Youk Of The Nation

The Yankees radio postgame show said it was the quickest since 1999, and the 1999 game was a Sox win at Fenway so it was only 8.5 innings.

40 strikes and 16 balls for Wright. That's mind-boggling from a knuckleballer.

Severino getting close to 100 pitches. Hopefully this will be his last inning. I'd like to see Betances thrown to the wolves. Heh. Betances with wolves.

Inventing a time machine and bringing Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemki, and Cy Young from the peak of their Red Sox careers into 2016 to play for the Sox is more realistic at this point than getting Mike Trout for anything except a package that would guarantee incredible production from one spot but completely wipe out the depth at all of the others. Mike Trout is probably the best player in baseball, but the Angels haven't won jack since he came up. Why? Because other than Trout and about 30 percent of what Albert Pujols used to be, they have forgettable talent at every other position. That should prove pretty conclusively that one guy isn't going to bring in back-to-back-to-back championships. Bankrupting the team's future to try and secure wins in the present never works out well in the end. The Yankees did it to get the 2009 World Series Championship, and look what happened to them. Since 2010 they've played 10 LCS games and won only two of them, and they only made it that far because of a dearth of true competition in those year's AL lineups.

Second deck, too. He always swings like he's going for the long ball, and he basically screws himself into the ground when he misses. Like the announcers said, it was inevitable that he'd catch up to one eventually.

What? I was 23 in 2010. I'm old enough to have had a kid long before 2010.

I almost forgot it. I really don't care that much about it anymore. I'm going to be 30 next year, not looking forward to that.

Hopefully it won't come to that, but if it does, I'll take it! I really don't see the Sox getting swept by this awful team, though.

That's all I'm asking, and I appreciate your response. As for the other thing, we were referring to a former user whose name was "Dutchy". Some of your early posts, i.e. "Farrell too busy beating his little penis", were very similar to the kind of stuff he posted, so we were reminded of him. That post I mentioned actually made me check your IP address, but the very fact that you toned it down after the first time I asked you to proved pretty conclusively that you weren't him. He was incapable of acting like a normal human being.

I'm making this Gamethread for two reasons. 1. I think I'm due for a good streak, and I think the Sox are primed for one after the tough losses of the last two days. 2. My birthday is on Monday. I like to start the Gamethread on my birthday, even though I don't get to every time, and I don't want to take the risk. If I waited, and the Sox win tomorrow (and they will), I would have to defer to whichever user created the Sunday Gamethread. So, Happy Mother's Day to all of our moms and grandmas (even the mothers of those of you I don't like, it's not your mom's fault you're such jerks), and let's settle in and watch our team kick some slow, decrepit Yankee butt.

No. StephenCurry30 is capable of normal posting. Dutchy was not.

Listening to the Mets announcers you'd think Colon just hit a walk-off grand slam in Game 7 of the World Series.

I didn't say "all 13 year olds". I said "a 13 year old who just discovered the internet". As in, the immature little brats who get online for the first time and realize they can say all the stuff their parents won't let them say, and run all over the internet joining message boards dedicated to topics they don't care about just so they can post "LOL penis! *******! Suck a dick!" for the novelty value of it.

There's nothing wrong with occasional profanity, and no one said there was. Your problem was that about nine or ten of your first fifteen posts contained almost nothing of value, only the words "ding dong" "butthole" or various forms of "suck his own dick" and the like. Curse every once in a while if you want, but people don't come to TalkSox to read posts that look like they were written by a 13-year old who just discovered the internet.

My feedback on that would be basically a trimmed-down version of my original post. "Soft topics" don't need their own thread most of the time. You can just make the comment in an existing thread where it somewhat conforms to the original topic. A perfect example would be last night. Someone, I don't remember who, created a thread called "Takestrikeoneitis" and the opening post was simply a statement that a couple players on the Sox are suffering from it. That was a post that could have been made and commented on within the gamethread that was currently running. Another example would be the thread the other day about why no one calls Pedroia "The Destroia". "Soft" topics or thoughts that are inspired by events unfolding in live games can almost always spark a better discussion within the Gamethreads than they can as separate threads that will quickly die when a "soft" topic loses its hook.

This is the same stuff people were saying about Lackey and Lester after the debacle of a season that was 2012. If you recall, the following year, both of them played a somewhat important role in the World Series championship. I'm not saying Sandoval hasn't sucked so far. I'm not even saying that he might come back and be worthy of his contract, because I honestly don't believe he will. But I also think we can complain about the signing, his poor performance on the field, or his poor performance in the batter's box without resorting to attacking Sandoval as a person. Accusing him of being high or anything like that isn't exactly a strong foundation on which to build an opinion.

Papi-Hanley-Shaw-Holt up next. I have confidence in the Sox's ability to score at least two more runs.

After 2003 I remember thinking "s***, what did I get into here? Is it always going to be like this? Well, that sucks. It's gonna be a long life." I have always felt vaguely guilty that I didn't have to suffer through a lifetime of disappointment. I got two seasons of pretty good Red Sox baseball in the postseason, despite the losses, and then suddenly they were the World Series Champions.

He's given up two runs. He wasn't going to pitch like he has the first few games every time. Relax a little.

You guys are so dumb. How can you even think these things when Chase Headley already has it wrapped up a month into the season?

I've said it a thousand times and I'll say it now. I'm really, really going to miss David Ortiz. Unlike a lot of you, I have not been a baseball fan all my life. I didn't really pay attention to or care about it until 2002, when my dad took me to a game and I got hooked. It was an April game against the Royals, Wakefield was the winner. Anyways, I was a fan from that moment on. Still, it is very recent as fandom goes, and that 2002 season was the only season I ever saw without David Ortiz. 14 years of Red Sox fandom, and 13 of them have been backed up by the awesome power of Big Papi. It's going to be very strange for me to see someone else regularly playing in the DH spot. EDIT: Holy crap. I just looked up the boxscore of that game. I had no idea Jeremy Affeldt has been around that long.

Yes, a thread discussing last night's game belongs in last night's Gamethread.

That was my fault. I merged another thread with this one but forgot to specify the destination forum, and it kicked it automatically to the main Sox forum. All fixed now!

I agree wholeheartedly. The Yankees are always scumbags. We can pity them when they're terrible, but it is the pity of the superior, the kind that you bestow upon someone not out of genuine remorse for their situation, but out of a sense of obligation, because society tells us we must pity those less fortunate than us, even when it was their own hubris that brought their situation down upon them. We pity them as some distant corner of our minds pity the primitive brain and scant emotions of a dying cockroach as we scrape it from the bottom of our shoe on the edge of a piece of concrete. But we never, ever allow ourselves to like them.

This thread is meant mainly for our new members from the former BDC boards. You guys are great, and you've brought a lot of new blood into the Red Sox and general baseball discussions on this site, which can only be good. This is not a warning of any kind, just a friendly suggestion from the guy whose job it is to keep the forum navigable and uncluttered. In the short time since you all arrived, you have created nearly as many threads as the rest of our members combined over the few months before you joined. We all appreciate your opinions and comments, just as much as we appreciate those of our longtime members. However, every passing thought or comment does not necessitate it's own new thread. If everyone created a thread for the same "topics" that have popped up over the last week or two, we would quickly end up with hundreds of active threads, many of which would only have a handful of posts before falling into disuse. Limiting the number of active threads has always allowed our members to keep track of, and participate in, any discussion or debate happening on TalkSox without too much trouble. We want everyone to be able to offer their own insights (even the Yankees fans, in the grandest tradition of Evelyn Hall). So, going forward, just think about the thread you want to create. Is the opening topic likely to need a separate thread for involved discussion? - Specific comments about in-game occurrences or performances can generally be posted in that day's Gamethread. They could also be posted in existing threads dedicated to discussion about specific players (the Travis Shaw thread, the Pablo Sandoval thread, the David Ortiz retirement thread, et cetera). - Comments or insights about general happenings for the Red Sox or baseball in general can almost always be posted in the 2016 Red Sox Season discussion thread, or the Yankees Season discussion thread, or the General Baseball Gamethread. In fact, we could (and should, and will) start a 2016 Baseball Discussion Thread in the General Baseball forum, we usually have one and I'm surprised we don't at this point. There are plenty of topics that absolutely deserve their own threads. A player getting busted for PEDs, major or minor trades as the season goes on, questions meant to spark an interesting conversation (i.e., "The Sox Player of the Month for April". That's an excellent idea by one of our new members, and I think it should be a regular thing at the end of the month going forward.) Some of you may be posting multiple threads in order to involve yourself in the conversations between more established members. You have no need to worry around here. Make your observations, make your opinions known in any of our threads on any topic, people will respond to you. I promise none of our new members will be ignored. Thank you for listening! Your benevolent despot, YOTN