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  1. Maxbialystock
    Has it occurred to anyone else that the title of this thread is unachievable?
  2. Maxbialystock
    Baseball. Nothing else like it.
  3. Maxbialystock
    I wish you had not brought his name up because I do remember defending him.
  4. Maxbialystock
    To be honest, I have been as down on this team as anyone. Today the hitting kind of sucked, but Turner had that one great swing with a man on, and that was all the Sox needed. Pitching, especially Whitlock, was excellent, but so was the the defense. I especially liked the grab by Wong and the pickup throw by Ort to 2d base. That's exactly the kind of play I would have sworn this team could never execute in a million years--and they did it at just the right time. This team bears little resemblance to the team who just played four at the Trop, which is not just the worst ballpark in MLB. It's the worst ballpark in MLB history.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Great game thread, especially all the comments about how clueless Cora is. It's great to be reading stuff by experts who know way more than any Sox manager ever did.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Go ahead. Pile it on. Sox are winning 2-1 and actually look like a MLB team today. Sox fans in the seats might be the reason. First two games back at the Fens and the temp in the low 50's, the attendance was 36,680 and 36,594. Today's might be even higher.
  7. Maxbialystock
    About the defense. Refsnyder in LF, Kike in CF, and Dugo in RF is actually a pretty decent defense. So are Devers, Chang, Arroyo, and Turner. And Wong behind the plate. I think Whitlock has fallen in love with that curve ball--and with good reason. Maybe he will throw those straight ones--which he has loved way too much--a little less often.
  8. Maxbialystock
    I deserve that.
  9. Maxbialystock
    You have every reason to tout Whitlock. He's a little wild, but his stuff is good and he doesn't seem to be throwing as many fastballs (which are hittable) as last time. Me, I was ready to demote him to AA after his first start--to heck with the bullpen.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Devers the rally-killer.
  11. Maxbialystock
    That comment reminds me of the old Sox blog site (now gone) on which Terry Francona was routinely blasted for being incompetent. Reason: every loss was his fault and never the players. Right now Cora is managing a Sox team with just four weaknesses: hitting, pitching, fielding, and baserunning. But, if they win today, they will be back to .500. Were you or I managing this team, we would have reason to be suicidal.
  12. Maxbialystock
    I think moonslav said it yesterday or the day before. These Sox can't hit spit. Today's starting lineup's collective batting average is right around the Mendoza line. But they are scoring runs. Also, today's game is the Sox 9th in 9 days--and they are scheduled to play 19 games in 19 days. Nice grab by Wong.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Let's hope none of the other pitchers are watching because they might get the wrong idea.
  14. Maxbialystock
    Insanity is the right word. Babe Ruth was once asked if he knew his salary was now greater than the President's, and his answer was, "well, I had a better year." I think the President was Hoover, so he was probably right. In the series on Baseball, someone commented that before the Reserve Clause was eliminated by Curt Flood's refusal to abide by it, players made roughly 7 times as much as the average fan at the ballpark. Afterward, it was 7 x 7 as much. Assuming half a billion and 10 years of useful pitching/hitting, That's $50M/year. Forget the average fan because Ohtani isn't the average player. $50M just might be the average profit margin for a MLB franchise.
  15. Maxbialystock
    10 minutes to game time.
  16. Maxbialystock
    Watch out with that word "predetermined" because nothing could be dumber than to assume the pitcher has his full repertoire working on any given day. "Predetermined" means inflexible.
  17. Maxbialystock
    I agree it's more than calling pitches.
  18. Maxbialystock
    I looked him--Zach Neto--up and think the Angels are gambling on him. He has not played much competitive ball. He was undrafted out of HS so went to Campbell College where he played two years/seasons plus some amateur/professional summer ball. So the question is whether he can hit MLB pitching. And right now I'm not sure the Sox have MLB pitching with our 5.24 ERA (ranked 26th)--and that leaves out all those unearned runs plus the ones scored when the defensive play was so bad, the ball didn't even touch the glove (Devers) and was counted as a hit.
  19. Maxbialystock
    I would love to call you a cockeyed optimist, but then I looked at the Rays schedule to date. In their first 9 games opposing teams scored 18 runs, and in the next 4 game vs. the Sox our guys scored 18 runs. Without Duvall.
  20. Maxbialystock
    I don't remember which pitcher said it, but someone claimed that a pitcher, especially a starter, rarely has all his pitches working for him in any given game. It's not just a matter of a fastball that's fast enough or a curve that breaks sharply enough, command is an even bigger issue. To make matters worse, the command/velocity/break can vary from inning to inning or even within an inning. When Chris Sale was the stud starter (a century or so ago), he usually had good stuff and good command and therefore never shook off the catcher. At the time he said, "I just focus on execution and let the catcher do the thinking/strategizing." But that Chris Sale was a rarity. With the 20 second clock, there is now less time to shake off pitches and thus an even greater need for trust between pitcher and catcher--especially given the reality that most pitchers don't always have their best stuff on any given day.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Is English your second language? Forget grammar. Your posts border on unintelligible.
  22. Maxbialystock
    Sox yesterday had a weak hitting lineup with Houck starting (lasting 4 innings), but won 5-3 thanks to 3 errors and 4 unearned runs given up by the Angels, who looked like the Sox did in Tampa. But the crowd at the Fens was 36,680. Seems like a lot of paying customers didn't get the word these Sox are not worth rooting for. Maybe it was the temp, a toasty 58 degrees.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Well look who hustled all the way to 2d base on a pop that should have been an out?
  24. Maxbialystock
    I'm probably wrong, but it does seem to me as thought the Sox have had more lineouts in this series than the Rays have had.
  25. Maxbialystock
    rbi by Kike!
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