a700hitter

Excellent point. Bay is a very good hitter with plus power, but he is not a great hitter. He just isn't. Manny is a great hitter. Pujols is a great hitter. These guys are few and far between in the history of the game. We have a bunch of plus hitters which is about the best we can do (stack the lineup with high OBP plus hitters from 1 to 8), because great hitters don't grow on trees. They are very difficult to find no matter how many draft picks you have. I realize that the situation with Manny had become untenable and he had to go, but I think the FO could have done a better job. They let the situation deteriorate. Manny is an all time great hitter, not a very good hitter like Bay or Youk or Drew. He's an all-time great. When you are lucky enough to get a guy like that, you do your best to keep them and not let them go help another team win. This FO could hardly wait to move Manny. They had been trying to move him for years. Thankfully, they had been unsuccessful in their attempts, or their wouldn't be 2 banners hanging over Fenway.(Please save the "you have to move on" comment, because that's just stupid.)

True. It is really uncanny how bad he is against the Yankees.

He may be a good manager insofar as he gets the msot out of his players and he has his team play sound fundamentals, but he is a terrible in-game manager.

It's got nothing to do with feelings. It's got to do with respecting the rules and not making unprovoked personal attacks. You are a very immature person to hold grudges for more than a month for losing a silly contest. I guess your ass is still sore from the ass-raping that my team administered to yours. So you like a baseball manager and dislike an internet poster without ever having met either one. What aloser.

Well, I am hoping that Buchholz comes up big and I have to eat lots of crow. I think game 3 will be a high scoring game and if the Sox win it will be because they bludgeon the Angels.

He doesn't help the situation, and watch with the idiot talk. I realize that you still are bitter about losing to me in the Baseball Fantasy, but knock it off jerk.

Beckett just sucked this inning. He started with a lead off walk, and bad things always happen when you do that.

He used two hands and his belly to get that ball.

Beckett blowing up?

We all know what happens with lead off walks.

Weaver is taking the entire lineup to school. Embarrassing.

I'm with you and the smart money, but I'll never congratulate a Yankee fan. You must be one of those classy Sox fans.

Buck Martinez definitely took to many foul tips without his mask on during his playing days.

Ellsbury and Pedroia do nothing again= fail for the Sox offense

Dipre, when you sneak into the country under an assumed name to make sure that Brian Anderson doesn't play on Sunday, could you also get rid of Buck Martinez?

So what is Kotchman's purpose on this roster?

When Ellsbury and Pedroia get on we will score. When they don't, the team loses.

You knew VMart would get the run in.

We all know what the outcome is going to be here, but we are like idiots that watch a movie over and over and are still wondering what the ending will be.