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I do think it's time for both Terry and the team to move on and apart. However I do think they should send Terry out as a hero. Not just a knee jerk negative thing.

I think Bobby Valentine would provide a personality for the clubhouse to rally around. I would think he would stress fundamentals. If Terrys personality is a 1 and Ozzy Gs is a 10..... Bobby V. To me would be a 5, just what we need.

I agree. It is different. Living in a city with pro teams would give you more ownership- at least different ownership. But it is different today then it was 50 or even 20 years ago. Society is so much more nomadic. There are so many people today that were born in city A, visited their dad growing up in City B, moved to city C for moms new job in, went to college in city D and got their first job in City E. Then there are some like me. Growing ionic Wyoming I never had a specific geographic city I grew up close to. I always liked the Celtics as my mom cheered for them (she was from Maine). Later in life as a young adult I lived in Indianapolis. I found acfew Colts fans there and since it ticked them off and I already liked the Celtics I started following and cheering fir the Pats. I have since moved back to Wyoming. Watching my sons play baseball, learning to enjoy different paced things in life, and fantasy baseball all drew mevto be a huge fan of baseball. Once again my mom follows the sox, I already follow other New England teams, and my brother is a Yankees fan... so a few years ago I started following the sox. Via the Internet I listen to Weei every day. I've watched all but maybe ten games all year and spent my family vacation driving to Minneapolis to see the sox play live. No idea how much me and my family spend on merchandise. I've met an old guy that gre up in Boston- we enjoy talking baseball often. Am I a bandwagon fan???? I could care less if someone thinks I am. New fans to baseball are good for baseball. Do I owe it to someone to cheer for a non competitive team? I don't think so. Life is to short for me to cheer for an organization not interested in winning. I love the fact my sons want to play like Dustin Ped. Am I real fan? Who is to say? When does congress meet to determine what a real fan is? Are there bandwagon jumpers- sure. But the question is why do "real" fans feel so threatened by them?

I do not think Francona supporters can have it both ways- saying this crash is not his fault, and also give him credit for winning two world series. Either he has a lot to do with both or can not take credit for either. Personly I think he is gone. I would suspect he will not want to come back. But either way, like it or not, fired or quits I think he is gone. So the real speculation is who do we hire. Bobby V. intrigues me.

I agree with so much of this original post. I do not however like the idea that only some are elite enough to deserve being fans. For one it's rather grandjour to think our knowledge, lack of knowledge, passion, length of fandom, or geographic location one is at when they wear a hat with a B on it effects the players in any way shape or form. Secondly, if one lives in Boston, has went to every game for 100 years, has every players stats memorized and knows what Tito has for breakfast every day..... that fan is not on any way effected by some girl that is a Sox fan in Utah because she thinks Pedroia is cute and had never watched a full fame. It's a free Country, baseball is a game. People are free to choose to cheer for what team they want and to what degree. On the whole nobodies choice hurts anyone else.

I would hate to be the cops chasing those idiots that run on the field. Wayvto easy to slip or miss a tackle in front of 40,000 people

I'm ok keeping Scut

Have not seen CC run that fast all year. Nice!

Yeah I am not a numbers guru but I have to think Scutaros production per dollar has to make him pretty valuable.

That sucks, great catch, but that sucks

Here comes davidson 30

I think Els walk up music should be ACDCs "we got the Jack"

Runs boys! Give me runs

Nice pitch!

Just like we all predicted at the begining of the year......Bedard and Levarnway carrying the team into the play offs.

Atta boy Bedard!

Well I promised myself I was not going to watch game two... but here I am, watching. Throwing away my reasoning and thinking they may pull out a win.

I am admittedly new to following Baseball close so I ask this as someone that is curious- not as an argument. I often hear about how a team will not bench a player because they have so much money invested in him. I do not understand this. Once the money is spent- it's spent right? Isn't it at least as equally throwing the money away to keep the player in the line up that has continually proven to hurt the team? In my mind it seems like a bigger waste of money to keep him in there. Not only are you letting him hurt the team you are also prohibiting any chance of finding a better solution. If I have a really expensive car in my driveway and the engine blows I am stuck with the car- but at some point I need to realize I need to find a piece of :/@& car I can afford with no AC, no cruise, no radio and lots of oil leaks because I need to get to work and just sitting in my expensive luxury car not going anywhere in my driveway will get me fired. It would be tough toncallnmy boss and tell him I'm trying to get to work in a car with a blown engine because I have lots of money into it and am stuck with it. Just my thoughts and no team in MLB seems to follow that so help me understand where I am wrong.

I would say Crawfords lack of stolen based is not the managers fault..... I would tend to say it has more to do with the fact he never gets his but on first in order to steal second.

First big league game I went to about ten years ago was Twins Yankees in the dome. More recently I caught a couple games in Cinncinati. Most recently I saw the Red Sox play at Target Field. My future plans..... We can fly from Wyoming to Los Angeles for next to nothing so wife and I are planning our vacation next year there when the Red Sox play the Angels. And some day of course when finances allow I will make the trip to Fenway.

Nice to see Ortiz using his greatest weapon....... speed on the bases!

Not even going to try to throw anybody out when they steel today

Not the offensive onslaught I had hoped for.