BigPapiEnFuego

Morales is fine. He had some rough patches but he's ok. He get's the job done enough.

Gonzalez is back! I hope he goes on a month long tear

All in all what I've seen said was his season was a fluke, according to career norms, and that you were completely correct. People tried to tell you that he is still young and is showing progress which could definitely be the case. It boils down to that. But over and over again you kept trying to tell people you were right and they're wrong.

For a brief moment in time Darnell McDonald hit .200. This world is crazy

ONWARD TO FIRST PLACE

Good then. He has exceeded mine, and a lot of other's expectations. That's why I don't get the complaining, or the attempts at trying to prove otherwise.

The perspective from the Camera in Texas makes Beckett look like a giant on the mound

Is anyone warming up? It would be a good idea to give Beckett a bit of a rest seeing the score.

Seriously, you say this like every post in every thread someone disagrees with you in. Maybe they did read your posts and disagreed? Damn. Whats you're point in repeating yourself in this thread 500 times? Ok, you think you're right, you think we don't read your posts, you think everyone was calling him elite. We get it. Maybe you oughta just drop out of this one. We will all keep on supporting him and being satisfied with what he has done while you SCm and a700 can sit around in this thread and whine about him.

What? Even on NESN they were saying he was being waved around, not running through a stop sign...

Even though Ortiz scored that was a stupid ass move by the 3b Coach to send him after coming back from a foot injury. He was obviously running with pain and should of been out by a mile.

Oh this game is gonna be good

I read your post fine enough. My post wasn't even really directed at you. No one really touted him as an elite offensive catcher. I don't know where you got that from. I'm pretty sure people expected him to perform to career averages and possibly slightly exceed those averages because of increased playing time and more experience. He's lived up that. He was due for a slump. Slumps happen. He could break out of it at any minute and go back to being how he was, and there is nothing that says that cannot happen. You can point to his history, but I'm not going to really take much stock in 300 something games that were scattered over 5 years because of things like trades and call ups and send downs.

Every few weeks it's the same post. Over and over again. You are beating a dead horse. He's only been slumping a couple weeks, not an entire month. What's YOUR obsession with his s***** stats? You complain about 244 AVG, .304 OB, .454 SLG, .758 OPS. over and over again. You claim it's "terrible in any year" That's not a terrible line for a CATCHER splitting time. He's not a starter. You keep bringing up how other catchers are s***** too which doesn't even help your case. What do you seriously expect the Red Sox to do? What where their options during the offseason? Tell me. As far as I know it was stay with Salty who could perform fine (which he is doing now no matter how hard you deny it) or get Russell Martin which would take a good amount of money and a high risk. I heard the name John Buck thrown around too, I'm sure we'd all would love to have his .227 .319 .390 .710 line and .08 WAR. Or maybe we could of gotten Ivan Rodriguez' 30 games played and .214 .276 .325 .600. instead. It just makes no sense to constantly bump the same thread every few weeks just to repeat yourself like a broken record about a guy who is doing fine at one of the worst offensive positions in the game. I could understand if we are complaining about truly bad players like some of our bench players or J.D Drew or even Crawford who are performing at a level lower than average to those in their category, but this is just asinine. You people have been spolied by early 2000's Varitek too much, and by the steroid era of hard hitting catchers. Gonna have to deal with the fact that for a while we are going to have to deal with either our catcher being a defensive specialist with a s*** bat or a catcher with decent hitting skills and slightly below to average defense, like Salty. Get used to it. Oh and just as a side note here I realized while thinking about this and mentioning the steroid era... Ever notice it was the season after MLB instituted a steroid policy with suspensions that Varitek immediately plunged offensively and started getting injured a bit? Seriously. 2006. I know correlation does not equal causation but it is interesting.

Oh he's having a slump. Guess you guys were right, he does suck. If only we had Russell Martin

Wow I'm sitting here with my T.V off. What an idiot. How'd Bedard do that inning?

You and everyone else.

f*** it. It was a joke. A few of us others here joke the same way. Don't worry, not all of us here are over-sensitive whiners ready to bitch about everything. It's not like you said LOL I'M GLAD THAT PIECE OF s*** DIED INFRONT OF HIS KID IN FACT I WISH HE PULLED HIM DOWN WITH HIM and actually mean it... In fact, I came into the thread to make a related joke, but I forgot gamethreads are serious business where you have to sit there and post serious game related content, making sure to never criticize any player or managerial decision, never be pessimistic, or never joke around.

God, you people are such f***ing crybabys over every little thing.

40x all star

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Crawford sucks so hard