8/17 @ Yankees

[SoxFanForsyth]

Thank God we have Aviles.

[crc2120]

f***ing piece of s*** Aviles. Way to go. How he is still on this team is beyond me....

[SoxFanForsyth]

Hey Pal, how much longer do I have for this POS sig?!?

[jung]

I can see Aviles being on the team...that he is still for all intents the team's everyday SS is total ********

[crc2120]

Mike Aviles has to be one of the worst SS in MLB history....my god.

[crc2120]

When you get guys from crap teams like Aviles (Royals) and Melancon (Astros), then you should know they'll still be crap....ugh.

[crc2120]

WTF Podsednik!?!?!? LOL Nice!

[SoxFanForsyth]

Oh. My. God.

 

The fact that ball was even CLOSE to being a HR is pathetic.

[jung]

Mike Aviles has to be one of the worst SS in MLB history....my god.

 

Which is in part why I think the Sox are clueless about what makes a ML everyday SS. I have this recurring nightmare that has all the ML GM's flat on their backs laughing their asses off at Aviles making it as the Sox everyday SS.

[crc2120]

Oh. My. God.

 

The fact that ball was even CLOSE to being a HR is pathetic.

 

Damn straight...

[jacksonianmarch]

The Yanks are having some good swings off Morales. Hughes just needs to get the game's dick off his tonsils, though, and hold them here

[crc2120]

Thank god that screw up by Aviles didnt cost us that inning....

[jung]

Joe just needs to remind Hughes that these are the 2012 Sox. That should straighten him right out.

 

The unis have Hughes completely flummoxed.

 

Although, Hughes appears to be insistent on putting baseballs in the few locations where they can hurt him...which is fine by me.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Which is in part why I think the Sox are clueless about what makes a ML everyday SS. I have this recurring nightmare that has all the ML GM's flat on their backs laughing their asses off at Aviles making it as the Sox everyday SS.

 

Scutaro was one of the most underrated bad moves of the offseason.

 

I don't know if the Red Sox overestimated Aviles or Iglesias, or both. Could be that they thought Iglesias would be ready mid season, but he got hurt and was out for about a month.

 

Still, though, Iglesias is hitting .305 with a .379 OBP in August. What are they waiting on??

[Brennan]

Guys, obviously any HR's the Sox hit here are the cheap kind, no one can hit real moon shots like Russell Martin.

[jacksonianmarch]

I think they view a callup of Iglesias as giving up. And they arent ready to do that just yet. I think sox nation is ready, but once the sox are perceived to have given up on their season, then the seats dont sell out and the business side gets hurt a little

[3rdManOut]

Aviles.......well I guess there really isn't much I can find to say.......(sigh)

[jacksonianmarch]

Guys' date=' obviously any HR's the Sox hit here are the cheap kind, no one can hit real moon shots like Russell Martin.[/quote']

 

where did that come from? Pedey's shot is out of most parks. Funny thing is, it was such a laser it probably would have been a double in Fenway, off the monster

[Brennan]

I hated Scutaro. I want a real shortstop, not just the best of the worst.

[jung]

SFF, did you read that s*** from Mike Hazen the other day when we were having a similar discussion on Iggy?

[SoxFanForsyth]

Lavarnway Please.

[jacksonianmarch]

Counting to 3 with Salty.

[crc2120]

Please unload Salty's ass this off-season...

[Station 13]

Wow Salty.....just wow.

[jung]

If anything Salty's deepening uselessness should have been predicted by the general dominance of seconf half pitching.

 

Remy treated Hughes to Salty like this is some sort of anomaly. Right Jerry the same anomaly that Hughes shares with 90% of AL pitchers.

 

However the way Hughes is pitching he is just aching to give the Sox this game.

[SoxFanForsyth]

I think they view a callup of Iglesias as giving up. And they arent ready to do that just yet. I think sox nation is ready' date=' but once the sox are perceived to have given up on their season, then the seats dont sell out and the business side gets hurt a little[/quote']

 

I agree that they may think it's viewed as giving up, but I do not understand that in the least.

 

Sorry but Aviles's .285 OBP and his .675 OPS is not going to be missed. And Iglesias' defense is substantially better.

 

I've always had a theory that there is a threshold, at around .680 or .675 where, once your OPS drops below that, I don't care what it is because you're nearly an auto out everytime, so if we're going to take a bottomless pit of an OPS, at least give me a glove and a guy who can make productive outs, and take a few walks.

[3rdManOut]

Wow Salty.....just wow.

 

LOL, yeah right there with ya on that one.

[jung]

SFF is right...Iggy's call up should just be viewed as replacing a guy in the lineup that is struggling.....at the plate....in the field.....walking and chewing bubble gun at the same time....all the tough stuff.

[Station 13]

I think the NYS RFC is smaller since the the wall it just straight unlike the curve at the old yard.

[jung]

Oh,,,,,nice bender Frank....not a 12-6 but I will take it.