Maxbialystock

Thanks. Still pretty awful.

Interesting. You call yourself FredLynn, but you prefer rooting against the Sox,

He's on a 2 year contract? Are you serious? Major blunder by Breslow.

Given what we've seen this season, I would label Buehler as the worst possible choice to pitch multiple innings.

Keep him at $21.5M?

Command is part of it, I agree. But in his case too many of his strikes can get hit hard. No question he was a vast overpay by Breslow, a former MLB pitcher for 10 years.

If find it amusing that he occasionally says "we" when referring to Sox.

He's what we've got right now, today. Last start he was worse. Plus today the Sox seem to be hitting a good Jays starter. Statistically, you are dead right. His ERA stinks. He is vastly over paid.

Of course it sucks, but at least he was trying to throw strikes. The 4th inning shows the re-emergence of bad Buehler. Looks like Narvaez just saved him from calamity.

I disagree about today. The first dinger was off a slider low and inside and not in the strike zone. The second dinger, granted, was off a fat pitch. Plus, guess what? No walks in 3.2 IP. And you claim that nothing has freaking changed?

Well said! On the sour side, I'm listening to the NESN TV announcers and am hearing very few real insights, but plenty of platitudes. When they interviewed Breslow, they implied that Devers was the key guy in the 6 game winning streak. Wrong!! I didn't hear them mention that Bregman's on the IL or that the bullpen has been struggling. Not all that impressive a lineup today. Missing Bregman and Raffy of course. Mayer's out. A lefty starter for The Jays, so as many righty bats as Cora can cram in there. Given Buehler on the mound, this game should be over after 3 innings, but it is definitely not that. Great grab by Rafaela!!!!

I'm convinced Cora loved having Raffy as his full time DH because his hitting was excellent, he never missed a game, and he never made an error fielding. But I also think Breslow had a good reason for wanting Raffy to play 1b. And guess who makes the deals/trades? I also think Raffy dug in his heels because he was promised he could stay at 3b. So far he has just DH'd for the Giants, and it's very unlikely he will regain 3b. This looks to me like a pretty good deal for the Giants, some short term pain for the Sox, but also in the end the right move. Bregman needs to stay off the IL and Mayer and Anthony need to develop as reliable MLB lefty bats. Meanwhile, the money saved--and then some--can be spent on pitching.

Manny left in 2008 because he was 36 and wanted one more juicy pay package. The manny being manny stuff was just an extra reason to say goodbye.

Great line, great movie. Paddy Chayefsky, 3 oscars for screenwriting--Network, Marty, and The Hospital.

I'm one of six siblings. By far our smartest is my sister who was a phi betta kapa in math before she went to med school (UVA) and residency (NYC) and became a doctor. She lived in Germany for 4 years as a kid (ages 5-8 and 9-10). She took German in college. She passed a German language exam as a requirement for her medical degree. When she went back to Germany with her husband (an Army guy), she could not speak German. Her husband knew a lot less than she, but he was fearless. So whenever they want to a store where no one spoke English, he did the talking, sort of. She would then tell him what the storekeeper had said, and he would say or ask something further. Given our population, I should have learned Spanish, but did not. One son's not bad at it. One daughter is fluent and was in the Peace Corps in Bolivia. Another son is fairly fluent in German aber das ist alles. I think we Americans are spoiled because people from so many other countries have learned English. It's closest to a universal language.

Indeed. I would have been thrilled with a 6-1 win. The last time, May 24, the Sox won like this they nosedived and went 3 and 8 in the next 11 games. Tomorrow it's Buehler and his 6.29 ERA vs. lefty Lauer and his 2.29 ERA. Not very promising.

I still don't like him, but you are dead right. He is now a pretty reliable 3d starter.

SF is a fresh start with a team and city who seem to have embraced him. So of course he wants to be grateful and do anything to get wins. But my guess is that right now they really just need his bat--just like the Sox. I tend to defend Raffy because he was a terrific DH this season when the Sox needed him to be and because he was lied to about staying at 3b. I defend Cora because he persuaded Raffy to embrace DH and didn't ask him to play 1b. And I defend Breslow for acquiring Bregman (and Narvaez, Chapman, and Crochet). I think he wronged Raffy, but I think the last thing a CBO needs to be is a buddy to the players. Also, as you pointed out, once 1b opened up, moving Devers to 1b made financial sense because Yoshida can only DH this season. His job is to hire, fire, negotiate contracts, be responsive to JH and any others over him, and to communicate effectively with his manager. All those jobs are daunting, so it makes sense to let the manager talk to the players.

You know the Sox must be winning whenever the game thread is short. Ho hum.

Those swing or checked swing calls are tough calls and consequently can be inconsistent. But what I love about them is that they are not reviewable.

Abreu golfed that low curve into the RF stands. That's pretty good against any pitcher. Bassitt is 7-3 with 17 starts, 94.1 (now 96.1) IP, 93 K's, and an ERA for 4.11. Oh, and he's 36.

Let me see now. The Sox are up 6 -0 and Cora should get all the credit because he made up the batting order and sent Giolito to the mound. This game does not, however, compensate for all those lousy lineups Cora put together, to say nothing of the zillions of wrong pitchers he sent in plus his consummate failure to leave starters on the mound for at least 120 pitches.

I like your posts too much to disagree further. I'm going to learn Japanese or get an interpreter to write a letter to Ohtani to tell him to get off his freaking ass. I can skip Spanish. Raffy is now the Giants responsibility.

Those big contracts say nothing about learning English. Plus with all that dough Raffy and Ohtani can afford interpreters. I've lived in Germany, Italy, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia. I did OK in German and was not bad in French (high school and college), but failed utterly with Italian, Korean, and Arabic. What experience do you have with foreign languages in foreign lands?

Absolutely fascinating. Well done. But I have my doubts about Murphy @$15m/season as a backup catcher. Also about Atlanta in any way needing Story.