Bear
06-04-2008, 05:31 PM
Tuesday, Jun 3, 2008 2:22 pm EDT
If the call comes, does Theo Epstein pick up the phone? From a pure baseball standpoint, it makes sense to reach out and snatch the receiver to his ever-ready listening ear. From the standpoint of everything else, just let it go to voicemail.
It's natural to conclude that Barry Bonds has noticed the suddenly gaping hole in the Red Sox lineup now that David Ortiz has been lost indefinitely with tendon sheath damage in his left wrist. It's probably pretty easy to figure out that Boston might be willing to seek replacement avenues should the relatively sunny forecast (out a month) turn into the dreary possibility of season-ending surgery. That's not an avenue the Red Sox seem willing to go down just yet. But I wouldn't bet on Ortiz calling his shot at Yankee Stadium come All-Star time either according to Boston.com.
Granted, this same team managed to survive nearly a month without Manny Ramirez late last summer, when the left fielder went down with an oblique injury. Boston managed to hover around .500 for those 23 games, and went on to win the American League East title for the first time since 1995. This is different. Unlike Ramirez a season ago, the prognosis for Ortiz is mostly unknown, a scary factor when it is the wrist in question for an athlete who depends on such a function as flipping them in time to beat a 95 mile-per-hour fastball. Depending upon the severity, Ortiz could return to the lineup by late July but that in no way guarantees top-level effectiveness, or where the Red Sox will even be by that point.
Source: Boston.com
I think this story may have some legs, even if Bonds doesn't
If the call comes, does Theo Epstein pick up the phone? From a pure baseball standpoint, it makes sense to reach out and snatch the receiver to his ever-ready listening ear. From the standpoint of everything else, just let it go to voicemail.
It's natural to conclude that Barry Bonds has noticed the suddenly gaping hole in the Red Sox lineup now that David Ortiz has been lost indefinitely with tendon sheath damage in his left wrist. It's probably pretty easy to figure out that Boston might be willing to seek replacement avenues should the relatively sunny forecast (out a month) turn into the dreary possibility of season-ending surgery. That's not an avenue the Red Sox seem willing to go down just yet. But I wouldn't bet on Ortiz calling his shot at Yankee Stadium come All-Star time either according to Boston.com.
Granted, this same team managed to survive nearly a month without Manny Ramirez late last summer, when the left fielder went down with an oblique injury. Boston managed to hover around .500 for those 23 games, and went on to win the American League East title for the first time since 1995. This is different. Unlike Ramirez a season ago, the prognosis for Ortiz is mostly unknown, a scary factor when it is the wrist in question for an athlete who depends on such a function as flipping them in time to beat a 95 mile-per-hour fastball. Depending upon the severity, Ortiz could return to the lineup by late July but that in no way guarantees top-level effectiveness, or where the Red Sox will even be by that point.
Source: Boston.com
I think this story may have some legs, even if Bonds doesn't