dannycater

Drysdale also the King of Plunk

Gibson would headhunt you though, i bet he would if a batter stepped in that box on a ceremonial first pitch.

Absof***inglutely, agreed.

Sale is the most professional, fundamentally sound, focused, greatest...underperformer in Sox history. Nah, just kidding, he did his job at times when it counted last year, but let's face it. He's not the SP we envisioned as automatic Pedro lights out, game over.

The Beni play was one for the ages. One of the biggest defensive plays in MLB history, maybe not to the level of the Butler Did It For NFL, but easily one of the most clutch catches ever.

Taking it a step farther, we all use what we used to call sample sizes and create streaks of good and bad by dates between what is an upswing and a downswing. Take that the Red Sox are 49-31 in their last 80 games. It means what exactly? They are playing better now, but they also were god awful for way too many games to open the season. Beni is great now, not so great 5 games ago. Overall, that's why Devers, Bogie, EROD and Workman have been pretty damn outstanding because they have the overall numbers to prove it.

What's scary is how good the offense is overall in terms of all the HR, doubles, runs scored, etc compared to the dead-ball era teams of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Some of those teams were just awful in comparison to the 1999 to present teams. Game has changed, hitters are either using designer drugs or the balls are juiced, or both.

except the safety nets will prevent the balls from going into the stands

The last real spike in baseball interest was a PED-enhanced, manufactured home run duel between 2 absolute disgraces to the game, cheaters that make anything accused of the Patriots chicken feed in comparison.

Williams family has his frozen head near a tuna can, Rose is a gamble-holic, disgraced and never will get into HOF despite all-time hits leader, Sosa and McGwire were complete PED cheats, Bonds too.

His actual batting coach last few years is now the Dodgers batting coach and he is not allowed to contact him. He has since gotten into some bad habits, but his pitch selection as far as chasing pitches is what is hurting him. He can't seem to read or adjust to pitches away, breaking balls away and down. Plate discipline. I actually think his swing is fine, he's still driving the ball, ripping line drives, hitting bombs occasionally, but he has simply lost the ability to go to the opposite field much. So we have a plate discipline thing and a not using right field like he used to, thing. He has to keep working on his videos and figure it out. Once he does that, his HR and average will sky-rocket I think.

You can tell the wikipedia was edited by Sprowl's kid or some relative because we have rips on Jim Rice and Butch Hobson's defense in his "quality" start v. Baltimore*preceding the Boston Massacre, not to mention further rip takes on Bill Lee, Dick Drago, Zimmer, etc. Jesus, the guy went 0-3 in his MLB career, can we stop the adulation. Curly would have ripped the Wikipedia bio.

I have no idea why I kept going after the redhead, maybe I should have just hit on her, but she was so infatuated with Mr. Piano man.

I tried that too. f***ing waste of nickels.

Too many to count, notin. She called me "blockhead," too. That bitch.

Bobby Sprowl will never ever be known for anything other than the 78 Boston Massacre thanks to one Dan CurlyMan Shaughnegativessy. But I found him. He's been a long-time college baseball coach, and his bio doesn't mention his infamous part of the Massacre. Poor guy. https://athletics.sheltonstate.edu/sports/bsb/coaches/sprowl-bobby?view=bio

Everytime I see "Dalbec" I think of Brian Daubach and his affinity for dazzling us with power and then not dazzling us with epic slumps.

Now maybe we should fear for Mrs. Sale's pet rabbit?

He died unfortunately, too many seizures, but I prefer to kick a football with Lucy holding for me.

Forgive me for also using this board for venting. I will go back to petting the wall rug.

Yes, he is the stopper of win streaks for sure. I'm good for this year based on winning it all last year, I'm a greedy fan, but more inclined to kick Beni's St. Louis Blues Cup t-shirt or burn it.

You guys are missing the point. First, I'm not advocating trade or anything, Sox are stuck with him or glad to have him, however you choose to look at it. But, the point I'm making is he is doing the opposite of what an ace should/could be doing. This game was typical of how he has not been a "Ace." He put the Sox behind and was outpitched by 13-2 German after the 3 previous SPs found a way to keep leads and not fall behind by too much early in the games. He is paid handsomely to help his team win or at least leave games after 6 or 7 IP with a chance to win. Instead, he's left his teams in binds, chasing the score. This has been going on now for way too long. He's a class act off the field (and on), but this is not about saying the right things, taking responsibility. This is about performance. If he performed to even acceptable standards for a high-priced, All-Star arm, the Sox could be 5 games ahead of where they are in the standings. Instead, he's s*** the bed to kill momentum way too often. He's the anti-stopper in this case (stopper means for you youngsters an ace who can stop a bad streak, be the ace of the staff and send the team in the right direction with sterling starts). Here was a chance for Sale to extend the momentum of the feel-good Sox return to playoff contender and instead he is back to being part of the "problem."

The last time I had a good beer...I remember....It was a long time ago....but damn it was once in a Blue Moon Odom.

Tyler and rules boy "unlucky"? Are you watching the balls hit off him? When it's in play, he has been giving up rockets. Absolute rockets, bombs. Not a lot of easy outs, certainly not fieldable baseballs.

The comment by him that he is glad his next start is v. the Yankees is met by this response...he might be glad, I sure as heck is not. Yes, he is having a bad season, but I'm sorry you can't defend him when the team is on a high with 3 big wins in a row and a chance to really make a dent in the standings by having your supposed best SP on the hill. Instead it's 2-0, then 4-0, and it's just a real Debbie Clemens Downer. Sale, Pearce, and Eavoldi--s*** show in bad salary. Sad....and Go Sox!!