September 19th: Red Sox at Rangers

[vegasbob]

If Cora had any pride, he would resign after this season. I would think no manager wants to end his contract with 3 straight last place finishes.

 

Don't worry, if the Ownership hires a CBO/GM type with top level MLB experience, Cora will be gone because he accepts the losing. If an in-house committee of Romero-O'Halloran, and others is the answer , then you will get 4 more years of muddled results. Time for a true house cleaning upstairs

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Great finish by the weak sisters of the AL East.

 

The sisters may be weak, but they still charge a lot for their services.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Don't worry, if the Ownership hires a CBO/GM type with top level MLB experience, Cora will be gone because he accepts the losing. If an in-house committee of Romero-O'Halloran, and others is the answer , then you will get 4 more years of muddled results. Time for a true house cleaning upstairs

 

No one wants Cora gone more than me.

[moonslav59]

You can only win the one you are playing. Yesterday's gone. My real concern with this team and , by inference, with Cora, is the lack of intensity it takes to win. This is not an exciting team with players who pull wins out of defeats. It doesn't matter that they have already chalked up another lost season , it matters that they do not know how to win.

 

The legacy of Bloom will be a rebuilt farm system, always helpful, and a MLB level team that just accepts defeat over and over with no visible reaction. They are passive, not aggressive. They are defeated in their profession.

 

The past is the past, yet you brought up that long ago homer by Devers.

[Maxbialystock]

Great finish by the weak sisters of the AL East.

 

AL East has the best W-L record in MLB. I agree this hasn't been a good season, but your whining is excessive. The Sox haven't had good pitching since 2018, but they weren't half bad 2 years ago--not two decades ago as your whining seems to suggest--when they got to the ALCS.

[Maxbialystock]

You can only win the one you are playing. Yesterday's gone. My real concern with this team and , by inference, with Cora, is the lack of intensity it takes to win. This is not an exciting team with players who pull wins out of defeats. It doesn't matter that they have already chalked up another lost season , it matters that they do not know how to win.

 

The legacy of Bloom will be a rebuilt farm system, always helpful, and a MLB level team that just accepts defeat over and over with no visible reaction. They are passive, not aggressive. They are defeated in their profession.

 

Sheer blather. Intensity and aggressiveness are apt football terms but ill-suited for MLB where hitting and pitching require relaxed attention and focus.

[Duran Is The Man]

If Cora had any pride, he would resign after this season. I would think no manager wants to end his contract with 3 straight last place finishes.

 

that would be nice. i know several on here love him, but i've had about all the Cora i can stand.

[illinoisredsox]

Sheer blather. Intensity and aggressiveness are apt football terms but ill-suited for MLB where hitting and pitching require relaxed attention and focus.

 

Extremely well said.

[Bellhorn04]

Don't worry, if the Ownership hires a CBO/GM type with top level MLB experience, Cora will be gone because he accepts the losing. If an in-house committee of Romero-O'Halloran, and others is the answer , then you will get 4 more years of muddled results. Time for a true house cleaning upstairs

 

The days of fire and brimstone managers are gone.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Sheer blather. Intensity and aggressiveness are apt football terms but ill-suited for MLB where hitting and pitching require relaxed attention and focus.

 

Great line, Max. Teammates also can't block for each other or slap the pitcher's arm to weaken the pitch.

 

Baseball is the sum deeds of isolated individuals.

[Bellhorn04]

No one wants Cora gone more than me.

 

You didn't like Francona or Farrell either, am I right? But you liked Don Zimmer.

[Bellhorn04]

Old Schoolers tend to think Buck Showalter is a good manager, even though he's never taken a team to the World Series, and oversaw the Mets expensive disaster this year.

[moonslav59]

You didn't like Francona or Farrell either, am I right? But you liked Don Zimmer.

 

It doesn't matter who the manager is, if they make a choice, like they do dozens of times a game, and a couple don't work, they suck.

[mvp 78]

The days of fire and brimstone managers are gone.

 

The old heads got very excited during the Spring Training that Bobby V was running drills...