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Cardinals have 10 hits; no more please.

Yup yup. Key to special years is to go .500ish on the road and kick major butt record-wise at home.

Here's a statement nobody can argue with ... Moncada is a fine baseball player (he's a good hitter and a darn nice fielder). He just is, folks.

He almost beat that out. Dismal at bat but good hustle by Garcia. Sox are snakebit offensively right now. A 2-0 lead woulda been nice.

All stores in my town here are still requiring masks. I haven't been in one without the requirement on the door. This area, people don't believe the CDC guidelines. They are acting as if we're still in a lockdown basically. Most fast food places only drive thru. Barber shops, dentists, all still with the mask requirement and weird check in policies keeping you in your car a long while. The fact the country is loosening requirements even though tons of people haven't been vaccinated is strange. There doesn't seem to be much concern the anti vax people will catch COVID which is why I get skeptical about how serious a problem COVID ever has been. I mean shouldn't the CDC and Joe and Kamala be concerned that just 58 percent of the country's peeps have had one shot? With all these unvaxed people out there, you'd think the spectre of them all catching COVID and needing hospitalizing would be as great as ever. This is all weird and with no elections on the horizon for a good while I'm always tempted to wonder how much politics factored into stuff this past 15 months. Just talking out loud. I still am vaxxed and masked.

Companies that make people work 60 and don't pay overtime are despicable. Kudos to you.

I like your posts Ragah but like me in the past, you post too much. Just my opinion. Fewer is better IMO;

I agree but it was worth a shot (maybe unfair to Hendriks) cause Bummer was toast. He was not gonna get out of the inning. If Hendriks was an overpowering lights out closer today, it was Sox only hope.

This one is not on Tony. Bummer and Hendricks stunk. Case closed. He brought in Hendricks in a smart move. Bummer was not going to get out of the inning,, Might as well take a chance on the closer being lights out, which he wasn't. Sox bullpen right now is not set up for success. Sox lineup is decimated by injury. The team is what it is. A contender in the Central Division.

Let's just be realistic. Sox with all these injuries will contend all year in the Central but are just another Central team. Injuries have decimated the big picture right now. Goal: Win the weak division, get reinforcements for playoffs and also make one trade before the deadline. Sox do not have an elite team right now. They do have a team that can win the Central and win it all with guys coming back from injuries and making one good trade at the deadline. Grandal baby you got to start hitting, though the walks are nice.

I get madder and madder when I read takes on Tony. Everybody knows he threw Mercedes under the bus and supported the Twins. I read in one piece the line, "It's almost as if he wants Mercedes to fail." This article is pretty spot on regarding Tony's mess that he caused, not Yermin. Unless Tony apologizes to his team for not standing up for individual player he should resign or be suspended a month. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/six-problems-with-how-tony-la-russa-handled-the-yermin-mercedes-situation/

Disagree. It's a blatant violation of the Tony-supported unwritten rules.

This is why Tony should have resisted the temptation to return to the dugout at his age. Instead of the Hall of Fame, he's currently known as the defender of baseball's dumb unwritten rules at the expense of his own team. He almost has to freak out over what the Yankees did today in protecting the shutout or he looks even worse in protecting his own team and the unwritten rules. That was a direct violation of Tony's old school rules. Good luck dealing with this stuff, Tony.

The play at the plate is getting a lot of play on Twitter. Somebody better ask Tony about it. This is going to be just like the other incident.

Tony better knock down a Yankee tomorrow. Same situation. BTW, since when did baseball worry about this showing up the other team so much? Astros cheating scandal, pitchers putting substances on the ball, stealing signs, figuring out tipped pitches. It's all so stupid and inconsistent. But up 7-0 throw a guy out at the plate? Time for a HBP tomorrow and bench clearing brawl. Get ready for Sox starter to get ejected early. If not Sox look even more like patsies under Tony, only worried about the opponent's feelings, not their own.

At some point scouts have to determine how bad some of Sox relievers/players are and get rid of the ones who are independent league talents at best.

Sox bullpen definitely has some problems. Hendricks needs to be dominant from now on. And Tony has to find a way to reduce the number of relievers per game. If Tony has to use more than 2 relievers, certainly if he has to use 3, I am not a confident viewer. If Sox make a trade, they need to find somebody really reliable. I know Colome stinks now but the last couple years didn't he almost have a perfect ratio of saves vs blown saves? He hardly EVER had a blown save as I recall. Sox might have to trade 2 very very good prospects for a proven set up man.

Or pull a Costanza and do the opposite of what he's thinking will work.

Oh well, I'm over the loss now. Marshall did get out of the jam in the 8th I guess. Maybe he's worth keeping around. Bats were silent tonight and a triple play is really bad luck. I was really surprised and happy Sox won the final game of that Twins series after the happenings of Game 2. So maybe Sox will come back and win tomorrow. Oh well, I feel better after venting. I'm over it. Adios.

I agree with your premise. I just am one of those fans who is convinced certain players blow chunks. For me, that player is Marshall. No likey.

I was in my car listening on SIRIUS and the NYY announcer was quite animated screaming that Hamilton is in the game to run NOW. First pitch even, His color person agreed Hamilton was in to steal.

If you are Hahn, you should ask Tony politely why he had Marshall in the game when every Sox fan in America knew at that moment Sox would lose the game OR simply DFA Marshall and send Tony a text telling him Marshall is gone.

I'm just mad he had Marshall in the game. C'mon. Tony isn't a dumb guy and that's a ridiculous guy to have in there.

I had just got in my car after leaving a store and when I heard Marshall was warming up in a 1-1 game I knew it was over. You don't put him in a tie game in Yankee Stadium. Remember this loss. It's one Tony simply conceded and I don't like that. Seriously, Marshall is an independent league pitcher at best.

With all due respect, pretend the bunt has been outlawed. Never ask for a bunt please. The bunt is a four-letter word. I hate it cause PLAYERS CAN'T BUNT.