The organization is a mess right now

the organization is not as bad as you make it seem.

the bullpen is awesome,young,deep,joba,hughes,ajax,montero,a ton of pitching prospects.with a couple of moves we are right there.

the key is i believe,signing the right free agents and not trading the major league or close to major league prospects.

the sox signed mostly free agents and traded minor leaguers,no matter how good and kept the young kids that were good or thought to be good and were on the roster or very close like ells,pedroia,lowrie,lester,buchholz.pattern???? i am not sure.

start with the rotation and try to trade for a centerfielder and first baseman without giving up hughes,joba and maybe montero,ajax.

i am not talking about the best first baseman or centerfielder on the planet but a decent one.

the red sox are built around pitching and obp.very simple.

We can remember when the Yankees looked alive out there.

Watching teams that look alive out there today makes me feel how far away we were all year, with only very brief intermissions, from playing like that.

well, better late than never, but the above statement is like saying that the united states is in a financial pinch because of the sub prime lending practices of u.s. banks.

both statements qualify as a big “duh”.
come out and say it last spring before it happened and then it would be a good piece of work. after the fact is just hindsight and nothing that everyone doesn’t already know.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they won 2 out of three again.

Sure they had that deer in the headlights look in the first game but they punched and clawed their way to a victory last night that showed they had flushed the first game jitters.

Lester/Garza Sure Lester is out of this world but he is human and Garza can be lights out too when he is on.

Wakefield/Sonastine Wakefield is past his prime and Sonastine was the main reason they won one of those two games in Sept although he didn’t get the decision.

Matsazuka/Shields Awesome game one performances by both guys. Toss up.

Beckett/Kazmir or Jackson Obviously Beckett is not himself and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Jackson take Kazmir’s place in the rotation. After all he won more games during the year (14) and Kazmir seems like he has fallen off a cliff.

On another note: Girardi may eventually be a decent manager but it seems that the overall makeup of the organization is shaky and I believe he feels inhibited from being who he really is because he doesn’t feel comfortable; which might be more attractive to both players and writers and fans.

I used to root for Cashman to be in charge and the Boss to let him work his plan. Now, it looks like neither one of their plans were viable.

IMHO the team needs new ownership and it can’t be done quickly enough.

forgot to check it.

Thanks for the link, I had missed that one.

Eye contact is good…

I admire the minimalist, too, even though I can’t get it down to his level. As you can tell just by seeing me post here…