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September 14, 2007
Click here to listen to today's edition of projo SoxTalk with Sean McAdam. The topics: the importance to the Red Sox psyche of showing they can beat New York; the possibility of Manny Ramirez returning this weekend; Daisuke Matsuzaka's chance to show he belongs; the first taste of the rivalry for Clay Buchholz and Jacoby Ellsbury; and potential retaliation for Joba Chamberlain's pitching escapades last month.
Here are some excerpts from Sean's comments.
The stakes this weekend for the Red Sox: "From a confidence standpoint it would be good for them to reverse this trend of the last couple months, where the Yankees seem to be winning the games when they have to. The Red Sox dominated the season series earlier in the year ... but it has been all Yankees since midseason. And it would certainly behoove the Red Sox to maybe try to win a couple and take back a little back of that momentum in the event that these two teams meet in the ALCS, as a lot people think is going to happen."
Will Manny play? "I think we've all learned not to try to predict Manny Ramirez's behavior, but I'd be surprised, because that kind of injury is something that can linger for a long time. It can be easily aggravated, and there's nothing beyond the momentum that we talked about earlier that makes it important for the Red Sox here to try to win these games. Certainly they'd like to, but to get Manny back on the field, perhaps prematurely, would seem kind of silly."
On Dice-K: "There's some doubt creeping in about how and where he fits into the team's postseason pitching plans, and independent of how big tonight is, or the opponent, I think he has to show that he can turn this around and be counted on when the postseason begins."
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