5/14 DONT STOP BELIEVING, Sox @ LAA, 3:35

[Soxfandan]

But as I watched the top of the 12th today, I was begging for Pedroia to hit the ball anywhere on the field.... anywhere... I just DID NOT want to see Papi come up with the bases loaded and 2 outs... I just knew that wasn't going to end well... He had gone 0 for 6 with 3 K's.....

 

And of course... just as I feared.... Papi has nothing... He must have stranded 6 or more baserunners today....

 

He needs to be dropped in the order... Tito, please do something!

[TedWilliams101]

I think it's now past the point where you have to make a move. He (Ortiz) isn't doing ANYTHING productive. If he was decent/solid on defense or if he was hitting for average, then I can understand keeping him in the 3-hole/lineup. But he is exclusively a DH. His only job is to hit, specifically to drive in runs. If he can't do that, he's useless. Put him on the DL, let him get his s*** together and go from there. Keeping him in the lineup is clearly not the answer.

[Cocos Disciples]

Drat.

[Spudboy]

I think it's now past the point where you have to make a move. He (Ortiz) isn't doing ANYTHING productive. If he was decent/solid on defense or if he was hitting for average' date=' then I can understand keeping him in the 3-hole/lineup. But he is exclusively a DH. His only job is to hit, specifically to drive in runs. If he can't do that, he's useless. Put him on the DL, let him get his s*** together and go from there. Keeping him in the lineup is clearly not the answer.[/quote']

 

A brutal assessment. But dead on accurate.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Of course Lardo wasn't going to do anything. He's a f***in pig. Tito must be getting nightly rimjobs from him or something, this is absurd.

[redsoxrules]

I don't blame Ortiz - I blame his so called 'daddy'.

 

Francona sucks.

 

 

Uh what?

how the f*** is this on franconna?

[das11209]

Uh what?

how the f*** is this on franconna?

 

Francona refuses to move him from the 3 spot while Carter is rotting in AAA. Ortiz refers to him as his 'dad'.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Maybe Francona will pull his head out of his ass and move that slob out of the three spot.

 

 

Nahhhhh who am I kidding.

[Spudboy]

We're all hollering for Ortiz to be moved down or to be benched. I don't see it happening just yet. Francona has a history of sticking with slumping players. Pedroia came alive after a slow start his rookie season. I don't see that happening with Ortiz. When will Francona do something?

[a700hitter]

Nevermind moving Ortiz down in the lineup. They are going to need to take his shoelaces and belt after this game.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

We're all hollering for Ortiz to be moved down or to be benched. I don't see it happening just yet. Francona has a history of sticking with slumping players. Pedroia came alive after a slow start his rookie season. I don't see that happening with Ortiz. When will Francona do something?

This is more than a slump, this is a historically epic stretch of disgusting suckitude and incompetence. f***er couldn't hit a beach ball off a tee.

[das11209]

Memo to Ortiz:

 

Please get back to whatever stuffs you were using before and see if that helps. We all know you are regular roid user - so if you get caught in testing - no harm will be done. In fact the 50 game suspension may be the only way we can move you out of the line-up - so you will really help this team to win.

[TheKilo]

Yeah, let's blame Francona, not that player, real smart.

[a700hitter]

On the bright side' date=' Penny is now our "Ace".[/quote']With a 6.52 ERA.

[Spudboy]

With a 6.52 ERA.

 

I've been on the dump Penny bandwagon. But he has been O.K. the last two outings. No worse than Beckett or Lester. I'm kidding about him being the Ace. Right now he is carrying his weight (no small task) when other starters are not playing anywhere near their potential.

[msubulldogs21]

With a 6.52 ERA.

 

Outside of his 2 awful starts, he's been rock solid.

 

At least we know what we're getting when he takes the mound - 6 IP, 2-3 ER.

[jacksonianmarch]

Outside of his 2 awful starts, he's been rock solid.

 

At least we know what we're getting when he takes the mound - 6 IP, 2-3 ER.

 

but you dont, as evidenced by his 6+ ERA

[msubulldogs21]

but you dont' date=' as evidenced by his 6+ ERA[/quote']

 

Put it this way - I feel pretty confident he's going to go out there and give us 6 IP and 2-3 ER every time out. His last 3 have been QS's and he's done a nice job. Also hasn't given up a HR in those 3 either.

[TedWilliams101]

f***, Celtics just lost too. Great.

[msubulldogs21]

f***' date=' Celtics just lost too. Great.[/quote']

 

This is quickly turning into the sports day from hell. The Bruins better pick up the slack.

[redsoxrules]

Its not all bad , my Red Wings won

[Youk Of The Nation]

Hell yeah, go WINGS.

[RHS]

This is quickly turning into the sports day from hell. The Bruins better pick up the slack.

 

A terrible day for you sir, at least sports wise.