Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! It is beyond belief that both fans and the media were all over David after his second game. It’s time to support our team and our players and quit whining. David has always started slow, and this year came back in great shape ready to go, so when he clicks he will start putting up 30-35/100+ and still be the face of the franchise. I’m starting to believe that the sky is falling group are either kids or not fans at all.

Does anyone think Big Papi will find the Hot Tub Time Machine during the season? By August he will be older still….

Papi might have his early struggles with hitting, but there is NO excuse for his lack of hustle down the line. His ONLY job is to hit the ball and run with full effort every time he makes contact.

Gerry Says:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! It is beyond belief that both fans and the media were all over David after his second game. It’s time to support our team and our players and quit whining. David has always started slow, and this year came back in great shape ready to go, so when he clicks he will start putting up 30-35/100+ and still be the face of the franchise. I’m starting to believe that the sky is falling group are either kids or not fans at all.

Are you serious? Great shape?? Yeah he look’s like he’s in great shape! You say he will hit 30-35/100 he didn’t hit that last year and he had more strike outs than hits. For is hustling down the line, look at him he doesn’t hustle anywhere. But he’s in great shape right Gerry?

Lou, I agree that it’s early in the year but I don’t think we should be settling down when we have an as good or better hitter on the bench (Mike Lowell). None of your comments make me think that we should “settle down”.
I’m pretty sure Papi won’t be here next year so why are we babying him but giving Mike Lowell the bench.

They were on him because they don’t want a repeat of how he started out last year. Interesting how the camera kept showing Mike Lowell sitting on the bench. Enough loyalty! Give Papi 1 month. Then Theo needs to pull the string and insert Lowell.

Lou–after Big Popup passes his drug test, he can re-stock his medicine cabinet and turn things around. What date was he last tested in 2009? Did things turn around after a successful test? He is a fraud in the same vein as Bonds,Giambi etc.

While Ortiz looks much thinner, it’s obviously not paying off so far. He’s getting beat on 87-mph fastballs, but stubbornly continues to swing from his heels. Almost every slump he’s gone through during his time here, he’s gotten out of it by keeping his hands back and driving the ball to the opposite field and letting the power come naturally. Until he starts doing that again, he’s going to have another long year and so will this ball club.

why is nobody getting on Drew’s back?……
and Lou who made you spokesperson for the red sox?…….just because you played ball means that you know more than me?….I don’t think so..

The thing about Papi is this:

1. We already went through this stuff with him last year. He has a track record which is not very good. To not ask what might be wrong, after he’s gone 1-for-11, is not wrong. It just isn’t. Sure, he hit great for four months last year, but that leads us to a second point, which is

2. He is a positional DH and therefore only has value to the team as long as he’s hitting. The Red Sox cannot afford for him to put in only 4 good months a year. He needs to hit well for 6 months, not just 4.

Telling people not to be concerned is not going to work, this time around. “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me,” the saying goes. Sorry but after 1-for-11 I don’t buy that there’s nothing wrong in Papiland. If he’s going to pull the same stunt that he did last year … which is to put in only 2/3 or 3/4 of a season of real production … then he needs to be yanked. Now. Not 2 or 3 months from now. When they have another positional DH (Mike Lowell, who CAN hit) standing by to take over, there can and should be some concern.

And the team’s dismissive “there’s nothing wrong here” attitude is also not going to cut it. There ought to be some admission that last year taught us a lesson about Papi, and it’s one that needs to be attended to … not ignored.

This guy is done. He has a track record of a whole season when he batted 230 is that what you want out of a 5 hitter? It is so lame to hear everybody come to this guys defense,he can’t hit a fastball in the beginning of the season if they wait they will be out of it at the all-star break. Drew is another bum this guy looks like he is bored with playing baseball. Say what you want about this outfield how good they are on defense, they are horrible on offense. Granderson might have more homers then the whole sox outfield. I thought scutaro was a defensive whiz in the yankee series have his throws were in the dirt if it wasn’t for Youk he have 3 or 4 errors by now. How about the big 3 none of them got a win, there bullpen sucks. It will be a long season

OK so a DH does not have to HIT the ball.
does that mean catchers do not have to catch the ball?
Pitchers do not have to throw the ball?
his ONLY job is to HIT THE BALL.

Last year he did not hit the ball

we gave up one player that CAN hit the ball
we are trying to get rid of another player that CAN hit the ball

maybe we should get rid of anyone who can do the job ?

actually maybe we should just pack it in now and not worry about his FEELINGS…

we are in last place…maybe this is as good as it gets

I’m not in a panic about Papi. Seriously, sportsfans: he’s at a certain stage in his career, so he has certain limits. Let’s ask simpler questions: what’s with the untimely un-hitting? How does Papi’s bad start explain the problem when Mr. Drew is unable to solve the mysteries of the modern strike zone? Papi’s played in three games: 1-for-11, 1 RBI, 1 walk, 3 SO, .091. Drew’s been in three games, too: 2-fa-12, 0 RBI, 0 walks, 3 SO, .167.

Papi is two days older than the starting right fielder. Both turn 35 in November.

Meanwhile, a storm is brewing: 4-13, 2 doubles, a home run, 3 RBI, 1 walk, 0 strikeouts, .308.

I do not want to see the Red Sox, in the words of the great Professor Turgeson, “(fail) to achieve victory…?” with the resigning of Victor Martinez. After all, Sunday is Captain Varitek’s 38th birthday.

Happy birthday, Tek.

If the sox want to sign Martinez you better be ready to pony up about 16 to 18 million a year for a least 5 years. As Theo has said in the past Drew is under payed 14 million just doesn’t go that far anymore. This guy has been a stiff his whole career. He looks like he could care less about baseball and it shows. This team will go nowhere this year. This team has no bullpen, no bench, and no offense at the bottom of the order. How bad is your bullpen if you need Alan Embree?

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