Look at Ray Ray Run

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.

the passed ball literally meant nothing at the end of the day. no one said it was OK; i certainly didn't. the bullpen blew the game.

so much for going undefeated with the lead after the 8th inning like the bullpen kept yapping about. 0-1.

Wonder what would have happened if Renteria left Leury in to hit there. Leury is legit terrible.

what does this mean? The guy gave up 3 base runners in the inning. lol I swear to god Sox fans will blame everyone but the person who actually didn't get the job done. I'm fine with giving some blame to Madrigal, but at the end of the day Bummer is elite of elite; he needs to pitch around that stuff.

i get that it wasn't hard hit, but it was a hit. He's a pitcher. He had a WHIP of 3 in his 1 inning of work. He's an elite reliever. I guarantee you Bummer isn't blaming Madrigal, or Grandal, for how he pitched. He blew the game. It happens. He probably won't do that much.

outside of the error, bummer gave up 2 hits and a walk and people in here saying he did enough to get out of the inning. SMH.

yes, pitchers throw the pitches they want to throw. hence how they shake off catchers. blaming a catcher for a pitch a pitcher decided to throw is literally hilarious. not surprising you were a pitcher; they love to blame everyone else for their decisions.

part of being an elite framer - the best in the game by many accounts - relates to being vulnerable to passed balls at times. It's not lazyness, it's how you have to receive the ball.

pitchers call the games, not catchers.