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Lee>> Lester Lester is a great pitcher, but ain't an ace. An ace doesn't s*** the bed back to back to back starts in crucial moments. Hell, one of those awful September nights would have represented the POs.

This ump is from Mototown

Fister like an ace...

Mo's strike zone in effect but against NY LOL! How does it feel huh?

Agree. A few of us were saying the same about the pitching and a lot of people went to our throats and gave us bad names like pessimists and blasphemers. I had been saying even before the trade deadline that this team had to grab a solid SP, no mattered what cost. Some teams did, we? did not. Our pitching depth wasn't properly built. People still defending Epstein for all this mess. This team was very unbalanced and our offense couldn't bear this team for the rest of the season even being the #1, I said that as well. I even made a thread where I pointed all those signs, and I was called pessimist and crazy again, and the funny thing is that somehow someone told me that I didn't predict this.... Hell, I just wanted to be objective at that point, anyway... we all know the results. As I said as well, I hope that a new GM arrives with fresh ideas, leadership and with better teamworking and management skills.

Exactly. That's what I meant. Blow up the FO and the coaching staff. I would like that some players walk as well like Lackey but let's face the true, these busts are under long terms and expensive contracts thanks to our GM and nobody would trade him, not even for peanuts. It's clear that our top management has showed a huge lack of leadership and discipline execution among a lot other. It's not like "oks Theo, take the money and bring CC, Gonzalez, Lackey etc. and then take the rest of the year off". He is responsible for the whole operation of this team; not only prior the season but during and after it as well. Sure, maybe he doesn't spend the same time with the players like the manager and the coaching staff do, but still his obligation is being observant, mindful, attentive, regardful, watchful, obliging, etc. for what is going on in this team and execute the needed measures in order to correct the issue(s). You can put an all-star team but if you have a poor and weak leadership by the manager, coaching staff and mostly your GM, like ours (last 3-4 years), you will not succeed. This organization is clearly soft from the FO to the manager to the coaching staff (in the end the GM puts or removes this staff). We need a GM and a coaching staff with strong hand. People who can lead "super stars" and not one who make 'em their buddies. A lot of "ifs" "should have played" "what else he can do "they were lucky, we are not" " in the paper...." "OPSs", "2 WSs" . Stop excuses. Front our reality, we have failed back to back to back years. Assume the accountability and mostly accept THE CONSEQUENCES. Our new GM shouldn't be necessary a current employee at the baseball industry. As I said, we need the profile. Someone with great management skills and leadership profile in all aspects. I don't care if he is young or not, that argument is ********. We need someone talented beyond the age. Tons of young and not too young with great experience managing great companies, even bigger than the Red Sox are out there with MBA and PHD degrees, so... Don't be afraid if Theo walks. This organization is bigger than him.

Wow! This team doesn't have leadership and teammate's spirit, starting at the top. I really don't understand why people still defending Theo, Tito, Lackey, etc... :thumbdown is it so hard to see? Really? The more I see the more I'm convinced that SCM is right, blow it up. Lamentable!

This. Agree. BTW The whole thing about Lackey and D-K should be performed in a hollywood terror movie. I hope never see these busts again in Boston.

Like the retro part. Welcome.

Ouch!

How many pitches thus far for Verlander?

Time to go BP.... Wow he is leaving CC.

LOL at CC... He looked ridiculous.

Yup, but you seem to me moderate and calm even when you are attacked for some guys around here. I would be reacting the same way, I don't blame you at all... It's part of a game thread.

I have never seen Jacko pissed off like this... I can't imagine if you had Lackey in your team. For us 3 ERs through 5 IP is like a miracle.

I'm not sure what is Theo's WAR these days but I'd make the deal in a heartbeat.

En Cuba se respira, se come y se transpira beis. En Mexico hay mucha afici?n en el norte del pa?s y el sur. Aqui es un 70% soccer. La afici?n es muy apasionada a ese deporte.

Crees que nuestro Gerente general se vaya tambi?n?

During the games, huh! Unbelievable.