Red Sox (Gray) vs Twins (Abel): 4/14/26, 7:40pm

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

5 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

I’m not in love with Cora, but I think his hands are tied.  He’s got a s***** roster.

As an organization, the Sox are wedded to a crap one size fits all hitting philosophy.  I’d blame Driveline, but the Dodgers use them and they seem to be doing fine.  Of course, they probably paid to hire the Driveline guys who know what they’re doing.  The Sox cheaped out and hired the guys who told Jim Rice to get lost in spring training when some young kid had the audacity to ask a HOF hitter for advice.  These guys may well have ruined Campbell and who knows who else.

Like I posted last week, you can have fun with a very good team or a very bad team. A mediocre team is no fun.

[iortiz]

And if things were not awful enough, Contreras, your best hitter, just left the game. Wow! 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Sox not good at challenges. What is this team good at besides losing?

[FredLynn]

4 minutes ago, iortiz said:

And if things were not awful enough, Contreras, your best hitter, just left the game. Wow! 

It won’t matter 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Mr. Anderson.

[FredLynn]

5 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Like I posted last week, you can have fun with a very good team or a very bad team. A mediocre team is no fun.

They aren’t as good as mediocre 

[illinoisredsox]

3 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Sox not good at challenges. What is this team good at besides losing?

That was an utterly stupid one.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

47 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

It’s 2-0. It’s already over. I changed the channel to watch the Bruins who are a quality franchise and are up 4-0.

Fred, some people here may be recording that game, like myself, and don't want to be informed of the score. This is just for future notice.

[illinoisredsox]

Hey Wilyer, you’re losing 6-0.  Not time for styling.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

8 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Sox not good at challenges. What is this team good at besides losing?

Oh, our OF defense is good. Answered my own question.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Fred, some people here may be recording that game, like myself, and don't want to be informed of the score. This is just for future notice.

Kind of like Fever Pitch.

[illinoisredsox]

1 minute ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Fred, some people here may be recording that game, like myself, and don't want to be informed of the score. This is just for future notice.

He’s a clown.  He’s (supposedly) watching the Bruins but manages to come on here multiple times since he posted that and leave his usual drivel.  I don’t give out ignores very much, but Fred adds nothing and has earned that “honor” from me.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Abel vs Unable.

[FredLynn]

5 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Fred, some people here may be recording that game, like myself, and don't want to be informed of the score. This is just for future notice.

Got it

Didn’t even think about that, 

[illinoisredsox]

1 minute ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Abel vs Unable.

Abel’s a decent pitcher but he’s not this good.

[FredLynn]

3 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

He’s a clown.  He’s (supposedly) watching the Bruins but manages to come on here multiple times since he posted that and leave his usual drivel.  I don’t give out ignores very much, but Fred adds nothing and has earned that “honor” from me.

You’ll miss out on my wisdom. 
Your loss

As I wrote I turned the Flops game off but have been checking the score on game day from time to time. 

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1 minute ago, illinoisredsox said:

He’s a clown.  He’s (supposedly) watching the Bruins but manages to come on here multiple times since he posted that and leave his usual drivel.  I don’t give out ignores very much, but Fred adds nothing and has earned that “honor” from me.

I get it. But his intense negativity may be well founded this season. Sox fans deserve much better than this.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Got it

Didn’t even think about that, 

It's OK. I cancelled the hit on you.

[illinoisredsox]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

I get it. But his intense negativity may be well founded this season. Sox fans deserve much better than this.

I’ll take negativity from guys like you, notin, moonslav and others who post in good times and bad.  I don’t need to read it from guys who only show up when the Sox are losing and are nowhere to be found when things are going well.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Abel’s a decent pitcher but he’s not this good.

Look how good this team made May look.

[FredLynn]

1 minute ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

It's OK. I cancelled the hit on you.

It’s ok

Illinois put one out. Raymond Reddington is at my front door as we speak 

[notin]

17 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

I’m not in love with Cora, but I think his hands are tied.  He’s got a s***** roster.

As an organization, the Sox are wedded to a crap one size fits all hitting philosophy.  I’d blame Driveline, but the Dodgers use them and they seem to be doing fine.  Of course, they probably paid to hire the Driveline guys who know what they’re doing.  The Sox cheaped out and hired the guys who told Jim Rice to get lost in spring training when some young kid had the audacity to ask a HOF hitter for advice.  These guys may well have ruined Campbell and who knows who else.

I don’t by the s***** roster thing.

We’re playing the Twins.  A team that unloaded Danny Coulombe, Griffins Jax, Jhoan Duran, Brock Stewart, Louis Varland, Ty France, Harrison Bader, Willi Castro, Chris Paddock, and Carlos Correa in one weekend ladt year, and in return they got Mick Abel, Taj Bradley and James Outman and a slew of players still in the minors.  Their big offseason additions were Josh Bell, Victor Caratini and Tristan Gray (I know.)  Oh and they lost Pablo López for the year.

Do the Twins have a good roster? Have you seen it ? But they have a good W-L record and are second in the AL in runs scored.  After winning 70 games a year ago.  
 

Look around MLB.  The Sox roster is nowhere  near as bad as many seem to think.  Their performance has been, however…

[FredLynn]

2 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

I’ll take negativity from guys like you, notin, moonslav and others who post in good times and bad.  I don’t need to read it from guys who only show up when the Sox are losing and are nowhere to be found when things are going well.

I show up all the time. When the players deserve compliments I give them out. When the team-especially the owners and management suck-I’ll call them out on it. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

5 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

It’s ok

Illinois put one out. Raymond Reddington is at my front door as we speak 

I always contract with Jules Winnfield.

[FredLynn]

2 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

I always contract with Jules Winnfield.

Reddington is the main character on “Blacklist” in case the reference wasn’t clear. 

[iortiz]

7 minutes ago, notin said:

I don’t by the s***** roster thing.

We’re playing the Twins.  A team that unloaded Danny Coulombe, Griffins Jax, Jhoan Duran, Brock Stewart, Louis Varland, Ty France, Harrison Bader, Willi Castro, Chris Paddock, and Carlos Correa in one weekend ladt year, and in return they got Mick Abel, Taj Bradley and James Outman and a slew of players still in the minors.  Their big offseason additions were Josh Bell, Victor Caratini and Tristan Gray (I know.)  Oh and they lost Pablo López for the year.

Do the Twins have a good roster? Have you seen it ? But they have a good W-L record and are second in the AL in runs scored.  After winning 70 games a year ago.  
 

Look around MLB.  The Sox roster is nowhere  near as bad as many seem to think.  Their performance has been, however…

At what point are we going to accept we are just not a good team? After say… 50 games and being 6 or 7 games under 500?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

7 minutes ago, notin said:

I don’t by the s***** roster thing.

We’re playing the Twins.  A team that unloaded Danny Coulombe, Griffins Jax, Jhoan Duran, Brock Stewart, Louis Varland, Ty France, Harrison Bader, Willi Castro, Chris Paddock, and Carlos Correa in one weekend ladt year, and in return they got Mick Abel, Taj Bradley and James Outman and a slew of players still in the minors.  Their big offseason additions were Josh Bell, Victor Caratini and Tristan Gray (I know.)  Oh and they lost Pablo López for the year.

Do the Twins have a good roster? Have you seen it ? But they have a good W-L record and are second in the AL in runs scored.  After winning 70 games a year ago.  
 

Look around MLB.  The Sox roster is nowhere  near as bad as many seem to think.  Their performance has been, however…

Whether this line-up is good or bad will be largely determined on how both Anthony and Mayer perform offensively this season.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, iortiz said:

At what point are we going to accept we are just not a good team? After say… 50 games and being 6 or 7 games under 500?

I guess that's an individual thing. Some will accept it sooner than others.

[FredLynn]

5 minutes ago, iortiz said:

At what point are we going to accept we are just not a good team? After say… 50 games and being 6 or 7 games under 500?

40 games imo

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48 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Same clown they’ve had the past couple years, Peter Fatse, who stinks at his job.

Heard an interesting thing today that last year, Bregman noticed something with Story, after which Story had a really good last 2/3 of the season.  It wasn’t  Fatse, it was Bregman who turned Trevor around.

It appears Story forgot what Bregman told him.