5/18 @ Royals - Day Game

[a700hitter]

Agree. I also thought your sarcasm was self-evident and very appropriate.

 

Note that there will never, ever a be a comment from the Farrell-bashers that playing Young today against a righty paid off. Nosiree. The Farrell bashers know for a fact that Farrell does not understand the intricacies of making up a lineup card, who to pinch hit for or with, who to bring in from the bullpen and when, etc.

Talk about the game game and the strategy. Commenting on posters is not interesting or productive, but it seems to have been in the DNA of the BDC board.

[Slasher9]

Wow, that was a ridiculous play by Escobar

 

yup. highlight reel.

[User Name]

Talk about the game game and the strategy. Commenting on posters is not interesting or productive, but it seems to have been in the DNA of the BDC board.

 

Really should quit with the annoying BS shouldn't he?

[Bellhorn04]

Max is quite harmless. He just has a certain schtick.

[mvp 78]

Max is quite harmless. He just has a certain schtick.

Those kind of people are the worst.

[Maxbialystock]

Let's see if I have this right. I commented on my own statement that Wright looked bad in the 1st inning, which has caused now four different comments discussing, not the game or the action on the field, but me and my comments. And the specific complaint was that I wasn't commenting on the game. Hmmmmm

 

Meanwhile, back to the game: Shaw, Rutledge, and Bradley between them have left 11 guys on base. Also, the Sox overall have struck out 13 times and been walked once.

[Maxbialystock]

Helluva game. Two great plays by KC to cut our guys down, but especially Bogaerts going to third. In his defense, if he is safe, that fly to left would have scored him.

[mvp 78]

So are we still concerned about Wright or no?

[Maxbialystock]

Talk about the game game and the strategy. Commenting on posters is not interesting or productive, but it seems to have been in the DNA of the BDC board.

 

Interesting and productive are obviously in the eye of the beholder, especially when the commentator is a newby.

 

Changing the subject back to the game, I think Wright has pitched a heckuva game despite the early dinger, but he ain't getting much support. I think the key play was earlier when the Sox had one run in, men on 1st and 3d, and nobody out, and Shaw and Rutledge struck out--Shaw looking.

[Maxbialystock]

So are we still concerned about Wright or no?

 

He's a knuckleballer, so of course there will always be residual concern. But so far this season he has impressed the heck out of me. Right now he is our ace, simple as that. He eats innings and doesn't give up a lot of runs. And he might be giving Hanigan ulcers over all those PB's.

[Maxbialystock]

Brock at least hit a hard grounder.

[Maxbialystock]

Sox had 9 hits and 2 runs, KC 5 hits and 2 runs.

 

To me the two key plays were our inability to bring a man home from 3d with no one out and KC's ability to do exactly that.

[Maxbialystock]

Sox now need to avoid a sweep by a team that was great last year but going into this series had a losing record.

[d-money]

Horrible. Avoid the sweep plz

[a700hitter]

I thought Hanley had hit it out when the ball left his bat. It was hit to the deepest part of the ballpark.

[a700hitter]

Sox now need to avoid a sweep by a team that was great last year but going into this series had a losing record.

Plus, they lost 3 of 4 to the Yankees.

[Bellhorn04]

We were 4-3 against KC last year and 6-1 in 2014. MLB is not the best place to look for logical results.

[Youk Of The Nation]

A loss always sucks, but Wright pitched the whole game in the first game of a double-header, saving the Sox from using the bullpen in a loss with another game coming up. Despite the L, that can't be understated. Additionally, he kept the Sox in a good position to win, the offense just didn't capitalize. Strange as it may seem, I found this game encouraging in that Wright continued to pitch well.

[User Name]

I thought Hanley had hit it out when the ball left his bat. It was hit to the deepest part of the ballpark.

 

Their ballpark is pretty extreme at suppressing RH power.

[Maxbialystock]

A loss always sucks, but Wright pitched the whole game in the first game of a double-header, saving the Sox from using the bullpen in a loss with another game coming up. Despite the L, that can't be understated. Additionally, he kept the Sox in a good position to win, the offense just didn't capitalize. Strange as it may seem, I found this game encouraging in that Wright continued to pitch well.

 

Well put, even though commenting on someone else's comments is frowned upon.

[User Name]

Are you going to stop being a confrontational douche, like, at any time? I'd like to know so I can put you on ignore instead of getting myself banned. Act like an adult. Focus on talking baseball, not other posters.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Well put, even though commenting on someone else's comments is frowned upon.

 

Well, creating welcome threads for new users in the General Baseball forum and then telling the mods to "kill this after twelve hours", after they have already repeatedly asked you to stop creating useless threads is frowned upon as well. But people still do it!

 

Seriously, everyone here, from the top down, has been very patient and done their best to be welcoming and inclusive to the influx of members from BDC, but some of you appear to be actively trying your hardest to not fit in at all.

 

I was not commenting on anyone else's post.

 

a700hitter and UN? were right (and how weird does that sound?!). Two of your first three posts in this thread were snide references to opinions other people on the site hold. Instead of praising Young for a HR and leaving it at that, you chose to make sure to show disdain for anyone who doesn't think Farrell is the best manager the Sox have ever had. You preemptively called out people for blaming the game on Young before anyone did so (and no one ended up doing so, either).

 

We get in our digs at each other sometimes. UN? and a700 are both very good at it, though they don't do it as often or as blatantly as you do. You've been here less than a month and it seems to be your modus operandi.

 

The sad truth is, you guys are all new here. You may have been the big guys over at BDC, but BDC is gone now. You chose to join another board with it's own long-established community, and whether you think it is fair or not, you need to learn how to fit in here. We will do our best to make the settling-in process as smooth as possible, because no one wants to scare away new members, but when 90 percent of your first 150 posts are either sarcastic sniping at opinions that people voiced in other threads and debating a (I thought, quite politely phrased) moderating request to keep the board flowing pleasantly, it makes it somewhat difficult to keep an open mind.

[CliffKlowers]

If Hanley had swung a split-second sooner or later he would have hit a go ahead HR in the ninth. On contact I thought that it was gone. Too bad but KC made the great plays and we failed to hit in the clutch.

[TheBabeStrikesBack]

If Hanley had swung a split-second sooner or later he would have hit a go ahead HR in the ninth. On contact I thought that it was gone. Too bad but KC made the great plays and we failed to hit in the clutch.

 

And if a frog had a parachute it wouldn't slap it's ass on the ground every time it hops.

[mvp 78]

And if a frog had a parachute it wouldn't slap it's ass on the ground every time it hops.

 

The real saying is "if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass" or as Jimmy Williams politely stated "if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its booty."

 

Not sure how your comment is all that relevant to a game thread though...

[CliffKlowers]

Please forgive me for looking for a ray of sunshine in a cloudy sky instead of being a wet blanket who only looks at box scores. Did you watch the game? Watching games and noting all of the good things is much more rewarding than looking at final scores and saying " All is lost".

[Spudboy]

Well, creating welcome threads for new users in the General Baseball forum and then telling the mods to "kill this after twelve hours", after they have already repeatedly asked you to stop creating useless threads is frowned upon as well. But people still do it!

 

Seriously, everyone here, from the top down, has been very patient and done their best to be welcoming and inclusive to the influx of members from BDC, but some of you appear to be actively trying your hardest to not fit in at all.

 

I was not commenting on anyone else's post.

 

a700hitter and UN? were right (and how weird does that sound?!). Two of your first three posts in this thread were snide references to opinions other people on the site hold. Instead of praising Young for a HR and leaving it at that, you chose to make sure to show disdain for anyone who doesn't think Farrell is the best manager the Sox have ever had. You preemptively called out people for blaming the game on Young before anyone did so (and no one ended up doing so, either).

 

We get in our digs at each other sometimes. UN? and a700 are both very good at it, though they don't do it as often or as blatantly as you do. You've been here less than a month and it seems to be your modus operandi.

 

The sad truth is, you guys are all new here. You may have been the big guys over at BDC, but BDC is gone now. You chose to join another board with it's own long-established community, and whether you think it is fair or not, you need to learn how to fit in here. We will do our best to make the settling-in process as smooth as possible, because no one wants to scare away new members, but when 90 percent of your first 150 posts are either sarcastic sniping at opinions that people voiced in other threads and debating a (I thought, quite politely phrased) moderating request to keep the board flowing pleasantly, it makes it somewhat difficult to keep an open mind.

 

Perfectly stated.

[TheBabeStrikesBack]

The real saying is "if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass" or as Jimmy Williams politely stated "if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its booty."

 

Not sure how your comment is all that relevant to a game thread though...

 

I've heard a few variations.

 

But I believe it was relevant to the "IF Hanley had swung ......"

[Maxbialystock]

Well, creating welcome threads for new users in the General Baseball forum and then telling the mods to "kill this after twelve hours", after they have already repeatedly asked you to stop creating useless threads is frowned upon as well. But people still do it!

 

Seriously, everyone here, from the top down, has been very patient and done their best to be welcoming and inclusive to the influx of members from BDC, but some of you appear to be actively trying your hardest to not fit in at all.

 

I was not commenting on anyone else's post.

 

a700hitter and UN? were right (and how weird does that sound?!). Two of your first three posts in this thread were snide references to opinions other people on the site hold. Instead of praising Young for a HR and leaving it at that, you chose to make sure to show disdain for anyone who doesn't think Farrell is the best manager the Sox have ever had. You preemptively called out people for blaming the game on Young before anyone did so (and no one ended up doing so, either).

 

We get in our digs at each other sometimes. UN? and a700 are both very good at it, though they don't do it as often or as blatantly as you do. You've been here less than a month and it seems to be your modus operandi.

 

The sad truth is, you guys are all new here. You may have been the big guys over at BDC, but BDC is gone now. You chose to join another board with it's own long-established community, and whether you think it is fair or not, you need to learn how to fit in here. We will do our best to make the settling-in process as smooth as possible, because no one wants to scare away new members, but when 90 percent of your first 150 posts are either sarcastic sniping at opinions that people voiced in other threads and debating a (I thought, quite politely phrased) moderating request to keep the board flowing pleasantly, it makes it somewhat difficult to keep an open mind.

 

Well stated. I was never a big gun at BDC. Just someone with opinions and a penchant for arguing, and the latter appears to be the difficulty because sometimes I continue the argument--in Young's case it started on the Referendum on Farrell thread--on another thread, this one, which is probably inappropriate. But I tend to think of game threads as pretty free-wheeling. Remember the injunction about not starting a new thread when a current one will suffice. I also found it irresistible to point out that Young hit a dinger off a righty pitcher after he had been universally condemned--not just by a few--as being unable to hit righties. I did so on a game thread in which Farrell was the manager of record and the guy who inserted Young into the lineup against a righty starter.

[mvp 78]

I've heard a few variations.

 

But I believe it was relevant to the "IF Hanley had swung ......"

 

Game threads are the perfect place for someone to say "if Hanley had swung..." You swooping in to say "yeah, well he didn't" doesn't really add anything to the conversation and actively dismisses the other poster for no other reason but for the fact that you are a Yankees fan. My advice is that the Yankees fans who stick around here tend to be a little less antagonistic and more reasonable in their opinions on the Sox. What's the point in logging into a thread to post "hope you lose" at every opportunity? It doesn't add to the conversation and just kinda makes you look like a dope.