Dirty!

Alex Rodriguez is up to his old habits. During last night's loss to Boston, Rodriguez going into second trying to break up a double play clearly going well off course to take out Dustin Pedroia with an elbow to the groin. Of course anyone who follows either team knows this is nothing new for the golden boy of Major League Baseball, whom everyone wants to root for if for no other reason then he will someday erase Barry Bonds' controversial rise past Hank Aaron from the record book. If nothing else with his dirty play, Rodriguez maybe limiting the high spenders who will get into a bidding war for him this offseason when he opts out of his Yankees contract. Any negotiations without Boston could easily leave millions on the table.

Sox Ride Bats & Arms To Sweep

The Boston Red Sox used a sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays to extend their lead in the American League East to seven games over second place New York. Boston won each of the three games against Toronto in convincing fashion by 9-2, 9-3 and 8-0 scores. Josh Beckett, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Tim Wakefield were brilliant in their starts and the bullpen was effective in the limited opportunities they had in the series. Following this series Boston's team ERA stands at 3.17, the starters have a 3.49 ERA and the bullpen has a 2.38 ERA. Boston hit nine homeruns in the series with each of the regulars hitting atleast one except Coco Crisp and J.D. Drew. More importantly the series continued the solid hitting of Jason Varitek and Dustin Pedroia, two of Boston's hitter who had been struggling for much of the early season. Boston heads home for a 10 game homestand that will provide two stiff challenges for the Red Sox, Detroit comes to town for a four game set and Atlanta for a three game season. Last season Boston had a stellar record against the National League and hope to continue that this season. Julian Tavarez, Curt Schilling and Josh Beckett go for the Sox in the Baltimore series starting tomorrow. Tavarez will face rookie Brian Burres while Schilling goes against Steve Trachsel. Beckett faces Jeremy Guthrie. Boston should easily be favored in each of the three games.

Manny Loving Julian

Great video, and Remy or Orsillo can't stop laughing

JACKA$$ ROGER CLEMEN$ JOIN$ YANKEE$

For weeks, no months, hell since he did this last season, my friend warned me that Roger Clemens wasn't worth the fuss. I ignored the warnings, and had faith that Clemens would choose to end it where it all began. Foolish me! Seems Roger Clemens is the same money hungry asshole he has always been, and George Steinbrenner is the same money tossing douche he has always been. Together these two losers make a great couple, to the tune of $28 million for a 5-inning pitcher. Of course Boston very well may get the last laugh at this. The first laugh could come as soon as the first week of June when Clemens could face his former team in his first start of the season. I hope 2007 is the final season for Roger Clemens. I don't want to even have to live through Boston considering this jackass again in 2008. Clemens joins a pitching staff that is desperate for help, perhaps thats why he chose New York, it's by far the biggest challenge of the three. Boston is a far superior team to the Yankee team that has showed up thus far this season, one would think if Clemens care more about winning then about money Boston would have been the choice. But for Clemens $$ talked, and add in that he gets the same perks as he had in Houston it was a deal he couldn't refuse. A deal he agreed to without even letting Houston or Boston counter, not that either would have approached the absurd $28 million that puts New York back over the $200 million in total payroll. Have fun in New York Roger, have fun sputtering along with a washedup team. Enjoy watching the playoffs on TV.

Sox Promote Jacoby Ellsbury

The Boston Red Sox today promoted Jacoby Ellsbury from Portland to Pawtucket. The move was expected after Ellsbury tore apart AA pitchers in the first month of the season with a minor league baseball high .452 average. Ellsbury's stop in Pawtucket could be brief or extended til September depending on what the Red Sox do in terms of trades in July. Ellsbury has stolen 8 bases and has a .644 slugging percent despite no HRs yet this season. He has 10 doubles and two triples in 73 at bats. His OBP was .518. More after the jump. Boston could of course revisit the Todd Helton talks as a lot has changed since Spring Training. Craig Hansen signed a major league contract when he was drafted and is now in the third year of the four year deal. Boston has Jonathan Papelbon back in the closers spot and Bryson Cox is performing well in the minors since being drafted last season. This makes Hansen expendable. One deal Boston could look at is unloading Hansen along with Coco Crisp and Mike Lowell for Helton. Crisp comes at a rather good deal and Lowell would come off Colorado's books at seasons end. If Boston pulled this deal off that would open a spot immediately for Ellsbury in Boston.