Well Nashua, I’ve got something to tell you. You’ve just been Duqued!!!

“Duqued” Of course stemming from the former RedSox manager Dan Duquette. Who was fired from the Sox, and is now not only the General manager of the Southern NH American Defenders. He is also one of the 4 owners. The group of owners calls them selves…wait for it… The Boston Baseball All-Stars! My question is who was in charge of the branding??

“Ladies and gentlemen, the Boston Baseball All-Stars present to you your new Southern New Hampshire American Defenders!” The Nashua Pride must have been too small time for The Duque.

Do you think they served ‘American All-Star North South French Fries’ to all the children who wore red white and blue to the games? Personally I think the tractor is a perfect fit to the American Awesome theme they had going. Too bad it stands for just plain old justice (past due bill justice that is). The tractor is there the disallow the Defenders from completing their Can-Am League season

As it turns out, the team(or The Duque) owes the city of Nashua $45,000 in rent and back taxes. It’s kind of hard to believe no one wanted to sponsor a team with a post 911 name, playing in a post Bush Administration time. You would think they would at least put Nashua in the name somewhere(Nashua Pride), that way local business’s could advertise on a team that shares the city name.

The Duque was quoted saying:
“Without sponsor support and decreasing fan attendance to games, bills will go unpaid. It is a shame that more residents did not take advantage of the baseball and concerts that were held at Holman Stadium this summer. The problems the team is facing are very unfortunate. I had high hopes for what the ownership was bringing to our area. The lack of sponsor support is the key to the team’s difficulties. Toyota of Nashua, Bellavance Beverage and 
ArcLight Design were the backbone to this season’s team, but more sponsors like them were needed. Without the sponsors, there is no team. Very unfortunate for southern New Hampshire.”

That quote proved that Duquette is still incapable of taking responsibility for ANYTHING. I heard that Duquette meant “classy” in Latin. And there is absolutely no way I did not make that up. So by all means Dan, stay classy!

As for the other former Sox players Brian Daubach, and Rich Garces(El Guapo). Manager and pitcher for the Defenders respectively. The staff here at AFTM wish you the best, and hope to see you at a bar in Nashua(Your still buying).

Brian had this to say for the Nashua Telegraph:

“I’m sure it’s going to be disappointing for the city of Nashua, too,” he said. “It’s had baseball for a long time. I’ve really enjoyed my time here. Like I told you last year when I got here, it’s so much different than Boston. It’s more like, for me, being back home. It’s more like a Midwest town. I’ve gotten to know a lot of people in the community and I really enjoy it here. I’ve been treated good, I think, and it’s a place I would have like to have stayed. Especially with doing some stuff down in Boston and being close there, doing the media stuff (he has appeared on NESN and WEEI) down there. That’s what really brought me here, and would keep me here. It doesn’t look good for that.”

The rest of that interview is here.

Shelbyville rumored to be scouting Bonds.

A cartoon character like Manny Ramirez belongs on a squad Like the Isotopes.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Simpsons. The Springfield Isotopes were supposed to move to Albuquerque NM .

Until of course Homer hatched a plan to keep them in Springfield. More about that HERE

Homer was made the mascot for the Isotopes  in another episode. HERE

Mr. Burns stacked his Isotope roster with MLB greats in this episode. HERE

Albuquerque News reporting in about Manny-Mania.

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8-0 against our most hated of rivals feels NICE.

I Still don’t want to talk about trades, because I can’t really justify trading anyone. Penny looks good throwing 97, and Papi seems to be coming around. I suppose we could use a defensive shortstop, but lets not mortgage the farm to do so.

Anyway it’s A-Roid time.

This is funny. Minus the Tom Brady reference.

Another View of the A-Roid chant at Fenway.

If you think our fans are obnoxious, I agree and already posted about it  here.
I will say this though. For every shit sox fan we have, there is an equally awesome one such as myself. So please America, don’t hate us because we win. Hate us because were to involved, and you being from (fill in shitty sports town here) can’t understand why we care so much. Don’t bitch about the amount of money we pay for players, because we’ve sold out nearly 500 straight home games. You want your team to go get those free agents and win games, attend a game or two and show your interest. If not stfu.

More A-Rod

In typical Boston Fashion, we’ll end with Fitzy

Now our stupid fan quote of the day:

BOS/NYM Trade for David Wright
posted at 6/16/2009 11:53 AM EDT
Found at http://boston.com

stomackit10452
This is a trade that could benefit both sides. The Mets need starting
pitching, bullpen help, and a shorstop to fill in for Reyes. You give
them Brad Penny, Michael Bowden or Clay Bucchholz, Jed Lowrie to play
third and Takashi Saito or Manny Del Carment to help in the bullpen
now that Putz will be out for a long time.

They might want Lowell back in the trade which you could do but with the
agreement that they have to take Julio Lugo back in the trade to play
shorstop for them.

BOS get David Wright
NYM get:
2 starting pitchers: Penny and Bucchholz/Bowden
Mike Lowell and Shorstop Julio Lugo

Bullpen arms: Saito or MDC. You can try to make them take Saito instead of MDC by adding Hunter Jones in the deal.

Thoughts?

Dear Stomackit10452,

David Wright is the face of the Mets franchise. They would not make that trade unless we included a franchise player in the package. Wait,WTF am I talking about? No! They would never trade him! We would have to give up more talent then he’s worth. The Mets are not the Pirates. They will never have to trade their talent. They will simply just buy more players to get better, not trade them away. Your an asshole for making me ponder this 5th grade question. In the words of Fitzy, Go fuck yourself.

OMFG, Wake he has a no hitter through 8!!!

Scratch that last part. Wakefield is fucking Rambo.

Tim Wakefield. A True warrior.

I'll Just leavem' in a little longer. (spits Chew)

Just when you think you understand baseball. It will take a huge dump on your stat wielding chest. I was quoted yesterday saying how we should bring up Clay to replace Wake in the rotation. I still wouldn’t be opposed to that, since Clay would be more interesting to watch. But now I just look silly saying it. Either way congrats Tim. At age 42 you came within 5 outs of your first no hitter. You make us  more confused than this guy in the 03 playoffs—->

Since were on the topic of baseball, can we talk about not only how bad the Sox look right now. But also how boring this team is. For being one of  the top tier  payrolls in the MLB. Why is it we have no big  stars to show for it. Yes Ortiz was a star, and will always have a place in our heart for his role in bringing us a championship. However, lets not ignore the fact that he will never ever be the 50 HR guy he was. Our highest paid player on the team is J.D. Drew. Even that’s  being considered a mistake by Theo and our recently stingy owners.  Whatever happened to the Manny’s, the Pedro’s, Nomah’s, and the Mo Vaughns that would attract you to watch whether they win or loose? Honestly, this team needs to sign a Big bat and do it fast.  If they continue to suck pine like they did last week. There will be almost no reason to watch. I’m as big a fan of  Youk as the next guy, even though I never thought he would be this good. But if we have him continue to be our biggest bat, this team will fail hard. The same goes for Pedroia and Bay. They’re great players and I’m glad we have them. I just wish we had a Manny Type Player to compliment their hard work with mind-blowing natural talent ( Think Grady Sizemore, Ryan Braun, Hanly Ramirez).

Tom Cruise Wakefield

Now that the Celtics are without KG for the playoffs. The Sox are all I have for hope of a championship. So please, please Jon Henry, spend some of that 8 dollar Fenway beer money and make something happen. I don’t care how good our bullpen is. If we never get leads, there will be nothing to save.

And now I  rant!

Fuck the Yankees, Fuck the Rays, fuck winning the World Series! Any real Sox fan isn’t happiest when we win. They’re happiest when talking about how good we’re supposed to be, and how much potential this team has. We can’t do that until we have really outrageously high paid, or complete batshit-Crazy players! On that note, does anyone remember being in the bleachers yelling “Crazy Carl!” at fenway to our own player? I fucking miss those days. We should have kept Izzy Alcantra just for shock value.

SIDE NOTE- I went to spring training 2 springs ago, and my brother spent the whole time yelling at Manny in left field. Saying stuff like ” do something funny Manny”, or to ” do a cartwheel”,  and” you look like Krusty the Clown”. Keep in mind this was after he sold his neighbors grill on ebay. That was the start of Manny being Manny. Not Manny loving money like we have now.

Anyway…. What the fuck was I talking about?

One more for good measure.

Oh ya, congrats Tim. You still bore me though… And this teams about as interesting as Penny is fat.

(Editor Note) Ok this team is pretty good. But we do need a  bat, and they still do bore me to death.