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Post by huskies15 on May 1, 2017 21:54:06 GMT -5
If they can't get fired up with Sale going tomorrow, and after tonight's embarrassment, then that will say a lot about this team.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on May 1, 2017 21:55:53 GMT -5
I will be surprised if Sale doesnt drill someone tomorrow! Yeah, I hope the best pitcher in the league gets himself suspended throwing a baseball at an opponent to placate fans' irrational need to extend a grudge. I am not for Sale doing anything of the sort, either. And I commend you for being level headed during this grotesque misbehavior and arrogance that the O's have shown throughout this sordid ordeal.
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Post by thursty on May 1, 2017 21:56:14 GMT -5
Wright to the DL with a bad knee
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Post by telluricrook on May 1, 2017 21:58:41 GMT -5
We have let Heath Hembree off the hook! He has yet to be mentioned in this thread. He had a sure double play lined up and threw it 10-15 feet to the right of the bag. Just terrible.
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Post by James Dunne on May 1, 2017 22:01:15 GMT -5
Yeah, I hope the best pitcher in the league gets himself suspended throwing a baseball at an opponent to placate fans' irrational need to extend a grudge. Well If Bundy doesnt get suspended tomorrow then Someone will get drilled. If Bobby doesn't get detention, it means I get to punch him tomorrow. That's not how any of this works, man.
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Post by bigpupp on May 1, 2017 22:05:12 GMT -5
I will be surprised if Sale doesnt drill someone tomorrow! Yeah, I hope the best pitcher in the league gets himself suspended throwing a baseball at an opponent to placate fans' irrational need to extend a grudge. But that will "protect" them.
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Post by grandsalami on May 1, 2017 23:14:50 GMT -5
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Post by DesignatedKyle on May 1, 2017 23:20:55 GMT -5
hopefully their names are leaked and they are never allowed to enter the park again
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Post by telluricrook on May 1, 2017 23:54:37 GMT -5
Over 50 people ejected from Fenway park!
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 2, 2017 0:25:17 GMT -5
The Red Sox and a number of their "fans" disgraced themselves in so many different ways.
On the field the Red Sox have let the Orioles push them around every which way, which kind of reminds me of how the Red Sox were able to beat the Yankees once they finally had the balls to stand up to the Yankees. These Red Sox haven't had the stones to do that to the Orioles who push them around at will. Hopefully Sale will nail one of the Orioles hitters in the butt tomorrow the way it's supposed to be done.
As usual the Red Sox offense was a joke. It's amazing. Porcello has as many losses already as he had all of last year, but over the past few starts Porcello has pitched a lot like he had last year. Meanwhile they have Chris Sale doing a vintage Pedro Martinez impression. So they have two major weapons most other teams don't have so what do the 2017 Red Sox do?
They don't score any freaking runs for these two guys at all. They totally found a way to neutralize a major advantage they have. These swinging singles do nothing but bang into a bunch of double plays and leave runners on when they don't. And now they managed to even put two runners on the same damn base. I know the homers are slow in coming and they'll increase, but they don't have David Ortiz this year to help them increase and their biggest offensive difference other than Ortiz from last year is the total lack of doubles playing their games in a ballpark that does nothing but encourage doubles. Does anybody other than Mitch Moreland have any doubles?
And on top of that the defense totally sucks. 3b is the worst in the majors on offense and defense yet again. The way they played defense lately is a disgrace.
And the bullpen other than Kimbrel, who perhaps was mediocre last year due to an injury to his finger he never let the press know about, and has been pitching almost like his elite Braves closer self, is extremely mediocre. The bullpen is relying on Barnes, Kelly, and Hembree, a setup man with no control, a guy who throws 102 MPH but can't get any strike outs and a fringy reliever who can't get lefties out at all, surrounded by a LOOGY who stinks and a career minor leaguer LOOGY.
This ain't the 62 Mets, although they played like it tonight, but this team is very unimpressive. If David Price actually came back and pitched like a healthy guy, the offense probably wouldn't score for him either - that's how frustrating this team is.
It's still early and they will play better eventually, but I'm pretty skeptical of this boring team. This hasn't exactly the gutsiest or entertaining (Sale excluded) bunch. They've embarrassed themselves in front of the Orioles and couldn't win either game against the Yankees. If this continues into the All-Star break you have to wonder how secure Farrell's job is. When a team plays as lethargic and as careless as these guys have been playing usually it's the manager who pays, and the pressure increases a ton when your 3 year window's 1st year starts looking like a bust.
And these racist fans need to never ever disgrace Fenway Park ever again. It's absolutely sickening and makes Boston look like the racist city it was considered in the Yawkey days. That's the most disgusting development of all today. Instead of Pedroia apologizing to Machado, the Red Sox organization (no I'm not blaming the organization but I doubt those stupid "fans" would apologize) should apologize to Adam Jones for the garbage that he was subjected to.
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Post by telluricrook on May 2, 2017 1:15:20 GMT -5
Red Sox 31 GIDP. 2nd most in MLB
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Post by costpet on May 2, 2017 6:14:43 GMT -5
Last night's game should have had some Benny Hill music.
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Post by cotuitfan on May 2, 2017 6:50:51 GMT -5
Can we talk about Shaw's three run homer in extras? Or Shaw in general?
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Post by semperfisox on May 2, 2017 6:52:59 GMT -5
Been years since I enjoyed watching this team. I'm not stopping ever just frustrating.
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Post by Guidas on May 2, 2017 6:53:37 GMT -5
Anyone shouting racial slurs should be escorted from the park and banned from returning, ever. Disgusting.
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Post by jimed14 on May 2, 2017 7:19:14 GMT -5
Yeah, I hope the best pitcher in the league gets himself suspended throwing a baseball at an opponent to placate fans' irrational need to extend a grudge. Well If Bundy doesnt get suspended tomorrow then Someone will get drilled. If the league actually cared about stopping this crap, they would suspend him. They won't.
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Post by jimed14 on May 2, 2017 7:21:45 GMT -5
Anyone shouting racial slurs should be escorted from the park and banned from returning, ever. Disgusting. And of course, the few morons speak for the entire fan base according to everyone who hates the Red Sox.
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Post by borisman on May 2, 2017 7:46:04 GMT -5
Well If Bundy doesnt get suspended tomorrow then Someone will get drilled. If the league actually cared about stopping this crap, they would suspend him. They won't. Well, I hope Sale doesn't get suspended. I can almost guarantee he will drill someone tonight. He drilled Aaron Judge last game so I see him drilling someone for Mookie getting it last night. I'm not sure it'll be Machado but if it is then it could get ugly later in the game. Maybe "they" should send Pedroia to the plate so Sale can drill him instead.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 2, 2017 7:49:05 GMT -5
I agree with Guidas. Those morons should be banned for life from entering Fenway Park.
No they don't represent the fan base, but it's an absolutely terrible look for a city that's had that kind of reputation in the past. We don't need a return to the Yawkey days where Boston has a reputation, no matter how true or false it is, of being a racist place, and a place that an African American ballplayer wouldn't want to be part of. As recently as the 1990s Boston was seen as a place no black ballplayer really wanted to go to. We don't need a return to these days.
So while it isn't the real fanbase, when stuff like this happens, it promotes that image, not just to the Red Sox haters, but the ballplayers as well.
Image matters to the players because that's what they see. Adam Jones is responding because it isn't commonplace for him to hear slurs like that elsewhere. If he was hearing it elsewhere he would have said so. No reason for him to single out Boston over some other place.
I'm sure intellectually Adam Jones knows this isn't the total fanbase of Boston, yet if he hated coming to Fenway who could blame him? It's truly shameful.
When I mentioned to my wife about what happened, her response was "I don't want you bringing our (young and impressionable) son there!". While I think the reaction is over-the-top it's not hard to see why a person wouldn't want to go somewhere where hate can brew, even if it's just a few moronic individuals in a sea of 35k people.
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Post by costpet on May 2, 2017 7:55:54 GMT -5
Part of this stems from Trump saying it's okay to be a racist. All those white hate groups love him.
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Post by jimed14 on May 2, 2017 7:56:41 GMT -5
Part of this stems from Trump saying it's okay to be a racist. All those white hate groups love him. Sure, racism barely existed before this year.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on May 2, 2017 8:10:16 GMT -5
I deleted the Adam Jones posts. I didn't have full information. My bad.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on May 2, 2017 8:15:45 GMT -5
Part of this stems from Trump saying it's okay to be a racist. All those white hate groups love him. I think it is more collateral damage from the beaning. It made it's way into the fan base. It is understandable that fans are frustrated with the way the whole thing is going down, I know I am, but that behavior crosses a line that most people would agree is disgusting. Only truly screwed up people act that way.
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Post by Coreno on May 2, 2017 8:18:32 GMT -5
Its sad that when I saw people complaining about his taunting the crowd last night, I almost said I wouldn't be surprised if it was in response to some racist a**hole. I decided not to say anything because at the time it felt like a baseless assumption, but alas...
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Post by Guidas on May 2, 2017 8:49:20 GMT -5
Anyone shouting racial slurs should be escorted from the park and banned from returning, ever. Disgusting. And of course, the few morons speak for the entire fan base according to everyone who hates the Red Sox. Only when it suits the needs of whomever is casting aspersions. Othewise, pay no attention to the drunks in the right field stands at Yankee stadium, or the gang issues that get worked out in the Oakland stands, or the mugggings around Baltimore's ballpark, or....
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