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I am hoping 8 and 16 is the worst we do so I'll go with that. 10 at home 14 on the road , That would put the Sox at 21-31 overall, Starting pitching is always the key and I have no idea how anyone will perform. If you think the BP is bad now it might be a nightmare against better hitters. Game threads for this stretch should be very entertaining. If Timmy and Yoan fall back to earth it will be brutal. I can easily see a losing streak of 7 games during this stretch.

I'm glad you're taking it gracefully and with a sense of humor. The other guy Blanco Sox was getting hot under the collar so I chose to ignore his arguments which frankly were weak. I know I came off as pompous with my whole Learn baseball and think schtick and I am sorry for that but it's no diffrerent than everyone telling me it's baseball 101 and anyone who argues it is dumb. Have to fight fire with fire sometimes. I'd be amenable to discussing that play again in PM but you probably had enough of it. But you are a good poster .

Can't pass him on an out. LOL that was my weak attempt to bait our Jose ABreu The Poster into rekindling our argument. I had enough of it in that thread.

Just gonna throw this out there . Hey Delmonico threw out a fast runner attempting to tag up from 1st base on a deep fly ball. Cal Ripken told me that wasn't a winning baseball strategy.Guess he was right.

Yea but he's always got an angle too. Like you said Ozzie said I hope that wasn't called from the bench which in Ozzie speak means I know damn well it was called from the bench but isn't directly going to call out Renteria.

Why is your jaw dropping ? You know Ozzie , He says what he says to make himself look smarter than Renteria which isn't all that hard.

How do you know that ? It's not like a 1 year guys with a track record of staying healthy and throwing strikes were in abundance. Maybe 2 injured guys who were FA's would've cost just as much except for the low minors guy you gave up. But then you have 3 guys who were injured in the rotation. Not saying he was right . That's just the way he decided to go.

Doubtful .Who wants a guy who had shoulder surgery to count on for a pennant drive. Unless you want to give him up for peanuts.

LOL rally Engel worked perfectly though not for extra innings. And got the 9th inning magic I said we needed.

At least you give a reason for why it was dumb. That's a good thing.

Swinging bunt more or less.

Paul Fry brother of Small Fry.

Who wants to see an attempted double steal ? Severino got a cannon back there doesn;t he ?

I think he might've got his quota of hits for the week already

15 pitches 11 strikes? Usually it's the other way around for TV.

The difference so far in today's games versus the rest of the season is the Sox haven't yet come up with any 7 , 8 or 9 th inning heroics yet . One more inning to change that.

If you didn't have such a good sense of humor you might be insufferable . But you are pretty funny and don;t resort to insults so that makes you a good guy to discuss baseball with when pretty much everyone gets a little hotheaded when you challenge them.

No sense fighting it. It's just your typical game thread. Take it for what it is.

This didn't age well.

He started slow last year defensively then came on like gangbusters. We were all hoping that would carry over but it hasn't Hopefully he can improve over the course of the year like he did last year.

He obviously didn't want him to have an 8.5 ERA that's just silly to say. Anybody better would've cost more and been for more than a year. If you go cheaper then you get to chose maybe 2 injured guys like Miley and Pomeranz who together would ve cost just as much as Nova. Obviously they chose the healthy guy.

I'm not defending the move. I'm saying Hahn got what he wanted. Only time will tell if he has some positive regression.

Also one more thing for this comment .If you use 30 teams and only 4 starters per team that's 120 starters. The fact that so many of those 120 didnt even qualify for that stat means they got what they wanted. 63 out of 120 1-4 starters couldn't even qualify ? Seems pretty odd or just reinforces the fact there were very few innings eaters they could've got for just a year. Rightly or wrongly that's the way they wanted to go.

It's not like I fully endorsed the guy. I just recognized the reason the got him Hahn said as much. He said he wanted a guy to eat innings. I said eh they could do worse for a year. I mean hell I preferred they sign a good FA pitcher and Miley or Pomeranz. But they signed Nova and that's the kind of guy they wanted. They didn't want to sign injured pitchers or a high priced FA. They got what they wanted not what I wanted.

SO far yes I agreed. Rebuild year poor start . Yes it sucks . Hope for better all we can do .