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I drank all the kool aid on WMB, Bradley, XB and Ranaudo when they were signed. There is a trend being established, and the value of these guys who were supposed to be our future has come crashing down. By all means, continue to drink your own kool aid. I just hope the FO is starting to see the need for improvement in scouting and player development.

Organizations have been known to hype prospects, but they usually trade hyped prospects. In this case, maybe the Red Sox hype was genuinely believed within the organization, but the fruits of the farm have been rotten thus far. I think teams talent evaluators take the lazy approach to talent in other organizations in many cases by giving deference to the other team's evaluations. The other teams are now re-evaluating our prospects based on our recent string of duds. It's not at all far-fetched. It makes a lot of sense.

From MLBTraderumors.com yesterday: I'll stand by my assertion that we are not in a position of strength with regard to our pitching prospects.

We are not in a position of strength organizationally with pitching prospects. These guys are not elite prospects and they don't have great stuff. The livest arm that we have is Webster who has teriible command and a weak stomach to boot.

I read that other teams are reassessing evaluations of Red Sox prospects in light of the fact that several of the prospects that were highly touted. Have bombed.

For one year of Cespedes and a bucket of chum they are not getting Frazier and Cueto.

He threw away his own life. It is still tragic, but what is truly infuriating is that he took another life with his irresponsibility.

That is true, but we still don't have the talent to land him.

Tickets go on sale in the first week of December with a Christmas at Fenway kick-off. They will want to sign a high profile guy before that to spur ticket sales at the kickoff.

No worries. He has nothing that interests me, but he is a punk for not sticking around to take his medicine after being a hump for so long. That is all.

And good will and a civil exchange of ideas will continue.

The site has been peaceful and civil since he left. Good riddance to him. Of course he has an excuse for not being around to eat a whole murder of crows that he should have eaten for being a deaf, dumb and blind butt-boy for the FO. What were his excuses? A new business? The site is unreadable? Or maybe he is just a chickenshit? Lol!

This is funny.

If they move him along, that would open a slot for Craig at 1B, but will Craig rebound?

If he becomes a 2 pitch pitcher out of the pen, he might be able to establish better command. The guy has a live arm.

I think that would be a very fruitful off season. Supposedly, they have also inquired about Masterson.

Workman has experience working out of the pen and he has done well at it. Webster would need some grooming at AAA to make sure that he could throw strikes and command the zone out of the pen.

Ryan Howard is done.

If he were a centipede with a glove on each leg, his defense will never be enough to justify keeping his bat in a major league batting order.

I'd be okay getting a coupon for a free Legal Seafoods Clam Chowder for Bradley.

And while we are in fantasy land let's top it all off with Kate Upton as our sideline reporter.

Last place finishes due to underperformance? Shocking.

In the 35 seasons between 1967 and the acquisition of the team by current ownership, there were only 6 seasons where they played below .500 ball (3 in the Butch Hobson years aka the Dark Age). The other 3 seasons wear scattered --1983, 1987 and 1997. They had one 90 loss season in those 35 seasons and no last place finishes in that period. They also had 6 Division Championships as compared to 2 Division Championships in the 13 seasons since current ownership took over. As for the good old days... I am a Red Sox fan. They are all good old days. Watching Schilling, Pedro in the same rotation, those were the good old days. Watching Rice, Lynn and Evans patrol the outfield on the same team as Yaz was the good old days. Watching Wade Boggs win all those batting championships were good old days. Watching Clemens strike out 20 guys in a game twice those were good old days. They were all good old days. I am a Red Sox fan,

On balance, this ownership has had some of the worst performances since the pre-1967 Impossible Dream team of the early 1960's and since pre-Yawkey years of the 1920s and 30s. The two 90 loss seasons in three yeaTulo's injury history is so rich that it infects his claim to "10 best players on earth". I know we disagree on Bogaerts (or more generally disagree on what a 21 year old's accomplishment says about the next ten), so no reason to rehash that. The need for any sort of 3B and quality starting pitching certainly trumps both. My earlier point on Lester is not to say he is not a #1 pitcher (clearly he is from recent accomplishment) but that the Red Sox were the wire to wire best team in baseball in 2013 on the strength of a balanced rotation and lineup which never gave teams a break - there were no sure outs and there was no starter who was a walkover (even Dempster). The holes in both are significant - but fixable when you have the money the Sox have and the inventory. The team is an interesting bounceback candidate - but it is not rs has not been done since the early 1960s. The two last place finishes has not been done since pre-Yawkey days. The record is far from all positive.

He has no excuses for 2015.