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  1. a700hitter
    He was very steady in the field for a good portion of 2007 and he had a good post season in my recollection. The rest was a train wreck.
  2. a700hitter
    So the success now is attributed to the Cherrington/Luchhino regime?
  3. a700hitter
    It did happen on Ben's watch. It is interesting to see how people jump to his defense and hold him faultless while he mans up and takes responsibility without blaming his predecessor. If he is not at fault, I guess Theo takes the hit for 2012. Is that your opinion? I have flip flopped on nothing.
  4. a700hitter
    Okay, so you hold Epstein responsible for the worst season in almost 50 years and last place in 2012? I'm okay with that. Somebody had to be responsible. It makes sense in light of the team's good start. Ben seemingly has righted the Red Sox ship to a big extent. They look to be going in the right direction, while Theo appears headed for last place and second 100+ loss season with the Cubbies.
  5. a700hitter
    Not quite sure what point you are trying to make.
  6. a700hitter
    I do like that Ben takes a lot more accountability for 2012 than people here want to give him. A lot of people want to make Epstein Ben's George Bush. Ben is getting his chance to prove his worth this season freed up from Epstein's fiscal strangulation of the team. Either way, someone messed up the team royally. If people don't want to hold Ben accountable, that is fine, but then it had to be Epstein's fault. Someone has to be accountable. Someone made the terrible decisions.
  7. a700hitter
    It happened on his watch whether he gets mulligans or not.
  8. a700hitter
    Please elaborate. I don't know what you are saying here or what you are answering.
  9. a700hitter
    So, you are rationalizing that a series of bad decisions left ben with no better choice? Did anyone have responsibility for the series of bad decisions leaving Ben in that predicament?
  10. a700hitter
    But last place and the worst record since 1965 happened on Ben's watch.
  11. a700hitter
    And those were the whole universe of options? Check the transaction list for that off season. Lot's of other pitchers changed teams. Bottom line is that it was Cherington's choice to give Bard a chance to start. He had no gun to his head and his balls were not in a vice. He made a very poor decision. You are making lots of excuses and rationalizations.
  12. a700hitter
    You and Doji are wrong. Did we need another starter? Yes. Did it have to be Bard? Absolutely, not. That was Cherrington's call. Surely there were other options than a guy who had zero success as a starter beyond college and who became a headcase and almost a lost cause trying to start in the lower minors. Cherrington is the GM. People don't compete to be a starter on some sign up sheet or just because they want to.
  13. a700hitter
    You are changing the facts. No one disputes that Bard lobbied to start. So did Aceves. Cherington made the decision to let them compete for a job in ST. Aceves had the inside line on the job until the end of ST when Bailey got a boo boo and Aceves was asked to close. Dems the facts.
  14. a700hitter
    I think your recollection is correct.
  15. a700hitter
    One of the only things that Bobby V was right about was that Bard was not a starter. There was no backing from the FO to pull the plug on the experiment. Ben Cherries was certainly complicit in the disastrous experiment. Bobby V let the kid take his turn, and when he imploded, he left him on the mound to completely embarrass himself and end the experiment. The kid was too stupid to be embarrassed by his performance. He thought he just needed a few adjustments before his next start. He was clueless, and he probably still is clueless.
  16. a700hitter
    I sense a hostage exchange in the works.
  17. a700hitter
    If Toronto hires Bobby V they could be the 2012 Red Sox.
  18. a700hitter
    Many predicted the 2011 Red Sox to win it all. It was not at all funny when those predictions went wrong.
  19. a700hitter
    If you could make the trains run on time and let us drink our sugary drinks, you could actually get elected.
  20. a700hitter
    We win again.
  21. a700hitter
    I wish you were dictator of NY. The Long Island Rail Road has horrible on time performance. Seriously, it is will be the biggest factor in my eventual decision to retire from my current job.
  22. a700hitter
    Bailey should buy Nava dinner. That had triple written all over it.
  23. a700hitter
    Nava is not terrible in RF.
  24. a700hitter
    I realize that dictator outranks self appointed ceremonial monarch.
  25. a700hitter
    I believe in equality.
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