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[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

Twitter friends!

Please consider helping out my little bro @Mrzack123 by donating to his band’s (@TallBoySpeciaI) fundraiser so they can continue to make JAMS and release their first studio album!

[Tall Boy Special @TallBoySpeciaI]

Hey friends! We’ve started an IndieGoGo Campaign to help make our next album the best it can possibly be!! Even just sharing this video would be an enormous help!! Thank you all for being the coolest fans!!! We can’t wait to make more music! https://t.co/BAqwzaUy4z

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

@Jared_Carrabis

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Red Sox manager Alex Cora, who rode a roster with Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers and Chris Sale to the most successful season in franchise history and then struggled to win with the discount lineups that replaced them, is fired. https://t.co/fXOajspnHb

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

Whitlock will be traded before the deadline now. Just watch.

[Gordo @BOSSportsGordo]

Red Sox players were not given the chance to ask questions during the team meeting with Breslow, Kennedy, and Henry in the room.

Garrett Whitlock: “They made it very clear that we get paid to play baseball and we need to just focus on playing baseball.”

(via @timbhealey)

[Dan Greenberg @StoolGreenie]

Game 1

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

This team is disgusting. Fire John Henry. #selltheteam Here is a shirt for everybody going to Fenway this year. Get this carpetbagger and FSG outta town.

https://t.co/knZyPUNf1n

[Gordo @BOSSportsGordo]

The big offseason additions so far:

Sonny Gray, Ranger Suarez, and Johan Oviedo have allowed 12 runs (11 ER) in 12 innings.

Willson Contreras and Caleb Durbin are a combined 1-27.

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

@Mrzack123 EAGLEEEEEEEEE

[Mike Mutnansky @MikeMutnansky]

Today is a special day for Red Sox fans. It marks the six-year anniversary of the last time owner John Henry took any public questions from the media.

2,192 days. No press conferences. No public questions from the media. Nothing. Owner of the team. Crazy.

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

@kurt13warner Your reading comprehension needs some work, Kurt.

He said there was no cheating in deflategate.

Then, referencing spygate, says everyone was using tech to gain signals.

If you want to take this approach with BB then you should be a favor of keeping everyone of that era out.

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

Saying “no doubt No. 1…. or No. 2” is LITERALLY doubt.

This organization is hedging a deal they haven’t even made yet.

SELL THE TEAM!!!!!

[Rob Bradford @bradfo]

Hearing from sources outside Boston the Red Sox are getting aggressive in pursuing top-level controllable starting pitching in the trade market. Names floated as targets are no doubt No. 1 or 2.

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

Nobody has ever complained about anything as much as @WillFlemming complains about the flight to Minnesota.

We got it Will, you hit some turbulence. What’s the count?

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

If you were given the green light to move ANY of the prospects in the system and still didn’t get a significant deal done, you didn’t do your job.

“I was given all the tools and materials needed to build the addition on your house, it just didn’t get done.”

Give me a break.

[Ian Browne @IanMBrowne]

"We went into this deadline feeling like in order to accomplish what we needed to accomplish, what we hoped to accomplish, we couldn't take some of our young minor league players off the table. We couldn't go into this with untouchables, and we didn't. We were willing to talk about all of our guys in the name of improving the team. It just didn't work out." -- Craig Breslow

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

@Jared_Carrabis Sounds like it was their own 5 yard line. Reports are that it wasn’t close, feels like them blowing smoke up our asses again…

[James Stewart ☝️ @IAmJamesStewart]

The fact that John, Tom, Sam and Craig aren’t at a podium at Fenway Park at 10am to answer questions is embarrassing. What a bunch of cowards.

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

@MattMcCarthy985 Didn’t Mayer get thrown out tagging to third for no reason?

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

@ryanmacwaddup Are they magic beans?

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

@BOSSportsGordo Don’t pull Crochet at 90 pitches. Pushes everyone back an inning.

[Ben Barker @BenDBarker]

@Jomboy_ He’s a starter.