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  1. Maxbialystock
    EROD is a choker, pure and simple. Polar opposite of Lynn who pitches quickly and with confidence.
  2. Maxbialystock
    That's true--Ortiz might have been and might be a student of the game. However, I am more confident Williams was because he actually managed for 3 years and one year was voted manager of the year in the AL with the Senators. Plus we know he was smart because he was a pilot in World II and Korea (where he apparently was John Glenn's wingman). He was not an ideal manager, however, because he was impatient, especially with pitchers.
  3. Maxbialystock
    I'm actually kind of partial to the Cardinals. I don't root for them of course. But they are one of the oldest MLB franchises with a lot of history. The guy who really got them going was Branch Rickey, who i think was the first to develop minor league relationships that fed the MLB team. Ever since then, including the 21st century, their overall management has been solid. The St Louis Cardinal fans are not so much fanatics as incredibly loyal because their population is 316K, down from 856K in 1950, but their attendance is regularly near the top in MLB. Right now they are 2d of 30 teams. If you drive across the country or at least as far west as Missouri and Oklahoma, you will hear their games on the radio. ERod vs. Lynn tonight--tough match-up given our struggles at the plate.
  4. Maxbialystock
    I personally like lots of different threads, even short-lived ones. It livens things up. On the other hand, in the brief year I've been on talksox I've grown to accept their methodology. I'm pretty sure I've had more than one thread I started merged with another, and in the end I was fine with that. It is certainly better than the madness we sometimes saw on BDM and I saw on other non-baseball websites I have been to where random thoughts immediately become threads because people want their online voices heard above all others. Moreover, I personally think the idea of Ortiz as manager is just nonsense. He was a great hitter and has a pretty good personality but has in now way prepared himself to manage for the simple reason that he doesn't have to put in the endless hours and days and months of even one season as an MLB manager. Ted Williams was one of the few stars who successfully managed, but most people agree he was always a student of the game, which Ortiz is not.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Thank you, thank you, thank you. There is always at least one in the crowd who believes that good managers simply don't lose games. This was the relentless drumbeat throughout Francona's tenure in Boston--he lost games whereas good managers don't do that. True he won two WS with the Sox and with Cleveland was voted manager of the year one time and last year took them to the WS before losing to the Cubs. But the hard fact is that both the Sox and the Guardians have lost games with Francona at the helm. Fire the bum!
  6. Maxbialystock
    who the hell is EE?
  7. Maxbialystock
    Goodness knows I am no DD fan, but I honestly thought we had a good lineup for this year. HanRam really isn't replacing Ortiz, Moreland is because he is new to the lineup. So how make up that deficit? Benintendi in LF helps. So, I thought, would be the case with Pablo at 3B, but he has been worse than our group last year and on the DL, which brought in a multitude of sins. I'm guessing that last year overall our thirdbasemen were ranked in the bottom third, but this year they are probably dead last. JBJ is way down from last year. Pedroia is down. And where I miscalculated is that Ortiz was both a great rbi guy and great rbi guy when you really need one.
  8. Maxbialystock
    Good to see Dombroski take some hits, which he definitely deserves.
  9. Maxbialystock
    I disagree with almost all criticism of specific decisions by Farrell, but do believe that any manager can be fired if the front office thinks the team is under performing. Of course, with Lovullo now in in Arizona, finding a new manager on, say, June 1 might be tricky if you think managers make a difference. That the Sox are just 4 games out and still 1 game over .500 are in Farrell's favor for now. As bad as the 9th was yesterday, I honestly don't think it cost the Sox the game because they had scored just 2 runs in 8 innings and were 2 for 11 with RISP, a familiar malady in 2017. Our first six hitters were 3 for 22. If these guys could hit, this was a winnable game, and it would be dead wrong to blame the bullpen. Remember, Pomeranz only lasted 3 innings, giving up 2. Then the bullpen went 5, giving up 2 more. Give the Sox a 5-4 lead going into the 9th, and Kimbrel gets another save.
  10. Maxbialystock
    my NOAA map says the bad stuff has moved thru--the same stuff that forced the schedule change to yesterday afternoon vs. last night--and chances are good to get this one in. shout out to my mom julie, mother of six, and my wife joan, ditto.
  11. Maxbialystock
    3d thru 6th hitters--bogie, beni, young, and moreland--were hitless yesterday but the Sox still scored 6. bogie ended his 15 game hitting streak. the big switch is betts getting super hot and replacing beni as the hitting stats leader. mookie now leads the Sox in total bases, dingers, rbi's, OPS (.923!!), and his 2d in runs scored. bogie has the highest BA and OBP.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Off day tomorrow--ditto last Monday. No need to save the bullpen. Must win home game against a weak road team. Yesterday the bottom half of the order had more hits, 4 to 3, than the top half and scored 4 of the 6 runs. Bradley, also know as the wreck of the hesperus, had 2 of those hits. Are the titanic Sox not going down--105 years and about a month after the other one--after all? Will John "what icebergs, I don't see no stinkin icebergs" Farrell make still one more perilous journey thru an entire MLB season safely? Stay tuned . . .
  13. Maxbialystock
    Andriese vs. Pomeranz, Sox need this one. Another afternoon game dodging the storm.
  14. Maxbialystock
    aptly said
  15. Maxbialystock
    Surprising win to me, especially after Sale gave up his 2d dinger in the 5th. He's learned the key to winning--don't hold the other team to 1 run. Another surprise--Sox get 6 runs on 7 hits, only hit into one GIDP, and were 2 for 5 with RISP.
  16. Maxbialystock
    Marrero took away a hit.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Lefty Snell vs. lefty Sale, hoping to beat the weather. Betts Pedroia Bogaerts Benintendi Young Moreland Leon Bradley Marrero We're almost to mid-May, the Sox are 1 game over .500, and Farrell's job could be in peril if the downward trend continues into June. g
  18. Maxbialystock
    too true
  19. Maxbialystock
    Just a miserable performance by the infield including Leon. Don't forget that one of those singles was actually a groundout that Rutledge simply refused to get rid of. One hit so far, a pissy single by Bogaerts. No Sox has failed to get a hit so far with RISP simply because no one has so far been in scoring position.
  20. Maxbialystock
    Maybe not. Young so far this year has a higher OPS against righties than does Moreland. Plus I think Farrell likes to alternate righty and left bats and Beni is hitting cleanup.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Maybe we are citing the wrong stats about this game. Try this one: so far this season mvp78 is 4-2, plus he just prevented a sweep by the Brewers. So who the heck cares about the starters and/or lineups? We got us an mvp, and I'll bet the Rays have nothing--not even a game thread.
  22. Maxbialystock
    Very crafty. Sneaky even. Porcello has 7 starts, 6 of them quality and in none of those 6 did he give up more than 1 dinger. In the 7th, a disaster, he gave up 4 dingers.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Meh. I would maybe bat Moreland 5th and Young 6th or later, but otherwise it looks OK to me. I believe the big lineup switch--moving Betts to 1st, Bogie to 3d, and Beni to 4th--has really helped the top part of the lineup, but 5 thru 9 have been gawdawful. Based on that alone, I really don't care who bats where, 5th thru 9th. In fact, maybe Farrell should make Young bat lefty, Moreland bat righty, Rutledge lefty, Bradley righty, and Sandy Leon maybe hit from the middle of the plate. Stats on Cobb say lefty bats have an .887 OPS against him and righty bats .690.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Here in the DC areas it's raining, but my NOAA map says it's clear in Boston. True? my mlb app says Porcello's ERA for his last 4 starts is 1.69. Great. But Cobb went 8 giving up 2 against the Jays on Sunday. Rays and Sox are about even in runs scored per game. A month ago the Sox took 3 of 4 from the Rays at Fenway. Sox and Rays both have winning records at home and losing records on the road. I think we need to get at least 2 wins in this series.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Meh. Why is it always the manager's responsibility to prevent the GIDP and never the player's?
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