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Lester has to go deep tomorrow. He needs to attack the zone and keep his pitch count down. Simon should not give the lineup too much trouble, but who the hell knows anymore.

Game over. Red Sox win!! Love that Dirty Water!!!

OMG, that had disaster written all over it. Couldn't Tek catch one inning. The kid has me nervous.

^ This

Vlad, still a thorn.

Two more outs Papelbon. This old man Vlad has been a thorn in our side for two seasons.

Well, hello to you too.

Come on Papelbon, three outs.

Hardy has had a really good year.

Deadbeat Dad Bedard was a terrible pickup. The guy throws 90 pitches and can't get through the 4th inning. He got us a big 1 win and couldn't take his regular turn. Lowrie was a great choice for cleanup.:thumbdown Lavarnway's bat should get him the starting catching spot. Unless catches with his back facing the pitche, how much worse defensively could he be than Salty? The triple play turned by Tampa with the bases juiced cost us big time.

1951 Brooklyn Dodgers has a bigger collapse than 1978.

Nope

I would never trade an everyday star/MVP candidate for any pitcher. Even if Ellsbury isn't as good next season, he'll probably still be a star.

Theo the Ivy Leaguer with his prestigious degree in American Studies for Yale. There are few more useless degrees.

It reminds me of a coed softball league that I played in for work. The idiot manager decided to go with a boy-girl-boy-girl lineup. The guys got walked and we never scored any runs. What is he thinking about putting Lowrie between Ortiz and Agon. He has lost it.

Ridiculous!!!

Damn!

If I had a nickle for every time you made an optimistic prediction this month that went down in flames, Id have a lot of nickels.

I did see that inning where Price imploded. It was a circus. He threw the ball all over the field, but my recollection is that he has been tough on the Yankees.

They may dig deep and survive, but it will have to an extraordinary effort by the players who are woefully undermanned at this point. Regardless of whether they advance, no one othe than IOrtiz and myself saw this coming down to the final series with the Sox on the brink of elimination. Do you know what a long shot bet it was for the Sox to play this badly?

There are several posters on this forum who you should not want to sound like, but I'm not one of them. LOL! Especially considering that I am almost always right. Only me and IOrtiz could see the direction this team was heading in after the first week of September. We were called pessimists, but. unfortunately we were right.

89 wins with 2 games left to play is terrible under performance for $174 million, even if they make the playoffs. This is all on the head of Theo and Tito, mainly Theo. To blame it on the players is a copout. Obviously, they win or lose the games, but unless they are just not trying, how do you blame them for not being good enough. The FO takes the hit for them not being good enough. The FO assembles the team and they spent a ton fdoing it. If they lost because the players quit, that is also a management issue. Managers need to motivate and GMs should not be signing players who are not highly motivated. I don't think the players quit. It wasn't an issue of motivation. They simply weren't good enough. That's Theo's department. Since we have a lot of our big ticket players coming back and there will probably be few changes, if management is also not changed, I see no basis to believe that they will win 95 games next season. This collapse will be the worst collapse in history taking into account the expectations and the payroll. Two collapses in two years... Heads must roll. Theo spends money like a drunk sailor and his record on his spending is horrendous. The minor leagues have no big help coming anytime soon. He's got to go. He's no longer the wunderkid. He's just another under performing GM.