seabeachfred

He might be best suited for third base in some people's opinion but he has to stay at shortstop. We have two good hitting third basemen in Middlebrooks and the upcoming Garin Cecchini and one of them in my opinion has to be moved to get both bats in the lineup. To move Bogaerts would result in putting a weak hitter at shortstop in Marrero who couldn't even crack 300 in college. We have to go with Xander at short and hope that his fielding keeps getting better and that he starts showing us that he is the hitter we all believe him to be.

We need to start hitting, show some fire and start winning some games. That would take care of things and settle us worriers down. Right now I am concerned and I'll bet others feel the same way. Off to 24 Hour Fitness to work off some of this aggressiveness. Like almost all Red Sox fans I live and die with the team.

Can you even read down where you live? No one CALLED Bogey a choker----it was a question...COULD HE BE A CHOKER?????? Big difference.

That's yours and User's opinion but it is astounding that you and he can't see the lack of energy and even more lack of urgency in what we've been seeing so far. You say it will get better. It might....it did some of those other years only to collapse at the end. Opinions vary but when you get off to a slow start and rally you often extend so much energy that you're spent near the end of the season.....read 2009 and 2011 when we got off to similar pathetic starts. Just for the record, we have no speed, we're not hitting, we look flat. Am I suppose to believe you and your lodge brother or what I saw with my own eyes in Boston and have seen on the screen the past week. Kudos to you if you're right and I hope that's so, but I don't like what I'm seeing right now, and it was a question I asked about Bogaerts and not an accusation. IS IT POSSIBLE HE IS A CHOKER????? He has shown a serious inability to drive in runs and unlike some others I think RBI's and clutch hitting count for a lot. Well, let's see how the next week goes and whether there will be improvements or whether the excuses will keep flying out off the board. I'm now very concerned.

********!!!!!!! Wake the hell up!!!! This is exactly what happened in 2009 and 2011 and to somewhat lesser extent in 2010 and 2012. We did the same thing then and we got off to s***** starts. Look it up and get your head out of the sand. If you don't want to hear me whine then don't read my posts, and keep in mind if you've been reading the game thread there are plenty of people here who are as pissed off as I am. I don't know what they have in the water where you live but to think that all is right with the team only tells me you haven't a f***ing clue about what's going on. To be precise.....we had a lousy ST. We are having a lousy start. We had a lousy ST in those aforementioned years and got off to other bad starts. Your brain can't be that scrambled that you can't see the relationship unless you're more f***ing retarded than previously thought to be.

Again I insist these problems originated in Spring Training when Farrell treated it like an extended vacation. The team was not prepared for the regular season. Too many different lineups and not enough at-bats to get ready when it counted. Farrell kept saying the extra month of play last season could have a deleterious effect on the team if he pushed it too hard in the early going. I find nothing wrong with that thinking but I do think it carried way too damn long in ST when two weeks before the opener he should have started driving the team more and get mentally ready as well for the season. And once again, I insist that how you do in ST DOES effect how you get off when the real games begin. You just have to look at the past to see that.

I noticed the game thread was locked before I had a chance to vent my spleen so I will vent it here. With all due respect, I don't want to hear any more s*** from any of you out there who took offense a few weeks ago when I warned that our s***** Spring Training season would result in our coming out the gate punch drunk. Well guess what? Just as in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 we had a s***** spring and are now in a s***** start to a new season. Understand this....with the Red Sox there is a real correlation how we play down in Florida and how we start off when the bell rings. It's a shame some of your memories are worth a warm pitcher of spit on that subject. Now we have almost half the starters on the sideline, we aren't hitting worth s***, we have no speed, we have no offense, we play station-to-station baseball and leave a bunch of runners on base game after game---and here's the worst part of it. It is becoming possible that our Xander Bogaerts may actually be a choker and if so that is a crusher.

I think we're all basking in the Championship. I don't think a day goes by that I don't stare in my room at the 2013 ensemble of pictures and posters of our 2013 season. However, though the season is barely underway I have noticed both in person and on TV what appears to be a lack of urgency and a very blasé attitude. Sure, it could be my imagination but I have to tell you what I saw at Fenway in October and what I recently saw a week and a half ago was like night and day.

Good God, how many pitchers have already gone down this season so far? Feels like an epidemic---and that bothers me in another way concerning one of our own. If pitchers are coming up lame the Red Sox may be more hesitant than ever in trying to give Jon Lester the contract we know he needs so he stays on our team.

I think the last part of your missive pretty well sums it up Ted---and for the life of me I can't understand why our team can't hit in sync and be more productive with men on base.

As much as I have gotten along with Jacko over the years, you hit this one right on the head............his take on our 2013 season is just one f***ed up mess.

Unless our inept medical staff has misdiagnosed this injury. Face it, they've been real good at those over the past half-dozen years. Let's hope they got it right this time around.

You and I feel the same way about the Yankees if I read you right Al, but Jacko is just showing his joy over the past weekend. I can assure you that if it was the Red Sox who did the three of four I would be a lot more animated than Jackson is right now. A point I'm trying to make is that right now, this very minute, the Yankees are better than we are---hopefully not for long but we have to get our key guys back and those in the lineup and on the mound have to work in sync. That hasn't happened yet, and, what's more, Farrell has to stop dicking around with his lineup and batting orders. Pick your best nine, pick out your best batting order and go with it. He still can't seem to make up his mind.

We all seem to be in a fit of some kind today, either with a fellow poster, the team, with ourselves, or just pissed off in general. I have to admit that losing three of four to the Yankees totally irritates the living s*** out of me. I don't like losing to those guys because no matter how you slice or dice it they have the better of us mano mano. I want the Red Sox to be the ones to beat the s*** out of the Yankees, not vice versa. We still owe them a couple of decades worth of beatings.

You think so, huh? Well start praying just the same because the Sox are going everything to hint at him that he can walk.

Quite on the money d. We look like s***, sorry to say. We don't hit in the clutch, we have no speed in the lineup to put pressure on the opposition and we strike out too damn much. What's more, Farrell still seems unable to pick a batting order and stick to it. Of course now we may lose Pedroia for awhile and that doesn't help either. As for Herrera, please guys, let's be frank. He's been exposed. If we use him and Roberts for any length of time we are deep in s***.

No we can't sk. We need Bradley to start hitting now and keep hitting. It is why the front office seemed to anxious to let Ellsbury walk and replace him with JB. They had to think he could do it or otherwise they were just pulling the wool over our eyes for the sole purpose of saving money. The fact is Bradley cannot touch Ellsbury with a five foot pole save for his outstanding defense. He has very average speed, is a near strikeout machine and his power is very average at best. Still with all that he needs to start hitting and hitting fast because we cannot wait for his offense to catch up with his defense since we seem to have more than our share of stiffs right now in the lineup.

Farrell seems to be thinking with his ass in this early going. Grady Sizemore hits a game winning three run homer last night and tonight he is on the pine? What kind of f***ing stupidity is that? Meanwhile it looks like Bradley was teasing us before we met the Yankees because except for a couple of stolen bases (good) his hitting is once again s*****. And please, get that damn Herrera out of there somehow. He is a good utility player; he is not a regular buy any means. Even bring Snyder back. At least he got some hits for us last year. The two clowns we have platooning now are s*** warmed over.

I wouldn't count on it Palodios. Did you see the Red Sox's latest offer.......four years and $80 million? That's a f***ing insulting offer if there ever was one. What the hell could Cherington be thinking? And as Lester keeps pitching well the price will only keep going up. It looks to me like the Sox are screwing up again with their free agents. To me, unless something radical changes on the part of the front office Lester is as good as gone.

And who the hell needs Herrera either? Not as a regular. He is a decent utility and substitute player but you can't play a mediocrity like that as a regular third baseman. As for Roberts, the Cubs didn't want him so does that mean Cherington thinks a new Red Sox uniform would work wonders. I remember Theo saying the same thing about Hermida and Cameron and Repko and Thomas. Didn't come close to working. Pray that Middlebrooks mends faster that most of our injured have in the past.

Right you are iortiz. Ben has to stop dicking around and get Jon's name on that new contract. There is a holdup on either money or years and if it is the latter then give him more money. If it's years give him a little less. Certainly they can work that out without the front office risking losing our ace. And despite what that ******* Peter Gammons says about the Yankees never signing Lester, if he leaves us, that's exactly where he will wind up.

Glad to see some who also believe that Farrell does some stupid things out there. He got away with one tonight when he brought Mujica in there, but Ed did do a good job of ending it so perhaps he may have turned a corner. Koji is reputed to have a stiff shoulder. Hey let's just feel good about the win tonight and make it two straight tomorrow if we can go out and get John Lackey five or six runs. The hitters need to start hitting, Sizemore needs to be kept in the lineup and, some may disagree, I would like to see Pedroia moved back to third in the order where he hit last year. Pedey-Papi-Nap at 3-4-5 is a pretty potent trio and move Bogaerts to second in the order. Just my opinion but Grady and those four in order might wake up the hitting ghosts.

Hard to fathom Ted that we have some friends here who cannot see that our offense is leaving a lot to be desired. Four hits in game one and seven in game two. Fortunately the seven hit game turned out to be a win but our hitters have to get going and the sooner the better. Pedroia has been ice cold lately and Nava is still in the doldrums. Both those guys hit over 300 last season.

So early in the season but do you notice all the teams in the AL East are bunched up tightly. I wonder which team, if any, is going to break from the crowd or whether we are going to see this tightness in the race last to the very end. It seems a the teams seem to be very close in talent from what I've seen so far.

How come it feels that this victory still feel like we've just come through a shipwreck? Even our wins are tension filled. Lets all be on our good behavior to the Gods of Fate that we go into Yankee Stadium and come out Sunday night in better shape than when we went in.