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I mean, at what point does he realistically have to look at firing him?

It's 5000 > 3200 though. CC may have only pitched in 561 games, but he has been around the dugout and clubhouse for 3200+

I mean, right? He ONLY has like 3200 games in/around the clubhouse of MLB teams, and 20 years in MLB. Who is he to take on the great Tony La Russa?

Damn, straight ? from CC. I love all this support coming out for Yermin from all across baseball. Maybe it helps get TLR fired.

There is. He could retire, and let someone else take over for the rest of the season.

It's pretty fair to say we know where the majority(if not all) of the players stand on this team. And it isn't with TLR. Lol. This team is united AGAINST their own manager. Absolutely love it. Haha.

People act like he's been absolutely awful... The reality is, he hasn't been his electric self that we were expecting, but he has still saved 9 of 11 opportunities.

Good game Sox. Good game Gio. Good game Liam. Those two pitchers looked like the form we need them to be the rest of the season.

Finally, some nasty sliders.

Well, that was a nasty pair of sliders. Hopefully he keeps throwing those for the rest of the season.

Are you 12? Serious question.

TLR can fuck off with this nonsense. Ready for him to be fired. He needs to get another DUI, so the Sox have no choice but to fire him, honestly.

Hell of an inning by Mendick up there. Great approach.

Because it's SO slow compared to what they're used to seeing.

Are you guys really embarrassed by this? It's saving the bullpen. And I will say... Mercedes and Mendick have done a decent job.

Oh my... to get a SO against a position player... that's some embarrassing shit.

I'm gonna say it, even though I don't want to. Mercedes had a way better inning than Gio.

Same.

LOL, Yermin painting the corners. This is amazing stuff here.

OMG the legend continues. DP pitch from Mercedes.

Haha.

Mercedes pitching. Oh my.

I doubt he was tipping. Go back and look at the Cleveland hitters and their reactions to the changeup in his game against them. Like... come on, this is suspicious AF. No one can ever pick up on Gio's changeup, but somehow today, Boston's entire lineup seemed to figure it out? They ALL had the patience to sit back and wait on that pitch, and KNOW it's not a fastball, despite it looking identical to his fastball? I call bullshit. https://www.mlb.com/video/giolito-s-seven-plus-scoreless

You can't really sit on his change... because it looks identical to the fastball until you whiff. That's my point. You have to somehow KNOW it's coming, so you can hold off and let it get to you. The idea with the fastball/change combo is you speed up their eyes and hands looking for the fastball, then when a changeup comes, they're WAY out ahead of it.

I mean, it's always a possibility, but he has always been super deceptive, which is why he's as good as he is. You can't tell any difference between his fastball and change until you've already whiffed on it.