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Congrats to JBJ!!! New daddy AND Player of the Month in AL! That's what you call a six tool player! Ha!

I'm afraid you're right. All of a sudden nobody can do the job ... even with Wright giving the pen a day off!!!!

Southpaw, you know me. I don't turn my back on anybody in a Red Sox uniform. It just goes against my grain. But Clay is cooked. I honestly don't care if he picks up a ball again. No, that isn't true. I DON'T want to see him pick up another ball in a Sox uni.

NOTE TO YOUK: See, this is where I/we have learned our lesson(s). At that former forum, I would have just expressed my disgust with a new thread asking the same thing ... unless someone else had started one similar. I LOOKED for this thread before I expressed my disgust. Hehe.....

Your dad had good taste. What happened to you?

Wondering the same....

I thought he already died ... that body on the mound now is simply a 3-D photo copy of his worst day.

All I can say is "Where the f did the bullpen go?" We have NO CHANCE if the bullpen goes down the drain. All the pleasure of watching the offense is lost in a sick, sick feeling of 8 is NOT enough... Holy Cow!

I also feel that way. It is a matter of things being fair. Someone might say life ain't fair but that isn't the point. The point is everyone has a right to have a base performance to work or play FROM. Talent, luck, weather, atomic warfare, zombie apocalypses, are all other factors. But when Mark Belanger and Boog Powell stand in the box, they should be focusing on the guy 60' 6" ahead, not 4' 6" behind him. The unique moment for me was when I was at Yanqui Stadium a couple summers ago and the umps changed the call in consecutive innings. The first went our way and I was rejoicing. The second went their way and several of the Yanqui fans around me said, "Fair's fair" or "Now we're even." .... btw, we were all having a blast. My wife was afraid I might offend too many of them, but it was pretty much a good natured give and take.

Mal, 1964, Fenway ... versus the Tigers. Lost 8-6. Left a poor taste in my mouth. It might not have helped that my entire family was crammed into the 1961 Rambler Classic wagon (red and white) and we had to be together as we rode back to Rochester, NH. My two younger brothers never were into sports, and they cried and whined all the way home. My two older brothers were more stoic but neither were into baseball much. We didn't make things easy for my parents ... tired, irritated, whiny, and bummed because we lost. Every other trip to Fenway was much better, though. Much! The last time at Fenway was in 1971. I've been to Yanqui Stadium once, two summers ago, to see the Sox play there. That was terrific. Big surprise, the wife came home one day and asked if I'd like to go to the City ... to see the Red Sox play the Yanquis! She had tickets in hand! What a gal! Lester beat Tanaka, Ross homered in the top of the 9th to win 2-1. I wore my Ortiz shirt, she wore my Victorino shirt ... the Pedey shirt had a sleeve come thread come off. We had a blast.

Sox pitchers had NINE walks today. Clearly they were not throwing well. Unless they were aiming for the Birds' bats. Shucks. However, as a point ... at least two 3-2 counts went 4-2 instead of 3-3 when clearly the third strike was called ball four. Davis drew a walk that was so clearly a SO that Remdog was almost stuttered into silence by how bad it was. I will admit my bias, that I didn't follow the calls v. the Birds as closely. Part of the time I was helping my beautiful bride with supper prep. I am not sure whether the extra BBs would have made a difference in tonight's 13-9 loss or not. I am thinking that since they made the situation worse by adding a runner to burgeoning bases instead of adding another or first out that it couldn't but have hurt. I am willing to accept the point that this stuff happens to both teams and there is no conspiracy to "get" my team. I am not willing to say it all evens out in the end since the calls, the poor calls, are so arbitrary. A bad call, for instance, when the bases are full carries an almost immediate higher response than a bad call when the bases are empty. If we say it happens to everyone, I can accept that, but that in no fashion means it is equal. I did see several calls today that were low strikes, IMO, but were called balls ... and it happened to both sides. I did NOT count to see if they were equal. But the low calls did seem consistent. OTOH, there were some inside or outside calls that were far from consistent. This leads back to the point that if we had automated calls, I think the outcome today might well have been different. Not the win or loss, but the run production. But as poorly as Kelly, M. Wright, and Buch were pitching, I am not sure it would have mattered a whole lot. I can only hope Kelly got his mulligan out and he comes back to the super near hitter form of the previous start. Buch is shot. Period. His long reliever fill in today was no better than his regular starter cacophony. I rarely, rarely, rarely ever give up on a Sox ....but Clay has forced my hand. He just doesn't have it anymore.

Nice.

Or .... strikes ....

Here, here!!!!

Actually the issue isn't the DH, it's the U. When on adds the U it becomes DUH. We have always had DUH. At least in the AL it is limited to 2/3s of what the NL has ....

Not bad.

Toast

Don't throw all of them under the bus. Feel free to do it to CB and JK .... even though Kelly still has some attraction to me.

Well, the best I can see is using Kelly and Clay in one game it is still only one loss .... no matter what....

ALright Hanni!!! AND NOW MOOKIE!

This ump is not giving low balls ....

It must be nice to given more and more reason though )

Nobody can pitch tonight!

Papi!

NOOOOOO that was a strike! You can't give Davis that'