So you wanna play with the big boys?

I'm just gonna go right out on a limb here and say that Kyle (the strike thrower) Drabek doesn't match up so well against the free swinging Red Sux line up.

As Yoda once said: “Pain, suffering, death I feel. Something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker Drabek is in pain. Terrible pain”

A Completely Unreasonable Request?

I can't believe this only has 2,300 hits on YouTube. Shocked in fact.

A good friend of mine showed me this clip and inevitably the conversation came to a point where we discussed going to see the Red Sux play in the Dome and all that it entails.

• Packed house
• Paying more for a ticket
• 50/50 split on the cheering
• Full parking lots
• Red Sux gear being sold by the vendors

You know the deal.

I actually caught myself saying that I prefer not to be in attendance. How can that be?

I must say there was a time when I relished seeing our free spending fucking divisional rivals. It didn't matter to me how pathetic the turnout of fellow Blue Jay faithful was. I had no issue making up for the home side. Taunting Red Sux fans was awesome fun. They were such easy targets. So. Much. Material.

Nowadays the shitshow that is the entire downtown core when Red Sox Nation is in town - especially when it's a weekend - should be completely avoided whenever possible. Just a friendly suggestion. I would be interested to see whether or not there is a spike in crime in the city on those weekends.

As I was writing this up, something donned on me. Just gonna go ahead and throw it out there. If we all stopped going to see this perennial powerhouse play baseball around 10 times a year - every year - would the cheap bastards @ Rogers start thinking that maybe division realignment is the way to go? I figure the revenue that these games bring in is the only reason why that hasn't happened yet.

Please note: at any point in this post feel free to substitute Red Sux or Red Sox Nation with the words Skankees or Evil Empire. It still works.

Seeing RED

Funny story about this pic. I was saving it to use for the Yankees and Cashman after they signed Lee and whoever the hell else they wanted this offseason. In the span of nearly a week that all changed. A week that had a near $300 million dollar price tag.

As soon as the news that the Crawford deal went down - 7 years $142 million - which was after the on again off again trade for Gonzalez and his rumored extension - 7 years $154 million - I was forced to do the unthinkable.

I asked our graphics guy to change it up to Theo and the Red Sox styles.

Naturally my reaction to the news was, well, I guess you could call it a little extreme. I have subsequently calmed down enough to write about it. Although I must say the fact that the they are going to wait until later to announce the extension as to avoid paying the luxury tax still bothers me. Daily. But it's a smart baseball move and I gotta tip my cap to them for finding a way to manipulate the ONLY FUCKING rule as it pertains to salary spending in all of MLB.

I took a look at Carl Crawford's contract info on Cot's. One of the clauses is worth noting. The Boston Red Sox can block a trade of Carl to one team. Any guess who that may be? Does it even really fucking matter? I'm pretty sure they can block a trade to any team in baseball by just not agreeing to trade him to them.

Why even put that in the contract?

Seriously?

What happens if they do work out a deal with the Yankees for Crawford?

Huh?

What happens next?

Do they block themselves?

WTF? 

All I gotta say about Adrian Gonzalez is he scares the living shit out of me. Those numbers? In Petco? Jesus. He is going to love hitting in Boston. His current contract may be the best team friendly deal in the modern era. Over the 4 year term, from 2007 - 2010, he:

• missed playing in only 5 games
• hit 137 home runs
• drove in 419 RBI
• was paid $9.5 million

The Red Sox had some pretty impressive offensive statistics as a team in 2010. They were 1st in total bases, 2nd in runs and home runs, tied for 3rd in on base percentage and tied for 5th in team average. That's for all of baseball not just the AL. I'm not sure why they decided to add here. But add they did. The lineup with the additions of Crawford and Gonzo is projected to score about 5 and a half runs a game.

That's fucking fantastic news!