Game Day Thread 09.07.21 - Rays (Rasmussen) at Red Sox (E Rod)

[illinoisredsox]

Lack of hustle there..

 

Verdugo needs to get his head out of his ass. Maybe he needs to be taken out; Schwarber to left, Dalbec to first.

[jung]

ERod is out pitching Rasmussen to this point but the Rays are just better at hitting good pitches. Rasmussen is leaving too many pitches in the middle of the plate and the Sox are hitting them when they are there to be hit. Whenever I watch the Rays play the Sox or watch the Rays play anybody the overarching feeling is WHO ARE THESE GUYS!!!!

 

Also while there are not many of us the listen to the broadcast guys from NESN, I am so tired of analysis from them meaning:

- telling us how stupid the other team's manager is (wrong year for that)

- how MEH their players are (wrong year for this too)

- how lucky the other team is (this one really boils my ass)

- what so and so Red Sox player's stats are for 3 days in the middle of August

- what the score would be if so and so Sox player just 'caught one good" and hit it over the fence. I know what the score would be and I would rather know if the analyst thinks the hitter should hit behind the runner or bunt or what.

 

The play by play should be the play by play of the game in process and the analysis should be of the game in progress.

Edited September 8, 2021 by jung

[TylerD]

Just tuning in to se…..

 

Ok have a good night.

[d-money]

This guy is complete garbage! I wouldn’t pitch him again. Sayanora and don’t let the door hit you on the way out!!!!

[Maxbialystock]

ERod is out pitching Rasmussen to this point but the Rays are just better at hitting good pitches. Rasmussen is leaving too many pitches in the middle of the plate and the Sox are hitting them when they are there to be hit. Whenever I watch the Rays play the Sox or watch the Rays play anybody overarching feeling is WHO ARE THESE GUYS!!!!

 

Also while there are not many of us the listen to the broadcast guys from NESN, I am so tired of analysis from them meaning:

- telling us how stupid the other team's manager is (wrong year for that)

- how MEH their players are (wrong year for this too)

- what so and so Red Sox player's stats are for 3 days in the middle of August

- what the score would be if so and so Sox player just 'caught one good" and hit it over the fence. I know what the score would be and I would rather know if the analyst thinks the hitter should hit behind the runner or bunt or what.

 

The play by play should be the play by play of the game in process and the analysis should be of the game in progress.

 

You have to be one of the more obtuse fans I can remember encountering. ERod stinks tonight, and the Rays are clobbering him with 6 hits, including 2 doubles, a triple, and a home run.

 

Meanwhile, Rasmussen gave up a lead off single and double in the 2d--putting men on 2d and 3d with no outs--and easily held the Sox to one run off a groundout by Vazquez.

[illinoisredsox]

Somewhere, Dandy Don is starting to croon Turn Out the Lights.

[vegasbob]

It always is perplexing when the one guy who can bomb you turns out to be the guy. As if the pitcher had no idea. Cruz, like Ortiz , is my idea of a DH. He was available this year but we already had a DH

[d-money]

Looks like it will likely be between Toronto and the Mariners for that second wildcard.

[vegasbob]

ERod has already cooked this team tonight but at his pace could cover 5 innings at around 100 pitches. That leaves only 4 innings of relief work . Not quite a quality start but I think Eddie tried hard.

[jung]

You have to be one of the more obtuse fans I can remember encountering. ERod stinks tonight, and the Rays are clobbering him with 6 hits, including 2 doubles, a triple, and a home run.

 

Meanwhile, Rasmussen gave up a lead off single and double in the 2d--putting men on 2d and 3d with no outs--and easily held the Sox to one run off a groundout by Vazquez.

 

The Rays are better at hitting pitchers pitches. They have done it all year and are doing it again tonight. The Sox...NOT SO MUCH. They tend to hit mistakes and miss most everything else. Deal with it. RAfi is the exception. Not sure there is another exception in a Sox uni.

 

And I hate to say it but while you can be rather vulgar and prone to hyperbolic insult, you are usually eating your words by the end of the night.

Edited September 8, 2021 by jung

[d-money]

ERod has already cooked this team tonight but at his pace could cover 5 innings at around 100 pitches. That leaves only 4 innings of relief work . Not quite a quality start but I think Eddie tried hard.

 

 

Eddie’s days as a red sox are dwindling down.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Being the pitching coach for the SOX would be similar to being the fitness coach for Chris Christie. Edited September 8, 2021 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[Maxbialystock]

2 stinking singles by Schwarber and JDM. I love it! Time for Devers to get us back in the game.

[Maxbialystock]

The Rays are better at hitting pitchers pitches. They have done it all year and are doing it again tonight. The Sox...NOT SO MUCH. They tend to hit mistakes and miss most everything else. Deal with it. RAfi is the exception. Not sure there is another exception in a Sox uni.

 

And I hate to say it but while you can be rather vulgar and prone to hyperbolic insult, you are usually eating your words by the end of the night.

 

Hyperbolic, beyond question. Same for eating my words, which I would love to do tonight.

 

But I still think you are obtuse to declare ERod is pitching well when the Rays have nailed him for 5 runs, etc. Ditto for Rasmussen pitching poorly when the Sox have just 1 run in 4 innings.

 

Whoops, there goes another dinger by the Rays, and out comes Cora to pull ERod, who only gave up 6 runs in 3.2 innings--on 2 dingers, a triple, 3 doubles, and 2 singles.

Edited September 8, 2021 by Maxbialystock

[jung]

Oh gee...Zunino hits a pitcher's pitch to Mars. A real shocker that.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

My quality offer to E-rod at the end of the season would be "do you want to leave standing up or do you want to be carried out?"

[TylerD]

My quality offer to E-rod at the end of the season would be "do you want to leave standing up or do you want to be carried out?"

 

I concur.

[jung]

My quality offer to E-rod at the end of the season would be "do you want to leave standing up or do you want to be carried out?"

 

IMO the Sox have a lot of house cleaning to do.

[vegasbob]

Here in the first week of September with 21 more to go, why does anyone care about reaching the WC level, or even winning that game. In any event you will wind up playing these guys who will make you regret that low achievement.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I concur.

 

The SOX should hire Van Damme as GM.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

IMO the Sox have a lot of house cleaning to do.

 

Yup.

[d-money]

If you can’t beat good teams you deserve to go golfing! Ridiculous! You know a team is bad when they can’t take advantage of other team’s struggles.

[jung]

Its analysis comments like Burks just made that drive me nuts. There is 1 out and nobody on and Burks comment on Verdugo is "all he needed to do was put the ball in play". WHAT????? So that dribbler up the middle on that pitch is all we should have expected Ellis....is that what you are saying. Are you saying if that dribbler was gloved and Verdugo was thrown out that would have been fine by you?

[d-money]

Has to be a lot of pressure on this damn front office in the offseason. Obviously they didn’t see us competing this season.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Feliz Navidad!

[vegasbob]

I've seen incapable , stupid pitches but that one to Cruz may be the record holder

[d-money]

You don’t think the rays would love to face Red Sox pitching all year long?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I've seen incapable , stupid pitches but that one to Cruz may be the record holder

 

There's been so many, but, hell, I'll put it in the top 20.

[Maxbialystock]

Has to be a lot of pressure on this damn front office in the offseason. Obviously they didn’t see us competing this season.

 

Probably true. Of course, no one on talksox thought so either.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Has to be a lot of pressure on this damn front office in the offseason. Obviously they didn’t see us competing this season.

 

'Us competing' is probably not sustainable.