SoxFanForsyth

9/28.

I can't wait to make your avatar a huge black dong.

I'm gonna guess he doesn't hit the DL. Can I guess that?

What happened to RSFFL??

Well then. By this logic, JD Drew should be playing ahead of Reddick because he's got a better history. And Crawford also had a .358 obp over the past 2 years which encompass over 1200 PA. I'm not saying that we should have made the move, but to say that it shouldn't have reached a discussion is ignorant.

I don't understand this thought at all. You see a guy who has hit .302 in his 3,500 AB before coming over to the Red Sox, including a season which he was injured, and he gets off to a slow start. He starts to catch fire and looks like the player you signed up for, all the while you've got a #2 hole hitter who had 5 XBH in 120 AB, struggling to hit above the mendoza line for a month, and you think it's ridiculous to bring up a change in the line up? Explain how that makes sense again?

This is an absolutely unfathomable post. You're judging his contract based on 82 games into a 7 year deal. I don't even know how to respond to this. Like I have said time and time again. Look at his career numbers. Does this year look like a trend or an aberration? Look at Beckett in 2010, were you wanting to dish him last season? Because someone else would have a 2.20 ERA pitcher right now. What about Lackey this season? You want to throw him to the wolves? What if he comes up in October and goes 4-0 with a 2.78 ERA? Good Lord man. Relax with the dogging of Crawford. If it's 3 years into his deal and he's hitting .240, fine, whatever. But right now, give him at least a chance to turn it around. From May 1, Crawford is hitting .283. His OBP is down, but he's slugging .450, which isn't terrible. Again, it's a down year for him, but considering he's a career .296 hitter, I would say he's got the ability to get extremely hot. It was just last September that he had a month where he hit .360/.402/.588 with 41 hits, 4 HR, 5 3B. Whose to say he can't get that hot again?? It's ridiculous to kill Crawford over 82 games and call his contract a complete bust. Maybe he doesn't hit .250 this year, but we all know the kind of player Crawford is when we signed him, so do you think he just lost all of his talent overnight?

You're right, there's no issue at this point. But when people were arguing this, it was when Crawford had been hitting .381/.422/.738 over an 11 game stretch and Pedroia was in his awful slump where he had been hitting .212/.316/.288 for a month.

Dude. What are you smoking? ARod, Beltran, CarGo, ManRam all took big money, big year deals. That said, Ellsbury is going to demand 7/140. Maybe the Sox can get him for 5/90 or something around there.

Why are you trying to instigate something that everyone has just put behind them?

Another good question is - can you get up on the fence and dive into the bullpen, catch the ball, and throw it back (like trying to keep a punt from a touchback in football) to keep it in play?

You have to have a portion of your body in the field of play when the catch is made.

Dammit. I wish Suns was still here so we could all laugh in his face. Sad day.

Seriously. How do they expect me to sleep after that?

Seriously. The Sox have more walkoffs with Bedard on the team than the Mariners had wins in a 20 game span

Ellsbury is such a f***ing beast.

HOLY s***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, 3.5 and 4.5 inches outside, both called for strikes. Unreal.

f*** you ump. Both of those pitches were outside you bum.

I bet Salty doesn't see a single fastball.

I hope he says "pitch around Salty, you've got a lefty up after him". Reddick will smash this guy

Is it just me, or does Crawford look incredibly confused after taking a pitch? He looks like "Wait, what? What do I do now?"

Thatta boy Aviles!!!