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Top pitching is the most valuable commodity in baseball. The pattern has been for teams to retain their aces. If the Mariners can keep King Felix and the Tigers keep their aces and the Giants extended their guys, we can keep Lester. Letting a stud like him walk in his prime would not be smart. Letting your chief competitor poach him would compound the bad decision. Winning the division is the big goal now that the Wild Card is a 1 game crap shoot. Letting the Yankees take your most valuable commodity to help them beat you for 4 or 5 years would not be smart business.

git'er done!

The A's made a huge move today obtaining Samardzija and Hammel for prospects Billy McKinney and Addison Russell and Dan Straily. The A's are looking like the class of the league.

And Salty got benched in the World Series because he was helpless at the plate.

I think the 1997 Marlins did it,and they did it by disgracefully by breaking up the World Championship team in 1998.

Happy 4th! At least the Red Sox can't ruin the day on us.

The Red Sox offense is like a Soccer team.

If they finish dead last or lose 90+ games this year, the lineup will not closely resemble your projected lineup. There will be new veterans in that lineup. You can bank on that.

I think that makes sense, but I don't see them doing that. Also, wouldn't they lose a draft pick if the sign him away from the team they traded him to?

You could mistake them for a Gymnastic Team.

Some people think that if the Sox keep playing like garbage and are out of the race at the trading deadline that they will sell off pieces, including possibly Lester. They also think that Lester will not be resigned and the futre will come to Boston in 2015. I think the contrary. If this season continues to be a disatster, fan interest will wane very quickly and that will provide incentive to the FO to keep a fan favorite and established star in Boston. If they win another Championship in 2014 (looking extremely unlikely at this juncture), it will be adios for Lester. If we lose 90 + games and finish last, I would expect ownership to take bold steps to turn the tide -- maybe even go on a spending spree. The 2015 roster will look very different and there will be a few new veterans.

There are a lot of things to do and fun places to spen ones money in and around the Boston area. People will not pay premium prices for garbage. You can get away with that if like some of the small market teams if you want charge $40 for 4 tickets, 4 soft dirinks, 4 hot dog and parking for a Sunday game. Some teams run those promotions. Those prices would not fit the lifestyle of the "entitled" Red Sox FO and ownership. LOL!!

Do we sign anyone ove 6' tall?

Lately some posters have commented how in their opinion a franchise like the Red Sox can't lose 90 games in 2 out of 3 seasons. Some have retorted that they are "entitled" fans with short memories. I agree that a franchise like the Red Sox cannot have these kinds of horrendous seasons this frequently. It has nothing to do with a feeling of entitlement. It's a conclusion based in economic and business reality. The Sox hold themselves out as a premier franchise and they charge premium prices. In 2012, when the team was struggling to get to .500 long before they did their precipitous descent into total suck, the secondary market for Sox tickets evaporated. You could pick up a ticket on Stub Hub for 1/3 of face value. The fans were not interested in paying premium prices for a team full of under performing stars that didn't seem to care. The 2013 advanced sales were not great as a result. A lot of people got burned losing money on 2012 tickets. Last year was magical and throughout the season fan interest returned. Despite the championship, the fan interest didn't get back to pre-2012 levels. For the first time in around a decade, the Red Sox accepted applications for season tickets. That showed me something. If they had put out a competitive exciting team that played good baseball, the franchise would have continue to rebuild fan interest, but instead they followed up 2013 with this atrocity. This team plays poorly. It is completely uninteresting, and the players seem not to care. Have the players had a team meeting yet? Isn't it about time that they did? Fans don't want to watch this caliber of baseball. It doesn't matter what they did last year. They are not going to plunk down hundreds of dollars to be bored and aggravated in an uncomfortable seat. This kind of baseball loses the interest of the casual fan and it angers the die-hard fan. The franchise needs both groups of fans to make the profit it expects. Die-hard fans are there year in and year out. The casual fan will spend his or her money on something else, and it is very difficult to win them back. It has nothing to do with "entitlement". Another season like 2012 will damage the franchise from a business perspective. The FO will be forced to take some immediate measures to turn the tide. Too much money is at stake. As for the notion of fan "entitlement", I guess that I suffer from some of that, but it has nothing to do with post-2003 success. Since 1967 when I started watching the Sox they had never had a 90 loss season until 2012. In fact, they very rarely finished below .500. I have come to expect a team that plays over .500 ball year in and year out that plays some meaningful games at least until September. That is what I have become conditioned to expect over 6 decades, and every ownership group (including some real cheapskates) have been able to meet that expectation. So yes, I don't expect my baseball season to be over by July 1st, and if it is over, the FO is guilty of putting together a really s***** team.

This is really unchartered waters for me. Before this, the worst Red Sox season that I had seen in 46 years was 2012. When they made the huge trade with LA and followed that up with the magical 2013 season, I thought that the horror of 2012 was behind us. This year is spiraling out of control worse than 2012. I really can't fathom this on the heels of last year's magic. What was 2013 - an aberration, a perfect dream season? Were all the stars just perfectly aligned? It' s hard to bask in last years glory when the team is embarrassing itself. Only the 1997 Marlins sandwiched a championship between sub .500 seasons and there FO made a mockery of the 1998 team. The Sox are very depressing to watch right now. I think that I will need to pursue a hobby rather than subject myself to this garbage for my mental state. The only summer that I didn't watch the Sox religiously was the 1994 strike season. This is brutal.

We score 9 runs and lose by 7 runs. You must be kidding!

We are making a move for last place and the worst record in baseball.

Bogaerts looks like he is going to piss himself when there are men on base.

At least Remy can giggle.

Great pitching and no hitting followed by lots of hitting and terrible pitching. The season to prove Murphy's Law.

4 batters, no outs, 3 runs. It's time to go get him.

This game is close to over.

We are not very far ahead of the last place Rays.

I get that the people who played soccer are into it. I have found commonality among those who have never played soccer but were into it. Mainly they were people that had never played an organized sport such as baseball, football or basketball at any level. This is not a scientific survey. It is just my own experience.

It will take time, but maybe expectations are just a bit high for the kid.