a700hitter
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Weeknight or weekend?
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I agree with you that transparency is not required as to whether they are selling or buying. They have to keep the fannies in the seats. I do get a chuckle when year after year they feign surprise at the cost. When I call it a lame ass excuse, people challenge me on it by arguing that the cost was too high. That is not what is lame about the FO. What is lame is that they engage in this ridiculous routine almost every year and they feed the fans the excuse that they were caught off guard regarding the cost. I laugh at their deception, but I fully expect it. Some teams are even more deceptive. A few years back, the Mets put out the rumor that they had made an offer for Roy Halladay that the Blue Jays turned down. They named names. When asked about the offer, the Blue Jay GM stated that he had not been contacted by the Mets. I am amazed that fans accept the excuses and explanations of the FO at face value. They play us for fools.
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We will have to agree to disagree on this. In my view, Benny has done nothing to distinguish himself. I like Ross. He is an excellent platoon type OFer who can play against righties at Fenway. His fielding isn't great, nor is his baserunning. He's a good acquisisition, but the best by any GM. In the offseason? I think that is a tremendous overstatement. It's not like he signed a good value for multiple years. It's a one year deal. As far as the bad deals go, you understate the Melancon debacle. Lowrie does break down, but as a utilitry guy who could get 300 ABS a year, he carries a big stick for that role and he would have been a very valuable fill in and sometimes starting SS. Melancon is a complete zero.
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Check the Red Sox transaction wire and take your pick-- basically everything other than signing Ross.
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So you're the Sox' GM...What's your plan?
a700hitter replied to Orange Juiced's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Reddick is going to hit more than 30 HRs this year. That is not a AAA ballplayer. The ball jumps off this kids bat. It always has, and now he has found consistency. Now, he he not just a major leaguer, but a very good major leaguer. The fact that he would not have achieved this success speaks to the deficiency of the Red Sox player development capability. It does not point to the fact that the kid is not good. Anyone who thinks that he is not good has not been watching him. -
Well, we tried Theo's personal assistant as GM, and that didn't work. Maybe his barber or chauffeur are available.
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I really hope that there are a lot of empty seats at Fenway for the last 2 months of the season. That's the only way the fools in the FO can be shamed into changing the direction of this team. Let them enjoy crowds of 10,000 pink hats singing Sweet Caroline as the team is getting its clock cleaned.
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First time these two teams played a game in under 3 hours in 7 years.
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No, my post was not directed at you at all.
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During spring training, every time the Boob and Bobby V said they liked our pitching I would shake my head in disbelief all the while hoping that they were saying that to get the press off the scent of what they were doing behind the scenes to bring in some good pitching. They could not have been more wrong. On that basis alone, they should pay with their jobs, no excuses about unforeseeability, bad luck etc. It was foreseeable that the pitching would suck. That's why the writers asked about the pitching every single day. It was obvious. Maybe Bobby and the Boob can get a radio show with that catchy name.
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Let's keep blaming our bats, when our pitching is a world class abomination.
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His ERA is now 8.59. Seriously, what dud!!
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You just knew that was coming. Looking at Bobby V on the bench before that HR, it seemed that he knew it was coming. Cut this POS and let's see what Mark Prior has. At least he was once a good pitcher. Melanoma has always sucked.
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I am always complimented when posters sig me, even those times when they disagree with the statement they are sigging.
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AGon, who was supposed to be our best hitter and biggest offensive threat and he has 9 Homers. In the Yankees lineup tonight only Jeter (8), Chavez (8) and Ichiro (4) have less HRs.
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His cost is skyrocketing!
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They are stupid if they don't have a handle on the market. I am not willing to think they are that stupid. Every single year it is the same song and dance. At the end, they act shocked at the cost of acquiring players at the trade deadline. They get caught by surprise every year? I'm not drinking their f***ing kool aid.
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They knew what these guys cost. If they changed their mind since they said they would be aggressive, they should be honest that they changed their minds because the do not believe chances for this 2012 team are not good and would not justify the cost. They are not saying that. They are still telling us that they think they have a competitive team, and they are just blaming the cost. The cost was known weeks ago. They are just truth challenged. They will not admit publicly what they already know-- that the team has no chance. If they stopped the charade, they could get started with rebuilding by shipping guys out.
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We don't belong on the same fiel with any of the top teams. We have embarrassed themselves since the end of August 2011. There will be no meaningful games in August. Back up the truck and unload whatever garbage you can unload. Dump them all. Send a message and shake it all up. Get rid of LL and the boob side-kick. Clean this house. The Hot Stove season will be the next time that baseball will be interesting for Red Sox fans. f*** the FO for ruining the Summer.
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Time to watch the Olympics.
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We can't roll garbage like this to the mound and expect to win. The guy sucks.
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