This Is Getting Silly: 2 Innings Pitched, 7 Earned Runs

Chicken wings and beers, not steroids. (I think)

LOL!  Guys.  It’s easy.  Google “Tim Wakefield’s agent.”  It’s right there, for free, on the internet.  OR!  If you want, I’ll get you the number.  Fire Bobby Valentine (j/k, it’s too early) and make Tim Wakefield the player/manager.  He will do this for two or three million dollars peanuts.  Then you free up (not really because you probably signed a f-ing contract) $7 million for BV, and get yourself a serviceable 4th or 5th (or 6th?) pitcher in the rotation.  Just do it before it’s too late.  You can thank me later.

At Last, Can We Acknowledge That Tim Wakefield Is The MVP?

Mm hmm. Well...

  

VivaLaStool.com FlumeCandy.com, 18 April, 2011:  Statistically speaking, [the Red Sox are] already out of the hunt.  For the Sox, It’s over for 2011.  What that means is that they have nothing left to lose.  So why not go out in style, and show some class by doing something good for one of the three or four greatest Red Sox players in history?  No surprise here, I’m talking of course about Tim Wakefield. 

This guy single handedly delivered was instrumental in delivering championships to Boston in ’04 and ’07.  Guy is a rock.  All the while, people are putting up Manny shrines or lauding Johnny Damon as their savior, and Wake keeps coming to work, putting in the time, getting juggled around by what now seems to be a clueless but lucky (and rich) management team, and taking bargain basement prices to do it.

The Sox are shelling out $43 million this year for Beckett, Daisuke, and Lackey, and they’ve got a 4-4 record out of those belly itchers.  Tim’s taking in around a couple million this year, and he’s the best at floating over a 60 mph grapefruit and making major league hitters look like a$$holes.”

There’s way more, but it’s easy to see that this guy gets it.  Or rather, this guy GOT it way back in April.  Tito came around and let Tim pitch for a while, but lost his nerve and pulled him out of the rotation towards the end of the season, and a historic collapse was the result.  Sure, sure – he was 1-5 in his last 10 starts – horrible.  But maybe it wasn’t Tim that was running out of gas.   Whatever, it’s over now.  The Sox players are are scattering to the four corners with their mistresses, leaving the fans behind to do whatever it is they do from October – April.  Maybe they’ll come back with more appreciation for the value they’ve continued to receive from Wakefield.  Probably not, but maybe. 

I wonder if Lavarnway can catch a knuckleball.