Clubhouse Insider

" Red Sox are playoff bound once again wildcard winner is for the second straight season. Sacks have -- five games left in the regular season including the finale of a three game series against Toronto tonight. This is the Herb Chambers BMW pregame show. Now it's time for the clubhouse insider -- generation. Would WEI god comes Alex beer while Alex one of the more unusual clinching of the Red Sox have had in you're stuck around for it last night. What did you see or maybe more accurately what in using."

" You kind of heard some of the muffled excitement that was going on behind closed doors lead. You know it was it was really a team celebration now this was. You know by virtue of when they won the media wasn't dollars and allowed in which. Give the players an opportunity kind of come together with one another they brought a few of the players out too -- to speak to the media about what it meant for them. To get into the post season but. We didn't get to see behind closed doors and for all of the players I'm sure that was just as well you know it was kind of nice for them for the first time in this -- very public setting to have a private."

" Celebration. And now for the first time the team can publically talk about what is obviously ahead of them essentially a week from today -- week from tomorrow. The -- in the series which is the post season they've got five regular season games to play between now and then which are essentially -- and ops."

" Indeed and Terry Francona said you know I know the people are going to hate to hear this but they're just cosmetic via the big picture is. -- these games don't mean a whole -- in Theo Epstein was just talking with us. As well and he said if you look at history it really doesn't matter what teams do NBI in the days and weeks leading up to the post season. All that matters is figuring in -- mean you can aside a couple of examples that 2000 Yankees I believe we're the ones who finished the year by. Losing seven straight and 1215 maybe in thirteen of fifteen. They quote unquote backed into the playoffs and then they made -- in the post season and won the World Series. The other 2006 Cardinals were a team that limped through most of the regular season quite honestly. Instill in the World Series and then if you look at -- the history of teams with a hundred wins. In in the post season up late its abysmal. I think it -- something like. You know seventeen of the last 18100 win -- 100 loss teams have not won the World Series so. Taking that view that view the other Red Sox can say we've done what's most important for the first 162 games of the season we are in the playoffs in there. That's when you see how good the team this. First you gotta get there than you gotta be healthy and if you look back -- 2000 innate. Two significant injuries at least in my mind that limited them one my equal to Josh Beckett. Lol is out there maybe not 10000%. Compared to worry was before they hip surgery but certainly. Very good compared to last year and Josh Beckett who we got a good report on today. Yeah Beckett threw 62 -- bullpen session and so it seems like all signs are go for him on Saturday and the Red Sox feel pretty good that is if as if they're going to get between one. Perhaps more importantly Jon Lester who. At what could have been honestly career threatening injury and that ball square him on the kneecap seems to be fine and so those are two very promising signs. Lol as you point out is not a ton better than he was a year ago at this time that said he'd obviously been slowed as the second half progressed. And so he got his in this game cortisone shot a couple of days ago I talked briefly with -- today he says everything's fine it looks like. All systems ago for his start tomorrow. -- right about last year it was amazing that they got the healthiest that was a team that was running on fumes it was without several key contributors I mean J. D. Drew we had no idea what he was going to be able to do he missed the last 56 weeks of the season. As a result of the bulging disk in his back. Bowl without. Ortiz was a giant question markets he was coming back from his wrist back it was an injury guys though. You know the fact of the matter is the Red Sox all things considered despite the attrition of a 162 games look like they're pretty good shape right about now. Finally Alex Tim Wakefield starts tonight is they're pretty good chance that this will be the last we see of Tim Wakefield in 2009. I'd have to say that there is a pretty there's a pretty fair chance of that in some of it is going to depend on on what the Red Sox decide to do with regards to a long man. -- in the post season but you know certainly. You know it's it's a shame because he was an All-Star pitcher he was the Red Sox number three pitcher a clear number three pitcher in to know the number three pitcher. For the first half and it's been a huge struggle formed a stay on the mound. Now his health is trending in the right direction so let's not foreclose the possibility that he could end up. Pitching in one of these series but you know certainly you wonder whether or not he would be able to he would be -- warm up quickly enough. To perform out of the bullpen if called on as a long reliever. The number four starts seems to be increasingly secured by -- by Daisuke Matsuzaka so. It's difficult to forecast exactly -- seasonal. We should take note though that at least a couple days ago he was feeling good enough that he did -- outs in the bullpen in the middle of the game and was make himself available for that circumstance so. You never know things a lot of surprising things have happened with post season roster construction in the past."

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