FredLynn

This board would be less entertaining without UserName. There...I said it. GULP.

You don't have the right to give s*** to ANY of the other posters unless you get the first helping from someone else. Oh-and you really need to lighten up. This is all for fun. You seem to forget that its a GAME we are discussing here. Get a sense of humor and you will live longer.

I have doubts about the story of Buchholtz being forged like the Ring the Binds them All...but I am reserving judgement. The story about him being born in Texas is CLOSE to the truth, but here is the REAL truth about his creation: http://i916.photobucket.com/albums/ad8/Schwerdtfeger5/Chicken%20Stuff/1976_animado.gif

Mike Lowell was one of the most respected players to play for the Red Sox over the past decade.

If that is really what you think, kudos to you. I agree. A housecleaning is in order. The owners are going nowhere, so its from them on down. LL did a good thing hiring Bobby V; now some of the players have to be weeded out-and that has already started. Cherington cannot be blamed: he has been given no resources to spend. You cannot make wine out of water.

Jung: Username is putting you on. He is tired of anything negative being said about this team and is trying to make fun of those of us who do not wear the pink bonnet as often.

There is no one in the clubhouse now in the mold of Mike Lowell who can keep the misfits in line. The addition of Punto will help, but we need more guys like him. Professionals. In the end everyone will tow the party line or they will not play ball for this team. Thats what LL had in mind when he hired the Sheriff.

Thats the spirit!

Remember: the team was booed off the field during their last home game. The fans are fed up. They will not tolerate more recalcitrant nonsense from this group of misfits.

The FO has done just fine so far. They got rid of Boy Blunder and an inept manager and hired a sheriff in his place. Now they have started the process of straightening out the clubhouse misfits.

I don't hear Beckett or Crawford denying any of what is being said. Its insubordination, plain and simple.

Nope. If Valentine does this quietly behind closed doors he will be Francona all over again, and we all know how that ended up. These spoiled malcontents will either come around or suffer this season.

LL knew the score in Boston. Thats why he hired Valentine and not Sveum. The team losers will come around. Trust me.

I expect Bobby V to use the full arsenal of weapons at his disposal to straighten out the disrespectful losers on the team, including exposing them. Keeping things quiet and protecting them was a mistake Francona made. It didn't work, in the end. Why do you think LL hired Valentine and not Sveum?

Geez Jung...you are more of a pessimist than I am! I have faith in Bobby V to turn this around. He is off to a good start, making it known to the media that Beckett insulted him on their first phone call and that Crawford is refusing to return his calls. How do you think that will play with those two losers? They have two choices: either come around and tow the company line or endure an entire season of being made asses of in the media. Assuming they are not totally devoid of intelligence, I think they will come around, sooner or later. Valentine will give them the chance to do that, but if they fail, its going to be very tough on them. The media here can be vicious. And eventually, if they pout, they will sit. And thats just fine with me.

Beckett pitches slowly against everyone. Maybe a bit slower against the Yankees, but he is TOO slow IMO. No "normal employee" treats their new boss that way. These are spoiled *******s who have an entitlement attitude that WILL disappear. No, the manager cannot trade Crawford, but he certainly has ways to make his life miserable if he enlists a willing media. This transition is going to be fun to watch.

Pay attention to the content and not the author. It makes it more palatable that way.

To his credit, Youkilis has been keeping his mouth shut. I am pretty sure he is not too happy about the loss of the Fenway Country Club like his buddies CRAPFORD and Beckett, but at least he has the good sense not to be a publicity magnet this winter, unlike his buddies.

Indeed we do have another spoiled a-hole on the team in LF. How incredibly arrogant that this spoiled turd refuses to meet with his new boss. CRAPFORD. No worries. As the season progresses Bobby V will straighten him and Beckett and some of the other spoiled SOBs on this team out and by the end of the season everyone will have come in line or they will no longer be playing for this team: Crawford's snit shows the Bobby V. Era has begun In other words, MUTINY IN LEFT FIELD! Well, no one ever said it wouldn't be a fun ride with Bobby V. He's only a month into the job and, apparently, Bobby Valentine is being dissed by one of his key players. By all accounts, Carl Crawford -- who, it appears, hasn't forgotten some harsh criticisms leveled by Valentine during Bobby's days as an ESPN analyst -- has ignored all of Valentine's attempts to contact him this offseason . . . and Valentine himself doesn't seem sure Crawford would talk to him even if he showed up on the left fielder's doorstep. "I'm going to down [to Crawford's home in Houston] and watch a workout, anyway," Valentine told Comcast SportsNet's Jessica Moran on Thursday. "If a conversation follows the watching of the workout, that'd be cool. "But we're not here to talk, necessarily. We're here to play." Say what? Crawford's not looking very good in all this; he appears petty and small, overreacting to the sort of thing a professional athlete is supposed to be able to handle. Valentine, after all, was just doing his job at the time. But now he has a new one, and this isn't getting it off to a very good start. Eventually, they're going to have to hash this out; you can't have one of your regulars refusing to speak to the boss. Still, the new manager was supposed to come in and smooth the waters that were roiled by last season's collapse. Instead, his very presence seems to have roiled them a bit more. And did we expect anything less? http://www.csnne.com/blog/redsox-talk/post/Crawfords-snit-shows-the-Bobby-V-Era-has?blockID=617898&feedID=10430

His age alone makes him high risk for injury. You know that older players tend to get injured more often and take longer to heal. Thats just the way it is. Past injury history is no guarantee at all of future injury free performance.