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Oh please strike out Bautista 5 times tonight..

Damage Report......... Severe, but not critical.

Only on the replay. I was with you at first in wanting to DFA Butters...... then after the replay I was with you in wanting Mookie DFA'd. Now I just think we should comprimise and DFA Hembree....

Why is Mookie running against the sign........... what do they think the signs are just a suggestion?

There we go....

I must be out of it......... I thought it was the 9th inning and this was the Sox last shot at some runs..

That was Joe Castiglione last night I believe. And he is just awesome. I love the call of the JBJ catch..... I think there may be a delay in watching the TV and the radio, I've never done it, but heard people have. I wouldn't be able to deal with a delay. The radio is great for the majority of the game, the play by play guys just drone on and paint a great picture. But like last night, when they call JBJ's catch one of the greatest they have ever seen, I want to see the play.

f***ing radio... f***ing blackout...

I wonder how a brawl between Eck and Price would go down....

thx. I've used them in the past. Just too much problems. I'll stick with the radio for now....

45 minute Window 10 update. All to find that the game is blacked out cause it's on ESPN............ life if great....

Yea, I know. I just like to throw that quote out there as I think it's the funniest s*** I've heard from a FO.

Yes they did. 17% body fat

I think anyone sitting at home thinking players should be swinging at better pitches or working the count better hasn't faced top level mid 90's pitchers with ungodly junk with scouting reports. How long is that fraction of a second you have to identify if it's a good pitch or not? If you mandate a player to be aggressive and swing more, you might start seeing more Pablo/Guerro type at bats. Without the hits.

That is so wrong I fell out of my chair...... Most people here are rooting for these guys to succeed. And if they give proper effort, even if they do fail they are saluted. Pablo showed up to work on his first day 20 to 30 to 40 pounds overweight and let his conditioning coach go......that's like someone signing the best contract of their life to the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and not touching their violin the 5 months before the first day on the job........

How much are tickets for the sporting events you like where you live?

I just read that. That's huge. Workman up I think. It's a good sign that Scott looked good last night. im sure DD is after RP, but our bullpen is starting to take in water.

It happens. I pitched a bit and was pretty good. It's rare, but sometimes you just lose the strike zone. I had one game I couldn't get a fastball in the strike zone for about two innings. I had to pitch nothing but curveballs.

The belt buckle exploding was fantastic....... but I still think the 17% body fat comment was maybe the most absurd thing I've ever heard from a FO.

Buckley: Red Sox complicit in Pablo Sandoval debacle Steve Buckley Saturday, July 15, 2017 Please allow me to say what the Red Sox won’t say: The decision to sign Pablo Sandoval was shockingly, colossally, galactically stupid. It wasn’t a decision that became stupid over time. It didn’t evolve into being stupid. It’s not as though Pablo Sandoval gave the Red Sox a couple of good seasons and then regressed to the degree that ownership finally had to step in and do something. No. Signing Sandoval was a big box o’ mistake before the ink had dried on his five-year, $95 million contract. This is a player who always has had weight problems, as the San Francisco Giants seemed to know, but the Red Sox went ahead and signed him anyway, ignoring all the warnings, choosing to not believe what their own eyes and scales were telling them. Everyone says Pablo Sandoval is a great guy. But he was out of shape when he debuted with the Red Sox in 2015, and when he showed up for spring training in 2016 he looked even worse. He played in just three games in ’16, including that day at Toronto’s Rogers Centre when his belt buckle comically exploded while its owner was swinging at an R.A. Dickey pitch. Then came the shoulder injury, and that was that for the remainder of the season. He dropped a lot of weight in preparation for 2017. He looked slimmed-down in spring training, and the Red Sox were determined to give him back his old job as their third baseman. But while he may have lost the weight, he also lost his skills. He couldn’t hit, couldn’t field, couldn’t throw. As Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski put it yesterday after it was announced the team was designating Sandoval for assignment, “Pablo just wasn’t playing as well as we had hoped … not only from an offensive perspective, there were some defensive struggles. It really came down to us where we were not a better club if he was on our club at the major league level.” Yet to hear the Red Sox tell it, Pablo Sandoval is The Tough Luck Kid who tried and tried and tried to get back into the lineup this season. He dropped those unwanted pounds. He took the extra BP, fielded the extra grounders, always with a smile, always focused on winning back the respect of the fans, always, always, always. “I commend him in the sense, I think, that he did what he could do in the sense that he got himself in good physical condition,” Dombrowski said. “He’s worked hard to continue to do that. He’s worked nutritionally, he’s worked from the psychological perspective, he’s worked from an offensive perspective, he worked on the defensive perspective. We just didn’t see the skills quite there. But it was not from a work ethic perspective. His work ethic was very good for us.” Dombrowski added that Sandoval “had some issues he was dealing with that really probably didn’t get him into shape, didn’t get him into the shape that we would have liked. But there was more to it that I won’t get into, private-type of issues for him.” Red Sox manager John Farrell also ladled praise upon Sandoval. “To Panda’s credit, he worked his tail off,” said Accountability John. “He got himself into better shape, he went down and played at Pawtucket as much as possible to want to be able to return. Just felt like the objective evaluation was we had other alternatives in-house.” Yet both Dombrowski and Farrell miss the point: The Sandoval problem began more than two years ago, when he was out of shape as a newly-minted member of the Red Sox. And he never recovered from that. Farrell put it out there that what happened in 2015 isn’t necessarily connected to Sandoval’s diminished skills in 2017 — “Whether the two years prior we’re referring to was a direct contributor to not regaining the abilities prior to signing here, I don’t know, that’s probably debatable,” said Accountability John — but what is beyond debate is that the Red Sox are giving a 30-year-old player in excess of $48 million to walk away. If Sandoval has some kind of eating disorder, as has been suggested, the Sox should have known that before they signed him. And anyway, it’s possible to have an eating order and be complacent, and the man’s complacency was on full display in 2015. Exactly how and why the Red Sox signed Sandoval in the first place will always be a fascinating topic. Was it all then-GM Ben Cherington and the whiz kids in baseball ops? Was it then-president Larry Lucchino and the whiz kids in marketing, hoping Sox fans would run out and buy up all those cool Panda heads? At this point, it no longer makes any difference. Whatever Sandoval’s popularity in the clubhouse, this is still the worst free agent signing in franchise history — even if the Red Sox don’t want to go there.

That was real heads up ball right there.

Hanram seems to be heating up. I think the last 10 game road trip he started hitting some bombs......... we need him to perform...

I would disagree........ the first year he showed up he was way out of shape.... he had a trainer before and he decided it he didn't need one when he signed the deal with the Sox. And I'm guessing, but I think he thought it was too much work and not worth it. It looks like last year he put in the work to get in shape......... but missing a year of playing will stunt you............. and at some point the Sox just decided it wasn't worth the effort........ like I said.......... kick that s*** to the curb....... and move on...

Not at all. There is nothing to applaud for his time with Boston. Him showing up that first year way out of shape, he was the antithesis of a player that gives it all to win. Heck. I work with people that don't give a crap about how they do their job, and I have no respect for that. When I say I'm glad he is gone........ I mean, he was just a distraction that made the team worse......... I'm glad to move on from that guy............ kick that s*** to the curb......... I think the Sox are better off just removing him from show, because he was dead weight and draggin the team down. And now you got me fired up...... f*** that dude.....

I would say for a walk off walk...... it was a majestic walk off walk if there ever was one....