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  1. Maxbialystock
    Yes, I am talking about the Sox and this season--and more specifically about an obvious trend on the Mike Grace Memorial game threads. Quite simply, the game threads for losses are longer, often much longer, than those for wins. Can you possibly imagine how boring--with a possibility of outright abandonment--talksox would be right now if the Sox were a boring 18-5 instead of the far more delectable 9-14?
  2. Maxbialystock
    A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
  3. Maxbialystock
    Exactly
  4. Maxbialystock
    This one looks pretty much in the bag.
  5. Maxbialystock
    3-0 Sox in the 5th. ERod looking very good.
  6. Maxbialystock
    I think he goes 6.
  7. Maxbialystock
    Is Bobby Orr still playing?
  8. Maxbialystock
    Tyler Ross (R, ERA 3.38) vs. Eduardo Rodriguez (L, ERA 7.20) Beni LF Betts RF Moreland 1B JDM DH Bogie SS Devers 3b Chavis 2b JBJ CF Vazquez C Four lefty and five righty bats vs. righty Ross. I can't think of any good missing lefty bats not in this lineup (and not on the DL). The problem remains the pitching staff with their 2d worst ERA in MLB. Also of interest, however, is that the team OPS is 22d in MLB and last night the lineup went 1 for 12 with RISP in a 4-2 game (Moreland and JDM each left 6 runners on). Weird factoid. The Sox currently have the same winning percentage (3-5) at home as they do on the road (6-10). That's not so weird. What is weird is that all four of the other AL East teams actually have worse home records than road records. The most dramatic are the Orioles--2-10 at home and 7-6 on the road.
  9. Maxbialystock
    JDM really blew that one. If Mookie had been in RF, that runner would have been out at the plate. When will Cora learn that JDM is the worst right fielder in the history of MLB?
  10. Maxbialystock
    2 runs in 5 innings was part of the problem? Did you stop watching the game after the 5th inning? Would you like a briefing on what happened after Sale left the game?
  11. Maxbialystock
    Ace went 5 and gave up 2. Bullpen so far has gone 3+ and given up 5 with 2 on and no outs in the 9th, so I'm having a hard time blaming Sale. And the lineup has 3 runs against the 5th best staff in MLB. All in all, I have to say this one is on the bullpen.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Going into this game, the Tigers staff had the 5th best ERA in MLB--3.25. For awhile, the Sox ERA was double that.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Back to the subject of Chris Sale. I've alway felt he relies too much on K's on not enough on pitching to contact, which this guy Boyd for the Tigers seems very good at. That said, 2 runs in 5 innings is not half bad, but the pen is worse than bad.
  14. Maxbialystock
    We need to hear from the CERA uber alles crowd for a comment on the magnificent job Leon is doing behind the plate.
  15. Maxbialystock
    Not when they are pounding Brewer, it isn't.
  16. Maxbialystock
    See that double off of Mookie? JBJ would have caught that 95% of the time--blindfolded. When is Cora going to learn no one but no one can play CF like the great Jackie Bradley Jr.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Wrong! Sale looks terrible, awful, disgusting. Too many pitches.
  18. Maxbialystock
    Didn't an Oakland pitcher get a no-hitter against last year's lineup?
  19. Maxbialystock
    Might as well shut this thread down because the game situation is hopeless--no JBJ in CF. I read recently that, had JBJ not been in center field for the Rays, they would have swept us.
  20. Maxbialystock
    This still appears to be the lineup for game 1 today.
  21. Maxbialystock
    I am not defending JBJ, but I am also trying to be fair to those his devout followers. Right now, he sure ain't worth no $8.5M/year, but it's early. The downside on JBJ is that his 2016 OPS of .832 now appears to have been that one great year that was/is in reality chimerical. The Yankees gave Ellsbury a $140M+ contract for 7 years based mostly on his totally unreal and unrepeatable 2011 season when he had 32 dingers and an OPS of .928. I am more and more convinced that really good contracts for players actually pay for what they have already done and not what they in fact end up doing. Scott Boras is a con man.
  22. Maxbialystock
    Not me. I like Lin a lot, but think right now we can use the better bat--Chavis--and not give up too much defense. However, to be perfectly honest, I am almost always happy with whatever lineup Cora decides to use that day.
  23. Maxbialystock
    I love lawyer jokes, but painfully have to remember that some of them authored a pretty fair document back in 1787.
  24. Maxbialystock
    CPA's are the salt of the earth. Our daughter married one. And our 501©3 depends on one.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Fair to you, maybe, but not to me. The Rays have 10 triples in 23 games, but hit 5 of them last Fri-Sat with JBJ in CF for us (and Betts in RF). One of the triples was over JBJ's head but still had room to hit the ground before the wall. He has an OPS of .372 and is being paid $8.5M this year. My guess is that he has almost no trade value, so we are stuck with him, but there is the real possibility that his hitting will come around. It has before, including the 2018 postseason.
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