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Yes. Again, baseball managers are the most overrated position in professional sports. All they need to do is manage the clubhouse. Good players lead to good wins, simple as that in baseball. Not much strategy. There aren't gameplans outside of a starting pitchers scope. A guys tired....give him the night off. A lefty is pitching, start a righty...or pinch hit later on. A lefty is up to the plate...bring in a lefty pitcher. Need a run late in the game....move the runners along. Not many "good" teams ended up sucking because of a manager. The 1992 Mets come to mind....the Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Eddie Murray, Howard Johnson, Anthony Young disaster of 92. Basketball coaches deal with substitutions, timeouts, fouls and drawing up plays as well as establishing offensive and defensive systems. They also have to deal with the thugs that play in the NBA as well as the seflish divas. Hockey coaches deal with mixing and matching lines to suit players abilities, offensive and defensive systems, juggling goaltenders. Hockey coaches are a step up from baseball managers. NFL coaches.....not even close. Those guys do way too much to list, and if you dont get it turned around in 2 years, your looking for a new job. NFL coach is the most important coaching position in all of sports, just look at BB. He was the head coach AND the defensive coordinator as well as the general manager.

Hating Josh Beckett makes me a demon? Cool to know!

Yes, I had a friend who worked on the grounds grew. After a rain delay, Beckett screamed at the pitching coach "whys this f***in tarp still on my f***in mound" in his country bumpkin accent. The pitching coach in turn, yelled at my friend for only uncovering half of the mound, rather than the whole mound. Hes a loser, he is my most disliked player on the Sox. Throws at the heads of the KC Royals, but when I watched him pitch at Yankee Stadium he was hammered all over the field and taken out in the 3rd inning. Real tough guy he is.

I didnt throw a single slider. Curveballs, curveballs....and more curveballs. I now need TJ surgery if I ever wanted to throw again.

You didnt miss much. Hes an ******* anyways.

I dont care what other teams do. My redsox goal is to sit down and drink some beers with the game on "Just win baby"- Al Davis

We are talking about 9, 10, and 11 years ago man. Hes a broken down 44 year old man with nothing left.

Which post were you replying to? This one: Or mine.... Just for clarity, Im a little confused who your reply was directed at.

Its hard evaluating a manager who is consistently surrounded by very good players. The only thing for him to really screw up is pitching changes and making sure guys are warm for matchups late in the game. I think baseball manager is one of the most overrated positions in professional sports. Titos main job is to manage the chemistry in the clubhouse and take the heat for his players when they dont perform. If you lose your players, you lose games....then your job.

No, he was a minor league free agent. He pitched in the ML for them in 1992 and 1993. Pittsburgh cut him after spending all of 1994 struggling in the minor leagues. Last year wasnt awful enough for you?

I can just picture it. Manny: F him, what does he know.....hustle? I hustle when I want to, screw this...Manny world!!! High five!!!!! BJ: I know it right!!!???? Im sick of him yelling at me about hustling this, hustling that. Hey Maddon!!! Instead of yelling at us about hustling, tell the pitchers to not make us run for the ball!!! I hate that. The two then ignore the fact that an actual game is being played and work on new handshake techniques in left center field.

Yeah your right, even more evidence that they will have a down year.

Why do an aging Manny and Damon make TB solid? Chances are Manny will screw up whatever Maddon has going on down there. Manny Ramirez goes against everything that Maddon preaches and stands for. These moves dont make them a better team. These moves were done to try to generate attendence. Remember the last time TB bulked up with aging stars? Jose Canseco, Fred McGriff, Vinny Castilla, Greg Vaughn They've lost Garza, Crawford, Soriano and Wheeler and replaced them with 2 aging sideshow circuses. They are a lot worse today than they were at the end of the 2010 season.

Wasnt Tito quoted yesterday or today saying that there is no positional battle, that Scutaro was their starting SS? Pretty cut and dry.

You are all basically agreeing with me, while arguing at the same time. Bottom line, Paps will not return here regardless of how well he does. The better he does, the longer deal he looks for at this point. The Sox have not gone beyond 1 year with him in any of the negotiations, why would they as he gets older?

You might be right, but if hes looking for a long term deal, that is not happening here, so essentially he prices himself out or Boston in terms of contract length. Sooner or later he will wants a long term deal before his arm falls off. Even if he takes a pay cut, but gets offered a deal over 3 years, is it really a pay cut when hes essentially living year to year in Boston?

I tend to agree with us. Its not that I dont want him here, its that he will price himself out of here whether its years or money based on performance. Sooner or later hes going to want that multi year deal, before he can no longer demand it.

join us for the Pats Jets game!

I hope the Patriots fans of Talksox will join us over at Talkpats for the game this week. Jets VS Pats, Foxboro......Rex Ryan and his gang running their mouths.....the anticipation of the matchup. It should be a lot of fun over there. Please join us if you support Pat the Patriot!!!!!! http://www.talkpats.com

Coco Crisp? Edgar Renterria? Matt Clement?

Speaking of Juicers..... Jose Canseco wants the Mets to invite him to spring training, as a 46 year old, and Mets fans want him. http://www.hallofverygood.com/2010/12/mets-fans-want-jose-canseco.html watch the video in that link. It is kinda scary at how hard he can still swing the bat, it almost appears the wood is bending as he swings. He was always a favorite of mine for some reason.

Deion Sanders was a sick hockey player. Kidding aside, Eric Lindros actually had a baseball card, for the Toronto Blue Jays I believe. Heard he could play the game a little. A 3B I believe. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2253/2111932850_9d6ba89568.jpg?v=0 http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2194/2111932762_9b97310ffd.jpg?v=0 EDIT: Found the card.

You answered a question with a question. Thanks for the answer.

Just throwing wads of toilet paper against the wall here to see what sticks, but is there ANY way they ask Beltre if he can play SS? How bad can a GG 3B'man be at SS?? He will probably still have better range than Jeter

kinda funny... anyone hear that he is accused of calling TEN talkshows as "Woody" and criticizing Jeff Fisher? If true.....it will be the third team this year sick of his act. Oakland was sick of him. Patriots got sick of him. Minnesota brought him back inexplicably. Tennessee has all but seen enough. So much for that extension Randy. So much for a big contract Randy. So much for your NFL future Randy, you did this to yourself.