10/11 @ Toronto

[Station 13]

This is the team's love letter to ownership tonight.

[jung]

Can't you just wait to see tomorrow's lineup card?

[Station 13]

Can't you just wait to see tomorrow's lineup card?

 

Corkys

Owens

Corkys

Owens

Corkys

Owens

Corkys

Owens

Leon

[Oscars]

Cora to Henry:

"But you told me and the team that I would be back for 2020"

 

Henry:

"Who are you again"

 

Exactly.

Depending on who gets the new GM role Cora could be managing right now to keep his job

[vegasbob]

Corkys

Owens

Corkys

Owens

Corkys

Owens

Corkys

Owens

Leon

 

That group will come withion 1 hit of tonight's exceptional effort

[jung]

Corkys

Owens

Corkys

Owens

Corkys

Owens

Corkys

Owens

Leon

 

This is a new version of the September Swoon. They will have eased into the season and eased back out of it again! Sort of like a mystery f***. They were in and out so stealthy like all we got was an odd feeling between the cheeks.

[Station 13]

 

This is how they felt about the game.

[jung]

Seriously, IMO the biggest mistake Cora made was he simply would not let 2018 go. Reveled in it....wallowed in it which gave the team a ready crutch. My God Cora probably had a crutch rack next to the bat rack with the name of each player laser engraved on his personalized crutch. Odd for an ex-Sox player to not realize that they had the potential to just nose dive if he gave them any sort of chance to do so.

 

That MISTAKE, he must never ever make again if he gets the opportunity.

[TylerD]

As piss poor of an effort as I’ve ever seen from this team. Holy s***.

[jung]

Joe Castig is beside himself in his own deadpan way. Raising the ghost of the late great Ned Martin. "In a word......MERCY"

[moonslav59]

Good to see the team rise to show Cora who we are.

[Station 13]

 

T O M O R R O W

[moonslav59]

We're closer to .500 than the Guardians.

 

That's sad.

 

We're as close to the 9th best AL record as we are to the 6th best AL record.

 

We're 14th in MLB.

 

0.5 from 15th (NYM)

1.0 from 16th (AZ) and the second tier.

4.0 from 17th (TX)

5.5 from 18th (SFG)

8.0 from 19th (SDP) same as we are from CLE.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I think Lenny Clarke should work the rest of the season with OB. He's the perfect irritating fit for this irritating team.

[a700hitter]

I think there is a very good chance that Cora and his whole coaching staff will be gone at the end of the season. He deserves to go. The effort that he got fro this group was pathetic.

[Slasher9]

WTF kind of effort these past 5 games????

[a700hitter]

WTF kind of effort these past 5 games????

Unwatchable. This team quit right after the trading deadline. Mookie inferred in his comments that the team wasn't happy about the lack of activity at the trading deadline.

[jung]

Unwatchable. This team quit right after the trading deadline. Mookie inferred in his comments that the team wasn't happy about the lack of activity at the trading deadline.

 

Oh I will watch. We already have too many "fans" that don't watch the games and then can claim "well I didn't see that. Must not have happened." My form of fandom does not include deluding myself into thinking this team did not dog its way through the entire season.

 

Was it a tough row to hoe? YES. Was the schedule unfavorable? YES. Was LONDON absurd? YES. Did their manager literally hand them all personalized crutches to lean on all season long. YES. Was exec management oblivious to what they had down in that clubhouse? YES.

 

For clarity sake in the world I come from, there is a difference between an Exec Management team that is unmoved and one that is oblivious.

 

Does that mean the players had the right to swoon before our very eyes and die like dogs? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

How I wish I could say there was not gobs and gobs of historical context for a September Swooning Sox team. But that would again be deluding myself.

[Slasher9]

i think "unwatchable" is just a term. we are all watching. i do hope Clay pitches well today.

[jung]

I count 11 posters and with this one 110 posts and 800 views in the GT from an August high of 343 posts and 3,469 views and a July high of 573 posts and 3,561 views and a June high of 642/7,528. May's high was 336/3043. I would bet the ratings on this game are going to be piss.

 

As I have often said, we forum posters, don't make a sports entertainment market....not even close. But we do provide a sample over time and the relative ups and downs in GT's are probably a near accurate reflection of what is happening out there for numbers in the market in general.

 

But as for watching.....not many.

 

Just for completeness, the low GT post/view numbers for each month:

Sept to date: 84/781

Aug: 33/439

July: 133/1306

June: 141/1414

May: 42/593

Edited September 12, 2019 by jung

[S5Dewey]

I count 11 posters and with this one 110 posts and 800 views in the GT from an August high of 343 posts and 3,469 views and a July high of 573 posts and 3,561 views and a June high of 642/7,528. May's high was 336/3043. I would bet the ratings on this game are going to be piss.

 

As I have often said, we forum posters, don't make a sports entertainment market....not even close. But we do provide a sample over time and the relative ups and downs in GT's are probably a near accurate reflection of what is happening out there for numbers in the market in general.

 

But as for watching.....not many.

 

Just for completeness, the low GT post/view numbers for each month:

Sept to date: 84/781

Aug: 33/439

July: 133/1306

June: 141/1414

May: 42/593

 

I'm not at all sure that's a fair indication of who's watching. Speaking for myself, I find the continual repetition of "these guys suck", "Cora sucks", and of course the Yankees non-troll chiming in occasionally to remind us of exactly how bad the Sox are playing to be something I don't want to deal with AND watching the team lose. And I don't think I'm the only one.

 

Of course the downside is that this is a self-perpetuating issue in that the fewer posters there are in the game thread the less reasonable discussion that takes place so more posters stay away, and so ad infinitum.

 

I usually drop by to see what's going on for chatter in the GT's and I've even gotten into some good conversations there but I don't have the patience to deal with the negativity. Consequently where I used to spend much of the game on the GT I now don't. But that doesn't mean I'm not watching the game.

[Bellhorn04]

I'm not at all sure that's a fair indication of who's watching. Speaking for myself, I find the continual repetition of "these guys suck", "Cora sucks", and of course the Yankees non-troll chiming in occasionally to remind us of exactly how bad the Sox are playing to be something I don't want to deal with AND watching the team lose. And I don't think I'm the only one.

 

Of course the downside is that this is a self-perpetuating issue in that the fewer posters there are in the game thread the less reasonable discussion that takes place so more posters stay away, and so ad infinitum.

 

I usually drop by to see what's going on for chatter in the GT's and I've even gotten into some good conversations there but I don't have the patience to deal with the negativity. Consequently where I used to spend much of the game on the GT I now don't. But that doesn't mean I'm not watching the game.

 

Well said Dewey.

[jung]

Well said Dewey.

 

Then lets ignore the actual ratings. We could just go there. Does that make it easier for you guys?

 

Do you want to do what.....ignore that I also mentioned the actual ratings? Give me a break.