hankchifan

TLR has not been a good manager of this team. He has been exasperating often with inexplicable bad decisions. Goodwin should not be in this lineup.

Goodwin has been exposed over and over as a terrible defensive CF but we keep playing him there. It’s hard to win with him in CF. He has also sucked offensively lately. With a Golden Sombrero yesterday. Don’t we have anyone better than Goodwin in our system?

Rays announcers roasting TLR for not having TA in the lineup today with a sinker baller like Keuchel on the mound. They say TA would have made 2 plays missed by Mendick who has poor range. They said smart move would have been to rest TA tomorrow instead. I agree.

TLR compounds the problem by hardly ever pinching hitting with our sitting boppers even in game situations.

Seby hit 20 homers in Charlotte in 2019, so he does have some pop.

TLR is in another alternate universe. If he wants to sit Anderson and Robert, just reconsider and sit only one of them. I would sit TA ahead of Robert. We can’t afford to have Goodwin playing CF. Why he doesn’t rest Hernández? TLR kills our momentum with these lineups.

I guess that is TLR for you. Must be some unwritten rule that we need to play our scrubs so we do not disrespect the Rays.

What is your rationale? No Anderson, No Robert. Hernández and Goodwin setting the table.

Should have been Kimbrel vs Lowe. Lowe is hitting.235 and Randy is hitting .280. Kimbrel is future HOF pitcher. He can be taken out at any time. Bummer fails to get Randy out, he needs to stay to face some righties. Also TLR embarrassed Kimbrel by taking him out and threw him under the bus, that does not help clubhouse harmony.

Agree. Goodwin got the Golden Sombrero tonight. Bunting is much better than K.

Don’t agree on TLR. His bad decisions are being questioned nationally as the Sox have become more nationally prominent. TLR legacy as a HOF manager is being tarnished. His 8 th inning decisions today were one of the worst I have observed in decades.

You spoke too soon. It was one of the best wins of the year instead.

Tampa is not a baseball town. Many retirees and transplants with no local traditions.

Yes, I know. Ohtani is now the modern era Babe Ruth. But MLB would love to showcase TA as the face of baseball. Swag and all on a winning team and the hero of the FOD game.

I will not criticize TLR anymore on this game. However, I will recommend that he be given an Ambien before the game tomorrow, to help him nap and not make stupid decisions. Let the bench coach manage the game.

Yes, I have. He is on a losing team. However, he is the favorite. But Tim should be under consideration as well, as he will be in the playoffs contrary to Ohtani.

Didn’t Bummer allow the runs which were facilitated by TLR intentionally walking the bases loaded.? It is not all on Kimble.

We need contact hitters for men on third and less than 2 outs and moving the runner over to 3 rd which we have been failing at.

I meant use of Madrigal in the future. I know he is out for the season.

IsBummer better than Kimbrel? Why then we traded for Kimbrel and gave up Madrigal and Heuer? We could use a contact hitter like Madrigal, which we lack now. We need to give the ball to Kimbrel and not throw him under the bus like TLR did in the 8 th like a Yermin.

Then why theSox traded for him and not for a Joey Gallo which would have contributed more on a daily basis?

I am questioning not only the Bummer move, but also intentionally walking Cruz to load the bases and put the go ahead run in scoring position, like if Cruz is Barry Bonds. How can you justify that?

Kimbrel is better than Bummer. And if Bummer failed to get the first hitter, he had to face two more. You need to show confidence in Kimbrel, not throw him under the bus like a Yermin.

No shit. Glad that TLR manned up and should apologize in person to Kimbrel. TLR was lucky that the Sox came back and won the game. He would have been roasted nationally for those inexplicable 8 th inning moves.

Yes. They don’t have the boppers and any big guys that scare you like the other two.