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What you posted still has the effect of unjustly painting a group of people with the same brush statistics notwithstanding. Sometimes even you can be guilty of being offensive. The under 50 crowd is not immune. LOL!

Well, if we wanted to start throwing around stereotypes that have degrees of anecdotal support, things could get very ugly very fast.

No, but I would debate the biased opinion that everyone over 50 had been opposed to those things. That is an offensive generalization.

Can we get political or is that reserved for you?

If Buch at $13 million is a good value, it stands to reason that he would be a valuable trade chip too. I am sick of his part time job status. Get him healthy and get rid of him immediately. Don't wait to let him build trade value, because he will get another 2-4 month tweak before you pull the trigger on a trade.

Taking into account that studies have shown that communication is 80% nonverbal, ie. not the words, a strong case can be made that the internet has taken communication backward.

Which is why Victorino was such a valuable part of the 2013 team. Victorino was the best Outfielder on the 2013 squad and those skills were huge in Fenway's RF.

If you want to give him a pass for unexpected under performance, that starts to ring hollow in light of such a thorough record of failure. The fact that everything he touches turns to garbage starts to reflect on him after a while. Also, I firmly believe that under performance was not his biggest problem. The team was very poorly constructed. If the staff had performed up to career standards, they still would have been a bad, noncompetitive staff. Where I really disagree with you is the pass you give Ben as he sat back in 2012, 2014 and 2015 as his moves and experiments were obviously crashing and burning. He had a complete inability to pivot when his moves were going bad. He always seemed to behind the curve. He stubbornly held onto his belief that Bard could be a starter when the guy's career was disintegrating before our eyes. He let the 2014 team flounder as the lineup was in desperate need of help. He kept too many rookies in the lineup for too long as they were imploding. What happened to Bradley in 2014 went beyond letting him get by some rookie bumps in the road. It got to the point where he was useless to the team and his confidence was getting shattered. Even Remy commented that Bradley should have been sent to AAA long before he was. Ben had a pattern of holding onto things for too long and reacting only after it was too late. Bradley's career was significantly derailed by Ben's stubbornness in 2014. The Hanley experiment was just the latest in Ben stubbornly clinging to failure. Even as his replacement was being courted, Ben was still stubbornly stating that Hanley would not be moved fro the OF. While the GM can't control the performance of the players, his job doesn't end after building the opening day roster. He is the General Manager. Ben couldn't manage as things went wrong until the flaws became team fatalities. That was his biggest shortcoming. His inaction went well beyond wise patience to foolish stubbornness.

After watching the Mets stud pitching this weekend, people will be all convinced that the Mets have the model for building excellent pitching within the organization. Please don't go there. The Mers have been tying to build this staff for almost 50 years since rheb1960's when they had Seaver, Koosman, Gentry and Ryan. They came close in the mis 80'a with Gooden, Darling, and Sid Fernandez. Generation K in the 90'a fizzled. This is a once in a lifetime staff. Add a little more hitting and they will be a consistent winner

I was supposed to go to this game, but I have to go to a going away party for a cousin of mine who is moving to your Sunshine State.

Hey, those are collector's items. In another 20 years, they will be museum pieces.

I enjoy your unique point of view. It is quite entertaining, even though we have different opinions of the Remy/Orsillo team. Ignore the personal criticism from our resident psycho misanthrope.

One of my favorite goofy moments in a Red Sox broadcast involved John O'Hurley (Peterman on Seinfeld) was interviewed in the stands with his new wife. It was their first wedding anniversary and they decided to take in a Red Sox game to celebrate. During the interview O'Hurley mentioned that although they had been married for a year, his wife still had that "new wife smell." Orsillo and Remy weren't able to broadcast for a couple of innings. I think it took them a full inning to catch their breath from laughing so hard. For the remainder of the season fans would show up with signs saying things like: "married 10 years, but she still has that new wife smell." It was a little Monty Python-ish.

Yep, I definitely procrastinated.

I also know that Ben amassed a record of failed decisions that is astonishing. If they had good processes and good research including scouting, he must have the worst luck in the world that so many things went wrong. He reminds me of The Mush in the movie A Bronx Tale.

Just bad luck? Faulty information? Did the former team mates lie?

They ruined our fun with lousy teams. There is no need to change the one aspect of Red Sox baseball that we all like. This is typical of decisions made by a dysfunctional organization.

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It has worked out very poorly. I have to conclude that the homework was done poorly.

This game was the reverse lock theory in action. One of the top dominant pitchers facing off against the worst starter in the league, and in our last series against each other, the ChiSox annihilated our pitching.

He could be a good #4 if he returns to form.

In Ben's case it stands for "Numbskull"

I think they have ample time before the season ends to get a very good idea whether Hanley can handle first base, even if he gets no game experience. Hopefully, it works out.

Remy is very funny and entertaining, but he is also an excellent analyst. He doesn't overdo it by analyzing the minutiae. He gives you the inside baseball analysis on the stuff that helps you understand the game better. I think he is one of the best. I have had the Extra Innings baseball package since it started and I watch a lot of games other than the Red Sox games. I think Remy is one of the best at what he does. Orsillo is underrated as a play by play man. He does a great job in the post season for TBS.

i understand that there are instances when a GM has to make an educated guess, but making a guess on a position change when signing a player to a long term contract is foolish business. It really wasn't an educated guess. It was just a guess. I would have found it more acceptable if his explanation was that coaches in the organization had taken note of his ability when he would shag flys when he was in our system or with other teams. That would be something. You can judge instincts, route to the ball, etc. Mariano Rivera was great at shagging flies. Many in the Yankee organization felt that he was the best outfielder in the organization. Another pitcher that could have played OF early in his career surprisingly was Bartolo Colon. I had heard about his surprising athleticism, but then I witnessed it for myself at Fenway before a game the day after he pitched. They guy could run down the ball. I find it astonishing that our organization spent $88 million on a complete guess. No scouting reports or observation by anyone throughout his career. I remember that when he was in our organization and stuck behind Nomar there was talk about moving him to CF. That didn't work out. Did anyone in the organization remember why? That seems like a logical starting point, but rather they relied on cases of other infielders moving to the outfield. I am sorry, but there whole process in evaluating and signing Hanley was marked by foolishness in my opinion.