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Jacko was right on the money but he apparently didn't read as much of the stuff 700 Hitter, SBF, iortiz and a few others kept harping on. We all said that 2013 was a total aberration, a very pleasant one, but an aberration nevertheless. What we all knew what that there would not be a WS for us in 2014. Well this season was also an aberration because no one to my knowledge had any idea we would suck this badly. Cherington had better not expect a free ride again next season and neither should our mentally challenged manager in the dugout. The fans, media, press and RS Nation in general will want their head on a stick if we are subjected to this kind of ineptness again next season, and, for that matter, Prune Face had better not try to cover for those two if they fall on their faces again because the guns will be turned on him and what he hears and reads will be very unpleasant and not to mention plenty of empty seats. We're luckier than most other fans because we have gotten three titles the past 11 seasons but that does not mean that Henry should keep guarding the vault while the GM and manager make one blunder after another. And for the record, I do not think Farrell measures up to Girardi, Maddon or Showalter in the dugout.

Just as long as the greedy money bag Dodgers once again don't get into the World Series I'm fine with who gets in. Truth be told, I would love to see a Chesapeake Bay WS between the Orioles and Nationals. The games would start early out here in California and not too late for you Easterners. Besides, I would love to hear all those lame excuses Dodger fans, media and the press use when they get their lunch eaten. My wife is an Angels fan so I hope they do get to the ALCS but not at the expense of the Orioles.

Unless he is talking about just 2015 Cherington once again is showing he needs more bran in his diet. If we have to trade for a solid pitcher Betts, sad to say, is going. No way any team dealing with us passes up on Mookie unless they are plain dumb. Vazquez is a solid defensive catcher but Blake Swihart down on the farm combines good defense with solid hitting ability and emerging power. You do NOT trade a switch hitting catcher with power unless you get an ace back in exchange or are taking stupid pills----and I think Ben is finally through taking them after his experience with them this season. Castillo looks like we may have hit paydirt in a big way, but the jury is still out on Bogaerts, one of the worse hitters with men on base in the game this year. Ben might consider making alternate lists of go-to guys---and as far as Xander is concerned I think Cherington had better have a Plan B in case X starts leaving runners on base by the bushel again next season. He was pathetic in that regard this season.....a real choker.

I just wonder if the FO has gotten gun shy about our young prospects because of the disaster we got from those three we relied on this season. Bradley was a total disaster at the plate and should be jettisoned forthwith. He has no future with the team---and despite what the front office is saying I am at that point where I have lost a lot of confidence in Middlebrooks as well. He wasn't in shape when the season began and got hurt in our second game and it was downhill from that point on. Bogaerts was treated as the Second Coming by the front office before the season. Sure, the second coming of a virus that ate away at the team. Face it, he stunk too. I mention these three because many of us were more than willing to see them in the lineup before ST started. Who knew how bad these guys would be. Now we have Betts, Cecchini, and Swihart and a few other highly rated prospects almost ready for their chance. I would hope we get from them what we didn't get from the other three lunkheads this season. I also don't want to pay big bucks for some FA third baseman or outfielder or first baseman that would take away from what we really need......TWO TOP QUALITY STARTING PITCHERS. That is a necessity if we are to climb out of the outhouse next season. Cherington has to play this off season very smartly. The question is, can he?

Hey guys, our friend Big Papi seemed to be quite concerned when Castillo got off to a slow start and wasn't making solid content but I think he may feel better now. I know I do. He seems to have gotten his swing down and I want to see him get some work down in the Caribbean this off season. Remember, he hadn't played in almost two years and he had to have some rust in his swing and game. He came on very well and at least that gives us some hope for next season.....and don't we all need some of that. Still, we need those two starting pitchers and that is going to cost us money which Prune Face might not want to spend, or players which Cherington might not want to give up. Well if we want to finish with a better record that the disaster that was this year, it will have to be one or the other because this team as presently constituted on the mound isn't going to get it done.

I wonder how long it will be before Cherington gets off his collective ass and starts retooling the team, only this time making some right decisions and keeping the right players.

You guys are whistling past the graveyard. Unless the Cubs come up with the big big buck, and I mean big big bucks, Lester will be in yankee stadium for the next five or six years. You may not like to hear it, you may not like it but that is where he will end up. I'd love to be off on this but I know the Yankees have now gone two straight seasons out of the playoffs and they will start spending money like there is no tomorrow. Salary limits mean nothing to them, only to Prune Face and his tightwad ways. And to think, we could have signed Lester to an nice extension right after the WS last year. That failure is going to reverberate in Red Sox nightmares for the next few years unless we can come up with top notch pitchers---AND THAT WILL COST EITHER A LOT OF MONEY OR A LOT OF PROSPECTS, MAYBE BOTH.

Loes is right. Sixth game 1952 World Series, either the sixth or seventh inning in what turned out to be a 3-2 Yankee win to even the series and set the stage for the Yanks' 4-2 win in the seventh game. In that series Brooklyn went 1-3 in games played in their home ballpark and yet won two of three at YS. That was a series the Brooklyn Dodgers should have won.

The less I think of either Drew the better off I am, but that missive about the St. Louis Browns of 1951 and Buster Brown brought back a lot of memories to this 73 and soon to be 74 year old warhorse. As bad as the Browns were that year they had a pitcher named Ned Garver who went 20-12 for the woe begotten team. That was amazing since he barely got two or three runs to work with. As for the other thing, you might remember this limerick THAT'S MY DOG TIDE, HE LIVES IN A SHOE I'M BUSTER BROWN, LOOK FOR ME IN THERE TOO.

I'm right there with you Dojii but you're about a dollar short. Shields is fine and we need someone like that, but we also need another top quality starter at the top of the rotation as well, a good No. 1 and No. 2 man. Who might that be, a person who can throw 200 innings a year and pitches from the left side so as to have a good balance with Shields. How about Henry tucking in his horns and going out and getting Lester back with us? Now that would give us a decent starting rotation. Who knows? We might actually go from last to first again on this seemingly endless merry-go-round.

Cuban ballplayers are not dumb but they do seem to lack those situational skills you talk about. What I've seen very recently is that Castillo looks like he is getting good and locked in and with Cespedes talking about free agency after next season we need to hold onto Rusney like a vise. Spring Training is the time for the coaching staff to stress and work on base running skills Spud, and if Farrell decides to run a real camp next March instead of the farce he directed this past Spring Castillo can be brought up to date. He is looking better with every game and so is Cecchini, another lunk head on the bases today, as well as Brentz who has hit well the past three games. Very carefully must the front office and coaching staff make personnel decisions this winter. They must pick the right players and get rid of those that don't fit in one way or another. Give Castillo, Cecchini, Brentz and Betts a lot of room next Spring and we may get a very pleasant surprise.

I'd be very leery about just getting rid of Nava this off season. He came back very strong after that miserable start and he can hit right handed pitching very well. A nice luxury like him you try to hold onto unless he is part of a big deal to get a top notch starting pitcher. The guy that needs to go is Bradley......very quickly.

Jameel Weeks isn't too smart on the paths either. He has made three bonehead plays since he's been with us. I wonder what gives with Nava. He has come on strong with the bat since that ill fated and stupid move by Farrell to make him a leadoff man at the beginning of the season. The guy can hit righthanders and though a lot of people want him out, he is not the guy who needs to go. The inept and overmatched Bradley is the first who should be jettisoned.

Thank you sir. I will remember that.

The best way to answer this farewell tour of BS as you put it is to go out there and win this three game series, no matter how unimportant it is in the overall scheme of things this season. At least let's try to finish in an upbeat manner. We have some young players in there tonight and let's hope they come through and show the front office they are worthy of a long look next Spring. After enduring the likes of Jackie and Will this season we need a positive shot of some "good young blood".

As was done in the off season after 2012, Cherington hit the exacta and got a plethora of players who were talented, still young enough, who liked one another and fit in, and the result was nirvana. Somehow we have try and reboot something along those lines this coming winter.

testing one two three. I have posted three articles and all three have been rejected as being either too short or too long. So I did a test. What gives? Anyone knows? Is it my computer?

With all due respect Pal, please get the facts straight. Yes, I was talking Bradley up the same way a year ago UNTIL his pathetic performance in Spring Training. If you will check things out you will see that I then said we had better have an alternate plan because I might have been off on this guy. And I was, but unlike Farrell I didn't try to fit a square peg in a round hole. As for comparisons, Bradley is an outfielder who can field with the best of them but has average speed and no power to speak of. Swihart is a switch hitting catcher with developing power who is projected to be a solid Major League hitter. I don't want a 36 year old Ruiz on the Red Sox and either Blake blocked or traded away for him. Just thought I would set the record straight on that. Bradley has to go and he should not be in the lineup one more time this season except as a defensive replacement. He has had plenty of chances and has failed miserably. Let Brentz play and see what he can do. Hell, he got two hits last night. How many games has it taken Jackie to get two hits----about 20?

When Olbermann was a political commentator on that left wing MSNBC I hated his freakin' guts, but on the sports scene I think he is in his calling. I try to watch him every day and hope he stays in sports. Boy did he do a number on Jeter yesterday and must have made Yankee fans totally pissed off. He did have facts to back up his diatribe, and, get this, I am pretty sure he is either a Yankee fan or was once. Still while this Jeter love fest might be carried too far the fact is that he is a sure fire Hall of Famer and for that shouldn't we at least give him due there?

The most important aspect in scoring runs is to have people who don't choke up in the clutch drive them in----as Ortiz has for the past 12 years. We don't seem to have too many of them right now.

Just like when I called Bogaerts a potential choker and got reamed for it---and turned out to be right by the way, I raised an alarm about Castillo. Prune Face was more than anxious to panic and give a $72.5 million contract to a guy who hadn't played much baseball in the previous two years, and you were right, he is not as good as Cespedes, nor Abreu, nor Puig, nor Solar. We may have gotten the runt of the litter. Now he hasn't had that many at-bats, but when you missed all the ball he's missed for the past two years you wonder how long it will be until he gets his timing down and starts hitting. Keep a eye on this in winter. We may have struck gold in the long run but we might have also have gotten a pile of rocks from Zeke Hardy's cow pasture as well. We'll see.

s*** on Martin!!!!! We have our best prospect Blake Swihart only a year or so away from giving us a solid catcher who switch hits with power and projects as a solid hitter as well. He must not be blocked. Let Martin go elsewhere----and let's hope the Red Sox don't keep making mistakes in personnel. Betts must stay and they must find a spot for Holt. The latter needs to be in the lineup. AND BRADLEY MUST GO....FAST!!!!!!

The Yanks were eliminated today from the playoffs. Red Sox fans can be happy with that but watch out for a major spending spree from them this winter. They are not worried about going over their limit and they will do anything they have to get back into contention next season while we have to worry that Farrell and Cherington not only will not get us the two starters we need but may try and ram Jackie Bradley down our throats again next season.

Is Farrell just stubborn or is he in fact what many members of his former team said about him.....that he is out of his league and doesn't have a clue what the hell he is supposed to be doing. Tonight once again he stubbornly inserted the miserable and pathetic Jackie Bradley into a lineup that still cannot score more than two or three runs a game. The results were predictable. We scored two runs, lost and Bradley struck out two more times and is now hitting 198. Keep in mind that he hit under 200 in his short stay with the Red Sox last season, hit under the Mendoza line this past Spring Training and his now down in the sewer again. Are the Red Sox seriously considering running him our there in the starting lineup again next season? Just what does he have on Farrell and Cherington that this piece of turd talent is still playing almost every game. For God's sake, someone wake the bungling manager up, give Brentz a chance in these last few games and finally throw in the towel on Jackie once and for all. He should be the first change they make this winter----out of Boston, anywhere but out of Boston. He stinks.