Beckett vs. Francis - Wednesday 8:27 EST start @ Fenway

No word on the rest of the rotation as the Red Sox work out who starts where.

i think it would make the most sense to keep the rotation the same. schilling, dice-K, wakefield/beckett

does j ellsbury start at CF over coco? seems like the hotter bat as of late

Have fun talking to yourself...

There are Rockies fans on this board. The Indians thread got lots of posts with one Indians fan.

BTW, this is really biased: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Aj...p&type=lgns

I'm an Indians fan through and through.

I quit reading when I looked and it said "J.D. Drew...EVEN"

lol yeah, Hawpe is like leagues better than Drew. I was like..WHAT THE HELL? I'd even say Youkilis and Helton are even. Pedroia didnt drive a run in the ALCS until Game 7...SS is definetely won by CO. 3rd base is even. V-tek doesn't come up in the clutch very often and their catcher has been awesome so far... I guess Tek wins bc of past postseason experience and how valuable he is to the pitching staff...Manny wins in the OF, but Holliday has been great, too. Not too sure about center field going to the Rockies. Jacoby can play great defense and Coco will prolly start a few games as well. *shrug*... I already discussed right field

DH-obv. the Sox. PItching, havent even heard most of their starters before they got good...Sox again. Relief, best bullpen in baseball goes to the Sox. Sox bench is nice, but I don't see it coming into play.

We'll see about the managers...Whether who starts in center, how the rotation is managed, extra for the Sox.

I think it goes 6-7 games.

V-tek doesn't come up in the clutch very often and their catcher has been awesome so far...

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Torrealba...come on, homer.

You want me to spell that?

You might want to learn it, he's had a better than decent post season thus far.

Did I say he had a decent postseason? No, I said he has had an awesome one. Which is why I was second guessing that guy saying Tek won the catcher position.

You know so much about him that you can't write out his name? pfffft. I'm calling bullshit.

Okay Quinn, whatevva you say.


Papelbon's dance should be more popular than Soulja Boy

I liked that. Thanks.

The guy that came and danced with him is one of the guys from Dropkick Murphys.

Colorado's Governor Bill Ritter is betting a box of steaks that the Rockies will defeat the Red Sox and win the team's first baseball championship.

Ritter plans to discuss the wager this afternoon in a telephone call with Governor Deval Patrick, whose staff has not yet announced what New England delicacy will be bet on Boston.

The Colorado meat includes beef from state Representative Kathleen Curry's Tomichi Creek Ranch in Gunnison and organic buffalo steaks from the Maverick Ranch. Not that Ritter expects to ship anything to Massachusetts.

"The governor is very confident that the hottest team in baseball will do just fine in the World Series," said spokesman Evan Dreyer.

The hottest team in baseball is the Rockies, Dreyer added, having won 21 of their last 22 games. Not the Red Sox, which outscored the Cleveland Indians 30 to 5 in the last three games of the American League Championship Series.

US Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry of Massachusetts made their own wager with their colleagues from Colorado, betting New England clam chowder and lobster rolls that the Red Sox will win their second World Series in three years.

Colorado's US senators, Wayne Allard and Ken Salazar, met the wager with Colorado-raised beef. The losing senators have agreed to donate the winning food to charity.