Red Sox (Fitts) vs Angels (Kikuchi): 6/25/25, 4:07pm

[Bellhorn04]

Virtually every game is a struggle for this team.  Very few comfortable wins.

[drewski6]

12 hours ago, Duran Is The Man said:

don't forget: Breslow said after the Raffy trade: "I do think there’s a real chance that at the end of the season, we’re looking back and we’ve won more games than we otherwise would have." 

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

is Breslow on drugs?? or clueless??

Im sick of the overly optimistic GM speak.  Its empty suit after empty suit, toeing the company line.

[drewski6]

6 hours ago, notin said:

Small samples but it is obvious what happened.

i dont get why they didn’t wait until July 31st.  Devers was probably being a complete tool, but he didn’t let it affect his hitting.  Did Devers give some sort of deadline?  Did SF?

So now Breslow has to pretend to be a buyer for 6 weeks while the offense flounders and no one will sell him the replace he wants.  (Why is Breslow ignoring that Toro stopped hitting, for example?)

Exactly.  This is exactly what ive been thinking / saying.  "We plan to be buyers at the deadline" - okay - if you go .400 between Devers trade and the deadline , will it matter.

Either they are delusional or lying to us when they are like we are gonna still win in 2025 (just like full throttle comment).  Its played out.  

[mvp 78]

1 hour ago, drewski6 said:

Exactly.  This is exactly what ive been thinking / saying.  "We plan to be buyers at the deadline" - okay - if you go .400 between Devers trade and the deadline , will it matter.

Either they are delusional or lying to us when they are like we are gonna still win in 2025 (just like full throttle comment).  Its played out.  

He will look like the biggest dum dum if this falls apart in the next 30 days. He's declared they'll win more games without Devers and that they'll be buyers. I get that he wanted to ring the positivity horn and try to move the dialogue, but sometimes you can get your point across without having to explicitly use those terms. 

[moonslav59]

12 hours ago, Jasonbay44 said:

Red Sox in the 9 games before trading Rafael Devers: 7-2 (5.6 runs per game)

Red Sox in the 9 games since trading Rafael Devers: 3-6 (3.1 runs per game)

Max is gonna get upset.

It's the pitching!

[Jean-Sébastien Blouin]

 

The next few games will tell us if this team can bounce back. They have played 13 of the last 16 games before the All-Star break.

[vegasbob]

5 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

When I lived out there, the Angels had well known issues with rats at their stadium. Is this still the case? 

Went there Monday and saw no rats except the pretenders in the visitors dugout.

[mvp 78]

8 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Went there Monday and saw no rats except the pretenders in the visitors dugout.

Good to know. I never went to Anaheim because of it and just went to Doyer Stadium instead. 

[drewski6]

21 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

He will look like the biggest dum dum if this falls apart in the next 30 days. He's declared they'll win more games without Devers and that they'll be buyers. I get that he wanted to ring the positivity horn and try to move the dialogue, but sometimes you can get your point across without having to explicitly use those terms. 

Maybe Breslow deserves to not pay the price for the context. That this is far from the first time weve heard Sox brass lipstick up an ugly situation.  Maybe its unfair to not separate Bres from past comments that werent specifically made by him.

Im beyond sick of it though.

We'll keep hearing it though. After this year: "we are ALL IN on doing EVERYTHING we can to field a winning team"

[mvp 78]

25 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Maybe Breslow deserves to not pay the price for the context. That this is far from the first time weve heard Sox brass lipstick up an ugly situation.  Maybe its unfair to not separate Bres from past comments that werent specifically made by him.

Im beyond sick of it though.

We'll keep hearing it though. After this year: "we are ALL IN on doing EVERYTHING we can to field a winning team"

That's different than straight up saying "we're going to win more games and be buyers at the deadline." I'd rather just the mealy mouthed word salad. 

[drewski6]

5 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

That's different than straight up saying "we're going to win more games and be buyers at the deadline." I'd rather just the mealy mouthed word salad. 

Thats a whole different debate - would you rather hear: GM cliche meaningless words or specifics that are off the wall silly

My frustrations with the former still make me unwilling to listen to the latter. Im just sick of hearing nonsense.

Everytime anybody talks in this org, they make me angrier. Except the dude who called Bres a f'ing stiff. That dude NEEDS to be president. At least he's got sense.

[drewski6]

In my experience, "mealy-mouthed" folks generally catch a stunner.

[drewski6]

I remember when they told Theo that Ben Cherrington sounded like him, and Theo was like "I love Ben , but he talks like a stiff" (I think his actual word choice was robotic)

Its almost like we're often run by a malfunctioning AI.  GMBOT says - trade your best players (boop bop beep)

[drewski6]

Im a nerdy Jew and Breslow lost me. Thats impressive in a way.

[drewski6]

Fire everybody (except Theo), make a 3 person executive team: Theo, Stone Cold, and the dude who called Breslow a stiff.

Thats my solution.

[mvp 78]

21 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Fire everybody (except Theo), make a 3 person executive team: Theo, Stone Cold, and the dude who called Breslow a stiff.

Thats my solution.

I'd fire Theo. It's obvious he's not giving Breslow proper advise. 

[mvp 78]

28 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Thats a whole different debate - would you rather hear: GM cliche meaningless words or specifics that are off the wall silly

My frustrations with the former still make me unwilling to listen to the latter. Im just sick of hearing nonsense.

Everytime anybody talks in this org, they make me angrier. Except the dude who called Bres a f'ing stiff. That dude NEEDS to be president. At least he's got sense.

I'd rather the cliche than them straight up lying about being buyers and winning more games without Devers.