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So, About That List of Alleged Players Who Supposedly Failed a Drug Test in 2003 …

OilCanBoyd — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:36:49 -0000

So, About That List of Alleged Players Who Supposedly Failed a Drug Test in 2003 …

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16. Aaron Boone
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at least that one must be true ; )

When great ones go...

OilCanBoyd — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:52:00 -0000

When great ones go...

..., it might hurt us more than it does them.
(another take by Bill Simmons)

The Pedro Martinez Cockfighting Video

OilCanBoyd — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:09:28 -0000

The Pedro Martinez Cockfighting Video

:-|

Big Poppy, David Ortiz, enmeshed in controversy... and other daily roidZ

OilCanBoyd — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:34:14 -0000

Big Poppy, David Ortiz, enmeshed in controversy... and other daily roidZ

don't much to say here i guess almost everybody has had this kind of thoughts by himself already

about Presinal ESPN had an old (2006) piece about him::

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2763252

this statement from "General Nutrition Center" about A-Fraud useless excuses made me smile:

"GNC does not sell illegal anabolic steroids. GNC is always troubled when an athlete who cheats himself and his profession attempts to implicitly or explicitly scapegoat another person or organization for his gross lapses in judgment, even if he was ‘young and stupid’ when it happened. GNC is confident that the public understands the difference between unlawful drugs that one’s cousin has to inject into the body and the legal, safe products for sale in its stores."

quote from this artikel (http://www.steroidreport.com/)::

GNC Feigned Outrage at A-Rod’s Claim that Supplements Could Trigger Positive Steroid Test

a scouting day in germany...

OilCanBoyd — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:35:04 -0000

and Bruce Hurst is the scout for the Sox as i learned yesterday?

may sound a bit boring to you but that is big news for Sox fans over here.

a young guy (RHP, 20) who played in our youth team (amateur club, germany) was coming to training yesterday and asked me if i know somebody called Bruce Hurst.

you can bet i know him i told him and asked why.

it seems that there is a clinic/scouting day today around the corner with some MLB scouts and Mr. Hurst is there for the Sox.

at least that is what i was told. i hope it is not a prank or mean joke.

well, besides the other hardcore Sox fan on my team who is equally nervous at his work right now nobody knew him at all.

i did not knew that he is a scout but now i am very excited and hope i can go a bit earlier from work to make a short visit to the field but it does not look to good right now.

Bruce Hurst...he had some good years with the Sox as i remember...i would really like to see him and get him to throw a ball to me.

as you can see you do not need a lot to get the Red Sox Nation excited over here : )

but i think i will stay to long at work and so i can only wish the young guy all the luck in this world that his dream come true and somebody may show interest in him and give him the opportunity to play some real baseball (besides the MFY).

i hope this was not just a bad joke.

if this really happens i will give an exclusive scouting report about the newest Red Sox member (it is not very probable that anybody gets signed but who knows) even when the Sox take somebody else out of this event ( as long as i know the guys).

but u never can have enough good arms in the organization, right ?

Looking Knuckleball, Part 1

OilCanBoyd — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:59:39 -0000

Looking Knuckleball, Part 1

The Knuckler looks good in the rain so far

Heidi Watney could not see games till recently this year and so i saw the new NESN reporter...

OilCanBoyd — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:12:30 -0000

Heidi Watney
could not see games till recently this year and so i saw the new NESN reporter yesterday the first time.

what a nice experience that was.
here is a shot for those unlucky of us who have no acces to NESN.

Batting Stances of past and present Red Sox not sure if it was posted here already but i had a...

OilCanBoyd — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:18:22 -0000

Batting Stances of past and present Red Sox

not sure if it was posted here already but i had a good laugh watching this guy.

Possible Playoff-Roster

OilCanBoyd — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:41:53 -0000

There is so much talk about trade or not to trade so i would like to hear how should the Sox Playoff-Roster look like?

It is early to make such a decision, but Theo hast to do it now so we can join the fun.

Always in mind that we go to the Playoffs, these guys will be healthy in October and that the performance do not fall dramatically (if possible at all Mr. Drew and Mr. Lugo ; -)

Starter
1 Schilling
2 Beckett
3 Wakefield/Lester(L)
4 Matsuzaka

Reliever
5 Papelbon
6 Gagne
7 Okajima(L)
8 Lester(L)/Wakefield
9 Delcarmen
10 Lopez(L)
11 Timlin
12 Tavarez

Position Players
13 The Captain(S)
14 Youkilis
15 Pedroia
16 Lowell
17 Cora(L)/Lugo
18 Ramirez
19 Crisp(S)
20 Drew(L)
21 Ortiz(L)

22 Mirabelli
23 Pena <-> Hinske
24 Lugo/Cora(L)
25 Ellsbury (L)

I propose no trade because I would like to go with this team in the Playoffs.

Show your Roster with trades that you would like to make.