Look at Ray Ray Run

You guys both could not be more wrong. Has a 119 ops+ when he was actually good the one year of his career and you both want him to do something professionally that he has never done in his real baseball playing life because of two at bats to start this year. Prime in game hilarity.

Lol why? Because of 2 at bats?. In 2019 he had an 850 ops vs lefties. Last year his splits were nearly identical left and right. He would be awful hitting lefty vs lefties, that's why he doesn't do it. Your mad about a guy with an 850 ops vs lefties in 2019 hitting cleanup. Weird stuff,

I 100% understand the locking political threads and threads that go that way if that's not the intention of the forum. But locking threads and squashing discussion in threads about baseball, and a literal Sox in-game decision because posters don't agree I really don't understand. I think that just pushes people away, but maybe I'm wrong. Is the rule to agree with everyone? Just trying to figure it out.

This is statistically and categorically false. Any restriction placed on voting requirements limits turnout. The poor, rural and minorities communities are the ones who suffer the most from this suppression. Voting fraud has no direct correlation to ease of voting laws. Delta requires an ID to board a plane because they're a private company. Not a country that is supposed to provide the right to vote as a basic human right but DOES NOT provide an ID as a basic human right. Glad I could help.

So, states must give ID's out for free? And DMV's/state facilities must be everywhere? I guess ID's must be mailed to voters then free of charge? Because Voting is supposed to be hurdle-less. Ease of voting is supposed to be essential. What if you can't afford an ID? Or a car to get to the DMV? What then? If ID's were given/mailed to every single citizen for free then fine. The fact is, voter fraud via not using an ID is next to nonexistent, and the people who suffer most from these laws are poor people and minorities. Why should they not be allowed to vote because of the hurdles in their way of acquiring an ID. Can you show me where it says an ID should be required to vote in the Constitution. All voting ID laws do is suppress voter turnout. Why do you want fewer people to vote, pal? TIA

Yes, Steve Stone was 100% wrong. I don't defer to what you deem to be authority on baseball. Amazingly enough I played the game, and I know people who played the game at an even higher level than myself, and some feel one way about it and other feels another. Everyone doesn't agree. I think it's flat out ignorant to criticize Robert for using one of his other worldly skills to produce a run. Steve Stone has plenty of dumb thoughts, and who gives a shit what Laurence Holmes thinks lol?

If you are a player who is an elite base runner with elite speed and you have a read on the pitcher that guarantees you'll be safe (which was quite obvious from Robert last night) you take the extra base. Stealing third base is much easier than 2nd base. Self producing a run is an elite skill that 99.9% of players cannot do. If you can, and you refuse to because of some nonsensical arbitrary "you can't do this because others can't" rule, you are literally taking away one of your skills. I am not shocked that you think Robert made a poor decision though; you strike me as that type of baseball viewer.

Stone said it before Robert scored and then was silent after he scored. It's just flat out stupid. I agree stealing third with 2 outs isn't the best choice for 99% of players. For Robert, it's simply not true. He's an elite base stealer with 80 grade speed and him getting to third legit has an impact on the game.

I mean he wears the protector so he can slide head first, and there's injury risk sure but you can't zap that value from his game imo

He got an incredible jump and he has elite speed. He should use it to disrupt the game.

How does anyone listen to talk radio? Hopped in the car to grab lunch, 670 was on and all I heard was Lawrence Holmes talking about how dumb Robert was for stealing 3rd base because the process and thought was poor, even though the outcome was good. Lol Guy was safe by a mile and then scored on a passed ball but somehow that was a bad and stupid decision.

Who said people can't discuss things? We're discussing things in this thread, are we not? I said there's nothing to infer. I'll make sure to let you know when it's OK to start making broad generalizations about the team, don't you worry.

Well, good thing Nick Madrigal doesn't play SS and isn't a big league SS otherwise you might have made a decent point.

I usually am up to about midnight (start work around 8am but working from home takes away the commute which is nice), but last night I couldn't fall asleep until like 130 after the game because I was so hyped to have baseball back. Feeling good today looking forward to this Boston game coming up. During baseball season I watch a lot less TV, play a lot fewer video games, and generally watch games all day. God bless my wife during baseball season.

ha, pal the positive/non-reactionary people are typically slandered in game threads. Just the way it goes. Emotions run high in there, people on the edge of their seat like it's an NFL Sunday. I find it all pretty hilarious, entertaining and fun. I enjoy reading the overreactions and then the attacking comments in response. I would say if they get you fired up, you're best sitting on the sidelines. Yesterday's thread was tame compared to some of the others. If you just read game threads last year, Rick Renteria lost 20 of the games for the team apparently.

I actually thought giolito showed how scary good he is because his fastball command was awful, he couldn't throw a slider near the plate, but his change up is so good he was able to dominate most of the game despite those two big issues.

Grandal lost a lot of strikes last night and you saw a lot of that last season? LOL Grandal was a top 4 framer last year by literally every metric that exists and is the best framer in the game on a consistent basis. I honestly think people are just willfully delusional regarding Grandal and slander the guy just for fun.

Yeah, I don't think we learned anything new about Madrigal last night though. I said this in the game thread but I don't think that Madrigal is suddenly a bad defender after being a very very good one his entire life at every level (including the minor leagues). I do think his defense is in his head a little bit at this point, and it's causing him to press and grip that ball a little tighter on plays. I have faith he'll likely figure that side of the ball out - he's fundamentally too good defensively to be terrible - but who knows, maybe he goes full Knoblauch and you never want to go full Knoblauch.

Literally nothing. Only thing we learned last night was that many at Soxtalk are back in regular season form and drawing vast conclusions from a singular baseball game that means next to nothing in regards to how good or bad any player or team are. It's great to have baseball back!

I'm not mad at them. I genuinely find it hilarious in an ironic way. I love their big goal. Just couldn't help but lmao at them not getting past 1.

The anti madrigal crowd here at least makes some sense. The anti grandal people are the most irrational people on this site. Just incredibly weird. It's like they have no idea how bad the avg catcher is.

Not a free pass. Nick absolutely partly responsible. Said if before. But the bullpen still blew the game and hilarious given their preseason goal. Like when you make that goal you know some errors are gonna happen.

If everyone can't laugh a little bit at the fact the bullpen was saying their goal was to go undefeated with a lead after the 7th before the season started, only to blow the first game of the year, then you're not doing fanhood right.

lol so colome didn't blow the game today? part of being an elite reliever is pitching over mistakes. not sure why this is difficult to understand. Bummer will get a BS tonight. it's amazing to see people defend how bummer pitcher.

he gave up 3 base runners. you seem to be having a difficult time understanding that. 3 base runners; 2 hits, 1 bb. I don't care how hard the ball was hit. you give up 3 base runners in an inning you're going to give up a run. error or no error.