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That inning was all Weiter's fault. Kept putting down the sign for hanging breaking ball and Feldman just kept throwing it.;)

Oh my God Feldman is a joke so far.

Feldman is throwing such crap right now...crush him

This is the way they should have gone after s*** head Feldman last time.

It would be nice to be gracious in victory and all but Showalter is a card carrying *******. He has had opportunities to be gracious and keep his mouth shut but NOOOOOOO!! f*** him. Slaughter these bums and leave Showalter stewing in his own turkey juices.

WMB has to develop an approach at the plate. It does not have to be based on the kinds of things the Sox seemed to be insistent on earlier this year but he has to have an approach. That swing of his absolutely begs to be attached to an approach that is consistent with it. He has time to develop it since he is so damned young. I just wish he showed more interest in developing it even at his young age. I sure as hell hope he does not think he has one now because he doesn't. He swings at too many s*** pitches and lets too many good pitches go by for me to think what he has now is an approach of any sort. If he wants to "let it ripe" he absolutely can do that but he does have to have an approach going to the plate. As a part of that effort his pitch recognition has got to get better. As was mentioned earlier by another poster, Ortiz is a free swinger. He lets it ripe virtually every time he steps to the plate. But he knows what he is looking for and he knows what pitches he should avoid even if they are in the strike zone. David very rarely deviates from his approach. When he does Ortiz clearly sees it as a mistake. You can see his frustration and disappointment almost immediately. David does not hide it very well. And yes, David's pitch recognition is outstanding.

The only changes for the better at D&C have been the addition of Minnihan, at least a younger, more reasoned voice. In addition, they have finally been convinced to drop that OTHER topic for which they know nothing...politics. They are terrible. Each has an iron clad contract but I expect both will be gone when their contracts expire. The M&M boys and that whack job Mike Adams is the best WEEI has to offer at present. Salk and Holly are also a pair of know-nothings. Holly is however better than Salk who is just grating. Spent too much time in the Pacific Northwest and I think he should have stayed there. Finally Felger and Maz at the other station each alone would be a disaster I think. However together they are not bad. They benefit from the lack of good choices in afternoon drive time. D&C did sort of come out from behind the mask the other day in defending Holly's interview with Belechik. Holly got under Belechik's skin by asking just a dumb as dirt question and then following that up with a dumber than dirt question. D&C immediately jumped to Holly's defense rationalizing that irritating BB to that extent made "great radio". Thanks guys...as if I did not already know it. Great radio does not involve the exchange of worthwhile information or discussion of any merit. Great radio is defined as the ability to get under somebody's skin to such an extent that he reacts as you would expect any normal human being with important things to do to react when one of you idiots cannot even get it together enough to ask a coherent question.

His HR to right was another up and out over the plate pitch which he can hit and hit for power. It is a reaction swing for hime which is often a little late but it is still a pitch he can handle and has handled for as long as we have seen him hit. The GSHR was an inside pitch that he was fooled on. He started his hips way too early, ended up completely off balance with one foot off the ground and still hit it out just by dropping the head on the ball. I really don't consider either out of character for him. Both were in different ways testaments to his natural power.

He can do it. If Chris Davis could do it and James Looney could do it, Will can. The question is....will he. Seems to me one problem he has had is that the Sox have tried to push him in the wrong direction. That was a waste of time. From appearances it would seem that the Sox and Will have reached some sort of an uneasy peace on the subject. Maybe that means that what progress Will makes from here he will have to make on his own. They maybe won't push him in the wrong direction any longer but that might be all the help he gets. Pitchers have not been pitching him the same way since he came back. That is not unusual. Going down is like pressing the reset button. They pitched him like they had to figure him out all over again for awhile and that has actually helped his numbers some. Lately they have been drifting back to his sore spot. Why????? Because it is still his sore spot. That has produced what is being referred to as his "mini-slump". He still does not have a process at the plate...Thats plain as day. But he is very very young even considering this is baseball where maturity only occasionally rears its head.He is a babe in swaddling blanket. I think he is stronger than people give him credit for....just does not give himself enough opportunity to show it......yet! All we can do and all the Sox can do is watch and wait. Giving up on him now could easily turn out to be their biggest blunder since Jeff Bagwell. That said I am not expecting a great post season out of Will....not this year.

Depends on how vulnerable he makes himself at the plate. Up and over the plate he can hit with a reaction swing and he has enough power to drive that pitch a long way when he does hit it. We have seen that time and time again. If he would just be looking for the inside pitch more with less than two strikes, he would hit it better and that is where he just crushes balls. If he narrowed up his strike zone with less than two strikes it would help him avoid swinging at those s*** pitches that he just cannot hit if his life depended on it and simply pounds right into the ground even when his bat does on the rare occasion actually find one.

If WMB could just figure out how to lay off the s*** he can't hit with a boat oar he would be so much better off. Even if he could just see those pitches he would be much better off. Not quite Chris Davis in waiting but the Davis story is somewhat similar.

IMO what the Sox have done this year is at least as hard as dealing with a couple of juggernauts. It really takes a special bunch of modern baseball players, most of them with guaranteed contracts to have been as steadfastly dedicated to this process of generating offense. I would not take what we have seen this year and use it to determine that simply plugging in more mid-tier players will work as well. Sox will probably be left having to determine if even they can continue like this in 2014 or beyond...... a thousand more pitches looked at than the next best team in that regard...are you kidding me???? A guy being a mid-tier player is no guarantee that he will sign up and agree to buy into what has been an almost team-wide adherence to a process and a plate approach. Not sure there is a formula for what they are doing....they surely did not expect it either.

f***ing A's had to end up with a lost game somewhere in here. Five straight wins for them. About time a few lost games start coming their way. Another Angels win today combined with a Sox win tonight would be a beautiful thing.

Really has fizzled the closer he got to the end of games. Sitting on the shelf for seven days probably did not help him any either. However he was headed the wrong way before the seven day sit. Sox are likely going to end up putting a real load on Demps shoulders coming out of the pen post season. Not sure where else they can go.

Come on Angels. f***ing A's have won 5 straight.

This has sure been a suck s*** game. Sox usual biggest problem...how do they get the ball to Ueh without being eaten alive if the starter only goes 6.

Ells back in tomorrow...that is great news

And that is all WMB will ever do with that pitch with that swing of his. This is like a bad movie that just keeps rerunning.

John is hangin' some pitches in a bad place to hang pitches.

Rest that foot of his and give Ortiz a bit more time at 1st.

Well s***

Boy the last few opposing pitchers have just gone after WMB right in that vulnerable spot of his.

Well this is little of what happens when a pitcher goes strike 1 as often as John did in his last start. It almost always helps to just try to be a bit finer in your next game after a game like John had. He was just ridiculous with strike 1 last time out.

Never really had a prob with my iphone...although I think I will skip 5 and wait for 6 or ultimately just switch off of an apple device. But iOS7 is just plain butt ugly. Maybe the more I do I will find things I like about it. but so far.....nope!

Any idea why Thunder? I have not even tried since just downloading iOS7 to my iphone yesterday. So far, I despise the thing and I have not even run into something I can't do yet. Why release something that is categorically worse at everything?