…about the Red Sox so far this year. Sure, I didn’t believe they would be as good as all the prognosticators believed, but even I have to admit – they suck. So bad that I’m not even sure I’m going to waste my hard-earned dollars on DirecTV’s Extra Innings package so I can watch them suck as the 2010 season unfolds. Here are my problems with the Beantown Nine, in no specific order:

1. Manny Delcarmen. I’m trying to figure out what kind of stuff this guy still has that warrants a place on the major league roster. I don’t know if the guy’s hurt or not, but I do know he stinks.

2. David Ortiz. No one loves what Big Papi has meant to this team over the years more than The Great White Shank does, but he has a slower bat than anyone I can remember. I’m tellin’ ya, he’s done.

3. Tim Wakefield. I know this goes completely against conventional wisdom here, but if I’m Red Sox management I tell Tim ‘thanks for everything, we want you as a member of our organization, just not as a pitcher’. Clay Buchholz and Daisuke Matsuzaka are this team’s future (for better or for worse), and Wake is just standing in the way.

4. Mike Lowell. Enough, already. The Sox don’t want him, he feels he should be starting, and there’s no in-between. I say, release Lowell, eat the $, and promise you’ll never again put yourself in this kind of position again.

5. Victor Martinez. Can we all agree he’s not a full-time catcher? Make him a most-times DH and sometimes catcher, put Jason Varitek back in the catcher role for 3-4 out of every five games, and admit you have a major catching situation for 2011.

It is becoming clearer by the day that this team is in an awkward place, for a number of reasons – thanks, Theo. With that in mind, it might be worthwhile after the All-Star break to bring up some of the highly-touted minor leaguers and chalk this year up as a work in progress. I see nothing here that makes me think this team can compete with the Yankees and Rays, I’m for cutting my losses and see what I can get out of this year with an eye towards the future.