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Originally Posted by Shane
With all due respect to Laveranues Coles, this is great news to me. Coles was miserable and that has a very destructive effect on the atmosphere of the team. Give him credit for not going public – but the players all knew, the coaches – everyone.
We need “all for one and one for all” players on our team. That is what makes for a great team.
In addition, Coles may never get back to his pre injury form and if not, ability wise he is just getting too high a paycheck.
We have an excellent player in Taylor Jacobs who just needs room to blossom, and we may well have Mike Williams on our roster soon.
Gibbs made a typical super classy move in agreeing to release him outright. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That is good also in that in generates the respect of players, and potential free agents.
Speaking of free agents, I hope we get a player like Andre Davis. I hope we pass on those big names – unless the staff really comes to believe they would add a tremendous amount to the ballclub.
A potential lineup could include:
Taylor Jacobs
Mike Williams
Andre Davis
James Thrash
We probably need another free agent, but that is a good group right there in my view.
As far as being unhappy with the offense – those are just comments to be ignored. We are building something special here, and our offense is going to be super. Coles just doesn’t fit in with the kind of team we are building. I wish him well and hope he finds a team that is going to highlight him, and I hope he recovers from his injury soon. We will have an excellent receiving corps without him.
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I like your outlook on this whole situation. Look at the glass as being half full instead of half empty. Being a Boston Red Sox fan im used to dissapointment. The Red Sox , this year, traded Nomar who in these parts was considered to be what a Red Sox player is and look the Red Sox are the world champs without him. However I do remember having the same pit in my stomach when i got that news as I do now. If a player is truely that unhappy on one hand i think its best to let him go on the other im afraid it sets a precident for other disgruntled players and that I dont like. Remember in the big scheme of things we are on the outside looking in and we dont know how bad it truely is. Yesterday is history tommorrow is a mystery we dont know what the future holds. We do know what our past is and that was two losing seasons with L.C. So in closing keep a stiff upper lip to quote us die hard Red Sox fans wait till next year!