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  1. fxkatt
    The question should now be: Who is your pitcher for game #4???
  2. fxkatt
    The Big Apple is worse.
  3. fxkatt
    Elves!! (haha) Maybe this is the problem.
  4. fxkatt
    Good point. Demoralizing. Maybe the "washed-up" vet Doug Fister will embarrass our two star Lefties into the top class performances they're both capable of.
  5. fxkatt
    Impossible to trade him, I think. So, for personal me, I see no real success until 2020. But I hope I'm wrong.
  6. fxkatt
    Well 73 million come off the books in '19. Perhaps only then will we have some real options in terms of truly improving the team. We sure will be lighter if nothing else. Bad contracts have a way of weighing a team down no matter how rich it is. And at least at this very moment, the team seems weighed down in big and cumbersome contracts.
  7. fxkatt
    I was about to say that I had this in the win column for Cleveland, but I still may be right, despite the worst outing of the year for Kluber. Those Guardians can hit, and that's what they're doing. It's now a one run game. We may have Yankee company yet in this let-down post season.
  8. fxkatt
    I agree. In fact, I think either or both might surprise. As to the roster selection, although I get why we are carrying so few pitchers, I think this could easily come back to bite us in this series. I'm for 12, not 11. 11 is okay in the NL but not in the AL.
  9. fxkatt
    I emphatically agree. There is some disconnect between what's expected of players and what's expected of fans. Cam Newton is correctly being hit for his sexism for embarrassing a female reporter, but fans on boards spew this crap all the time and get away with it. I'm fairly new here, but it did seem much like the exception to the rule until lately. It's also terrible that women make up a large percentage of actual, in-the-seats sports fans, and yet all sport Boards are heavily male dominant. My intelligent guess is that the major Patriot board is less than 1% female.
  10. fxkatt
    I'm sure it is and always has been pretty much a collective problem. PEDs have gotta be around because so many are undetectable. The numbers of players involved from periods to periods may change but no doubt it is NOT an individual problem. And it's too bad the League cherry picks individuals to be their object lessons while others go untainted. Judge will be or is suspect already just because of his sudden rise at age 25. The Yanks entered spring training this year thinking they would have to send Judge back to the minors just so he could hit everyday (ha ha) But he sure is big enough to hit all these homers... maybe he just found a good hitting coach.
  11. fxkatt
    Why not 12 pitchers? It would seem much better for match-ups late in the game, extra innings, and also for early starter problems. And shouldn't we be more pitcher-ready going up against a offensive machine like the Astros??
  12. fxkatt
    I assume the Yanks-Twin game is in NYC. Not good news for the Twins. It seems to me they play very poorly there. But I am very confident that Cleveland will beat the Yanks. Our job right now is to win one of the first two games, and then try to win it all at home.
  13. fxkatt
    Hanley is the Porcello of hitters.
  14. fxkatt
    The big question going forward is: Does Doug Fister jump to our #3 starter once the playoffs begin?? He's arguably our best pitcher over the last 6 weeks or so. He's become almost automatic in terms of dependability. Amazing.
  15. fxkatt
    Way too many walk-off innings with no walk-off hit, so I finally went to bed... not really caring because how could these hitless wonders ever beat the Guardians let alone the Dodgers.
  16. fxkatt
    I notice that the league is not going after any of the junk teams for stealing signals outside the white lines, but a first place team that just won two out of three crucial games from the YANKEES. It has to be a headline deal involving an old old rivalry so it will last forever and underline the rivalry (more bucks for MLB) If there at all serious, they should just wire up the catcher and pitcher, because there is NO WAY of policing this technology NO WAY. I'll bet even teams like the Giants and Phillies are practicing their techniques right now in preparation for when their back in the races.
  17. fxkatt
    Wonder will never cease: There's no Sox hitters in the first 32 best averages in the Am League. There's been years when we had 5 of the top 10 deep into the season--and not just one or two seasons but several.
  18. fxkatt
    I assume that when a team is caught stealing signs by electronic means, that team was not first to do it, but felt it had to equalize the competition. There are many ways of adding technical eyes to base runner eyes, and I'm sure each team has at least entertained the possibility, or experimented with one or more of these techniques. The real question is: How do you stop ALL TEAMS from doing so? That would be the fair thing, but it may not be possible, so that certain teams will be picked off now and then to serve as an object lesson. God, if a viewer can see the damn signs, why can't teams learn to relay those same signs??
  19. fxkatt
    Betts at .259 and Ramirez at .242 Who would have thunk it. How are we in first place??
  20. fxkatt
    The built-in commercials increase every year. It's a hideous practice.
  21. fxkatt
    And he's hitting around .185 with men in scoring pos. 49 rbi. A few solo homers of late, tho.
  22. fxkatt
    Fister and Reed have both gotten past their initial poor outings in coming to the Sox. Fister is better at getting guys out quickly than any other starter on the staff. Tonight he threw around 30 pitches in the first inning, and only about 65 through the next 6 scoreless innings. What a find, and Sox management was so right in saying that he would turn the corner and become exactly what they hoped for.
  23. fxkatt
    I much prefer that players not be moved all over the lineup at the will or impulses of the manager--or even because of all the DEEP stats. But the problem is we have a lot of 2 and 3 type hitters, and many 7-8 type hitters. What we lack is a prime lead off guy who has an obp of better than .375 and can run. We also lack classic 4-6 hitters. Hanley when hitting better makes a good 6, but that leaves us with no true 4 and 5 hitters. Betts to me is the classic 3 guy, not a 4 or 5. So, power shortage, and Nelson Fox shortage need to be considered and addressed, if possible.
  24. fxkatt
    Nuni for Red Sox MVP for August.
  25. fxkatt
    8 ks for Sale
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