Is it me or is that the way it feels? Every night the Sox are just bead enough to give it up. if the Starters go 7 strong the bats are frozen and the Pen is slammed.. if the starters aren’t on and the bats do answer quickly the pen  holds it the bats wont come through in the late innings. This team is just bad enough. an extra out here a dropped foul ball there and you get what the sox are, a high priced last place team searching for answers.The question is where do we lay the blame for all this? Bobby V, Theo, Larry and ownership or the Players? The split isn’t as even as it was before the season started. Bobby isnt going anyplace. Pedro, Millar and Manny aren't walking through that door. these Player have to play.

 where do we start? The top of the payroll: over his last 30 at bats Adrian Gonzalez is batting a whopping 202 with two runs scored and not a RBI to his name. I was actually shocked to see he had only struck out 5 times in that span. He looks like a Tee Ball player out there. Everything is a weak grounder into the shift. I don’t remember the last time he hit the wall, you know that Big Green Thing in left we were all told he would feed off of like candy. Yes I know we are not dealing with a player who doesn’t care , Gonzalez is no JD Drew but what ever is ailing him he had better fix it fast before we stop talking about Crawford’s contract and he becomes Theo’s parting gift.

Then there are the kill us B’s Buchholtz and Beckett: Clay’s ERA is knocking on apartment 10 and there isn’t a single ray of sunshine in his arsenal. He can’t find the plate and when he does get a ground ball when he needs it, he walks more batters than he strikes out and has only made it through seven innings once all season. You can only blame rust for so long. Clay looks so bad Butchie was texting Wake yesterday and not just to say hi. If his back isn’t bothering him he needs to get into the film room and fix this or get onto a sports psychologists couch and get what ever is in his head out. Then there is the Tex-ass Tantrum Josh Beckett. 5 starts into this season the ACE has had what I would call two quality turns in the rotation and needs extra time off because Bobby had him go north of his normal pitch count.. SACK UP Josh, this isn’t little league.  

Amazingly enough the Pen was the lone bright spot on this home stand: Atchison was brilliant (if your grading on a curve) not giving up a single run over his past eight innings. And Aceves has done all that’s asked of him and more. closing when the opportunity is there and going multiple innings on more than one occasion. And a Big ^ 5 going out to Darnell McDonald for his taking the mound Sunday.  

We have a manager who isn’t respected by his players, players who don’t respect him or the game and an ownership that cares more about soccer and NASCAR than their baseball team. But there is good news is Crawford was moved to the sixty day DL and Youk might start a walking program this week. And Dice BB is way ahead of schedule.

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Monstah