mvp 78

Amount of blown saves from his time with the Sox: 1. That's out of 145 appearances out of the pen for the Sox.

4 blown saves for the Yankees in a year and a half. 4 blown saves combined with the Sox, O's, Tiggers, Marlins and Cleveland. Sounds like a good closer to me!

Rain is supposed to clear up by 6. Field will be really wet though.

Now and forever!

I would love for NESN to provide a feed that doesn't include the k zone. That feature just makes me frustrated and generally more likely to be annoyed by the human umpires.

I can't even get away from analytics on the weekend now. Last Sunday, I was setting the lineup for my son's tee-ball team and told them "look, you will all bat in numerical order in the first inning and then in reverse order the second inning because batting order doesn't really matter." One of the kids got upset because she thought she'd be hitting 3rd every inning. She picked up a bat and started wailing against the dugout shouting "I wanted to hit third because that's where the best hitter is supposed to hit! This team needs me to get on base and drive in runs!" I just told her that it doesn't work that way anymore and that the person who hits third doesn't have to be very good anymore. It really shattered her world view.

When the team is playing so well that all you have to argue about is defensive metrics...

Anything can be a good beer if you enjoy drinking it. The Champagne of Beers is great if you're chilling at home eating some nachos and homemade burritos. It's perfectly fine. It's actually better than many micro brews that I've wasted money on. I haven't had one in forever, but I guarantee that if I had a sip of one right now it'd put a smile on my face.

High Life is a good (mass produced) beer. I don't buy it often, but wouldn't turn one down.

Debatable.

Pay the man.

What? He was only going to leave him in for one batter and they had a two run lead. No matter what Sale did there, it wouldn't have lost the lead at that point. Why would anyone bash Cora for the ace pitcher wanting to throw to one more batter with the bases empty, two outs and a two run lead?

That's not how things work around here!

DFA Mookie

Double steal here

Shhhhhh, your bias is showing.

This ump sucks

Finished Financials early this week. Had prepped for today’s Board meeting on Wednesday.

Should be 0-2

Depends on what the eye test is? He looks decent with his glove out there to me, but I just say that due to my extensive scouting and coaching history! His throwing needs work for sure, but I think that's something that can be worked on. He's got the range and athletic ability.

Someone has to be.

Devers has a positive UZR and DRS tho? Aside from the throwing, he's pretty good out there.

I thought it would be fun to bump an old thread for historical purposes. I don't know how often I'll do it, but probably when the mood hits. To me, the best day in TalkSox history is the December 5, 2010. That day, AGon was secretly meeting with the Sox to get a physical for a trade for 3 prospects (reportedly Kelly, Fuentes and Rizzo). Most of us were rather excited over this and would have added additional prospects to the deal to make it happen. While we were all fantasizing about Petco Park spray charts, Jon Heyman (super douchebag number one) decided to throw some cold water onto us. This brought out both the worst and the best of some posters. GoBruins2011, A700 and SCM33 were happy to denounce Theo over and over for being incompetent. Other smart posters were telling everyone to relax and have some patience. That day was a roller coaster of emotion for many posters. If you want to go back and read it, it starts around post #2,015. The following 500 posts that finally conclude with AGon's deal being confirmed as full of classic TalkSox personalities that have either been banned, left in the dustbin of history or dearly passed away. This post is for you, Mike! I know you'd be into it if you were still here.

There are a few: https://www.talksox.com/forum/threads/16597-Your-favorite-red-sox-player(-on-the-current-team) https://www.talksox.com/forum/threads/18244-The-quot-I-Support-I-hate-___-quot-thread I went back to about Jan 2011 and there are some wild, wild threads. PTSD tho.

Rice Pedro Papi Dewey Bill F’n Mueller in that order