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[Dewey's 'stache]

I have not posted anything about the trade of Mookie because I wasn’t a member when that happened, but damn I miss Mookie and I get increasingly frustrated with the post-Mookie Era…. This team is ruderless. It has no big toe, it is adrift in a sea of sub replacement level shit with no leadership.

Ok rant over. Let’s get our shit together Sox and practice tagging second cuz small shit like that matters.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

The remaining April schedule has no one close to as good as Baltimore: LAA, CLE, @PIT, @CLE, CHC, SF.

They should stay on the edge of contention with that schedule for awhile... but Raffy probably has to be 100% to make it happen, and I just have a feeling he won't be all this year.

 

[mauidano]

Really embarrassing efforts all the way around from the top to the proverbial bottom.

 

[RS2004foreever]

That game was so fucked up in so many different ways that it is hard to know where to begin. The truth was the pitching was for the most part great. But the defense since story went down, has been all sorts of awful.

 

[ShaneTrot]

Game thread overreaction: fire everyone in the FO but Breslow / who he brought in. We need a fresh start.

Bloom really decimated this team. He made a few good moves but the Story and Yoshida signings look worse by the day.

 

[Rovin Romine]

Really embarrassing efforts all the way around from the top to the proverbial bottom.

It wasn't our best game thread, but come on.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Whitlock and Slaten were really good

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Bloom really decimated this team. He made a few good moves but the Story and Yoshida signings look worse by the day.

That's the thing - how much of this was truly Bloom, who didn't seem like much of a leader at hte end of the day, and how much of it was Eddie Romero, Scott O'Halloran, and that brain trust at the top? The Red Sox scouting group in Japan that thought Yoshida would be the next Ichiro?

You know... the same group that might have grossly misevaluated Mookie's 2021 onwards?

 

[RS2004foreever]

So the Urias trade is not looking so good.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

In some alternate universe, the Orioles just lost Henderson, Holliday, Mountcastle, Mullins, Cowser, and Rutschman to horrific, knee-exploding, career-ending injuries -- all one after another, on different consecutive plays, and Joe Buck, who was calling that game, sadly proclaimed "and the Orioles' future has ended just as quickly as it has arrived..."

And we all laughed our fucking asses off. Fuck the Orioles.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

This bullpen is a reflection of the refusal to actually add starting pitchers. Even before Giolito went down, we needed more arms. Instead we convert maybe our only 2 reliable relief arms outside of Jansen into starters (again) and damn look: the bullpen sucks now.

A-fucking-men.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

The good news is Bailey looks* like the real deal to me and he is probably sticking around. Just need to acquire a lot more talent.

* Bit worried the league will figure out this no four seamer playbook once it gets around the league more.

 

[BaseballJones]

Campbell (2.83 era, 1.22 whip, 10.4 k/9 last year) sure is working out so far this season for Boston.....

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

I’m expecting to wake up tomorrow to news that Devers is on the IL.

 

[Dewey's 'stache]

Whitlock and Slaten were really good

Seems like it was a different game… the suck really does distort the good things that are happening (but may not be able to overcome the suck. I hope I am wrong) Either way, thanks for the reminder that certain things are going ok

 

[JBJ_HOF]

 

[caminante11]

View: https://twitter.com/joeycopponi/status/1778611054425014384?s=46&t=2_XH-GEfg8CFF_L6xPwEwQ

 

[fenwaypaul]

He could retire

Thanks for the Friday morning laugh (I bailed after the double play that wasn’t).

 

[Rovin Romine]

A-fucking-men.

How many games has Montgomery pitched again?

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

View: https://twitter.com/joeycopponi/status/1778611054425014384?s=46&t=2_XH-GEfg8CFF_L6xPwEwQ

“How do you lose to a team full of children?”

I laughed

 

[Toe Nash]

Looking more and more like that west coast swing was just the result of playing maybe the two worst teams in the AL, because this doesn’t look like a playoff contender at all.

It's going to be a long year. They won't suck completely but the rest of the division is just too good.

 

[InsideTheParker]

McGuire is an absolute meathead.

I swear O’Neill and Casas are the fucking Algonquin Round Table of this bunch

OK, that was funny.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Looking more and more like that west coast swing was just the result of playing maybe the two worst teams in the AL, because this doesn’t look like a playoff contender at all.

Last night Oakland beat TX 1-0 and took that series, for what that's worth.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Last night Oakland beat TX 1-0 and took that series, for what that's worth.

And Houston is 4-10 after getting swept by the Royals(the last two loudly). There clearly are concerns about the Sox, but it’s a bit early to draw conclusions about anything yet.

 

[LogansDad]

The Orioles are really fucking good.

I am still very depressed after this series. I like Campbell and think he will be fine, but the last two days were bad bad bad.

I still love this team, but man did this series fucking suck.

 

[Ale Xander]

Red Sox were winning at a .700 clip with Bobby Dalbec on the roster (and all road games and all losses were by only 1 run)
Red Sox are winning at a .000 clip with Bobby Dalbec in AAA (and all home games)

FACTS

 

[moretsyndrome]

The Orioles are really fucking good.

I am still very depressed after this series. I like Campbell and think he will be fine, but the last two days were bad bad bad.

I still love this team, but man did this series fucking suck.

I really feel that if there's one thing we can take away from the last three days, one nugget to keep in our collective back pocket as we navigate these final 149 games together; this is it: The Orioles are really fucking good. That's what I got from this, anyway.

 

[mikeford]

And Houston is 4-10 after getting swept by the Royals(the last two loudly). There clearly are concerns about the Sox, but it’s a bit early to draw conclusions about anything yet.

The one conclusion I think we can draw is this team needs an actual MLB level shortstop because right now we don't have one in Hamilton.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

The one conclusion I think we can draw is this team needs an actual MLB level shortstop because right now we don't have one in Hamilton.

I was intrigued by Romy. Hopefully, he can get out there soon, because, yeah.

 

[E5 Yaz]

@alexspeier
Alex Cora said the Red Sox have fallen short at out-conversion - especially on routine plays

 

[Delicious Sponge]

@alexspeier
Alex Cora said the Red Sox have fallen short at out-conversion - especially on routine plays

Nice euphemism. The Rapid Unplanned Disassembly of playing outrageously bad defense.

 

[Rovin Romine]

Nice euphemism. The Rapid Unplanned Disassembly of playing outrageously bad defense.

Also @E5 Yaz : Alex Cora said the Red Sox have fallen short at out-conversion - especially on routine plays

 

[AB in DC]

There's a real shortfall at shortstop. Full stop.

 

[Rovin Romine]

There's a real shortfall at shortstop. Full stop.

Paging @LeoCarrillo

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Gonna take a stab at tonight's lineup. This is just a guess:

Duran LF
O'Neill RF
Masa DH
Casas 1B
Wong C
Reyes SS
Dalbec 3B
Hamilton 2B
Rafaela CF

Anyone else want to take a shot before its posted?

We have one of these for tonight.

 

[Cassvt2023]

We have one of these for tonight.

Sorry, didn't see it up. Could you move it there?

 

[LeoCarrillo]

Also @E5 Yaz : Alex Cora said the Red Sox have fallen short at out-conversion - especially on routine plays

It's an indefensible position.