Game time: 8:05 pm EDT (7:05 pm CDT)

Scheduled starters: Curt Schilling (14-4, 3.78) v. Runelvys Hernandez (2-7, 8.54)


KC weather: Noon CDT (1 pm EDT) observation at MCI: Wind out of the east at 8 mph, visibility 10 miles, scattered clouds at 11,000 feet and 15,000 feet, broken clouds at 25,000 feet, temperature 91F, DP 67F

Forecast: Not as hot as yesterday, but still hot! There's a lot of cloud cover from convective debris from storms in the area, and that's cut down on heating in the area.

There's a chance of thundershowers this afternoon and evening, but there will not be widespread coverage by rain. If there's a storm, it will not last very long, and they should be able to play the game.

The wind is going to come around from the southwest later this afternoon at less than 10 mph. That's blowing out.

LETS WIN THIS DAMN THING!! my confidence about the hasnt been this low since 2001!!! Today is a new day damn it!

And now for something completely different.

I think they key tonite is to make the royals look like the royals, nont like the 27 yankees. Even bigger, lets not squander opps here boys. I'd like to take this opportunity to say how excited I will be, as well as all of you should be if the Sox sweep the MFY in that 5 game series. I don't want to jinx it, but it may make/break the season.

President Tito's pregame clubhouse speech mojo (Independance Day style):

'Good morning. In less than an hour, ball players from the US will join others from around the world. And you will be launching a game in what will be called the largest morale boosting win for our fans in the history of Red Sox Nation....err, this month to date anway. 'Red Sox Nation', that phrase should have new meaning to all of us. We cannot be consumed by our petty differences anymore. Perhaps it is fate that today is the 10th of August. This day in 2003, Bronson Arroyo pitched a 9 inning perfect game for the Pawtucket Red Sox (it's true, look it up). While Arroyo is no longer with us, we will once again be pitching for our freedom!!! But not for freedom from tyrrany or oppression or persecution. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist in this pennant race! And should we win the day, the 10th of August will no longer be known as Arroyo's own personal holiday, but as the day when Red Sox Nation stood up and declared in one voice that we will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our steak in the 2006 pennant race!!'




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Curt Schilling vs. Runelvys Hernandez. I don't want to say anything.

*MOJO* - BOS @ KC - Tough Love Day 1

What a sorry bunch of losers you guys are. Things better start shaping up, or else you aren't going to like the consequences. For the pitchers, no one is safe. Tonight better turn around this string of poor performances from you guys, or else you better get used to seeing this:



And, as for you hitters? Don't think you guys are safe either. The whole lot of you could be producing better. Yes you too, David.



Maybe you should learn to rock a little harder, perhaps like someone who really knows how to win.



I think his two MVP awards show he's the player you should be emulating. Awards displayed in a case gilded with gold and encrusted with rare jewels, I might add.

<<<This day in 2003, Bronson Arroyo pitched a 9 inning perfect game for the Pawtucket Red Sox >>>

It would be fitting then if Wily Mo did something fantasmagorical like hitting 3 or 4 homers and throwing out a runner at the plate.

Dylan Thomas agrees:

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT


Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Schilling really needs to come out and pitch a complete game, or the Sox need to get up by like 8 runs or something...anything to keep the bullpen where it needs to be...IN THE BULLPEN!

The Sox really need to win this game and sweep the O's...they need some sort of momentum heading into the Tigers and Yankees...or else it'll be season over after next week.

[codebox]Boston Kansas City
------ -----------

Pos Player HR RBI AVG. Pos Player HR RBI AVG.
--- ------ -- --- ---- --- ------ -- --- ----
CF Crisp, Coco 4 21 .275 CF DeJesus, David 6 37 .291
2B Loretta, Mark 4 43 .303 2B Grudzielanek, Mark 4 33 .292
DH Ortiz, David 41 110 .288 DH Sweeney, Mike 2 7 .197
LF Ramirez, Manny 32 91 .322 3B Teahen, Mark 13 52 .277
1B Youkilis, Kevin 11 54 .295 LF Brown, Emil 9 60 .287
3B Lowell, Mike 13 54 .285 RF Sanders, Reggie 10 45 .238
RF Pena, Wily Mo 7 27 .304 1B Shealy, Ryan 1 4 .231
SS Cora, Alex 0 13 .291 C Buck, John 8 39 .244
C Mirabelli, Doug 3 14 .184 SS Berroa, Angel 7 44 .241
P Schilling, Curt (14-4, 3.78) P Hernandez, Runelvys (2-7, 8.54)[/codebox]

dougie m back in the lineup!!!

by why in the name of all that is holy, is Coco back to the leadoff spot?!?!

I'm not going to watch the begining of the game tonight. Instead I'm going to go to the gym and watch the start of the Indy preseason football game. I need a day off after the last 2 nights. Goodspeed to those in the game thread tonight. I have complete faith in Schilling tonight to right the ship though.

2 games back after a win tonight and a loss for the Yankees.

Inspirational poetry mojo....

Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there, I did not die.

~ Mary Elizabeth Frye


Inspired Tonight

I feel inspired tonight
by flickering stars
and dusty moonlight,
By a phantom friend,
the gentle breeze;
and trees that bend.

I feel inspired tonight
by One who is
beyond my sight;
By thoughts of you,
a lover's dream,
a dream come true.

I feel inspired tonight
by angels' dust:
my soul takes flight;
By a spoken word,
a melody
my heart has heard.

I feel inspired tonight
by the black sea
shimmering white,
By midnight mist;
the face I've touched,
the lips I've kissed.

I've felt inspired tonight.
Somehow I know
that all is right;
Now I can rest.
I've been inspired
by all life's best.





Not really a poem, but a one of the greats...

"Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

-Calvin Coolidge

Please win

6 pm CDT (7 pm EDT) weather at Kansas City International Airport -

The wind is out of the south, which is blowing out toward left/left center, and there's light rain. The temperature is 81F, with the dew point at 71F, so although it's not as hot as it was last night, it's very muggy.

From the radar, it looks like the rain will be around for another hour or so, but the heavy rain and convective activity is all south of Kansas City. There could be a rain delay, but they could decide to play through the light rain.

Anni

What makes me the most worried is that the last time Schilling was pitching in KC, they ran him out after only 5 innings having given up 6 runs. I hope he remembers this and realizes that a momentum change is desperately needed tonight

If we can't defeat Runelvys Hernandez (with an ERA of 14.21 over his past 3 starts), and if Schill can't pitch a strong game against KC . . .

It was his first start after his closing stint. He's a completely different pitcher than he was then.

I don't know about where you are, but every MFY fan i have run into today has a big fat head. I'm sick of it already and it makes me want to

WIN TONIGHT!!!!!!

Schilling is still prone to making terrible mistakes over the plate, I think his start against the Angels proved that.

Amen!!!!!

Me neither. So...

So how fast can Coco run back to the dugout?

Good start Coco.

well good start, coco reaches

what happened to the dreads hernandez?

Loretta K's

Get throwed Tito

way to go coco, lose a baserunner while papi is up

Arguing balls and strikes or did something else happen?

Well, if Coco gets on base, you might as well try to make use of his only actual offensive skill. That said, HE HAS NO ****ing BUSINESS HITTING LEADOFF.

Ugh. I had hope with yesterday's lineup.

cmon youk make something happen

Nope just saying to make a point... DAmn, Manny'da havd an RBI if Coco didn't lose his cereal.

it looks like its starting to come down a bit harder

Wowzers.. squander already. bang.head

lovely, i love those lead off doubles, especially against the best we have

Lowell with his patent weak groundout to short

I have no doubt we're winning this game tonight.

Schilling will not let us down.

He's going deep into the game and he's going to win.

Why the hell can't Tito keep WMP at the 5 hole. Putting Lowell lower takes pressure off him, and God knows Pena and Manny seem to have that ignorant look about them.

ESPN is occasionally showing this game as bonus coverage during the rain delay.

those javy-like DP's and his tendency to K aren't going to help his case


f*** how does reggie sander continue to make those kinds of catches against us

Did Belli just show bunt?

I like that better.

good job dougie

Dougie is a stud who hits bombs.

dejesus seems to have schill's number tonight

youk

man i miss the effective mike lowell

As the offense struggles again...SSDD.

pena was robbed on that play, ouch

He's got that splitter working well.

man the offense has to get itself together, hernandez has been absolutely awful

Shit. Can we PLEASE not get swept by KC!!!!

it was only a matter of time before one of those doubles came home, damn manny stop playing so damn shallow

I hate Reggie Sanders.

MFYs and White Sox about to start on ESPN.