“It’s not an ego thing for me.”

Photo of Jason taken by meSo says Mike Timlin. He’s okay with the team putting him on the dl to start the season and he doesn’t care what his role is with the team (as long as he gets to pitch at some point).

I LOVE Timlin. ("NO! Really, Cyn? We would have never guessed!") But my vote is for Papelbon. I’m still not over having been able to see him pitch in person last year. If you haven’t seen it, you’ve missed an amazing thing. Although, if the concerns about the strain on his shoulder are legitimate, I shouldn’t hope too hard for that.

Truth is, I really haven’t focussed on worrying about a closer. I’m a big believer in things like that working themselves out through the people who get paid to worry about them. Theo, et al, see the same things we do this season. I’ll have faith he’ll do something to rectify the situation.

I will admit to being worried about our Captain. As of this morning, he’s hitting .080.

I know I’m the one always talking about how spring training isn’t that big a deal, but .080? Even Tek admits it is a problem. That’s one of the reasons I used Timlin’s quote for the subject today.  It seems to fit for both of them.

His first responsibility is taking care of the pitchers and calling the game and all,  and HE knows that, but I’d like to see SOME offense from him as well.

In less than two weeks, I won’t be able to blow off conerns by using the "It’s only spring training" argument.