Jacoby_Ellsbury

You can thank Danny Ainge for that, for signing both Rasheed AND Glen Davis to be the team's backup bigs. That sealed our rebounding fate for the season. At least Rasheed Wallace can play good post defense and hit perimeter shots. In the three seasons Davis has been on this team I still can't figure out why he's here or what exactly he's good for, other than making funny faces and making idiot Boston fans fall in love with him for displaying such grit and emotion.

I will do absolutely nothing when he's introduced because I couldn't begin to give a f***.

Not just inability to shoot, but inability to recognize that he's not hitting anything and hurting the team. f***ing retard he is. The rebounding thing is understandable, since we were a dogshit rebounding team to begin with and this time we were without Perkins.

Well he wouldn't dare blame Ray Allen for heaving up brick after brick after brick and shooting the Celtics right out of the game. We were outrebounded by 20, and still in the game till the final seconds, up by 13 at one point. Makes losing the game the way we did that much more infuriating and inexcusable. If Allen is re-signed, I will kill Danny Ainge myself.

Perkins is gone for one game. One game without him is not the end of the world. They can win. It's not hard to tell when a team is overmatched and when they weren't giving full effort. Celtics knew they had the next game at home each time, so the urgency went down (and it really burned them last year in the semifinals). Only this time, they're not going back home for game 7. Or 'no means no'. Yes. They packed it in, just like they did against the Magic in the last round, and against the Magic the year before.

Please. All the Celtics did was sacrifice game 6 for an extra day of rest.

I really want to know why this team always half-asses a potential clinching game on the road. The very first sign the other team gives them that this might actually be a game, the Celtics just lock up. 1st round against Miami, past two years against Orlando, and then last night (whatever that was).

God, just shut up. Go preach about the value of RBIs, at least then you're entertaining.

Did anyone honestly think the Celtics would win all three in Boston?

Game was decided, so who gives a s***. I doubt he would have even done it in a close game. This will just bring forth the next round of empty ******** from Cavs/Magic/Lakers fans.

they stil suk

I've watched under 10 games this year. Maybe that's why I'm optimistic/apathetic about the slow start.

More idiot spam. Yay.

He almost quit once!!

Fixed for accuracy.

This is one thing that sucks about sports. So many of the common fans are total idiots who know very little about the sport and team they follow, but those idiots make up the largest chunk of the fanbase, so their idiotic wishes play some part, however small, in the FO's moves, in order to keep these morons paying for tickets. Thus you get overpaying for the sake of having a TD/offseason transaction to show for the period in question, and overdue releases for longtime members of the team who clearly just aren't any good now. Although Boston and the Red Sox are certainly among the posterboys for this, it applies to just about every team in every team. Pisses me off. To a knowledgeable person who isn't hung up on drama and sentimental ********, how bad could a team possibly look if they release a player who has blown ass this year, blew ass for much of last year, and blew ass the year before that, and is getting paid like a motherf***er for all this non-production? /rant They're getting nothing of value by keeping him on the team, either. What team in their right mind would trade for him?

Christ almighty.

Oh, and another thing. This season has been labeled, by a few different people, as a 'bridge' season. Fine. Suppose that the April struggles do ultimately prove to be the real deal, and the Sox don't make the playoffs this year. If they're setting themselves up better for the long run, who cares? What's so special about 2010 that the Sox not making the playoffs is some disastrous event that will place so many people on suicide watch? No, this post doesn't mean I'm the least bit concerned.

I can't wait to see how he'll dodge this one. Maybe he'll just ignore it, which is what usually happens once he's cornered.

Point You

No, a 'fact' is that errors are not a misleading, opinion-based, ******** abortion of a stat that only an imbecile would put any stock into. HaIlTrOt

O ya. So just because they're grown doesn't mean they should ever bat an eye if their manager, someone who's supposed to have their back, throws them under the bus? You are a very misinformed soul if you actually believe this.

I see. So what Francona should have done is admit that Atchison and Schoenweis suck and that he made a mistake putting them in. That won't damage his relationship with those players and possibly some others on the team too, or anything like that, right (being a player's manager is the only thing Francona has going for him). So do I. Which is why I LOVE reading game threads after a loss and watching everyone s*** themselves over a single game against an insignificant team.