8/26 The Coming of Mauro Gomez

[RedSoxNC84]

Two page game thread. Hilarious.

[a700hitter]

Two page game thread. Hilarious.

It's not bad for a game thread in the off season.

[Behindenemylines]

It is a great Sunday afternoon and the Sox are done in 2012 so the nation was out enjoying the dog days of summer non-baseball version. It is hard to watch every game when you know there is no prize at the end (October baseball). How many days to pitchers and catchers?

[Thunder]

Bobby fired up the fans and the team by getting tossed, but that ump really screwed up.

[RedSoxNC84]

It's not bad for a game thread in the off season.

 

I'm sure, at least there's something to talk about still.

[a700hitter]

I'm sure, at least there's something to talk about still.

It's hard for people to get excited about more than a month of garbage time.

[ibot2much]

Interesting that many of the posters who attacked the "pink hats" and any body who became a fan after they did may be those same people who departed the board and the Sox with the losing season.

 

Seems to me that those rabid fans really don't support the team...just a winning team

[Klare]

We're Red Sox Nation right? Let's get back to it. We don't want troublemakers. If there's a problem in our team, talk about it. I meant a few guys of the new Dodgers. Go Red Sox!!

[a700hitter]

Interesting that many of the posters who attacked the "pink hats" and any body who became a fan after they did may be those same people who departed the board and the Sox with the losing season.

 

Seems to me that those rabid fans really don't support the team...just a winning team

You may have a good point. The cheerleaders are gone. The FO apologists who kept telling us that our FO was full of intelligent people are largely gone. They couldn't take the harsh reality of the team sucking and the FO throwing another season away. Now the incompetence of the last several seasons has been laid bare for all to see and the FO has acknowledged their horrendous management by sending away three of their biggest stars. The pace is still in disarray, but the mega trade does give them an opportunity for a fresh start. I appreciate that Ben Cher has taken full responsibility. He did not blame injuries and he did not blame the past administration for leaving him "with a bigger mess than he had anticipated". He should be applauded for that honesty. Polls show that 45% of Red Sox fans would have bought a Blame Bush excuse.

 

Where are the people who insisted that performance would revert to means etc., or that September 2011 was a statistical anomaly that couldn't be repeated and that the "real Red Sox" were the May 2011- August 2011 Red Sox? September 2011 wasn't an anomaly. They sucked, and sending out the same bunch of suck ass malcontents less your closer and set up man was not going to have a happy outcome. I am actually glad that the wheels fell off faster and more dramatically than I had anticipated, because it has brought a realization by everyone that this team had been poorly run for years and that major changes are needed. Several people said it early on like SCM and others. Several were chased from the forum for being too negative. Frankly, they were right and they weren't negative enough. This team under performed expectations of even the most cynical negative fan. The people who skewered those have disappeared one by one as the train wreck of a season became evident to everyone who wasn't in a coma. I still don't like that we chased those guys from the boards. They weren't trolls. They were just people with a different point of view and a very direct way of expressing it.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Two page game thread. Hilarious.

 

I'm surprised we still make them