jung

Oh man Jon...that one was hung also...two ugly cutters from Jon

God damn it...Cruz. Should have known he would start to hit at some point

Geez Cruz at 211...hope he stays asleep tonight

K2, Lester

f*** both of em'

I know...can you imagine not getting home on that Sweeney shot....Geez my Pomeranian would have gotten home with his 4" legs.

C'mon Cody...could have taken that the other way and had two RBI's

C'mon meat...hang another

Well he hung that one for sure. Damn that should have gotten out

C'mon hang one of those meat!

Love to get this guy early. He is vulnerable right now

Geez Wash looked like he has a headache there.

Pedey...team leada' strikes again!

Repko in the field is scarier than Repko in the lineup

DP!!!! Needed that

OK Don...enough what is this...thinkin' of movin' to Texas are we?

K1, Lester

Come on Jon. Need to nail this guy

Now that I do agree with 700. I absolutely think that especially LL wanted this V. I was convinced of it the day it was announced. He wanted this V maybe with a little more Baseball Genius V thrown into the mix with loudmouth lightning Rod V. That does not mean that V's act might eventually grow tiresome for this organization as it has for other organizations. But there is no question in my mind about LL wanting it this way.

Well if the team does not play up to its potential I don't know what BC does. However at least the shoe is on the right foot. I could care less whether Pedroia's reputation with the media goes down the drain. If the players line up behind him and Pedey feels that he has an obligation to the fact that they have then finally...finally we will have the players feeling like it will be one of their own and maybe more than one of their own that gets f***ed in all of this if they do not perform. It has happened ugly (what else is new with V) and I do not believe V had some grand strategy to make it all come out this way but the fact is there is a very good chance that the Sox will have accomplished something here...something that did not get accomplished last year. It may well finally be a team again, a team with players that take some responsibility for what happens on the field.

Well in a sense, you can say that the Sox organization has done it again. They left Tito a lame duck manager for the 2011 season and has basically done the same thing in just offering V a two year contract. The Sox won't care one bit if they dump V after this season and eat the last year of his contract which may not be guaranteed anyway. The players know V has very little power in the organization because of the term of his contract. Contracts and money mean everything in baseball. You make this much and I make that much more than you means I have more power than you. It is that simple and is looked at very seriously by the players. A two year managers contract impresses nobody and is the equivalent of leaving Tito a lame duck in 2011.

There are a number of reasons that you can point at for Crawford's performance in his first year in Boston but I don't think the wrist is one of them. This is the same wrist that had been giving him trouble in Tampa when he put up his Tampa numbers and the same wrist that he was using I guess cortisone injections for there and here. Apparently when the pain/discomfort returned this January/February, it did not respond to treatment and was "unmanageable" for the first time in his career. I do wish they had addressed it before he went away for the off season but it is hard to point to the wrist as the reason he was off last year.

God I wish you guys did not bring up THAT year. I have such horrendous memories of that year. There are some of them that I can no longer bring myself to repeat and in fact refuse to repeat nor bring up in discussion.

It is often far easier to see managerial decisions play themselves out. It is not impossible. We had two of them in just two days that had consequences that were directly related. When V let Repko swing away with a 3-1 count against a struggling pitcher with the bases loaded, Repko swung at ball 4. A walk there would have gotten an extra run in without question and would have seen the Sox continue the inning with only 1 out as Repko eventually went down. Not only did we not score the run but Repko became the second out of the inning. When V left Bard in yesterday, he walked in the winning run. You can muse that Albers would have let the entire Rays team bat around but it did not matter. They only needed one run to win and they got it in a situation where Bard was clearly spent and needed to come out of the game. The Sox eventually won the game on Sunday and lost the game on Monday. However both of those decisions clearly had consequences that played into run totals. Decisions that effect run totals that directly are not hidden under the "what would have happened otherwise" possibility. Had the Rays come back and won the Sunday game we would have pointed to the lost run or runs of the Repko inning as very telling to the outcome of the game. If the 7th inning on Monday was clean if the Rays scored no runs in that inning, and the Sox went on to win that game 1-0 then having kept the Rays off the board in the 7th would have been considered very important. In fact it was very important in that it allowed the Rays the single run they needed to win.

It is often far easier to see managerial decisions play themselves out. It is not impossible. We had two of them in just two days that had consequences that were directly related. When V let Repko swing away with a 3-1 count against a struggling pitcher with the bases loaded, Repko swung at ball 4. A walk there would have gotten an extra run in without question and would have seen the Sox continue the inning with only 1 out as Repko eventually went down. Not only did we not score the run but Repko became the second out of the inning. When V left Bard in yesterday, he walked in the winning run. You can muse that Albers would have let the entire Rays team bat around but it did not matter. They only needed one run to win and they got it in a situation where Bard was clearly spent and needed to come out of the game. The Sox eventually won the game on Sunday and lost the game on Monday. However both of those decisions clearly had consequences that played into run totals. Decisions that effect run totals that directly are not hidden under the "what would have happened otherwise" possibility. Had the Rays come back and won the Sunday game we would have pointed to the lost run or runs of the Repko inning as very telling to the outcome of the game. If the 7th inning on Monday was clean if the Rays scored no runs in that inning, and the Sox went on to win that game 1-0 then having kept the Rays off the board in the 7th would have been considered very important. In fact it was very important in that it allowed the Rays the single run they needed to win.