Maxbialystock
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Marathon is a terrible metaphor for baseball. Marathoners are merely joggers who endure and have none of the finely honed skills of a MLB player. Baseball players actually do sprint and for the most part avoid jogging. And you better believe they live all the highs and lows of every single inning and game. And it's the same for us fans. We should be up and down based on what happens each inning, game, week, month, and season. Any fan who goes through the season with the mentality of a marathoner is cheating himself. I mean, why even bother watching if your perspective is it's just one more of 162 games? Better to quote Yogi (or someone): it ain't over 'til it's over.
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Of course it does. How could anyone rationally use the West Coast trip as a viable explanation for horrible pitching?
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I honestly don't like Vazquez that much, but I seriously doubt he is the problem with the rotation. For these reasons-- 1. He was the primary catcher last year, and the staff did fine. 2. This year the bullpen hasn't had the same problem as the rotation. In fact, far from it. 3. Indeed, by far the best pitched game this season was the only game in which none of the five starters threw a single pitch. 4. DD, Cora, and the pitching coach must have all agreed to retain Vasquez as the primary catcher even though it means paying Leon $2.5M to be in Pawtucket (after first putting him on waivers). 5. Speaking of which, why didn't any of the other 29 MLB teams pick up the greatest catcher in Sox history, Sandy Leon? Maybe because he really ain't that great--or ain't worth that $2.5M salary.
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Committed Statistical Analyst. They both reviewed over 100 Sox seasons--then thousands of other MLB teams seasons-- and concluded 3-8 was actually the best the Sox could do under the circumstances of 11 games away from Fenway, right after ST, and near or west of the Rocky Mountains. They have recommended to John Henry that he file a claim against MLB schedulers for the loss of revenue that is almost certain to occur as a result.
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Today I learned that two former CSA's are blaming this on the lengthy West Coast road trip.
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Ah, the "the Sox are playing with house money" argument. A good point, but most of the rest of us prefer to be spoiled with another run for the roses, especially when the core of last year's team is back and have the highest payroll in MLB. Besides, we seem to enjoy griping even more that singing the Sox praises. We just don't seem to like basking in the sunshine of 2018.
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A lot of negativity--albeit deserved--on this thread. But I would still like to thank Kimmi for starting this one and the one before. We seem to like venting more than cheering, but that's fine.
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Sox now have their 4th reliever in the game. But yesterday was an off day and so is tomorrow. So why not?
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You have a kind heart.
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What was Caesar's big line? Veni, vidi, vici: "I came, I saw, I conquered." For us Sox fans it's "Beni, Beni, Beni."
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Great shot, too brief, of the frozen Fenway crowd still sticking around. For top dollar, yet. With some really bad sightlines down the right side. Man this ump is giving Toronto some low strikes.
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So maybe thunder has a point. JBJ smacked that one hard--for an easy out.
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Just maybe the best golf tournament in the world because it stars--August National, a course created by Bobby Jones. Me, I'll watch both. Sox on the desktop screen, Masters on the boob tube.
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Needed that out. Devers is really good on those big hops. Of course, so would I be, and I'm 78. Don't quite have the arm though.
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Workman keeps throwing high fastballs and low breaking balls.
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Workman for Hembree not exactly working.
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Actually, I'll take a lineout to RF from Pedey--way better than the 2 groundouts to SS.
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Agree on today, not on the season. The Sox earned those 8 losses in the first 11 games. The rotation stank, except that one start by--wait for it--Christ Sale. Thus the absolute best-pitched game in now 12 games this season was the only game in which the rotation did not participate. That, sir, is not bad luck, but stunningly poor pitching by some very well paid athletes.
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Oh, my, but ain't those solo dingers pretty?
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Exactly right. I think that got him at $20M/year, which turned out to be kind of a bargain, shenanigans and all.
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True. But today was kind of weird. Sale was fine the first two innings, then sort of came apart after a barrage of singles and 2 runs in the 3d and 3 runs in the 4th. Then out of the game after 76 pitches. So in comes Thornburg, Hamlet-like: "the time is out of joint; o cursed spite that ever i was born to set it right!" Maybe something is rotten in the state of Denmark. If not rotten, then at least strange. The bullpen, our presumed weak spot, has almost been a pillar of strength and certainly was Sunday with absolutely no starters allowed into the game. Instead, the rotation sucks, the hitting is uninspired, and even the fielding is not quite right--to say nothing of baserunning.
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This is a game thread, not an assessment of his career.
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Sale pulled after 76 pitches--not many--7 hits (all singles), no walks, 3 K's, and 5 runs. Oh, and 54 strikes--about 70% strikes.
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Pedey's in a groove--weak grounders right to the SS.
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Here's a talksox observation. Sunday was a great win and the shortest game thread this season. Today the Sox are getting stomped, it's only the 4th inning, and we are already on page 9 (Sunday's game thread was 6 pages and postmortems took it to 7). In other words, talksox denizens prize griping over hosannahs.