9/20 Crappy Poster Appreciation Thread & Game Chat
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If Bello was tipping his pitches in any way, or giving another tell, do we think Bush could recognize it and fix it?
This is a tangent but I remember being on this board for game 1 of 162. Kluber threw his 2 innings, then it was bullpen time. It may have been Zack Kelly in the game.
Every Oriole stole 2nd easily, most times with no throw. Bush marched out and had a long talk with the pitcher.
I have no evidence to support this other than what I saw, but I'm not sure the relievers knew how to deal with the pitch clock and disengagement rules. We were very predictable and easy to run on. I really don't think the staff was prepared to pitch in games with the new rules.
We do not have a lot of actual major league pitchers right now, but I don't think Bush is the guy for this job.
This is a tangent but I remember being on this board for game 1 of 162. Kluber threw his 2 innings, then it was bullpen time. It may have been Zack Kelly in the game.
Every Oriole stole 2nd easily, most times with no throw. Bush marched out and had a long talk with the pitcher.
I have no evidence to support this other than what I saw, but I'm not sure the relievers knew how to deal with the pitch clock and disengagement rules. We were very predictable and easy to run on. I really don't think the staff was prepared to pitch in games with the new rules.
We do not have a lot of actual major league pitchers right now, but I don't think Bush is the guy for this job.
Not that it even matters, but who did we break this time? Haven't been paying attention.
I'd prefer he'd upgrade to another team.
So they took out Devers not b/c of injury, but just to rest him? So Reyes is on third and Wong at second?
Dalbec ends this game with 25 ABs so far this season and a .837 OPS. May the trade-buff continue.
In three of Cora’s five seasons, his teams have seem woefully unprepared to start the season and disinterested to finish it. His first year and the year after his suspension were the exceptions.
If he returns, they absolutely have to at least shake up the staff. Which may be difficult to do if he’s on a one year deal…and how can they extend him?
Maybe he’s kicked upstairs- but I’m thinking the likelihood of him returning as manager next year is getting more remote with every loss.
If he returns, they absolutely have to at least shake up the staff. Which may be difficult to do if he’s on a one year deal…and how can they extend him?
Maybe he’s kicked upstairs- but I’m thinking the likelihood of him returning as manager next year is getting more remote with every loss.
I hope he didn’t put a curse on the franchise because I can’t go through that again.
100% - it’s wild how they start slow and end slower. Like they check out and want to be anywhere else. It has never made sense to me but seems constant.
I wasn't a fan of him returning to manage the Sox in the first place. But I think he probably stays with the Red Sox next season. It will be an even younger team next year and he seems to be a "players manager". The end of the season now is just stat padding for the players. Wins and losses matter very little now.
I remember that when he started in 2018, he was very vocal about winning in ST to get a winning mentality throughout the team right from the start. They went 22-9 in ST, best in the League, and we know what happened from there. He changed his attitude completely after that year, starting with 2019 ST, and the team finished 12-17. Now, I don't know how important that really is, but it was a clear focus in 2018, and it worked pretty well. Moving away from this always seemed strange to me, especially given the results.
IIRC, the 19 team didn’t treat ST all that seriously, the starters barely pitched, with the idea that after such a great 18, they’d start slow but be able to turn it on later in the year when it really mattered- of course they never did.
Sox elimination number is 1. I believe the next Toronto win will formally eliminate them (two games before the Sox' next game, including one ongoing right now), as they need to beat two of TOR/TEX/HOU/SEA.
-Lost Houston tiebreaker head to head
-Tied 3-3 with SEA & TEX on head to head
-If Sox win out (lol), 28-24 intradivsion record.
-If Seattle loses out, 29-23 intradivision record - so, we actually have lost the tiebreaker to them already.
-If Texas loses out, 23-29 intradivsion record.
So it's down to Toronto & Texas losing out, Houston and Seattle have beaten us. (Go go go, 0.001%!)
-Lost Houston tiebreaker head to head
-Tied 3-3 with SEA & TEX on head to head
-If Sox win out (lol), 28-24 intradivsion record.
-If Seattle loses out, 29-23 intradivision record - so, we actually have lost the tiebreaker to them already.
-If Texas loses out, 23-29 intradivsion record.
So it's down to Toronto & Texas losing out, Houston and Seattle have beaten us. (Go go go, 0.001%!)
BABIP is only motivated by unwilling sacrifices. Volunteers are spat back up. It is known.
I specifically ended this game’s poem with the plea, “Don’t get poleaxed.”
Team doesn’t dig poetry or modern vocabulary or winning, I guess.
Maybe all three.
Team doesn’t dig poetry or modern vocabulary or winning, I guess.
Maybe all three.
They are already eliminated btw. Best they can do is 84 wins, and one of Seattle/Texas are guaranteed to get at least 85.
I, meanwhile, have the utmost confidence that neither Seattle nor Texas will reach 85 wins today
