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Todd: With most folks looking forward to a three-day weekend, it’s time to delete a few files from our hard drives and toss out a myriad of sports topics and opinions for your perusing pleasure.

The following injuries were incurred by Red Sox starting pitchers over the past calendar year.

Clay Buchholz: Suffers stiff neck and shoulder after falling asleep with his sleeping daughter in his arms, out for three months.

Jake Peavy: Cuts index finger on his non-pitching hand with a fishing knife, misses one spring training start

Felix Doubront: Injures shoulder after bumping into car door while trying to retrieve his child from back seat.

The simple solution?  Sox management should forbid their pitchers from spending any time with their kids during the season.

Kidding aside, weird injuries to Sox pitchers has apparently become a 21st century tradition, going back to July of 2000 when old friend Paxton Crawford rolling out of his hotel bed and landing on a glass.  Seriously, what are the odds of all these bizarre injuries happening to the same team at the same position?

Just to be safe, if I was John Farrell I would roll up Jon Lester and John Lackey in bubble wrap between starts.

But there’s more than wacky mishaps happening to the Sox these days, as they’re currently in the midst of their longest losing streak since Bobby Valentine presided over the train wreck of 2012.  Their numbers against right-handed starting pitchers is so abysmal that Ben Cherington brought back Stephen Drew to try and stabilize the batting order.

So Drew has been signed for the remainder of the 2014 season.  Frankly, I’m surprised he didn’t wait a few more weeks until after the MLB Draft when the draft pick compensation was no longer a factor and I believe the multi-year offers would have started pouring in.  Then again, with what the Sox were offering (around $10M) I guess I don’t blame him for taking the short-term deal and (best of all for him) not having to deal with the 1-year qualifying offer again, making him a true free agent after the season.

In our 2014 Sox preview, I was glad Drew didn’t return because I wanted to see the Sox go with the youth movement.  Bringing him back seems to fly in the face of that.  But it also makes me think that Will Middlebrooks’ fractured index finger might keep him on the DL longer than anticipated, and perhaps Cherington preferred bringing in a proven veteran without needing to make a trade.

Call me some sort of Sox loyalist if you want, but I don’t think the addition of Drew is an indictment on the shortstop play of Xander Bogaerts.  The kid has struggled a little in the field, but if I have to hear another mouth-breathing sports radio yakker tell me that Xander’s psyche is now damaged because he suddenly has to move back to third base, I think I’m going to drive into a jersey barrier.

Hitting on a few non-Sox topics, it’s obvious that the Celtics have as much luck with ping pong balls as Captain Kangaroo.  Choosing sixth in next month’s NBA Draft is unlikely to land the C’s someone who will make an immediate impact, unless Danny Ainge can package that pick to obtain, say, Kevin Love.  Wonder if the #6, Jared Sullinger and a high first-rounder next year would be enough to get a deal done with the Timberwolves?  Too bad Kevin McHale still isn’t the GM.

Chew on this factoid for a moment: David Ortiz and Kevin Garnett both came from teams in Minnesota and have helped Boston teams win four championships.  So how about some Love?

I bet upon hearing that the New York Rangers scored a whopping seven goals on the Canadiens in Game 1 last Saturday, there was a collective feeling of nausea amongst all Bruins fans.  Have to think that the B’s would have disposed of the Rangers in five games; instead the NYR won the first two games in Montreal and could be looking at a sweep with Carey Price KO’d from the series with a knee injury.

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Lucky 13?  I imagine California Chrome co-owners Steve Coburn and Perry Martin do not suffer from triskaidekaphobia, as their Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner has become the thirteenth horse to win the first two legs of horse racing’s Triple Crown since Affirmed last won all three races back in 1978.  The duo probably feel lucky already, given that California Chrome’s parents won a combined four of 28 races and were purchased for a mere $10,500.  Now that is a winning lottery ticket!

Other winners from all this Triple Crown talk?  Flair, makers of the equine nasal strip worn by California Chrome during his races.  I’ll confess there are times I get so stuffed up that I could use a nasal strip that size.

BTW don’t you just love the folks at the Belmont Stakes making an exception so CC could wear that nasal strip?  Guess they decided that having a full crowd of spectators watch a horse potentially do something that hasn’t been done in 36 years is better than an empty grandstand at post time.

Mike: I agree with you Todd, if the Belmont knocked CC out of the race, interest would be exactly zero. Horse racing is just not the spectacle it used to be, and so without a potential Triple Crown winner in the field, there would be no reason to tune in.

Speaking of no reason to tune in, looks like the Red Sox are in for a long summer. The team has been struggling all spring, and has now admitted that the youth movement isn't progressing as well as they had hoped, so here comes Stephen Drew. I'm with Todd on this one, I don't think it's an indictment on Bogaerts, but it could be more of an indictment of Will Middlebrooks, it looks like the struggling third baseman, who got off to such a great start when he was first called up, is just about out of chances here.

Staying with my theme of having no reason to tune in, we come to the Celtics. I refused to watch the draft lottery when it was televised, I have much better things to do with my time then watch a bunch of dudes sit around and wait for a bunch of ping pong balls. But now that the balls have spoken, it's clear that the Celtics are going to...well, actually it's not all that clear.

There are a lot of people out there who want Boston to put together a huge package for Minnesota's Kevin Love, but I'm not one of them. I've seen mock trades that have the Celtics sending five players and three draft picks to the T-Wolves for Love, and that to me is way too high for a player whose next playoff game will be his first.

I think Boston should build through the draft and use the multitude of picks to get younger and let their young coach build a team. Sure, drafting players is a crapshoot, but so is making a trade. You don't know how a player is going to react to being on a new team, and there's just as much of a chance of the trade being a bust as the draft. It's not like Kevin Love is Larry Bird in his prime, he's a good player on a bad team, but he's not the savior.

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