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Post by p23w on Aug 31, 2017 20:43:09 GMT -5
I have very little faith in ERod. 12 baserunners versus 15 outs says it all. Wishing he pitched well or better to this point is to have blinders on. Were you watching the game or game center? Almost nothing was hit hard tonight. Two balls left the yard. Sanchez I can see. He's dialed in. No excuse for the first pitch meatball to Bird.
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Post by p23w on Aug 31, 2017 20:36:41 GMT -5
Did you wait all night to reply? That's just dumb. I have very little faith in ERod. 12 baserunners versus 15 outs says it all. Wishing he pitched well or better to this point is to have blinders on.
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Post by p23w on Aug 31, 2017 20:26:49 GMT -5
we have to be really pleased with ERod's pitching tonight. Why?
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Post by p23w on Aug 27, 2017 15:58:23 GMT -5
Wow. When this team fails it really is a team effort.
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Post by p23w on Aug 25, 2017 21:34:30 GMT -5
Looks like we found our 8th inning guy.
Ooops, may have spoke too soon.
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Post by p23w on Aug 25, 2017 20:02:27 GMT -5
Wow guys, get it ALL out of your system tonite.
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Post by p23w on Aug 23, 2017 21:23:59 GMT -5
Badda-Bing, badda-boom!
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Post by p23w on Aug 23, 2017 21:11:28 GMT -5
Corey Kluber? Bullpen management? Gotta' love this.
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Post by p23w on Aug 23, 2017 21:06:07 GMT -5
Take that!
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Post by p23w on Aug 23, 2017 20:50:30 GMT -5
Kimbrel time.
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Post by p23w on Aug 23, 2017 20:32:40 GMT -5
YES!
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Post by p23w on Aug 22, 2017 21:46:34 GMT -5
Nice.
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Post by p23w on Aug 21, 2017 22:09:27 GMT -5
The loss goes to Workman with an assist from Holt. Whether this takes place as a walk-off or in the 8th inning is moot. I'm more upset with Vasquez breaking into a home run trot on an off the OF wall hit that wound up as a single. I think he (or a pinch runner) would have scored given the next two ABs.
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Post by p23w on Aug 21, 2017 21:31:50 GMT -5
Yes!
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Post by p23w on Aug 21, 2017 21:20:13 GMT -5
I don't think you can afford 2 - 30 mill/year pitchers. Plus there is Bryce Harper to think about. I'd be okay with it. No to Harper. He's made for New York anyways. They'll love that a-hole up there. Are you saying you would rather have David Price than Bryce Harper for the same money?
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Post by p23w on Aug 21, 2017 18:45:35 GMT -5
ERod is a punk.
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Post by p23w on Aug 21, 2017 17:04:36 GMT -5
I don't see any monster arms in the Cleveland OF, so I would suspect more of the same "risky business" from Sox baserunners.
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Post by p23w on Aug 18, 2017 22:23:43 GMT -5
Sweet, sweet win.
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Post by p23w on Aug 16, 2017 21:52:24 GMT -5
Sweet, sweet win. Luv it!
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Post by p23w on Aug 12, 2017 14:18:03 GMT -5
You only get 27 outs in a game. To give some away as a "means to an end" which is not only not guaranteed, but often not reached BECAUSE of that strategy is moronic lunacy. Doesn't all this reckless running send a message of lack of faith in the guy hitting behind you because the belief is you have to run because the guy(s) at the plate following are incapable of bringing you home if you don't run to get the extra base? I mean if David Ortiz is sitting in the middle of the lineup does this team act so recklessly and risk taking the bat out of his hands? No David Ortiz, so the philosophy is you have to run, no matter how stupid it may be to do so. When you are last in the league in home runs and your boss trades away the guy who would be your team hr leader, you tend to go with the "force your opponent" to make plays, given that team speed in one of your assets. Obviously neither the trade nor the resultant strategy has worked to this point.
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Post by p23w on Aug 7, 2017 11:10:24 GMT -5
The Red Sox had the Rocket and they had Schilling in the pipeline. They had a ton of offense (even before or without Boggs). They had a fan base that players would love to play before. Margo Adams traveling with a married player really irked the Mormon. Stupid trades soon followed. I get that you have an irrational hatred for Wade Boggs. Wade Boggs the ballplayer was a fantastic player. The Red Sox did NOT have a good offense prior to Boggs. They had Evans and Rice. That's it. They had an aging Carl Yastrzemski, Tony Perez, and Joe Rudi and some mediocre offense in the infield between Stapleton, Remy, and Hoffman. Lansford was a good ballplayer but his OPS wasn't the greatest in the world despite his strong BAs. They had Rick Miller and Reid Nicols sharing CF after Lynn was dealt. Their catching tandem was a raw Rich Gedman and two other guys who couldn't hit in Gary Allenson and eventually Jeff Newman. Their offense wasn't that great prior to Boggs' arrival.Boggs replaced Carney Lansford, who was, IMHO a better baseball player. He won a batting title in Fenway and was an infiinitely better baserunner and defender. Stupid trades like the Anderson/Schilling for Boddicker followed the Hurst defection. [/b] Hurst left in the late 80's Wade Boggs, the human being, not so great back then. Not arguing that, but when you're telling me that Boggs was the sole reason for Hurst's departure you're offbase. Yes, that is exactly what I am telling you. And no, I am not off base. Oh, he was a part of it, wouldn't argue that he wasn't, but there was more. Let me spell this out for you. Bruce Hurst literally told a bunch of us at a baseball event that he wishes he hadn't left the Red Sox. Reading between the lines, the drinking was a big part of it, and it wasn't just Boggs who acted like a drunken fool. The Red Sox had a bunch of guys who had their issues. Obviously it clashed with the way he was/is. I'm sure he discovered this in San Diego, too. Over imbibing is common to baseball. It is pervasive in the minor leagues as well. Mr. Hurst was exposed to this long before he joined the Red Sox.Drinking was a issue that he had already learned to deal with. But those issues were hardly contained to just the Red Sox and Wage Boggs. For whatever reason you have a hatred of Boggs. That's fine. Your choice, but it was more than "I hate Wade Boggs because of Margot Adams. I'm going to San Diego".My distaste for Wade Boggs covers both his self serving style, his overall baseball skills, and his personality. Bruce Hurst was a Mormon (and like Dwight Evans a devote Christian). Mr. Hurst could "live with" excess drinking. Not much mention of that in the Bible. Marital infidelity, and in particular flaunting Ms. Adams on cross country team flights did not sit well with the more traditionally religious. Mr. Boggs was not a team favorite in any clubhouse he suited up in. Boggs was hardly the first person in baseball to cheat on his spouse. Doubt because he had a mistress that Hurst would lose his mind over it. I'm sure a lot of the rest of the team had their extra marital activities, too. Boggs and his wife are still married after all these years, so you have to give these two credit for finding ways to make it work. Marriage is not an easy thing.Puleez. Money and power keep many marriages together in name only. Since I don't know the particulars of the Boggs marriage, I am not about to "give credit" to them for finding ways to make it work. Yes, marriage is not an easy thing, but because it remains intact does not mean it "works". It is naive to think otherwise. And yes, some stupid trades (and FA signings) did wind up following as Gorman got desperate to win a World Series while Mrs. Yawkey was still alive.[/quote]
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Post by p23w on Aug 6, 2017 17:35:15 GMT -5
OK., Not just Wade Boggs. Margo Adams. Forget the drinking. Then why did he say he wished he had stayed in Boston? And that he told a bunch of us directly. He seemed sincere in what he was saying as opposed to playing to the crowd. Boggs was there until 92. It was more than just Boggs, although I'm sure his surrounding circus was a big part of it. The Red Sox had the Rocket and they had Schilling in the pipeline. They had a ton of offense (even before or without Boggs). They had a fan base that players would love to play before. Margo Adams traveling with a married player really irked the Mormon. Stupid trades soon followed.
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Post by p23w on Aug 6, 2017 15:28:55 GMT -5
Not just Boggs. They did a lot of drinking on that Red Sox team and as Hurst would find out it was like that no matter where he went. He did say that he wished he had stayed in Boston. I wish that, too. OK., Not just Wade Boggs. Margo Adams. Forget the drinking.
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Post by p23w on Aug 5, 2017 20:48:54 GMT -5
That's another great name I wished I could of seen back in the day. Left handed pretty curveballs are baseballs best treat imo. Hurst became one of my favorites. The Angels knocked Clemens around in Game 1 of the ALCS and I figured they were in trouble, but Hurst pitched an excellent Game 2 and kept them in Game 5, which was the Hendu game. Then in the Series he was the Sox best pitcher. He shut down the Mets for 8 innings in a 1-0 victory in Game 1 and then went the distance in Game 5. In Game 7 he had a 3-0 lead in Game 7 but ran out of gas. Still, they would have been better off staying with him than going to that disaster of a bullpen. It took Hurst awhile to develop but when he did he was fun to watch. I've met him. He's a good guy. Wished the Sox had hung onto him but he was turned off with some of the non-baseball stuff that was going on with the team and he went to SD and wished he hadn't.Wade Boggs.
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Post by p23w on Aug 3, 2017 19:51:55 GMT -5
So is his questionable baserunning.
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