a700hitter

This upcoming week should put the Sox soildly below .500 and in sole possession of last place. The rangers have been slumping, but visiting texas without Ortiz and a pitching staff full of pinatas should make for an interesting Home Run Derby for the Rangers. At least being on the road will delay the opposition scoring until the bottom of the first inning. A similar carnage should follow in the Bronx. This is make or break time for the Sox, and they don't have the talent or character to meet the challenge. At some point during the week, expect some of our stars to get a day off for "routine maintenance" or some other ridiculous excuse for gutless selfish players. I don't even know what routine maintenance means. Do they need their oil changed and tires rotated? Is it mani-pedi day? It's time to step and show what they are made of. I'd love this pampered group of selfish spoiled gutless players to prove me wrong, because I am convinced that they don't have what it takes. It is probably the biggest collection of disappointments that i have witnessed in red Sox unis in 45 years.

Mentioning Manny Ramirez and Daniel Nava in any sort of comparison just blows my mind. They don't belong in the same league.

You are making excuses for the FO. Just because they have a budget doesn't mean something is impossible. Sometimes contingencies like an historical collapse or the season ending injury to a $15 million pitcher like Lackey justify blowing the budget to maintain your brand. Gio Gonzalez would have been worth the investment in prospects and at $8.5 million/season for 5 years, the guy is a great value. If they wanted to go shorter duration, there was Edwin Jackson, who is like Cy Young compared to Lester this season and Jackson is having an off year thus far. They decided to go cheap and stay within their own fiscal constraints. That left them little or no room for injury or under performance. Well, that hasn't worked out as they have had tremendous under performance on the pitching staff-- worse than anyone could have imagined. yet they are still at .500 and in the hunt for a wild card. If they had added pitching, it wouldn't be this bad. if they had seen the folly of putting 2 rookies in the rotation, it wouldn't have been this bad. You are making excuses for them. There are always options. To say otherwise is just not reality. They made terrible choices and they have damaged the franchise. They are getting more negative press than I can remember-- ever. It's in print, on the radio and TV. Worse yet, no one gives a s*** about them. Everyone in Boston from the Meter Maids to the executives were up to date on the Red Sox. Everyone in town knew what day Pedro was scheduled to pitch. It was the only large city that I had ever been to where so many of its citizens were so tied to a sports team. That is no true any longer. There is no excitement about the team or any of its players. They have damaged their franchise and they have no one to blame but themselves. This isn't the result of a couple of bad signings. It is the culmination of many, many poor decisions, and this past off season was the straw that broke the camel's back. The one good thing to come from this is that tickets will be much easier to get for a while. The bad news is that they aren't worth watching.

Before the season started, we knew that this team was thin in the pitching department and that everything would have to go right to compete with the Yankees. We also acknowledged that the lack of pitching depth could result in the unraveling of the 2012 Red Sox, but speaking for myself, I didn't expect them to be so consistently horrible from opening day until the trading deadline.

Good pitching helped the A's sweep the yankees in 4 straight games by 1 run. you will not see that from the 2012 Red Sox.

I am cursed with a good memory when it comes to baseball. I have watched so much baseball in 45 years that I have seen scenarios like this play themselves out dozens of times.

He was acquired June 24th and released July 16th-- that's 3 weeks and 1 day. I stand corrected.

Oakland is 7-1 so far in the second half. They are 1/2 game behind LA and Baltimore for a wild card spot. There are 3 teams and 3 games between the Red Sox and the A's in the wild card standings.

In this case it was Texeira.

Lester after the game: "I am not a big fan of sucking."

After giving up a home run to make it 9-3, Lester was bitching at the ump on 1-1 pitch. he's completely f***ed in the head at this point.

You must still be quivering from the orgasms if you think we can catch the Yankees:lol: Yes we can still get a wildcard, but forget about the Yankees.

They kept Nava up here so long that they destroyed his trade value. Back 3 weeks ago, he might have been attractive to some teams. When Pods came off the DL, they should have brought him up immediately and moved Nava. Now, he is worthless again.

It speaks volumes.

People were saying that Lester was not a 4.30 ERA pitcher. It seems that he is a 5.46 ERA pitcher. His ERA at Fenway is 7+. He has taken on the mantle of Lackey, but without the wins. He needs to go to the pen. They can't keep trotting him to the mound to give away games. He needs to get stuff figure out in the pen.

His ERA is 7.65. How many times this season has this guy failed to complete an inning of work? Do we really need to see more of this guy to realize that Benny got taken on this trade. Cut this f***ing guy. He's worthless.

No, they can't.

It's funny that you should say this. There have been several time this season that I have thought that Bobby V was letting a guy stay out there to hang himself.

This team continues to embarrass itself.

This guy is toast. get him out of there. the fat bullpen cop couldn't do worse.

A minor strain that would put him on the DL might not be such a bad thing for him, since they appear unwilling to put him in the pen.

The bad thing about this situation isn't that we think Lester sucks. The really, really, really big problem is that Lester obviously thinks he sucks. IDK what can be done about that other than send him to the pen to get his head right.

Pedroia is teaching Lester how to pitch in the dugout?