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It's so hard for me to fathom that this team has not played any meaningful games for so long. I believed at the start of the season that we did not have enough pitching to see us through a successful season, but I fully expected that they would have been competitive at least until September before the lack of pitching separated us from the pack. We started the season with 3 starting pitchers. Doubront was an unknown quantity and Bard was a complete gamble. You can't break camp with that and think you have enough pitching. There were no contingency plans, none that instilled any confidence. I have heard all the arguments about foreseeability of the under performance of the so-called "big three". All that did was accelerate the fall into hyper-speed. We had 3 established starters when we broke camp. That is not a recipe for success. We're officially out of it now. The ownership made that official when they sent Crawford for surgery. Many of us have known we were done long before this. People who thought we had life at the All Star break were desperately clinging to false hope. The FO has known that this was a lost season despite their public face. Their actions hollered out that the team was toast as they didn't lift a finger to reinforce the team pitching over the course of the entire season. They sacrificed the season as they pimped the 100th year anniversary celebration and bricks and so forth fully knowing they had fielded a very inferior product. What is left for us as the fans? All that is left for me is hoping that the Sox can play spoilers. Knocking the Yankees out of the playoffs would be sweet, but it is a bit of a long shot. Knocking them from the division lead is not such a long shot. If the Angels and Detroit don't make the playoffs, the Yankees will have an easier path. I'd like to see them make the playoffs. We could help them by knocking out Baltimore. That would be a measure of revenge for last year. Maybe we could celebrate like unprofessional *******s like they did when they knocked us out. I'd like that. We play the Angels this week, who are in a tailspin of their own. While I always root for the Red Sox, losing to the Angels and setting them back on the winning track may not be a bad thing in the big picture.

There will be no torches and pitchforks. There won't be many fans either.

I never expected it to be this bad either.

Maybe the FO will do nothing again this offseason. Maybe they will tell us that good health will be the key, and a full season from Franklin Morales as a starter and Bailey in the pen, and Middlebrooks and Lavarnway and we will be on our way back to the top. I wouldn't put it past them, but if they tinker around the edges in the off season, I will pursue a different hobby, because they will be competing for last place again. Well, we should be able to beat up on the Astros who will be in the AL so maybe we will get back to.500.

We suck so bad that we will not even be a worthy spoiler team down the stretch. We will revive the Angels chance this week.

4 games under .500 on August 19th-- a disgrace.

Great minds. You and I took a lot of abuse because we thought the starting pitching would not be good enough.

The ownership can't spend that if the fans aren't putting it in their pockets. I wasn't taking anything personally. Pinning any of the incompetence, poor decisions and inaction on the fans or press is just absurd. The organization from top to bottom owns the blame for this monstrosity of a season.

You remember the Big Cat?

I always maintained that Cashman ate Theo's lunch, and he did outclass Theo on negotiating trades and acquisitions. Theo played into Cashman's hands time after time. Bumbling Benny doesn't even realize that his lunch has been eaten.

He's an All-Time great who was bored stiff on a crappy team in Seattle -- a team that plays in a pitcher's ballpark. The Yankees got him for nothing and don't even have to pay his salary. It was a typical smart move by the Yankees taking a chance that a playoff bound team would rejuvenate the guy. It has. He can still run, field and throw with the best, and now he is hitting too. Edit: Our GM brought us Marlon Bryd. Jacked up on PEDs he still sucked.

Ichiro was a terrible pickup for the Yankees. If Dice K was japan's National Treasure, what are Kurodo and Ichiro?

Kuroda was a real nice pick up.

Surgery doesn't make the guy like new. His power stroke has suffered. I think it is because he has a bum shoulder.

Maybe it should have hurt his trade value. Gonzo has had a power outage in 2012-- could be his shoulder?

First, how are fans pummeling them... by packing Fenway every game? The only guy to get booed in any significant way has been Beckett. Bobby V actually got a bit of a positive chant from the fans not that long ago. The assertion of pummeling by fans is just nonsense. The pummeling by the press has to be expected when you are fighting for last place. If they are waiting for the press to get off their backs before they can "act rationally", they will be in last place next season too. The way to get the press off their backs would be by giving them something positive to write and report. If there is nothing positive, they still have to get people to read their columns and listen to their shows. The stuff about Fans and the press feeling that they have a "god given right to a contender every single season" is patent nonsense. Stop blaming the press and the fans for the failure of this organization. The fans are not to blame. The only thing positive about this franchise right now is that they have one of the most loyal and passionate fan bases in sports that provides the franchise with tremendous resources to run their organization.

Based on Lester's last 2 seasons, i would slot him in as a number 3 even if he does well down the stretch.

I haven't watched either of the first two games live. I can't remember the last time I did that in a Yankees-Sox series. I decided to enjoy some fun things in life instead. The Red Sox have not been fun at all in 2012. Other than Pedro Ciriaco getting all sorts of hits to beat the Yankees, I can't think of many other fun moments.

^ Speaking of bitching.

The Evil Empire without ARod and Texeira is not that evil, but this is the best that Lester has looked in a long time. Hopefully, he can build on this.

The fact that this might not be Bumbling Benny's call speaks volumes as to his being a puppet and/or incompetent. Either way, he is not the guy who should be interacting with other GMs in rebuilding this team.

Any increase to his trade value from playing well would probably be negated by the fact that he will be getting the surgery in the off season.

The Angels are floundering badly lately. They are losing to the Rays tonight 9-1 in the 4th inning. The perfect tonic for the Angels will be playing the Red Sox at Fenway this upcoming week. We have pulled many teams out of slumps this season and set them on a winning path.

I hope they feel the hurt in their pocket books, because that is the best incentive for them to take action. Unfortunately, they may not feel the financial pain until next season.