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What a nice take by Will there. Please God he deserves to e rewarded here

Good to see Will lay off of that thing. But that first pitch...oh my.....how I wish he had that one back

WMB should be able to do something with this guy

Well the issue with this is that Looney is not a threat to hit it out and the Rays only have a guy on 1st. So we challenge the guy with 32 HR's and scurry for the hills for the guy with 9 or 6 or some s*** like that.

Stay calm Jake

God Damn it...

Escobar had to be looking for that

Well that sucked

Boy did that ever sound like more Rays cheerleading from the booth. I just don't get it.

He really has been pressing

Thought that was wrist for a second....elbow isn't so hot but wrist is scary.

Come on Ells get something going

Well at least not all of them are playing tight tonight. Pedey still seems to play playing that he is a watch spring that has been overwound. Genius Maddon may be walking his own self made plank though the way he is running pitchers in here, he is going to run into one that just does not have it somewhere along the way.

Way too close a pitch to take with two strikes Salty

That is one of the things that drives me nuts about Naps. When did strike 3 ever look like a pitch he could pull? Either take a swing that at least gives you a shot to make contact or try to foul the ball off and hope for a better pitch to come. But to take that swing at that pitch...just forget it.

At least the Sox are getting on...hitting the ball hard and the Rays have had to completely change their pitching plan for tonight. Want this to be another grind it out game like games 1 and 2. Wipe the grins off those Rays faces. Lets beat this guys in their own garbage dump...tonight

Sox have a great shot to close out the Rays tonight. Should be able to get on Hellickson and either drive his pitch count up or drive his pitch count up while plating runs. Would be great to end this tonight, Announce team is so bad that by the end of last night my stomach was completely tied in knots. Kept thinking it could not get worse but a half hour later I would be telling myself that somehow it had gotten worse.

What completely floors me about Farrell's comment about the pitch to Longoria is that he claimed to "not even have considered" pitching around Longoria. His exact words were "he never considered walking Longoria" because it would have meant bringing the winning run to the plate. That is another example of my biggest complaint about Farrell and his in-game decision making. He does not make good situational decisions. I don't give a rats ass about some long dead unwritten rule of baseball that says you don't risk bringing the winning run to the plate when it means you do something as stupid as challenging the only hitter in the Rays lineup that could have beat you last night hitting in the only situation where he could have beaten you. We had a 3-0 lead that we had built over several innings against the Rays when Longoria came up with two men on...in position to completely wipe out that effort with one swing of the bat....the only guy in their lineup that really brings that potential to the plate, especially when you consider how easily Buch was dispatching with Myers. While Buch was dispatching with Myers with ease, he was not pitching up to his potential last night and instead was battling the whole way. While an out and out intentional pass to Longoria may not have been called for, Buch had on several occasions last night not been willing to throw strikes to batters far less capable than Longoria choosing instead to try to get them to chase with virtually every pitch. So the most capable hitter they have comes up in the one situation where he can wipe out your entire offensive effort with one swing of the bat and that is the guy you decide to challenge!.....with two outs... a base open and a guy on deck that you had made look like the fresh faced kid he is with every AB. Sorry but that is just plain dumb. At least now I know why nobody came out and talked to Buch about pitching around Longoria.....the Sox brain trust apparently thought it a bad idea and apparently still does not understand how damaging it was to pitch to him. Nobody and I mean nobody in that Rays lineup held in his hands the ability to wipe out a three run lead with one swing of the bat. I don't think there is a single chance in this world that the Rays could have tied and eventually past the Sox if we had gotten past Longoria in that situation. The Rays simply do not have enough offensive firepower to have caught us with a three run lead going into the latter part of the game if you take the bat out of Longoria's hands.

And I would not be so fast to anoint the Rays as series winners based on tomorrow's outcome. at least I don't want the Sox playing tight baseball again. They played tight today and that did not work out so good.

Sox played and Managed a tight ...bad game....Stubborn ass Farrell needs to figure out he is in the post season now and stop his regular season ********. We had our foot on their necks but played like this was some spring game in April and it bit us right in the ass. Farrell needs to smarten up and the Sox need to loosen up and play like they can. We played down to the Rays level today and as a result it just turned into a free for all with both teams unable to win the game....just boiled down to one team losing it before the other team had a final chance to lose it. And yes or said it the way I said it...if you were going to be so ballsy as to take Ortiz out then make the players play to the plan. If not leave him there where he belongs. I did not think they should have taken him out either...especially the way the Sox played the rest of that inning. Honestly though that was only one of several in game gaffs that Farrell made.

Well this game had it all.....including a Ueh HR. Like I said, maybe getting a game like this out of our system was due.

Yea but it has been an ugly game all game long and if it goes extras it will be ugly for both teams......just a crazy game....

I thought sure Rodney was going to throw that into right field

Well I guess we were due for a game like this....all of our cluster f*** games have been TOTAL cluster f*** games and this is another one. Ferrell f***ed up, players f***ed up....just handed the game away as the Rays were trying to hand it to us...who knows...maybe the Rays will hand it back On the bright side, standard fair for us after one of these total cluster f*** games has been to get back to business. We may not have noticed in all of this but the Rays still can't hit their way out of a paper bag and Cobb was really their best shot after the games in Boston. All we had to do here was do what we said we could not do on page two of this game thread.....NOT LET LONGORIA BEAT YOU.....If we just paid attention to that one rule....series over. Longoria's pitiful record against Taz might have been worth considering just as an example. Hey maybe the Rays will hand this game back...if not maybe we will be smarter tomorrow.

Well like I said before my problem with pulling Ortiz was that Farrell did not then make the players play to the plan. Nor did he build a plan around the players...Instead they did neither. As for XBI have no idea why XB gets no time at all. It is almost like he is in Farrell's dog house and has been from the minute he showed up...don't understand it