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Maxbialystock

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  1. Nod goes to you with a tailor-made GIDP.
  2. 3 games are definitely makeupable. Depends upon which Sox team/players show up on any given day. The injuries are basically over with just Houck due back in 3 days, reportedly as a starter. No one on the IL right now is important. However, a pretty good case can be made for removing Garza from the active roster. One presumes Houck will do that.
  3. If I'm John Henry and watch any of these games, I'm giving serious thought to firing both Cora and Bloom at the end of the season. All those injuries were a great excuse, but now everybody except Houck, is back, and they can't seem to beat anybody.
  4. That's all she wrote. Pure and simple, these Sox stink more than any Sox team I can remember because they are beyond question playing below their capability. Even Wong is showing defensive weakness. They are not trying too hard. They are barely showing up.
  5. OK, nuttin' in the 8th. Back to normal.
  6. Duvall getting the Sox hitting back on track: he K's swinging. He was such a bad signing. He stinks on defense too.
  7. How absolutely awful were Winck and Murphy? Llovera just took the mound and pitched a clean 7th with a K, a ground out, and a pop to the catcher.
  8. Never fear, Trevor's here with his patented strike out swing. End of the Sox 7th. Is there anyone in the Sox bullpen who can actually get someone out without giving up a handful of runs?
  9. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Ice cold Devers just made in 9-7 with a 2 run dinger. No one would be happier than I to eat his words. But the Sox still need 3 more runs and they still have a porous defense and bullpen that thought today was an off day (which it turned out to be!).
  10. Exactly. It's wasted because the lineup stinks and so does the bullpen.
  11. Urias, the worst hitter on the team by a mile, hits the grand slam home run. This to me underscores just how pitiful the rest of the lineup now is. Reyes, who, like Urias, was hired to play defense, got the 2 run dinger last night.
  12. They can't hit Nationals pitching even though it's ranked near the bottom of all 30 MLB staffs--28th in ERA and 27th in WHIP. And let's not forget that, in addition to weak hitting, their defense also sucks.
  13. moonslav's attack on resting players too much just might be right on target. I say this because this team is probably more "rested" than any other in MLB and right now they stink in every way imaginable, but especially the position players who stink at bat and stink in the field. It is abundantly clear to me they just don't give a s*** because they get paid really good money whether or not they produce.
  14. Just trying to back out of what I think was unfair criticism of Sale. But as it turns out, this just might be the signature game of the season because this team stinks in every way imaginable with the errors, the lack of hitting, the rotten bullpen, you name it.
  15. I cannot imagine any sensible MLB player wanting to be the "face" of this rotten, stinking team with their two freaking errors and one stinking run in 5 freaking innings. Oh, and their second abysmal bullpen effort in two days. Sale got screwed by the homeplate ump, but just on that one batter, who should have been K'd. This is, on the other hand, the second straight game in which Sale kind of fell apart in the 5th inning and right around the 60 pitch mark. In my opinion, that's to be expected. Hence the bullpen. But Winck decided to follow Whitlock's lead and just destroy Sale's effort as Whitlock destroyed Paxton's. And now of course the top of the Sox order comes up in the 6th with a fly out, a K by Devers, and a ground out by Story.
  16. Sox have 1 run, 2 errors, and 3 hits in 3 innings. In other words, another signature Sox effort.
  17. Casas just might be coming around on hitting lefties. He certainly has a good eye, the one thing Devers emphatically does not have.
  18. Hey, dummy. He's also doing an excellent job of hitting the corners--so back off.
  19. Sale saving his arm by taking several mph off his pitches.
  20. Well, he's got the experience and knows how.
  21. Seeing eye single for Ref. Devers grounder is not seeing eye, but luckily only one out. The pitch was in the dirt, of course. And Story chimes in the the obligatory GIDP. These guys have forgotten how to hit and/or score runs.
  22. Six righty bats, a recipe for minimal runs. Of course, one could say the same thing if the Sox started six lefty bats (against a righty starter). Sale was just brilliant (after a 2 month hiatus) 5 days ago, so he could well be brilliant again today, maybe for 5 innings. But that ain't enough to win. The bullpen has to contribute some scoreless innings and the bats need to bring home some runs.
  23. Really? Right now the biggest problem is with the hitting, and that's despite the fact that all the so-called good bats--Story, Duvall, Turner, Devers, Casas, Dugo, Reyes, Duran, Yoshida--are active and healthy, but can't seem to score any freaking runs. Over the last 18 games they've scored 62 runs, including some unearned runs, for an average of 3.44 runs per game. Story, Duvall, Devers, Dugo, and now Duran and Yoshida are all disappointments for various reasons. Plus Casas and Duran can't hit lefty pitchers.
  24. He came into last night's game with an ERA of 5.03. In 3 seasons with the Sox his ERA's have "progressed" from 1.96 in 2021 to 3.45 last year to 5.60 this year. So you just might have a point.
  25. Consider this. Casas has played in 107 games this season, and in those games in which he played the Sox have won 54 and lost 53. In the games in which Cora no doubt very foolishly did not play Mr. Wonderful, the Sox won 9 and lost 4. In other words, less Casas, more wins.
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