Okay... bear with me here, this is my first attempt to do an actual fan post. Hopefully, I don't stumble too much.

I made this suggestion a few times in the threads, and decided it was time to take the initiative and go ahead and post the poll. Since the poll itself won't allow the detail of the full 1-9 line up orders I've selected, I've posted them in detail after the jump.

In the meantime, I tried to give credit where credit was due and listed multiple authors if I saw the same line up proposed by multiple people, but if you proposed the identical line up and I didn't list you, my apologies. If I didn't include your desired line up, my apologies there as well, but I was looking for ten, including the OTM consensus, the one Ben detailed out for us in the posts, and, of course, the one I like the most too.

Without further ado...

(Damn... just realized I accidentally rigged the poll... by titling my choice "My Own Design," I will probably pick up all the folks that don't like the other 9 line ups, and vote for that choice intending it literally: My Own Design. Oops!)

OTM Consensus (also known as the one we all love to hate):

Ellsbury CF

Pedroia 2B

Crawford LF

Gonzalez 1B

Youkilis 3B

Ortiz DH

Drew RF

Lowrie SS

Saltalamacchia C

Ben Buchanan’s (as spelled out in the polls per line up spot)

Crawford LF

Pedroia 2B

Gonzalez 1B

Youkilis 3B

Ortiz DH

Lowrie SS

Drew RF

Ellsbury CF

Saltalamacchia C

Speed on Top (Dustin’s #1 Fan) - Labeled this way due to both speed guys at #1 and #2.

Ellsbury CF

Crawford LF

Youkilis 3B

Gonzalez 1B

Pedroia 2B

Ortiz DH

Drew RF

Lowrie SS

Saltalamacchia C

Throw Back (Mickey H) - Labeled this way due to Big Papi in the three hole.

Ellsbury CF

Pedroia 2B

Ortiz DH

Gonzalez 1B

Youkilis 3B

Crawford LF

Drew RF

Lowrie SS

Saltalamacchia C

Lowrie Leads Off (Wolf9309/The Lone David) - popular based on Lowrie's 2010 numbers.

Lowrie SS

Crawford LF

Youkilis 3B

Gonzalez 1B

Pedroia 2B

Ortiz DH

Saltalamacchia C

Drew RF

Ellsbury CF

Crawford 5th (Matt Sullivan) - an alternate with Ellsbury leading off, and where else to put Crawford.

Ellsbury CF

Pedroia 2B

Gonzalez 1B

Youkilis 3B

Crawford LF

Ortiz DH

Lowrie SS

Drew RF

Saltalamacchia C

Pedroia 3rd (gizmosandy) - an alternate version with Lowrie leading off, and Pedroia in the 3 hole.

Lowrie SS

Crawford LF

Pedroia 2B

Gonzalez 1B

Youkilis 3B

Ortiz DH

Drew RF

Saltalamacchia C

Ellsbury CF

Optimized #1 (German Red Sox Fan) - I believe this was based on splits against RHPs, as he explained it.

Drew RF

Crawford LF

Youkilis 3B

Ortiz DH

Gonzalez 1B

Pedroia 2B

Lowrie SS

Saltalamacchia C

Ellsbury CF

Optimized #2 (Ben Hall) - This was done according to The Book (I think) on optimizing the line up.

Pedroia 2B

Gonzalez 1B

Ortiz DH

Youkilis 3B

Crawford LF

Lowrie SS

Drew RF

Ellsbury CF

Saltalamacchia C

My Own (also millertime05201 before I ever posted it) - if we could just convince Pedroia the team needs him...

Pedroia 2B

Crawford LF

Youkilis 3B

Gonzalez 1B

Ortiz DH

Lowrie SS

Drew RF

Saltalamacchia C

Ellsbury CF

Hope everyone has a little fun with this!