Re: Just When you think it can't get any worse...

"Wayback1918" wrote in message news:c86bf8df-e271-44d9-9e18-57ea4dd7092e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Apr 15, 10:12 pm, gnork <4panama...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 15, 8:51 pm, OceanView <F...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





> "Ray O'Hara" <raymond-oh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:ioasap$iaj$1@dont-
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> > "gnork" <4panama...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> from 3-0 Sox to 7-3 Blue Jays. Pathetic.

> > and it's how they do it,

> The FO had better make SOME kind of move TOMORROW. This had better be, > one
> way or another, a watershed moment for this team or you can kiss this
> season goodbye. This is truly awful low-A caliber ball. Absolutely
> horrendous.

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> George Eliot

Too much is needed, but they better start doing something.

What do they need?
1. About 4 decent pitchers.
2. Two major league talent catchers.
3. One manager smart enough to get Lowrie in the lineup 85% of the
time or more.
4. Two gigantically paid newcomers to start producing smewhat close to
what was expected.
5. One benching (for a game or 2) of Carl Crawford. He needs a new
perspective.
6. One manager capable of evaluating players and using the best
strategies for the moment and the situation. Perferably one with fire
also.
7. One GM who can realize how bad the teamk is right now and is
willing to acknowledge errors by jettisoning now useless players, even
if they were once valuable, key members of the team. (Cough* Varitek
and Wakefield)
8. One statute of Dustin Pedroia. Put it in the locker room.- Hide quoted text -

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1. They are probably already here. Buccholz, Lackey and Wheeler are
as likely to pitch to their norms as anyone who might be available
now.

2. Ok

3. Lowrie needs to be the starting SS

4. They will. It's not a question of 'if'...just when

5. I don't think that would help.

6. If this team was playing up to their potential Francona is the
right manager. If the team is floundering I'm not sure he is.

7. I think the GM put together a team with a lot of assets. I don't
blame him.

8. I don't think passing a law that says the players need to play
like Pedroia is enforceable

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All I can say is I honestly can't recall a team that had 8 guys hitting .200 or less at this stage in a season...and NONE were pitchers.

I'm still pissed that they wasted the spring, thinking they only needed to flip a damn switch.

.

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