Orioles (Baz) vs Red Sox (Early): 6/2/26, 6:45pm

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19 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

That was the most ill advised move on a team with a record of them

It would fill up a double album.

[Duran Is The Man]

22 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

That was the most ill advised move on a team with a record of them

it seems like it's just one stupid move after another. 

[vegasbob]

Weissert may be confused...no runners on base.

This game has the feeling of one of those soft losses where the Sox get beat by a run or two, no big beat down

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Both HR's off Early were on 3-2 counts.

[Duran Is The Man]

if Durbin isn't careful, and keeps hitting, he'll be over the Mendoza Line before long.

[vegasbob]

One big problem for the Sox is that there is no open bench space for the guys to sit down.

Too many drink chests, gear, towels, bubblegum tubs and frankly junk cluttering the resting space

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1 minute ago, vegasbob said:

One big problem for the Sox is that there is no open bench space for the guys to sit down.

Too many drink chests, gear, towels, bubblegum tubs and frankly junk cluttering the resting space

If more of them got on base, there'd be more room to sit.

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Masa's gonna homer.

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2 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Masa's gonna homer.

Or not. However, it was a HR swing.

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18 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Weissert may be confused...no runners on base.

This game has the feeling of one of those soft losses where the Sox get beat by a run or two, no big beat down

A loss is a loss, unless one's main stat of interest is run differential.

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Weissert pounced on that like a cat.

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2 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

A loss is a loss, unless one's main stat of interest is run differential.

Funny, the two years in a row recently when the Sox finished with identical records of 78-84, I never bothered to compare the run differential of those 2 seasons.

[vegasbob]

3 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Funny, the two years in a row recently when the Sox finished with identical records of 78-84, I never bothered to compare the run differential of those 2 seasons.

What's the difference ?

[vegasbob]

Highly ironic that the Sox commemorative bat honoring the Iron Man Gehrig is autographed by Roman Anthony.

You cannot make up stuff that comes out of the Sox offices

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1 minute ago, vegasbob said:

What's the difference ?

Just my complete indifference to the stat known as run differential.

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2 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Highly ironic that the Sox commemorative bat honoring the Iron Man Gehrig is autographed by Roman Anthony.

You cannot make up stuff that comes out of the Sox offices

Well, Gehrig did bat from the left side.

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6 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Highly ironic that the Sox commemorative bat honoring the Iron Man Gehrig is autographed by Roman Anthony.

You cannot make up stuff that comes out of the Sox offices

Did you notice you used 'ironic" and 'iron' in the same sentence? I'm impressed.

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According to Rip Torn, if you can't dodge a baseball, how do you expect to dodge a dodgeball?

[FredLynn]

4-2

Game over

Losing to a better team is nothing to be ashamed of.

[Tedballgame]

Can the Red Sox just offer to play all of their games on the road?

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2 minutes ago, Tedballgame said:

Can the Red Sox just offer to play all of their games on the road?

Instead of playing at Fenway the Sox should play on the thruway.

[Tedballgame]

45 minutes ago, Duran Is The Man said:

if Durbin isn't careful, and keeps hitting, he'll be over the Mendoza Line before long.

No chance. He is one of the worst MLB hitters I have ever seen? 90% of his AB are weak and non-competitive

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When it comes to bad teams, you hear the cliche "this team lost a lot of winnable games."

When it comes to good teams, you never hear the phrase "this team won a lot of losable games."

[vegasbob]

Like I said, just another soft loss to a similar team

Hopwfully all this malperformance leads to bigger changes than just Cora going

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When in Boston come to Fenway to see where Teddy Ballgame and Big Papi played. Stay for no apparent reason.

[vegasbob]

That may have been the weakest bottom 9th with a chance to tie or win.

Nobidy had nothing to offer

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8 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Like I said, just another soft loss to a similar team

Hopwfully all this malperformance leads to bigger changes than just Cora going

Cora's happily thinking this wasn't my fault.

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49 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Highly ironic that the Sox commemorative bat honoring the Iron Man Gehrig is autographed by Roman Anthony.

You cannot make up stuff that comes out of the Sox offices

You can't make up Breslow unless you're a masochist.

[Yaz Fan Since 67]

This team is unwatchable. I was never high on Mayer, he never showed me can hit major league pitching and he may never hit major league pitching.  Just so f'ing depressing.  

We needed Early to be lights out, which of course is ridiculous.  I knew he wasn't sharp when his first pitch was 93 and was as in the middle of the plate you can get.  But he was not the problem, the same old problem was the problem.  

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Alonso now has more homers than all of Boston's #5 batters combined.

Reading the inquiring minds of a foibled fandom, Brez was prepared: "According to our analytics, that fly ball was an anomaly. The trajectory didn't align with projected metrics or even standard units of measurement in regards to the Great Wall of Fenway, which we had to disregard in regards to Alonso, who just didn't align with the starting alignment we were aligning in the offseason.

If you feel terribly strongly about our terribly weak offense at home, you should all travel to away games with us to really enjoy our optimized assault in games where you can acquire tickets for good seats that you can actually sit in where you don't have to cross your arms all night at a fraction of the cost of where we always lose."