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Please User, read the first God Damn sentence of my post an comprehend what it means. Everyone has a right to give theirs. What the hell don't you understand about that? You have your opinion and I have mine and others have theirs. Very simple. Think before you react. We just disagree on what is best for the Red Sox. BTW, Salty went 0 for 4 tonight with two strikeouts. Think a couple of hits by him when we needed them might have changed the game's outcome?

Please User, read the first God Damn sentence of my post an comprehend what it means. Everyone has a right to give theirs. What the hell don't you understand about that? You have your opinion and I have mine and others have theirs. Very simple. Think before you react. We just disagree on what is best for the Red Sox. BTW, Salty went 0 for 4 tonight with two strikeouts. Think a couple of hits by him when we needed them might have changed the game's outcome?

That's what great about opinions User----everyone has one and everyone has the right to give his. In my case I can point out that Lavarnway has never been given a real chance to show what he can do in the Majors. Oh sure, he had some games during that car crash of a late season we were having when no one was doing much. The guy came off a helluva year in 2011 and showed good power and improved defense, pitch calling and arm accuracy. Personally, I believe they have programmed this guy to fail, especially when he was sent down after his great 2011 season. Ross cannot hit, strikes out by the bushel and his solid defense does not make up for his offensive wasteland. Saltalmacchia? Some power and some hitting ability, but a defensive peguin in the garden on defense. If we could combine Ross and Salty we might have something but we can't. Anyway, you are right on one thing. I have a very high regard for Ryan and believe he is going to be a solid player when the Red Sox blow it and let him go. My opinion anyway.

Catching is a defensive position but you have to hit a little to have some positive effect. Ross is a total waste with a bat in his hands and his proclivity to strike out is enormous. He was a total failure with the Dodgers and even that piss poor run organization got rid of him. He did have a little success with the Braves but only for one season I believe and they made no effort to keep him when he once again became a FA. I still think you can get enough good defense and enough hitting if they would just give Ryan Lavarnway a shot at the job. I still don't understand why the Red Sox insist on keeping the two duds we now have t here.

Nah User, no miscommunication for my part. The fact is all three of the are doing well thus far this season and that is great news. My concern is whether this is a positive trend moving forward. As I mention, I was a big supporter of Renuado and was thrilled when the Red Sox signed him three or four years ago, but until now he seemed like a sunk cost. Maybe he is now showing what he showed in the Cape Cod League a few summers ago when the best young college players and future high draft choices couldn't do a think with him. My fried Ted pointed out that DLR hasn't gone more than four innings so far so we don't know how sound his arm is. Besides, is he a starter or reliever? A future closer prospect perhaps? Webster? The sooner he gets to the point that we can use him on the Red Sox the better. We need a good young hard throwing starting pitcher to add to our rotation after so many years of not doing so. No matter how you slice it, though, it will be our starting pitching that will determine how far we will go this season. Wouldn't you tend to agree with that?

With all due respect gentlemen Spitball User and Pal, I don't consider a month-plus of good work as lighting it up. Can we wait until the season is near its end before we annoint these guys as the new Three Musketeers. Remember we were 22-8 at one point and some were thinking big things until we came down to earth and some reality. I was aware of Renaudo because I was a big supporter of his when he was at LSU, and I know Webster has come around, but I want to see this over a whole season before I give them the high sign. You've heard the term----"Consistency thou art jewel". Well my friends let's see a little more production over a longer period of time and some more consistentcy. Also keep in mind that their previous minor league accomplishments made no one claim them to be the next coming of Roger Clemens or Pedro Martinez or Curt Schilling. I will wait a little longer before jumping on the bandwagon. In the meantime Spitball, I'll keep trying to entertain you when I get my foot out of my mouth User Now as for John Lackey tonight and last Sunday, maybe we've found our big No. 3 guy.....maybe!!!!!!

Please RSB, get a grip. None of three have set the minors on fire yet and they have as much chance of being washouts as stalwarts. Keep in mind we haven't been too successful in developing good pitchers since Lester and Buchholz. Still, I suppose a little optimism is good for all of us right about now.

Red Sox fans had better hope it's mechanical Jacko, and it can be worked out in side sessions because if it isn't the team is in deep s***. Dempster has made the word Dumpster look good in comparison of late and it points out why we may struggle unless a couple of pitchers rise and join up with the two good starters we have, not to mention we finally learn how to hit again. We have some real turds in our lineup right now and now joined by the biggest non-hitting bum of them all, the immortal Jose Iglesias.

Farrell has to pick his spots wisely when to give the key players a day off now and then. Never rest a key player when there is a day off the next evening. I do think that Nava needs to play as much as possible. Unlike some flashes who the pitchers catch up to, so far it seems that Daniel has caught up to the pitchers and is doing a good job for us. The guys I worry about are Ellsbury and Saltalmacchia. The former is just goofing along, not getting on base, not getting many hits, not stealing any more bases and playing like he's fighting constipation out there. It's like he's playing not to get hurt. What he needs to do is play hard and leave it all on the field. I'd bet that if he got hot the team wouldn't undergo the downfall it had for the better part of two weeks As for Jarrod, your guess is as good as mine. He is a defensive grenade always ready to blow, and unless he can hit 30 homers and drive in 85 or so runs he seems to be more of a liability than an asset.

If Hamilton reverses course and goes the opposite of what he has done so far he is going to light up the scoreboard. The guy is a big talent and has underachieved. OTOH, is it even remotely possible that all his previous play with liguor and drugs have finally had a cumulative effect and is eating away at his body? Not sure but it could be a possibility. He just looks like a different hitter this year and this is not what the Angels signed him for.

Well BSN, I can no longer use the tired excuse that I'm new to these things. It is almost 13 years now and I should be able to roll with the highs and lows and I give full credit to you, 700, Stallion, User and the rest of the gang that can do that. I really hope you're right about being a WC caliber team. We sure haven't looked like one the past ten games or so. I once alluded to my formative years to, I believe it was Ted (700 Hitter). When I lived my first 14 years in Queens, my dad wanted me to become a baseball fan but he sometimes regretted what he has created. When the old Dodgers would lose a game, I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep, I didn't want to go outside and play stickball. I didn't want to do anything. OK, I was young and I had an excuse. Now in my 70's I'm even more of a fanatic for my new team than I was for my old one. Maybe one of these days before I am called home I will be able to roll with the punches as you guys do. I would have loved to have been able to have done that this past week. Back to you my friend.

We have four dogs---a Golden Retriever, a Chihuahua, and two mixes, one a combo of rat terrier-Boston terrier-chihuahua, and the other a duet of Border Collie-Springer spaniel. The fact is my wife can stay up late and watch the 11:00 news; I am a wuss and have to be in bed by 9:30 or I'm not worth s*** the next day. We don't sleep together anymore because I snore and when Linda comes to bed I used to keep her awake. SO----I sleep with three of the dogs and Linda with the other. Carrying this to an extreme, the dogs do not know us as Linda or Fred. They only respond to mommy and daddy. Well my wife has always said I was weird; not all of you know.

A few laughs are badly needed now Stallion. I can't help but admire how some of you can take this a helluva better than I can. BTW, I always give my dogs goodies and my better half gets mad as hell at me for giving them people food. When we are both eating together all four dogs are almost right in my face and totally ignore the wife. You want to know something bizarre, though? When the Red Sox lost the dogs stay away from me. I think they sense that I am ready to explode.

Hey Ted, if you were trying to tell me you were more astute in sizing up our team before the season began, you didn't even have to say it.....I knew it then and I know it better now. And being senior to you means nothing since you've been through this a helluva lot more than me, and as much as hate to admit it and give away my supposed maturity, I'm about as juvenile as they come when it deals with the Red Sox. I never thought I would so fall in love with a team again after all those years of wandering, but it has gotten so that I actually get paranoid when I wear my Red Sox shirts and shorts and believe that I'm now being laughed at. Oh, how I would give half of what I own to see our team start totally beating the living s*** out of all our tormentors. Thanks for the suggestions too my friend. Knowing I have some friends like you on this board take a lot of the sting out of the miserable feelings I have right now.

I would guess there has to be a lot of you out there who feels my pain as I do theirs and yours. Tossing and turning at night because your beloved team is s***ing the bed is enough to put a damper on what otherwise might have been a nice day. You have the Jays fans to endure USER; out here I now have to listen to the Angels and Dodgers fans who are just thrilled by the fact that our team is now in somewhat the position of theirs. I have to admit that I was fooled by our start. Fools gold---and if you want to know why I don't post as much the past few days as I did before, be advised that a miserable attitude and outlook shouldn't have to be endured by others who might take things a helluva better than I do. After what happened in Sept, 2011, and all of last year, I wonder if there has actually been a culture of losing that has invaded our team. All I do know for certain is that we had better wake up and start playing solid ball again or this season could be lost.

It is times like this that I rue that day I went to Fenway Park in 2000 and got swept into the Red Sox hole. These losses have made me pissed off at my wife, daughter, friends and dogs. It actually eats at me and ruins my f***ing day. I have always been told that converts to any cause tend to me extreme in excess and that is why I haven't posted here in a few days. I fear this is going to be a s***** year and paranoid to think that my friends and family are actually laughing behind my back. And there is one guy on this board who actually believes I may not be a Red Sox fan and he has to be the absolute fool.

That's what I want to hear Alphilip because I feel exactly the same way. I'm totally pissed off because I feel I was totally fooled by the fast start. The Red Sox have looked like s*** warmed over the past six games and if we don't get that s*** together it is going to get worse. We've let too many other teams push us around the past year and a half and that has to stop. As you've saids we've seem to have become a steaming pile of s*** and it hurts.

On another board I referred to the guys the Red Sox got from the Dodgers in that salary dump last August as fools gold because I knew damn well that they had the worst farm system in the game. Now to be fair to Webster maybe this was just an off day but what if it wasn't? The LA Bums talked this guy up and down but his numbers were average at best from what I heard. Suffice to say it seems to me that we had better be certain that we win the vast majority of games Lester, Buchholz and Dempster pitch because we are not very adept at No. 4 and I still have some doubts about Lackey's staying power after he throws four or five innings. Oh, let me be honest. I'm just totally pissed off at what's happened the last six games.

SoxSport, we aren't hitting worth s*** right now and bringing up Iggy who isn't even hitting down at Pawtucket isn't going to help us put tallies on the board. At least that is my opinion. I think people are not putting the blame where it belongs. Ellsbury looks absolutely lost at the plate. He never goes to the opposite field anymore, just tries to pull every f***ing pitch, like two nights ago when he killed another rally with a double play routine grounder to second. And Victorino needs to start hitting again as well, and they both need to be turned loose on the bases assuming they can get on. Jung is absolutely right in that we have changed our offensive pattern and are trying to be a big inning slugging team. We are not that right now and it is showing. As for bringing up Lavarnway, there is someone who needs a long and good look....finally, and not having him look over his damn shoulder every time he fails to get a hit.

Make that a double God Damn It----and to keep my colleagues here from hearing going on a violent and arsenic laced rant, I'll simply say good night to all of you and leave you with a.....TOMORROW WILL BE A BETTER DAY FOR US.

Come on Stallion, that's pretty s***** consolation and you know it. We played like we've actually run out of gas-----after only thirty plus games. I hope we suddenly get our s*** together because a few more games like this and it will seem like 2012 again only without bumbling Bobby. Tonight was an embarassment and Dempster deserved better. We better warm our bats up tomorrow.

If there is a way to f*** up a diagnosis our half-ass medical staff will find that way. They had better give Will a CT Scan and if necessary an MRI to make sure they get something right this time. They screwed up so badly in the past that sooner or later they have to hit paydirt. Then, again, our players have had the irritating habit of healing with the speed of an hour-glass.

I would have preferred Koji as the temporary closer but it's Farrell's decision and it is what it is. If we can get Webster pitching up to his so-called potential and natural ability we may have something there for this season. What I like about his being called up is the possibility of having Doubrant becoming a long man in the bullpen, if not now then very soon because he seems incapable of going deep as a starter. Maybe he can eat up innings in a relief role. I'd rather seem him pitch four or five innings out of the bullpen than see him try to endure for that many as a starter. Every time he starts it seems we go through our bullpen.

I suppose there might still be a few diehards who think there is some miracle awaiting when Bard comes back finally like new. It is fool's gold my friends. This guy is done, finis, nein, nyet, no mas!!!!!!! To me the tipoff is how he totally failed to make the adjustment back to the bullpen when his miserable trial as a starter went up in smoke. To me that spells a lack of touchness, a total inability to man up and move on. This is an extreme case of Craig Hansen (remember him?????). Bard is through!!!!!!!!!