Yesterday kinda sucked.

Like I said, I was in an all-day meeting that extended a lot longer than it needed to. And we accomplished almost nothing...

What an incredible waste of time and resources.

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Man, the Red Sox are not playing well at all.

They are now officially in last place in the AL East and in 9th place in the American league. That is not where they wanted to be.

All the Boston sports writers are blaming the pitching or the offense but none of them are blaming the manager.

Why is that?

Why is it that the lead-off batter (Betts) is still the lead-off batter even though he is batting .223?

Why is it that the DH (Ortiz) is still the DH even though he is batting .250?

How come the batter with the .312 average (Sandoval) is the number five batter in the line-up?

How come the batter with the .358 average (Holt) is the number seven batter in the line-up?

Those are manager issues. I understand wanting to "stand behind your guys" and letting them work things out but when you plummet from first to last in your division and you are on a losing streak (yes, 4 losses in a row is a losing streak), you need to make the moves that will pull the team out of the slump and back on track to start winning series.

That my friends, is what John Farrell needs to do and he needs to start doing it now.

If Napoli isn't hitting, sit him and put Nava at first.

If Ortiz isn't hitting, bench him and put Holt in as the DH.

In other words, do what you need to do to get wins and stop worrying about pissing off David "Big Baby" Ortiz.

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Here are a few links:

• I'll believe it when I see it. Remember, this is coming out of the mouth of the man who said, "To my knowledge, no one in the NFL has see the Ray Rice video."



• We don't pay cops enough. (I know, he's not a cop but he's close enough.)



• Yes, alcohol was involved.



• I have only a mustache.



• Wasn't this a State Farm commercial?



• Here's your Naked Guy In The News story.



• Meet Arthur Kemberis. He's been a member of the A-Team since 1943.