Jake

Yes, TA put up his dukes first, but that was of course after JRam went chest to chest with him saying who knows what because he thought TA had done a dirty slide into second (which he hadn't). I think part of the reason JRam never seemed to embrace the positive reputation he got from the fight is because he knew he caused it to happen and shouldn't have

Catching up on this, but she is very much fireable. She's not a MLB ump and doesn't have the robust union protections. She only gets these opportunities based on her minor league performance and she can only keep getting them if she grades out as better than the alternatives.

My unpopular take on the TA/JRam fight is that JRam clearly picked the fight for no reason and landed a lucky swing in the melee. Picking a fight that wasn't instigated and then winning it just makes you an asshole.

Bought it earlier today LMAO

By Statcast fielding run value, the Sox are collectively 12th in MLB at +1 (relative to average). Infield is 7th at +6. Outfield is 17th at -2. And catchers are 25th at -3

Pasquatch continues to have a season to forget

As a Tim Anderson fan, I am here for JRam slander

Remember in the Ventura era when basically every base hit to score a run with two outs ended up with an out on the bases? And we'd try to tell ourselves they were just trying to ensure the run scored by getting hung out to dry

Finally gets one to drop even if he had to put a dumb little cherry on top

From the get-go, part of Colson's game has been that his mis-hits are somewhat frequently that perfect combo of low exit velo and launch angle to fall in for a hit.

Colson didn't want to get his face in the way of that ball

Sam obviously got close to catching it but I'm not 100% sure that it was a routine catch either. Just a lucky hit coming after a bunch of walks

Some folks around here need therapy and if I have to give it, then so be it!

Pawol ranks near, but not at, the bottom of umpire accuracy. She's not a full-time MLB umpire, she's just one of the AAA umps who gets called up to replace injured/ill/resting MLB umps. The system for those minor league umpires is totally metric and merit-based. It's a hard job and the people who are best at it are mostly already in the majors full time.

I'm guessing the scouting report said that Thomas doesn't get the ball in quickly.

Not that mad at Sam and not that mad at Noah. Sometimes you give up runs. We will all survive it. Sam is a work in progress in the outfield but really not too bad out there. I can see in the metrics that he makes some reasonably high difficulty plays even if he sometimes fails to make ones that he should.

If these are the worst of Noah's growing pains, then he's gonna be great. They really just aren't seeing him well at all, just gotta manage those periods where he loses his release. I'd rather see him out there than anyone besides Davis.

Real tough break for Noah, but the breaks are toughest when there are free baserunners. I'm happy he was able to start throwing strikes again, though.

Seems like just about every game Noah has lost his command for a bit at some point. Hope he gets it back.

Medical emergency in the stadium says Schriff

Ozzie's whole purpose on TV is saying crazy stuff in Spanglish. He is not Bill Melton

Strahm's eyes went full Kash Patel watching that Hill HR

Fastball down the middle try and hit it bud!

Need to give up a run so Mune has a chance to extend his series-opener-home-run streak

Hill won't be going anywhere