9/26 v Rays Farewell to Fenway 2012

[DocHolliday]

At long last, the miserable season at home that was 2012 has come to an end.

 

The road record wasn't much better, but as a younger Sox fan, this is by far the worst season long performance at home that I have seen in my life.

 

Lots of work to do that should have already started but will take center stage just 1 week from now.

[jung]

I don't know how many caught V but he was making precautionary farewells to the Boston Media just in case he was all done.

 

Not something I would expect the Manager to do unless he actually knew he was all done. There is plenty of time for farewells if it actually happens. Thought that was real odd and a tip I think that he is in fact all done and soon to be let go.

[Station 13]

Ross' spectacular September continues.

[DocHolliday]

Hopefully a little over a week from now, I will be able to change my signature because V will no longer be with the team.

[Station 13]

Lead off walk.....f*** this pitching staff.

[jung]

A teeny, tiny little smile from Lester on that DP. I thought big chunks of his face were going to crack off leaving him to try to catch them in his glove.

[Taz]

Slightly off topic... The All-Fenway team was announced before the game tonight:

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/red-sox/post/_/id/23081/all-fenway-park-team-announced

[DocHolliday]

Slightly off topic... The All-Fenway team was announced before the game tonight:

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/red-sox/post/_/id/23081/all-fenway-park-team-announced

 

Looking back on this year from a different lens, its sad that all of the pregame celebrations and ceremonies this team has had have been overshadowed by the atrocious play on the field.

 

Even if this team had been able to pull things together and make this a respectable season, it might have been viewed a lot differently as a sort of "coming together" by this organization after what happened last season and the sudden losses of some key representatives of the organization like Johnny Pesky and Carl Beane.

[jung]

Nava with an RBI hit. Another example for why the straight change is a terrible pitch if not thrown in the exact location where it is effective. Either the hitter creams it if expecting it or can just drag the head of the bat through the hitting zone if fooled and dump it into the outfield.

[Taz]

Nava picked his spot well for that RBI single.

[Station 13]

Iggy, can't pick up a breaking pitch.

[a700hitter]

Nava is a good kid with an obvious love for the game, but I hope that I never have to see him in a Sox uni for a game at Fenway.

[jung]

I think Nava is done here unless the Sox run into the same sort of scenario that kept the "dime" coming back year after year after year like a bad dream that would just not end.

 

"Oh no...here comes the dime again." Smack...dribble...dribble...dribble....6-4-3....back to the dugout.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Iggy, can't pick up a breaking pitch.

 

Not just a breaking pitch but any pitch in a pitchers repertoire.

[jung]

Anybody seeing this stuff since the replacement refs flak in the NFL? People calling MLB the best run of the four major pro sports. Scary huh?

 

In truth the NBA and NHL immediately fall out of the running for that title leaving the NFL and MLB. MLB has avoided work stoppages longer than the other leagues although they have done so by not trying to redress the issues from the early days of CBA negotiation when the league got its head handed to it by Marvin Miller. To its credit MLB has not tried to get to much accomplished in any one CBA negotiation and has avoided work stoppages because of it.

 

Who woulda' thought it. Uncle Bud....the best of the major sports league commissioners....I have definitely seen it all now.

[Station 13]

Amazing, making a pitcher throw 80 pitches through 3.1 and score 1 run.

[jung]

That was a hell of a play at SS by Iggy. No idea how he got the ball to 1st in time.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Woah.

 

Iglesias. Wow.

[Station 13]

f*** off Lester, keep falling behind.

[jung]

Pena...Geez Pena.....Amazing what a hitter can do when he is so confident against a particular pitcher. That was not a great pitch but it was not terrible either....crushed.

 

Anything on that plane regardless of whether is on the inner half or outer half is dangerous to the LH hitter and in that respect it was not such a hot pitch.

 

Then...Jon just about hangs one to the RH hitter.....suddenly finding all the wrong spots to pitch to.

[jung]

That 1-0 pitch is a pitch that Iggy has got to learn to do something with. He will see that pitch before he has two strikes and if he can do something with it, he will save himself getting punched out by..... curve balls, change ups, sliders, sinkers, cut fastballs and just about anything they seem to throw when he has two strikes.

[Station 13]

I hope Iggy buys a BP machine and work at hitting the ball, not trying to golf swing any pitches.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Give him a beach ball to hit

[Station 13]

Remember when Lester use to throw 94-97?

[jung]

I hope Iggy buys a BP machine and work at hitting the ball, not trying to golf swing any pitches.

 

Iggy already has one I hear. He has grown tired of it as it also punches him out regularly.:D Sorry, could not help myself.

[jung]

Interesting comments from the booth regarding the Rays bullpen. True enough...if we remember, at the start of the season they were just terrible. They rounded into form and end up with one of the better closers in baseball in Rodney.

 

Sort of discounts all of this hubbub and stir we create in Boston about our bullpen is and the need to spend big bucks on a closer. The Rays are paying Rodney $1.75M this year with a team option at $2.5M for next year. Not exactly breaking the bank. Basically the Rays rebuild their pen every year almost from scratch. Frankly more teams are closer to that model than the model we seem to emulate here in Boston.

 

Maybe better choices are are in order and better coaching. Obviously having better starting pitching is a big benefit to the Rays and is likely the real key to that formula. If we had better starting pitching we could likely do something similar to what the Rays do with our bullpen.

[jung]

Another year of the NESN broadcast crew introing the broadcast team so they get to take their final waves here in September. Very depressing....heading for the liquor cabinet now and hoping to avoid the razor blade drawer.

[BOSOX11]

I just noticed that we have the same home record as the Astros - yes, I said the ASTROS!!

[jung]

The Astros.....The Razor blade drawer now beckons

[jung]

Those are just the kind of ground ball outs that make it hard to see where Iggy is going. I have never seen so many weakly hit ground ball outs in my entire lifetime.