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Good call by Hawk using the You Gotta Be Bleeping Me line. Oh well ... this is a reminder this is the big leagues and it's not gonna be as easy as it may seem this season. Horrific loss. One of the worst losses humanly possible cause the Rangers are gonna carry that mojo into the day game tomorrow and one loss will likely become two. BUT the good news is we've won so many games, including some we should have lost, so the team needs to man up and somehow forget about this one, chalking it up to the fact Nate and David were unavailable and Austin didn't get a great jump that he needed on that rocket to right center. Robin, my man, who I've praised failed tonight. The bullpen was total horses***! Horrible, horrible, baseball loss. But ... it has absolutely no effect on the big picture unless we melt like mental midgets.

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ May 11, 2016 -> 05:45 AM) Guys, Robertson and Jones were unavailable tonight. What are you going to do? Robin had no choice but to put the schmucks out there. . Really sad Robertson wasn't available to win this one for us. We need GOOD pitchers in against a GOOD team on the road. This loss is partly on Hahn. Carroll shouldn't be on our 40man roster.

I'm not going to completely melt down because of all the wins we've had, but the first mistake tonight and the hugest mistake was (obviously) putting Carroll in the game. You can't expect to win a major league game on the road pitching a guy like Carroll. Putting in a guy with the talent of a Carroll encourages a good team like the Rangers to not write this one off as an L just yet! Like I said, team has to shake this one off. You are going to blow games in the course of a season. Obviously Austin Jackson got a bad read but like they say defense suffers when pitchers keep you out there forever. Horrible loss ... man up and move on. Like I said it's difficult to blow a five run lead that late in the game and we did it.

Well, Sox will have to shake this one off. Totally inexcusable loss, but it happened. Move on.

As unbelievable as our start has been ... this would be a bad loss. Cmon. One more out.

Pure ridiculousness blowing this lead.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 11, 2016 -> 04:26 AM) Still cannot believe he let Carroll face Mazara Is that Robin's first bonehead move of a spectacularly managed season?

Nice strikeout. Finally one out.

Man we need Robertson in badly. So badly.

How bout a 4-6-3.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ May 11, 2016 -> 04:21 AM) Well ok, Carroll can't even be a garbage time reliever apparently. DFA If the Sox continue their no nonsense policy this season regarding performance he should be sent down immediately. Or DFA.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 11, 2016 -> 04:20 AM) That was one of the most inexplicable moves I have ever seen. You mean using Carroll? This still could get more interesting as I am not a Duke fan.

Is Carroll gonna blow all the good will from our great start to the season?

It's extremely difficult to blow a five-run lead in one inning. Odds are we hang on.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ May 11, 2016 -> 04:09 AM) Challenging plays in the 8th inning of a 5 run game is an abuse of the system. It should be against baseball's "unwritten rules." Hit somebody now.

Oops out by a mile.

Will that be a hit or fielders choice? Pulling for Avi to have a 2 hit night

Good conversation by Hawk/Stoney on the offense. Avi could use another hit.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 11, 2016 -> 04:57 AM) Are you sure you pay attention to the Sox ? Check the bullpen usage in the last 2 box scores , especially last nights extra inning game Gee, sorry I asked a simple question. Nice triple by Jimmy and Abreu with the deep fly out and RBI.

Bernie won again! West Virginia. Cue the ... Yawn, he's getting killed. Hillary is running away with the normination; she has all the delegates. Who cares if Bernie won AGAIN. His campaign is going nowhere. Hillary is the choice of the people. Keep ignoring Bernie, pundits. If Hillary is so damn popular why has she been getting KILLED on the primary trail of late? Maybe I'll turn on the late night TV show replays tonight so I can hear them praise Hillary and ignore Bernie's win tonight. Trump is right. Bernie has been dissed so badly he really should run independent when this is all over.

How come Carroll in the 7th?

Robin is a badass this year. He does what he wants to do. He's very aggressive. Rodon got to 107 pitches and gave up the bomb, then whiffed the lefty and ... bye bye. Now that Robin has learned how to manage, we could have a good manager for the next 20 years. He's only 48.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ May 11, 2016 -> 04:15 AM) It would be awesome if Rodon doesn't start the 5th. I'm not a big Carroll fan. And sometimes things turn around for a pitcher in a baseball game. His pitch count is low.

That would be awesome if Rodon catches a second wind and breezes thru the fifth and sixth.

That was a PERFECT call by Hawk. He laughed at how we caught a break on that awful baserunning.