Thought the same thing. I especially love it when the kid is on base doing everything humanly possible to not smile, and failing miserably.
9/1 vs. the Royals. I'm so excited.
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Man. Opened game day to see how the Sox were doing against the lowly Royals.
Absolutely disgusting.
Absolutely disgusting.
The offseason’s not over yet
Teams don’t win games on paper
Teams don’t miss the playoffs in April
Let’s see where they are at the All Star Break
The roster will be very different after the trade deadline
This is a multi-year rebuild, give Bloom the off-season to show what he can do <— you are here
Teams don’t win games on paper
Teams don’t miss the playoffs in April
Let’s see where they are at the All Star Break
The roster will be very different after the trade deadline
This is a multi-year rebuild, give Bloom the off-season to show what he can do <— you are here
They're being 2 hit by a guy who is 3-15 with a 6.33 ERA.
They seem to get bushwhacked by every other random shrub they face.
The hitting coaches need to be fired.
They seem to get bushwhacked by every other random shrub they face.
The hitting coaches need to be fired.
Are we trying to set the all time record for flying out in foul territory down the left field line?
The other way to parse this is that with 27 games after today, they have Paxton's slot 5 more times. And they can only lose 8 games.
Baseball reference has the Sox playoff odds at 0.3%. Think it’s pretty safe to say they are “done”.
I was excited to start tonight’s game thread because I thought I might get a little run going. Hell, the Royals. We’ll run the table.
Wow do I feel dumb.
Wow do I feel dumb.
I have it as Pivetta shitting down his leg vs. LA. These are all arbitrary, of course, but there's several to choose from.
It was that second West Coast trip they had to make to Seattle and San Francisco. They had just swept a two game series vs Atlanta and were having a great July. The offense went cold, they came home and got swept by Toronto. They will be 12-12 since then after tonight.
Sox high point was 7/28, 56-47 after beating SF. 13-18 since. They had lost 3 of 4 going into the “Schreiber game”, then went 6-5 after that. 66-58 after sweeping the Yankees, about to be 3-8 since.
Getting blown out will help the teams record against the pythag and make Cora look like a better manager. So theres that.
Blame Cora all you want, but this simply wasn't a good roster. I hope they're better next year. Sorry, that's being a pessimist. Maybe there's a wine for that.
Idk, they went 9-4 starting with the Fenway Royals series and then split 4 games in Houston after winning 17-1. The Dodgers series was mostly competitive as was the first Houston game up until Barraclough. It's been a disaster ever since.
Remember when Brandon Walter was untradeable at the 2021 deadline? Secret high riser? Or was it the 2022 deadline?
