

Tampa Bay ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi w k avg.
Lugo, Julio ss 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .298
Crawford, Carl lf 5 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 .323
Baldelli, Rocco cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .330
Huff, Aubrey 3b 4 2 3 1 0 1 2 0 0 .269
Cantu, Jorge 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 2 .274
Gomes, Jonny dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .252
Lee, Travis 1b 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .201
Wigginton, Ty rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .258
Navarro, Dioner c 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .278
Totals 32 5 5 1 0 3 5 5 7

Boston 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 6 -- 12
Tampa Bay 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 -- 5

LOB_Boston 7, Tampa Bay 6. 2B_A.Gonzalez, A.Huff. 3B_A.Gonzalez. HR_M.Ramirez
(24) off J.Shields, D.Mirabelli (2) off J.Shields, D.Ortiz (28) off
J.Shields, D.Ortiz (29) off S.Camp, A.Huff (7) off T.Wakefield, C.Crawford
(13) off T.Wakefield, J.Cantu (5) off T.Wakefield. SB_J.Lugo 2 (14), T.Lee
(2).

Boston IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
Wakefield, Tim (W 7-8) 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 90-58 4.05
Hansen, Craig 1 2-3 0 1 1 2 2 0 30-16 4.82
Lopez, Javier 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5-2 4.26
Delcarmen, Manny 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 0 6-4 4.05
Timlin, Mike 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6-4 2.45
Papelbon, Jonathan 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 14-10 0.42

Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
Shields, James (L 4-2) 5 4 5 5 3 5 3 91-45 4.89
Jackson, Edwin 1 2-3 2 1 1 1 1 0 28-14 6.59
Switzer, Jon 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8-4 1.29
Camp, Shawn 2-3 4 6 6 3 2 1 31-15 4.99
Harper, Travis 2-3 1 0 0 0 1 0 9-7 4.46

Wakefield pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.
J.Lopez pitched to 1 batter in
the 7th.

HBP_by T.Wakefield (J.Lugo), by J.Shields (K.Youkilis).
WP_J.Switzer.
T_3:02. A_19,330.[/codebox]