First of all, I like to apologize to my readers for not writing a column sooner I’ve been real busy, but I have continued to watch our Sox dominate the American League East. Hasn’t it been great? Sox taking three of four from the World Series champs last weekend and Manny starting to produce the way Dan Duquette had planned on when he signed him for $160 million.

What’s up with the new guy in the booth with Jerry Remy on NESN. The man named Dom Orsillo claims to be a baseball fanatic, but he has completely shown his ignorance of the game during a game against the Devil Rays on April 19. Orsillo said Gerald Williams was a leadoff switch hitter, I’m not positive if Williams is a switch hitter or not, but that’s beside the point. Williams was batting right handed and was facing Pedro Martinez, who is also a right handed for those who lack the baseball IQ like Orsillo. So why would the new guy say such a ridiculous comment? My response: he’s a Loser bring back Bob Kurtz and send Dom the Dumber back where he came from.

As much as I like Jimy Williams, the first few decisions he has made in the young season I would question. In the first game of the season, Jimy had put Chris Stynes, who has been a third baseman all his career, at second base instead of Jose Offerman. This decision came back to hurt the Sox when a little pop fly went over the second base bag and Stynes was unable to come up with it. As any Red Sox fan knows if he or she has any intelligence would know that would have been a routine play for Offerman. But nooooo, Jimy has a little grudge against Offerman and so benches him eventually causing the Sox a win on opening day with Pedro on the mound. And secondly, when the Sox needed a key hit and Ramirez would have been up (Manny had left in the seventh with a hamstring pull and was replaced with Darren Lewis as a pinch runner) Jimy decides to stay with Lewis instead of pinch hitting with the likes of Dante Bichette and Scott Hatteberg at the least sitting on the bench with a bat in their hand. Darren eventually strikes out and as I had said, lost the game with Pedro on the mound.

I said this once before on the ESPN message board and I will say again GIVE TROT AND TEK A BREAK. Despite what their numbers say, Nixon and Varitek are killing the ball night in and night out. I know that many analysts, like ESPN’s Dick Bakay, say that the numbers never lie, but in this case, they are BIG GIANT FAT lies. If you don’t believe me, stay home for a night and actually watch a complete game instead of just searching through the box score the next morning. I hate old farts who watch half the game at night because they can’t stay up for the whole game and then the next morning, go to the coffee shop complaining about this and that. Don’t believe what you always read in the paper and damn it; give Trot and Jason a break.

Now I know that everyone is thinking about and is curious on what Jimy is going to do when Manny is completely healthy and can return to right field. Well, I have come up with a plan that might just work. First of all, there is no way the Sox are going to win anything this year with Trot Nixon on the bench and we also need O’Leary to continue to play every day in left because he has started there for the past three seasons and is playing quite well in the field with the thirty three foot wall behind him. We also need to have Trot’s gun of an arm in right to cut down runners at the plate. So to my conclusion, I’d say we put O’Leary in left, Everett in center, and every five days or every other series switch Nixon and Ramirez in right. That gives Manny enough time to play the field so he is happy and not complaining about being a DH and also allows to keep Nixon’s bat in the lineup. And when Ramirez is in right, give a game or two to Bichette as the designated hitter There you go. Everyone is happy and we’re ready to win the World Series.

Something that I found so funny and amusing was the comment made by Peter Gammons during spring training on Rich Garces. Gammons had said the trainer of the Sox, Jim Rome, was worried about Garces arm and how long he would last during the season because of his WEIGHT. That is the funniest thing I have every heard. Garces is a big man, I mean a HUGE man, but that weight hurting his arm during the season?, I’m not so sure about that. But how do I know, maybe we show call Jenny Craig and rename the number 1-800-96-Garces.

Derek Lowe, please pick up the white courtesy phone We need you and you need to start producing We know you will, so get your act together.

One last quick story I was o the ESPN.com Yankees message board and I posted a message that said Yankees suck 4 life. You wouldn’t believe how many hits I got and emails I had received. It was crazy, one person even said he was going to recurse the Curse of the Bambino Here you go. A perfect example of how ludicrous Yankees fans are.

And for fantasy players, get Ichiro Suzuki of Seattle and Mark Quinn of Kansas City and when you pick your pitchers, it is most beneficial to get closers because they pitch more often than your starters. That’s it for the Fantasy Beat.

Till next time, actually watch the Sox and avoid the headlines of the paper.

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