Season opening series: TB @ BOS Apr.6-Apr.9

[greenbeans]

What we're rolling with:

starting-
19 Josh Beckett P R/R Active 6-5 222 5/15/1980 Spring, TX
31 Jon Lester P L/L Active 6-2 190 1/7/1984 Tacoma, WA
18 Daisuke Matsuzaka P R/R Active 6-0 185 9/13/1980 Tokyo, Japan
49 Tim Wakefield P R/R Active 6-2 210 8/2/1966 Melbourne, FL
36 Brad Penny P R/R Active 6-4 230 5/24/1978 Blackwell, OK
relievers-
48 Javier Lopez P L/L Active 6-4 220 7/11/1977 San Juan, Puerto Rico
17 Manny Delcarmen P R/R Active 6-2 205 2/16/1982 Boston, MA
63 Justin Masterson P R/R Active 6-6 250 3/22/1985 Kingston, Jamaica
24 Takashi Saito P L/R Active 6-2 214 2/14/1970 Miyagi, Japan
56 Ramon Ramirez P R/R Active 5-11 190 8/31/1981 Puerto Plata, DR
37 Hideki Okajima P L/L Active 6-1 194 12/25/1975 Kyoto, Japan
58 Jonathan Papelbon P R/R Active 6-4 225 11/23/1980 Baton Rouge, LA
starters-
c-33 Jason Varitek C S/R Active 6-2 230 4/11/1972 Rochester, MI
1b-20 Kevin Youkilis 1B R/R Active 6-1 220 3/15/1979 Cincinnati, OH
2b-15 Dustin Pedroia 2B R/R Active 5-9 180 8/17/1983 Woodland, CA
ss-12 Jed Lowrie SS S/R Active 6-0 180 4/17/1984 Salem, OR
3b-25 Mike Lowell 3B R/R Active 6-3 210 2/24/1974 San Juan, Puerto Rico
lf-44 Jason Bay LF R/R Active 6-2 205 9/20/1978 Trail, Canada
cf-46 Jacoby Ellsbury CF L/L Active 6-1 185 9/11/1983 Madras, OR
rf-7 J.D. Drew RF L/R Active 6-1 200 11/20/1975 Valdosta, GA
dh-34 David Ortiz DH L/L Active 6-4 230 11/18/1975 Santo Domingo, DR
bench-
? Nick Green 2B R/R Active 6-0 178 9/10/78 Pensacola,FL
5 Rocco Baldelli CF R/R Active 6-4 200 9/25/1981 Woonsocket, RI
54 Chris Carter LF L/L Active 6-0 230 9/16/1982 Fremont, CA
68 George Kottaras C L/R Active 6-0 185 5/10/1983 Scarborough, Canada
dl-
60 Jonathan Van Every CF L/L on 15-day DL 6-1 190 11/27/1979 Brandon, MS
11 Mark Kotsay CF L/L on 15-day DL 6-0 204 12/2/1975 Whittier, CA
23 Julio I hope he rots in hell Lugo SS R/R on 15-day DL 6-1 175 11/16/1975 Barahona, DR
29 John Smoltz P R/R on 15-day DL 6-3 220 5/15/1967 Warren, MI

Manager: Terry Francona

Monday Apr.06 2:05pm *fingers crossed*
Beckett(12-10 4.03) 0-0 vs. Shields(14-8 3.56) 0-0

Wednesday Apr.08 7:10pm
Lester(16-6 3.21) 0-0 vs. Kazmir(12-8 3.49) 0-0

Thursday Apr.09 1:35pm
Matsuzaka(18-3 2.90) 0-0 vs. Garza(11-9 3.70) 0-0

Let's start this season on the right foot and win atleast 2 of 3 here. Lots of new faces, I'm excited to see what this pitching staff of ours can do, mainly the bullpen, if they stay healthy they can be dominant.

Let's go Sox! whoo

[greenbeans]

Pretty good fluff piece on Pedroia with a couple cool stories:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/ ... roia/page1

[Dirty Water]

I'm really liking hwo this team is coming together. The pitching staff is top notch. Really tremendous (I'm going to disregard the Yankees staff at this point till they start playing some games (: ). The question is where will the offense come from? Hopefully Ortiz can put together a solid year and I'm really high on Jason Bay this year. We have enough youth down the center with SS/2B/CF and on the bench - carter/kottaras. It will be really fun this year in a three team race.

I just have a bad feeling Lowell will see some DL time this year.

Oh, and great article greenbeans

[Celtics_Champs]

**** Rain.

[NES 247]

I'm pretty sure the game will be rescheduled tomorrow at 4. Damn, I was so eager too, oh well whats one more day in a 162 game season, ya know?

[greenbeans]

I'm happy Monday and Tuesday are my days off, so I'll definitely get to see it, otherwise I'd be pissed. Plus my girl has tomorrow off so I might try and get tickets.

[Celtics_Champs]

Pedroia starting off nice.

[sunshinekids99]

Beckett sure looked good today. Lets hope that is the Beckett we get this season. Nice to see Tek put some good swings as well, I know it's one game, but I'll take it.