08/06/19 Royals (Junis ERA 5.03) @ Red Sox (Cashner ERA 4.44)

[TylerD]

Wow we suck.

[jacksonianmarch]

The Rays just dropped a 6 spot on the Jays and tied their game up

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Who is going to replace him?

 

Are you being sarcastic?

[jad]

Who is going to replace him?

 

I guess a .210 hitter who is an average fielder and costs a tenth as much? (I have always loved watching him play, but I really just can't stand watching him hit any more.)

[jung]

Geezus H f***ing Christ. I swear to God if I really wanted to bust the Red Sox right in the ass I would just bring up every soft tosser I had for every Red Sox series and we would just be LOST......LOST!!!!!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Wow we suck.

 

OR Junis pitched a good 6 innings.

[oldtimer]

Three ground balls last inning and a lot before that. You would think he is an ace except he has gotten hit hard by others recently.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

For the sake of Cashner's career the SOX should trade him back to the O's or any low pressure market in the off season

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Three ground balls last inning and a lot before that. You would think he is an ace except he has gotten hit hard by others recently.

 

Even the worst of us have had good days. I know I have.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If the SOX FO in the future does go searching for a new manager, they should keep Ned Yost on their radar.

[jung]

So the radio team musing over the annual hideous "Players Weekend" coming up with the grotesque unis and the player nicknames on their backs. Apparently Hernandez will have Hernandez on his back and Taylor will have .....Taylor on his back.

 

Joey Votto, NL 1st baseman is going to wear "WHO" on his back as in "Who's on First". That might be OK if he could get the second baseman to wear "What" and the third baseman to wear "I don't know".

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Every once in a while OB comes up with a good parody. Tonight it was JBJ's batting average has dribbled down to .223. 'Dribbled' the perfect verb in this case.

[YastrzemskI]

Just turned the game on.. looks like I was a little presumptuous with my World Series prediction last night. LoL! 😂

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

So the radio team musing over the annual hideous "Players Weekend" coming up with the grotesque unis and the player nicknames on their backs. Apparently Hernandez will have Hernandez on his back and Taylor will have .....Taylor on his back.

 

Joey Votto, NL 1st baseman is going to wear "WHO" on his back as in "Who's on First". That might be OK if he could get the second baseman to wear "What" and the third baseman to wear "I don't know".

 

That would definitely be cool.

[d-money]

What else can you say about this team? Losing to the lowly royals at home. What a disaster of a season. Hope some will be held accountable at the end of the year for this dreadful season.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

What else can you say about this team? Losing to the lowly royals at home. What a disaster of a season. Hope some will be held accountable at the end of the year for this dreadful season.

 

I believe we've all agreed it's LeVagne's fault.

[jung]

Royals pen arrives and the result......Same. At least we are consistent. Once one of these soft tossers gets ahold of us on a particular night I get the impression that it takes about 100 swings in a batting cage for our guys to get their heads screwed on straight again. Does not matter who the opponent brings in to relieve....the damage is already done.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

So the radio team musing over the annual hideous "Players Weekend" coming up with the grotesque unis and the player nicknames on their backs. Apparently Hernandez will have Hernandez on his back and Taylor will have .....Taylor on his back.

 

Joey Votto, NL 1st baseman is going to wear "WHO" on his back as in "Who's on First". That might be OK if he could get the second baseman to wear "What" and the third baseman to wear "I don't know".

 

I've got some nicknames for the SOX BP: Homer, Jethro, Luther, Colton.

[oldtimer]

This team has no spark. This will wind up as our 9th loss in the last 10. I thought we were better but you are what your record says you are in the words of the Big Tuna.

[BOSOX11]

Nothing like a Kansas City bitch slapping at Fenway.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Nice play by Chavis. Just don't let him play 1st in London.

[Tedballgame]

This loss will be the official time of death for the 2019 Red Sox playoff hopes.

[d-money]

Well football 🏈 season will soon be here. I don’t know how many of you fellas are football fans but it’s my favorite sport. After football it’s baseball .

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

This loss will be the official time of death for the 2019 Red Sox playoff hopes.

 

Cause of death will be listed as self-inflicted wound that pierced an artery.

Edited August 7, 2019 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Well football season will soon be here. I don’t know how many of you fellas are football fans but it’s my favorite sport. After football it’s baseball .

 

Baseball is still my favorite professional sport, followed by hockey and then football.

[jung]

I believe we've all agreed it's LeVagne's fault.

 

I actually think its the f***ing spread sheet geeks in baseball ops. Our pitching staff no longer throws strikes. We challenge NOBODY.

 

To this point in the season our staff has thrown 700+ more pitches than every other MLB team. The rest of them are all clustered in the 17,000 pitch range and we stick out like a sore thumb at over 18.000 pitches.

 

Now I think command and challenging hitters has gone clear down the toilet bowl all over MLB. But that dif in total pitches is ridiculous. We now have a whole rotation of pitchers that challenges nobody. The only potential starter we have who challenges is Nate who is clearly not up to speed yet. Our starters exit early leaving too much on the table for the pen. The starters either nibble (EROD and now Price) or try to get hitters to chase (Sale and Cashewnuts).We don't know what the f*** category Porcello is in at this point and neither does he. How did that happen? We hardly have any relief pitchers that challenge hitters.

 

So, food for thought:

- did they hire a former catcher to be the pitching coach to tamp down any resistance to this spread sheet nonsense from a pitching coach with actual pitching experience?

- did they decide not to bring back Kimbrel because he challenges hitters and they simply no longer want pitchers that challenge hitters?

[Tedballgame]

Cause of death will be listed as self-inflicted wound.

The tombstone will read, "They just didn't care".

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

WTF forgot that there's a pinch hitting option.

[Tedballgame]

Moreland and JBJ both hitting .222. Pathethic. JBJ 2 or his last 20, with one homer and one RBI. Career .236 average, .316 OBP. Time for him to go.

[Tedballgame]

Watching the movie, "Major League". Almost over. Nice to see a team that can beat the Yankees. Wild Thing, Rickie Vaughn on in relief.