Ever hear about the Phillies, Mets, White Sox, Rangers, Angels to name a few? If you have a problem with Boston being a big money team then maybe your fan base should support your team by attending games, filling seats, buying concessions, team jerseys, etc. You’re jealous so stop with the whining like a little baby. That goes for Craig too. Boston fans expect 100% effort from men being paid millions to play a game. We see B.S. effort we call Bull Shit on the player. Beckett has given us B.S. effort and attitude. He gets what he deserves. All that being said Shank is a tool,

Youk got standing ovations upon his return to Fenway.

Becket is not getting younger, and he might be at the end of the rainbow. But give the guy a break. If it wasn’t for Becket you would all be crying about the curse of the great Bambino and watching the Yankees with more hatred than ever before. Beer and Chicken…a scape goat for what really happened…Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians.

Red Sox fans are great fans, but they need to get a grip. You ran Tito, Epstein, and Youk out of town with your whining about winning, and soon it might be Becket, Crawford, Ellsbury, and Valentine. So take a deep breath, and realize that we don’t have to act like Yankee fans, who expect to win a Championship every year.

Its easy to criticize when you dont live in New England and hear all the stuff the players do and say. I HATE the Boston media, I think they are too negative all the time. But at the same time they are spot on with Beckett.

What in the world should he be “loathed” for? For being an excellent player? For exercising his Free Agency rights? No city (other than maybe NY) signs more free agents from their original small market teams than Boston. The only reason they had Josh Beckett in the first place was that the Marlins couldn’t afford him!

Shaughnessy is a tool. And if Boston fans truly “loathe” LeBron James, they’re tools too.

Yes, his ERA was 2.89 last year…just think how amazing his ERA would’ve been had he not given up 14 runs in 4 starts in September, and 16 runs in 6 starts in August. So far this year? 16 runs in April, 14 runs in May, 8 runs in June (3 starts), and 18 runs in July. He’s started 18 games this year, and has given up 6 fewer runs than he did in 30 starts last year (62-56 ER), and has an amazing 5-9 record and 4.54 ERA to show for it.

The _fact_ of the matter is, by this time last year, Beckett was 9-4, and let us not forget that the year before that, he had a stellar 6-6 Record w/ a 5.78 ERA over 21 starts. Do I think the Boston media can take things too far sometimes? Sure…. Did the fans react poorly, to a situation they didn’t quite understand? Sure… But, I think the times where Beckett is given the benefit of the doubt are far far in the past. But he can’t live off of his 2007 20 win season forever (his only, 20 win season)…not if you’re an active pitcher making 15.75m a year.

a tiny bit of evidence.

A tiny bit of evidence that CHB is a terrible writer, and is the epitome of what’s wrong with the Boston sports media? If there were a treasure hunt for worst article ever written by CHB, what are the odds that 20 people could come back with 20 different articles, all within 2-3 minutes? Vegas wouldn’t even give odds it’d be too easy.

I don’t hate Beckett, I just find him annoying for two primary reasons: this crap season he’s having, and the fact that it takes him EONS to throw the damn ball, sometimes after stepping off the rubber twice or more before throwing a pitch.

But Shaughnessy, as usual, loves to draw attention to himself with needless hyperbole and garbage. Is there any way we can extradite him to, say, the Arctic?

Good work paperlions . . . and I disagree with Craig, but I think he was just doing what the Boston media does anyway because he knows guys like me eventually bite and spend half the afternoon commenting a responding

On the flip side Beckett has mentioned multiple times that he doesnt care what the fans think, refuses to admit to last years mistakes, and spent most of spring training trying to find “the rat” who outed them last September. Oh and he also was too hurt to pitch for a week but was cool with playing 18 holes, and was angered that he was asked about it because “he only gets 18 off days a year”.