Trot Nixon

A couple of great articles in the Globe today about Trot Nixon.

Pictures from Saturday June 21

Lowell on first. Too bad they couldn't string together more hits than they did.

Hansen hurls.

Manny on deck, dugout denizens watching. John Henry to right of dugout.

The Onion on Mike Lowell

"Mike Lowell Second In All-Star Voting
But Leads In All-Star Superdelegates"

Drew On Boston Geography: "Difficult"

Courtesy of ESPN.com:

"It's one of the most difficult places I've ever driven in my life,'' [J.D.] Drew said. "There's no road that actually runs north and south. You'll be going north one minute and west the next. That's one crazy road system they've got there.''

"Blame It On The" Fake Dreads

Before Friday night's game, during the rain delay at Fenway, they played a music video, from "two Boston athletes." Turned out it was Papelbon and Delcarmen, in the guise of Milli Vanilli, with dreads and all. Here's "Blame It On The Rain":

Dispatch from Fenway 6/20/08

Disappointing game last night as the Sox almost managed to keep pace with the Cardinals. Each time, they crept within a run but the timely hits didn't come as they lost. Fun to see the Celtics, whose enthusiasm wasn't dampened by the rain. Paul Pierce threw out a first pitch to Jason Varitek with a huge grin on his face.

A brand new music video featuring Jonathan Papelbon and Manny Delcarmen in fake dreads singing "Blame It On The Rain" proved funnier in theory than in practice.

The curious case of Julio Lugo came into play as his two throwing errors cost Tim Wakefield a run. In the bottom half of the inning, after Toby remarked, "His first home run of the season would go a long way here," he promptly launched his first of '08 over the Green Monster. Curious that we continue to play a shortstop whose defense is lacking for his offense, which, most of the time, is also lacking. I guess $8 million keeps one in the lineup.

J.D. Woo

J.D. Drew in his first 59 at-bats in June: .441 / .547 / 1.085 , with 9 HRs, 2 triples, and 7 doubles. For the mathematically challenged, that's an OPS of 1.631.  In fact, J.D. has a very real shot at topping his HR total from 2007 this month.

Per the Globe, neither Papi or Manny have ever had a month in which they slugged so high. 

Nixon A Met

Given the Mets' outfield injuries, trading for Trot Nixon makes perfect sense. I hope I get to see him play at Shea, which is in my backyard.

Schilling not close

According to the Boston today, Curt Schilling isn't close to rejoining the rotation. Of his side session, Francona said, "It wasn't one of his better days."http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

Rays not going anywhere

ESPN.com's Jayson Stark is taking the Rays for real:

Speaking of Tampa Bay, we continue to see no reason to assume the Rays will be coming back toward what they used to know as earth. One scout's review: "Here's the thing. [Evan] Longoria and [B.J.] Upton are guys who can hit good pitching. There are a lot of hitters out there who hit average pitching. But this club, if they can get to the playoffs, can do some damage because they can handle the good pitchers."

Schilling On Ortiz

"We will not not win the World Series because David Ortiz is not playing. We're not built around one player. That's not to diminish his value or importance."

Perhaps not not the worst way to have put it?

Jim Rice blog?

Can this be for real? Thank you Sullivan Tire!

Ortiz injury silver lining?

The Globe is reporting that Ortiz will be in a cast for 2 weeks, followed by a reevaluation that could lead to either rehad or season-ending surgery. But could it be possible that the rest for 2 weeks will heal his troublesome knee?