and still would not be surprised to see anybody tomorrow. i think we’re going to throw the kitchen sink at them tomorrow. of course its best if john repeats his last performance at fenway, but if needed i think anyone would be willing to go. thats what makes october so great.

A little sore, maybe. But not tired.

in a save situation. He had Saturday off. I know that was a lot of pitches, but I still Sloth puts him out there with the game on the line.

…you’re smoking something. Off day tomorrow. Off day last Saturday. Frankie will be available, for better or worse.

Everyone is available, Rev. Dondo, Shields and K-Rod will all throw tonight. No way Scioscia goes with Jepsen in an important situation because a few multi-millionaires are “tired”. Bullshit.

They will pitch if needed. Period.

Hopefully K-Rod isn’t needed. I couldn’t have less confidence in a pitcher right now…

He is scary against Boston – just like Percy used to be versus Cleveland back in the late 1990’s.

but if Garland or Frankie come within 30 feet of the mound I will literally shit a brick

Saunders and Santana.

Honestly, with a day off tomorrow, I have no doubts that Scioscia would throw Frankie or Weaver in there. I think he would probably pitch Garland before Weaver tonight, so Weaver is probably a lot closer to unavailable than K-Rod.

I also don’t think Scioscia is going to hold Shields back since Shields has a rubber arm and his pitches were relatively stress free. Shields was fantastic last night.

I so don’t need another F-Rod appearance.

With that said I am going with everyone available but Smokey Joe and Santana.

34 pitches from him is nothing.

Anyone and everyone is available….

Not that this has much (read:any) relevance, but I think that I am going to tear my hair out if I have to endure anymore talk about these preposterously conceived “pitch counts” that somehow determine exactly how many pitches a human male can/cannot throw in a given time period.

Baseball, God love it (as Joe Biden’s grandmother used to say) is the only sport that continues to base its training on superstition rather than science. These seemingly randomly-determined pitch counts serve as law-law that should be based on the study of physiology, not baseball tradition quackery.

 How is it that on one hand baseball teams will say, “It’s not possible for our starter to throw past 100 pitches,” yet the same exact friggin team says, “yeah, we’re cool with our starting pitcher weighing a cool three bills.” What kind of ass-backwards training philosophy is that?

If you’re in good shape you’ll be able to throw lots of pitches!! If you throw lots of pitches you will be able to throw lots of pitches!! If you’re never allowed to throw more than 120 pitches, you will never be able to throw more than 120 pitches. Rant over.

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