VA Sox Fan

I'll miss Heidi but they need a woman whose name ends in an A....like Tina "what ever her last name is" so Remy can pronounce it TiNER (teen-er).

Me too! Very happy for Verlander, the VA native. What an amazing season! :thumbsup:

Yeah, I read that too. Sounds like Sveum is their man. It's going to be weird having a new manager.

Very nice post young one.

Really? I HAD NO IDEA???? Take your friend Vito Corleone's advice and "act like a man" and don't whine, moan, overeact and claim you "won't tolerate" something like a (some) woman when you are unhappy. It doesn't look good.

I didn't say a damn thing about being a better fan. We will never ever share the same perspective regarding the Red Sox. No need to be as sensitive as your good buddy a700.

Good for you. What do you propose to do about it? Come onto a forum and bitch about it? That solves nothing. Again, I will follow them regardless. And I would never proclaim to know what it better for this team. If you think you do, you are fooling yourself. :thumbsup: Enjoy that.

Those expect to win every year, or be in the play offs every year for that matter. No amount of bitching, moaning, complaining that goes on out here is going to change anything. No one out here knows more of the in's and out's of the Sox organization like they think they do. I'm so tired of the endless crapping on Tito and Theo who were far from perfect but helped win us 2 WS. You are already crapping on our new GM. It is already old and it's only Nov. 13th. From today's Globe: could compete for the job in spring training with perhaps a low-cost veteran in the mix. The telling view of an empty locker Posted by Peter Abraham, Globe Staff November 12, 2011 11:42 AM By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff Jonathan Papelbon was very particular about his locker, more so than any baseball player I've seen. He had a prime spot at Fenway Park, right around the corner from the manager's office. As such, he had a little extra space and he was careful about how he arranged everything. His cleats were lined up, his t-shirts and workout gear were always nice and neat. Everything was in its place. He hung up a calendar and he would keep his valuables locked up in a little tin box. Papelbon was like that when he traveled, too. His large Red Sox equipment bag was full of smaller bags, each meant to hold something specific. Most players let the clubhouse guys set their lockers up, but Papelbon would always arrange things his way. That's why back on Sept. 29 it was obvious that Papelbon was leaving the Red Sox. The Red Sox opened the clubhouse to reporters that day, the day after the season ended in Baltimore. The clubhouse was full of empty boxes and the lockers were in disarray, the players having dumped their stuff after the road trip and scurried home to lick their wounds after a season gone sour. The packing could wait, or fall to somebody else. Only one locker was completely empty — not so much as a wire hanger — and that was Papelbon's. He came back from the trip, cleaned out everything and took it home. Those are not the actions of a man who thought there was even a chance he would be back next season. Papelbon's plan —and he readily admitted it — was to go into free agency and get every last dime he could. He also knew that with Daniel Bard around, the Red Sox weren't going to give him what he wanted. Here's wishing Cinco Ocho well. All you can ask for as a beat writer is for a player to be accountable and Papelbon was always that. If he blew a game, he stood there and answered questions. He respected that we had a job to do, too. Plus, on occasion, he was good for a nutty quote or two and that made your story a little more colorful. One time, in Yankee Stadium, he was going off on a rant and as I scribbled gleefully, Papelbon smiled. "You like that [bleep], don't you?" he said. We both laughed. He knew the deal then and he knew it at the end. Time will tell if the Red Sox were right. Long-term, big-money deals deals for closers are usually horrendous ideas. The Blue Jays (B.J. Ryan), Mets (Francisco Rodriguez), Twins (Joe Nathan), Reds (Francisco Cordero) and Guardians (Kerry Wood) all regretted it. Maybe Papelbon will be the Mariano Rivera-like exception to the rule. Or maybe he'll be available at the trade deadline in 2014. Only two things are certain — his locker at Citizens Bank Park will be orderly and the Philly writers will love him.

I would look forward to the next season, just as I am now. Just as I always did. I will be a Red Sox fan through the good times and the bad times, like I have been my entire life. I don't share the false sense of entitlement like so many do out here.

So would not tolerating it mean you would no longer be a Red Sox fan?

Maybe he will be a better manager than 3rd base coach.:dunno:

Great nickname "The King" has come up with for Ben huh?

Yep and LIttle should have gone to Embree instead of keeping Pedro in.

Thank you jung!

That's what it's like it here now. Posters bitch, moan,whine and bitch some more. And then we have all these new posters that think they are "adding" but they are actually not. And the Mods are NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. I know I don't add a lot with predictions and mistakes made by the FO. But I am a lifelong fan, like most of us out here. Sorry that I am looking forward to 2012. But I really am.

I guess no one has picked up on the fact that Dawgma is a TROLL. Don't feed him. So many people have actually responded to him and his pointless threads. Thank you and have a good evening.

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Good luck to Paps in Philly. Thanks for everything. I see the usual suspects are up to their bitching and moaning. Ben the Boob? Seriously a700? I am truly sorry for your horrific year. Lighten up bro.

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That, I suspected. Me too. And I'm old. Turned 11 in 1975 so, ya know. Remember 1986 more clearly, unfortunately. But my clearest memory is of 2004. :thumbsup: