By now follower's of my blog should realize I really enjoy ranting about sports. I enjoy doing so especially when having conversations with friends. One of my very close friends, who we will call Natano D., and I love to discuss sports. He is living in Florida currently but we talk at least once a week, mostly about life and the Red Sox. Today our conversation was mostly the Red Sox- and how they are doing terrible this year. Our conversation went something like this...
Natano: "What are they thinking putting Ellsbury in left field, that's not his position, he was brought up as a center fielder-KEEP HIM THERE!"
ME: "I know right, our outfield sucks, they went out and got all these names like Bill Hall and (Adrian) Beltre, they haven't been doing sh*t." It took Hall a month of Sunday's to get his first hit. And like you were saying with Ellsbury in left, he and Beltre collided, there is no chemistry."
ND: "Yeah, and Ortiz..."
ME:(after cutting him off)"I want Ortiz gone...get him out of Boston!"
ND: " Yeah, if he doesn't get his bat hot by the All-Star break, see ya later Papi. It is pretty said that the best player on the team is the second baseman. I love PeeDee (Dustin Pedroia, the former league MVP) but they need more then just him. They aren't scoring and batters are teeing off on our picthers like Lefty." (Lefty referring to PGA Master's Champion Phil Mickelson.)
ME: "Speaking of Pedroia have you seen what he has been saying, he may be more pissed then us."
ND: "Naww, but Tito (Terry Francona pictured at top) needs to get these guys in line. It's crazy how bad they are playing."
The conversation carried on for almost twenty minutes, both of us putting our two cents in to try and solve the reason for our beloved Red Sox miserable play. Whether or not anything we came up with is worth anything is irrelevant. We both agreed the Sox need to play better, and they need to score runs, it is way to early to let the Evil Empire run away with the American League East.
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