moonslav59

Spoken by the guy that admits he stopped watching all baseball. Priceless!

Our friend and close neighbor died, last night. I've been busy helping his wife get through the day. We had planned on seeing the Sox-Astros game, tonight on TV. Yes, I gave up early on the Sox, last year. It was a team way more flawed than this one. I still watched every game and posted nearly everyday- win or lose. I did not come here and gloat about "being right." I projected we'd be over .500 and maybe compete with for a playoff slot, and aren't coming here throwing that in your face. I'm not asking you to waive pom-poms. I merely pointed out how you wait in the shadows like the Stork and do your drive-by attacks, then back-pedal trying to "clarify" that your continued bashing is not bashing at all. We all know better. It's so obvious.

According to fangraphs, Devers has cost the team 50 runs over his career, including 6, so far this year. To me, his D has lost us at least 2 wins. Kike's D at SS 3-4 min. Casas at 1B? Hard to tell, but I think more than 1 game. That's 6-8 from just 3 positions- enough to put us in the driver's seat for the WC2 or WC3 slots. Sure, their O has more than made up for their D (except Kike,) but let's not sugar coat how bad our D has been. The last 2 games were astonishingly bad. There were so many plays that should have been made, but were not called errors, that are total morale deflation plays. Our pitchers are being asked to get 4-6 outs several times a game. It's just too taxing on them and the rest of the team.

Yes, it must be my poor reading comprehension or interpretation skills that equated suggesting getting a little league manager was being overly critical./B]

4 games is a lot of ground to make up, especially when we don't play SEA and only have 3 vs TOR, remaining. It looks like the hopes on passing HOU by playing them 7 times in 10 games is looking like a pipe dream. I'm not giving up, but I can see why many are, or are close to it.

We have passed some teams during the year, just not often enough, and not at the right time.

I'm not sure why you take issue over when and when I do not give WC standing updates. I'm not under the weather. I'm busy with something else. Our odds are longer, now, and that seems to make you happier. We all have noticed who disappears when things are going well and then posts 50 times a day after a big loss or a losing streak. It's your time to gloat, so enjoy yourself.

...and?

This all too funny.

Showing your "love" for Cora, again, I see.

Clarification does not work with you.

You answered your own question- it's because they are choosing to be half-ass in, until they think the moment it right-- not when we think it is. They may have signed Yoshida and Story thinking the fans would be under the impression we were trying to win it all, but also that both would still be productive when the time actually came to "go all in"( 2024? 2025?) It is clear they did not think we had a chance for a ring, or they would have signed more or better than Kluber. They played it half-ass at the deadline, too- same as 2022. The only meaningful dals they made at both deadline had to do with the longrun outlook (Abreu, EValdez, Rosier, McGuire and Urias.) Personally, not that it matters what I think, we could have been close enough to compete, this year, with just one or two more moves or two better moves. I also think the system is moving in the right direction, so I don't get upset as most seem to, but I'm still pissed.

They did take it into account, and that's why they chose not to go all in, last winter, sadly.

Does it matter what you heard? You'd just misrepresent what was said, anyway.

Who is saying Bloom's building of a MLB roster a success? I don't think it is "pathetic" to say our ML roster might be as good as or better than Philly's or some other teams with slightly better records, who happen to play in easier divisions and or have easier or much easier schedules. Yes, Bloom's job is to build a better team than at least 3 other ALE teams, in order to have a real shot at the playoffs. He's done it once in 3 years, and I'm not counting 2020. He has not been a success, in this way, but one can easily argue, he has built 2 or maybe 3 teams (2021 and 2023 and maybe '22) that were pretty good and might have made the playoffs by merely being placed in another division, I don't see that as "bad luck." Bad luck, to me, is having more injuries than other teams from players not viewed as injury prone, of getting bad calls by umps, or the sun was in Verdugo's eyes- that kind of thing. One can argue we have not been as good or better than Philly, Minnesota, the Cubs or several other teams, despite not being "successful." I brought up the DD- Bloom comp a couple days ago to show how similar the teams have been, but how wildly differently they are viewed due to a situation totally out of anybody on the Sox control. It's not excuse making. It's not proclaiming Bloom is a success. On 26 man roster construction, he has not been that. I have yet to hear one person say that, but there is a legion of posters who pretend there is a posse of posters who think Bloom shits gold bars.

Yess, if it was complaining, which I have done in the past. I merely wondered what the odds would be, this time.

Nobody gets a pass, but it is clear what their top priority is and has been since we failed to make any big prospect trades or big signings from 2019's extensions to Sale & Bogey to the Story signing in March 2022. That was 3 years of squat, followed by 2 more years of a con game- pretending we were trying to build a top contender.

We've been above .500 way more than at .500 or below, but your point is well-taken. It's the same for teams barely better than .500, too.

Wonder what the odds would be, if we switched divisions and or schedules.

Wonder what the odds would be, if we switched divisions. (and schedules.)

\Even Jeter made a nice catch (and won some GGs, too,) so what does that tell you?

Fair enough. He was good with the Sox prior to 2019. He did not finish in the top 12 on The Fielding Bible in '19 and '20. Maybe they've gotten better at picking these award winners, but I stopped valuing them, long ago.

POR won 4-2. Rosier 3-3 w 2B (.826) McDonough 3-4 Yorke 2-3 w BB Dobbins 7IP, 3H, 2ER, 3BB, 6K Woo up 7-1 in the 7th. Walter 5IP, 4H, 1ER, 1BB, 6K Hamilton 1-2 w HR and 2BB Kavadas 1-1 w 2BB Scott & Fitzy 2BBs each Rafaela 1-3

By the same voters who voted GGs to players who didn't even play 80+ games at the position they won at?

He never said "it doesn't matter how many prospects you have, or what the farm rankings are."