Comments on: Josh Beckett will miss Sunday start with shoulder injury

By: mudhead123

mudhead123 — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:51:56 +0000

Beckett injured? No way!

By: cereal blogger

cereal blogger — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:35:49 +0000

Does this count as an off day ? (“I Spend My Off-Days The Way I Want”)

By: randygnyc

randygnyc — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:31:21 +0000

I think pedroia has already demonstrated his willingness to come back from injury too soon. Negligently in fact (I remember him taking ground balls in a boot. Much to the chagrin of mgmt). Because of such past bad judgement, you’d think the R’S would rely on the Dr’s instead. Nope.

By: dan1111

dan1111 — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:53:58 +0000

You are right that he has been bad since he came back. He’s hitting .167 for June. It’s only nine games, but it is worrisome. However, it’s hard to judge whether he knew he was not ready to come back. Playing through pain is a part of baseball, and lots of players can still be effective when not at 100%. The Sox, presumably, thought he was ready, or they would not have let him play.

By: patsandsox

patsandsox — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:36:54 +0000

They have the worst trainers and drs in the major leagues. They have so many injuires its almost funny now. Not only was the starting outfield on the dl, but the second string outfield too. That is unheard of as far as I know. The endless problems with the pitchers, and I also think Dustin Pedrioa should be on the DL. He is my favortie player but its clear its affecting his performance but somehow the Red Sox cant figure that out. What happened to them? Does ownership just not care anymore? Its really sad trying to figure it out. At work we have started a pool on which Red Sox will be on the DL next

By: randygnyc

randygnyc — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:32:32 +0000

Dan, I understand your point. It seemed pretty obvious that it was a significant injury. Any torn ligament is. Now, I get it that he can’t injure it any worse, but it’s about being effective. It was clear then, that they could rehab or play. If a player isn’t effective, or can’t be, it hurts the team. If he was putting team first, he’d sit himself on the DL. But he didn’t, and I speculated then, as I do know, that by doing so, he’d be putting himself before the team. That’s selfish in my book.

I don’t know his stats. Since the injury, though, it’s as if every time I see the box score, he’s got an 0-fer. I don’t watch the games, so I don’t know if he’s stranding runners left and right, either. Which would be worse.

By: dan1111

dan1111 — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:17:28 +0000

The point was that Randy claimed that Pedroia was acting out of “selfishness” and a “desire to martyr himself”. Actually, selfishness and a desire to martyr oneself are exact opposites, but the point was that we don’t really know what Pedroia’s motivations are. Making these sort of accusations is unfair.

By: bloodysock

bloodysock — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:50:28 +0000

If something is going on in his head he needs to deal with it. It doesn’t hide the fact that he had another 0-fer today and ended the fifth, seventh and ninth innings. Seven RBI’s in his last 25 games isn’t cutting it.

By: crispybasil

crispybasil — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:35:19 +0000

Hope it’s nothing serious considering the way he’s been pitching.

By: dan1111

dan1111 — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:11:00 +0000

Don’t forget that you don’t actually know what’s going through his head.

By: dan1111

dan1111 — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:09:54 +0000

Wait ‘Til Next Year Fever is tearing through Boston. Rejoice: No more stress of tracking every game lost or gained in the standings! No more sitting at the computer in the middle of the night so you can click at just the right moment to buy tickets! No more paying the scalpers just to get a standing room “seat”! No more putting everything into terrible fake Boston accents. You can once again “park” your “car” if you want to. And maybe, just maybe, there will be no more truck day.

By: randygnyc

randygnyc — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:57:25 +0000

I don’t care to look, but I warned that Pedroia refusing to go on the DL was more about his selfishness and desire to martyr himself than it was about acting in the best interests of the Sox. Like I said, I won’t bother looking, but isn’t he like 3 for, what 50 at bats since he declared himself ready to play? Another 0-fer today.

By: mybrunoblog

mybrunoblog — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:41:49 +0000

Fortunately this will allow him to make his 7AM tee time Monday morning.