The Red Sox are now 29-48 in Salty's last 77 starts going back to September. Seriously. We're 20-12 in Shoppach's starts this year. Some luck factors involved obviously, but still, that is pretty unf***ingbelievable.
Agree with both of you 100%. A one game play-in is a horrible piece of gimmickry. Selig is showing his true colors on this one. Anything to wring a few extra bucks out of the suckers, and screw the integrity of the game.
Not sure if that holds up to analysis, jung. Beckett had poor run support last year and so far this year, but from 2006 to 2010 his run support was consistent with the average run support for the team. I think it's mostly a random stat.
The Sox are now 13-22 in Beckett and Lester starts, 35-24 in other games. Our biggest problem has now been clearly isolated. It's Beckett and Lester. Somehow we're going to have to replace at least one of them in the rotation.
Lefty starter for Chisox - I would expect to see Ross higher than 6th. I agree about Shoppach instead of Salty. Valentine usually goes with Shopp against a lefty starter.
Cody Ross's updated 2012 numbers vs. LH pitchers:
78 PA
67 AB
328/410/836 - 1.246 OPS
9 HR
24 RBI
Projected to 600 PA's he would have 69 HR and 185 RBI
I didn't think tonight's game signified that Ross was getting streaky, but that he is continuing to do very sick things to left-handed pitchers this year.
You f***ers are 36-13 in your last 49 games. We might as well just start giving you a bye into the playoffs. This'll be 17 out of 18 years you make the playoffs. That's just stupid. f***ers.
It's like this, really...I've been a fan of this team way too long. When 700 Hitter said Youkilis was going to pull a Fisk on us, I thought, s***, he's right. And so far he is.