All quiet on the Red Sox front

Posted: February 13, 2009 by datechguy in baseball
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The Boston Globe notes that its as peaceful and quiet in Red Sox land as opposed to the land of the Yankeess:

The calm and the chaos – the tale of the Red Sox and Yankees.

But does it really matter in mid-February that the Red Sox seem a sea of tranquillity compared with the Yankees and the turmoil they are about to endure with L’Affaire A-Roid? The fact is these are the two elite teams in baseball.

As pitchers and catchers reported to the Sox’ minor league complex yesterday, the atmospheres of the rival camps will be diametrically different. As Terry Francona and Theo Epstein addressed the Red Sox media, you wouldn’t have been surprised to see a cocktail waitress carrying a frozen drink with an umbrella. When Brian Cashman and Joe Girardi address the Yankees media, you might see a few men in white coats carrying straitjackets.

There’s plenty of time for things to fall apart, but right now the Red Sox are on Easy Street compared with the Yankees.

I wouldn’t make too much of it, the yanks have always been strong finishers. A tumultuous clubhouse doesn’t mean losing the A’s of the 70’s did just fine. Don’t forget there could be steroids revelations on the sox side too:

I find myself having to come to grips with something that I have looked to ignore for a considerable amount of time. Red Sox players are not exempt from the steroid debacle that has engulfed our National Pastime. It would be foolish to be optimistic enough to think that our Red Sox were on such a moral high ground that none of the players that we let into our lives cheated to earn their place there.

It is with that thought, and attempting to come to grips with my reactions towards a player that was let into my home and my heart on a nightly basis, that I decided I must flesh out my stance on such a player before he was named publicly.

Now, I have no knowledge of any players, outside of Jeremey Giambi, on the 2003 roster (or God forbid, the 2004 Championship roster) that used performance enhancing drugs and I don’t claim that anyone in particular used them. But with 5-7% of Major League ballplayers having tested positive during that season, that leaves 1-2 players on every 25 man roster and 2-3 players on the 40 man roster a user of performance enhancing drugs on every team.

There are a 100 of unnamed names. It won’t be fun to find out.

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