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with Clay Buchholz pitching and giving his best performance of the current baseball season. He declared Yankee stadium was the

Boston Red SHow did the Red Sox give the Yankees their second straight loss?,to April 9, when he gave up five runs four earned, his Boy, did he make it look easy Friday night. Jorge Posada caused him some trouble when he hit a single and it was followed by Russell Martin with a home run over the centerfield fence. Those were the two runs the Yankees scored off Buchholz. The Yankee lineup has a history against him, and made good numbers,Snapback hats but Buchholz did some really great pitching. He threw 52 stballs, 21 cutters,Baseball hats and 20 changeups with 9 curve balls and 8 sinkers. The YanBoston Red Soxkees missed 16 or his 110 pitches helping Clay Buchholz give an impressive performance.

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Carl Crawford. Pundits around the baseball world were ceding the AL East title, and some even the World Series championship, to the denizens of Fenway Park. Why even play the season? (some of them would write). Adding these players to an already-good team would make the 2011 season an afterthought.

Can The Red Sox Or Twins Come Back And Make The Postseason??Boston Red S,Well. Things dont always work out the way theyre laid out on ; the Red Sox got off to an 0-6 start, at which time it was pointed out by many of these same pundits that no team starting 0-6 had ever won the World Series. (Some have made the postseason, however.) The Red Sox are still struggling; at one point they won eight of nine, but have yet to crack the .500 mark. Meanwhile, the

Rays, who also started 0-6 (and scored only eight runs in the six games), have gone on a 23-9 run and lead the AL East by two games.

Which raises the question: Can teams come back from horrific starts to make the playoffs?

The answer is not only yes, but some teams that have started the season in last place and lost nearly two-thirds of their early games have even made — and won — the World Series. It happens, actually, almost every year. Lets look at some recent clubs who accomplished this (and some who came close) and how they did it.

It didnt happen last year, but an honorable mention goes to the 2010

Ted Lilly on June 13, at which time they were 28-34 (the Cubs, meanwhile, were 28-35). The Chisox then went on a 22-7 run; when they beat the

Twins. That was as good as it got; the Twins, lurking around .500 at 49-45 on that July 20 date, went 45-23 the rest of the way and won the AL Central by six games (setting up their usual loss to the

Yankees in the Division Series).

The 2009 Twins are one of the teams that came back from a bad start around this time of year to make the postseason; in ct, a lot of these narratives involve Minnesota. On May 20, 2009, the Twins were 18-23 and 5.5 games out of first place. A 20-1 win over the White Sox the next day jump-started them, but they were two games under .500 as late as September 12 (70-72). From there,nfl hats they went 16-4 to tie the

Tigers on the seasons final day and won an excruciatingly exciting tiebreaker game … setting up their usual loss to the Yankees in the Division Series.

The year before, the White Sox were 18-21 on May 13; an eight-game winning streak put them in first place, where they stayed most of the season. They needed to win three straight elimination games against three different teams (the final regular-season game against the

Indians; a makeup game of a postponement against the Tigers; and a tiebreaker over the Twins) to win the AL Central.

The 2007 Cubs were 22-31 on June 2; that was the day Lou Piniella went on what he later said was a premeditated tirade to get his team fired up (the play he was arguing, Lou admitted, was pretty clear-cut and the umpire was correct). The Cubs took over first place in mid-August in a weak division but had to wait until two days remained in the season to clinch the division title. It remains as one of only two Cubs teams in history to be nine or more games under .500 at any time, yet finish with a winning record.

An even more mous example from 2007 is the

Rockies, who were 18-27 on May 21, buried in last place in the NL West,hats for sale seven games out of first place. They hovered around the .500 mark until September 15, when they were 76-72; then they went on that amazing 14-1 run which included winning an extra-inning tiebreaker against the Padres (who are, in ct, still waiting for

Diamondbacks out of the postseason, reaching the World Series before running into the Red Sox buzzsaw.

The Twins — told you this would involve a lot of Minnesota love — did it again in 2006. After an 11-inning loss in Seattle on June 7, their record stood at 26-33; they were 11.5 games behind the division-leading Tigers, who had the best record in the major leagues at 37-22. This run may be the most impressive of all the recent comebacks; from June 8 through July 14 the Twins went 33-8, although they still trailed by 8.5 games. It took a win over the White Sox on the seasons final day to make them division champions, with the Tigers relegated to wild-card status. This time the Twins managed to avoid the Yankees in the first round. That didnt work either, as they got swept by the Athetics.

In 2005, two clubs that got off to terrible starts made the postseason — the Yankees, who had started 11-19, were still under .500 on June 12 at 30-32 after an interleague loss to the

Cardinals. It took them until September 21 to grab first place, but from July 1 to the end of the season they went 56-29. And the

Astros, who had suffered serious injuries early in that season, started 15-30 and were sub-.500 as late as July 18. A 19-11 mark after September 1 got them the wild card Baseball hats, and they dispatched the

Braves and Cardinals in the NL playoffs before the World Series, where they were swept by a hot White Sox club.

For a Cubs n, this ones the most difficult to write … The 2003

Marlins, after a 16-22 start, fired manager Jeff Torborg and replaced him with 73-year-old Jack McKeon, who was viewed as just keeping the chair warm, coming down from a comfortable front-office suite. The Marlins won the NL wild card with a 21-8 season-ending run, and … well, if I werent a Cubs n, Id write the rest of it, but I assume you all know how that ended.

This sort of thing happens almost every year — a team drops to eight or ten games under .500 around Memorial Day and looks like it cant win a thing. When the Yankees got off to that 11-19 start, they gave up eight runs or more 11 times. The 2005 Astros start included losing streaks of four, five, six and seven games. The 2009 Twins lost 12 of 18 at one point early on.

So if youre a n of the Red Sox,

Brewers, or even the Twins — who currently have the worst record in the major leagues — do not give up hope. Your teams all have talent and have made the postseason in recent years. Its entirely possible those teams will run off 11 wins in 13 games gucci hats, or have a couple of six-game winning streaks, and knock a club like the Indians or Cardinals out of first place.

It may get late early, as Yogi Berra once said. But its not too late for comebacks — yet.

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Of course! This race has just begun. The AL East is one of the most exciting divisions baseball has to offer. Though I see many other divisions with 2 teams having 20 wins at least. I expect some nice races towards August and September. Far from over is correct Al.

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Scott McNealy, who co-founded and led Sun Microsystems for many years before its sale to Oracle last year, is once again engaging in the technology world.

Boston Red SScott McNealy re-emerges in tech circles,Fittingly for the one-man sound bite ctory, McNealy has taken to Twitter, dishing up snarky remarks and relishing the ct that not being CEO of a company means he doesnt have to be politically correct. And hes involved in business again, too, as chairman of stealth start-up WayIn.

McNealy isnt dishing on WayIn, but some details are bubbling up.

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Mike Schmitz, who says hes senior director of consumer products and marketing at WayIn on his LinkedIn profile, has the most detailed description.

WayIn is a platform where consumers can play user-created games while watching television or live events, he said. Schmitz designed and managed our multi-device platform, which includes theiPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab,iPhone, Android, and the consumer Web site, and that he created the companys consumer strategy of recruiting Super Fans–a group of users interested in specific sports or television programming to create game content.

Schmitz also ran a contest for a WayIn.com logo at 99designs.com. There, he said, WayIn.com is a new Web site where anything on TV and events (like concerts or sports events) is discussed. There are groups for Dexter,fitted caps Mad Men, and the Boston Red Sox–if its on TV or at events like concerts or sporting events, then WayIn.com has an area for ns to chat all about it…Super ns can also create their own pages to discuss their vorite shows, build polls and share media…We plan to use Web intece technologies that cilitate interactions beyond the traditional forum.

WayIns director of software development is Liqun Lea Wang, according to her LinkedIn profile. Wang spent six years at Sun, running the Kenai site for hosting software projects, then stayed with Oracle until February. Wang says WayIn is in the Internet industry.

However, Guy Nemiro shows a somewhat different view on his LinkedIn page. He says that at WayIn, hes involved in bringing new content-prompting services and data analytics to enterprises.

Start-ups can be fluid of course, and not everyone sees them the same way. The company didnt immediately respond to a request for comment.

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At Sun, a large and publicly traded company, there were limits to what McNealy could say,hats for sale though that didnt stop him from taking potshots at Microsoft, IBM, Dell, and other rivals. On Twitter, though, hes relishing his freedom.

Nice not being CEO w shrhlders, dont have 2 b PC, he said. In various tweets Cheap snapback hats, he criticizes the Obama administrations search for a gas-price culprit, tenured professors who presume to pontificate about the free market, and politicians who dont promote personal responsibility.

He also brings up technology matters.

Weighing in on the iPhone location tracking controversy, McNealy said, Someone once said U have no privacy get over it! Who was that? (He also added another miliar McNealy criticism of anonymity: Many worry bout no privacy (get over it). I worry as much/more bout absolute anonymity which breeds irresponsibility. Long live audit trails.

The white iPhone also evidently makes him roll his eyes. White is the new black! First TaylorMade golf clubs, now Apple iPhone. Why didnt we ship white Sun computers?!

McNealy is talking about his extracurriculars, too. Hes pitching the Curriki.org open-source education project he got involved in while at Sun. Hes an adviser to CollabWorks, which McNealy said harkens back to Suns old motto, The network is the computer. And as commissioner for the Alternative Golf Association, hes involved in promoting a version of golf that doesnt regulate the technology of golf clubs and golf balls or frown on the usage of mobile phones.

He also said he was happy to have had lunch with former eBay CEO and California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who, like McNealy, is a conservative. Indeed, many of McNealys tweets have an economically-related political flavor.

Is he going to take a crack at public office?

No, McNealy told CNET News. Not enough Kevlar to keep me alive as a candidate, he said.

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NEW YORK – In the list of big issues cing the Boston Red Sox, Carl Crawfords spot in the batting order doesnt rate.

Boston Red Sox notes: For Carl Crawford, eighth is enough for now,If Carl is getting hits, be it hitting first, second or eighth, its going to help us win, manager Terry Francona said Sunday.

He has batted seventh in eight other games. At the start of the year,New era hats Crawford batted in one of the first three spots 13 times, and Boston was 3-10.

That came when the left fielder was in the throes of a terrible slump. In his last 13 games, he is hitting .321.

If you move Carl,Cheap snapback hats youre obviously moving someone else. And hes doing a pretty good job (at No. 8), the manager said.

(No. 3 hitter) Adrian Gonzalez has been the best hitter in baseball. We like Dustin Pedroia in the second spot.

Francona has often said the teams like looks best with Jacoby Ellsbury, who is hitting .301, at leadoff.

Pedroia is hitting .184 in his last 18 games, but he had three hits Saturday. Francona has no interest in juggling the spot of a player he trusts so much.

Carl has been nothing but professional in everything. Even when he wasnt hitting cheap hats, his work ethic won the clubhouse over, Francona said.

TWO-INNING MAN: Matt Albers two-inning relief stint Saturday drew praise from Francona, who likes his relievers ability to pitch multiple innings.

Seeing how a starter is going in the game, I get a pretty good idea of what I might have to do. I think I pride myself in that, Albers said.

Albers has pitched 16 1/3 innings over 11 games. His 1.65 ERA, and his ability to stretch relief appeaBoston Red Soxrances over two innings Fitted hats,Baseball hats has raised the value of the former Baltimore reliever.

SCUTARO UPDATE: Shortstop Marco Scutaro has been working with a physical therapist in Miami. He is eligible to come off the disabled list for an oblique strain on May 23.

Francona said Scutaro will rejoin the Red Sox in Boston on Monday. No rehab schedule or possible Triple A stint has been announced yet.

SAVING STRENGTH: Those preseason debates about the closer role have ended, even though save chances have been scarce for Jonathan Papelbon.

Fridays save was his sixth in seven chances but first in 20 days, the longest save-free stretch of his career as a closer and not injured.

He made six appearances in non-save spots during that time. Of Bostons first 39 games, only 10 were decided by one run, and five others were decided by two runs.

Francona never wavered from Papelbon as closer, even after the acquisition of Bobby Jenks and the emergence of Daniel Bard.

Jenks is on the disabled list and has a 9.35 ERA. Bard is 0-3 with a 3.20 ERA, and has been erratic on occasion.

Daniel hasnt always commanded like he will, but we rely on him so much that when he doesnt, its glaring, Francona said in Bards defense.

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Boston Red SRapid Reaction: Red Sox 7, Yankees 5,WHAT IT MEANS: The Boston Red SoxNew York Yankees should make like designated hitter Jorge Posada and apologize — not only to manager Joe Girardi, but also their entire nbase — for the way they’ve been playing lately.

The Yankees lost their fifth consecutive game on Sunday night, were swept by their arch rivals, the Boston Red Sox, and how now lost nine of their last 12.

On the bright side, Girardi and Posada did make amends before the game, right? So there’s that.

Luckily for the Yankees (20-18), the Tampa Bay Rays lost again,Baseball hats so they’re just two games back in the American League East. However, they’re just one game ahead of the third-place Red Sox (20-20).

FIVE-HOLE: Was that Bill Bucker or third baseman Alex Rodriguez? That’s what everyone was wondering after Rodriguez inexplicably let a potential double-play grounder roll under his glove and through his legs for a seventh-inning error, which allowed Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia to come around to score and give his team an all-important insurance run.

Rodriguez doubled in a run — with the help of a Carl Crawford error — in the bottom half of the frame, cutting the Yankees’ deficit to 6-5, but it wasn’t enough.

Reliever Joba Chamberlain came in and served up a solo homer to Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltacchia in the top of the eighth, and that was it.

OFFENSIVE: During the three-game series,mlb hats the Yankees scored just nine runs. In their last five games — all losses — they are 7-for-44 (.159) with runners in scoring position.

Rodriguez, who went 1-for-5 at the plate with two strikeouts on Sunday night, saw his batting average plummet to .250. He went 2-for-12 with five strikeouts during the series, and is 11 for his last 60 overall (.183).

FREDDY FALLS: The Yankees gave starter Freddy Garcia a 4-1 lead Red Bull Hats, but the 34-year-old gave it all back via the long ball. Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis mashed a 3-2 batting practice stball from Garcia over the left-field wall for a three-run shot, tying the game at 4 in the top half of the third.

Then, in the fifth, designated hitter David Ortiz hit what appeared to be a broken bat dinger into right that gave Boston a 5-4 lead.

SULTAN OF SOUTHPAWS: All of a sudden, the Grandyman can — mash lefties. With his second inning two-run homer off Red Sox ace Jon Lester, center fielder Curtis Granderson now has an MLB-leading six home runs against southpaws in 2011.

That’s the most long balls Granderson has hit off lefties in his career — and we’re just 38 games into the season. His 13 dingers are second in the majors behind Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista (16).

JONES MAKES HIS BONES: A decade. That’s how long it took for designated hitter Andruw Jones to bop another homer against the Red Sox. He took Lester deep to left leading off the top of the second for his second home run of 2011.

Jones was in the lineup because Posada is 0-for-24 versus southpaws this season. The 34-year-old now has 409 career homers, and is just five shy of tying Darrell Evans for 45th place on the all-time list.

SADO: After receiving a standing ovation from the crowd of 46,945,NFL jerseys from china Posada pinch-hit in the eighth inning for the first time this season and drew a leadoff walk. He went 1-for-13 as a pinch-hitter in 2010.

JETER METER: Yankees captain Derek Jeter went hitless and is still 35 hits away from 3,000 for his career.

STAT OF THE NIGHT: After striking out with two on to end the seventh, right fielder Nick Swisher is now 0-for-17 on the season with two outs and runners in scoring position.

WHAT’S NEXT: The Yankees head down south to take on the division-leading Tampa Bay Rays in a two-game series. New York will send right-hander A.J. Burnett (4-2, 3.38 ERA) to the hill on Monday night at Tropicana Field. He’ll ce Tampa Bay left-hander David Price (5-3 Baseball hats, 3.12).

For those who care, Posada is 1-for-18 lifetime against Price with 10 strikeouts. So expect Jones to start on Monday.

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