but as i said yesterday (i don’t remember where, exactly), the approach we took in Wednesday’s game (patience, taking pitches) is the one that we NEED to take on Friday. The problem with Wednesday’s game was that Lester was throwing strikes, and we were watching them go. We needed the hacking last night.

Dice-K, on the other hand, is way up there with league leaders in walks, and we absolutely need to take some pitches tomorrow night.

Yes, I think Napoli should start tomorrow. Yes, I think Rivera show start tomorrow.

Figgy 3b
GA LF
Tex 1b
Big daddy DH
Hula Dula CF
Morales RF
Kendrick 2b
Mathis C
Aybar SS

Lets see how this matches up with the lineup Scosh throws out there…the only thing I can see changing is inserting Johnny Rivers for Morales, but I think Morales is going to get the start and I think he is going to come up huge and will be a fixture in RF through game 6 of the worl series…. (obviously this is the day we win the championship)

"I don’t think anybody has to change anything. Everybody’s amped up anyway. I don’t think we have to change anything, personally.

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that’s what needs to change.

i’ve noticed (thus far anyway) that the Rays and the Dodgers, who’ve both been winning, have looked VERY relaxed and VERY in control. they’re playing the game that they want to play, and they’re doing in their time.

THAT is what we need to do… not freak out and try to do too much (a la Vlad’s base running), but just sit back, relax, wait for our pitches and execute.

i will be at the big A to watch this 10-game losing streak end once and for all. just got the call about the tickets. i can’t wait. i’m putting my personal 4 game “wins over the red sox at the big A when i’m there” streak on the line. this is the playoffs though….but we can do this.

On Wed night I wanted to toss something at the TV as I was forced to see/watch Scott “Borass” Boras sitting in his pricey seats talking to anyone that would listen as he did not watch the game unless he heard his clients announced over the PA.

Get that guy gone already. He is secretly rooting for the Red Sox anyway what with J.D. Drew, Jason Varitek, Daisuke Matsuzaka, and Jacoby Ellsbury.

Go with what we have gone with all season. A 25 man lineup that won more games than anyone else in MLB. We won we thought we wouldn’t, and lost when we thought we would win. Put ’em out there and everything SHOULD be ok. Everything being equal, we SHOULD take 2/3 from boston.

attitude.

“We Take No Mess” should be plastered all over the clubhouse. The players need to have the attitude that “This is our house, and we’re not going to be beat by anyone”

Have some swagger. Bravado. “If you even look at us wrong, we’re going to bitch-slap you”

The future batting title champ known to some as HK needs to step up and step out. He needs to do something offensively! This is the big stage with a national audience. You have almost 1000 plate appereances in the Show……now show up.

Not saying it all falls on him at all just saying that there needs to be others that contribute to the playoff success. Can’t sit and wait for the middle of the lineup to get it done all the time.