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Does our crack medical staff bear any responsibility?

Has there been any confirmation whether Pablow will return on Tuesday?

Evil ex-wife is redundant .... no?

Jacko is ready to prep him for surgery.

I appreciate all the drilling into the numbers for clues and the conclusions that things will turn around unless the dreaded "enigma" rears its head. However, there is an element that gets overlooked and I don't know if it is quantifiable. That is that good teams figure out a way to win games and bad teams find new ways to lose games.

This ESPN Sunday Night announcing crew is insufferable. If you replaced them with 3 rocks, the intelligence in the booth would not go down a tick.

Earlier in the week, the Giants played a 15 or 16 inning game and by the end it looked like there were more Seagulls at the stadium than fans. I stopped watching because it became very annoying and distracting that the Gulls were flying in front of the center field camera.

Is Farrell going to send ERod out for the 9th? I would.

He's a .756 career OPS guy. That doesn't excite me for a first baseman.

It is astonishing how few runs we have put up against a team that has made so many errors in this series.

The A's have 4 errors today. They are awful. How have the Red Sox lost 3 games to them?

Run Mookie that is fine. He should always have the green light, but we have some slugs. Running into outs on the bases is not the best way to produce runs.

Excellent instincts by Mookie. Unfortunately, Farrell's instincts suck. We would have a nice 1 out rally going here, but Farrell killed it.

Why is Farrell running slow-assed Pedroia?

Daring base running by Mookie today, but very smart base running. There wasn't a play made on him in either instance.

A's already have 3 errors and the Red Sox cannot get more than 2 runs. Need to capitalize.

If a sweep would be enough to seal Farrell's doom, I would be ambivalent about the outcome.

Enigmas all over the league!

He is a headless ballplayer both in the field and on the bases.

If they can have a middle of the pack offense, the team will be fine, but middle of the pack will be quite a climb.

A quick rhythm is a pitcher's friend.

They all play by the book. Very few manage well to game situations. Bochy might be the best one in today's game. Last post season, Francona used Miller early and often for extended outings, because his starting rotation was decimated with injuries. Necessity is the mother of invention. After watching Francona's success, the copycats have been out in force this season. Farrell has used Kimbrel 2 or 3 times in the 8th inning when the game was on the line. Ditto Terry Collins of the Mets who has used Addison Russell in the 7th inning when he was the 8th inning guy, and he used Familia in the 8th. The copycats will do the new strategy to death like a formula even after it ceases to be effective or necessary. It is like how all of these doofuses do the shift to death -- even using it on .240 bottom of the order hitters with no pop who can rarely square up a ball. It is asinine. Last Sunday night, the Astros were up 10-4 in the 7th inning with 1 out and Gardner gets on first base. With Sanchez up, they overshift to the left side of the infield and hold the runner on first base leaving the entire right side of the infield vacated. There was just so much that was stupid about that alignment that even the clueless ESPN trio that was busy taking turns leaving hickeys on Jeter's ass questioned why they woud be holding on a runner when they needed 7 more outs and were up 6 runs. So many times in 9th inning situations where teams are up multiple runs against left hand hitters, managers will hold the runner and play double play dept at second and SS leaving a huge hole for a ground ball. Why are they giving the batter that hole and worrying about the runner when you need 2 or 3 more outs. It leaves you shaking your head.

And they would kill it on Dancing with the Stars.

When the weather warms up, he will start hitting HRs. I think he will get at least 15.

Have you read or heard that?