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  1. a700hitter
    Damn! I wanted his return to be looming over the Yankees in 2014. Has ARod agreed to the 162 games or does he have another appeal available?
  2. a700hitter
    I hate both the Yankees and Dodgers as you do, but at least the Dodgers are not in our division. Also, I have the benefit of the Dodgers being 3000 miles away. I pay attention to them only when I want to hear the great Vin Scully.
  3. a700hitter
    Just the usual Tuesday afternoon.
  4. a700hitter
    I am never okay with the Yankees beating us whether they overpaid for their team or not. I'd prefer that he go elsewhere.
  5. a700hitter
    Maybe he is working on switch hitting .
  6. a700hitter
    Isn't Podsednik left handed. We need a right-handed OFer. I don't see the fit. Sorry VA. I realize tht Podsednik and Peavy are on you All-Hunk team.
  7. a700hitter
    Welcome to TalkSox!
  8. a700hitter
    I think he lost the fire in the belly. He got married had a family and became domesticated. He used to be a beast on the mound. That Beckett has been gone for quite a while.
  9. a700hitter
    I can see signing Drew, because WMB has had inconsistency at the plate. Also, Bogaerts could hit some bumps in the road. I agree with you on the other issue. I don't like trading pitchers, unless we can get someone for Dumpster.
  10. a700hitter
    Agreed that there were plenty of culprits, but I put the biggest blame on Beckett, because he wrecked his own season and the team's season with his pussy antics. He got cleared to pitch time and again, but the princess could feel that pea underneath the mattress and he refused to pitch and lost his conditioning and then really did get injured. I don't throw blame on guy just for bad performance. That's hard for me to do if the guy just has a bad spell at the wrong part of the season. I'll cut him slack if he suits up everyday and gives his best. 2008 was the first signal that Beckett was a selfish prick. In later years that became very obvious.
  11. a700hitter
    Fred, just a point of clarification. Clowns are funny and likeable. He is not a clown. A point of advice-- once you have someone on ignore never take him off. You are not missing anything except the aggravation that drove you to using the ignore feature.
  12. a700hitter
    Papelbon still has a soft spot for his old mates.
  13. a700hitter
    Beckett's hypochondria (princess and the pea syndrome) and his insistence on seeing every specialist under the sun and shutting himself down for about a month; and his subsequent lat injury from being out of condition when he returned probably cost us back to back championships.
  14. a700hitter
    I am appalled. Rookies should not be able to bang sideline reporters. They should be carrying the veteran's bags.
  15. a700hitter
    Even winners make plenty of mistakes. For instance, Hanrahan and Bailey -- Two Fat Closers, were a huge mistake. Koji was meant to be a set up arm and ended up bailing out the closer mistakes with an all-time great season for a closer. All of these moves are up for debate. Benny will win some and lose some. Last year, he came out on the plus side in a big way. In 2012, his moves stunk. Each move and and each off season gets judged on its own.
  16. a700hitter
    Interesting fact. It is also interesting that the author thinks that 55 years is a small sample size.
  17. a700hitter
    Are international signess considered free agents that can be signed by any team?
  18. a700hitter
    X was a free agent?
  19. a700hitter
    We have him for 2014, and pitchers have this nasty habit of falling apart after 30. I hope that he and the Sox make the most of 2014. If he has a good season, he's going to want a contract in the neighborhood of $150 million or more. He'll be gone.
  20. a700hitter
    I hope he pitches great and the team rides his back to a back to back championship and then sayonara.
  21. a700hitter
    And a legitimate 30 HR guy will have some trade value despite a low OBP.
  22. a700hitter
    If they had kept Pedro and OCab, a strong argument could be made that they would have won back to back championships. Such a discussion is not a condemnation of the FO whose record of 3 World Championships in 10 years speaks for itself. It's just a "what if" discussion on a cold boring winters day. I don't know why people lose their minds over such discussions as if it is a terrible slight against the FO. Who gives a s*** about slighting FO people anyway, especially if they are no longer here. I'll get a good laugh if Theo keeps coming in last with the Cubs and gets fired. He grew up as a Red Sox fan, and he walked away from the greatest job in sports for a Red Sox fan. He left for the money just like Damon, Papelbon and Ellsbury. Yet people defend him like he is a family member. Amusing.
  23. a700hitter
    My recollection was that laRussa went on record with doubts about Renteria performing in Boston.
  24. a700hitter
    He was too much money going into the deal.
  25. a700hitter
    It may have been second only to Crawford as a Theo bad signing. He couldn't give Renteria away after his one year in Boston. The Sox ate almost all of his salary and got a busted prospect that never amounted to anything.
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