jacksonianmarch

Boone hasn't done s*** with the lineup. Our bottom of the order is f***ing dead. Sanchez still playing is absolutely baffling. You gotta play Romine

Gotta keep it at 3-1. Cannot let it creep. Greinke is not fooling us right now and he is likely to be out of the game after the 4th

Tanaka wriggled off the hook. Not liking the umps zone. Bad calls for both sides

Gonna need more against Greinke. Damnit!

First rally against Tanaka. Let's see if he can wriggle off the hook

Judge got a cockshot and missed it. Damn

Tanaka is toying with them

No, they're going with him on full rest tomorrow then Cole in game 6 on short rest. Weird to me. I'd only throw Cole on short rest if I was facing elimination

Lol, Cole and Verlander aren't pitching tonight. We are gonna score some runs.

Could I call it or what. Sanchez is such a f***ing bum

My audience was not you guys per se, it was the Astros. Don't worry though, Gary will come to the rescue and get behind then K

1-0 you f***ing f***s

These Astros have gotten so f***ing lucky. Missiles left and right getting caught on their side and just out of our gloves for others. Balls dying at the fence for us, balls reaching the first row for them. Man, we gotta capitalize here

Huge game tomorrow. Postponed already

If you are generalizing based on a few knuckleheads then how bout we generalize the few racist punks hurling taunts at Adam Jones and other black athletes and just label all sox fans as racist. That works. By your terminology, I am a scumbag and you're a racist.

That’s pretty pathetic of you. So what you’re saying is you’re all racists?

It’s a snakebit year. The PCL injury would have been season ending had we not made the playoffs. I mean, think about how unlucky you’ve got to be He gets biceps tendinitis due to the cold and probably due to working out too hard in the offseason (like a lot of guys). He had a Minor shoulder issue they decided to deal with at the same time just to “get ahead of it”. They anticipated a 2-4 week timetable. The shoulder responded very poorly to the cortisone prompting a second injection and ended up being a 2 month absence. Sometimes, you just need to leave s*** alone! The guy is finally okay from the arm issues, he goes down to the minors and gets hit in the calf by a pitch. This caused a minor calf tear that knocked him out for another 3 weeks. He finally returns, comes to the bigs, kills it for a week and then sprains his knee sliding face first into third base. A PCL tear is usually a 3-4 month injury depending on the severity. He came back in 2 months saying he wasn’t fully healed. While favoring the knee, he pulls his quad. I’m at the point with Stanton where we just need to shelve him. It’s a snakebit season

I'd prefer they do that to be entirely honest. The Yanks can have trouble vs rookies with good stuff. Urquidy runs it up there 93-94 and shows pristine command. The Greinke who shows up in the postseason isn't the guy who throws during the year. He was shelled twice in the postseason and was throwing 88mph in game 1 vs the Yanks. I'd be pretty confident with a Yankee stadium game in the playoffs vs a diminished Greinke with whomever we throw, pen game or not.

Thick on "ra-ra" thin on substance.

This is what you call a team being eaten up by the moment. The second the Nats walked into StL, the Cards just gave up. Total s*** stomping.

Boone should be getting skewered. You're going up against a team with a decided advantage in the rotation. Your advantage is in the pen. You HAVE to know your pen. You HAVE to know your opponent. The fact that he has brought in Ottavino TWICE to face Springer shows a complete ignorance of the analytics that he was brought in to use and enact. And it isnt like the inning droned on and he faced Springer. No, the FIRST f***ING BATTER OTTAVINO FACED WAS SPRINGER!! Might as well have kept Girardi if we are gonna go by feel. Ottavino is struggling and I get wanting to try and give him a jump start. But he is a breaking ball pitcher. Why the ever living f*** do you bring him in against the guy who had the 3rd highest batting average against breaking balls IN ALL OF BASEBALL!!! It isn't like it's a f***ing secret. Fox has it broadcast everywhere. To beat the Astros in a short series you either need to hope they are off (like they were during last year's ALCS) or you have to be perfect. Boone has been anything but. Also, why the f***ing reluctance to use Romine. Sanchez cannot hit right now. He is in one of his cold spells and we need a guy who can at least make some f***ing contact. Sit his ass down and see if a benching gets his bat going. Why even have Stanton on the damn roster if he cannot run. I get not wanting to burn him for the world series, but we aren't getting there if we have to carry his dead weight. Tauchman is ready to return, bring his ass in. Also, why waste our time with the corpse of Sabathia. He's now a situational lefty against a team with only one good lefty. Not worth it. Bring in Voit and see if he can do better than EE, who has sucked it hard this series. We have to shake it up a bit. We will have a rainout tomorrow and hope to get s*** going game 4. We have to be perfect the next 2 games at home. No choice at this point. Then we hope we can take one in Houston vs the twin titans. I said at the beginning that we need to sweep the games Greinke pitches and the BP games and just take one vs Cole or Verlander. That hasn't changed. This bitch is gonna go 7

We need 3. I’d punt today with our pitcher for the 9th, if we hold fine. Tomorrow (or more likely Thursday) will be absolutely critical. We have to win EVERY game not pitched by the two titans and take just one vs the paired aces.

That’s not really the case here. We are built to use those weapons. The sequencing of use is absolutely critical. He uses Kahnle vs the bottom of the order and Ottovino vs the top. Springer has struggled vs changeups and hard fastballs which is Kahnle’s arsenal yet crushes sliders. This is the second f***ing game in a row where he’s brought Ottovino into the game to face Springer! Why!

Ottavino has been struggling. He is especially bad vs Springer. So why the ever living f*** do you bring him in TO FACE SPRINGER?

No, this is what happens when your f***ing idiot manager doesn’t know when to use his fading reliever. Awful managing from Boone. Absolutely horrendous