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Good work, Ace!! Walk the bases loaded and then get behind and come in with a cookie.

strikes damn it!

Youk!!!

That's true.

It's idiotic that he has Pena batting lead off. I am well aware of his number against Lester. He has taken him deep several times. He would definitely want him to bat in the first inning, but lester has had a history of first inning problems. Getting a lead off bomb from Pena would be a waste if there was an opportunity to get a 3 run bomb. Maddon is very impressed with himself. He's a jackass.

The employees wages (up to 12K) may be delayed, but they will be paid unless there are no assets. Employees who make more than $12k in a payroll period will not generate a lot of sympathy from anyone.

No, it doesn't. It's hard to find a backup first baseman or catcher with speed. It's not a skill that is critical to a first baseman. It is critical to an OFer, and Nava is an OFer. Casey was a very good fielding first baseman throughout his career.

Maddon is very impressed with himself. Yet, he is the only active manager that thought outside of the box so much that he submitted a lineup with 2 third baseman thereby losing his DH for the game. As far as handling players, he has never been able to motivate BJ Upton to perform up to his capability. The guy continues to be a dog. I don't think much about Maddon. He might be a slight degree less stupid than most managers, but that ain't saying a lot.

It will be interesting and maybe a little scary watching Byrd navigate RF at Fenway.

I guess if he never throws a pitch for us that we will never be able to evaluate the trade.

His tools were still there. In a bench player, you want a guy who can go out without much notice and competently handle a position and perform with major league skill, i.e. run, field and throw like a major leaguer. You don't expect that they will come off your bench and OPS at .900. They are meant to plug a hole until the regular returns. Anything they give you with the bat is gravy. Nava doesn't have those skills. The saying that speed doesn't slump goes back at least 70 years to Branch Rickey and maybe earlier. I am surprised that you don't understand what that means.

Any unpaid payroll for services rendered will have the highest priority if there is an eventual bankruptcy. It is a sad situation, but businesses fail every day. They gave it a shot. It didn't work. They probably made mistakes and they probably did a lot of things well too. In the end it didn't work out for anyone, which is why the hostility aimed a Schill from Red Sox fans who don't know the facts is bizarre and irrational. I can understand Yankee fans piling on him, because he tore out their beating hearts and ate it twice.

No, he doesn't.

He got slower?

This should be a good matchup for us, but you never know. That's why they play the games.

He will have to do that exceptionally and consistently well above average to make up for the lack of his other skills. Hitters go into slumps. Speed and fielding don't slump. On your bench, a guy with a good OBP who can't run, throw or field is not useful, because he may slump just when you need him. If he had some serious HR power, that would help him, but he doesn't. OBP is not enough to keep him here, unless it is significantly above average.

We really don't know Curt's capital situation. Also, there is no indication that the employees were not paid for the time they worked at the venture. There is no obligation moral or otherwise to pay people after they have stopped performing service for you, nor is there any obligation to pay health insurance premiums for people after they have been discharged, except for federally imposed COBRA subsidies. These people didn't devote entire careers to this venture. It flopped rather quickly. If you favor a regulatory system where the employer has to pay these types of benefits, you would have an environment where no one would take this type of risk. Most ventures fail. If you subject the entrepreneur to personal liability for ongoing employee expenses after the venture has gone bust, people will not take those risks. If this venture had been successful, those employees would have been in on the ground floor of something that could have made them a lot of money. They took a risk too. If they wanted job security, a startup software development firm is not a good choice. Curt owes the employees nothing, and no, I don't feel sorry for them. They got paid to do a job, and now the job no longer exists. As to your last point, it would be a good point, except it lacks context. Let me be more precise. I only care about baseball players for what they do on the field. What they do in their personal lives doesn't matter to me. Nothing in their personal lives would change my opinion of a player, because I really only care about how they played. I don't know them as individuals, so I am not going to pass judgment on them. Those who are criticizing him don't know him as a person or all his charitable work, so they shouldn't be condemning him either. Is Curt always right? I don' t know and I don't care, and anyone that thinks they know whether Curt has been right or wrong based on some press reports is sadly mistaken.

I am not judging how he got here. I am judging him by his talent. He has no major league skills. He will have to get on base at a much higher rate than other players to have a place in this game. He has been with the organization for some time already. it's not like they just discovered this kid. How he got here is irrelevant at this point. They still didn't think enough of his tools to give him a Spring Training invite this season. It doesn't matter how he got here. He's here now and no one in baseball is impressed. He is with the Sox now because we are down to about plan D on OFers. Mike Piazza was drafted in the 62 round by the Dodgers. At age 29, he was a star. it doesn't matter how you get there. In the end, you will make it to the majors and stick if you have talent. Not getting a Spring Training invitation in 2012 speaks volumes about Nava's standing in the organization. Last year they DFA's him twice, and no one claimed him.

I think it is proving to be a mistake. Reddick has a very live bat. I've said it before that the ball jumps off his bat. When he is going well, he looks like a young star. His problem has been consistency. Maybe the consistency issue is the reason why he never had a lot of trade value. Other teams have looked at and asked about other Sox prospects much more than Reddick. He was a guy who might never have amounted to anything more than a bench OFer. On the other hand, if he could find consistency, he could be a starting OFer and possibly an All Star. Did they sell low on him? That's hard to say, because he never had a lot of market value and his pedigree didn't indicate otherwise. If they had moved one of the more highly touted guys like Kallish or Lavarnway, they are not sure fire successes either, but the Sox would have gotten more in return than a sore armed pitcher and an OFer with no power. They opted to keep the guys with more trade value and now it is turning out bad for them, because Kallish is still injured and Lavarnway is still in the minors and Reddick is coming into his own. It's hard to second guess them on this, but then again, they get paid a lot of money to figure out who will make it and who will be a bust.

In 3 years Daniel Nava will not ever sniff the majors again.

Which is why the hostility aimed a Schill from Red Sox fans is bizarre and irrational. I'm not sure what people are mad about. The guy went into a business venture that he apparently worked very hard to make successful, but it flopped. People are angry at him about that? That makes no sense.