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Wright better not f*** this up.

 

Wow. You can't be serious. He was supposed to be our 4th or 5th starter but has turned into our ace and deserves our unrestrained approbation.

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Wow. You can't be serious. He was supposed to be our 4th or 5th starter but has turned into our ace and deserves our unrestrained approbation.

 

It was clearly a joke.

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Wow. You can't be serious. He was supposed to be our 4th or 5th starter but has turned into our ace and deserves our unrestrained approbation.

 

Lighten up. You don't know USER's style.

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Wow. You can't be serious. He was supposed to be our 4th or 5th starter but has turned into our ace and deserves our unrestrained approbation.

 

Bro, I say that every gamethread if I manage to post in it before the game starts. Sort of a mojo thing for me.

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Bro, I say that every gamethread if I manage to post in it before the game starts. Sort of a mojo thing for me.

 

i.e., he's just paraphrasing the Shepard's Prayer. Alan Shepard that is.

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Bro, I say that every gamethread if I manage to post in it before the game starts. Sort of a mojo thing for me.

 

Fine. I'm all in favor of mojo or even reverse mojo.

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JBJ is back batting 6th with Shaw backing him up, thus avoiding the situation of a couple games ago when he was walked twice to get to Hannigan: Betts, Pedroia, Bogaerts, Ortiz, Ramirez (no damage from the HBP), Bradley, Shaw, Hannigan, and Swihart. For most of this season Farrell has preferred to bat his worst hitter 8th and it seems to work.

 

To me Betts leading off is an anomaly. He has a low OBP and knocks in a whole lot of runs, which argue he should be further down. Anomaly or not, however, it seems to work because to date this lineup with only slight variations (JBJ moving up) has been the 8th wonder of the world. The one hole is Hannigan, but he seems to be the best at catching Wright and spelling Vazquez.

 

Swihart in LF is also a surprise, but one that makes sense to me because his transition has seemed almost effortless--about on a par with Betts suddenly moving from 2B to CF (was it 2014?). Meanwhile, apparently, Swihart is still working on his catching skills--good for him and for the club.

 

We're in the 80's here in the National Capital Region, so one presumes Boston is warming up as well.

 

I am more and more convinced that the hot weather overall is better for pitchers than hitters. Why? Because it's further into a long, long season and is draining for the everyday player, the hitter. Starting pitchers, on the other hand, only go every 5th day and should have no problem being "up" for their starts. Relievers, similarly, go at most every other game and only for a short period. I do not discount the tremendous physical effort required of pitchers, but think the sheer length of the season is what brings those batting averages down.

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ok just had the chills up the spine - billy buck!!! welcome back - you took a beating you did not deserve.
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