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Jeremy Barfield's being named EL's player of the month at least deserves notice. his stats for the past month are almost hard to believe. Best ever in franchise history.

i know right - perhaps I need to be a little more precise.

Bogey just got a nice little hit. I take back anything that I have said that might be interpreted as negative about him. lol

Oh boy - calling me out. I'm pretty sure that he doesn 't care about me. he might care deeply about you. i assume that he cares about his teammates.Now - further - when i said guys it was collectively used. We (meaning me not you) have historically felt that we have a mutual love affair with our home grown heros. When they signed on the dotted line, we (me again) expected them to be here year after year. I believe that Bogey as you say will follow the money and that his decision to stay here in Boston if he does will be because of the money as opposed to his caring for me or any other particular fan here. Now I freely admit that I could be wrong. perhaps he will decide to stay here in boston for much less money than he could make somewhere else. That would truly prove that he does care deeply for all of us and New England in general. With all that being said, i guess that I could simply have stated that he might be a great guy but it appears to me that he might be greatly over rated as a baseball player. oh - I also think that it is safe to say that he won't be overly concerned with what any of us think about him. In addition, in my opinion, if he left after this season (which he won't), he is just as replaceable as a clear majority of the rest of these guys are.

Jesus Christ ( I apologize) - jim rice played 163 games in 1978. If Bogaerts continues on his current pace, let him go when we can. he is clearly replaceable. If he took what was offerred, I might keep him but in no way is he worth the farm plus the acerage. We have to get over this love affair for these guys who really don't care much about us.

Well i have talked to you and you do have the voice. What about the rest of you?

The end product is what counts my friend not the time it takes to create it.

I felt all along that expecting a team filled with predominantly under sized non home run hitters to repeat in any way what happened last year was an extreme stretch and should not have been expected by anyone. We needed to sign a bigger bat than Moreland - we didn't. We went a different route and hey things ore ok. When people say that these guys are under performing, i say no i don't think so. listen to what Betts has to say and maybe the understanding might seep through. he clearly acknowledges that he may never have another year like last year. He I think I would make an effort to keep - the rest of our young guys (not including Devers), if they can get better offers some place else - so be it. They are all replaceable.

It is never too late for that gig. A good fictional mystery read born in the bowels of Fenway Park. That would give Spud something else to occupy his post midnight life with. let's go!

I am so happy to see Vazquez swinging an acceptable and sometimes better than that bat. It just adds to a position that I think we are reasonably well off in.

Agree here too but I am really happy that we have Kimbrel. There is a lot of hind sighting and second guessing going on here with respect to the moves that DD has made all of which I have agreed with to some extent .(I just never felt good about trading Shaw) Speaking of hindsight, i wonder what type of discussion we would be having right now if Smith and Thornburg had remained healthy?

Absolutely!!!

Is this a gotcha moment?

I just think you stick that 4th outfilelder out there and let him go for a game or two. I think that all of these guys should be held accountable. I don't think that it should matter who they or how big a star they might be or think that the might be. There will always be somebody else who wants your job. I know that I'm on a little bit of a rant here but as much as I like the fact that JF supports and defends his players, he comes off as being extremely soft by not aknowledging that mistakes like he has made just can't be tolerated over and over. Doesn't help the player and doesn't help the team.

even for one of those little fellas (although he actually would dwarf most of the Sox) that is not bad

I think sitting him down for a game or two due to repetitve mental base running mistakes is a good thing. Helps the team and in the long run (if he isn't stupid) it will help the player. it does no one any good if his ridiculous base running gaffs are overlooked and written off because he is young. Good teams understand the value of eliminating mental mistakes and at times a tougher approach has to be taken. No one is saying that he should lose his job but there is no way that what he has done should be ignored and written off as the result of aggressive baserunning. Aggressive and stupid just aren't the same thing.

I have got nothing against Benintendi at all Tyler. Sweet swing for a smaller guy. I still no way of defending most of his baserunning or defensive gaffs. Physical errors are going to happen but there is no excuse for the repetitive mental mistakes that he has made. i think that it would be ok to be a little stern with him although i realize that there are some here who might be concerned for potential damage to his fragile ego. My feeling about him so far is that he is either stupid or uncoachable. Stupid i can live with - uncoachable NO.

I don't care how well he hits, if numbnutts McGee continues to run into outs and throw the ball into Nevernever Land from left field, I might jump off that cliff long before the window of expiration. Can't we just use a pinch runner for this kid? Wish I could have been in the dugout lat night when he came in after the latest. I wonder if he was told it was ok to run in to an obvious out because the world has changed. Out with the old and in with the new.

i sometimes (not really sometimes) think that this cliff or window myth that has been created really is all about someone still trying to defend Ben Cherington's ill fated reign as the club's GM. To some eyes, it would have made no difference who came after. They were still going to be criticized because Cherington just wasn't given a fair shot. Now i get the fact that DD is a little older than Ben but really he does at least try to look young.

Like I said - you really do come alive after midnight.

Man - you just come alive after the midnight hour.

We must not be talking about the same play. on second? groundball hit to your right directly at the ss and you try to advance to third? Is that the same play?

correcto!

I was going to ask this question myself. These guys seemingly have come out of nowhere. I just hope we don't start arguing about who the GM was who signed Brentz. lol - for the record - it doesn't matter! Castillo also continues to hit the ball. These guys very well might present viable options as opposed to paying the price for backup high priced veterans. Castillo maybe not so much.