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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mayer never needed Car Shield -- he needed Captain America's shield, to try to protect him so he could stay healthy for one full season of his entire pro career. Fans are still waiting.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When a CBO keeps trading away #1 draft picks, expenses go beyond prospect potential. Those top picks get big signing bonuses, too... then there are coaches, trainers and medical staff that need to be paid for development, plus bus drivers, motel cleaning ladies, high school Subway chefs; you name it.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Brilliant! If Duran bats 9th, he'll have the opportunity to drive in the other 8 guys batting in front of him... least, that's how he figures it (though he's still researching).
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He didn't want to get testy.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Notice how the gambling sponsors never give odds on what Bello will do... they'd get cleaned out, wouldn't be able to pay their sponsors, and have take out loans for wheelchairs for entire staffs of employees with caved-in kneecaps.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just remember not to ever bet on arm-wrestling a short bowler... or hockey player... or drummer in a rock band. But you can crush a hip hop drummer, because every rap has the same weak beat. Over and over...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It is baffling -- even after generous Red Sox fans all over New England who are taxi drivers, Uber drivers, bus drivers, train conductors, and tandem bicyclists offered to give Weissert a free ride to Woo.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Beginning when the Red Sox were down to their last strike in the 9th, a total of 10 runners crossed the plate. There may have been more runs scored in extra innings before, but how about in seven different halves? So many ghouls crossed the plate for each side, it looked like a remake of a horror movie; Night of the Living Dead Sox.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I predict Seigler will pitch the final two innings: throwing lefty in the 8th, righty in the 9th.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    For most of last night Jake Rogers stood in the dugout, gabbing and laughing, looking like he won a raffle at a stag party for a slowpitch softball teammate to hang with the Red Sox at a game in Fenway Park. Then he strapped on the gear, lunged to stop several wild Bello pitches, finally settled the guy down, and bashed a sac fly to tie it up. He can stay.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Overpay is overrated. What Major League assets did Brez give up to fortify this Major League roster? A decent lefty starting pitcher, yes. But a young, injury-prone infielder? A defensive catcher with a Sophomore Jinxed bat? The Sox have needed more hitters since last offseason and Brez finally added two pretty good ones. They're both just temporarily unavailable. Hopefully the calvary shows up just in time -- and maybe that even includes a couple stalwarts from last year's offense... C+ with a chance to improve to a B with extra credit
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Give Meidroth some credit, too -- he was the best hitter in the ballgame and you knew that AB was trouble when Chappy couldn't put him away. I was getting Altuve vibes when I said, "Don't hang one"...
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    First time in MLB history a team scored in the bottom of the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Answer: the ADHDeedeedeedeedee Era (I can joke since my whole family has it): younger peeps have no time to dwell, instantaneously changing channels, tunes, moods, decisions, directions. Everything's a collage of overlapping collages -- my wife, who's a lot younger than me, flips through movies on the remote menu before I can even read the descriptions, and changes songs before I can name that tune. I've never observed my son listening to an entire song... all his teammates have personalized walk-up songs when they step into the batter's box -- 5 seconds of an intro or verse, then it's Play Ball!
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    AL OPS leaders since June: Yordan, Junior, Durbin Legend.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Watching today's Woo game on NESN: Arias at SS smoothly fields a grounder in the hole and with lightning quick hands fires a perfect feed to Cheng at 2B, who turns the DP.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ironically, Bello being demoted from the starting rotation helped solidify the Red Sox' best player: the Bullpen! We all know that the hitting and HRs have been the biggest reason for the turnaround, which began with a shift of emphasis off Driveline... ... but the biggest surprise has to be Bello becoming the best long reliever in baseball. Back to good wood: one rumor Cora was fired is he stood by his coaches and defied Breslow's intentions to fire some -- including the batting coaches. The players praised all the guys on their way out, too, so as much as Tracy deserves credit for using basics like bunting, this whole resurrection of bats from the dead may have more to do with an entire organizational overhaul on how they approach offense. The greatest winning stretch in franchise history can't just be because of the weather.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe... maybe the medical hold-ups were the reports on Eyanson and Witherspoon. Remember, Papelbon says they were "damaged goods." Yes, he works for the Red Sox, but that means he also knows a lot more about their personnel than any fans do. Pap's fairly credible as the best closer in star years in team history -- a great ex-pitcher, and past/present/future ex-trovert...
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Merloni yesterday traced the team's resilience and tenacity to the late June sweep of the Yankees when Durbin dislocated his finger, pulled it back into place himself, then homered to beat Schlittler the next night. Then Seigler got creamed in a collision at the plate, refused to come out of the game, and homered to beat Cole. When Durbin had a tough start, his ex-manager Pat Murphy -- whose Brewers have the most regular season wins the past two years -- called Durbin "a winner in every sense of the word." Personalities matter. Most of us appreciated the positive impact Bregman had on the Sox in '25. But Breslow didn't do so bad with the characters he culled from Milwaukee.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, i guess if somebody claimed him, we'd then have the option to pull him back or trade him for somebody else's budget albatross?
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In Red Sox unis? or do they have to wait for update sets?
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The notion that players will eventually hit like the numbers on the back of their baseball cards can be true, but if young guys post career high numbers, what's that say about them next year when their cards look even better? ... and do Mona, Sigs and Cheng even have MLB cards yet? As for Campbell getting released: who's delivering the most production this summer, him or Anthony, Mayer and Teel of the Big Three MASH unit?
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Duran may be disappointing compared to his All-Star MVP season. But Jahmai Jones has never had a big league season with more than 7 HRs and 23 RBI. Eli White's season highs are 10 HRs and 35 RBI. Add them together and we might have a guy with 17 HRs and 58 RBI. Duran has 15 HRs and 58 RBIs right now, on August 5.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No matter how utterly ridiculous his words are on a day-to-day basis, I'm finally here to join the cult that unconditionally believes everything the president says. So the next time Sam Kennedy tells you the Red Sox bats will heat up with the summer temps, just nod. Just don't nod off.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    (I am not making this up) Adley's BB-ref Most Similar Batters: 1. CJ Abrams, 2. Tyler Stephenson, 5. Jeremy Pena, 8. Ryan Jeffers, 10. Elly De La Cruz. All players presumably on the Red Sox radar this month... If they couldn't get the shortstops, at least they landed the best catcher.
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