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  1. Maxbialystock
    Excellent perspective. Agree the lineup and rotation are better, but the bullpen is a concern.
  2. Maxbialystock
    Nope. The Big O led them to the final four twice, but never won. The two wins happened after the 1960 Olympics in Rome, after which Robertson went to the NBA.
  3. Maxbialystock
    A sweep would be huge of course. Even transformational. But this team needs to focus on one game at a time. Last Saturday the Sox scored 5 off the Rays' starter tonight, Charlie Morton, a righty, so that part looks good. But the Sox starter tonight is a mystery, which doesn't look good, especially given the recent difficulties with the bullpen. Tonight is game 8 of 20 games in 20 days for the Sox which will put that much more pressure on the bullpen. Ain't nothing easy about this season.
  4. Maxbialystock
    I was on a nearby faculty and ended up rooting for the NY Knicks in 1970 and 1973 when they won the NBA with Willis Reed, Dave Debusschere, Earl Monroe, and Walt Frazier--and Phil Jackson as the 6th man. Bradley was their small forward, and Havlicek drove him nuts because he never stopped moving. A write-up says Havlicek invested well and lived comfortably in retirement. He died of Parkinson's in Jupiter, FL, where residents are quite well off. That 1960 Ohio State team that won the NC went on to play in the NCAAT final game both of the next two years and with basically the same players (Jerry Lucas, Larry Siegfried, Bobby Knight, etc. But both years they lost the final game and NC to the Cincinnati Bearcats. Maybe it was those last two years that gave Havlicek an unquenchable thirst to win championships, and the Celtics and Auerbach were a perfect match for him.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Another boring night at the Fens.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Hembree reaches out to the Tigers with a nice gift walk.
  7. Maxbialystock
    Pulled it down the right field line. Go figure.
  8. Maxbialystock
    Nothing to watch tonight. If the bullpen will collapse like a cheap tent, we’ll have something to talk about. Not sure where all this hitting is coming from.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Jordan Zimmerman (R, ERA 4.94) vs. Rick Porcello (R, ERA 8.47) Basically the same lineup as last night but with Sandy catching: Beni LF Mookie RF Moreland 1B JDM DH Bogie SS Devers 3b Chavis 2b JBJ CF Leon C Nice win last night and a quality start by Eduardo Rodriguez. Porcello looks awful this year, but last year he too had some quality starts. Last night just 4 lefty bats against a righty starter for Detroit. Tonight 5 lefty bats. In the very unlikely event of a Sox win tonight, they will be 5-5 at home. This is a good thing if only because all four of the other AL East teams have winning road records (where the Sox are 6-10). Sox now 6 behind the Rays and 4.5 behind the red hot Yankees on a 6 game winning streak.
  10. Maxbialystock
    My goodness, I completely forgot the sheer pleasure of second guessing DD. Before the fact--the actual season--I was fine with not re-signing Kelly or Kimbrel. Kelly because he was so up and down last year (but super in the postseason)--and now stinks. And Kimbrel because he wants too much money for reliever who won't do windows. The bullpen doesn't look so hot now, but earlier they were pretty good and way, way, way, way, way, way better than our putrid rotation--you know, the guys with the huge salaries.
  11. Maxbialystock
    Poodles throughout the Red Sox Nation can rejoice at the valuable social service provided by talksox.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Reverse mojo advocate. Coming from a Yankee fan with, what, 27 World Series wins stashed away? We Sox fans come by our pessimism honestly. I lived thru 64 of those 86 years (but was only a fan for 55 of them). And oldtimer and bosoxmal go back further than I. Of course, the John Henry era has kind of changed things, but I personally have found it difficult to give up old habits of dour pessimism. It's never too soon to push the panic button, shout to the world that the sky is falling, etc. Failing that, it also helps to go after individual players, the rotation, the bullpen, the outfield, the salaries, etc.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Nice. The two obvious perps in last night's lineup were JBJ and Vazquez, but both got 2 hits. Of course, there is the other meaning for "hit."
  14. Maxbialystock
    You could well be right. I never did like POM, but those numbers from last night don't lie. My guess is you only need the fingers on one hand to count the number of times he went six shutout innings for the Sox.
  15. 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?
  16. Maxbialystock
    A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Exactly
  18. Maxbialystock
    This one looks pretty much in the bag.
  19. Maxbialystock
    3-0 Sox in the 5th. ERod looking very good.
  20. Maxbialystock
    I think he goes 6.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Is Bobby Orr still playing?
  22. 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.
  23. 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?
  24. 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?
  25. 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.
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