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It's why I never stick up for the FO. Their primary job is to maximize revenue above all else. They will lie to the fans and players and themselves to keep the money rolling in. f*** them. If we lose, I blame them. If we win, they make a ton of money so they don't need our gratitude. I will give them credit when they do their jobs and put a good product on the field. That has not happened in the last 3 years, and I don't expect that to change next season. Yankees- RedSox in the middle of August and I went to a restaurant with my wife for dinner. I can't remember the last time that I voluntarily missed a Red Sox - Yankees game-- that's how bad things have been since last September 1st. We stink. There is no spin and no excuses.

They went into the season knowing that this would not be a strong or dominant team. With the 2 wild cards in effect, they were hoping to be competitive. When you are hopingto be competitive and something goes wrong, this is what you get. If they had built a team that they though would be dominant and they fell short, they'd probably be competitve. Since the season started, it was obvious that this team needed to be reinforced and the FO did nothing. The guys they brought in in many instances couldn't get claimed off the waiver wire. It was a parade of trash--- Nava (yes he did a good job, but no one would claim him off waivers), Mortensen, Marlon Byrd, Mauro Gomez (at 3rd). Bum after bum after bum. No help was coming. No help came at the trading deadline. Through it all they told us that they liked the pitching and that they expected to go on a run. It was bull s***. They did nothing to reinforce the team, because they had thrown in the towel early. They just did not expect that the y would embarrass themselves so badly so quickly. To top things off the FO went through a phony charade of showing up at Baltimore like they cared. f*** them. f***ing *******s and incompetents. Get rid of this unimaginative understudy Benny the Boob or Bumbling Benny or whatever the f*** you want to call him. He had a nice run as a well paid gopher and puppet for a big franchise, but he is in way over his head.

Morales just sucks against the Yankees. Unless Buchholz is pitching, the 5 runs rule is still the rule.

He's a nobody that has nothing-- a bush leaguer all the way. If the back end of our bullpen had not been dismantled, Aceves would have pitched the 6th and 7th and we would have locked the game down with our 8th inning guy and closer.

Irrational? He's the biggest douche bag in baseball.

Nightmare on Yawkey Way

Failure to Launch

No stats are listed for my pitcher Nova. The hitters look up to date, but I can't be sure.

Sore points

It would be sweet to sweep the Yankees, because i would love to see them lose the Division and possibly miss a wild card. It's the only thing we have left to root for.

Yep, they gave him away.

The Abyss

He attended my High School in Brooklyn.

"Gone in 60 Pitches-- The Story of the 2012 Boston Red Sox Starting Pitching"

"Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?" Written by Jimmy Breslin about the 1962 Mets, but it could be updated for the screen using the 2012 Red Sox.

Our guys will be running home after the regular season. That is the only run that we will see the 2012 squad make.

You have disliked Bobby V before he became the Sox manager. I don't like him either, but players don't need to like their managers in order for a team to succeed. The Yankee dynasty teams of the 50's were not big fans of Casey Stengel. Other than a small handful of players, Stengel was pretty much despised by his players during those years. Stengel was one of the first managers to implement a lefty-righty platoon system. The players hated it, because they wanted to play everyday. The handful that played everyday may not have hated him, but they thought he was a clown and a buffoon and they disdained him. Mantle never listened to nor obeyed any of Stengels rules. The guy was almost entirely incoherent when he spoke. Yet, the Yankees won. Baseball is full of examples of winning teams that despised their managers. The opposite is really the exception. The Red Sox had a likable manager and in the end they had disdain for him. He could no longer reach them. This years performance has almost nothing to do with Bobby V. He has been pretty much of a boy scout. He's carried the FO water from day 1. He knows that his pitching sucks, but he never says a negative word about the staff. He has no big shut down hammers to go to at the end of games to lock down games, but he has not complained. Bobby V made one remark about Youk-- a calculated effort to let players know that there were no sacred cows. He picked on a player who was declining in skill with a replacement waiting in the wings. That was the time for the FO to stand behind the man they had hired. Instead they let Pedroia take back the clubhouse for the players and the FO helped to castrate Bobby V. After that, no culture change in the clubhouse was possible unless the players imposed it themselves. Since the Youk incident Bobby V has been charged with the following high crimes and misdemeanors: 1. Mentioning to the press that Shoppach asked him about playing time. Oh my, what a breach of confidence! A player wanting playing time really puts the guy in a terrible light. The truth is that Bobby V never liked Shop and probably wanted to get rid of him and bring up Lavarnway. Unfortunately, the castrated manager had no control over his roster. 2. He mentioned that Buchholz asked for an extra day off. If the guy felt fatigued and that he thought he needed an extra day to perform well, where is the controversy here? Buch didn't like answering some questions? Too bad. 3. Disclosing to the press that Crawford had some soreness in his wrist. How this is a controversy is beyond me. These guys didn't play for a manager they liked and they are not playing for Bobby V either. The achilles heel of the team has been the horrendous pitching. Losing reveals a lot about the character of people. Bobby V has actually been more gracious loser than I had expected. The players, on the other hand, have revealed themselves as selfish, entitled, thin-skinned prima donas. I can't think of any of our so-called stars that has been a stand up guy throughout this misery. There isn't a single leader among them. Papi comes the closest, but he has lost his way with his bitching and moaning about his 1 year $15.5 million contract. Boo hoo for him. They all need to look in the mirror and grow up and start acting like adults.

I'd like to think that they will miss out on the last place prize. Call me a cockeyed optimist.

The wheels are starting to come off. What is coming will make us long for the first half of the season. There is no hope of players coming back from injury, no hope of our starting pitching rounding into shape, no hope of acquiring reinforcements. It will spiral down the drain and the only fight will be with Toronto for the basement.

This whole organization has embarrassed itself from top to bottom.

He was too damn big to show any outrage at him.