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  1. jung
    I am beginning to wonder if this is thing with Bogaerts is a sign of something of a difference of opinion between Farrell and BC. There is simply no sense in bringing Bogaerts up when they did to do what they are doing with him...none what so ever. They should have waited if they were going to do this with him.
  2. jung
    Jeez...Gammons leaves and Rish stays....thats f***ed up
  3. jung
    As usual it looks like we will have to wait for the starter to get boosted to score some runs. This is why I call this a "tense" offense. Fans are constantly waiting for us to put some runs up. Starting pitchers are under a lotta' pressure because they are rarely pitching with a lead. However it is what the Red Sox do....and while it is a nervous way to play baseball...it has worked pretty good here in the regular season...at least coupled with our own starting pitching being really really good for the most part.
  4. jung
    Why did NESN but Rish in the booth tonight anyway? I don't get that. Gammons with Don and Eck would have been fun.
  5. jung
    forty six pitches on one hit. What a laugh. Farrell should be ringing the dinner bell for the Sox hitters again tonight round about the 5th or 6th inning.
  6. jung
    Unlike Tillman last night, at least Santiago is sticking to the script. Must have thrown thirty pitches anyway.
  7. jung
    Glad you could attend. I have been cleaning my vinyl clapboards and just got close enough to finish to call it a night. Around these parts this job is like taking your life in your hands. My neighborhood is literally carved out of the New Hampshire forests and while all you have to do to see deer, wild turkeys and even an occasional bear in my neighborhood is wake up really early in the morning, it also means there are all sorts of little screaming meanings hiding in your clapboards waiting to jump out at you. You either get stung and sometimes pretty badly or you might die of a heart attack when one leaps out and lands right on your nose. You end up feeling like you are outgunned in a stare down since you only have two eyes ant "IT" might have six hundred or so.
  8. jung
    What...no happy meal!
  9. jung
    There is nothing wrong with the concept of closers. Paying them the way the PA would like them paid is stupid but there is nothing wrong with closers. Nothing wrong with set up men either. However there is tons wrong with the notion of "elite" set up men. It is all a pile of bull crap designed to make us want what we don't have. "Oh gosh we have just got to have an elite set up man, regardless of what it costs". The PA grinds this s*** out of some back room at PA Headquarters hoping we lap it up.
  10. jung
    Gone as well are the Gibson, Drysdale, Ford, Kolfax, Marachal kind of starter. Hence the new categories between the Starter and the Closer. Not sure what baseball is going to do about the reestablishment of pitching as the dominant feature of baseball. Even widespread use of PED's has not staved that off enough to matter. Football's biggest problem is obviously concussion. Baseball's is a bit more basic. Does Baseball want four hour 10-9 ballgames or three hour 4-3 ballgames?
  11. jung
    Johnson must have been watching Tillman. Tillman got the Sox out all night the same way Johnson got Salty out.
  12. jung
    Davis you dummy...how about dummy instead of Crush.
  13. jung
    Well remember Ortiz has never been able to hit high heat...worked himself into the worst slump of his Red Sox life trying one year. Ortiz reminds me a little of how AGonz tried to fight it when he slumped. Ortiz looks like he thinks the way to get out of this slump is just insist that pitchers are going to go back to pitching to him the way they did earlier in the season and that is not going to happen. For example...he knows how to tattoo the LF wall...he just refuses to do it. It is like the only way he is going to be satisfied ending this thing is with a big bomb pulled over the RF wall and the more he swings like that, the more pitchers pitch to it. At this point he would do as well to close his eyes and hope his bat runs into something!
  14. jung
    Well they have moved on from Steroids to boutique formulas that are very hard to test for. But these guys really do not look like the steriod users looked. Remember how bloated Bonds and Canseco and McGwire and Clemens and all of them looked? They looked like balloon people. They didn't just look big...they looked weird! I just do not know how we just sat there and accepted their ******** answers....I guess we just really did not want to know the truth as much as anything else.
  15. jung
    Thing is Lester CAN pitch better than he pitched tonight. We see some guys pitch and we know that's it...."he ain't never gettin' better". But Jon can pitch better than he pitched tonight.
  16. jung
    And that is why Jon is gun shy now...he knows he is barely surviving out there tonight. His cutter would be OK if he could just throw the damned FB for strikes that are not catching so much plate. He is either wild in the strike zone or wild off the plate with the FB and that is really the pitch that is killing him tonight.
  17. jung
    Good job by Jon there although Wieters bailed him out swinging at ball 4. Jon is really gun shy now as he does not feel like he can get anything close to a strike by the RH hitters. Cost him that run as that is why he walked Jones. LH pitchers have to be damned near perfect to survive in Fenway.
  18. jung
    Jon is getting a little gun shy with so many balls getting into the air. Sorta' gave in to Jones there.
  19. jung
    This actually looks more like the kind of game Jon can pitch in one of those big western parks. O's hitters are getting a lotta' balls in the air against Jon tonight.
  20. jung
    Tillman is not sticking to the script. He is either using the breaking ball to set Sox hitters up or he is using it as an out pitch with two strikes. He has really got the Sox hitters crossed up cause they have no idea which one of those two approaches he is going to use to get them out since both are working.
  21. jung
    The point is Jon has to pitch really well to succeed in Fenway Park. Just because he has done well does not mean it is not a stressful situation for him. You have to pitch inside to succeed whether you are a RH or LH pitcher. But there is a very fine line between success and failure pitching inside for a LH pitcher pitching to RH hitters in Fenway Park. Part of Jons reputation for being cutter happy has been earned because it is the pitch he has the most confidence in pitching to RH hitters in Fenway Park. If they are laying for it though, it can really be a problem for him, especially if he is catching a bit too much plate with his FB. That is really what happened to him last inning. The O's hitters were laying for that cutter and Jon's FB was just catching too much plate to get it by hitters.
  22. jung
    Jon has such a hard time in Fenway. Keeps trying to sneak that cutter in under the hands of the RH hitters and they know it....they are right on it. Result...another night when Jon's cutter totals might be ridiculous unless he realizes they are just laying for it.
  23. jung
    Don't give it up to this guy Jon
  24. jung
    Don't know how he does not end up with at least a busted knuckle on that.
  25. jung
    Be interesting to see how the O's respond to this. The Sox are putting them in a very small box now even with just a lead of any kind.....pressure is going to be enormous on them these next couple innings.
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