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$18 million is a shitload to pay for a guy that is a really good team mate.

Cameron is going to be a complete wast of $- worse than Lugo. At least Lugo played an entire year at SS on a championship team.

I don't see them releasing him and eating his salary. He can't go to the NL cause he has no position. If they cut him and an AL team picked him up for free, you know that he would kill us in a crucial series.

I agree.

I got criticized for suggesting that they take on $2 million on Nady to fill an empty slot in the OF. How much does Dunn make $8-10 million. We are already paying $25 million for Lowell and Ortiz to DH. I don't think they will pay $35 million to man the DH spot this season. Maybe they get Dunn next year, but not this year.

The loss column is all that counts, and we are 6 in back of the Rays and 4 in back of the Yankees. Plus, we have not yet shown an ability to beat those teams head to head. We have to beat them head to head to make up the ground.

I guess if he didn't take PEDs that he be a career A-baller at most.

Both are pipe dreams for this season.

I am a very optimistic person. I have more fun than any 10 guys my age or younger. Trust me on that one. Next week, I 'll be at the Atlantis for 5 days with some family, where i have reservations at The Mesa Grille and Carmines. At the end of the month I'll be spending 5 days on Reddington Beach in Florida with friends, where I will log 10 hours a day at the Tiki Bar, except for the two days planned for fishing. I too have seen the Sox lean years, and I know how easy it would be to return to a string of years with no playoff baseball if the Yanks stay strong and Tampa blossoms. I've seen seasons go sour very fast for many good Sox teams in the past as well. I see signs here that concern me. I sounded the alarms and declared the team dead in 2006 while we were still in first place, because I could see the direction that the season was heading. I took major abuse about that, but I was right. When we started Jason Johnson in the opening game of a double header to kick off a 5 game series with the Yankees, it was officially over as far as I was concerned. Prior to that, I had been warning that a collapse was on its way for weeks. This team is nothing like the 2006 team, because of the strong starting pitching, but the Yankees and Tampa are much stronger than any of our 2006 competitors. My life will be fine if the Sox go into the toilet this season, although many of my family members and friends would be obnoxious about it. Thanks for the offer of prozac, but I don't need any. My views on this team are the result of my rational analysis. The pitching needs to be great for the next month. VMart, Drew and Lowell and Ortiz all need to start hitting immediately to stay close until the team is at full strength. Can the team do these things? I certainly hope so, but if they don't, they will get buried. I don't think that is doom and gloom. It's just an honest assessment. BTW I watch them and go to their games whether they stink or they are in first place, and I enjoy it either way, because I am a baseball fan.

This is a pipe dream.

I like the optimism. I hope we are still in the mix at the trading deadline.

They are playing tomorrow

I don't know how.

You are correct that my whining and complaining will not help the Sox situation , but it definitely does help the way I feel. If I keep it inside and don't express it, I feel worse. You are a chick. You should understand that. The rest of you are either stupid or you are avoiding the issue if this doesn't concern you. I mean seriously. We are going to roll out Bill Hall and Donald McDonald to play the OF for 5 games against the Yankees in the middle of May? Edit: VA, I would never call you stupid, so why doesn't this concern you?

Of the three, David Ortiz is definitely finished even though he has far fewerABs than the other two.

Will that help the feeling of dread and distress about the upcoming week?

Cameron is just going to start running and Ellsbury's progress has been minimal at best. Great!

What is the Phillies payroll?

From today's Globe: It doesn't sound like the return of either is imminent. I guess we are going to play McDonald and Hall against the Angels and the Yankees. This doen't give me a good feeling. We need to at least break even in those games until Ellsbury and Cameron come back. It sounds like Cameron could still miss significant time. It's been a few days since we have had an update on whether it still hurts Ellsbury when he breathes.