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That’s an understatement.

Why do Collins/lucas still calling for sliders tonight? It’s been a gopher ball barrage and has been beyond Salvador Perez. We would normally say don’t let Salvador beat us, but Salvador has only accounted for 2 runs out of 6.

TLR loves lefty righty matchups more than outfield defense. Hope Royals don’t hit too many to the outfield tonight.

Not as much as Abreu. Abreu has been a ground ball to third and DP machine lately. When is TLR going to hit and run with man on first and Abreu at the plate.?

Sox debuted tonight the new Nasty Boys 2. Bummer in the 7 th.; Kimbrel in the 8 th and Hendriks in the 9 th. Shades of the great Reds Nasty Boys 1 trio of Charlton, Dibble and Myers. Hope we have many opportunities to showcase this band of nasty brothers.

My beef with Goodwin has been on defense. His hitting has been better. If we had room for him, I am fine for him as backup, pinch hitter and occasional DH,but not an everyday outfielder. He has been exposed as an awful outfielder.

Goodwin has been exposed over and over as a terrible outfielder. ReyLo bailed him out in the 6 th. We need to get Robert into the OF and pronto. Don’t we have any other capable outfielders in the minors just in case? Goodwin cannot continue playing in the outfield.

Agree. Throwing in Leury and Goodwin in the outfield over and over catches up with you in a hurry. Why wasn’t Goodwin at 2 nd on the dropped pop up in the fifth.?. Leury first two at bats hit too balls that went one feet with bases loaded and another10ft...

Cost us two runs and we lost by one.

Seby just became our #1 catcher now.

Our vaunted pitching was not good tonight either, giving up 12 runs. Every Cleveland hitter got at least one hit. Goodwin in the outfield is an embarrassment and a major liability. Vaughn D is not good either, but better than Goodwin.

I don’t think he is a complete fluke. He hit 20 homers in Charlotte in 2019.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that you did not spend millions to have both Kimbrel and Hendriks and then bring in Ruiz in the 8 th in a close game.

We need to hit and run more. We hit too many ground balls.

A little late. If he would have came in the 8 th instead we probably win.

Should have brought Kimbrel in the 8th not the 9th. Wasn’t Hendriks available tonight for the 9 th inning? I thought we were going for a Nasty Boys type strategy Kimbrel in the 8th and Hendriks in the 9 th as needed. Certainly not pitching Ruiz in the 8th.

Need to have Engel in the outfield for his D as well as often as possible. Goodwin should not be playing in the outfield again. He probably cost us this game. His D is just atrocious.

Cubs can get away with rebuild and still get fans in the party park. But the Sox can’t. Sox need to put a good product on the field to get the big crowds.

Rickets bailed out after the pandemic cut back his revenues, and is counting on the party crowd to show up regardless of the product on the field. I think Marquee network audience will come down though.

Cubs are now basically a big party and beer fest team, not a contending team. They will have to watch out for the pandemic cutting back on crowds/parties.

Agree. We now have all these great relievers, but if we continue to leave many runs on the table and don’t score many runs, we are going to be behind the 8 ball at the end.

But Yoan struck out twice with bases loaded, when it counted most. His homer was a Jose Canseco style gift by the Indians outfielders.

Nonetheless the lack of Spider Tack may have caused Abreu getting hit on the helmet.

Liam learnt his lesson from the SalvadorPerez homer to mix in more breaking pitches rather than challenge the big boys with fastballs in the zone.

What also sucked was that both Sheets and Moncada took called third strikes with bases loaded. This is not going to cut it against the best teams, most of which got better at the trade deadline.