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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With all due respect, that's my least favorite part of any ump call (90 feet away on an angle). Admittedly, the check-the-check is my least favorite part of modern baseball period -- an aspect that has creeped into the game over the decades that is requested obnoxiously on judgments that vary night-to-night, batter-to-batter. Maybe MLB should limit these "appeals" just like every other one nowadays. I also admit I favor the batter on either side on 99% of these checks, because they're not taking "swings." There are so many different pitches now that hitters always have to start everything sooner in the box until they decide to literally go around or not. Plus, when I was a young dinosaur egg hatchling, batters had to "break their wrists" (turn the top hand down) for it to be considered a swing.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Jared Carrabis: I have to admit, it’s very hard to get fully emotionally invested in this Red Sox team when I know they’re intentionally not putting the best team on the field that they possibly could be. The front office is kinda getting what they deserve here. I'm assuming this might refer to not promoting some top prospects more than playing Devers at 1B (since no fans or "internet personality" actually know if he even wants to play first). But Carrabis is closer to the team than I am, so I defer when he says, "I know they're intentionally not putting the best team on the field..."
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yoshida is a .285 career MLB hitter. If he joins and hits like usual, the Red Sox are instantly better than with Casas and his .182 season sample size. Devers could play some first base, but he doesn't have to every game. He can still DH a little, to give his body a break from scoops and holding runners on (and his mind a break, to focus on remembering he's the cutoff on hits or fly balls to CF and RF with runners in scoring position). Romy can still play 1B vs. a lefty.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Will Flemming did his best on the radio. I listened to Giolito's last inning in the car and Flemming was quite entertaining. Instead of whining like a retired Hall of Fame voice, Flemming described the zeal of Rangers' hitters running to the bat rack and home plate to hack at Gio's 90 mph slowball and high change-ups.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nine days. Beginning today, the Red Sox play nine games vs. the toughest pitching in the league, including three against the best team in the AL. If Boston limps through a say, 3-6 road trip, the Sox line-up in their May homecoming will look unlike anything fans have speculated (except, of course, talksox whackjobs). And we'll all be excited...
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... but at least we still care enough to gripe daily. What happens to the Nation if we become casual fans? Those from a few decades ago who just smoked pot and watched MTV never came back. Now, they're water colors.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What's scary is how smart the front office always thinks it is when it comes to reinforcements for the pen. And that's not just for overhyping the stuff of a guy like Zach Kelly. What kills the Red Sox every summer is the obvious company policy of not acquiring one of the top relievers available at every trade deadline. Such refusal fools no one, especially the Sox coaches and players. We don't know what's said behind clubhouse doors, but we listen and read quotes from the manager saying, "The roster is the roster," and the star slugger saying, "They know what we need." Instead, Breslow or Bloom wait until the last seconds tick on the deadline clock and pick up whatever scraps are left, just to make it look like they did something positive. But when the calvary trots in on Shetland ponies, it basically disillusions the team and leads to losing records every August.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    These next nine games the Red Sox will face Texas, Kansas City and Detroit: three of the AL's top four pitching staffs in ERA. This front office may be waiting to see how the inconsistent offense performs against consistently good arms. If Sox' batters get consistently exposed, Brez and Co. could make significant changes and call-ups on May 15, the off-day before the next 10-day homestand. But if the front office stands pat, fans should understand that management doesn't feel the current roster is good enough to spend any more resources on bolstering in another bridge year. They'll put the bolster in the holster until next winter...
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Despite mediocrity in Boston, the Sox keep their heads above molasses in the morass of the AL East. A .500 club remains inconsistent at losing, so they might never get buried by a seven-game losing streak... ... but that also means that a seven-game win streak to put them over the top is unlikely.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I typed it the morning after Casas went down. Abreu was always the most expendable, as far as getting back something of value, but a lot posters disagreed that any club would give up a legitimate arm for him. But Abreu for a starting first baseman? Position player trade, with possibility of expanding the deal for maybe a pitching prospect Baily's ballers may have their eyes on...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Some of us agreed and said as much last winter. The pen they were counting on consisted of guys either past their primes, hoping to recapture glory after injuries or unproven. None were current top relievers going into the season -- though Chapman has been as good as ever so far. Yet, he was what the Sox considered a reasonable investment. Unlike primetime Tanner Scott, the kind of closer teams truly all-in are willing to pay for. How's he doing so far? 2025 Scott: G 16, K 15, BB 0, 9 SV, WHIP 0.85, ERA 2.25,
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    Nick Burdi's Woo stats are better than those of Guerrero, Wink, Campbell, Adames, Mills, Fulmer, Mata, Criswell, Kelly, Dobbins, Giolito, Bello and Priester. Burdi: G 11, IP 14.2, K 22, WHIP 0.82, ERA 0.61.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What -- you don't think we can win it all with a 1B platoon of a seven-year part-timer just recalled from the minors and a guy cut last season by the worst team in MLB history?
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm going with Butch Hobson, positioning his elbow chips into a release point aimed at the John Hanncock Building. More fascinating are the serial killers in the front row, and a young Tom Werner, sitting behind the lady with the shades on the right. Those three empty seats look close to a row where me and some buds had partial season tickets in high school one year in the 70s; we're probably standing in the beerline before the Sox bat again.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    1B options: Grissom doesn't make sense as a platoon partner with Romy, since they're both right-handed. Toro is a switch-hitter... Would Bloom like to get the Cardinals out of owing $50+ million to Willson Contreras? If he's not totally washed, could be a change-of-scenery guy who might like hitting in Fenway. The question is: how much could Breslow convince Chaim to subsidize WC to send him to Boston? If Brez can expand a trade of say, Abreu to receive back a good bullpen arm, it also frees up a spot in the outfield for Anthony. The Sox more likely will go internal (Contreras' most similar batter at age 32 is Yasmani Grandal); a poster suggested moving uber athlete Campbell to 1B and calling up Mayer to play 2B, but that forces two guys out of their more natural positions.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good things can happen when you put the ball in play!
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Touch. the. BALL.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Here's a start: choke up instead of choking!
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Touch the ball with your bat!
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Definitely not Bromance. True Grime? A IG? Posters socially floating in faceless cyberspace may never meet someone in person who's always lived at the top of the tower and received nothing but praise -- until suddenly faced with a flaw or two... ... the adjustments can be monumental, even world-altering (in places like Red Sox Nation).
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Lost-and-founded.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe it's hard to fathom how crushing one single blow to a young man's ego can be to the guy who has always been the hero growing up, who blasts his way through the minors, becomes an instant star in the majors, and gets paid more money than anyone in the history of a franchise that is over a hundred years old.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe our concerns just reflect that state of modern baseball. The two worst things to watch: bullpens losing leads and games, and batters constantly striking out trying to get the runs back. Happens to every team, and so do the game-losing home runs that always seem to characterize late-inning blown saves. Put it this way: how many bullpen debacles do we remember that serve up a singles fest? It's usually a bomb, preceded by a walk, with maybe a dumb error thrown in (and away). Es suck to watch, too, but unless they're epidemic, seem easier to excuse as players being human beings... though mistakes like batters swinging and missing the same pitches over and over, or pitchers missing the strike zone over and over seem less tolerable.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They hurt his feelings. Ok, no more. The three words or initials for ___ ___ ___ have been typed so many times on this forum the past two months (because we all know Spring Training doesn't matter), that they're not small parts of any size posts anymore. The fact is, if a guy like Houck sucks for a month, there's no getting around that he sucked for a month. That's a chunk of a season, especially at a time when every club wants to have a good start at building momentum. Well, last night our All-Star starter had a good game. So Let's GO!!!
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Stool sample size.
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