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Game Time 4:05 pm ET Pitching Matchup Preview DET: Alfredo Simon (8-6, 4.63) BOS: Steven Wright (3-3, 4.84) It is time to start a winning streak. Give us something to cheer about with the added benefit putting pressure on the FO "Pukes" (see Spud) to make some moves and not give them the cop out excuse that this team is out of it and that they are going to take their time patiently planning for the future. I hope Naps gets scorching hot and we win out the next week so the overpaid suits with the pea-sized brains will be in a dilemma whether to buy or sell. They are bound to make the wrong decision considering their history. LOL!!

I am a firm believer that when filling a defensive position by moving a player to a new position that it be done without a domino effect of moving other players out of position. If you field a defense with 2 or more players playing out of position, you will have a bad defense. I would not move Pablo to first and Hanley to third for that reason. I would move Hanley to first base leaving Panda at third. Only play one player out of position. I would start working on that this season to see if Hanley has any aptitude to make the move to 1B.

Pete, you have my awesome gt mojo to thank for your good fortune. I started the gt for our only win against the Yankees too. The horrible losing streak had to end and could not be hanging over Fenway for Pedro's induction weekend. So when you look at your shiny new tool, remember that you have me to thank. Lol!

He was also right about us winning the Division.

Nice walk off hit. Xander has been our best hitter with RISP this year. He has mad a giant leap forward with his hitting and defense. This is two nights in a row where walk off hits have bee reviewed -- very annoying.

I thought Masterson was going to blow up the game.

Hanley hurts his ankle. He is our Mr. Glass on offense with Buchholz as his pitching counterpart.

And he had the all field no hit label.

His recovery has gone very well. He is on schedule. http://nesn.com/2015/07/red-sox-catcher-christian-vazquez-throws-for-first-time-since-surgery-video/

Verlander has stunk to this point.

If he is going to be stuck behind another catcher, his value will not be that high. Teams will be aware that he is blocked. That's just the way it is. That scenario has palyed out witha few teams over the last few years. Right now the Mets have the issue. They would love to move one of their catchers, but they have not been getting value offers. Swihart is a good hitter. Can he play another position and hit well enough to hold down another position? If he can, he will have more value. If he is just a catcher and we have him slotted behind Vazquez, he isn't worth a lot to us.

Will Swihart be our catcher moving forward or will it be Vazquez? If he is blocked at catcher, he is expendable.

I think that he is just being nice. GMs don't get demoted. They get fired.

He might be damaged goods from being overworked. It is up to the coaching and training staff to recognize the signs. If so, they should move him and get something for him before his arm falls off.

It would be for next year.

there is no denying that the guy is an incompetent and deserves to be fired, but the whores in the Boston press will usually hold back on a full frontal attack until they get a signal from the FO as they fear upsetting the higher powers and losing access. Once they sense that someone is out of favor with ownership, they unleash the dogs.

And another thing, the whole beard/long hair thing was cool when we were winning. It was an embodiment of anti-establishment victory. Now, as you are wallowing at the bottom of the standings with confused looks on your faces, you just look like a bunch of drunk, homeless vagrants. Clean yourself up and at least try to look professional. Don't add to the embarrassment.

Wilbur of the Globe has also joined the chorus. He battered Ben in his article entitled "Ben Cherington and the delusion of turning the Red Sox back into a contender" http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/2015/07/23/ben-cherington-and-the-delusion-turning-the-red-sox-back-into-contender/ARW893uRr7Hg8DbVYcZAAI/story.html?p1=stream_sports Both papers are going after him hard. The blood is in the water. The smear campaign seems to be starting. I hate the backstabbing way the Red Sox do their business. I think Ben should be fired. This performance over the last 2 years is completely unacceptable and a change has to be made whether or not Cherington is to blame. Have a news conference and announce that he has been fired and let him have his dignity. He is a stand up guy. There is no reason to destroy him in the press.

We will find a way to get Verlander's season back on track.

It has also hurt that we have a rotation of 3 and they are mediocre. The horseshit starting pitching has taken a toll on what little effectiveness there had been in the bullpen. Tazawa's arm is like a limp noodle right now. His command is not what it had been--that is a clear indication of overwork or worse -- an injury. But on the bright side Hanley has sacrificed to make himself into one of the worst outfielders in baseball. Also on the bright side, our marketing operation is doing a top notch job by filling the park night after night despite the team's awful performance and last place position in the standings. There have been many clever promotions. The Bark in the Park event was a huge success as the fans lined up with their dogs at Fenway when the Sox were on the road. The dogs were allowed to be walked around the warning track. No dogs were allowed on the Grass portions of the field or the infield. The only time dogs are allowed in those areas is during Red Sox games. Lastly, we all need to be patient as this team is in a period of transition -- to complete irrelevance. When the plan is implemented and the transition is complete, we should experience a prolonged period of utter hopelessness which should reduce our anxiety, because we will have no hopes for the team to dash. In all seriousness, JH, grow a pair of balls and fire Ben and Farrell and set this franchise on a new course. This ship crashed on the rocks last season and it has been sinking ever since. It is time to abandon this ship.

Pedey's rust coming back from his injury has really hurt us. He had been red hot when he got injured.

If Porcello can keep the ball on the park, we have a good shot tonight.

The whole staff stinks.

Game time 7:10 Pitching Matchup: Detroit: Verlander (0-3, 6.62) Boston: Porcello (5-10, 5.79) Hopefully, they don't continue to embarrass themselves on Pedro's Hall of Fame weekend.

This was our worst road trip since 1951. We are on our way to a stretch of last place finishes that none of us have experienced, because you have to go back to the pre-Yawkey era. Poor Ben and Farrell have such terrible luck. It's not their fault.