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  1. Maxbialystock
    That's two B player hits out of our three today.
  2. Maxbialystock
    We just see baseball differently, I guess. So far this has not been a long game time-wise. As for missing A players, I understand Bogie and Betts are injured. Am I misinformed? Moreland has one of our two hits, a double, so hard to give him a B. And righty Nunez, I feel confident, would bring zippo to this lineup and not much more to the infield.
  3. Maxbialystock
    I never find 1 run games boring.
  4. Maxbialystock
    All Sox righties are helpless against that slider it seems, so Nunez is unlikely to have helped. JD and Hanley have already demonstrated their helplessness against Bundy.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Bunch of wusses in the lineup today.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Our righties are helpless against that slider.
  7. Maxbialystock
    Somebody tell me again please just why Holt gets so much love and money and Lin is lucky to get into maybe 5 games a season? To me Holt has outlasted his usefulness because he's below average at 7 different positions and can't hit and is slow on the basepaths.
  8. Maxbialystock
    Cora was right about one thing with this lineup. Our righty hitters seem mystified.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Sale is one tough hombre.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Can't see anyone's face except Sale's.
  11. Maxbialystock
    Fenway Park looks like a line from a sonnet--bare, ruined choirs. So my question is: where the heck are the faithful?
  12. Maxbialystock
    I can only get the Orioles feed here in Fairfax Co, and they say the game will start on time.
  13. Maxbialystock
    The woman field announcer is dressed for warmth--actually, maybe the arctic.
  14. Maxbialystock
    Interesting lineup-- JBJ RF Beni CF Hanley DH JD LF Moreland 1B Devers 3B Vazquez C Holt 2B Lin SS If you're counting, that's 6 lefty bats vs. righty Bundy.
  15. Maxbialystock
    Actually, that is the key. ILO a merit badge, Walden gets to stay on the big club because you better believe the manager and his pitching coach rely mostly on "who gets the job done and how it gets done."
  16. Maxbialystock
    My NOAA map shows a whole lot of bad stuff headed toward Boston, but not how soon it will arrive.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Agree with Kimmi (and her bold print comment). Well said. For whatever reason, Hanley seems reborn this year. He is hitting, and he is playing with enthusiasm. I really like the movie Money Ball, but it's about a team with basically no fan base and very little money. John Henry appreciates the value of statistics, but also that there is a different kind of Money Ball that can be played.
  18. Maxbialystock
    Nolan Ryan has a point even though he basically is dead wrong. The point is that a 6th starter is folly unless you don't have any really good starters. With Porcello doing so well, Cora would be nuts not to keep Sale, Price, and Porcello pitching every 5th day and mitigating that with pitch counts, etc. The point is that really good starters are often the difference between winning and losing, which is why they get so much money. And now we're going to give them extra rest? Give me a break. Last year the only problem with Sale was the number of innings and pitches he threw in the first 4 months. Cora has already fixed that. I'm glad Kimmi mentioned the three times through the order thing. I do think that is a factor, but also think your best pitchers (Sale, Price, Porcello) should be up to it and that the pitches thrown at that point plus their overall effectiveness in that game should determine whether a third time through the lineup is merited. And usually the two coincide--a pitcher who has only been so-so the first two times through the order usually has also used a lot of pitches.
  19. Maxbialystock
    If they know more than you, they sure as heck know more than me, but the castor oil metaphor beckoned. Only my opinion, but to me the one truly versatile player on the roster is Swihart, who can catch and play the OF and 3B and probably 1B. Plus I think he is a better hitter than Holt.
  20. Maxbialystock
    If you mean a save should not be obtainable in a 10-3 game, I agree. But the 3 innings and 1 runs were especially good because this was the 5th game in a 13 game skein with no days off and Walden saved a couple of bullpen arms for the days ahead.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Good for you--plus you gave your reasons why before the season started. I was not so sanguine or sage. I did think the hitting would pick up, but had my doubts about the pitching.
  22. Maxbialystock
    Holt turns 30 in June, and this is his 6th year on the Sox roster. He seems to have lost a step, at least on the basepaths. His two best years by far were 2014 and 2015, the very same years the Sox finished dead last in the AL East. Decades, maybe centuries ago in America castor oil was used for whatever ailed your kids. It tasted awful and was of marginal medicinal value, but mothers, like Sox managers, loved it because it could play all the outfield and infield positions.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Bundy, righty, vs. Sale, lefty. Both were opening day starters and both have good ERA's, etc, this year. But my gosh the Sox are hitting! 2d most runs scored in MLB to the Angels. Some credit has to go to Cora. 12-2, and lately the margins are getting bigger.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Hitting won the game, but I loved the start and Walden's 3 innings, 1 run, and, yes, sports fans, a save. Good call by Cora to keep him after ST and to have him go 3 today.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Thanks.
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