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June 18, 2007
Click here to listen to today's edition of Projo SoxTalk with Art Martone. Today Art talks about the weekend sweep of the San Francisco Giants, including the not quite-so-toxic reception that Barry Bonds received this weekend at Fenway Park. He also looks ahead to the very tough road trip that the Red Sox now begin.
Here are some excerpts from Art's comments.
On yesterday's hero, Joel Pineiro: "It's funny the way Pinerio has worked this year. They did bring him in with the idea of perhaps making him a closer, but it's almost like that notion never materialized. Even in spring training they weren't going to give him the work you would expect for someone you were entrusting a big job to, because they may have had Papelbon in mind the whole time, and since then he really has become a guy who pitches in lost causes and mopup, and things of that nature. Right now, with Donnelly out and Timlin struggling, they're going to need a right-handed setup man, and if Pineiro can be it, that would be great, because he's always had good stuff, always had a good arm. so we'll see what happens over the next nine days or so."
On David Ortiz's and Manny Ramirez's lagging power numbers: "They both have track records, and history tells us that hitters of that caliber generally live up to their track records."
On Bonds: "The reception that he got this weekend was not quite as bad as I thought it was going to be, and as many people thought it was going to be. In fact, there were some cheers mixed in with the boos yesterday when he hit that home run. It's an indication I think that even though people don't necessarily respect him and think he cheated to get where he is, that they are seeing history, and I think just watching people fight for the ball that landed in the bullpen yesterday indicated that there is an appreciation for that, because the other thing to remember is that Bonds was a great player before the steroids ever came along. He may not have hit 755 home runs without them, but he certainly would have hit 550, 600, whatever it was."
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