6/09 Rays @ Sox 1:05 EST

[oldmaninthevegasdesert]

all I got to say...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGxusvUT3k

[vegasbob]

Well, if a reliever’s going to have a bad day, better in a game like this.

 

Agree with you. Would not enjoy losing by one run in the bottom of the 9th. Better to give it up all at once and be done with it.

[vegasbob]

The Sox will be sellers at the deadline but I am not sure who they could get rid of that teams might want? World's greatest catcher, Sandy Leon, perhaps.

 

Ted, you cannot move Sale's caddy. Leon will be back next year as well, guaranteed

[vegasbob]

Yesterday it was a sinking ship.We have to be consistent about this.

 

My ship was sinking because of the torpedo from the leaking submarine. Now the lifeboat is up to the gunwales in a rising sea.

[vegasbob]

all I got to say...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGxusvUT3k

 

That was excellent. Don was a good guy to know and we had some mutual friends when I lived in Dallas many years ago.

[jung]

Walden insures that there will be no shot at a comeback. The low payroll Rays could teach JH some basics about baseball that his empty farm system cannot. On the other hand 4 rings in 14 years cures a lot of ills. Why so hard to remain competitive ??

 

I remember a game last year. The camera's panned up to Henry and DD in the owner's suite together alone. If it did not look like JH was laying down the law regarding how often he would be willing to cross the Lux Tax threshold and by how much I don't know what would. Henry gesticulating, DD looking stiff and somber. I was actually surprised that they got caught in a discussion on camera where the body language looked so suspect.

 

I suspect DD blew out the budget as much as JH is willing to swallow. Hard to question JH with 4 titles in 14 years. I would likely be inclined to try to throttle DD's worst instincts if I were JH as well. I don't think DD knows a boundary unless the owner compels it. If left to his own devices DD will blow out the owner's budget and blow out the franchise farm system.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I believe Marco is taking it personally that he's batting 9th in a line-up that includes Leon.

[Oscars]

Mookie in 2019 is almost unrecognisable from the 2018 version

[illinoisredsox]

Mookie in 2019 is almost unrecognisable from the 2018 version

 

Looking very much like 2017 Mookie however. He’s been very much in alternating mortal-immortal years.

[jung]

Mookie in 2019 is almost unrecognisable from the 2018 version

 

IMO. Mookie is letting the count get to 2 strikes too often in spite of the rather public efforts by Cora to stop him from doing that. Mookie is not X in that specific regard.

[vegasbob]

Looking very much like 2017 Mookie however. He’s been very much in alternating mortal-immortal years.

 

Guess we should be excited about his contract year in 2020. Should be a great one.

[Oscars]

IMO. Mookie is letting the count get to 2 strikes too often in spite of the rather public efforts by Cora to stop him from doing that. Mookie is not X in that specific regard.

 

Absolutely.

He is taking hittable strikes early in the count way too often

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Penis head of the Yankems wasn't aware of the physics' law that for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. Couldn't happen to a more deserving individual. Edited June 9, 2019 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Actually, the SOX don't have to catch the Yankems or Rays to make the PO's. They just have to finish with a better record than Cleveland or Texas. I beleve that's a more realistic endeavor.

[jung]

Notice that having played very sparingly for a few weeks now, Mitch STILL leads the team with 13 HR's while being stuck there. I am not sure a team playing MLB with everything leaning toward more HR's and probably the all time most rocketing rocket ship baseball we have ever seen can truly be successful like this. We were 13th in the AL in HR's in April, 2nd in May but would have been 7th without the Chavis phenomenon. We are 7th now but would be 11th without the Chavis HR totals. Needless to say, Chavis has cooled to polar. Who did not see that coming?

[Station 13]

1-11 risp.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Notice that having played very sparingly for a few weeks now, Mitch STILL leads the team with 13 HR's while being stuck there. I am not sure a team playing MLB with everything leaning toward more HR's and probably the all time most rocketing rocket ship baseball we have ever seen can truly be successful like this. We were 13th in the AL in HR's in April, 2nd in May but would have been 7th without the Chavis phenomenon. We are 7th now but would be 11th without the Chavis HR totals. Needless to say, Chavis has cooled to polar. Who did not see that coming?

 

I'm still going to call Chavis MC HAMMER.

[vegasbob]

Actually, the SOX don't have to catch the Yankems or Rays to make the PO's. They just have to finish with a better record than Cleveland or Texas. I beleve that's a more realistic endeavor.

 

Yes, very possible, but it does get you a one game play-in with either the Yankees or Rays at their place, right? Why bother---because it's baseball and anything can happen.

[jung]

I have just about all of Nunny that I can take thank you very much.

[vegasbob]

I'm still going to call Chavis MC HAMMER.

 

If you are a HAMMER, everything looks like a nail to be pounded, especially high FB's.. Yes , Jung, that swing was readable by anyone caring to notice, such as a Boston hitting coach or a 20/200 umpire.

[TylerD]

This team isn’t even fun to watch this year. Honestly.

[vegasbob]

If you are a HAMMER, everything looks like a nail to be pounded, especially high FB's.. Yes , Jung, that swing was readable by anyone caring to notice, such as a Boston hitting coach or a 20/200 umpire.

 

There was some talk yesterday when MC did get a couple hits that he had shortened his swing to make some contact. That beneficial adaptation seems to be missing today.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Watching the SOX is good practice for those who have decided to start watching soccer.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Yes, very possible, but it does get you a one game play-in with either the Yankees or Rays at their place, right? Why bother---because it's baseball and anything can happen.

 

Anything can happen. Just look at the NHL playoffs this year.

[jung]

There was some talk yesterday when MC did get a couple hits that he had shortened his swing to make some contact. That beneficial adaptation seems to be missing today.

 

He was hitting off speed stuff pretty much in his zone. Even mundane FB's from the waist up eat his lunch and on the rare occasion when he is so focused on the FB to look like he might just hit one, the pitcher drops something breaking low on the outer edge and that is the end of that. If it were me pitching I would never EVER even throw him a slider or curve trying to throw a strike with it ever again.

 

As we have discussed, needs more tutoring and more time in the minors to work this out. Won't work it out up here IMO and at some point being pounded out by ML pitchers on a regular basis will get to him. Its no fun just walking back to the dugout time and time again at any level in baseball. Eventually nobody will throw him what he needs to hit worth snot up here.

[vegasbob]

Anything can happen. Just look at the NHL playoffs this year.

 

Hoping to see something happen in St.Louis this evening, just not a handshake line.

[jung]

There is literally nothing MLB or the Sox can do to stop me watching. MLB has been trying to do it on a progressive basis for a few years now. The Sox are trying to do it this year.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Hoping to see something happen in St.Louis this evening, just not a handshake line.

 

I'm sure we'll all see Laila. Talk about guts.

[vegasbob]

At 2-4 today, is JBJr hot again or not.? I can't recall which phase he's in

[jung]

At 2-4 today, is JBJr hot again or not.? I can't recall which phase he's in

 

Gotta' check the lunar calendar and try to overlay with a pack of Tarot cards to figure it out. But if I had to guess, he is in the cool down phase but not in the polar phase......YET!!!!!!