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Once again, Robin haters who would have buried him have to give him credit for yanking the horrific Bella in the ninth! Great move by Ventura.

Nice job of closing there. Good play on the routine grounder by Beckham. Sox win.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 02:08 AM) Give it a rest Greg. This team is bad Why? I think we have a serious problem with him at third. He's got to move. Some year it will matter.

This should be interesting. 5-4 two out with the crowd into it! This is baseball.

Move him to f***ing second base. He'd be perfect. No power. A gap hitter. Great second baseman. Or prototypical second baseman.

This is why I'm not a HUGE fan of Gillaspie. He's not a good defender, folks. He reminds me of a college thirdbaseman. A lot of bobbles.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 02:41 PM) I think Hillary may actually be the 2nd least wealthy candidate to be on a ticket since 2000. Kerry, Bush, McCain, Romney were all loaded with legit corporate/inherited wealth. Interesting. I wish somebody could explain her appeal to me. I just don't get it.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 07:24 PM) Whoever it was who was arguing Gillaspie needed to be DFA'd if Davidson had a decent spring is conspicuously quiet in this thread. I also despised Gillaspie because of his defense. I just trusted what posters said about Davidson, how he was a star in the making. Gillaspie's lack of HR power is baffling but he's hitting well so kudos to him.

Robin pissed me off when he ran out of pitchers in a tie game. But one generally can't blame any of the bullpen decisions on him. He has absolutely no closer but the team does have some saves in spite of that. He has a horrific pitching staff and that's going to make any manager look bad. I worship Ozzie, but he had to go because of his mouth. Or Kenny had to go. They couldn't co-exist. I am of the opinion we don't have a WS title if not for Ozzie, which I am forever grateful cause we ain't winning any more of them in this baseball economy. Robin is OK. Not good. Not bad. His roster is what sucks.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 05:50 AM) So, how is everyone enjoying the rebuild? It's awful. Like you or somebody said, watching young guys is great (Abreu) but ultimately if you don't win, it's excruciating to watch. Sox have so much work to do I'd say last place will be ours next year as well.

It's a tough business. He's horrible, so the move had to be made to get rid of him. I'd think he'd earned a ton of money during his career to be set for life many times over.

QUOTE (1dog @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 06:03 AM) We need a C, LF, and a bullpen. Take care of those and they'll be watchable. Maybe. It's be nice to sign the new Cuban defector. Then there has to be a serviceable catcher on the free agent market. I don't know about the pitching. This is a last place pitching staff all the way around and I don't know how he's going to fix it.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 05:37 AM) We need a 2B, a LF, a C, a DH (shouldn't be too damn hard to find a DH once we are rid of Dunn) and a s***load of pitching. That's way, way better than last year. Yes a s***load of pitching. We need basically a whole new bullpen again. Only guy who might be serviceable might be Nate Jones and I say might. Webb needs to start over and must be sent down now. He's a wreck up here now. We also need two righty starters to go with Danks, Sale and Q. Two GOOD righty starters by the way. I agree all we need lineup wise is 2B, LF, C, and DH, just like you said. The outfield of new guy in left, Eaton and A. Garcia should be good enough.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 05:23 AM) Time to end the why doesn't Webb get a chance to close talk for good. He did not pitch like a major leaguer there. He looked like a guy begging to be sent down. He was as bad as you can be against major league hitters.

Should Webb be converted to being a starter? Maybe he'd get in rhythm. He can't be a reliever walking everybody in sight then throwing meat.

So Markaikis is on the list of Sox killers. At least he's a better player still than Joe Mauer.

Let's face it. We root for a last place team again. Two years in a row. How many years of last?

I don't see what you guys see in Webb. He sucks. Now maybe he can improve. Who knows?

This guy will never be a closer til he learns how to throw strikes.

Who gave up the homer to Cruz? I shudder to ask.

Cmon Webb. If you are going to lose, get beat. Don't walk anybody!

Poor Paulie probably should only be hitting vs. lefties. He must not be able to read pitches from righties. He had at least 2 cookies. Does anybody see any scenario we win this game? When we lose finally are we 10 out again now that Detroit is hot? That is not good. The Sox will have no fans in July Aug and Sept except on this board and maybe 5,000 diehards who love going to the Cell.

Paulie passes on the cookie. I wish he'd just go up there hacking.

Is Gordon incapable of situational baseball? Is he selfish? Or was that just a brainfart thing? Pisses me off.

That's just bad baseball. What is Beckham doing? I mean it makes no sense. Braindead baseball player.