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With the ground? His uni is pretty dirty.

Sorry to ruin your ruminations. You just can't stand it when someone posts something you're apost to. Let's look at some other threads that we can pick on.

But... we don't have the Password to bat righty and replace Ref and Romy. IKF... IKANT

Cora's in charge so that means he doesn't ever have to admit he made a mistake or apologize! But he can just fire his top of the order and tell the press he's reassigning them to important new jobs he just invented like Secretary of the Bat Rack and Official Dugout Hotfoot Fuse-Lighter.

WHA- none of the fans in my house look forward to watching star ballplayers -- but we can't wait to rush to Fenway or the living room TV to see if empty jerseys can scratch out a few runs. 2026 Red Sox aren't just last in the standings; they're LAST in batting average with runners in scoring position. AGAIN. Breslow should never open his mouth. "We need to get a power hitter," he said last winter before he traded the system's minor league home run leader for a pitcher now on the IL. And then he let Bregman leave. Let's go Red Sox, pinch hit for your NUMBER THREE batter! Pray the career utility man dribbles one that an infielder will bobble so we can tie the score!

Not like he's facing the 2007 Red Sox... ... or even the 2027 Red Sox...

Most concerning to Red Sox fans -- and most depressing as a season preview -- was the bottom of the 8th. Down a run, but 1st and 3rd with no outs in a frame everyone knew was do or die with Mason Miller warming for the 9th: In that situation, any team would be thrilled to have its 2-3-4 batters up. But not Boston! ... mainly, because the manager insists on batting his two worst strikeout machines -- Story and Duran (first and second in Ks last year) in two key spots in the batting order. Story, who once again leads all MLB shortstops in whiffs, was the guy I wanted Cora to pinch hit for. Nope: K. And then with the team desperate for anyone to make contact, the batter who slugged the most home runs in ST/WBC for the Sox, Jarren Duran, was pinch hit for by a benchwarmer throw-in from the Durbin trade. In the biggest moment of the game to that point, the skipper doesn't even have faith in his own Number Three hitter. Monasterio put up a good fight and touched the ball, but hit a DP comebacker to the pitcher that the second baseman dropped... or the Red Sox would've only scored one run yesterday. But there's still time to reshuffle baseball cards on the rowboat without a paddle... before fans revolt and toss them into the harbor.

Benintendi was decent, unless you're one of those who scoff at expert observers and Rawlings analysts who used regular season metrics to nominate him as a Gold Glove Award finalist multiple times. And Manny was always serviceable to opposing batters.

Non-contact highlight: Contreras' challenge that he was so convinced was Ball Four he headed to 1st before the ruling. Ballplayers don't need to be cocky to be good, but they have to be deliberate. Cora's Red Sox need less deliberation and more guys to be deliberate.

Duran fearlessly slammed himself into the Monster to catch a drive by Bogaerts. Gotta give him credit on a play that Anthony's not guaranteed to make. Duran doesn't always make great reads off the bat, but has the speed to sometimes compensate. Roman isn't exactly Jackie Bradley Junior on his jumps either.

I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story

It should be Leadoff.

Duran's so tuff he got rivets in his back.

Yes! and any pitcher who throws an 0-2 pitch anywhere near Ceddanne's bat should be immediately demoted.

Need first thrust home.

listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul

The Red Sox have a cameo in a sequel of Hitchcock's Rear Window. It's called Rear View Mirror, with the Yankees in the front seat. Sam Kennedy swears the Sox' role gets bigger at the end, but the soundtrack is Meatloaf's "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are."

The racist GM who over the phone gave his California scout permission to sign a guy named Green must have been in shock when Pumpsie first arrived in Beantown.

Smells like a slugfest waiting to happen.

Noooo -- let the Red Sox burn theirs in the early innings with no outs and nobody on base on the first pitch of an at bat... ... not late in the game when a challenge could mean the difference in a winning rally, like everyone praised Anthony on Opening Day for in the Sox only win of the year. Instead, let's mock the Yankees for having too many team meetings on how and when to use their challenges. Those idiots are only 5-1 so far.

The words "position" and "Campbell" are Polar Park opposites right now. Arias already has MLB defense. He's similar to Rafaela, when Ceddanne was still in the minors -- Gold Glove hands, but needs to use them to hack less at pitches outside the zone... ... which brings me back to my low point of the season so far: how in the world was a guy who has never shown any knowledge of the strike zone whatsoever allowed to challenge a call on an 0-0 pitch in the 2nd inning? How many Ivy League degrees in Breslow and Bailey's Circus does it take to set some team policies on WHEN to use challenges and WHO is even permitted to contemplate them?

I have a premonition for the near future in baseball: anyone who thinks the ABS challenge system is good for the game now, just wait until Check The Check gets challenged. The proposed over-under angle of the bat is 45 degrees from end of the barrel to knob; diagrams basically show that line to be parallel to the first base foul line for righty batters (for perspective, on the call Bucknor blew last weekend, Trevor Story's bat was still behind him when he checked his swing -- all he did that confused CB was move his hands over the plate). Computers will overturn just about every stupid "he went!" that base umps think they can tell from 90 feet away. Pitchers will go ballistic -- and leagues are prepared to immediately eject any who yell until the new rule is accepted. Check swings will no longer be fake strikes, false Ks will disappear from the diamonds, hitters' counts will thrive, and pitchers will be forced to throw more hittable pitches. Best part for baseball: Offense returns!!!!

Hoss played in the days when ballplayers weren't millionaires (or even hundredaires). They all had to work real jobs for money. Lucky for him he landed an acting part in Bonanza. I got my degree in American Studies from Thespian University.

The 24-25 uncommon denominator... minions? "Bello!"

All I can think of are Boston bullpens since 2018, which were always burnt out by mid-summer because the starters couldn't go deep... ... maybe that's a bad example, because the second's failures were directly connected to the first.