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Post by briam on Sept 1, 2023 20:20:38 GMT -5
I also don’t think we can use the “how could you anticipate this team falling apart?!??” Reasoning when it’s the second year in a row that exact thing happened post-deadline. This just took an extra two weeks. So. You are saying the players are intentionally throwing in the towel because the team did not trade for reinforcements? if that was actually the case i would cut every single one of those children. Yes. I called them children. Because doing something so stupid like this, is something a child would do. Not an adult No, I’m saying it’s a pitching staff built with fragile arms that can’t pitch at the required level for an entire season. They did nothing in the off-season that changed that roster feature and it blew up in their face the same exact way again.
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Post by dirtdog on Sept 1, 2023 20:21:11 GMT -5
BTW this pitcher that is shutting them down has an ERA over 6, Nice.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 1, 2023 20:22:36 GMT -5
BTW this pitcher that is shutting them down has an ERA over 6, Nice. Our bats have been Cy Young incubators many times this season. So many crap pitchers make our bats look silly in so many games.
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Post by manfred on Sept 1, 2023 20:24:33 GMT -5
This is not snark: are any Sox prospects capable of being as good as Witt? If we are looking at our system, who is the guy who most likely is not just good but electric?
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Post by cdj on Sept 1, 2023 20:25:47 GMT -5
This is not snark: are any Sox prospects capable of being as good as Witt? If we are looking at our system, who is the guy who most likely is not just good but electric? Fairly certain he was the #1 prospect in all of baseball so unfortunately no Duran is the closest thing in the org electricity wise
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Post by manfred on Sept 1, 2023 20:25:51 GMT -5
I’ll say this: Wong’s arm makes him worth playing alone. Dude is quick and accurate.
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Post by trapperdan on Sept 1, 2023 20:26:02 GMT -5
This is not snark: are any Sox prospects capable of being as good as Witt? If we are looking at our system, who is the guy who most likely is not just good but electric? Probably Bleis, if he hits his ceiling?
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Post by oldfaithful2019 on Sept 1, 2023 20:26:11 GMT -5
Beautiful throw there by Wong.
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Post by Montana Lemonious-Craig on Sept 1, 2023 20:30:40 GMT -5
Here’s a positive: I’m about to smoke some weed and watch something else that’s not this game
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 1, 2023 20:31:36 GMT -5
Our hitters have been warning track power only for awhile now.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 1, 2023 20:32:22 GMT -5
Here’s a positive: I’m about to smoke some weed and watch something else that’s not this game What your going to watch? Good plan - weed won't help making watching this offense any more pleasant
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Post by Montana Lemonious-Craig on Sept 1, 2023 20:33:29 GMT -5
Here’s a positive: I’m about to smoke some weed and watch something else that’s not this game What your going to watch? Good plan - weed won't help making watching this offense any more pleasant The wife and I have been on a Master Chef and Only Murders in the Building kick, but are now caught up on both. Considering ponying up for HBO to watch the new season of Barry. Would highly recommend!
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 1, 2023 20:35:03 GMT -5
What your going to watch? Good plan - weed won't help making watching this offense any more pleasant The wife and I have been on a Master Chef and Only Murders in the Building kick, but are now caught up on both. Considering ponying up for HBO to watch the new season of Barry. Would highly recommend! We just went through all of Endeavour on PBS - then went back and are working our way through all of the Inspector Morse. We like "who done it"s even though we rarely ever solve them! Last week I binged Squid Game. Wow...that was...something!
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Post by manfred on Sept 1, 2023 20:35:39 GMT -5
What your going to watch? Good plan - weed won't help making watching this offense any more pleasant The wife and I have been on a Master Chef and Only Murders in the Building kick, but are now caught up on both. Considering ponying up for HBO to watch the new season of Barry. Would highly recommend! Will you watch an inning and let me know if it looks any better?
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Post by dirtdog on Sept 1, 2023 20:38:09 GMT -5
Was really hoping when September got here the game day thread wouldnt have mention of means of numbing the pain and alternative programming.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 1, 2023 20:39:59 GMT -5
Walter has quieted things down nicely.
Pipe dream time - since we are on the cusp of a wasted month, wishing we could shut down Paxton, Crawford, Sale, Devers and Masa but we don't have the horses on the roster or AAA that could fill the spots on the staff.
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Post by Montana Lemonious-Craig on Sept 1, 2023 20:40:31 GMT -5
The wife and I have been on a Master Chef and Only Murders in the Building kick, but are now caught up on both. Considering ponying up for HBO to watch the new season of Barry. Would highly recommend! Will you watch an inning and let me know if it looks any better? There’s no strain potent enough to make getting owned by Jordan Lyles enjoyable
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 1, 2023 20:43:03 GMT -5
Best we can do in NC is Delta 8 - the gummies are fairly interesting. A bit more of an effect than I expected.
By the way, last year in September we were 15-16.
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Post by bosoxnation on Sept 1, 2023 20:43:33 GMT -5
LYLES HAS STARTED 25 GAMES THIS YEAR. KC IS 3-22. AHHHHHHHHH
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Post by manfred on Sept 1, 2023 20:44:29 GMT -5
If Lyles shuts this team out, they should fire everyone down to peanut vendors.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 1, 2023 20:46:02 GMT -5
If Lyles shuts this team out, they should fire everyone down to peanut vendors. I can have a pretty snarky sense of humor - I am starting to giggle uncontrollably at these innings.
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Post by ixnayexxus on Sept 1, 2023 20:48:11 GMT -5
Yes, Paxton may well be cooked, but Jordan Lyles is an objectively bad major league pitcher who is frequently smacked around much like Paxton was tonight, we have no excuse.
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Post by trapperdan on Sept 1, 2023 20:48:31 GMT -5
This team may not make the playoffs, but at least they're going down with pride, grit, and dignity.
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Post by Guidas on Sept 1, 2023 20:50:51 GMT -5
Sure take a victory lap even though he was very good for stretch where he was expected to be. He's pretty much paid for his contract off of WAR. Which ya WAR is whatever now. So you are telling me that when they signed him they figured ~8 good starts was what they were aiming for out of his 2 years of pay? And those 8 starts were worth having worse picks for X and Eovaldi?
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 1, 2023 20:51:16 GMT -5
Well, it is time to say that the Red Sox look like absolute shit tonight. No way around that assessment.
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