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I think it was Mr AllToHonest Eck that said a couple weeks ago "How do you pitch with an anxiety issue"??" Sometimes Eck just makes too much sense.

So James is still here. Farrell is not. They don't take constantly as they did with Farrell. So explain to me again how that tendency is on James and not Farrell? The truth is Farrell fell in love with it in 2013 and never seemed to realize that 2013 was the last year that made any sense at all. It just got worse and worse every year thereafter to the point where we witnessed complete insanity.

This team is so bad that Gibby actually has me feeling sorry for him after all these years. If they had a Holt they would name him mayor of Toronto and erect a statue

No question about it...they are more aggressive than they were under Farrell who had them taking no matter what...who the starting pitcher was, game situation, you name it. I would not be surprised if the team finally said, OK *******, this is what you want, this is what you are going to get. Christ I am going to swing at two horrible pitches just to get to where you want me to be even FASTER. Farrell appeared to be in love with 2-2 or 3-2 counts.

JBJ should keep going oppos until he is sick of it and then he should go oppos some more.

It has finally got to the point where I no longer understand the scoring in MLB. That was the last piece. They have finally done it and after 60 years of involvement in one way or another, I now understand nothing about MLB.

Very nice job by Erod. Notice he did have a dominant secondary pitch today. Again as it was last time it was his Change. Only 7k's which means he was getting outs on contact instead of struggling trying to K the lineup. 6.2 innings to 100 pitches. Not bad for eddie. Not bad for anybody in this day and age.

If fact, the way 2018 MLB baseball travels if JBJ would just make contact with the darned thing and occasionally get any part of the barrel of the bat on it, he would end up with more HR's as well. We're getting broken bat HR's this year. So it doesn't take much.

I would like to see his OPS higher. But his career BA means he is constantly threatening the Mendoza line. Just hit me .250 and crawl up to a .750 OPS and I will take that. Even just the .250...I will take that on a team that is really depending on its rotation and a strong 1-6 in the batting order. The rotation pays the bills around here if you want to talk about wins then defense supports the rotation that is paying the bills. Not much sense in pinning for better hitting out of 7-9 when 1-6 is really where the runs are going to come from. Actually if anything I would prefer our Catchers be better receivers and defenders as catchers than they have shown so far this year than worry about how much hitting Vaz or Sandy are or are not doing. They need to improve their defense and they need to be not more than decent bat handlers at the plate. That is what irks me about bench guys and guys down in the order not being able to handle the bat. Move the ball to the opposite field. Get me a fly ball when I need it. Get me a bunt when I need it and I will take the hit you give one out of every 4-5 AB's. That is really all those guys should be able to do.

I should also point out that JBJ's .235BA is not far from what we always said would be fine by us, a .250 and maybe a .750-.775 OPS. Crash was right and he is right. The dif between .235 and .250 is a dying quail, an infield hit, a seeing eye per week at most. But JBJ cannot go up there and just swing at air AB after AB or he will not get hat dying quail or infield hit per week. He is what he is. His swing has too many moving parts and he simply cannot either control them nor does he even make much of an effort to recognize what is happening to them enough to change his career slash profile. JBJ thinks his swing is not changing and he refuses to modify it when in fact its changing all the time. He let that torso mess of his get so out of hand in 2014 that he was literally turning himself into a corkscrew in the batters box. While dropping his front shoulder is getting it out of the way of his head thus preventing him from tilting his head to the point where he can't even see the ball into the strike zone, he will go too far with that eventually...bet the mortgage on it and he will be turning his whole upper body into the strike zone before too long. Christ Catchers will be complaining that he is blocking their effort to catch the ball. Sorry to sound sarcastic. But I have simply watched too many JBJ AB's and he is now too much of an old dog. He's not going to change. He would have to completely rebuild his swing to a much quieter swing and then we would have to graft JD's head onto JBJ's body so that JBJ thought about hitting the way JD thinks about hitting. JD does not care what his swing feels like. He cares what his swing looks like. If it looks right, the feel will come. If as a hitter, you depend on feel, you might feel great and have the worst swing anybody ever saw. If we can't tell that is what JBJ has been doing for 6 years at least, we have just not been watching.

For a week

I know Cora figures he can beat the Jays with Pawtucket if he had to. He is not far wrong. Just hope Pedey and Mookie are OK and just being saved for the Astros series.

Well in truth neither Pom nor Rick have enough movement on their FB's to just keep the ball low. They have to change hitters eye levels and when they go upstairs, they have to entice a swing while not encouraging contact. So both of these guys have to go up and down. Rick has more ammo in that regard than Pom. What is hurting Pom right now is that he has lost so much off his 4 seam FB that half of the equation for him is more or less off the table. The only decision I would question from Cora regarding Rick was keeping Rick in to pitch to Grandy who has compiled a nice record v Rick over the years. Rick was throwing nothing at that point. He was done. Sox were lucky to come out of that particular AB just giving up two runs instead of three or even seeing Grandy take Rick out of the park. This baseball just goes like a rocket if the hitter gets even a part of the barrel of the bat onto it. So that was something of a risky move IMO.

Kelly is just so confident right now. He is doing everything asked of him at this point.

I think they said Rick got the error although the scoring has been so crazy this season you cannot even tell if it stays what the announcers announce before its all said and done.

Funny how that inning came apart for rick all the way to the point where he was just throwing nothing to a guy that has hurt him in the past. A couple more runs here would help the cause.

Rick is actually lucky that did not turn out worse. He was not making pitches to Grandy at all. Could have easily tagged that good and turned this into a 1 run game.

Porcello not making pitches to Granderson.

I think Kelly is up. Just started at the mound visit.

Porcello falling asleep. Falling for Gibby's master plan.

Good thing Gibby is not afraid to pull a cork.

Don't fall asleep here Sox. Just put these guys away.

Poor Gibby...after all those years when he should have been canned because he had teams that should have done much better, he finally has a team he rates. Watch, THIS will be the year they can him. Thats baseball.

I remember that. As long ago as that was, it was that impressive.

Smoak, Hernandez, Pillar are the Jays three everyday players.