Must say I love the baseball passion on this blog. Sometimes, as a lifelong Sox fan, the lack of objectivity makes me smile. But what the heck, we’re “fans” after all, what does objectivity have to do with it?

As a baseball fan I’ll be watching to see if the Yanks can get younger and remain one of baseball’s better teams. They made great strides with the additions of the young pitchers late last year. Now the real test begins to see if these guys can sustain over a season and career.

Also, as a distant observer I can tell you the Yanks bullpen is still a “weak link” especially if Joba is moved to the rotation. The greatest difference between last year’s Sox team and the preceeding years was the bullpen. Torre was a genious when he had Nelson, Stanton and that crew leading into Mariano Rivera. Suddenly, he got stupid when his bullpen stunk.

Really looking forward to the 2008 Baseball season.

My greater point is that you Yank-mee fans have a history of grossly overrating your prospects i.e. Scott Proctor, Homer Bush, “Ice” Williams just to name a few. These guys were all going to be “world beaters”. I would like to see IPK and Phil Hughes win as many as 10 games at the major league level before they are elevated to HOF status. Also, Joba was dynamic as a set up guy, but he has yet to prove himself as a starter. Joba may be great as a starter, I don’t know, to assume that he will be is arrogant and stupid. Major league hitters have a way of figuring pitchers out once they’ve seen them a few times.

The Yank-mees are dependent on all three young pitchers having solid seasons because they have no real rotation depth and an ineffective bullpen. Also, the future is now for this group with older players in RF, LF, SS, C and at the end of the bullpen. If these three have some “learning on the job” to do the Yank-mees are in trouble. You will not have Joe Torre to blame for the lack of pitching depth next year.

The Yank-mees did have a terriffic second half last year. But they played poorly early in the season and got beaten by a better team in the playoffs, a solid half season does not make a great team.

You dont have any farm picthers who compare to Joba, Hughes and IPK. You have one good pitcher, Buckholz, and he threw one great game, aside from that, nothing special (He threw a no-htter and his ERA was only slightly better than IPK’s, what does that tell you).

Just cause Peter Gammons (aka Red Sox Spokesman) says you have a great farm, doesnt mean its true. We have much better young pitching than your team – ur prized piece is Justin Masterson and he had a 4 ERA – haha, yea, ur farm is LOADED.

p.s. you also know that we beat the shit out of ur team last year in the regular season and you only won the WS cause u didnt have to play us in October. You couldnt touch us the 2nd half of the season (when we actually got our full roster back), so take it easy with the Red Sox bravado, its falling on deaf ears

You guys got to slow down your man love on all of these Yank-mee prospects / suspects. You just might want to see IPK, Hughs and Joba perform over a season ot two before you get their plaques ready in Cooperstown.

Two World Series wins in the past three years and with the posible exception of Tampa Bay the best stocked farm system in Baseball. Time to get onboard with a team for this century, The Boston Red Sox!

Happy New Year.