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  1. Maxbialystock
    I used to like the All-Star Game when it was just a game with the best players all trying their best, especially the best pitchers vs. the best hitters. Plus it's a neat mid-season break and dividing point. I was fine with it not having any more significance than that, but also fine with massive substitutions by both managers. It did not bother me when Selig or whoever wanted the winning team to get something, like the WS home field advantage, but I'm also fine if they only get the satisfaction of winning. Ted Williams leaping in the air while rounding the bases after hitting a ASG-winning dinger is what I think the ASG is all about. It's what Field of Dreams is about. I too like inter-league play even though it can be unbalanced some years. It's especially neat seeing AL teams have to go without DH's and NL teams having to use one, depending on whose park they are playing in. It's also very cool that fans whose teams don't get to the WS very often now have a chance to see players from the other league, with and without the DH.
  2. Maxbialystock
    Sox are 16-14 at Fenway and 20-10 away from Fenway.
  3. Maxbialystock
    Great win. A needed win. 1 back of the Rays. Hernandez for the win. ERod ERA is now over 6.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Super, super weird GIDP. This is indeed entertaining. And long.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Agree. I'm OK with infield fly rule.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Finally, someone, JDM, nails that cheap fastball.
  7. Maxbialystock
    Looked like Larry, Moe, and Curly fielding that easy pop-up. Arroyo finally makes a lucky stab and discovers the ball in his glove.
  8. Maxbialystock
    That sinker gets hit a lot, but especially waist high.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Umpire is screwing him.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Cocky Altuve cut down in his prime!
  11. Maxbialystock
    Greinke maybe ain't so great after all. Love the singles. Love the BB. Even happy with Verdugo's hard hit ground out.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Oh, that's nice. A BB driving home a Sox run. Enrique, he of the eagle eye.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Three straight singles better than a lucky dinger any day of the week and twice on Sundays!
  14. Maxbialystock
    OK, I see now this game is going to really piss me off. ERod, that cheap dinger notwithstanding, is pitching as well as I can remember. The lineup, however, looks like they all need their mommies because Greinke's being mean to them.
  15. Maxbialystock
    This is getting so old. Batter after batter just helpless.
  16. Maxbialystock
    Who is that masked man pretending to be ERod? A lot of pitches, but a very impressive first inning. Hats off.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Porcello stays healthy, has a pretty sizable repertoire--fast ball, curve, slider, changeup, and probably a cut fastball--but none of them is all that effective. He has a pretty lousy Salary/WAR ratio. In 12 seasons--not including this one-- he has accumulated a WAR of 20.1 and has been paid $127M. That's a ratio of $6M per 1 WAR. The Sox paid him $95M for a cumulative war of 9.3, so that's a ratio of about $10M per 1 WAR. As for FIP, his last complete season, 2019, it was 4.76. 2020 is irrelevant except that he was paid $10M for a WAR of .2.
  18. Maxbialystock
    No question the defense is a negative factor, very slightly offset by Renfroe's arm. The infield does not inspire confidence, and too often the opposing outfield looks quicker and more comfortable in Fenway than our own guys do.
  19. Maxbialystock
    Nice 3d out, Hernandez and Gonzalez.
  20. Maxbialystock
    Tough break(s) for Eovaldi. Horrible 3d inning, but pitched well thereafter and should have been rewarded with the third out in the 6th.
  21. Maxbialystock
    He's not. I missed Bogie's home run. Also, it's just possible Eovaldi is throwing a tad batter the past two innings even though the Astros had the bases loaded in the 4th. So, yes, I probably need to fall off the stealing signals hobby horse. Again.
  22. Maxbialystock
    I admit it's crazy to say so. But look at those Astros at bats. No check swings. And, when they swing, it's solid contact every time even though Eovaldi actually mixed up his pitches. My prediction is that, now that the Astros have a somewhat comfortable lead and Odorizzi is mowing down the Sox, the Astros will magically stop hitting.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Game looks like it's over, which is fine with me, what with two game threads, which are stupid. I once again have the feeling that the Astros batters know what's coming.
  24. Maxbialystock
    tight as andronicus.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Hot. Hot-hot. Hot-hot-hot. Hot-hot-hot-hot.
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