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  1. Maxbialystock
    I'm so busy being a smartass I lost track. Is this really the middle of the 7th? Go Fister!
  2. Maxbialystock
    Seriously, this game so far is a thrill, not least because on the first page I virtually guaranteed we could not hit Gray. No greater joy than being wrong in underestimating the Sox.
  3. Maxbialystock
    No doubt, no doubt.
  4. Maxbialystock
    I like JBJ a lot, and it's good he was interviewed, but that lasted way too long and became a distraction. And those announcers. Did you hear them say the Sox might have the best fielding outfield in MLB even though anyone with half a brain knows Benintendi is a liability out there? I mean he's been playing 15 years and has never mastered the fundamentals. He may be fast, but he's dumb.
  5. Maxbialystock
    I know, I know. As it is, I just can't get any satisfaction from crucial dingers in huge games knowing all the time he could just suddenly try to stretch a single. Baseball is the purest sport, and boneheaded plays just ruin any chance of really enjoying it.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Sweet play by Pedey. He is definitely back. And look at Fister covering 1b. Film it and show it to ERod.
  7. Maxbialystock
    I sure wish Beni weren't such a bonehead. I mean are those dingers really worth the agony and rank amateurishness of him trying to stretch singles into doubles?
  8. Maxbialystock
    The one good thing about Nunez not being good at going back on pop ups is that it is not an exploitable weakness. Lousy on grounders is exploitable.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Nice grab by Holt, but that ump is definitely giving Gray more calls than Fister and in the same part of the strike zone. 2-1 after 4. Gotta win this if only because the Yankees need it worse and probably expected to win.
  10. Maxbialystock
    I sure did. He was probably right to take the step back to be sure he got it, but then he had too really fire it to get Gardner, who is very quick going down the line.
  11. Maxbialystock
    Nice K by Gray--just the right time to go with the high hard one to Moreland.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Nice opposite field by Beni--smart hitter. I'm even happy Betts hit it to soft to be a GIDP. Go Moreland!
  13. Maxbialystock
    Nuni, Nuni, Nuni! Make me wrong! Great and very needed 2 run dinger. The wrong applies to my totally pessimism about our hitting Gray. May I add that I don't like Holt in there, but he drew that walk and scored.
  14. Maxbialystock
    I have disliked Fister from the start, and I have been wrong. The guy has that something extra--focus, smarts, confidence, whatever--that helps him get out of tight spots. He does not have great stuff, and he has good, but not great control. But he sure is a gamer. And boy do I love being wrong like that.
  15. Maxbialystock
    He is not above reproach. The context of this discussion is last night's game, which is considered by too many evidence that Beni is costing us wins and materially aided the enemy in the 2d inning. I have explained why that is simply not true, and no one, including you has presented any compelling evidence tgo the contrary. On the bonehead plays costing us a 10-15 game lead, fine. Go with the minimum of the 10 game lead, which means 6 more wins than the current 76. 82 wins gives us the second best record in MLB. You claim you can prove boneheaded plays cost 6 wins and I am equally confident you can't demonstrate it by analyzing any of the 56 losses to date. 82 wins, in case you haven't noticed, would give the Sox the second best record in MLB and the best in the AL, and there is no way, no how with our weak hitting you can assert that. We simply differ in our definitions of fundamentals. Mine are hitting and pitching, and yours are playing smart.
  16. Maxbialystock
    Well done, Fister, bouncing back from back to back doubles and yielding just the 1 run. He just might have a quality start, but that remains to be seen. If he does, the problem will still be the same as last night. We couldn't hit Sabathia, and Gray doesn't look any easier. Our 1 baserunner in 2 innings is from a WP on a third strike, batter running to 1b.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Fister vs. Gray, both righties, clear edge to Gray 1 Nunez SS 2 Benintendi CF 3 Betts RF 4 Moreland 1b 5 Pedroia 2b 6 Devers 3b 7 Ramirez DH 8 Leon C 9 Holt LF
  18. Maxbialystock
    He's 23, in his first full season and has less MLB experience than all regulars not named Devers. He is 3d on the team in at bats and has the highest OBP and OPS of those among the top ten in at bats. He is second in rbi's, 2d in dingers, 2d in SB's, 3D in runs scored, and 2d in total hits. His base-stealing % is 82%. And he's never learned how to play the game right? If you are right and he has not, pardon me for saying I'm fine with a guy who has wasted those 15 years of organized ball and can only do what Beni has already done.
  19. Maxbialystock
    Please name a Sox team in the John Henry Bill James era (2002 to 2017?) that used the bunt in any significant way. I like bunts, especially in the way you describe, but the Sox abandoned them more than 10 years before Farrell took the helm.
  20. Maxbialystock
    Fine. Be enraged. Beni probably deserves it. But I'm sorry, I just don't see how his wisely staying at 1b was going to change the game outcome. Hitless Betts was on deck. The next 4 batters were also hitless for the game. Two of them--Bogie and Devers--came to bat in the 1st with the bases loaded and could do nothing against Sabathia. In the 9th with the bases loaded by 2 walks and an HBP, Nunez struck out, Beni walked, Betts popped up to 2d, and Moreland flied out to LF. On top of all that you are ignoring that the Yankees scored 6 runs including 2 dingers. We were simply overmatched last night which should come as no surprise because Sabathia owns us this year and ERod, while I thought he battled well in the first 5 innings, just ain't there yet.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Nunez is a good bat, but anywhere he plays will exact a defensive price as he has repeatedly demonstrated. I think holt is better at every position, and he sure ain't no great defender. But Holt's bat right now makes him 2d to Nunez at any position.
  22. Maxbialystock
    Then you, sir, are in trouble. I need to add that I like and respect everyone who disagrees with me. They all write good stuff. But i still disagree.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Frankly, I am indifferent to Ecks expostulations. He is paid to get excited about specific plays and not to drone on about the 4 singles which weren't confirmed as the total until the game ended. As I have explained already, I also don't care whether Benintendi was right or wrong. The point is, based on how the game played out and based on our sheer ineptitude when the bases were loaded in the 1st and again in the 9th inning, I think Eck and the rest of you are projecting a very unlikely outcome. Beni staying on 1b wasn't going to change the game's dynamic. I too was enraged by Nunez's misplay in the 5th, but by the end of the game considered it inconsequential. The Yankees won because they had better hitting and pitching and nothing else.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Great stuff.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Agree with others, good stuff, thanks. Like moonslav, I think the hitting has underperformed this year with Ortiz no doubt a factor. Blaming Farrell for the wrong lineups to me is silly. There is little or no compelling evidence, especially with this team, that where they are in the order makes a real difference. Betts, for example was terrific last year leading off. Great numbers. He was 2d on the team in rbi's and of course the clear leader in runs scored. Farrell has tried multiple lineups and combinations this year. Holding Devers back??!! He's still 20 for crying out loud. Give me a break.
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