That's A Season

by Ben Buchanan on Oct 3, 2010 4:50 PM EDT

The 2010 Red Sox have played 162 games, and are done for the year.

It will go down as a season of "what-ifs" to be certain. With guys like Pedroia and Youkilis in the lineup all year, with Beckett never injured, with our defense never crippled, who knows how good this team could have been? We were injured right out of the gate with Jed Lowrie (who will finish the season as one of the best hitting middle infielders in the league, qualifying numbers be damned), and it just kept getting worse.

Oh well, we've done this before. There's always next year, right? And as painful as 2010 often was, it had its positives to. The walk-offs, the grand slams, the rookies, the return of Big Papi, Beltre's amazing season, Buchholz and Lester contending for Cy Young throughout, and at least one truly ridiculous pitch from Daniel Bard.

Thanks for being with us here at Over the Monster for 2010, and stick around for the offseason. There'll be plenty of news to cover, I'm sure.

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Everyone, stick around.

The offseason should be interesting.

"Every night I go to bed thinking about when I’m going to play again. I dream about playing at Fenway."-Ryan Westmoreland
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by BoldandBrash on Oct 3, 2010 5:12 PM EDT reply actions

Go Twins!

Go Rangers!

Thank you to the staff here at OTM for a great posting season. Look forward to a busy off season.
Special hat tip to Ben, wolf9309, 0157H7 (Andrew), Logan, Sox Devil, and Randy…can’t thank you guys enough for all the hard work and hours that go into making this such a go to Sox site. Again, thanks to the whole staff.

Sox in ’11

by went9 on Oct 3, 2010 5:27 PM EDT reply actions

Dammit Benjamin

From all the “what ifs”, how could you forget “What if we had a capable 3rd base coach?” ;)

Father and son...Boston | Twitter: @Radiohix

by radiohix on Oct 3, 2010 5:31 PM EDT reply actions

My bad.

USG

by Ben Buchanan on Oct 3, 2010 6:15 PM EDT up reply actions

boogar for gm & head coach!!!

by Mick Lowe on Oct 3, 2010 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions

I would be all in favor of Bogar in any position

that got him away from third base.

Any team that wants to interview Hale for a managerial opening, the Sox should say “OK, we’ll let you interview him, but you have to interview Bogar too!”

by wolf9309 on Oct 4, 2010 9:23 AM EDT up reply actions

tru dat!

by Mick Lowe on Oct 4, 2010 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks everyone for being so awesome!

I felt welcome right away and thats why I stuck around to enjoy some baseball with you guys!

Should be a fun winter and I can’t wait for next year!

I love Lester and Pedroia!!! ITS MAN LOVE!

by kraken613 on Oct 3, 2010 6:26 PM EDT reply actions

you all come back now ya hear :-)

by RED SOX are #1 in my heart on Oct 3, 2010 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks for all the work on the site Ben.

Will keep checking in during the offseason.

by The Herndon Kid on Oct 3, 2010 8:34 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

Thanks everyone!

Even though I didn’t post that much this season, I still checked multiple times a day.

I will be back during the offseason!

by JLS89 on Oct 3, 2010 9:35 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks to OTM

and especially Ben. Whatever enjoyment I derived from this season was enhanced considerably by my discovery of this forum. Things didn’t turn out the way we all hoped, of course, but for me this season would have been even more distressing and forlorn without this site. Thank you all!

"If your happiness depends on Boston winning or losing, you have to get a life." Manny Somebody-or-other
Being a Red Sox fan is an emotional commitment; being a Yankees fan is a character flaw.

by Tessie's Dad on Oct 4, 2010 12:37 AM EDT reply actions