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    Sarcasm?
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    Your whole premise about bashing Tito on this isn't valid. You keep saying that he should take responsibility for the collapse, but you refuse to acknowledge that he was the first one to take accountability and he got fired. Getting fired is being held accountable. The rumor mongering and and whisper campaign is nothing more than an unnecessary smear.
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    They need Fenway to breathe life into them.
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    Cherrington didn't even know that Santos was available. He's so on top of things.
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    Would you pitch to Ortiz here? Not me.
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    It was a deliberate and unnecessary smear of someone who had been your manger for 8 years. It was despicable behavior on the part of the organization. That's what, and he did take responsibility for his part in the collapse. He got fired. You keep missing that point.
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    Romero is just mowing us down.
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    My recollection is that Francona said that only the training staff knew about the pain killers.
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    So should the barometer for whether the Sox have good players in RF, SS and C always be a comparison to the crew that was part of the worst September collapse in baseball history?
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    That's always been the issue with Lester. Romero's pitch count is perfect.
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    Leaking that type of personal and medical information is despicable and legally actionable. It doesn't matter whether it was a cause of the collapse, because he already paid the price by getting fired. It's not like the situation needs to be addressed. It has been addressed, he got fired. The leak was meant to smear him in a very underhanded way. It was despicable, and John Henry is a huge jackass if he can't understand what Francona is upset about.
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    The leak came from the Red Sox organization. They are the only ones that had knowledge of the situation. The article clearly stated that people in the organization were questioning whether the painkillers were affecting his abilities. Unless Terry dropped a dime on himself, someone working for the Red Sox was the source of the story.
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    The only trend that I have noticed is that we suck on the road. Our starting pitching has a 7+ ERA. As a group, they are in Lackey-land. Let's hope Fenway gets them going.
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    Although heading soccer balls has been proven to cause brain damage.
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    There are other ways to root out a source than to ask the journalist. It seems that Francona thinks the Sox made no effort. Did the Sox check the phone records of their employees to see who had contact with the writer? Did they check online calendars for meeting entries? Did they do any internal investigation? If they had, but come up empty, I am sure Tito would feel better knowing that they had tried.
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    It's a shame that this ownership always ends things so poorly when people leave the organization. Francona did not deserve to have such personal medical information leaked to the press. It was a despicable accusation, and the FO should have rooted out the source of the story.
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    Here's something I got from watching Bard's starts in Spring Training. Even in his good outings, he'd have an inning where he'd just blow up. He'd lose the plate and his command. After his last Spring start, he said it was the first time that he felt like a starter and not like a reliever pitching multiple innings. I took from his performances and that statement that he had trouble maintaining focus for longer than a couple of innings. I was talking about this focus issue with a friend of mine yesterday. If you watched the game yesterday on NESN, Bard mentioned the focus issue as a challenge. The good news is that yesterday he made a lot of progress in that he looked more focused than in any of his spring starts and he threw strikes all night long. He still gave up 5 runs, but I think this was a significant step forward.
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    Netalfi Feliz had a nice debut as a starter going 7 shutout innings.
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    I root for him as much as any of our players, but I expect him to be adequate at best tending more toward stinking-- like last season. I think we would be much better of with Lavarnway at catcher. The kid crushes the ball.
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