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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Some posters are just determined to wear out their fingers pointing at the manager and typing the Big Blame every day, thinking and hoping that if the font is large and bold enough, it will be accepted as fact. Here are some facts from the 2021 postseason: Robles, Braiser, Houck and Whitlock all blew leads in relief, while Sawamura and Darwinzon gave up late-inning bombs. When Cora finally summoned his ace starter, Eovaldi, in the final inning of the fateful ALCS Gm 4, it was out of total desperation -- because he had no one left he could trust. It is not known in the winter if Cora trusted his Chief Baseball Officer to fortify the deficient bullpen with something more than lefty set-up men -- but the fans certainly expected, demanded and deserved more.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    NESN viewers the past month can hardly wait for more of Venable in charge, with his Mad Magazine "What, Me Worry?" grin (sorry, no one in the organization can escape my ire right now, except Matt Strahm).
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Analytics nerds would hire campus security to tackle and wrap straight jackets around managers if they tried something like that today.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    First he needs to unscramble himself. Then his name literally becomes a synonym for a base-hit: Safe-t
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When an offense is going this badly this long, it is on the coaching staff to coach. Mix in a take sign for overanxious hitters. Even take a strike; guys aren't exactly raking on pitches even down the middle lately. If you can't wait for your pitch to move a runner, freaking square around. Christian... Are they really going to let Story check-swing his way out of his slump? How can a guy punch his way out of a paper bag when he's busy hyperventilating into it?
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not defending them. I'd rather watch prospects with a hunger for, name it: playing the game, winning, striking it rich, buying a house for their parents, setting up their children's children for life (or at least college tuition). People forget these are all mostly young men with egos who have never been booed before, but instead have had folks besides family and friends telling them at almost every level they're the greatest. But they're close in the clubhouse and on the road, at the very least by association. And when they see the star of the team disrespected by the front office -- and this was a guy who ordered his super agent to take less to stay in Boston in his last contract -- and they're wondering where they're going to be working next year or next month, it's totally understandable if some are less enthusiastic and going through the motions awaiting the inevitable change of scenery.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Story you whiffer TAKE A STRIKE!!!!!... leadoff man, one-run game, new pitcher, with big actual hitters behind you...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Because the Red Sox didn't lowball and insult their best player and face of the franchise with a public desire of loving and wanting to stay in Boston... ... while paying an inferior outsider more as his potential replacement... ... on the eve of the season... ... in which half a dozen other veteran mainstays were also about to play their contract years...
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd move Wacha and Hill first, before they turn into pumpkins.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That Covid summer was basically half over. For an entire year I have a winner -- I mean, loser: 1932, when Boston lost 111 (of 154) and finished 64 games back. Worst-best season may have been 1954, when the fourth-place Sox lost 85 and finished 42 games out. I also remember '69-71, when the Sox had winning records and third-place teams, and finished 22, 21, and 18 GB. At least those clubs were fun to watch.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ironically -- or deviously -- it appears the players saw right through the scam going into the season, and have decided to tank their own values so Bloom won't be able to maximize any decent returns at the deadline.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cora must so happy today that you set him straight. All fans should actually be grateful you pointed this out to him, because now Cora can finally scrap his idea of converting Whitlock to a starter, and stop using all the other relievers that we're sure Cora planned and approved of to comprise his bullpen going into the season.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Houck should get a shot so he can be the closer... in Toronto (as well as in all the other MLB cities).
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Scene from the movie Moneyball... John Henry to Billy Beane: "Anybody who's not tearing their team down right now and rebuilding it, using your model -- they're dinosaurs!" The scene depicted the famous Fenway Park meeting where Henry made a lucrative offer to recruit Beane to run the big-market Red Sox the same way he did in small-market Oakland. No one anywhere has ever said the movie characters portrayed their real-life characters out of character...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Totally disagree blaming Cora for the misuse of Whitlock. Cora isn't concerned with "stretching out" and developing Whitlock to be a rotation ace for a sustained contender in the future. That smacks of an organizational decision made by front office types sitting around a big table staring at hypothetical line-ups on a whiteboard in a conference room. Cora wants -- and needs -- to win now, because like any manager, he knows if he doesn't he won't have a job. He can't possibly be satisfied with the bullcrap bullpen blowing games, and knows -- like the rest of us -- if he could use Whitlock at the back end that the record would be much better.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sale and Paxton aren't going to make a difference unless one can pitch the 8th and the other only pitches the 9th.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Liam Hendriks contract -- three years, $54M -- looks like a bargain right now. Imagine if the Red Sox used Story's $140M on just high-end relievers... Eck was speculating today on impending salary adjustments -- less for starters, more for relievers; is his prediction credible... or should the Sox just use their pitiful bullpen to open games, and save Wacha, Hill, Eovaldi, Whitlock, Pivettta, Houck, Strahm for bulk innings to the finish?
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boston's ghost runner is its ghost batter.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Robles walked the leadoff batter in the 9th on the team that's taken the least amount of bases on balls in the majors.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tony Maz: "The last few innings they haven't gotten cheated"... wasn't talking about the fans.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    30 to 1.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'll translate for Eck: "I'll be Barned. Back to the meatball."
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Barnes vs. Abreu? Barnes isn't good in back-to-back games when he's "right" and the Red Sox have been looking to "get him right" since last August.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who do we have off the bench that can end this? Moreland? Nunez? Carbo?
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    NESN booth right now trying to differentiate levels of suckitude in Boston blown games.
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