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They have that at Gasparro's?

PBR is fine because it's cheap and doesn't give you the headache that Bud does. Is PBR still a hipster beer? I've been out of that loop for over a decade.

My heart kinda broke, honestly.

You could do worse. Yesterday, my FB feed was filled with dopes saying Barney Frank was their spirit animal. That's when you realize which people only pay attention to politics once every 4 years. Gross. Big Bank Barney Frank? GTFO.

What isn't to love about a commercial featuring a creepy anorexic guy that is sometimes in claymation? He is just a rip off of Dean's Home Furniture anyway. You think you'll like your purchase after you bring it home? "I doubt it."

GTFO. In our area it goes: Jordan's > Cardi's > Bernie and Phyll's > Bob's. Bob's is the Building 19 3/4's of furniture stores.

I saw the clog joke, didn't get the trolling part.

The post she referenced was 9 hours old. It's not like she went back a few days. I can't fault her for not having insomnia at 2am.

Jordan's? They'd at least know it from the NESN coverage.

This is a team that was built to win in the now in 2011 and signed some high priced contracts. That team absolutely failed down the stretch and the FO and coaching staff was blown up. They brought in Bobby V to right the ship in 2012, but that only alienated all of the players and brought them to a .500 record at the AS break. They decided to completely blow up that team with a ridiculous trade to the Dodgers. The next year, they made some shrewd short term moves and struck lightning in a bottle with Koji and Papi in October. Those two should have statues outside of Fenway for eternity. In 2014, they brought back the WS team and struggled due to age, injury and other factors. When the team needed replacements, the upper farm system was barren so they wound up in last place again and fans stopped watching after the team gave up on the season with the Lester trade. In 2015, they brought in some high profile free agents who promptly s*** the bed and struggled from April on. By the time Farrell was sick and replaced by Lovullo, that majority of fans were sick of the middling baseball and stopped watching. The kids put up a good fight down the stretch but still wound up in last place due to a lack of pitching. In 2016, they come back with largely the same team except that they brought in a guy to finally replace Lester. I'm not sure why the common fan would be excited about this considering the recent track record. Most normal people (i.e. not obsessives like us) have little to no idea who Travis Shaw is. Another year of suckitude would wreck the bottom line (attendance would be down, concessions would be down, viewership would be down), which is arguably more important to ownership than winning. They want to field a competitive team today and it's hard to blame them for that...

Doesn't matter. He won't respond back anyway...

That's not how this place works. Any post is fair game for commenting.

Panic had nothing to do with it. When you are in last place and the fans no longer care about your product, what is your boss supposed to do? Give you a participation ribbon?

"Hey guys, the couch in the locker room sucks. Mind if I run to Cardi's and buy a new one?"

When you can't develop viable starting pitchers, they need to be acquired via trade or free agency. If they really thought that Porcello was going to outperform Lester, I'm glad they made big changes to the FO.

The future ramification of Pablo starting and tanking for 2 months is Farrell potentially losing his job and the Sox falling so far behind that they wind up in last place again.

Craig is not taking up space. He's helping to pick up bar tabs for the AAA guys. He's not in the way of anyone.

Plus, Pablo was given a fair chance. He was given all of last year and he ending up being a -2 WAR player and the worst fulltime positional player in the bigs.

Where was I griping about Ben?

I wouldn't buy a beer for Thunder either. 1. He wouldn't drink it. 2. I don't need to get a police record because of Talksox.

None of us here think we're keyboard warriors. As others have said numerous times, we just talk as if we're shooting the s*** at the bar before a game. 99.9% of the time the posts aren't personal and it's not meant to be taken seriously.

Every sportswriter in the world writes for the audience. Shaughnessy writes to get his audience riled up. McAdam, Abraham, et al write to give the audience perspective on what is going on in the clubhouse. Gammons writes to get his audience more informed about the on-field product. If a writer wrote just to amuse himself, he'd probably be out of job really quick.

I agree with your take. That is all.

Of those 5, realistically only Moncada and Beninturdi should be shagging fly balls. We'll need a 1b and 3b next year, so moving Shaw and Travis around is a waste. Swihart still needs to be kept at C until it's determined that Vazquez is the guy.

I don't think they'd do that. They'd be SOL if an OF got injured and would have too much IF redundancy. They need to have at least 5 people on the roster (excluding Shaw) that can play OF. If they demoted Castillo, they'd only have 4.