August 11th Red Sox VS Indians

[Brennan]

The Tribe. The latest winner in the 2012 Boston feel good tour.

[jung]

You would have thought that pride or something like it would have kicked in by now. Apparently not a single thought goes through their pea brains that is at all associated with team.

 

Notice as well that there appears no basement...just like last year....it becomes a free fall and you think there has to be a basement but they never seem to find it.

 

I just hope to God that the silver lining to this free fall is a recognition of how truly f***ed this team is now. Like I said a couple weeks ago...last year they went free falling out of first and then out of the post season and this year they are free falling out of the post season into the basement.....a bad bad baseball team. Heck they are so bad that we don't much talk about their bloated player payroll any longer. They would be bad at half the budget.

[Brennan]

Pretty good win. Not saying we're still in the hunt for the playoffs' date=' but it's always good to get a win here and there.[/quote']

 

 

Ummm, not for nothing but my kids little league team could beat this team on any given day.

[jung]

NESN must be fleshing up this little promo videos of Red Sox players emoting like they care about something from three or four years ago.

[NC Sox Fan]

How much you want to bet that once the Sox are mathematically eliminated, they go on an irrelevant, ass-kicking winning streak?

[SoxSport]

Had to laugh when I saw Lillibridge went 3-4 and a HR. Only against the Red Sox. LOL.

[Brennan]

Had to laugh when I saw Lillibridge went 3-4 and a HR. Only against the Red Sox. LOL.

 

 

 

Effing ridiculous. The guy shouldn't even be in the major leagues.

[DocHolliday]

In relevant Red Sox news, Igelsias has been tearing it up at Pawtucket at the plate.

 

Definitely deserves a good look at short in September. The Aviles act should come to an end by the end of this year.

[jung]

How much you want to bet that once the Sox are mathematically eliminated, they go on a irrelevant, ass-kicking winning streak?

 

I really don't think so. They are not even playing baseball any longer. Sometimes when I get going really badly on the golf course I start playing golf swing instead of playing golf. Something like that is what the Sox are going through right now and it has gotten worse and worse and worse. This is not baseball.

[DocHolliday]

I really don't think so. They are not even playing baseball any longer. Sometimes when I get going really badly on the golf course I start playing golf swing instead of playing golf. Something like that is what the Sox are going through right now and it has gotten worse and worse and worse. This is not baseball.

 

This is a very good analogy save for the frustration most feel when they have a bad day at the golf course.

 

In post game interviews certain guys claim they are giving their all each night out. However, there are certain guys we can all name who have their well compensated job nowhere near the top of their priority list. And we view this team for the sum of its parts- not the individual efforts of a select group.

[NC Sox Fan]

I really don't think so. They are not even playing baseball any longer. Sometimes when I get going really badly on the golf course I start playing golf swing instead of playing golf. Something like that is what the Sox are going through right now and it has gotten worse and worse and worse. This is not baseball.

 

I'm not a golfer but that sounds like a pretty good analogy.

[3rdManOut]

Great just great, 9-3 and yet another game that we have lost.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Pretty good win. Not saying we're still in the hunt for the playoffs' date=' but it's always good to get a win here and there.[/quote']

 

You do realize that there are Guardians message boards, right? If you're going to post in every single Guardians gamethread, you should try to contribute something to the other parts of the site.

[Station 13]

Since July they scored 3 runs or fewer 20 times.

[jung]

And in the last 30 games the the bull pen has averaged a little more than 3 innings per game. So the starters have averaged slightly less than 6 innings per game. That is just abysmal. No wonder the bull pen is shot....for the second year in a row.

 

Frankly that just reeks of ineptitude. The rotation sucked last year and burned out the bull pen as a result...did they fix that at all....starting pitching....only the most important single element in baseball and do they fix it? No. If anything their starting pitching is worse this year than last when they were ranked 22. Their starters are currently ranked 26th.

 

I don't care how much money they were trying to save this year...to have gone into the season with so many issues in starting pitching was laughable for a team "pretending" to be contesting for the championship.

 

We are so gullible. As usual they managed to slip another curve ball past us, something Red Sox pitchers rarely accomplish. Somehow they managed to skate by on the notion that last year's pitching problems were all the fault of Wake and Lackey. In reality when you consider how much of a disaster Sox starting pitching would have been were it not for the 160 and 154 innings those two guys chipped in for the Sox last year they were not exactly dogs. Lackey is far from my favorite player, not by a long shot but the amount of blame laid at Wake and Lackey's feet last year is only rivaled by the amount heaped on Beckett and Lester this year and as usual misses the point entirely.

 

The Sox have not focused nearly enough attention on starting pitching choosing instead to mask the real issues by steering our attention to side shows like whether a guy like Bard could transition to the 5 hole in the rotation from his pen role. The warning signs were all there for 1,2 and 3 in the rotation with 3 being the only guy to beat the odds and come through. The fact that 1 and 2 have not faired as well does not change the fact that the Sox had no plan for the inevitable issues that would strike the rest of the rotation that was inserted at the beginning of the season. Even if Bard did not self destruct he surely would have hit an innings ceiling and the plan was what??? Sign somebody during the season??....sure they were. Given that they could get past Bard what were they going to do when Felix hit his innings ceiling....sign somebody else? Sure they were. Oh wait now I remember...dice to the rescue. We were going to depend on a guy just coming off TJ that had not been much of a pitcher before the surgery. What are they going to do when Frank runs out of gas.....who the hell knows.

 

At one point we were hearing about a six man rotation as if they ever had six starting pitchers that could pitch....sure they did.

 

So since they never had more than about 2/3 to 3/4 of a season covered in starting pitching, do you mind telling me how that was a realistic plan to actually contend for anything? What was the plan... forfeit the rest of the games?

 

If we are lucky baseball will treat this Sox organization like the joke it surely is. That is our only hope at this point. The public image minded Sox organization may finally be forced to action by way of recognizing that baseball in its entirety realizes that the emperor truly has no cloths. They have been fully exposed and frankly, on top of everything else lets just say they fall a bit short where it counts.