07/29 Red Sox vs. Fake Sox

[SoxnCycles]

When someone is insulting you, they should try to get the facts straight before they hurl the insult. LOL!! I love it when that happens.

 

And if they comment on posts they supposedly can't see, they're morons.

[Kimmi]

The resistance to admitting that the strategy was flawed and the excution was even worse puzzles me. If that is the stance, do those people expect that Porcello's performance will regress and he will be a top of the rotation pitcher. If the organization places that kind of faith in him, making him the #2 again next season, they will be tossing away another baseball season.

 

Because the strategy was not flawed, nor was the execution. It didn't work. There is no way to sugar coat that. When a strategy doesn't work, you fix it and try something different.

[a700hitter]

Because the strategy was not flawed, nor was the execution. It didn't work. There is no way to sugar coat that. When a strategy doesn't work, you fix it and try something different.

if the strategy was a good strategy and not flawed, why should they try something else?

[Kimmi]

Trading for Porcello was fine. Extending him before the season was stupid.

 

Hindsight is 20/20.

 

There was no reason not to expect Porcello to be a solid pitcher for us. If he had pitched well and the Sox lost out on him like they did with Lester, we would never hear the end of it. The FO took a good calculated risk and lost. So far.

[Kimmi]

For those that do not believe that a run should have been scored last night, here is our illustrious manager on the matter:

 

"Farrell said that even though there were no outs at the time and the Sox trailed by six runs, he understood why third-base coach Brian Butterfield elected to send Sandoval.

 

"Where the ball was picked up -- recognizing nobody was out -- where the ball was picked up in relation to where he was on the basepaths, that's a run that should score," said Farrell, who asserted Sandoval had passed the halfway point between second and third when right-fielder Avisail Garcia picked up the ball."

 

This is what I tried to convey. Forget that Butterfield may or may not be good at his job and that a green light with the score 6-0 and no outs is a bad idea. A game ready athlete scores on this play. Fatboy is not game ready.

 

Had that been Papi or Hanigan that got thrown out at the plate, would you still be blaming the players?

[Kimmi]

if the strategy was a good strategy and not flawed, why should they try something else?

 

Because it didn't work.

 

That doesn't mean it wasn't a sound strategy.

[a700hitter]

Because it didn't work.

 

That doesn't mean it wasn't a sound strategy.

that just doesn't make sense. A good process doesn't get abandoned because of some bad results.