August 25th Jays vs. Red Sox

[Tedballgame]

I do not want to see Duran, Dalbec, Cordero, Plawecki, Barnes, Davis, Braiser ever wearing a Red Sox uniform again.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

He's from my hometown.

 

And I think we both agree about cora as well.....

 

Yup.

[a700hitter]

2 down and one to go and our .100 hitter is up as the last out.

[iortiz]

He will K

 

At this point this team is mentally done.

 

Wonder if stats can figure out these kind of intangibles.

[a700hitter]

Totally pathetic.

[Tedballgame]

Red Sox fans are fools to keep paying money to go see that team. Stop going and send a message to ownership that this crap product isn't going to cut it.

[a700hitter]

Fire Cora and give Tek job and I will feel better.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I do not want to see Duran, Dalbec, Cordero, Plawecki, Barnes, Davis, Braiser ever wearing a Red Sox uniform again.

 

What about Cora?

[Tedballgame]

Why in the world did Bloom hang on to JDM, Hill, Eovaldi, Bogey, or Kike at the deadline? What an idiot.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Fire Cora and give Tek job and I will feel better.

 

Like I've posted more than once, 1st year managers have been very successful for the SOX in recent years.

[Tedballgame]

What about Cora?

 

Him too.

[Tedballgame]

I love the Red Sox but I hate this team.

[harmony]

The Seattle Mariners needed the Red Sox to take one or two of three games from the Blue Jays. ;-(

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I love the Red Sox but I hate this team.

 

I think you've perfectly described the feelings of many on this board.

[Oscars]

FFS!!!

3/20 with RISP .

Absolute bums

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The Seattle Mariners needed the Red Sox to take one or two of three games from the Blue Jays. ;-(

 

Beware of Albatrosses.

[JDavis76]

At this point this team is mentally done.

 

Wonder if stats can figure out these kind of intangibles.

 

Just ask and I'm sure moon can put together a 4 page novela on it.....

[FredLynn]

John Henry owes the fans an apology

[Tedballgame]

The Seattle Mariners needed the Red Sox to take one or two of three games from the Blue Jays. ;-(

 

Who gives a crap about the Seattle mariners?

[Tedballgame]

John Henry owes the fans an apology

 

He owes paying customers a refund!!!!

[iortiz]

He owes paying customers a refund!!!!

 

but they sang Sweet Caroline lol

[Tedballgame]

Story 3-4 with a homer tonight for Portland. Get him back to Boston. Connor Wong 2 homers and 5 RBI tonight for Worcester. Hitting .278. Call him up and DFA Plawecki.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

but they sang Sweet Caroline lol

 

And Neil Diamond is a Yankem fan.

[vegasbob]

Story 3-4 with a homer tonight for Portland. Get him back to Boston. Connor Wong 2 homers and 5 RBI tonight for Worcester. Hitting .278. Call him up and DFA Plawecki.

 

Because that is what the case will be after October 5th anyway, so do it now.

[vegasbob]

I think you've perfectly described the feelings of many on this board.

 

Much agreed on all counts. There is no substance in this bunch to get excited about or interested in

[vegasbob]

After we lose this game, I will feel better if Cora gets fired tomorrow.

 

I may be reading the contract info incorrectly, but my interpretation is that it is up to the Sox to exercise Cora's go forward option, not the other way around. It will not surprise me in any way, if the team does not renew Alex Cora. He was given an incompetent roster , then got ruinous injuries along the way , but in the end they did not win. Worse they did not compete except for in the dream month of June. Alex needs to go but not sure if Tek wants the headaches coming with a major turnover in personnel. It may be easier though with a new clubhouse group.

[vegasbob]

Now it could look like kind of "obvious" (and still), but at the time, nobody thought that they were going to "officially" collapse in August and September. Most of the board thought we were nuts lol

 

Not at all, you could see so many signs that despite the success in June, that this team was not well constructed, was injured with no depth , and had an odd--non winning vibe about it. Not to mention weak pitching and an inability to drive in runs from the middle of the lineup. I had no idea there was a major collapse in our future but I knew this wasn't a championship type team.

 

I thought all the FA contracts should have been traded at the deadline, when they were already beginning to slide. I think the problem was, nobody else wanted/need3ed them.

[vegasbob]

If they trigger the option, its 2 years for 26 million. If they don't exercise it, Paxton can opt in at 4 million a year for one year.

 

Let him opt in then and go FA next time around. Good filler material for the yearbook

[vegasbob]

You guys are so freaking spoiled you don't even realize that by citing those 4 specific years you have very obviously skipped over World Series wins in 2013 and 2018--to say nothing getting the the ALCS in 2021.

 

To Max and many others with all good memories. Yes, having been a sentient fan since the early 1950's , the wait for 2004 and 2007. and 2013. and especially 2018 were interminable . I missed the 1946 loss to the Cardinals since I was born a month later. The disappointments in '67, '75 , '86 , the '78 playoff game, etc, etc, were really awful. The 2021 run over the Yankees and challenge to the Astros gave great encouragement that they were ready yet again.

 

The much more recent WS wins were fantastic and still are. But why is it necessary for this team to be so up one year and in the dumpster the next ? The yo-yo effect is disconcerting and affects my vertigo. This current bunch of non-competitive FO, field management and roster is disheartening. This leads to changes and some are definitely coming.

[vegasbob]

I apologize for the stream of entries to the thread but am reading all of your comments only well after the game since I went out for dinner and only now followed the detail of yet another failure ( loss)