moonslav59

Still hung over from the big loss.

3-2-2 give one team 5 home games to 2, but I like the 3-3-1 idea.

True, but Tito is 15-19 in playoff games since 2008. Is that small, too? Farrell was 5-8 and was skewered alive by Sox fans, including me. Look, I get why Sox fans love Tito. The guy brought us 2 rings after decades and decades of frustration, but you should count the good and bad, and although Cora's sample size is teenie, there's no bad-- only good. Like I said, I may adjust my opinion in the future. Right now, I think Cora has us positioned to win it all this year. If I'm wrong, and we lose this year, maybe I'll call it a tie. Maybe I'll still have Cora ahead, depending on how we may lose. Cora has done a great job with this team. He's greatly lessened the blunders and bone-headed plays. Players are more focused and seem to have much more fire and desire. They exude confidence but not cockiness. Our pen looks like crap on paper, but somehow we finished top 10 in pen WAR. Despite Pom's implosion and losing Wright for most of the year and ERod & Sale for some time, we still finished 6th in SP'er WAR. I know this is not all Cora's doing. DD and the players play a big part in our improvement, but I give a lot of credit to Cora. I doubt we win 98 game with Farrell.

The slight lead is not even close. LOL, you got me!

They're already roasting him every game thread. I stopped visiting those threads until the 9th inning.

Tito was an excellent manager for us, until he lost it a little. The Guardians are 12-12 in the playoffs under TF. For all the "what have you done for me lately" crowd on this site, there's an awful lot of loving going to Tito. Don't get me wrong, he was the best manager I ever saw on the Sox, even above Dick Williams, but I'm still putting Cora slightly ahead of him at this moment in time.

The guy must be blind. It explains everything.

I'm pumped up!

...and then extend him at the free agent level.

I hate to say it, but no. I might offer $155M/5 with a $25M option with a $5M buyout, so it's $$160M/5 or $180M/6, if we choose.

Totally agree!

Cashman did do a lot to address the SP'er situation, and it seemed like the Yankee fans who frequent our board liked the starters until the playoffs came along. He traded for Gray last summer. He traded for Happ and Lynn this summer. Yes, he needs to think higher level this winter.

Anybody think it might just be a moderate to steep hill?

I think this post season may tell us a lot. He's probably best used as a 170-180 IP starter, but it's hard to pull a guy early when he's doing so well.

Sometimes, I think they just act like they're in on some players just to drive up the price.

Even the clowns who threatened his life after the play?

If Pedro got out of that inning, nobody would be screaming the choice was "nuts." Pedro was our best pitcher by far. An 80% Pedro was still our best. I'm not saying anyone who wanted him yanked is wrong, but to me, Little's choice had a lot of merit. it wasn't a 100% call, except through hindsight.

It appears you are only looking at Tito's successes, which is fine. I know winning rings is the crown achievement for anyone, and if Cora never wins one, I'll probbaly adjust my opinion, but as of right now, he's the best Sox manager I have ever seen. He's loyal to the players but not to a fault. BTW, I never said or implied success is linear. I expected many of our declining prime players to improve, no matter who was managing.

He's a class act. He didn't deserve the grief he got. He never asked or insisted on being on the field for the final inning. ' I'm sure he would have enjoyed hobbling out onto the field from the dugout in celebration just as much as from 1B.

I think most managers would have won more than 100 games with the 2018 Yankees. I'd give him a D or D- for the season and an F for the playoffs.

I do think the Astros have a better rotation, on paper, but winning game 1 is huge. Sale going in game 5 is also very helpful. There are no guarantees, but winning game 1 & 5 are key games to win. That would leav us needing to win just 2 of the remaining 5 games vs "better starters". That seems doable. I'm confident we can and will win, but I'm not kidding myself. The Astros are solid. They feild well, hit well and pitch very well, but so do we.

Yes, Eovaldi would go game 7 but not on long rest.

I hope they get all three. It will set them up for a huge cliff. It will make us beating them all the more sweeter. Big contracts fail closer to 75% of the time than 50%.

We might see Sale out of the pen in a game 7. That could be a deciding factor. I like your post.

That's way too generous.