Red Sox (May) vs Yankees (Rodon): 8/24/25, 7:10pm

[d-money]

Already this guy having control issues .

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Foul tip one off this jerk's mask. May improve his vision.

[jad]

19 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

I was a very aggressive player who always went all out. I was a bit of a hothead, at times, but the weed mellowed me out.

I was a little overweight in HS, but dropped 30 pounds my freshman year and somehow I got way better at everything. I'm not trying to brag, but I figured I was pretty good when I once asked to be subbed out in that championship b-ball game and the guy on the bench said, "Are you crazy? I'm not going in for YOU!"

At about that age, I gave up my athletic career (which looked better on paper than on the field) as my weight got to 190.  I stopped drinking and then got a job on a fishing boat.  I lost 60 pounds that summer and have maintained that weight for the last 58 years.

[d-money]

f***ing 🤡 Afraid to challenge hitters .

[Tedballgame]

Walking the first two batters of the game is usually a recipe for disaster except when you get a double play

[d-money]

Huge DP. Get out of this inning. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

DP is a man's best friend.

[Tedballgame]

May escapes

[moonslav59]

2 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

I wouldn’t expect a team completely made up of above average players. I am quite sure that’s never happened. So as I wrote as long as there aren’t any or many black holes on the team we can afford one or two on our hypothetical championship team. 

Okay, but you also said more than half our players "suck," and we easily have more than 13 above average players, even if you don't count defense and runnings as highly as I do or bWAR/fWAR do.

While Romy & Ref fall short of the 250 cutoff for the top 270 players in MLB by playing time, both are way above average in hitting. They are even top 30 vs LHPs. Of the 9 guys above 250 PAs, 6 are above ,735. Rafaela is at .714 and Toro & Campbell ar not on the 26 anymore. The Lowe/Romy and Abreu/Ref platoons are clearly way above average, as are Bregman, Story, Duran and Narvaez. That's 6 slost better than average and Rafaela above for me but not you. I can't see anyone saying "He sucks." That leaves maybe 2 slots out of 9 that could be called "Suck" DH and 2B. Our bench has carried us, including Romy, Ref, Anthony and others.

#135 in fWAR is at 1.5. The bottom 1/3 would be at 0.8 and lower. The Sox have 7 guys over 2.0 with Romy at 1.1 and Ref at 0.8.

The pitching side has more players that could be called bottom 1/3 or close to it, but we do have 5 guys at 1.0 fWAR or more. #135 among pitchers is about 1.0 to 1.1. The bottom 1/3 starts at about 0.6 or 0.7 and below. We have 6 above that, but one is Dobbins. We also have Bernardino and Weissert at 0.5 and 0.3, but one can say with merit, they are both below average, I guess.

I see these guys as easily above average:

Crochet, Chapman, Bello, Giolito Whitlock with Weissert & Bernardino as not "sucking." That's 5-7 pitchers out of 13 and not counting Dobbins and other injured players.

Bregman, Duran, Story, Rafaela, Abreu, Narvaez, Anthony, Refsnyder & Romy with Mayer as "not sucking". That's 9-10 out of 13.

Combined, I see 14 minimum as being above average and 17-18 out of 26 as clearly not sucking... maybe more.

[d-money]

That DP was huge. Hooe he settles down. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Stanton's been given a green light on the bases.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Rodon,'s facial hair isn't large enough. There's still some face showing.

[d-money]

Everytime the sox have a huge scoring game the next game they hardly score. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If my dog had a face like Rodon's, I'd shave his azz and make him walk backwards.

[d-money]

I hope may settles down here. 

[FredLynn]

Not sure I like Rafaela doing interviews while he’s playing 

[d-money]

Thanks may *******. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

It's just Dust In the wind.

[Tedballgame]

Looks like I can start concentrating on my fantasy football draft instead of the baseball game.

[Tedballgame]

1 minute ago, FredLynn said:

Not sure I like Rafaela doing interviews while he’s playing 

I mute those in game interviews. Dumbest thing ever. Trying to play a hard game and they have to answer stupid, mundane questions.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I liked ESPN when they covered Australian Rules Football.

[d-money]

May may not even keep us in this game .

[d-money]

What a f***ing struggle for this guy. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Kinda old to be still called Chipper.

[FredLynn]

This home plate umpire is blind

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Rafaela was born with a glove in his hand. Tough pregnancy for his mom.

[Nineintime]

5 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Not sure I like Rafaela doing interviews while he’s playing 

It’s dumb and I wish ESPN would just stop doing them.  It’s distracting and awkward 

[Maxbialystock]

38 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

I improved a lot after high school, but going to Notre Dame made it impossible to ever come close to making a team.

They did have a very competitive interhall league, including football with pads and basketball that included all state players left and right, including some foot ball players. My hall won the Football championship my freshman year (I played WR and DB) and my senior year (I was the QB.) We won the B-ball championship my freshman year and I led the team in scoring in the championship game. (The highlight of my sports career.) At baseball, we were not good. My only shining moments were on defense. I remember making an ungodly throw to home plate in the bottom of the ninth (1 run game), just in time to nail the runner, but the catcher dropped it. Such is life.

Another time, I was in CF and a ball wa s*** over my head and to my right. I turned and ran to the exact spot and turned just in time to see the ball like right next to me, and I stabbed my glove out in a downward motion and somehow caught it on the down swoop.  I'm still not sure how that was humanly possible.

I played a lot of basketball and baseball after college, but after I blew out my knee, it was softball only. I used to watch all sports and dabbled in fantasy football, but now I watch only baseball, a lot.

I played one unforgettable summer of Babe Ruth League and made the all-star team--and never played baseball again.  I switched to basketball, made the varsity high school team, and almost made the freshman team in college (much smaller than ND),    I also played straight pool, billiards, ping-pong, hockey, soccer, hand ball, racquetball, squash, golf, tennis, flag football, volleyball, and duplicate bridge.  I played basketball competitively (with refs) untiI I was 40.  I competed in 3 mini-triathlons in my late 40's, I could still max the Army PT test (2 mile run, pushups, situps) when I was 52.   By age 60, however, I was limited to walking and golf.  

Baseball, especially MLB, is for me the best sport to watch in person.  I've watched games in Washington (old stadium and new) Philly, Baltimore, KC, and of course Fenway.  I still watch college basketball, but not much NBA or NFL.  I like watching the Olympics, Qoe

29 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Anthony called out on two balls out of the zone 

Good point.  

[iortiz]

This guy is not a starter. Not in this world. He lacks of control and obviously of command. Hence he throws a lot of pitches. He’s not even a No. 5. He can be used as a BP arm though. He can say whatever he wants, but reality is what it is. Next year we are going to need a couple of arm. Hopefully Crawford and Sandoval are ready. 

[d-money]

Score and get back in this game.