8/11 at Yankees

[Maxbialystock]

The players certainly are to blame, but ultimately the manager has to take some flack for all the mental blunders and mistakes. Even when winning, this team seems to make at least 2 mental mistakes per game.

 

Could not agree more and have already said Devers had no business trying to get to 2b on a blocked pitch, nor did Betts getting from 1st to 3d on a hard hit single to CF. DD needs to talk to Farrell right after this game. Who the hell cares if the Sox win? The important thing is not to make any mistakes.

[mvp 78]

Letting Jaime Garcia off the hook

 

Your 2017 Red Sox offense!

[mvp 78]

On cue... boom.

[moonslav59]

Beni da MAN!

[mvp 78]

LOLsbury.

[mvp 78]

JBJ gets that. Edited August 12, 2017 by mvp 78

[Maxbialystock]

If this were a high school team I was watching I'd be saying that the coach needs to 'chew some ass' and talk about starting to play solid fundamental baseball.

 

Exactly. Heck the field commentator just pointed out to Farrell that ERod is throwing 75% fastballs--a travesty. Farrell is clueless. Who cares that ERod has now pitched 4 shutout innings? Form is way more important than results.

 

Like you, I don't care how long this winning streak goes. After the next loss, Farrell needs to go because winning is not nearly as important as looking like a winner (when you are losing).

 

I am being facetious of course, but continue to be astounded at these attacks on Farrell when his team has the second best record in the AL, has won 8 in a row, including just now 2 at Tampa, and are currently leading the Yankess 3-0 at Yankee stadium.

 

You and moonslav could well be right. Heck, I've complained about fundamentals. But your timing is just the tiniest bit off.

[d-money]

Hope Rodriguez can get out of this inning.

[Maxbialystock]

Three weeks until September. How many others remember the disaster of September of 2011 after which Francona's contract was not renewed?

 

Maybe we should start a thread right now--based on the simple fact, not surmise--that Farrell is a terrible manager and that no way, no how can this team continue to win. If you have lousy fundamentals and a manager who doesn't know diddly about lineups or handling his pitchers, a collapse is inevitable.

 

Of course there's always that comment attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte that he would rather have a lucky general than a brilliant one. Me, I'm starting to think Nappy maybe had a point. Farrell may be incompetent, but he sure is lucky.

[S5Dewey]

OMG I love watching JBJ play CF!

[mvp 78]

EGod

[Maxbialystock]

There he goes again. Farrell got lucky when ERod got out of the 5th scoreless.

[S5Dewey]

Exactly. Heck the field commentator just pointed out to Farrell that ERod is throwing 75% fastballs--a travesty. Farrell is clueless. Who cares that ERod has now pitched 4 shutout innings? Form is way more important than results.

 

Like you, I don't care how long this winning streak goes. After the next loss, Farrell needs to go because winning is not nearly as important as looking like a winner (when you are losing).

 

I am being facetious of course, but continue to be astounded at these attacks on Farrell when his team has the second best record in the AL, has won 8 in a row, including just now 2 at Tampa, and are currently leading the Yankess 3-0 at Yankee stadium.

 

You and moonslav could well be right. Heck, I've complained about fundamentals. But your timing is just the tiniest bit off.

Whoa there! I haven't been on the Fire Farrell bandwagon! I'm just sitting back quietly and seeing what develops on that front.

 

BUT.. this team does have some flaws in their fundamentals and I DO think Farrell should address them.

[SoxHop]

Exactly. Heck the field commentator just pointed out to Farrell that ERod is throwing 75% fastballs--a travesty. Farrell is clueless. Who cares that ERod has now pitched 4 shutout innings? Form is way more important than results.

 

Like you, I don't care how long this winning streak goes. After the next loss, Farrell needs to go because winning is not nearly as important as looking like a winner (when you are losing).

 

I am being facetious of course, but continue to be astounded at these attacks on Farrell when his team has the second best record in the AL, has won 8 in a row, including just now 2 at Tampa, and are currently leading the Yankess 3-0 at Yankee stadium.

 

You and moonslav could well be right. Heck, I've complained about fundamentals. But your timing is just the tiniest bit off.

 

I like you better when you criticize the pitch selection of the number one pitching staff in the MLB.

[SoxHop]

EGod

 

Smiley Face.....

 

I hate to admit it. I'm an E-Rod fan boy....... I thought this would be his breakout year.

[User Name]

Three weeks until September. How many others remember the disaster of September of 2011 after which Francona's contract was not renewed?

 

Maybe we should start a thread right now--based on the simple fact, not surmise--that Farrell is a terrible manager and that no way, no how can this team continue to win. If you have lousy fundamentals and a manager who doesn't know diddly about lineups or handling his pitchers, a collapse is inevitable.

 

Of course there's always that comment attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte that he would rather have a lucky general than a brilliant one. Me, I'm starting to think Nappy maybe had a point. Farrell may be incompetent, but he sure is lucky.

 

Stop with the annoying ******** for the love of God. Let people enjoy the GT. You like Farrell, we get it, but goddamn make a non-snarky post.

[Maxbialystock]

Whoa there! I haven't been on the Fire Farrell bandwagon! I'm just sitting back quietly and seeing what develops on that front.

 

BUT.. this team does have some flaws in their fundamentals and I DO think Farrell should address them.

 

I agree on that and have said so. My complaint is about the timing. I tend to gripe loudest when the team is losing, but quite down when they are playing well, which I perhaps inaccurately think is whenever they are winning lots of games. Indeed, I believe the ultimate measure of a manager is the won-lost record combined with the FO judgment on whether the team under or over performed.

[SoxHop]

Stop with the annoying ******** for the love of God. Let people enjoy the GT. You like Farrell, we get it, but goddamn make a non-snarky post.

 

ahahahha !!!! .... the dude is back....

[Thunder]

Eddy is painting these corners, but only with two strikes.

[Thunder]

Great outing by E-Rod, but of course, Farrell might try to send him out for more. No way. He's done.

[bowman]

6 innings of shut out ball against the Yankees. Three amigo time...

[mvp 78]

Reed->Barnes->Kimbrel

[Maxbialystock]

Stop with the annoying ******** for the love of God. Let people enjoy the GT. You like Farrell, we get it, but goddamn make a non-snarky post.

 

No, I don't like Farrell that much and have said so when they are losing regularly, but tend to suspend judgment when the team is stomping thru the AL as they currently are. In this very game I jumped on Erod after the first inning, but came back an inning or two later and gave him credit for settling down. Now he's gone 6 scoreless innings and deserves a ton of credit. But maybe Farrell and the pitching coach get a tiny bit of credit for letting him go thru that first inning throwing almost exclusively fast balls because maybe that's what he needs to do these days.

 

But you are right that I have been annoying. A year ago I did that a lot more.

[mvp 78]

This ump.

[Maxbialystock]

I have the distinct impression that Yankee pitchers have gotten more strikes outside the strike zone than has ERod. Also, MLB needs to have an obese umpire policy. Not overweight, obese.

[mvp 78]

I think the ump has treated both teams the same. He just has a s***** k zone.

[d-money]

A 3-0 lead and this guy walks the first batter.

[Station 13]

Throwing 4 straight ball and it wasn't close.

[SoxHop]

A 3-0 lead and this guy walks the first batter.

 

That had me worried too.....

 

But Barnes recovered well....

[S5Dewey]

I agree on that and have said so. My complaint is about the timing. I tend to gripe loudest when the team is losing, but quite down when they are playing well, which I perhaps inaccurately think is whenever they are winning lots of games. Indeed, I believe the ultimate measure of a manager is the won-lost record combined with the FO judgment on whether the team under or over performed.

 

I guess you're more accepting of poor fundamentals than I am. I expect players at the high school level to be fundamentally sound. They may not have great skills at that level but I expect solid fundamentals at the least. So it pisses me off to see major league players who aren't exercising good fundamentals.

 

And here's something else that pisses me off, too. These f***ing Yankee players who put the grease paint under their eyes and they stick the Yankees logo in it. What is this? A f***ing fashion show?