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I get this but here is the problem. Those numbers first two times encompass the entire opposing lineup - all 9 hitters including the weakest ones. Now for the third time through, it’s probably mostly the top of the lineup, where the better hitters reside. So yes, he gets easier to hit. He’s undoubtedly tired, but the comparisons are not so straightforward…

And he’ll probably still lose MOY to Cash…

Especially given how widespread that type of thing is in other sports…

No. The slope you chose was nonsensical. Tennis uses technology to determine in/out calls. And yet not a single robot participated in Wimbledon. Heck, track and field has been using technology for decades to run the times on sprints. Do people really think those times are established by a guy with a stopwatch. And horse racing has used tech even longer. Photo finishes are not taken by a guy at the finish line holding a Polaroid. Yet in all of these sports - no robots participate. So either you slope was baseless and nonsensical or they all involve blatant discrimination…

One of the more largely ignored yet potentially more lethal side effects of that treatment. Right up there with how it affected your ability to operate heavy machinery…

The Atlanta Falcons got in trouble for that a couple years ago…

I see we agree on one thing - when you can’t make a valid point, use a slippery slope argument…

Why should Whitlock be a starter? He’s never thrown more than 120 IP in a season, and even then 40 of those innings came against A ball hitters. And you think he’s ready for 150-180IP against MLB hitters?!? We know he works in the bullpen, but if you move him to the rotation he becomes a question mark, as does the pitcher you replace him with in the bullpen. If the Sox get a starting pitcher and leave him, maybe they have one question mark. Move him and get a reliever, you potentially have two. Am I to draw the conclusion you’re a fan of question marks?

So does this presume that Eovaldi starts both games 1 and 2, or was Cora supposed to hold Sale back and wait to start him in a game with more run support?

First they need to stop contributing to it…

Now THAT is the dumbest argument ever. “Well that’s how they’ve always done it so it must be right.” I guess all those centuries where “doctors” carved holes in people’s skulls to let evil spirits escape were right, too, because that’s how it was always done at the time. f*** aspirin…

Duran will bring back a better pitcher, and the Sox don’t need to replace him. (Although I get dealing Bogaerts is a pre-emptive strike.) I prefer holding Bogaerts, but as for whether or not Bloom deals him, I can see arguments for and against. However I don’t see him getting dealt for a good pitcher, at least not directly. Any team acquiring one year of Bogaerts is presumably holding on to their pitching…

I prefer keeping Bogaerts over signing Baez. Hopefully they can extend Bogaerts. I don’t think it will be a remarkably active off-season despite the lackluster finish. Hopefully add a starter or two (possibly ERod as one?) and get a 2b and an arm or two in the pen. I do agree that keeping Houck and Whitlock both in the pen is key. And please Bloom, do NOT bring back Martin Perez…

Well, we started the year getting swept by Baltimore, but we also took out the Yankees and the Rays in the postseason…

Right. Best go with Perez since he didn’t do that…

Yordan Alvarez has 4 hits today. The Red Sox have 5 total in the last two games…

I’ll give Garcia this - he has the longest and most complicated windup I have ever seen. It’s like he’s doing the Electric Slide before every pitch…

The Astros have scored 11 of their 33 runs in this series in the 9th inning. So we best get more than 2

Actually I was volunteering. Can’t be any worse than using Danny Santana as a pinch hitter…

See now THIS is when you bring in Danny Santana - to play defense. Not to pinch hit..

So who plays RF next inning?

Every move Cora has made tonight has not worked out…

So… one run in their last 23 innings?

Santana is the guy you pinch hit for, not with…

Ah yes, the true biggest myth in baseball. "Relief pitchers are a crapshoot." No, the truth is "Crapshoot pitchers are relievers." If you keep your good relief pitchers in the bullpen, many of them will continue to pitch well. But if you continually fill the bullpen with volatile pitchers whose performance will vary, then you will continue to get a bullpen that is just not reliable. Right now, the sox have two very good pitchers in the bullpen in Houck and Whitlock, and the consensus is "GET THEM OUTTA THE PEN!!" Why? I get that SP is in need of improvement, but bullpens are very important in today's game and when you have one that works, try not to tear it down to build up other aspects of the team that don't. The Sox probably need a 2B next year (Arroyo injured himself this year taking a throw at first - if that doesn't make you question his durability, what will?). Hey, we have extra outfielders!! Let's put Duran in CF and move Kike to 2B. It might not work out, but centerfielders are a crapshoot, right?