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  1. a700hitter
    I disagree. Shining a bright light on the umps will not hurt his team. Billy Martin always had the umps on their toes, because he was always in their face and criticizing him. I don't think criticizing the umps will hurt or help their performance. It's no big deal if the umps don't like Bobby V. A manager doesn't need to be friends of the umps. Also, he is deflecting the attention of the press onto himself when his team is playing really s*****. That's a good thing. Finally, not only is he showing his players that he is with them on this issue, but he is showing them that he has the balls to make an issue of it. I think what he is doing is good for the team building aspect. Players galvanize around certain issues. If the umps are the issue that brrng them together so be it. All this talk about Bobby acting like a fool is foolish. If his players are with him on this, that's all that matters.
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    In evaluating a trade, the expectations before the trade don't matter. What matters is the performance after the trade. The expectations before the trade are meaningless except to excuse a trade that turns out poorly. I'll agree that we won't know whether it is a good trade until the end of the season, but you are jumping to a conclusion that is opposite of the returns thus far. The fact is that you don't know what their production will look like at the end of the year. If the results favor the Red Sox, Cherries gets credit, but right now the results are, at best, inconclusive, so we don't know if it is a good trade. In your opinion, it is a good trade. I am not so certain.
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    7 games behind the Rays and Yankees in the loss column and 6 games behind the O's in the loss column. That is starting to get substantial. It's not as early as some think.
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    Eck just said what no one else has said thus far. Our offense is mediocre. It's getting exposed.
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    This has been a very depressing season so far. It really feels like a continuation of last September in many ways.
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    They are spiraling again-- lost 7 of 8.
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    We are still alive. Heath Bell has been awful so far this season.
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    A ridiculous decision.
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    Pods with 3 hits tonight out of 5 for the team, but everyone is quick to DFA him when our OFers return.
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    Yanks up 3-0 over the Braves in the 7th inning.
  12. a700hitter
    What excuses are people going to make tonight? The Marlins have been even colder than the Red Sox going into tonight's game. It looks like our boys are hell bent on reviving the Marlins.
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    Papelbon pitched a full season every season. He was very reliable, and often outstanding. While saves is not the best way to evaluate a pitcher, Papelbon did reach 200 career saves faster than any pitcher in history. He'd been through the pressure cooker of Boston and triumphed. Before we crown Bailey to be as good as or a tick below, let him prove it on the field. As of now, he hasn't thrown a single pitch for the Sox. Like him? I don't even know him. I don't like or dislike FO guys. I look at their record. This guy has done little to nothing so far in his tenure. You haven't proved otherwise. Even if I conceded all of your points, which I do not, he still has a completely undistinguished record.
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    A closer as good as Papelbon? Don't you have to atleast pitch to be better than Papelbon. Bailey hasn't pitched a full season in the last 3 years. Also, he pitched in a ballpark with a football field's worth of foul territory in a low pressure environment. It's a ridiculous statemt. Sweeney? The 6'4" 240 lb guy with 2 HRs in 732 PAs and 14 career HRs. Reddick ha4 14 HRs in a third of a season. He correctly identified Doubront as the 4th best starter? This is no great feat if you are only looking at the Sox organization. Who was his competition? Bard? Padilla? Aviles wasn't such a great call, because we could have had Aviles and Scutaro. The guy performing would have played and the other one would have been a much better utility option than Punto. The choice wasn't between Aviles and Scoots. We had them both. The mistake was Punto. Cherries has done next to nothing and that's how much credit he should get.
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    I knew they had good pitching coming into the series, and I didn't like the matchups. I thought Lester would win his game and they would score some runs off Zimmerman. I just don't see any justification for thinking the Sox are the better team at this juncture.
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    I have a very low opinion of most major league managers, so Bobby V doesn't phase me. I don't really care anything about what any of them has to say.
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    Scioscia is a huge whiner and so was La Russa. Bobby V isn't such a big whiner on this.
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    He had a very hard time getting the needle out of ARod's ass, so he couldn't take as much this year.
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    The issue is over as far as I am concerned. We aired it out, and I understand where he is coming from. Hopefully, he sees my point of view too.
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    I never said that only public companies have shareholders. I am aware of the different types of business organizations. Unlike a public company, a privately held company's fiduciary responsibility to it's shareholders is quite different than it is for a publicly held company. In a publicly held company there can be a conflicts between the duty to the consumer and the obligation to the shareholders. In a privately held Company, the primary responsibility of the business is to the customers of the business. Without the customers, payrolls and vendors don't get paid and the private shareholders make no profits. I think you were a oversensitive about the remark, and your response was vulgar and uncalled for over-reaction.
  24. a700hitter
    I knew that I wasn't wrong about you.
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