Jim Rice is not paying attention

by lone1c on Jul 30, 2010 11:33 AM EDT

Jim Rice may be a sharp dresser, and a wonderful guy, and a Hall of Famer, but apparently one thing that he hasn't been doing lately is paying attention to the team.

My evidence is from this interview reported on the Full Count blog, on what Rice thinks are the needs of the team as the trade deadline approaches:

I would go out and try and find me a guy that can really dominate the field out there as far as being productive team-wise, being able to hit the ball the right side. … I don’t think it’s the pitching, I think it’s the hitting more than anything with the Red Sox.

Clearly Rice has not been paying any attention to the fact that it is the bullpen that has torched many a potential Sox win this season, and that, quite frankly, the Sox don't have room for another bat in the lineup!

At times I wonder if sports commentators shouldn't be forced to take a common sense test before getting a license to practice their "craft."

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Sigh …. Jimmy … [shakes head]

by mmmmm on Jul 30, 2010 1:22 PM EDT reply actions

Stronger measures are needed.

Fenway: "An alternate and better universe, disguised as a ballpark." --Thomas Boswell

by lone1c on Jul 30, 2010 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Jim Rice was a wonderful baseball player

and there’s a reason why he was a baseball player and nobody asked him to be a GM afterwards.

Really, I just hate hate hate his analysis in general.

by wolf9309 on Jul 30, 2010 1:38 PM EDT reply actions

he just clogs up the TV booth

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by Sean O on Jul 30, 2010 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions

He's not too bad

Not quite Morgan-esque but not great either. Dave Roberts was absolutely awful in his time doing color.

In actual news the Yankees just traded for Lance Berkman. Bleh.

by ritz on Jul 30, 2010 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions

Aside from the fact that he's just plain wrong in general...

…he might want to consider what the lineup has looked like in those recent games when the Sox weren’t scoring very much. When Pedroia, Martinez, and Ellsbury are all the DL, Cameron can’t play regularly, Drew tweaks a hamstring, and you’re starting guys like Patterson, Hall, Hermida, and Cash regularly, you’re going to have stretches of games where you just don’t score.

And lo and behold, the injured guys start getting better and now we have another guy in the lineup — Martinez — who is one of the top offensive players at his position in the league. And in a couple weeks, we’ll get another such player — Pedroia. And we won’t have had to trade for either of them.

Meanwhile, excepting Bard, usually Papelbon, and sometimes Atchison, the bullpen still sucks. But yeah, let’s trade away prospects for a bat to sit on the bench when everyone gets healthy — that’s the way to improve this team!

by RSNexile on Jul 30, 2010 6:56 PM EDT reply actions