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June 5, 2007
Today on projo SoxTalk, Art Martone and Sean McAdam discuss last night's remarkable game in Oakland, and whether you can take a good feeling from a loss (well, we'll see what happens tonight). Click here to listen to the full audio file. Sean also discusses MLB's crazy schedule, the fans' leniency toward J.D. Drew and Julio Lugo, and whether the Yankees will try to trade for a starting pitcher.
Here are a few excerpts from Sean's comments.
On last night's game: "I think if there's any such thing as a moral victory, you saw it last night. It didn't end the way the Red Sox would have liked, but given all the things they were up against -- from the travel, having three starters out of the lineup, not being able to go to their two best relievers late in the game, matched up against the other team's number-one starter -- it certainly was stacked against them, and they gave a pretty good account of themselves before losing in 11 innings."
On the Sox' scheduling woes (an 8 o'clock game in Boston on Sunday, then a cross-country flight to Oakland for a game Monday night): "I don't think there would be much ground to stand on if they lodged a protest, because when Major League Baseball signs the deal they did with ESPN, which allows ESPN to not only schedule these Sunday night games, but do so on relatively short notice ... you cede any right to protest or appeal. If you're going to take the money that ESPN is going to provide, then you have to go by their ground rules, and adjust to what they want to put the games they want to have on their schedule, and it just broke wrong for the Red Sox."
On Drew and Lugo: "It's a wonder that we've gotten this far into the season -- a little more than two months -- with very little anger or fan reaction directed at either of them. I still think Drew is the bigger target, because of his reputation as a guy who won't play hurt and the fact that he got almost exactly twice as much money as Lugo did in the offseason. That makes him a bigger target. I think it's really going to be dependent on how the team plays, and if they hit a rough patch, I think these guys are going to hear it."
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