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Valentine is an odd duck. Maybe he has issues with Bucholtz and this is his way of getting back at him ala Aceves. Really it's just Pedroia though. Elsbury the LH bat might have poor splits vs CC.

214 BA, 281 OBP, 357 SLG versus Sabathia. Not good but not like his sub 300 OPS against Joba Chamberlain either.

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As bad as Bobby is I don't see him doing this to be a jerk. I remember the trainers looking at Pedroia yestersday, it might have been after Matt gunned him out. Ellsbury has benn hurting for awhile. I am not saying this makes me feel any better though.

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As bad as Bobby is I don't see him doing this to be a jerk. I remember the trainers looking at Pedroia yestersday, it might have been after Matt gunned him out. Ellsbury has benn hurting for awhile. I am not saying this makes me feel any better though.

Any chance he is trying to show Pedroia up for the kind of stupid play of running right then?

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Valentine is an odd duck. Maybe he has issues with Bucholtz and this is his way of getting back at him ala Aceves. Really it's just Pedroia though. Elsbury the LH bat might have poor splits vs CC.

Yup

6 for 28 with 9k's in 32ABs

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I guess. But it is still amazingly weak sauce. Valentine should love the Orioles..................... we got him his job this year.

I bet he is still mad he couldnt bait us into a bean ball war. That is probably what he wanted this series. If I was in charge he would of had the war. But brighter minds prevailed. We have bigger fish to fry.

Wasn't Bobby Valentine the Orioles choice before Showalter? And I recall Eric Wedge was their second choice? Oh how karma can be a blessing and a bastard. Just ask the former.

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Funny.

Last year I seem to recall a certain last place team, long out of the race, who throughly enjoyed playing spoiler.

I mean, if the Sox were playing the First Place--I don't know, Rays or Blue Jays--, okay then fine. I get it. You want revenge for our spoiling 2011.

But these are the Yankees, guys. Aren't you supposed to despise them with a heat of a thousand suns?

I really don't like Bobby V.

MSK

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They're looking at the youth, and to see what they have to build with. Really can't blame them. The Red Sox aren't thinking about the Orioles or Yankees at this point.

That said, I wouldn't mind getting Mike Avilles from them to play 2B next year.

Buck could have played the C-squad vs. Boston last year to end the season but has enough integrity and respect for the game that in a situation where it determines the outcome of the playoffs he put his best foot forward. Joe Maddon thanked Buck and the Orioles for their professionalism in his press conference after game 162. We won't hear Buck saying anything like that at the end of this series, that's for sure.

If they want to look at rookies, well that's what Spring Training is for.

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