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  1. illinoisredsox
    No offense, but putting links to pay sites is pretty much worthless.
  2. illinoisredsox
    I don’t see how this works for 154 games. (assuming 8 divisions of 4 teams each). 14 games against division foes x 3 = 42 6 games against non division league foes x 12 = 72 So far, so good. Getting to 40 inter league games doesn’t work with the same number of games against each team. Ironically, if you played 3 inter league games against all 16 teams, you get 48 which gets you back to 162 games.
  3. illinoisredsox
    On the Tomatometer or the Popcornmeter?
  4. illinoisredsox
    My favorite Smiley-Beni carol: There go the Yankees. Let’s get behind and jeer the Yankees. Once again let’s jeer the Yankees. Everyone knows they cheat to win Cause they’re the New York Yankees (Repeat) Tune of course is the same as Here Come the Yankees
  5. illinoisredsox
    Pretty sure all that was dictated from above before the series started. Analytics say don’t let starters pitch to a lineup a third time. So they don’t. Tolle had struggled with runners all night, so I sorta got that one. Gray’s stats say he’s better the third time because he adjusts as the game goes on; his experience defies the analytics, but the nerds don’t care.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Don’t feed the troll.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Back at ya. Let’s hope there’s a season to comment on n 2027.
  8. illinoisredsox
    So who was the best option? Whitlock hacked it up later in the game. A rookie who has thrown 1 inning of relief all year? Weissert maybe, but he’s not a sure thing. This was a spot where Guerrero being out may have hurt them, but we don’t know he’d have come through either. Its easy to say somebody screwed up after the fact, but none of the critics have to make those decisions in real time.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Bottom line, they scored 2 runs in 2 games. At least in the modern era, I’m only aware of one team that has won consecutive postseason games scoring 2 runs. The Orioles pulled it off in games 3 and 4 of the 1966 World Series, winning a pair of 1-0 games to complete a sweep of the Dodgers. Forget getting a hit with RISP, the Sox never got a hit with a man on base the entire series. Think about that. The only guys who touched 3rd base were Contreras and Sogard on the homers. I think Eaton and Story were the only other guys to touch 2nd. It wouldn’t have mattered how Tracy managed the pen,
  10. illinoisredsox
    Ala what’s his name, the guy now allegedly playing with the Giants.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Remember, don’t feed the trolls.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Last night you were complaining that they didn’t use him. Or did you forget you posted the following: “why is Crochet on the roster?? There were certainly 2 options to use him.” Tonight you’re complaining that they did? Can’t have it both ways, or was he magically going to have it last night and not tonight.
  13. illinoisredsox
    There are about 22 millions reasons. No team is going to trade for him unless the Sox pick up virtually the entire contract. The only way they don’t is if they take an equally bad one back. He also has 10-5 rights, which means Story can veto any trade.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Yes. He will be the AL Cy Young winner this year and is in the discussion as the best pitcher in baseball right now. He also absolutely owns the Red Sox. In 6 games, he’s 4-1 with an ERA of about 0.50 (covers about 38 innings). The one game he lost, he walked 5 Sox and the Yankees committed 4 errors behind him.
  15. illinoisredsox
    The Yankees lucked into these two gems. Schlittler was a 7th round pick out of college. Rice was a 12th round pick out of college. Neither was drafted out of high school. No one in any organization foresaw what they developed into.
  16. illinoisredsox
    So you would have been willing to pay that contract for him to remain in Boston?
  17. illinoisredsox
    We can complain/bitch/whatever about Tracy’s choices re. the pen, but 3 hits and 4 baserunners in 9 innings doesn’t win you many games.
  18. illinoisredsox
    What are you trying to ask here? He’s thrown lots of pitches that have resulted in ground balls. Some have been outs and some have been base hits. That was the 76th batter he has faced with the bases loaded in his career and the second grand slam he has allowed.
  19. illinoisredsox
    Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s Romy
  20. illinoisredsox
    Both teams flew Friday after the doubleheader to beat any potential flight cancellations. They were already in Tampa by the time the game became meaningless, so they played what amounted to a spring training game.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Yep. Sunday at 3 EDT (same time as every other game on Sunday).
  22. illinoisredsox
    Yep.
  23. illinoisredsox
    I’ve actually seen that. It was probably 50 years ago, but there was one speedster (long have forgotten his name) who was really good at bunting and occasionally he would actually bunt one over the 3rd baseman’s head and get to second before anyone could make a play.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Or not.
  25. illinoisredsox
    I want to see Wong bunt here.
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