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  1. Maxbialystock
    Great, great line, moon. What I love is the 2d straight game of coming from behind--to say nothing of 5 runs or more in 4 straight games. If this hitting keeps up, the worthless, no good, underpaid, low down yankee (northerners) Sox just might be climbing back into the AL East race.
  2. Maxbialystock
    Cora knows. Boy, does Cora know. 5-3 Sox in the 5th and the Rays are on their 3d pitcher.
  3. Maxbialystock
    4-3 Sox on a nice opposite field single by Ref.
  4. Maxbialystock
    I've always wondered why the Rays don't let the outfielders come in for those mound conferences.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Abreu gets lucky. Now let's see if Wong can capitalize. He does!! Sweet single and 2 more runs in. Grissom, our fearless one, scored all the way from 3d base.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Lefty Lovelady up against Duran and Abreu.
  7. Maxbialystock
    Back to back BB's by a Rays pitcher. Catastrophe. Grissom is the worst baserunner in the entire history of the sport. And he might have been helped by the Sox 1b coach.
  8. Maxbialystock
    Did I just use reverse mojo on Pepiot? Hamilton got the BB, and now there's a mob scene at the mound. When Bello walks a guy, everyone shrugs and says, "normale."
  9. Maxbialystock
    Pepiot is outpitching Bello because his command is way, way, way better.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Maybe tonight Cora doesn't know best. Ref has the only Sox hit in 4 innings.
  11. Maxbialystock
    Completely agree. The jewelry is thoroughly unprofessional. And you can bet the players union is insisting it is a basic human right.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Bello stinks—simple as that. He is not a serious pitcher.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Bello walks Arozarena after getting an 0-2 count.
  14. Maxbialystock
    Strongly agree this game is mostly about Bello. Last night Criswell was hit hard in the first inning and gave up 2 runs--but no runs in the next 4.1 innings. Impressive. Texas leadoff batter who turns out to be an artist at getting his popups to land safely, has just scored the Rangers first run. And here's Jamie!
  15. Maxbialystock
    mlb tv just showed Harper and Stott, Phillies 1b and 2b, stare at a very high pop up that landed between them with neither one making any effort to catch it. Reportedly, the both speak English, but maybe not. In Harper's defense, the ball landed about 3' from Stott.
  16. Maxbialystock
    Not my preferred lineup, but Cora knows best.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Giolito and Whitlock are headed for the ash heap of Red Sox history. Whitlock, already a TJ surgery recipient, appears headed back for more. Giolito's procedure is like TJ, but less invasive and therefore more quickly recovered from. My guess is he will return next year long enough to need the real thing and be gone another year or two.
  18. Maxbialystock
    One more time. Like everyone else, I regret the loss of Sale and especially paying his salary while he has a great season for the Braves. But at the same time the Sox have one of their best rotations ever without Sale. And their weakness this year is in the lineup, especially the infield which can't hit and is error-prone. I don't like Grissom so far, but acquiring him makes sense with regard to team needs.
  19. Maxbialystock
    You could be right, but it's also true that they delivered.
  20. Maxbialystock
    You must have some kind of deep prejudice against Valdez because the rest of us see that foot, the one that can kick a ball the warning track, as absolutely invaluable when it comes time for penalty kicks.
  21. Maxbialystock
    I have repeatedly dumped on Devers--to my regret. I like FiveGoldGloves comment that any hitter, including Devers, will function better within a good lineup, which is absolutely not what the Sox have this season. I would go one step further and point out that Mike Trout of the Angels is the poster child for a player who almost every year competes for the AL MVP, but who has not been able to drive that team into the postseason very often--and forget the WS.
  22. Maxbialystock
    The pitching, somewhat miraculously, is solid. The lineup needs to improve on O and D to make the Sox competitive for the postseason.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Thanks. I overstepped in saying terminally stupid.
  24. Maxbialystock
    I'm probably the world's leading advocate for this year's Sox rotation, but even I have to agree some regression is possible/likely. However, I also think right now, 49 games into this season, this is the best Sox rotation in a long time--measured by the fact that the team ERA, 2.95, is just behind the Yankees' 2.92 for the best team ERA in MLB. The 2007 Sox team ERA of 3.87 was 2d best to the Padres 3.70--for an entire season of 162 games. It was even better, 3.29, in the 11-3 postseason when the Sox beat the Angels, Guardians/Guardians, and Rockies. Back then starters were bargains: Schilling $13M; Beckett (the ace in 2007) $6M; Matsuzaka $6.33M; Wakefield $4M; and Lester $384K. Flash forward to genius CBO David Dombrowski's 2019 Sox rotation, the one that couldn't even make it to the postseason: Price $31M; Sale $15M; Eovaldi $17M; Porcello $21M; ERod $4.3M. The 2019 Sox team ERA was 4.70 and ranked 19th in MLB. Now contrast the 2007 Sox, who won the WS by sweeping the Rockies, with the 2019 Sox, who didn't make the postseason--and you have some idea of why JH fired genius DD.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Since this thread is about Sale, I agree with the general belief that the Braves outsmarted us by giving up Grissom to get Sale, with the Sox paying Sale's $17M salary this year. On the other hand, while I would love to see 2024 Chris Sale in the Sox rotation, I like the one we have. In fact, so far, after 49 games, they are probably the best Sox rotation in 50 years.
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