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  1. Maxbialystock
    I think there just might be some dumb guys on this Sox team. Whitlock doesn't call his own pitches, but some idiot kept telling him, basically, to lay off that deadly changeup to righties and go with the very hittable sinker fastball to Judge.
  2. Maxbialystock
    Upbeat as always. I will support you on this basis: Cora right now has the right guys--with Houck back on Aug 21. No good fielders or hitters are absent unless you think Rafaela should be brought up (and I think you said Bloom won't want to). No good pitchers in the Sox system have not been given a shot with the big club, and about a thousand not so good pitchers have. In fact, Garza is still there. In other words, Cora has the hitting, pitching, and an almost adequate defense to get to the playoffs. The issue seems to be whether they have fire in their bellies.
  3. Maxbialystock
    FWIW--and it ain't worth much--I like the way check swings are called. The corner ump with the best view calls it and does so quickly based on what he sees--with absolutely no reclama. Absolutely the way it should be, even on what looks like a bad call (like the one that recently benefitted the Sox).
  4. Maxbialystock
    About Cora and the rest days. Yoshida reportedly needs them. Turner does too. I think just about everyone else gets them based on performance and/or whether the opposing starter is a lefty or righty. Yesterday was heavy righties and today heavy lefties. Also, right now Wong and Wright seem to be about even steven in starts.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Nod goes to you with a tailor-made GIDP.
  6. Maxbialystock
    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.
  7. Maxbialystock
    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.
  8. Maxbialystock
    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.
  9. Maxbialystock
    OK, nuttin' in the 8th. Back to normal.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Duvall getting the Sox hitting back on track: he K's swinging. He was such a bad signing. He stinks on defense too.
  11. Maxbialystock
    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.
  12. Maxbialystock
    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?
  13. Maxbialystock
    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!).
  14. Maxbialystock
    Exactly. It's wasted because the lineup stinks and so does the bullpen.
  15. Maxbialystock
    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.
  16. Maxbialystock
    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.
  17. Maxbialystock
    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.
  18. Maxbialystock
    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.
  19. Maxbialystock
    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.
  20. Maxbialystock
    Sox have 1 run, 2 errors, and 3 hits in 3 innings. In other words, another signature Sox effort.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Casas just might be coming around on hitting lefties. He certainly has a good eye, the one thing Devers emphatically does not have.
  22. Maxbialystock
    Hey, dummy. He's also doing an excellent job of hitting the corners--so back off.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Sale saving his arm by taking several mph off his pitches.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Well, he's got the experience and knows how.
  25. Maxbialystock
    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.
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