Roch, how many times can you put a guy on the DL during one year? Is there a limit? See, I figure if Wright has to go on the DL after every second start, and he misses 2 starts in between and there are 162 games and he starts, or would start, every 5th day and....

The Sox have about as much chance of winning tonight against Lowen, as the drunk punk who used the F word to Amber, keeping his job tomorrow. He's got to go. This must be people say stupid things month. Go Amber!

Trust me I live in Indy and am very thankful for MASN and DirecTV. That being said It is not to much for them to broadcast in the formaty that is the industry standard and to provide qulaity audio. We pay for it, we can critiique it.

The drunk little fairey who said the F word to Amber will [ I hope ] lose his job, soon. He's got to go. Go Amber. You are a pro!

Well, Herbie, maybe you should lose your job too for referring to someone as a "fairy." Or, at least, I'm assuming that's what you meant with your botched spelling.

Thanks for thinking of me a couple posts back, Tom D. Don't worry, I got it off my chest. We bloggers can take it, and we need someone on here with your no-nonsense approach - the George Bush of Roch bloggers, if you will. Seriously though, your posts are good and entertaining.

However, I don't think the people calling for Ray (or the best pitcher, whoever that is at the time) in the 7th meant that they would want to keep him in for the rest of the game. I think they were simply proposing to do away with the unbendingly defined roles that are assigned to each pitcher. It does limit the options unnecessarily sometimes.

Holy Crap! Adam Loewen pitched out of a jam. Let's Go O's. Let's Go O's. Print up the playoff tickets.

Roch:

To the contrary. Seems like a pretty big deal to accuse one of baseball's historical best pitchers of essentially faking the incident that put him in baseball's lore. I mean, it'd be like saying that Kirk Gibson really wasn't hurt when he belted that homer off Eckersley, that it was all a stunt. You just can't do that. Especially when you have NO proof.

And to compound it, the fact that he admitted he was wrong 12 hours later just reveals the guy to be a boob. I mean, if you're going to accuse somebody of the baseball equivalent of murder, at least stick to your guns, you know?

For the record, I say this as an Orioles fan.

"I said it but I was only joking"

What? Are you kidding me? He's [expletive] lying. A straight lie," Mirabelli said. "I never said that. I know it was blood. Everybody knows it was blood."

Can anyone play this game? For example,

"I did not
have
sexual
relations
with that woman
Amber Theoharis"

Welcome back Ramon!

One more thought. This whole era of baseball is about us as fans coming to grips with the fact that people we once cheered on and idolized -- McGwire, Palmeiro -- were cheats. Flat-out dishonest cheats. This has scarred baseball, perhaps irreparably.

So to incorrectly accuse another baseball hero (not to me, but to some) of cheating or being dishonest is especially caustic. It hurts to think that yet another ballplayer has lied to us, when we are already reeling from the painful lies of the last decade.

And that's what makes Thorne's accusation so powerful. That it was baseless makes it all the more idiotic. And newsworthy.

The baseball equivalent of murder?!?!?!?!?!? GIve me a break Rob In SD this is not that big a deal, and to call it murder is ludicrous. Most people outside of Boston don't give a damn whether or not it was blood, red paint, or red jello on the sock. And no one has ever doubted that Schilling wasn't truly hurt, just that he might not have acutally been bleeding. People need to get over this. Besides, as sucky as the audio is on MASN, how many people even heard Thorne say it haha. Seriously though, tonight is game 22 and MASN still has yet to fix the audio problems plaguing the broadcast of games. Do they ever plan on fixing it? Maybe by the all star break????