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Post by manfred on May 24, 2023 23:00:06 GMT -5
This is not inspiring confidence in Kenley. He is still off, and he looks mentally shaken.
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 24, 2023 23:08:32 GMT -5
So hard to watch these games when the entire team seems to be in deep slumps.
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Post by cheers on May 24, 2023 23:10:39 GMT -5
So hard to watch these games when the entire team seems to be in deep slumps. Well, pretty much everybody except Refsnyder.
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 24, 2023 23:12:27 GMT -5
Let's get out of this town. Terrible series.
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Post by cheers on May 24, 2023 23:13:11 GMT -5
Well. That was gross. I think I'll take a well earned day off from baseball. Come back ready to mash. Or something like that.
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 24, 2023 23:13:49 GMT -5
Streaky season. Three streaks of four losses, 1 streak of 8 wins, 1 streak of 4 wins.
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Post by cutz on May 24, 2023 23:26:27 GMT -5
2 & 4 (DAMN IT!)
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Post by redsoxfan2 on May 24, 2023 23:31:48 GMT -5
All they needed was 1 win. This was essentially 2 losses since they lost the tie breaker.
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Post by yuchangclan on May 24, 2023 23:58:52 GMT -5
Time to dust off this gem from manfred: September 29th: “considering everything, I think 80-80 at this point is great. We have 2 games left against the 4th place Orioles, so we can catch up ground. All the secondary stats show we are no worse than the 7th best team in the AL.”
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Post by manfred on May 25, 2023 0:04:49 GMT -5
Time to dust off this gem from manfred: September 29th: “considering everything, I think 80-80 at this point is great. We have 2 games left against the 4th place Orioles, so we can catch up ground. All the secondary stats show we are no worse than the 7th best team in the AL.” I might have misjudged the Orioles.
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Post by costpet on May 25, 2023 5:48:05 GMT -5
I agree. We're just a .500 team or slightly better.
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Post by Smittyw on May 25, 2023 6:25:42 GMT -5
That was certainly one of the games I've seen this year, perhaps even in the history of baseball.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 25, 2023 6:30:35 GMT -5
On NESN they like to talk about how they're good at winning their series, like they're 10 out of 15 or whatever, but they have these lost weekend types of series (even on weekdays) where they get swept away. These sweeps from Tampa, Pittsburgh, St.Louis ( they should have won that series) and now Anaheim are the reasons why the Sox are falling behind by a growing distance in the wild card race and can't shake off being around. 500.
The team does have enough talent to be better than that, but playing like that is head shaking.
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Post by alexcorahomevideo on May 25, 2023 6:55:33 GMT -5
I agree. We're just a .500 team or slightly better. They're probably a slightly above .500 team. Nothing wrong with that but they aren't contenders to win it all. Not hating on the Sox but theres just too many questions with this bunch.
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Post by semperfisox on May 25, 2023 7:21:17 GMT -5
I agree. We're just a .500 team or slightly better. They're probably a slightly above .500 team. Nothing wrong with that but they aren't contenders to win it all. Not hating on the Sox but theres just too many questions with this bunch. Nothing wrong with that? I fear ownership might have the same outlook.
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Post by cdj on May 25, 2023 7:30:05 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with it for me. It’s progress from last season. Would expect them to evolve into a genuinely good team next year though, no backwards steps
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Post by ematz1423 on May 25, 2023 8:01:52 GMT -5
I agree with some posters above, I had ticketed this team as a team around .500 this year. Anything above .500 would be positive steps for me and the most important thing for this organization is the development of their young MLBers and prospects. So far been a bit of a mixed bag there but that's one of the things I'll be monitoring closely as the season goes.
Either way so far it's mostly been a fun season, hopefully this skid can be corrected and they can stay in the wild card hunt through-out the rest of the season.
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 25, 2023 8:21:59 GMT -5
I saw them as a 79 win team so they are slightly exceeding my expectations. They are more fun to watch than I thought they would be.
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Post by julyanmorley on May 25, 2023 8:26:31 GMT -5
Last night I had a dream where I was watching a UFC fight and over the course of the contest three out of the four legs were lost at the hip. They still fought to the end and gave a really emotional "We just went through war together!" hug at the end. Joe Rogan had effusive praise for the work by the fighters' corners in stopping the bleeding.
Anyway, I am making the decision to believe that this Angels series was also a dream.
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Post by costpet on May 25, 2023 9:01:06 GMT -5
This is what .500 teams do. Score 12 runs in one game, then get shut out the next. You never know from one game to another. Anyway, there are some kids down on the farm who could change things around for the better in a couple of years. So, just enjoy what we have for the time being and think about the future.
On the other hand, they could get hot in September and blow by everybody. You never know with this team. They seem to be streaky.
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Post by cdj on May 25, 2023 9:06:16 GMT -5
Being a streaky team isn’t a bad thing if you’re a play-in game team, we know this team can go on good stretches against good teams. We’ve already seen it. All they have to do is have enough streaks to get into the playoffs and then catch fire at the right time. I kinda like their arms in a playoff series tbh (Sale/Bello/Paxton/Houck)
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Post by nomar on May 25, 2023 9:12:05 GMT -5
This team as it’s composed now is also really young/inexperienced (Duran, Casas, Wong, Valdez, Bello, etc). The streakiness is no big surprise. There’s teams above the Red Sox that have plenty of room for regression. Just have to keep grinding through the ebbs and trying to lengthen the flows. It’s a long season.
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Post by grandsalami on May 25, 2023 9:42:04 GMT -5
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Post by manfred on May 25, 2023 9:55:43 GMT -5
83% called strike seems… not so good.
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Post by incandenza on May 25, 2023 10:15:25 GMT -5
I'll stick to what I said a while ago: if they get to the end of the Arizona series a game or two above .500 they'll be in good shape. That'll end the unmitigated stretch of 47 games against non-bad teams. They've been tied for the toughest schedule in the game (with TOR, and NYY is just behind them, but BAL and TB are down at 15th and 17th).
But after Arizona, 25 of their next 68 games are against bad teams (=KC, DET, CHW, OAK, WAS, CIN, COL). With the starting rotation looking solid and maybe some injured guys returning they should only get better. The bats certainly aren't going to stay *this* dead.
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