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Red Sox: 30 Things We Hated About 2012

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A titanic disaster

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Bobby Valentine was hired last December to steer the Red Sox ship back on course after a disastrous final month of 2011, but instead he steered it directly into an iceberg. What follows are the worst moments from a calamitous season, in chronological order. Fenway's 100th season was one we won't soon forget, but for all the wrong reasons.

RANK THE WORST SOX MOMENTS OF 2012
  • A titanic disaster
  • Schill sees trouble
  • Thumb's down for Bailey
  • Ells felled
  • The Youk rebuke
  • Unhappy birthday
  • Beckett's golf etiquette
  • Extra painful
  • Bard flames out
  • Toxic Sox
  • Ortiz not having fun
  • See Youk later
  • Lucchino's letter
  • Papi sidelined
  • Lester hit hard
  • Text hex
  • Sweeney's KO
  • Middlebrooks mishap
  • Rally 'round Bobby
  • The Crawford chronicles
  • Forgetting Pesky?
  • Red Sox blow it up
  • Aceves erupts
  • Late to the party
  • 'Miserable' season
  • Alfredo gets saucy
  • 'Not for sale'
  • 'Weakest roster'
  • Stuck in a pinch
  • Home woes
  • Andrew Bailey
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