BeanTown Bummer……………..
Well what can you say really….I guess thank goodness the Texas Rangers spit the bit in September….for if not for that…the Red Sox and closer Jonathan Papelbon would not have had the opportunity to spit the bit as well…..and so it goes…another what might have been season….down the drain….
From the start of this season, the 2009 Red Sox were a pretty flawed bunch. They didn’t pitch that well…they hit like ****…they played like ****…and their bullpen was pretty mediocre….in the end…the sins that haunted the Sox all year…all boiled up in this short three game post-season series. I find it interesting that Papelbon who had criticized the Sox acquisition of Wagner…turned out to be correct…that the move would not really help…and it didn’t…..and in the end…Wagner..along with Papelbon were the final nails in the Red Sox season.
The long and the short of this series will be that this off-season, Theo and company may have to finally open their check-books, because very rarely do bargin basement baseball players ever pan out….and they sure didn’t this season. The Angels spent 5 million on Bobby Abreu….the Sox spent 3 million on Mark Kotsay..and Rocco Baldelli….I think we all know how that turned out…especially after today.
It is certainly a disappointing end to a very frustrating season, to be certain. Hopefully thats where the frustration will end, and maybe the front-office will make some moves that will actually help the Sox for an ENTIRE season. There will certainly be many questions about the Sox in the coming days and weeks…and all I can say is….Theo can’t build a time machine….go 88 miles an hour…go back and fix the 2009 season….however..”what’s past is prologue”…and hopefully the boy wonder jackass learned a thing or two from the GM’s for Dummies book I sent him…..Either way…..good luck to the Angels…..and Go Twins…………….
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