December 19, 2011: Most Boring Hot Stove EVER…

Everyday, nothing meaningful happens with the Red Sox, and every day it makes me crankier… Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the Sox Management should be trying a bit harder in this offseason? I get the whole “looking for complementary pieces”, and “trying to be frugal” thing–OK, I don’t get it the trying to be frugal thing, when trying to be frugal is staying somewhere around $175 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. C’mon people, the team you own, the team that you committed to be being the good stewards of, just suffered the greatest and most embarrassing collapse EVER (Not even the Mets of a couple years ago sucked this bad). And all you are going to do is send John Lackey for Tommy John Surgery; sign a catcher that hits less than his weight, and a pitcher who may or may not be a closer? Oh, yeah, and a flashy manager who likes to tweet, cha cha, and (apparently) distract us enough we won’t notice? Guys: You HAVE to do better ...