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Well though I am not the only fan to have figured this team out before the first regular season pitch was thrown, as predicted, the hitting is inconsistent, the pitching is well on the way to being exposed and while the actual error count has tapered off to something reasonable, they still make too many fundamental fielding mistakes that cost runs but don't show up in the error count. They are exactly where most of us thought they would be, a 500 team bumping along a game or two over with the potential to be a game or two under. I do wish the NESN broadcast crew would stop trying to pump them as if they are headed to post season glory. They are fun to watch. That should be enough for us this year considering Henry's apparent disinterest. That said, the Sox are not a boring team. They have interesting players that are fun to watch. They are fun to watch independently and as a team. That is more than I had hoped for. I thought they could well be boring while being mediocre in a league full of absolute stiffs for teams. That at least IMO has not happened. Martin's incoherent comment about bunting was a disappointment. Interesting that a guy sporting grey hair is still a child. A lotta' that going around these days.

Well though I am not the only fan to have figured this team out before the first regular season pitch was thrown, as predicted, the hitting is inconsistent, the pitching is well on the way to being exposed and while the actual error count has tapered off to something reasonable, they still make too many fundamental fielding mistakes that cost runs but don't show up in the error count. They are exactly where most of us thought they would be, a 500 team bumping along a game or two over with the potential to be a game or two under. I do wish the NESN broadcast crew would stop trying to pump them as if they are headed to post season glory. They are fun to watch. That should be enough for us this year considering Henry's apparent disinterest. Martin's incoherent comment about bunting was a disappointment. Interesting that a guy sporting grey hair is still a child. A lotta' that going around these days. That said, the Sox are not a boring team. They have interesting players that are fun to watch. They are fun to watch independently and as a team. That is more than I had hoped for. I thought they could well be boring while being mediocre in a league full of absolute stiffs for teams. That at least IMO has not happened.

Stayed away once the game started. Didn't want to jinx it. Just an unbelievable pitching performance. Youk kept saying the Guardians were overanxious. I don't think so. They were overmatched....especially the RH Hitters.

When I post at all,...its sarcasm. I virtually only posted two or three times last year because the forum did not deserve my caustic sarcasm. This year, we deserve everything we get.

A freudian slip I assume.

Well I just saw tonight's lineup on Red Sox First Pitch. I would comment further but it has sent me to an early visit to the liquor cabinet.

We are going to be driven to drink not just by the errors that are scored as errors but those that are not, like throwing to the wrong base and DP's not made. This is a thoughtless team of athletic specimens that simply are incapable of using their noddles, that is with the exception of middle infield where I don't know what those guys are, missing links maybe. Even Rafi can make very athletic plays at 3rd that can be defined by a quick step left or right and a stab with his glove. When he is confronted with a ball hit right at him or when he has to quickly calculate moving up or back or staying put to make a play he really has trouble. IMO, Xander was his day in day out fielding guide.

The Sox recent pitching acquisitions tells you that the pitching which has been more reliable than either the hitting or GOD HELP UP the fielding won't hold up. - Janson, not on the back nine....but at the 19th hole - Giolito, how many innings on that arm? That was more of a gamble than an effort to actually shore up the pitching staff. Bello is our #1 but he is not an Ace as yet and he may never be an Ace. Pavetta is on the shelf with elbow strain The rest of them are a collection of guys that were destined to the pen. While Whit and Houck have performed admirably within the context of contemporary starting pitching the rest of the staff has not been able to accommodate the added workload even when a starter takes it into the 6th inning. 18 games in and some of them are already taxed by the workload. So with a pitching staff that is already showing signs of sinking into the sunset after a near heroic effort (SAVE JANSON), inconsistent hitting and Keystone Kops fielding when do we think this team might beat a decent to good ML club? Could it be today? Maybe. They haven't done it so far.

Wong!!!!!

If Devers is genuinely still sore shouldered, I would sit him until he is right. He is more likely to either screw up the shoulder more or screw up his swing if he keeps playing with a bum shoulder.

I won't have to watch SNL this season. Watching the Red Sox is just about all the comedy I can handle. Of course, another error in RF and Wong sticks his leg out and blocks the plate.

Gessus....we are so short of glove hands we have to have a member of the grounds crew as the 1st base side ball boy?????

Heck his shot was 442. That gives him more right to woof at Teddy Baseball that Casas and his puny 429 shot.

A pop-up. Somebody tackle Rafi.

Not only that but it points out the utter folly of trying to teach fundamentals in the ML's. Suppose you have a guy that simply defies instruction. Now what? You have a guy taking a spot on your ML roster that is NEVER going to be a ML player. But of course modern computer geekery says everybody can play everywhere. The usual result of that thinking is that nobody can play anywhere.

Casas put his glove down the only place that he could have missed the runner.

Move Sean McDonough over to TV. I am not sure we would ever be able to get up off the floor.

Casas inner Ricky Henderson makes an untimely appearance.

Hamilton in at SS. That should work.....NOT

Why oh why do we have two games threads and which one should we post in?

Hamilton in at SS. That should work.....NOT

I don't care what else they do as long as Hamilton does not see another half inning at SS. That said, this team is stocked with guys ready to move to DH for the next decade.

Well Rafi is not much of a 3rd baseman. I will grant you that. He is somewhere between abysmal and mediocre at 3rd. While he likely was too far out into LF, he caught the ball and held it and still took a galloping stride or two before the collision. O'Neill for his part appears never to have known where Rafi was which was why the collision was so violent. Neither player knew where he was on the field.

So Rafi stayed in the game but is going to go through the Concussion Protocol according to Cora. How does that make any sense?

My apologies...I thought it was Duran out there in the near three way collision in the OF. It was Rafaela playing CF. As to the earlier question about moving Rafaela to CF. I would have done ANYTHING to keep Hamilton off SS. Whatever it took.