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  1. a700hitter
    I never said that it was a measure of success, but it does tell you something when a team with some of the worst pitching in baseball had no rookie options in the minors to take some starts. Our staff needed all the help it could get. Yet, there was no one in the organization that they had enough confidence in to hand the ball for even a single game just to see if they could help. Apparently, this has not happened for several seasons. It's not a measure of success or failure. You have a habit of attributing absurdly ridiculous meanings to statements. I do think the fact that no team has done this for years is indicative that we have very thin pitching talent in our minor leagues. BTW: the other team to do this is the 2012 NY Mets-- another organization in disarray.
  2. a700hitter
    Jacko isn't a troll. He takes his lumps on this site, and he has been amazingly restrained considering that the Sox are having their worst season since 1967.
  3. a700hitter
    They have not done anything very well except market for several years. That's how a juggernaut like the 2007 team got turned into this rubbish. I heard some stat the other day that the Red Sox were one of two teams not to have a rookie make a single start in 2012. Apparently, this has not happened for several years, and I think it is indicative of just how thin and weak our system is with regard to pitching. That's poor drafting.
  4. a700hitter
    The whole organization has stunk pretty bad for the last several seasons and that includes talent evaluation. I didn't follow the draft too closely this season, but from what I have read, the Sox draft was not very highly regarded. When have we landed a talent like Trout with one of our first round picks. The Angels landed him with the 25th overall pick.
  5. a700hitter
    If we did, our guys would have picked a dud.
  6. a700hitter
    Not that often. Our big mistakes have for the most part been via free agency. We haven't had a lot of our prospects go elsewhere and tear up things.
  7. a700hitter
    He will be a very useful utility player at the very least.
  8. a700hitter
    Yankee demise is always part of the fun for us. There's no reason for you to get bitter with us. Our stinking Sox will hand you the division starting on Monday.
  9. a700hitter
    Not really. Enduring the bad times just means that the jackasses running the FO have squandered the fans money, wasted our time, and taken our loyalty for granted. There is no upside.
  10. a700hitter
    This kid is going to be a star in our division for a long time. He's just a teenager. We have no one as good as him in our system.
  11. a700hitter
    Bard is through.
  12. a700hitter
    Reddick broke out of a long slump last night with 2 Home Runs. He has 31 Homers on the season. That's a pretty good production for his first full season.
  13. a700hitter
    And Cherington's accomplishments?
  14. a700hitter
    That's what Cherington's job description is-- to take the slings and arrows and occasionally he'll get some credit in the pres. Inside the walls, they know who is accountable.
  15. a700hitter
    They are more unwatchable than the 2012 Red Sox. Hard to believe.
  16. a700hitter
    Just all the bad ones after 2007 when Theo was given more independence. He was given enough rope to hang himself.
  17. a700hitter
    I think pitching will be at a premium this off season. Haren will not be cheap, and I don't think the Giants will sell low on Lincecum.
  18. a700hitter
    Neither Theo or his band of brothers, Hoyer and Cherington have demonstrated any aptitude for judging talent. I really feel sorry for Cub fans. Two of those clowns are running their team with a free hand. Maybe with 2 wild cards they will eventually compete for something.
  19. a700hitter
    I agree. We already have a guy like that in Lester and no one trusts him to be a #1 next year. We had two guys like this before Beckett got traded. We should a struggling Lincecum or Haren be such an improvement. These guys are having terribvle seasons with good teams. It's curious how people are willing to take a shot on two guys who are s***ing the bed on good teams and who are probably damaged, but they don't want to touch a young healthy Greinke who is performing well. I just don't get it.
  20. a700hitter
    If the prospects that we got amount to anything, that will be gravy. It's just wishful thinking to believe that this trade was anything other than a salary dump. We had to get something in return for $163 million of ballplayers, otherwise, the Commissioner vetoes the trade. It had to look like wew were getting some value in return. These were not the Dodgers top prospects. Essentially, they are guys for which they had no plans, except De La Rosa who was probably slated for their bulpen. The OFer we got is old for a prospect and he is just a AAAA player. The pitchers will be 4th or 5th starters some day if we are lucky. The guys we got from the Dodgers do not figure prominently into our future plans. If they do, we will be looking at a prolonged period of sucking, because they are not very good.
  21. a700hitter
    He's the manager of a last place team. He's worth very little.
  22. a700hitter
    I can't understand people who take up Cherington's case. He has not done anything to earn anyone's admiration. This off-season will be his defining moment.
  23. a700hitter
    I don't think he will be productive in 3 years.
  24. a700hitter
    No, you are not crazy. You are bored shitless like the rest of us. Who cares about this s***. What's next a press release with the names of the newly hired interns and gofers from Northeastern Univ? We are starved for positive Red Sox news. This just in the Sox will be changing their uniforms to a cotton/silk blend, and the executives will be getting new ergonomic desk chairs to help prevent fatigue and cut down on afternoon naps.
  25. a700hitter
    It wasn't easy. It took several years of incompetence and laziness to get to this point.
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