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Boy it was nice to read this board tonight after a long night at work... No bickering between members, no name calling between members, no insulting arguments between members.... Just arguments geared towards baseball and the Redsox. Its been awhile, its about time and it was nice to see!

We are all really just guessing what will happen. Valentine is a nut though, so I expect something that none of us are banking on. Not saying I agree with it, but a lineup of: Pedroia Crawford Ellsbury Youkilis Gonzalez Ortiz Ross Salty Aviles Would not exactly surprise me. Valentine is not a traditional manager, which means a non-traditional approach (alternating R-L matchups) is not out of the realm.

disregard haha.

Crawford cant hit directly behind Ortiz. When Ortiz is on base ahead of him, Crawford's assets are useless. Ortiz clogging up the bases forces Crawford to do things hes not comfortable doing. Crawford is best suited at 9 IMO in that lineup and it is not a slight in any way. A leadoff hitter is only a leadoff hitter once a game. His speed is best back to back with Ellsbury and Pedroia setting the table up for the heart of the lineup.

An Guardians RedSox fan? That sounds familiar........ Suns NOOOOOOO!!!!!

Yup. And unless Pedroia hits third.....Crawford will continue to hit 7, 8 or 9 in the lineup just as I said he would last year.....which will be perfect for him as he can use that as an excuse if he struggles.

http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/7480903/boston-red-sox-restructure-medical-staff http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120119&content_id=26395918&vkey=news_bos&c_id=bos So, looks like the Redsox medical staff has already rounded back in to 2011 regular season form.

Looks like the Redsox medical staff has already rounded back in to 2011 regular season form.

Another swing and a miss Dojji. No chance.

I can see that "The Boomer" wont have a very long stay here.

OTHER as it will be Bard. Bard will be on a strict innings/pitch count limit. Padilla will be the #4 starter.

Im not ready to go down this road yet hahaha. I've got enough to chew with Beckett at the moment

Nope, I never said he blamed others for the on the field stuff. I said that instead of blaming himself he calls his teammates "snitches/rats" for allowing his off field stuff leak to the media.

I didnt say he blamed anyone for what happened on the field did I? I thought this thread was about the "snitches".

Redsox fans: Beckett doesn't want to talk about incident: "why doesnt Beckett take some responsibility for what happened?" Beckett talks about it, but points fingers and blames others" "why doesnt Beckett take some responsibility for what happened?" True story.

In my line of work, the saying goes..."snitches get stitches", but if your always doing the right thing, you never have to worry about a snitch/rat.

Beckett has won 16-20 wins only 3 times in his career. He was a major reason for the downfall last year and instead of being apologetic for his actions.....hes pointing fingers and blaming people for leaking his actions and calling teammates/staff "rats". Real classy teammate he is huh? Who the f*** wants to be teammates with a guy like that? When he arrived in Boston he had the physique of Justin Verlander, now he closer to a beer league softball player. Baseball isn't a priority to him neither is success or pride. If they were, that s*** last year wouldn't have happened....if those things meant something to him he wouldn't have shown up to spring training this year looking like a fatass again. The ONLY person who was not apologetic was Beckett, because he is not sorry for what happened, actually....he was the ringleader and is upset his little party is over and now he is kicking his feet throwing a temper tantrum like a 5 year old child. You kill the monster by cutting the head off it. Beckett should have been traded.

Absolutely NO CAPTAIN.....and especially no stupid ass "C" on the jersey....what a joke that was.

Imagine that, beer banned while at your place of employment. OUTRAGE!!!!