"They're Stealing Money from Baseball"

its starting to wear a little thin on me. He’s working hard? I sat out there in Boston and watched the team do absolutely NOTHING in pre game. He hasn’t put the right lineup out there since we’ve acquired Rios. He doesn’t even get thrown out of games for the hell of it like some managers do to fire up the troops….. He has not done a good job this year.

The way he handled the Beckham call up was lousy, the way he handled the Linebrink “demotion” has been lousy, the way he handled the Rios acquisition has been lousy…..

for whom the bell tolls……. i think they are talking about the Sox.

if i was manager, i would keep those players there till dark, until they could zip tosses to each other with above high school level ability.

today was ugly, especially when count completly missed his target and it’s been bad for a while.

also, JD needs to chill out and give Rios his room.

this garcia kid on california is a great player, but the camera has been unkind. the other night it caught him saying “what the fuck? catch the fucking ball” after the catcher couldn’t handle his throw from left. just now the camera busted him at bat looking back to see where the catcher was setting up. too funny.

for putting Jose out there end of story. i mean even cubs fans saw Joses 110th epic fail of the season coming. see yall next year

Everyone is frustrated, from the fans to the players to management and ownership. For whatever reason they just haven’t put it all together this year and they are imploding at the wrong time — late in the summer.

That said, this is clearly a transition year, the farm system is in decent shape, as is the ML roster, and they should probably be better in 2010.

Larry mentioned it’s hard to win when you have essentially 3 starting pitchers and what amount to a very mediocre offense and defense.

Early on they had at least very good starting pitching, now that don’t even have decent starting.

I’ve got plenty of complaints with Ozzie’s lineups, but at this point it just seems like wasted breath. The real problem is just not enough good players, like almost always.

one less game to catch up, but it could have been worse. now if only the players would get hot.

Literally, they want out.

During the July series in Minnie the radio announcers went out of their way to comment on how little the Sox did in BP (as in more than any visiting team they’ve ever seen). And you would think that the Metrodome would be a field (astroturf, bad background, etc.) where you would want to take some fielding practice.

And since when was it preferable, when a team is in a season long underachieving funk, to you know, allow them take it really easy out on the field.

As much as I like Ozzie he should have been working those guys a lot harder, not necessarily that they are going to become much better players, but because many or most winning teams seem to be hard working teams.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/08/joe-crede-considering-retirement.html

bringing you the most random thread in SSS history.

It was good, and pricey.