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This article raises a good point. If Bay wasn't worth 4 years/$60 million, why would Werth be worth it? http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sports/red_sox/index.php/2010/09/21/is-jayson-werth-worth-more-than-jason-bay/

A colossal wast of money. He is one of the biggest bust acquisitions in team history. They spent superstar money to get an erratic number 5 starter with training and health issues. I'd rather have kept Bronson Arroyo.

2004 had a lot of carryover personnel from the Duquette years. After 2005, there was minimal carryover. No one else can can claim credit for 2006-2010, and I don't think the track record is that great. A big market team-- the Yankees have beat us 3 of those 5 years and they have won 1 championship (2 if they win in 2010). Before we anyone uses the "we can't compete with Yankee money" excuses, let's remember that a small market team --Tampa-- has also eaten our lunch twice in the last 5 years.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2010/09/19/short_circuit_for_battery/ Whenever he has been out of action for a prolonged period, the Sox staff has gone into a nose dive.

Showalter can manage the pants off Girardi.

Was Belle a juicer?

I never believe any report that comes from the Mets camp. That organization is a mess, and they leak more stories and rumors that are never followed through. Add to that the fact that it is a slow season for writers covering the Sox because our games have been meaningless since Youk went down. I take this story with a grain of salt. Also, the story floating around NY is that Angel Pagan will play CF because of Beltran's reduced mobility.

Article about Ellsbury. http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2010/09/19/the_jacoby_insanity/ Here's a line from the story that some of us have observed to be true.

I wish I could.

Agreed. Injuries have been a huge factor, but so has poor fundamentals and a ******** bullpen.

At least he throws strikes.

Theo blew two huge wads of dough on guys that are just not great ballplayers (Lackey and Beckett). They are very good, but not great. I think you are better off going for a little more money and getting someone who is great and dominant. Couple those two contracts with his inability to construct a reliable bullpen, and I would conclude that Theo had a really bad year.

David Wright is a mystery to me and to the knowledgeable Met fans. Somehow he is able to put up enormous numbers while managing to be one of the stupidest star ballplayers that I have ever watched. My Met fan friends call him Gomer. He always seems to make the wrong play at the wrong time. If there is the opposite of clutch, it is him. A productive out is a foreign concept to him. After watching the opposing pitcher walk the bases loaded, he will swing at the first pitch and then k on a pitch in the dirt. In the field, he plays every ball off to the side like it is a charging bull. It is laughable that he won a gold glove. He can make the spectacular play, but he can turn the routine play into a fiasco. I have told my Met fan friends that the Mets would be smart to move him this off season. He has built a young career of great numbers, which should ensure a healthy return in a trade. Opposing teams see his stats, but unless you see this guy on a daily basis, you only know half the story. With regard to Reyes, I know that he has a bad rep for various reasons, but he is not the air-head that Wright is. Reyes problem is staying healthy. I'd rather have Reyes than Wright, and the price would probably be cheaper for Reyes than Wright.

The state of the economy when Bush left office was really a best case scenario for Obama. It was crashing and Obama was free from blame. There was nowhere to go but up for Obama. The cyclical history of recessions shows that the steeper and more severe the recessions are followed by more robust recoveries. The caveat to that economic cycle is when there is government intervention. Twice in our history severe recessions/economic crashes were not followed by robust recoveries. The first was the Great Depression thanks to the New Deal. If you don't believe me, check the unemployment rates from 1932-1939. We are in the middle of the second occurrence. Let's hope that we don't need a cataclysmic event like WWII to snap us out of this recession. Those people who lost their jobs as a result of the Bush recession are still out of work. At some point people start to wake up and will hold Obama and the Congress accountable. I am no fan of Bush. His spending was outrageous, but it was done in the context of an otherwise growing economy. This administration has taken those spending patterns and supercharged them. In the context of a sick economy, it will be ruinous. Good luck to the generation of people starting careers in the next 10 years, and good luck to the newly retired whose pensions and savings will be worthless in 10 years from the inevitable severe inflation that is right down the road.

It makes me miserable some times.

That was the best ball Nava has hit since his Grand Slam.

Maybe if Nava can get on I can get a cheap Fantasy save for Gregg.

The bullpen should have been DL'd in May and taken behind the ballpark and shot in August.

I enjoy watching him hit. That's the relevance of the comment. I don't feel it necessary to either counter or agree with every post that I quote. That's your styly not mine.