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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Alonso now has more homers than all of Boston's #5 batters combined. Reading the inquiring minds of a foibled fandom, Brez was prepared: "According to our analytics, that fly ball was an anomaly. The trajectory didn't align with projected metrics or even standard units of measurement in regards to the Great Wall of Fenway, which we had to disregard in regards to Alonso, who just didn't align with the starting alignment we were aligning in the offseason. If you feel terribly strongly about our terribly weak offense at home, you should all travel to away games with us to really enjoy our optimized assault in games where you can acquire tickets for good seats that you can actually sit in where you don't have to cross your arms all night at a fraction of the cost of where we always lose."
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And Don Baylor's elbow. Or hip. Or shin. But not buttock.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wonder how many of the others on that list turn a better 3-6-3 DP than WiLL. He's certainly the best we've ever seen in Friday green (here's my stat: those shirts are only two years old).
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If it is Theo, the Nation is in store for the irony of the administration in the press conference... ... when the president who always lies extolls the virtues of his lifelong good friend named Epstein.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Anyone that plays baseball -- where the best MLB hitters fail 70% of the time -- learns a lot about their id, and why it's short for idiot. Even the stars at amateur levels who regularly hit .400 or even .500 fail at least half the time. Any ballplayer with Sheldon perfectionist tendencies picked the wrong sport... ... and that's why it's futile for someone to tell baseball fans to calm down when things aren't going well most of the time -- which, by the very nature of the sport, is totally normal.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Does a person with a resolved ego issue even exist? Maybe someone who had his brains bashed in.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When a player like Roman Anthony tells the media his precise medial diagnosis that directly contradicts what the front office says, who should we believe: a fine upstanding young man or an administration that spews lies daily to the populace? And why wouldn't I believe quotes from actual doctors -- unless they're hired specifically by the mob to spin cover-ups after removing bullets from button men or dead brain tissue from demented dons?
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You can do better than that. At least add "It's Still June!" or tell us how many other teams this season have used more #5 batters in their lineups who have one home run (or less) so foes won't pitch around the clean-up man. I count six on the Red Sox, but I could be wong. It's great some guys are finally hitting, but that shouldn't excuse the front office for not completing the roster and heart of the order over the winter. Breslow and Kennedy tell us they're shopping for a bat -- but won't apologize to the fans or admit a stupid mistake. Wonder if it will be an interim bat. Anthony's injury doesn't excuse them, either... especially for putting all their eggs in his basket -- when he's so young it's still attached to the handle bars of his bicycle.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The most important thing about scoring 9 runs in each of the last two wins is that the Sox season average of runs per game is now almost 4... ...which will make it easy for diehards to ignore that they scored 3 or less in 77% of their games the first two months. "At least we're the second-highest scoring team in almost every game we play in Fenway Park all year!"
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just a coincidence? Is that even feasible at this point? Here's a guy coming had a good rookie year and his ex-manager of a first-place team still swears by him. Durbin's short, but solid and not weak (like his grounders and pop-ups this year -- which to me look like a batter overswinging, pulling his head and only hitting one stitch of the ball. Kinda like someone clearly pressing... or who has been ordered to pull the ball in the air). The potential is still there. Durbin had 36 extra base hits last season, one more than Romy Gonzalez, who had Boston's best batting average. With 13 XBH through the first two months, he's now on pace to at least equal his output of '25... For anyone who has played baseball beyond Little League: how many times in your life did you hit a home run when you were actually trying to hit a home run? If you're honest, the answer is very few -- if any. Instead, homers come when you're just trying to hit the ball hard on the sweet spot, and the contact is so perfect you don't even feel it.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... but only the part of the foul pole ABOVE the fence is an HR. Why don't they paint that part a different color???????????
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Duran made sure he hit his over the yellow line, because the yellow line on top of the fence isn't a home run. But if he hit it off a yellow foul pole, it's gone.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He feels like this is something special -- I just heard him say it again on the only NESN commercial shown more than Colin about to bite the orange slice-NOOO!!!!
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Article today says he went to a hitting clinic outside the org on his own this week. Now get ready for the president to deny, delay and deflect.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There's still nobody with more than one home run to bat 5th. The Guardians will just keep walking or hit-by-pitching Contreras with 1st base open.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What's the sense in painting a yellow line on the top of the fence if it has no significance? Purple, green, polka dots -- it doesn't matter what color it's painted. If the ball clears a fence, whether it's chainlink gray or monster green, it's a home run. If it hits the top of the wall and goes over, it's gone. If it hits the top and bounces back, it's not. In driveway ball, if it goes in the air over a parked car across the street, it's a double. Over the lowest wire between the telephone poles is a triple. Over the highest wire is four bags -- every time.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I just wrote this a few days ago: Milwaukee grounded into the fewest Double Plays in baseball. Boston has grounded into the most DPs in the AL. The Brewers also lead the NL in sacrifice hits. There has to be some correlation why they're among the top-scoring teams in the majors, while the Red Sox are at the bottom.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    drewski, I've been typing this here for awhile now regarding OPS: give me Slug over On Base, especially since Red Sox teams can't find any group of batters likely to amass three singles in the same inning (we're even starting to hear that from the NESN booth these days). And I don't want my best hitters taking borderline pitches they can drive, because walks still only advance a baserunner one base at a time. Of course, the offense the past few seasons has way too much swing and miss, and mediocre batters should also be forced to change their stance, grip and approach with two strikes... Don't let up on these incomplete roster builders!
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bullpens always suck and sink contenders. The main reason that happened in Boston forever wasn't a lack of talent, but having starting rotations that couldn't or weren't allowed to go deep -- thus, burning out the bullpen by mid-season. Look at the Sox teams that won it all this century: good starting rotations and thus, at least decent bullpens, with solid set-up men and star closers. Breslow and Bailey should've known better. Brez was a contributor down the stretch for a World Series winner, and Bailey a two-time All-Star. Do they hate hitters so much they think any pitching staff can get them out (or is that any pitching stiff)? Relief help is always highly-sought at every trade deadline, and there's a reason perennial contenders always load up and overpay for deep quality bullpens. But not Boston -- and it's no surprise what's the one asset always skimped on at the deadline in years the Sox fall short.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    President Kennedy speaks with a strained tongue. He has a partially torn figment of the imagination, right at the base of the left fork from overuse waggling it at the media and fandom.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I would say special needs, but most major league teams have major league hitters in their major league batting orders.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    NESN just showed the graphic with Boston leading the world in worst home record. I dare them to replay for the thousandth time the ad where Crochet says, "It feels like we got something special here."
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Breslow's not off the hook. He keeps supplying a roster to his managers with Weissert on it. But let's not let that distract us from the Theo Epstein files (named after the GM who always made sure he had BIG bats in the line-up). Yes, the top four Sox batters have been decent lately. But the Number Five hitter has one home run for the season, whether it's Yoshida or Monasterio -- who struck out to end two rallies today when it still mattered.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same mistake and expecting different results, how many insane front office analysts have kept Weissert around the past two years so TWO insane Red Sox managers can keep bringing him with guys on base? It has to be hard to lead baseball in inherited runners allowed for two straight seasons... because if a reliever is that bad the first year, how can he keep his job in the second?
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At the end of the movie, Clint Eastwood didn't give the Gran Torino to Weissert.
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