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  1. SoxSport
    So now it's denied. The media has a way of confusing issues with its 'unnamed sources."
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    Jung's observation about Salty are correct, in my view. I watched him last night. He doesn't frame pitches on the corners. For example, last night Morales threw a straight fastball right down the middle of the plate to Swisher in the 3rd or 4th inning, and he promptly hit it out of sight. The wrong pitch at the wrong time. His problem is Salty did not frame the pitch properly--or at all. His glove should have been over the outside of the plate. It was also a stupid pitch. He could have easily got Swisher out off-speed. His fastball should have been wasted off the plate. When a fan can see a problem with a catcher on TV, you know a team has big problems with the management. Salty isn't framing pitches properly--on the corners--and that is probably contributing to all the HRs the pitchers give up. Salty doesn't hack it with pitchers--and may be one of the reasons why their starting pitching sucks. Why is he the regular catcher? It's just another indication of how this organization overvalues offense at the expense of defense and pitching.
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    Saw Swisher's HR in the 3rd or 4th. Morales grooved a straight fastball right down the middle. Just the wrong pitch at the wrong time. And Salty didn't even attempt to frame his glove on the outside corner. You don't have to watch a lot to see what's wrong with their starters grooving pitches. Salty doesn't appear to be much help moving his glove around off the center of the plate. The pitchers are throwing too many pitches down the middle. That wouldn't happen a few years ago.
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    The Lillibridge over the Fens.
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    Remember Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding? The old Bob & Ray comedy team. Before the Sox finally won a championship, the joke was one of them had written on his gravestone: "Cause of death, Boston Red Sox"
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    Buchholz is showing there is a very fine line between good and bad. It could be confidence, attitude, conditioning or mechanics. Any one of these will turn a good pitcher into a bad one quickly. Staying sharp is a challenge in itself.
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    Cuckoo's Nest in Beantown
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    The people who put this team together are not getting any blame. Instead, they are deflecting the blame on the manager by putting him in the spotlight. Lucchino should be the media target. Put some heat on that guy.
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    LF-Yaz CF Tris Speaker RF Evans 1B Scott 2b Pedroia 3B Malzone SS Nomar C Fisk
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    This kind of stuff is normal for every major league team. You only hear about it now because it's the Red Sox, and they have been embarrassingly bad since last September, and are under a microscope. Making a soap opera out of a team's day to day activities is ridiculous. But the media never misses a chance to fill space in times of controversy.
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    I think he was out of line confirming anything. The boss should be doing the confirming. I get the impression Cherington delights in any criticism of Valentine. They have had several meetings like this over the years, and they were always kept secret. The word is Shoppach was the guy who spilled the beans. He's gone. Shoppach didn't like Valentine because he complained V didn't play him enough. So he becomes a snitch? This is a screwed up team...
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    Threads are often mistitled when based on unsubstantiated information. This one is a good example. Too bad the author of the thread can't go back and change the title, as more information becomes available. Nobody really knows what went on in that meeting. Or whether AdGon said anything about the manager. It's all media conjecture. And yet, here it is posted as though it were fact. Posters should be mindful that not everything the media says is true. The facts are very often unimportant in their scheme of things.
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    Lucchino/Henry's big mistake. They didn't clean house enough, and created factions. It's their fault. You can talk all you want about V and the players, but it's LL/Henry's fault. They let the players get out of control, and they kept a lot of management holdovers who didn't accept their choice of manager. Henry didn't fix the problem.
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    Olney tweeted Joel Sherman of the NY Post broke this story about a Red Sox meeting in NY. Passan of yahoo was also involved. Yahoo is also NY based, and if you follow their internet sports, they cover the NY teams heavily, as do most of the networks (ESPN, CBS, etc) which are based in NY. None of these networks are very Boston friendly. Even MLB TV , also NY based, gushes over the Yankees and has been giving the Dodgers royal treatment lately. So there you have it. Henry is up against the big markets--mainly NY. And all the negative spin that comes out of NY about Boston teams. There was a meeting in NY. We know that. But we don't really know anything else, except that what the media reported has been denied by several Red Sox at different levels. Who was the guy who confirmed to Passant there was a meeting? None other than Cherington. Turns out he's got a big mouth too, when he wants to talk.
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    Hart- VP of team operations. New GM, new manager, new head trainer. Lucchino in charge of selling tickets and non-team matters (his old job). If ever a team was in desperate need of reorganization, it is the current Red Sox.
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    Traditionally, GMs get fired much less frequently than the manager. Shakeups often have to go higher to change a GM. Henry needs to move Lucchino over to his old job, and hire a team VP--Epstein type-- from the outside. John Hart would be perfect. He should reorganize the front office, which has lost some key people the last couple years. Just think, Mr Henry, expert consultation free of charge.
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    I saw in a tweet that this "meeting" was first reported by Joel Sherman-- a NY reporter. We all know NY reporters are always looking for stuff to undermine the Red Sox--which they regard as the "enemy." I have no doubt there was a meeting. But who was there and what was said I would take with a grain of salt.
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    I don't know. I think he's gets a free ride on his Red Sox experience. Everybody knows their problems are above him. His only problem is he has a big mouth with the media--too frank about his players. You can't do that these days.
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    Forget the players. They need to clean house upstairs: the coaches, the head trainer, Valentine, Cherington, Lucchino. Larry needs to go back to his administrative job, and they need to hire a VP in charge of the team. Somebody with senior experience from the outside. I've suggested John Hart previously.
  23. SoxSport
    Just be thankful you don't have season tickets.
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    Beckett shits the bed again with meatballs. Guess your inning with him.
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    The media doesn't have much credibility about this meeting. Obviously, their "source" is an enemy of Valentine and the details may have been exagerrated. Once the media sees blood, they attack like sharks, and the Red Sox are bloody. It may be the front office is the source, since their policy all year has been, it appears, to deliberately undermine Valentine. True, Valentine has a big mouth and has been too honest with the media about some of his players. But the public "defense" of Valentine, with Cherington, Lucchino and Henry as a "team", was pretty sickening, and tells you a lot about the Red Sox. Valentine is stupid not to resign immediately. Lucchino dealt him a bad hand. He should walk away from the manure pile.
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