I expect nothing less from you, but I also saw your post and thoughts about him a few times during the series.

He was god awful my friend. He was a liability on D and at the plate. He froze a few times on the field and looked so so bad at the dish. He swung at shit 3 feet out of the zone. Howie left a crap load of runners on base (scoring position)

Not sure if we could get a bag of balls for him right now…………

And I usally agree with you, but Howie made enough mistakes in this series that it didn’t allow for any other member of the team to make a mistake…and oh boy did he make mistakes…

I though Howie had a lot of potential, but I am going to be interested to see if he can mentally bounce back from this series. How will he be affected next year if we make the playoffs…will this haunt him? God I hope not….

I speak the truth and point out the weakest link of any team. For this series Howiesthman the weakest link was your man Howie…….

is Kendrick never learned to take a walk. They finally figured out the holes in his swing at the major league level, and voila, instant suck. This process did not happen overnight. It was ongoing, but partly masked by his injuries.

maybe they dont turn two, but at least he gets the the runner going into second. Which means that run doesn’t score when Pedroia dented the monster. We get out of that inning with only one run scored… that is why I say his error again cost is two runs!

Morales – 2 Hits, 1 Double in 4 ABs .500avg. NO FUCKEN STARTS!!!!!!!

Oh wait we are calling out players……Oops Morales is the ONLY PLAYER that did something GOOD and in Limited Playing time.

Figgins- .333 / .333 / .476 hits in 3 of 4 games had a 2B SB and a huge 3B
Anderson- Another case of pink eye, but no dropped ball in LF
Hunter- .389 / .421 / .389 Showed up in a big with the clutch hits, all runners left on base are not runners left in scoring position
Tex- Red Sox were not going to get beat by his bat. .467 / .550 / .467 leading team in runs scored while walking 4 times….Hmmm…..walks score? How about that Hatcher
Vlad- See Tex comment, also walked 4 times (miracle) .467 / .579 / .533
Howi"e"- .118 / .118 / .118 AWFUL TERRIBLE , Defensively just as AWFUL, TERRIBLE, Some may say he did not have a chance to turn the double play in the 5th, but if he fields it cleanly Capitan Catcher is forced at 2B and the double by Pissdroia doesn’t plate a run! No error on Howie but what a gaffe (again)
Aybar- .111 / .111 / .111 super series all away around
Napoli- .250 / .400 / .750 exactly what you thought you would get from him, high OBP also getting a walk and RBI in game 2
GMJ- You Sux!
Willits- Great defensive replacement player worked well in game 2 and 4
Rivera - .125 / .364 / .125 swinging on 3-0 pitch what the F*^k
Mathis- Why not share that lucky horseshoe you have firmly wedged up your ass that has allowed you to play a whole season in the big leagues you lucky SOB!……team could have used some luck!!!
Shields- looked like the demons had been lifted…….but not the case…..chimp hit turned into a double by the defensive replacement and a slow roller that your ranging 2B just could get. You were doomed once the ball was hit towards the right side of Tex.
FYouRod- 7.71 ERA with a loss, 2 1/3 innings worked allowing 7 runners (5 hits/ 2 BB/2K) You dominate you rock your the best, I hope your gone
Arredondo- 3 2/3 no runs and 2BB/4 K’s
Weaver- cock solid out of the pen, but then again so hard to pitch that 1 or 2 innings and save a game or shut down a team to allow your club a chance to win. HAHA
Oliver- Once again a solid LHP situational guy

Lackey, Saunders, Ervin- Only if you could have struck everyone out or made them hit it to Figgy and Tex

Scioscia- Why is Howie in the lineup still? Don’t want to hurt his feelings? Why not let the players win or lose the game instead of micromanage the game and calling for a squeeze in that situation? You mention how Aybar didn’t execute the play, yet you were the executioner. The defense is the one that is in a bad situation and the pitcher needs to execute his pitches. Once again that was not allowed to happen. As much as I dislike GMJ he has a better chance of catching that ball against the wall in game 2 then the midget you put in, and the same goes for GM#4 with him being able to extend his reach a little more or the fact that the 5/$10m vet knows to keep that ball in front of him for a single and not go spastic trying to catch a ball he had no chance of catching in the first place

Watching the replay for the severalth time…I don’t think he could have kept that ball from bouncing into the seats even had he NOT dove for it…fact is, it was a perfectly lobbed grenade that we were “fortunate” that it bounced over the fence! If it didn’t…HR & game over (sooner)!

You guys woulda traded Vlad too i bet….

with their best hitter doing nothing.

The difference was Howie’s defense that cost us at least 5 runs in the series (6 if we want to count him not playing deep enough on the game winning single to knock the ball down and keep Bay from scoring at second)

We could have gotten away with his sucktitude at the plate hd he played good defense and helped the team win with his glove…you gotta play on both sides of the ball!