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  1. Maxbialystock
    He did manage brilliantly. Your complaining he didn't fix a lineup that struggled all year long and ignoring the great job he did with the pitching when all four of his starters stunk and his presumed two best late relievers (Reed and Kimbrel) did too. Plus he's the guy who convinced Price he could contribute from the bullpen, and boy did he. He also brought Sale back at just the right time to darn near save our bacon in game 4 had it not been for Kimbrel's complete malfeasance.
  2. Maxbialystock
    Who gives a rat's ass? We lost that game 8-2 mostly because start Pom stank and the ERod and Reed also stank. And you are quarreling about the way Farrell arranged the deck chairs. My goodness gracious.
  3. Maxbialystock
    Verlander, the guy who gave up the 2 run dinger to Beni? I loved that move. If Kimbrel hadn't s*** in his pants, the Sox win the game thanks to Verlander.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Unfortunately, you do have a point. The Yankees were pretty tough this year with that youngish lineup and a rotation that was up and down.
  5. Maxbialystock
    The irony of me now defending Farrell is that just three days ago I was saying it would be understandable if DD fired him after winning the AL East but also lost the ALDS in three straight games. In fact, I even said you can't fire the players. As it is, Farrell managed brilliantly in this postseason when the hitting struggled in the first two games and the rotation was absolutely abysmal in all 4 games and, horror of horrors, his two closers, Kimbrel and Reed, turned out to be erratic. Farrell almost pulled off those 2 wins by using a former starter (soon to be one again next season) and a starter almost everyone on this board thought had given up the ghost after a so-so September. And he pretty much stuck with a lineup that in the last two games started to work if not all the time.
  6. Maxbialystock
    What the hell other era is there? The 86 years of frustration? John Henry no doubt has his faults, but he is demonstrably the best owner the Sox have ever had and he is certainly better than the Steinbrenner boys.
  7. Maxbialystock
    Last year maybe, but even then the Guardians had the better record and home field advantage. This year no way the Sox were favored over the Astros. As for high expectations, look homeward, why doncha? In the John Henry era the Yankees have continued to outspend the Sox but have clearly fallen behind in postseason success.
  8. Maxbialystock
    I'm no expert, of course, but I doubt it. The Astros had the better team or weren't you watching the first two games of the ALDS or the final four games of the regular season? Yesterday's win was largely because Farrell convinced Price a month ago he could contribute a lot from the bullpen and Price delivered big time after Fister bombed. Today, same deal, only this time it was Sale out of the bullpen, the same guy everyone said was toast after his last two starts, only Farrell didn't think so. The problem today was our ace reliever Kimbrel couldn't get one guy out in the 8th (before giving up a WP, a walk and a single to score the tying run) and then struggled in the 9th. How you can blame that on Farrell is beyond me.
  9. Maxbialystock
    BS. He pulled rabbits out of the hat to win game 3 and make game 4 close. He got ejected protecting Pedroia from getting tossed in the 2d inning when the ump was in fact giving Morton some calls and the Sox could not score with the bases loaded and no one out. On a 3-2 count he called strike 3 on JBJ when the ball was clearly outside the zone. Without that, the Sox score 1, and Morton gets seriously rattled.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Reed gave up 2 (in 1 inning) in his last game--against these same Astros in game 2 of the ALDS.
  11. Maxbialystock
    Of course it was because it's never, ever the players fault. Only the manager can lose a game and only the players can win one. Yea, verily, it is written. Me, I thought it was a helluva game, a helluva ALDS, and a helluva season.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Reed? Reed? Reed threw one inning against these guys in this ALDS (Oct 6) and gave up 2 runs. Reed?
  13. Maxbialystock
    Right. Kimbrel didn't do his job, simple as that. He had two outs and a man on first when he came in and gave up a wild pitch, a walk, and a single.
  14. Maxbialystock
    Two men out and one man on when Kimbrel came in. A piece of cake for any reliever, especially one of Kimbrel's calibre. He choked, pure and simple.
  15. Maxbialystock
    He threw fewer innings and fewer pitches in September than any other month. He had 9 days rest before he pitched Oct 5 and gave up 2 dingers in the first freaking inning. He just didn't have it that day the same way he had it today. That's baseball. Who knew, for another example, Verlander would give up a dinger to Beni?
  16. Maxbialystock
    I'm pretty sure it hit the bag.
  17. Maxbialystock
    And he certainly looked overworked today, didn't he? I was surprised he could actually throw the ball, he looked so exhausted. Let's not forget that he threw 100 pitches 4 days ago.
  18. Maxbialystock
    I love that line.
  19. Maxbialystock
    OK, somebody at some point needs to fess up and say that they were dead wrong that Sale was too tired to pitch in the postseason and that Farrell ruined him. I mean that was three pretty darn good innings, including a 2 run error by Devers, against a really good lineup.
  20. Maxbialystock
    It was also the earlier one that struck out JBJ--out of the zone. Morton got lots of calls.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Kimmi's kind of game. She's the one who said, "don't let us win game 3."
  22. Maxbialystock
    Even though he's exhausted, he seems to be doing OK.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Sale not too shabby working the corners on the first two in the 5th, Astros #3 and #4 hitters.
  24. Maxbialystock
    One thing you have to give Morton credit for is working the edges of the strike zone. That is I think the big reason why he is getting more calls than Porcello (or Sale). Those 3 K's in the 4th against Devers, Vazquez, and JBJ were impressive. We have no one in the rotation who can hit corners consistently.
  25. Maxbialystock
    What the heck is Sale doing out there? Anybody with any knowledge of the game can tell he is literally exhausted, those 98 mph fastballs notwithstanding. I was talking to several former MLB pitchers the other days and they all say he's lost it--his stride is shorter or something and his arm motion is all wrong. This is all Farrell's fault.
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