Jacoby_Ellsbury

No, you are biased. Against Theo and against the team's current management. You're an angry little man who gets unfavorable police shifts, and you take it out on a sports team. This thread wasn't reactionary, it was just biased and incredibly stupid. You do have a long and prestigious history with reactionary ********. If that's how you rationalize my ridiculous record against you and your dipshittery, then whatever. Chances are you need the validation more than I do. That's a shame.

Nothing has to be shared. Duquette may have added those pieces, but he couldn't do anything with them. So he doesn't get s*** for acknowledgement. This is asinine. This is like saying Rick Pitino deserves a share of the 2008 Celtics ring because he drafted Pierce.

Eight players on the roster were holdovers from the Duquette era. Eight. There's twenty-five (25) players on a big league roster. What kind of deadshit would seriously try to argue that some ex-GM was responsible for that championship team when less than a third of the roster consisted of 'his' guys? Among the 17 players Theo contributed to the roster were David Ortiz, Curt Schilling, Keith Foulke, and Dave Roberts. The man who eventually set the single-season Red Sox HR record (we all know what he did in 2004), the excellent number two starter we could not have won without, the closer we could not have won without, and the only base stealer on the roster outside of Damon. Important enough for you? Yeah, all that Theo Epstein ever did was smile for the cameras and take credit for Dan Duquette's hard work. The pig. And you try so hard. Stop being a biased, reactionary drama queen and try to put at least a little bit of thought and common sense into your posts, and I'll consider it. If you don't like me calling your s*** out, go back to retirement. For good this time.

Heat win. They lead 3-1 but it's not over till it's over.

LeBron really f***ed up tonight. He pissed away a possession at the end of the third quarter that really changed the game. Miami had a 7 point lead and would have taken at least that much going into the fourth if they ran clock and made sure OKC couldn't get another shot. But what does LeBron do? He settles for a dumbass heat check with plenty of time, it clanks, and the Thunder get an and1 on the other end. So what could have been a 7-10 point lead was a 4 point lead. That's kind of s*** that changes the complexion of a game and gives the losing team new life. If the Heat lose this game by one possession, LeBron should be pilloried for that. See guys? I'm critical of LeBron when it's called for.

What a f***ing stupid thread. So eight guys from the Duquette era were on the 2004 Red Sox, therefore Dan Duquette built that team and is responsible for that championship? Get the f*** out of here.

'murica

I want to see Dickey, Chien Ming Wang, and Doug Fister in the same rotation. Someone really needs to make that happen.

The verdict, or the money the government pissed away during the trial?

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8068819/roger-clemens-found-not-guilty-all-six-counts-perjury-trial

Maybe he's learning the true value of god.

How is me being a 'f***ing geek' fortunate for you? Just curious. If you really posted a retirement thread only to come back in a month to stir up s*** I don't know how you're mustering up the balls to slam other people. You have the spine of a gummy bear, and you can't live without this place. That much is obvious. With that I'm done, you're not worth the lost brain cells.

Giggity!

I thought you quit the site? I got my hopes up too. The least you could do after that glob of attention whoring is vanish for good.

Giggity!

Asinine is our specialty here.

21, 22 and filler for a top 5 pick? Forget about it. Well I mean do your due diligence and call Jordan and Grunfeld just in case but I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Does it matter? He's been a great defender the entire time he's been in the league. One game does not change that. If you followed the NBA outside of the Celtics, you'd know this. No, that's not proof. Provide proof. Or admit that you were talking out of your ass. You didn't list off the majority of the NBA, dumbass. And you haven't answered my retort to your ridiculous 'best players should always guard other best players just because' notion. Again, the NBA isn't a dick-measuring contest. I don't give a s*** what Michael Jordan did. He is completely irrelevant to this. Why wear him down? Again, you need his scoring. It's also entirely possible that Spoelstra will opt to let Durant get his and try to shut down his supporting cast. We've all seen how Westbrook can sabotage the team if he's missing shots but keeps firing them up anyway. LeBron's supporting cast was dog s*** in 2007 and is dog s*** right now. Wade is playing terrible, highly inefficient basketball. Bosh's production is down and he isn't playing smart. James is not culpable for that. Last year he did put up a poor performance. Last night he did not. You do realize NBA games last 48 minutes, right? I'll never understand why you people get tunnel vision for 12 isolated minutes of it. LeBron's averaging over 30 and 9 for the playoffs. In the ECS and ECF he averaged 30 and 11 and 34 and 11 respectively. In case you forgot, he put up 45 and single-handedly dismantled the Celtics in game 6 on the road, facing elimination. That most definitely qualifies as 'another level'. But all playoff games are big games, so you're wrong. Again. Shockingly little of what you post is 'facts'. Usually you switch between (heavily biased and homerish) opinions, and conjecture. How can you be a 'man' (lol I doubt it) of your word when you lie about the content about everything you've posted in here? I know you think you're tough and ballsy offering a sig bet, but no. As long as LeBron keeps pace with what he did through the first three rounds, he's still the best player in the league. Learn about sample sizes sometime. I'm just wondering why I keep responding to your ******** at this point. Your bias is so blatant and your logic is so horrifying that I'm not even sure you could win a debate where you're the only arguing. And you know, you're an idiot.

a700hitter was begging for the Red Sox to sign Carl Crawford, and after they did he boasted about it for weeks. If that's not a death sentence for poor Carl, I don't know what is.

'Seems'? Seems isn't good enough. Come up with something concrete (for once), or I'll just assume you're talking out of your ass, yet again. You're supposed to make the most of your assets during a basketball game. If that means putting your best player on a lesser offensive threat to lessen his workload, you do that. Pretty f***ing simple. The NBA isn't a dick-measuring contest, as much as you and the other 16 year olds in the world want it to be. LeBron is still the best player in the NBA regardless of what happens in this series. He was the best player in the regular season, he's been the best in the playoffs, and a seven game (at most) sample size here will not change that. Keep embarrassing yourself, though.

He wasn't guarding Durant because anyone who does is going to have to expend a s*** ton of energy. Why have LeBron wear down guarding Durant when you need his scoring on his other end, and you have Shane Battier on your roster? Doesn't make sense. LeBron's -11 means nothing, since he played 46 minutes. You play 46 of 48 minutes, your +/- is going to be pretty much the same as your team's for better or worse. There's no way to tell exactly what transpired to give Wade -6 (which is why +/- is a garbage individual stat), but what's inarguable is that Wade was a lot less efficient than LeBron, and inefficient in general. LeBron was 11 of 24 from the field. That's 46%. Not quite up to his averages, but still efficient by league standards. Wade was 7 of 19 from the field. 37%. Inefficient by any NBA standards. LeBron also got to the line more. I don't really give a s*** what Durant does or who he wants to guard. LeBron did fine in the fourth quarter and had his usual great game overall. The only thing he did wrong in that game was not get to the line enough. You accuse me of making excuses for LeBron, but you're on the other side placing all the blame on him for everything while defending dog s*** performances by his teammates. You're a hypocrite, and a f***ing fool, and shouldn't be allowed to talk about basketball, or any subject that requires at least a double-digit IQ to understand.

I'm not making excuses for Theo. Those were terrible signings. I'm just pointing out how it's the same crowd of Boston fans/pundits that created that pressurized situation around the team and begged for these signings in the first place who are now frothing at the mouth and whining about the state of the organization and how dumb Theo is after the fact. I just think it's funny.

Hmmm... I wonder if it's the same Red Sox fans who were creating that pressure and screaming for these kneejerk signings in the first place who are the ones making fun of Epstein now and criticizing all the dead money tied up in the team, as if this is the exact opposite of what they wished for back in the day.

Plenty. And stow this cheesy 'true fan' ********. It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't matter how deep your allegiances run or to whom they run when it comes to making an objective call about what's best for a franchise. You just have to know what you're talking about. Which I do. This is really sad. I expect fluff garbage like this from tardsburyforMVP or one of the old spastics polluting the Red Sox GTs, but not from you. And only a pink hat would prefer years of 40-42 for the forseeable future with no chance to improve barring a substantial break, than a much worse record in the short term with many more chances to improve. And I mean actually improve, not just same-s***-different-day with spare parts tossed around a makeshift cornerstone like Rondo. But implying that we'd be 10-72 for five seasons is pretty funny regardless.