Game time: 7:15 pm

Scheduled starters: Curt Schilling (13-4, 3.84) v. James Sheilds (4-5, 5.43)

Tampa Bay weather: 2 pm observation at TPA: Wind out of the southwest at 13 mph with gusts to 21 mph, visibility 7 miles in a thunderstorm, few clouds at 4,000 feet with cumulonimbus, 10,000 feet scattered, 25,000 feet broken, temperature 87F, DP 72F



But it doesn't matter because they'll play inside!

GO SOX!


Let's chher up & be like this:




NOT like this:

When do lineups come out

Here's to the Sox being as HOT! HOT! HOT! as the chic in the first pic. (Gisele Bundchen?)

The official lineups are made available usually around a hour before the game. We post them as soon as they're online.

I wonder if Curt will signal to Javy what the pitch is going to be, instead of the other way around?

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Firepower is something the Sox have, and firepower is just what they need to employ. With the pitchers struggling, the hitters will have to unload with both barrels. Unfortunately for James Shields and Tampa Bay, they have the lineup to do it.

Crazy lineup tonight: Coco leading off, Loretta-Pap--Manny, Youk fifth, Wily Mo 6th, Cora 7th (at third, no Lowell), Belli 8th, Gonzo 9th.

No Lopez tonight, he will catch tomorrow.

Let's hope Coco gets this team off and running.

Let's also hope Curt gives us a good strong LONG outing.

[codebox]Boston Tampa Bay
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Pos Player HR RBI AVG. Pos Player HR RBI AVG.
--- ------ -- --- ---- --- ------ -- --- ----
CF Crisp, Coco 4 20 .277 CF Hollins, Damon 12 25 .227
2B Loretta, Mark 4 43 .302 LF Crawford, Carl 14 56 .304
DH Ortiz, David 37 105 .286 DH Cantu, Jorge 9 42 .251
LF Ramirez, Manny 30 86 .317 1B Lee, Travis 8 24 .206
1B Youkilis, Kevin 11 51 .299 RF Norton, Greg 6 14 .263
RF Pena, Wily Mo 6 25 .326 C Navarro, Dioner 1 9 .264
3B Cora, Alex 0 11 .293 3B Upton, BJ 0 1 .273
C Mirabelli, Doug 3 14 .184 2B Perez, Tomas 2 14 .226
C Mirabelli, Doug 3 14 .184 2B Perez, Tomas 2 14 .226
SS Gonzalez, Alex 9 38 .291 SS Zobrist, Ben 0 1 .000
P Schilling, Curt (13-4, 3.84) P Shields, James (4-5, 5.43)


08/04 18:44:19 ET[/codebox]

hey, I know Coco did well last night, but should he really be leading off tonight? We struggle enough at Tropicana Field

Well, Youks has been struggling lately. And this team will be better with an effective Coco Crisp leading off.

Maybe Tito is trying to jumpstart both Youkilis and Coco by doing this. Or he could be completely f*cking with us.

Cowbell night? Who the fvck's idea was that?

cowbell night.........really, this is the worst franchise in baseball. Hands-down.

wow, rather than hitting Pena fifth, he chose to get Coco to leadoff, and make Youkilis' OBP useless behind the RBI guys...

These cowbells may make me strangle my dog before the night is done.

There's no need to hurt your dog just because we're playing the next 3 games against a team that's run like it's in the minor leagues.

God those cowbells are annoying... How pathetic of the club to promote it, and how idiotic of the fans to go along with it. Then again it is Tampa Bay...

Over the last week Youk has a .389 OBP and .844 OPS. Over the last week Crisp has a .345 OBP and .702 OPS. Youk was slumping before but has hit well lately.

Schilling and Beckett both this year with the HR ball.

Uh oh, I've seen this show before.

Crawford's chances of a SB here: 99%

BTW, do we lead the majors in HR allowed?

Well this is off to a rousing f*cking start.

remember this was only supposed to be a transaction year....

What is it about this stadium that makes Curt struggle?

It's a shithole with retarded "fans" banging tin things like they're auditioning for an SNL skit?

Edit: I'm not watching yet (about to leave the office)...do the cowbells at least serve the very valid purpose of drowning out that Tampa Bay Heckler cahcksucker?

The pressure.

Javy, get suited up....down goes Belli.

Very very good play but their goes our catcher.....again.

Nicely done.

Well it looks like we'll see Javy sooner than we wanted.

wtf? What happened?

Awesome. That f***ing crow was a curse.

And another catcher goes down... wtf. Guess Lopez will be playing sooner than he thought...

OH man, we just don't have any luck right now. Mirabelli had to be helped off the field, but I can't figure out what happened or what is wrong with him. anyone?



I'd rather hear the heckler than the cowbell, it is so aggravating I might just mute the TV....

looks like a similar knee injury..not good..

No Lopez! I want Huckaby!!

I'm no doctor, but that looked like a twisting knee torn/damaged ACL/MCL type deal........................Not good.

Christ on a crutch.

When it rains, it pours.

Looks like he twisted his knee from the reply, not sure if Crawford hit it on the slide or if when Belli turned to tag he caught a cleat...

Thankfully, haven't heard the !!!!! yet. But really, the cowbells over the heckler is like getting crapped on and being thankful that you're not getting pissed on......


WTF! Who has the damn voodoo doll!!!!! Belli is hurt.....crap, now we need another catcher.

too bad were facing Cy-Young tonight.

Jesus Belli, you're not Kirk Gibson.....if you can't walk, don't try to hit. Don't make it worse.....

Scrap that, belli is getting ready to hit posibly!

And now he's going to hit? Wow, so Tito must be like, "Sorry Doug, I told Javy he wouldn't have to play tonight..."

Mirabelli has come out on deck. He was walking in the dugout, but he didn't look like he was ok. I don't think he should be out there right now.

Belli is going to hit, so he should be alright.

He needs to go deep here... since he can't walk.

this sucks, Shields is just laughing at us basically.
I hope we get to hit him soon... we've got Mirabelli, Cora and Gonzo. They need to get on...

according to Tito, an MRI can wait until after the game.

New Member..1st post in the Game Thread. If they win, I'm good luck and will be back daily. If they lose I'll stab myself in disgrace.

The reason they are using cowbells, other than to create some noise from just a few fans is this:

The Rays are trying to get away from the Devil Ray moniker and just go with Rays. They just added a "touch tank" of Cownosed Rays out behind Center Field. Cownosed Rays, get it?

Anyway, I am glad they are doing it tonight instead of Sunday when I am there. Sunday should be a lot quieter, they are giving away lunch boxes.

6 Pitch inning. Just like my sister on Prom Night - quick and easy.

Javy is in then...

Sweet...mlb.tv just switched to NESN.