True, he is meant to be with the Dodgers – a team that isn’t winning any championship any time soon.  A team that likes spoiled, over-priced, over-the-hill cast offs from other troubles clubs.  Enjoy….

They’re also a team that often has much of the limelight taken away from them by the Angels, so there’s not quite as much scrutiny and pressure over there.  Good luck to him though, I don’t think he’s a bad guy at all.

I was happy to see the Red Sox get him, and I appreciate what he did in Boston.  I wish him well in LA.  

Probably not a bad guy. Just was a bad fit here.

It was in God’s plan

I knew it was stupid to sign him to an extension when he couldn’t even hold a bat at the time and I’m glad to see him gone. It makes me sick to see him blame everyone and everything else for his own failure. At least Lester comes out and says “I need to be better”.

If this guy was traded to the Nippon Ham Fighters of the NPB, he would say, through interpreter, that it is an “honor” to play there. He sucks up to whatever team/fan base he’s got to get behind him. What’s wrong with this? It’s disengenuous. I hope he gets traded to the ‘stros, see if that was “meant to be”…

He’s such a boring so-called “superstar.”  About as dull as Mark Texiera.  

The favor the Red Sox did him was give him that contract.
As for his happiness, when I was a kid the Sporting News used to, at the end of the season, publish an article that was something like “Famous Last Words of Spring Training”. I have this suspicion that the quotes of Crawford and Gonzalez might be in there if they still did it. 

Why is this even a story?  If a reporter asks how Gonzo’s time was in Boston, to they really expect him to bury the Dodgers and say that having the once in a lifetime opportunity to play for a jackass like Bobby Valentine was greatest thing ever in the history of the known universe? 

The dodgers are in a position to win a championship before the sox will. It might be another 86 years before the sox win another. spoiled over-priced castoffs? You must be talking about victorino, Gomes, Dumpster, and Napoli. Gonzo will have a better year then anybody on the Red sox offensively and defensively. Napoli will play 40 less games then Gonzo and have twice as many errors. Crawford will have a better year then Ellsbury. and Beckett will win more games then Dumpster

He has the last laugh, went from a last place team to a contender. 

We all know management sucks…but your still a spoiled jerk Adrian.!
 

I don’t even know what he’s talking about.  Who ever said he was a “bad guy”?  Just a bad fit.  In fact…not even that.  He’s simply not what they needed.  He also cost too much.  Getting free agent dough after having to give up talent to bring him here.  Good luck to him and the Dodgers.  He was the key to them taking Beckett and Crawford (and all that salary) off our hands.  They never would have done the deal otherwise I’m sure.

You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.  The Dodgers had a losing record the rest of the way AFTER acquiring Gonzo, Beckett et al.  IF they do better than the Red Sox it will be for other reasons.

You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.  The Dodgers had a losing record the rest of the way AFTER acquiring Gonzo, Beckett et al.  IF they do better than the Red Sox it will be for other reasons.

Keep smoking my friend……and If the Dodgers do not WIN the World Series with that ridiculous payroll they will be considered an epic failure – feel the pressure?

Once again a story about past “villians/wounds” on a slow news day, it is what it is and he is what he is. I think what we should do is take Punto’s line”We just didn’t get it done as a group.It didn’t have to do with the manager or the atmosphere..” as the Aesop fable here , and move on from the teeth grinding over the past and into the present and the future…

No…. Beckett, Crawford and to some degree Gonzo. Be honest here, aside from you dislike of the Sox, What have you seen in recent history that leads you to believe that the Dump Diving Dodgers are on the road to a championship? By bailing out the Red Sox of 3 awful contracts – 2 from pretty mediocre players – this has helped them how??? After the trade, they went 16-18. Not exactly an improvement. Secondly, they gave up 2 of their top pitching prospects. Now, the moves the Sox have made (though few) were not meant as big splashes, but to fill some holes for now without getting right back into bed with huge contracts where the player isn’t likely to give them the bang for the buck. Not to mention the fact it was a bad free agent crop this year. So what was out there to sign was gonna be more expensive due to the supply/demand ratio. They are likely to be this way next year as well, although some of the kids will likely make the big club. When a team changes its philosophy, it takes a few years to turn it around. looks like they are going in the right direction. Not having bobby here this year could improve the team by 5-10 games alone. I say they win 82.

 The 2011 Red Sox were contenders, as were the 2010 San Diego Padres; the 2012 Dodgers were until his arrival. When he misses the playoffs again, Red Sox fans will have the last laugh. Guy’s a clown, completely overrated, fooled most of us (me included).

He’s a putz.  A very rich putz…and even a talented one…but still a putz.  Hope the Dodgers don’t have any Sunday night ESPN games.

I don’t recall the Dodgers making the playoff last year. Just because you have “stars’ doesn’t mean the chemistry is right to win.

LOL Dodgers

Go San Fran Giants

LOL Dodgers

Go San Fran Giants

Run out a ground ball for cryin’ out loud! Prima Donna!

So lets think about this, the sox did get rid of Gonzo and crawford and Beckett, and guess where they ended up? A last place team. so now you think they are smart enough to build a winning team, after they hired one of the worst manager’s in there history, and they did bring all those so called loser’s to boston to begin with. Going in the right direction? Victorino, Gomes, and Dumpster is the right direction? Nobody can say if those prospects will ever pan out, anybody remember the next great Red sox Lars anderson? How did he pan out? they will be lucky to win 70 games

don’t think you can call a guy who hits .300 and 30+ homers and drives in 100+ RBI’s overrated. He is not a clutch player, but a very solid player. Its funny when the sox had him he was the greatest player in the league, but like all the player’s that leave the sox they become garbage when they move on. Maybe if he juiced like Ortiz they might like him more

Your right  the sox might have the right Chemistry, a bunch of loser’s, that they got off the scrap heap from teams that didn’t want them. last place again

Once again, you sound like an idiot…the Dodgers will win NOTHING! Not a da mn thing…..and yes he belongs in LA LA Land…keep that sushi coming….nobody is there at the start of the game and the ones that do come, leave by the 8th inning….win or lose…there’s no pressure…that’s why he’s made for the Dodgers….and now you’re on board with Crawford and Beckett? You are such a tool it’s incredible….your stripes are front and center…now go and ….fill in the blank

Hey loser…worry about your crop of corpses down in NYC….70 games? I’ll remind you this summer and you’ll be NOWHERE to be found …

the 2013 SOX’s are a completely different team, THANK GOD…..

 You can call him overrated when he contributes to collapses in back to back seasons (2010 Padres were on track for playoffs, then all of a sudden, the games became meaningful and he turtled). The 2011 Red Sox, well gosh they were so good they played lots of Sunday Night games. Poor little Gonzo wasnt used to that!!! So he turtled. Hmm. Then he gets traded to the Dodgers, who were just SO GOOD. But…the games were important, so he turtled. As for that .300 and 30+ HRs stat…not for a few years now. Overrated. He fooled me.

They were a last place team WITH those guys and their manager. SO, with them gone, there’s a likely chance they improve. Sure, they aren’t a playoff team, but with many guys having bad years last season, I expect some of them to bounce back this year. It doesn’t take a genius to see that Bobby V wasn’t a good fit here last year. I’m not saying John Farrell is the next coming of Bobby Cox, but he will be an improvement over Valentine. 1/2 the teams has dealt with him before, so there shouldn’t be too many surprises. The guy should be a much better disciplinarian and communicator. The team has one of the best bullpens – something they lacked last year. No doubt there are some concerns, but I don’t think, given some of the talent on the team, the fact they got everyone back who was injured last year there’s no way they are as bad as last year. Dempster can’t be any worse than Beckett was last year. I’d put money on them being being better – by 10 games.

I thought  Gonzo as a Great Player, I was sorry to see him go. He will always be a great player to me. I wish him much Luck.

Seems like a decent human being in general, but, as a ballplayer, he infuriated me in the same way J.D. Drew did. He seemed like one of those wallflower types who didn’t show much by way of passion or enthusiasm for the game. He had a good first half of 2011, followed by a sort of average second half (based on his stats, anyway), and a well-below average 2012. Is he on the decline or was he just unhappy here? Seeing as how he didn’t fare much better in L.A. for the last couple of months of the season, I’m sort of thinking it’s the former. Sure, he’ll be good for .280, 20HR and 100RBI a year, but that’s a far cry from the bopper we thought we were getting. 

The ironically stupid thing we Red Sox Nation Members do is tout a player while they’re here, trash them when they leave.  

NOTE:  I am a die hard, since 1980s

Adrian Gonzalez is a phenomenal player.  He’s a stat sheet filler, gold glover at first.  How could ANY player thrive and achieve in a system with a manager NO one wants to be around, let alone play for.  99% of the Red Sox last year didn’t give a crap.  Adrian Gonzalez wasn’t one of them.  That man played the outfield where needed (admirably may I add) worked hard.  HE got lumped into a Salary Dump.  

Same as Carl Crawford.  Yes, 2011 was disastrous and 2012 was short lived.  However, 2012 showed the Crawford we wanted.  In that small sampling, Crawford wasn’t that BAD.  

Beckett was Beckett.  He’s really the only one I wanted to see out of this team.  You should pitch like your life depended on it, and seriously, Beckett had at least 2 gears we never saw since he first came here.  

Before we hate, remember, 95% of you would defend him within every inch of your life, because frankly, he’s one of us.  I think he was hosed.

Before bombing on one player.  I think a vast majority of the Red Sox Veterans had down years by most stretches.  You lost Ellsbury, Pedroia and Ortiz for a while.  Your pitching was suspect.  Your thought Daniel Bard would be a good starter, and failed.  The starters couldn’t give enough innings to count.  Diesuke Matzusaka pitched pathetic enough to get put on the DL with a bad neck after watching balls leave the infield.  No John Lackey.  Your best starter for a while was Felix Doubront.  You had John Lester and Clay Buccholtz on beyond down years.  You really were in disarray from first pitch.  The team had no heart to come back, they had no desire to play hard with a lead.  That’s just not Velintine’s fault.  That’s the team.  Bobby V was a horrific coach, however, the players play.  Put pride into it…  you succeed.

This year’s team, full of nice guys, well, my opinion is that Nice Guys Finish Last…

1.  The 2011 Red Sox didn’t fail because of him…  he was having an MVP year.  Pitching failed down the stretch.
2.  The Padres had the same problem.  Although they play in a mostly unhomearable park in PetCo, it’s still not his fault.
3.  The 2012 Dodgers weren’t that great after the start they had.  They tailed off…  by most accounts, peaking too early.  You can’t blame Gonzo for the small sampling they had of him (34 games), and remember that they had injuries, and bad play from now Sox Shane Victarino.  

We can’t blame Gonzo for those failures.  I see the Dodgers making a good run, considering their wonderful pitching staff, and depth.  Sox just have nice guys.

GOOD LUCK LA WITH THE OVERPAID,SPOILED,HARDOWORKING (HAHA) STIFFS WE UNLOADED ON U. OMG BECKETT,PUNTO,GONZALEZ AND CRAWFORD. THAT IS SO FRIEKIN FUNNI

the sox looked like champs on paper to start the season, hopefully the dodgers end up with a similar result at the end of the year. 

Other than bozos like RedSx799, I haven’t heard many fans, much less Red Sox management or the brutal press that covers the Sox, ripping this guy. If he feels guilty for last year, so be it, though that’s on him if that’s the case. Otherwise, I think this is something he alone is creating….. 

WE GOT 3 POSSIBLE ALL STARS, HA! THAT IS FUNNI! NOW THAT THEY ARE OUT OF THAT STAGNANT BOSTON ATMOSPHERE W/A DIFFERENT MANAGER THINGS SHOULD B DIFFERENT! BOSTON SURE WENT OUT AND GOT A LOT OF GOOD PLAYERS W/THAT MONEY THEY SAVED FROM UNLOADING THEM TOO! WOW BOSTON IS GOING TO B REALLY GOOD THIS YEAR ! HAHAHAHA! I’ll SURE TAKE GONZALES OVER NAPOLI ANY DAY!

Hahaha, well if the Yankees win 70 games, consider it a huge accomplishment. You’ve got a 38 and 40 year old starting in the rotation. Phil Hughes and Joba can’t stay healthy. I love Mariano, but let’s be honest, he’ll be 43 and coming off a serious inury. Jeter has to be a question mark, also coming off a serious injury. My favorite though is paying Tex and A. Steriod almost $50,000,000. A-Rod is finished and Tex is obviously declining. The Grandy man isn’t grand at the moment. Other than Cano, who Cashman should trade for prospects, this team is a disaster. The Sox probably won’t contend, but the Yankees better enjoy looking up at them in the standings……

“If they don’t win the World Series with that ridiculous payroll they will be considered an epic failure”?  Couldn’t you say that about the Sox the last several years?  Didn’t our Red Sox “feel the pressure”?

How old are you?

You got 3 prima donas Dr. Maybe you can cure their ills. How is the chicken out in LA? Hope that tub of lard will run out a groundball or not complain about anything and everything. Has Gonzalez ever just heard of JUST PLAY and SHUT UP.??  Good luck to LA. You will need it with those 3 bums

 24 barack

 when does your next book come out cut it down dave mason. focus on your music

He’s gone IDC what he has to say.

What logic and reasoning did you use to decide it may be another 86 years until they win? They have plenty of young pitching and some good position players coming up. They also have a huge bankroll and fanbase. These things would contradict your BS

Yeah they made the playoffs because him and beckett carried them….right?

He will produce in LA ,when he left Boston he had over 80 RBI’s any team would take that.But 150 million demands leadership and he could’nt provide it here and thats the bottom line.

I believe Gome’s has three rings,how many doe’s Gonzo have.The best move the Red Sox made was dumping those contracts.Not only that but we got a couple of promising pitchers.Whats the point in talking trash now.

Absolutely right,do you remember when they signed Gonzo? He acted like Boston was the only place to be.He said he wanted to play in the same place as Ted Williams who is from Santeago,forget the spelling you know what i mean.lol

Isn’t that amazing,and wusping about Sunday night games at 150 mil? We don’t need that,let him go over the head of their manager to kick him to the curb.BV or not you just don’t do that.

 I’m the only one here ripping him maybe, but there are plenty more that are doing the same. He’s not a “bum” precisely, but he is overrated. Not clutch at all, and his stats against AL East opponents (aside from the 2011 Orioles) were horrible. For the money he was being paid, he was overrated. And the excuses, “ohhhh it wasn’t God’s will,” that isn’t what fans (or, speaking for myself, not what I) wanted to hear. Came across as whiny. Then he goes on ESPN before 2012 and when asked about Chicken & Beer gate, he says “well, a guy’s gotta eat.” SERIOUSLY??? All people would talk about with the 2011 Sox were chicken & beer and how Beckett ballooned into a giant fat turd. And Gonzalez goes on ESPN and essentially says that they were doing it because they “gotta eat?” I was glad to see him go. It’s just too bad they gave up Rizzo for that stiff