August, 10th Red Sox VS Indians

[wyo-sox]

Man that ball seemed to really come off Wills bat fast, thought it was going to go a little further.

[Station 13]

Middlebrooks hit the ball hard 3 times tonight with nothing to show for it.

[jung]

Little league world series

[jung]

Good thing that is Buch on the mound

 

Lester would be pouting

Beckett would be day dreaming

Padilla would be planning an assassination

Ace would just grove one right down main street

[wyo-sox]

This game is like watching blind quadripilegics fight.

[NativeBostonian]

The Red Sox are the Nickelback of baseball.

[wyo-sox]

The Red Sox are the Nickelback of baseball.

 

I find that very funny and I'm not even sure why.

[SoxFanForsyth]

None of our runs should even be there. Aviles only scored bc of a bad pick off move and Ross wouldn't have homered if it was a right handed pitcher. But their runs are legit because our team is so bad.

 

/jung'd

[jung]

Equal amounts of suckage in both dugouts but Buch is the difference. Just wish we could give him more run support. Out of the dugout...up to the on deck circle....up to the plate...back to the dugout

 

surprised opposing ground crews don't have to prepare that path just for the Sox.

[wyo-sox]

Classy Scott

[jung]

Guys like Scott are the other side of the coin. Frankly not a very pretty picture. Guys that get bounced down to the minors make nothing which the union could have changed some in this last CBA. However the MLB players decided to vote against it making sure every possible dime of potential income went to them. God forbid they should shed a few coins they would never see to the farm system players. Generally MLB baseball players are getting harder and harder to like.

[mvp 78]

Don't hand it to the bullpen tonight.

[jung]

Win or lose...Buch saving the pen might be the biggest news out of this game. If the pen has to or I guess had to get used tonight, I just do not what they will do in the next couple of games.

[Palodios]

Can Buchh finish this one? What a friggen stud. Gents, this guy is a legit ace.

[NC Sox Fan]

Very quick game tonight.

[mvp 78]

Can Buchh finish this one? What a friggen stud. Gents' date=' this guy is a legit ace.[/quote']

 

Not an ace. He's way too inconsistent.

[jung]

Buch is the Ace of this staff without question...He is not a 1 on a contending team if that is what you mean....has not done it long enough with near enough consistency. However he has gotten my vote for best of the season here from pretty early on. Now that the rest of the pretenders have imploded, it is pretty obvious that he is the man at least on this staff.

 

Frankly I picked him early not so much because he was pitching great early but because I had little confidence in Lester and Beckett and the other guys had no shot at catching Buch for that title. He made progress slowly but pretty steadily from that worse start in May and never looked back.

[jung]

For crying out loud the Guardians are one of the worse teams in baseball and we are I guess.....competitive with them...lucky us.

 

Can we not eke out more than a 1 run lead? Can we not put any distance between us and Cleveland?

[NativeBostonian]

Ace!

[jung]

that did not sound good

[mvp 78]

Oh s***, more Punto now...

[jung]

Well at least it does not look like it is exploding on him. Hopefully just turns out to be a bad bruise but that was loud.

[SemperFi Sox]

f*** you crawford

[jung]

Sliders still appear to be a mystery to Crawford. Either a pitcher has one, in which case Crawford is in a lotta' trouble or he does not in which case Crawford might be golden.

[Station 13]

s*** better be nothing more than a contusion for Middlebrooks.

[Station 13]

Sliders still appear to be a mystery to Crawford. Either a pitcher has one' date=' in which case Crawford is in a lotta' trouble or he does not in which case Crawford might be golden.[/quote']

 

Get ahead 2 strike and the down and in slider always get him.

[jung]

If the Sox could land a legit 1 then the whole profile of the rotation changes mainly because Buch could slot in right behind that guy. Then you are looking for somebody....maybe Felix to emerge as a 3 and you have a legit rotation again. Maybe Lester gets back to good enough to be that guy that slots in behind Buch. However bringing in a 3 or something like that will not get it done. This rotation must get a 1 during the off season to even think about contending again.

 

There are other problems to solve as this is not a contending team as constructed. However you get a 1 in here and you have a shot at dealing with the rest of this mess.

[mvp 78]

Yay

[Station 13]

Nice work Clay.

[wyo-sox]

Great great great performance Bunch!