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The streak has been broken!! My son and I had a blast. Great game for my son to see with Murakami and Colson both going deep. And he got a ball. Glad I pulled the trigger last minute.

Anyone notice that certain people only come to game threads the Sox are losing to rub salt in the wounds and tell us how everyone sucks ?

I don't even think prospect fatigue fully covers it. I think some people (within Sox fandom specifically) are trying to talk themselves into it being a tougher choice so that they can reserve the right to be mad later about the team making the "wrong" one. Roch being an uncontroversial clear consensus 1OA is boring to them, because it simply doesn't provide enough avenues to blame Getz/Shirley/the org for the pick in the future.

I wonder when he will head down to Springfield and try to work on the state to buy him some pitchers.

If you follow this club closely and the draft picks we knew the hitting was going to be ahead of the pitching. Even though Schultz and Hagen Smith didnt set the world on fire last year you knew they still had room to grow .Plus McDougal and Oppor showed tremendous growth. It's coming together bit by bit. It would help to have Shane Smith show up soon.

I think the team is better than they played in that first series. They aren't good, but they are not THAT bad. Pitching will hopefully settle down and Teel coming back will be big.

A couple things: One, I think Acuna should be the centerfielder, all the time, every time he plays. It would be easier for him to learn the position and give him a feeling of confidence knowing he's there everyday. Establish him as the centerfielder and don't mess with him in the infield. The Sox have a TON of infielders; they can't even find a way to get Sosa's bat in the lineup, let alone the fact that Antonacci needs to come up soon. To have Acuna continue to practice and work at an infield position when the Sox are overloaded there seems silly. Also, I am generally not as anti-sacrifice bunting as some posters are on here and think it does have its time and place; but I do not think Acuna sac bunting is not a good idea. Let him swing the bat and see what he can do. I have to believe he is tough to get a double play on with his speed to first. Okay, sometimes Venable makes me shake my head at what he's doing, but today, he has me stumped completely. Last year Quero batted .357 right-handed and .234 left-handed, and 4 of his 5 home runs were right-handed last year. Every time he bats, he batting lefty, and I say to myself, "When does Teel get back? I'm so sick of watching Quero bat left-handed." So today, Toronto is starting a left-handed pitcher, and Quero can finally bat right-handed. So what does Venable do? He sits Quero down so he can start McGuire, a left-handed bat?? What are we doing here? This seems so stupid, especially for a manager who seems overly obsessed with the pitching matchups to the point we keep seeing Benitendi's bat over Sosa's because of the lefty/ rightly matchup. I just don't get it. And also by that logic, shouldn't Pereira (if he's healthy) be in right field over Peters? I don't get Venable at all sometimes.

Cool Jerry, why don't you allow the team to spend money to obtain said pitching

Interesting point, JR. Didn't notice all those starting pitchers on the free agency market? Might've had to spend some money though.

vargas going from depressed guy in the corner of the dugout to our best player is awesome

Vargas proving the haters wrong.

The point of your best reliever is to use them in the highest leverage scenarios. That is rarely ever going to be the first inning.

Yes.

Hey now that’s a series

Love to see Carlson and Fauske hit the ground running in pro ball. Carlson is more of an intimidating presence in the box than I would've thought.

Carlson with hard hit rbi double right before the rain started. Rain delay 13-1

Kanny put up a 12 spot in the 1st inning. HR Tejada and Galvan. Fauske bb, 1b Carlson HBP, 1b, Mogollon 2bb, Alcala bb, 1b

Of course. My bad. For some reason I was thinking it was a four game series. Maybe because game one was potponed.

If Montgomery accesses his power in the first half of the season with Mury, all bets are off if pitching arrived. But it’s asking a lot for rookies to pitch in the big leagues

Just bad luck for Toronto, having to play the Pope's team on a holy weekend

That was a separate incident which took place a few years earlier: September 6, 1981 – It was the beginning of the end for broadcaster Jimmy Piersall in connection with the Sox. Piersall and Harry Caray appeared on the “Mike Royko show” on WLS-TV. Royko asked the duo how they handle baseball wives who disliked the comments they made about their husbands. Caray said, “You know what Mike. I would love to call all the wives together someday and tell them what their husbands say about them across the ballfield.” Piersall’s answer was more controversial to say the least. “First of all, they were horny broads that wanted to get married, and they wanted a little money, a little security and a big strong ballplayer. I traveled; I played. I got a load of those broads too.” When I spoke with Mike Leiderman for my story on the history of SportsVision, he told me what went on in the studio during that opening night game in Texas: "Leiderman also was the last person to be on a TV set with Sox announcer Jimmy Piersall who was fired after his on-air comments after the Sox lost opening night in Texas back on April 4, 1983, by the score of 5-3. “Greg Walker started at first that night. He was a rookie then. Texas’ infield was as hard as concrete and he made a few errors and didn’t handle a few other balls that were generously scored as hits. Jimmy and I were back in the studio and we went live between innings. I was setting Jimmy up for his analysis and he was just merciless with his comments. He was ripping Walker, Jerry Reinsdorf, and the Sox organization. I actually went back to the control room and asked ‘what should I do? Should I challenge him? What?’ They said ‘just let him go.’ He was fired the next day.”

I’m loving this. And we didn’t have to listen to Schriffem. Was he suspended?

Are we back?

Nice to take the first 2 at home and both savages went yard. Vargas has been good too. When Schultz comes up and if they could sign Gio this wouldn't be a bad club.

2 in a row , winner winner ,a win streak and a save for dinner !

Reese took it in his parking lot attendant right there.

Heineman is gonna need a Heineken

At best he’s a utility player. Would have taken the chance on Vientos.

Just flipped game on. McKnight is so much better listen.

It’s funny in that my 20 years or so of following prospects box scores, I don’t think I one time looked at the final score

Ill take that DP on the fly out to leave Guerrero in the on deck circle rather then have him up with 2 on.

They are good friends lol, Mune just likes winning more

I can't believe Montgomery hit that out. Jammed and its cold.

suck it canada

Vargas is our best player.

That was quite the adventure but at least this one was caught.

I just think it’s prospect fatigue among fans. Cholowsky is basically the same guy as last year. So is Lebron and those struggles might put him outside the top 5. LeBron, Emerson, Lackey and even Lombard have star upside. The floors are all lower though. I think Cholowsky is an easy choice. The biggest reason for middle of the pack farm system is getting nothing out of international market. They don’t have the luxury of extra draft picks. They need to be great internationally and outspend the division annually. It’s the only way to sustain success.

Appreciate the advice. I just bought a couple tickets in section 147. I apologize to everyone for the loss today. Haven’t witnessed a Sox win in person since before Covid.

If you want to move around the 100 level make sure you have 100 level tickets. A lot of times (especially when it’s busy) they check and don’t let you down there with 500 level tickets.

Guys he’s drafted have mostly only begun to trickle into the big leagues. I’m sorry that doesn’t fit your narrative.

McGuire is starting to catch Kay, who he has history with (in Toronto, ironically). His last win in the bigs was caught by McGuire. Also, Fluharty isn't a starter, he's just an opener for an expected BP day. He might not even get to Quero's expected spot in the order. The bulk guy is a righty.

I am not sure Acuna’s upside is high enough to give him a lot of run if he sucks on both sides of the ball. I always felt he was overrated as a prospect just because he was consistently young for the level. I hope I am wrong, but I don’t think he has the impact to warrant unlimited run.

Is he their best reliever? That is certainly up for debate. What are you basing that opinion on?

We should definitely extrapolate the first seven games as truth, you are so right

That’s not what I wrote though. All I did was extrapolate on his current production per Fangraphs and noted that’s what his statistics would be if he played at the same level for 162 games. You said he wasn’t lighting it up or something, except those are his current statistics. Extrapolate on Beni and you get a -8 WAR player. It’s pretty rudimentary math. If you can play second base, you can play left field. Converting middle infielders to the outfield is not the recipe for disaster you seem to think it is. It’s incredibly common. It’s better when they haven’t debuted. Vaughn is not the measuring stick. No first baseman is.

Like this lineup. Except peters should be in center and Pereira in Right. I know Pereira probably still hurt. I'm ok if he gets some run. They might have something there. At least a place keeper until something better comes around. I feel eventually Benny should be the man out if Braden is to arrive this year

lol he is not a 3.3ish WAR guy now nor was he last season

Antonacci is a top 100 prospect in BA's update.

Grifol snuck back into the Royals clubhouse?