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Clearly safe and no challenge. What the hell?

At least 20-25 times. I went to bed after the game and tried to read on my iPad, but I kept going back to Twitter to watch the replay again and again.

Still get chills watching the HR from last night. It would have been awesome to hear Jason call that. Joe Buck actually called it pretty well; much more enthusiasm than Konerko's slam or Pods' walk-off. But Kasper's call is superb.

Although Kopech shouldn't have shown up the umpire on the (blatant) strike three missed call, I loved seeing his passion last night. That was the most animated I've seen him on the mound. He was definitely rattled after the bad call, and Cairo made the right decision to pull him. But the dude has absolutely filthy stuff, and he's going to be a star. Aside from Liam blowing the save, it was cool to see guys like Abreu, Eloy, Kopech, Bummer, Kimbrel, and TA get the national spotlight. This team is dynamic and will be a force to be reckoned with for a few years.

4D chess by Miguel Cairo, having Liam dramatically blow the save just to have Seby "I'm The New Backup" Zavala walk ahead of the Tim "I'm The New Face of MLB" Anderson home run? He is learning from TLR!

I would like to hear it as well.

I can’t stop watching TA’s home run.

I was just saying that to my wife. It’s like it was written to end that way.

Literally jumped out of my chair yelling

Holy fucking shit!!

Terrible way to ruin a great game.

Fucking kidding me

Ha. They’re muting Liam

Sit the fuck down

That’ll pay a portion of Leury’s salary to ensure he sticks around.

Nice

Nice pitch.

True. But that’s the most emotion he’s shown.

Everyone but the ump knew that was a strike. Love Kopech’s passion.

That's actually Ving Rhames.

I was happy when the trade happened mainly because it would limit Leury's presence. Although Leury still plays too much, he's not playing at 2B. Now, I'm very happy about the trade because Cesar is a huge upgrade defensively and has so far shown to be a dramatic upgrade offensively. He's fit in so well, I don't even think about anyone else playing 2B each day other than him. When he was traded, there was a lot of talk about where he would hit. Most, if I recall, believed he should be near the bottom to help rid of the essentially dead 1/3 of the lineup. There were comments that it would be "so TLR" to have him bat 2nd. I think what we're seeing is that he can bat anywhere and improve the lineup. He's been getting on base a lot, and that helps when he's in the 2 spot...unless the #3 hitter rolls lazily into double play after double play. He can hit and has nice power, which helps when he's in the bottom third. Regardless, Cesar is the type of player the Sox needed down the stretch. And having him controlled through next year is a nice bonus.

Yikes.

YouTube's camera work is much better than ESPN's was the other day.

Definitely. I'd rather see Lambert and Lopez team up for another 6 innings today and have Lynn go against the Yankees. I'd be really surprised if the Sox roll Lambert out there tomorrow.

I'm okay with limiting his innings. Just odd that they advertised he'd be pitching in the Field of Dreams game then put him on the IL.