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August 23, 2007
Just before boarding a plane for Chicago, where he will watch the Red Sox' four-game series with the White Sox, Sean McAdam spoke to us for today's edition of projo SoxTalk. Click here to listen to the full audio file. Today's topics: Daisuke Matsuzaka's chronic lack of run support (two runs or fewer scored by Boston in 12 of his last 16 starts); Jason Varitek's inability to get anyone home (stranded eight men on base); Dustin Pedroia's importance to the lineup; Curt Schilling's strange suggestion that he might join Tampa Bay; and the Baltimore Orioles' fine display of pitching yesterday at Camden Yards.
Here are some excerpts from Sean's comments:
On Matsuzaka: "The identity of the pticher on the mound should not impact the productivity of the lineup ... and yet 12 out of 16 is something of a trend, and you wonder if there's anything to that. I think it's probably just happenstance and bad fortune for Matsuzaka, but certainly with 13 wins, he could have at this point won conservatively another four or five if they had scored some runs for him."
On Schilling: "The strange thing of course is that he would talk about Tampa Bay as a possible landing spot. For someone who is as competitive as he is, and someone who kind of forced his way out of both Philadelphia and Arizona because the team was no longer competitive, why he would want to go and pitch for a team that has never won more than 70 games in a season is a bit curious."
What crazy games have you covered (similar to the 30-3 Rangers win yesterday): "What's the I'd say the closest that I came to that was a World Series game in 1993 between the Blue Jays and Phillies ... it involved more than 30 runs ... and it really kind of turned into a softball game, and I thought kind of made a mockery -- here's supposed to be the fall classic, and the best that baseball has to offer, and the pitchers just couldn't get anybody out, and it was one of those games that took 4 1/2 hours. This is a little different obviously, the stakes aren't as high, but I think on a night like that, no matter what side you're on -- if you're covering the Rangers or the Orioles, winners or losers, you try to find some of the quirks and some of the oddities that are going on in front of you and try to have a little fun with it."
Posted by Mike McDermott 
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