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Absolutely.... for about a thousand reasons, Fenway RF is not a place JD should ever visit. The sun just happens to be one more heaped on the pile.

I really don't know why Cora went to Weber today and I really wish Weber all the best every time he toes the rubber. That just made no sense to me. As for Brewer, he is like using a dull knife to commit ritual suicide. You might die, you might not.

Oh and look at penis head...wearing a yellow wrist band trying to make nicey-nice with the Boston crowd.

God he is just such a pain. "Here let me just toss a pain in the ass hit in here just for an exclamation point". And oh let me steal a bag while at it.

All you can do (and I know you know this) is angle on to the sun right away, as soon as the ball is hit at you. The ball gets on you so fast that you really cannot be thinking, "gee I should be angle on to this". In fact he should have been experimenting with angling on to the sun before that ball was ever hit to him to see how he would deal with it. That is really all you can do. Even trying to shade with your glove won't help you much. JD still might have missed it but staring straight up into the sun is just a fail from the start.

Love weber. That was another strike three that a "real" hitter should have simply made mince meat out of. That was middle and not low enough in the zone and not breaking enough.

Two last night and more work today might be more than they should expect from Weber.

With all due respect, past guys considered "good" hitters would have just spit on that pitch that Judge bit on for strike 3.

Apparently it started as an 80 game suspension reduced to 60 because the Hydrochlorothiazid was determined not to have been used as a masking agent for other banned substances???? Not sure I get that. So if he wasn't trying to cleanse his system what was he doing. That said, this is the same guy that tried to get away with globs of goo for his grip when there are only about a zillion ways to hid it effectively. So possibly...weight loss. But if that is what he was doing it sure was not working for that.

The more MLB tries to push this power game (Manfred Missile, players that simply never change their stance, never grip the bat above the knob, approach every count as if is always 2-1 and swing out of their shoe laces, spread sheet driven decision making) the less valuable a Defensive Standout in CF like JBJ becomes and the more you would value a more consistent bat and absorb a bit of a compromise in the fielding. This is also particularly true if our rotation remains a mess. WE WILL NEED RUNS! I think JBJ's arb money for 2020 will be $10-12M. Just too much to spend for a player with no upside remaining. Put Beni in CF and watch him flop about out there and get a big bat for LF or leave Beni in LF and get a more consistently hitting CFer than JBJ even if not a big bat. Playing Manfred Ball has consequences and pitchers and defensive players are going to carry most of the burden over time. Truth is, they already are.

Oddly or maybe not, the aforementioned 2012 Yankmees/Orioles DS was the one and only time I was ever interesting in viewing WHATEVER was on a Yankmee board.

This game and the last of the Twins game are possibly pointing us to post season series reminiscent of the 2012 Yankees/Orioles Division Series match up. Remember that one. They were two of the most potent offenses in baseball that year and a major slugfest was anticipated by all. Instead, fairly mundane pitching plans from both sides simply laid waste to two lineups that could not in any way shape or form deal with what either team's pitchers were throwing. Ibanez and Jeter basically bailed the Yanks asses out of what was in the end a mind-numbing series of Bugs Bunny swings and futile AB' on all sides. No question that the Yanks had the better pitching with CC and Petitte in their rotation. But it was not so much that the pitching was stunning for its quality as the hitting was stunning for its utter futility and the ease with which the pitchers all around simply crushed the hitters like lint between their toes. Of course, this year nobody has starters other than the Astros in the AL and maybe the A's now that Manaea is back and to some extent the Guardians and Rays depending on who or what comes off the IL to pitch. So I expect that we will see bullpen games and openers of all sorts which (sorry folks) is not an advancement of the game of any sort. Its a response to the lack of actual quality pitching around MLB. But these last two series, Twins and Yankmees foreshadows what is likely to come in this year's post season, Manfred Missile HR's be damned. Hitters swatting flies with their bats and trudging back to the dugout.

Yup, although any sort of elevator discomfort has got to be better than what me and my wife went through many years ago when we lived in Boston. We were going to the Jazz Workshop on Boylston St and we were early downtown from Brookline. It was a beautiful night. We did not want to just show up in time for the show we were going to. So we went to the top of the adjacent to the Hancock, Prudential building top floor restaurant and bar. As luck would have it, this was the night of the big Boston Blackout which took out everything from downtown all the way out to our place in Brookline. Well everything died in the Pru and they had no backup power. No air conditioning, no elevators, no nothing and it was packed up there. I was not real thrilled with that circumstance as my wife had left her meds home figuring we would not possibly be out long enough for that to matter. Told the maitre d and he had a waiter with a flashlight walk us down all those flights of stairs to the basement garage where I was parked. While that was a heck of a walk nobody else got out of there but me, my wife and a few other people that decided they had issues with staying in that building. Everybody else was there till the next morning! Very very eery ride home. No attendants to take your ticket out of Pru Center parking, no lights all the way home. Virtually nobody on what was normally Boston's most packed streets in the summer. Just nothing....the kind of nothing that would impact the city in those years during a big winter snow storm but in the dead of summer! Very strange experience. I think we actually had power at the house. But as I recall, the very last traffic lights before our house were the first lights that were working and every block ahead of our block had no lights, no power.

His breaking pitches move a foot. He should give lessons how to throw this thing. Anybody with the arm to do it can throw 95 for some number of pitches. But throwing benders like Weber has been driven down to a particular type of pitcher that either can do it or can't. Ryu is about the only guy I can think of that throws a decent FB and throws very consistent benders with a fair amount of break. Sale of course when he has his FB and his Slider. Not sure how much of that we will ever see again. Verander...but I think when he finally expires some many years from now, they are going to do an autopsy and discover he is an alien. Same for Scherzer.

I like seeing Weber do well. He is such an anomaly and he elicits bugx bunny hacks out of these guys swinging out of their shoe laces every swing.

Gardner simply cannot help but being a royal pain in the ass. Has made a career of it.

More bugs bunny swings tonight from both teams even though one of them is a different team than last night's bugs bunny participant.

1. DJ LeMahieu ® 3B 2. Aaron Judge ® RF 3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS 4. Gary Sanchez ® C 5. Edwin Encarnacion ® DH 6. Gleyber Torres ® 2B 7. Brett Gardner (L) CF 8. Luke Voit ® 1B 9. Mike Tauchman (L) LF 1. Mookie Betts ® RF 2. Rafael Devers (L) 3B 3. Xander Bogaerts ® SS 4. J.D. Martinez ® DH 5. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF 6. Brock Holt (L) 2B 7. Mitch Moreland (L) 1B 8. Christian Vazquez ® C 9. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF

So for all the "MLB is run competently" and "they got this" fans it might be worth remembering that they have had no choice but to sell off some decision making authority about when games ESPN is televising will be played. This is ESPN which has become one of the most head up its ass networks of any kind not just sports networks. So what are they doing for the Sunday game of this 4 game series? They are game time 8:10PM head up against Pats v Steelers. Are they completely and totally out of there minds? If MLB gets lucky nobody but nobody will tune in to Sox v Yankmees on Sunday night. I will be tuning in. But i don't make a market. Nobody like me makes a market. Nobody that posts in this forum or baseball forums cumulatively makes a market. We don't make a market. If they do tune in, they will be treated to a meaningless baseball game between the team with the slowest pace of play in all Baseball, both hitting and pitching, US, versus a team that in combination with us regularly produce the slowest, longest games on the planet. If fans switch back and forth they will likely see at least half a quarter of the football game while the Sox and Yankmees try to muddle through an inning. Given that its Sox Yankmees and Cora now has 21 pitchers to play with fans will likely see the finish of Pats/Steelers while Sox/Yankmees might just be coming out of the bottom of the 6th inning......MAYBE, if they are lucky. Fans switching back and forth will likely find themselves in situations where they feel compelled to switch back to the Pats game having not seen a single thing happen for the period while they had the Sox game on. Bigger disaster for MLB than switching back and forth...split screen...I don't even want to think about the comic relief that will derive from split screen of these two contests. What the f*** is wrong with these people? Please folks, tell me more about how MLB has got this under control. How they know what they are doing...they know where they are going. They don't have anything under control. If their intention is to drive off the edge of a cliff they know where they are going. Maybe they can wipe their own asses.....MAYBE!!!!! This is going to be a ratings massacre of epic proportions and in fact MLB will likely be lucky if it is because switching back and forth between these two contests will actually be worse for MLB than if fans simply do not watch the baseball game AT ALL!

Nothing wrong with what the Sox have done with Rick to this point. I honestly have no idea what we would have to complain about. Resigning him almost at any number he would accept would be a huge mistake, for the Sox, for Rick for everybody. That said, I don't think Sox Management is stupid enough to try to resign him here.

X asked to be taken care off. I don't see Mookie asking.

Nope....I don't listen to myself. I watch the players, watch the games, form a logical thought pattern on the topic based on large part on experience and express the result in the form of an opinion. You are living in denial if you don'r recognize how much the spreadsheet managers AND Manfred are manipulating this game. If you don't want to look at your own team, look at Cash and the Rays and the laughably nonsensical spreadsheet motivated decisions they force themselves into. Sure the Rays are having "some success". But are they really. They still don't draw. In fact both ratings and attendance around MLB is suffering now. Fenway Group has Fenway Park and that carnival they run to draw attendance. The Cubs have Wrigley and that is that! Dan is for one time correct. The powers that be are creating a game that ultimately nobody will care about and nobody will watch because is boring and I don't even know if the actually attendance and ratings number will change it. What did Drew Pomeranz say when asked about pace of play. "If you don't like it, don't watch." Most of the country is way ahead of you Drew.....way ahead of you and if that is how the players are going to respond (and I believe the bulk of them will respond pretty close to where Drew is) then there are simply no constituents within the game itself prepared to defend it or rescue it. They are just going to ride this train right into the ditch and shrug their shoulders when its done. Isn't that the good ole American Capitalistic way? So why would be surprised? They already got their front wheels into the ditch in the mid-90's and were rescued not on purpose but by sheer accident. Put the front wheels in the ditch in the mid-50's to mid-60s too and just barely rescued it then as well. At least I can say that rescue was not by accident though most of the owners and players for that matter had to be dragged to it kicking and screaming all the way.

- nail in the coffin - dog that won't hunt - can't find own ass with two hands and a hunting dog - like watching paint dry There is plenty of ole' timey stuff that aptly describes the Sox 2019 effort. Most of it applies to Manfred the Magnificent and his squads of spreadsheet boys too. Final nail not quite in MLB coffin yet...but they sure hammered a number of them home this year.

For all those 9 walks the twins only generated two runs. Tonight's game was a prime example of one of the big holes in the current MLB game. All you really need to shut down these so-call "best hitters ever" is find guys that can throw a 2 strike breaking pitch, ANY 2 strike breaking pitch and these hitters are all done because as often pointed out, most of them do nothing different from one pitch to the next, one count to the next, one in-game situation to the next. For them, the count is always 2-1 and they are always swinging out of their shoelaces. That was as much futility as I have seen exhibited by two teams, not one but two teams of supposed "good hitters" in a long time. Minny Mouse finally beat Goofy by a nose. There must have been 100 Bugs Bunny swings tonight....at least. Whoopie!!! Pitchers that actually successfully throw breaking pitches at two strikes. My oh my, they must all be Cy candidates. I rarely agree with Oh Danny Boy Shaughnessy. But this time he has it right. The Spread Sheet boys backed by Manfred the Magnificent are creating a game that will ultimately bore everybody to tears, HR's and all. They are driving this game down a rat hole and have been doing a particularly good job of it for 10 years now. Funny how a single game that can best be defined by abject futility at the plate was actually one of the better games of the year as fielders made plays and pitchers made pitches. Sad to think how few games there are that we can say that about.

Two of what are supposed to be the better teams in baseball in a game of utter and complete futility. Goffy beat Minny Mouse by a nose. Credit the pitchers for being able to throw breaking balls in two strike counts. Whoopie.....multiple Cy winners all.