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Shoulda been caught.

How many hangers can Robert foul off?

How are the umps this bad!??!!!!

Ha, yea, sounds like he's relaxing and has a young kid now with his wife. Tough injury he had and dude was a gamer about it. Never complained or did the woe is me shit. Def was a favorite of mine, less so when he sucked, but still a great Sox.

What's John Danks up to?

Ah Dunning is starting. I feel oddly confident with him going.

Sounds like Stone made the lineup!

Mostly agree but there is a non zero chance Edwin gets hot over the last two weeks here. He's not Mazara, who has like 1000+ PA of suck recently. In fact as recently as last year Edwin was pretty damn good. That said, there's zero reason to keep auto starting him, against RHP I'd rather see most nights Grandal at DH, Jose at 1st and James at catcher. If they lose the DH or some shit on some freak injury to McCann well, we got bigger problems than losing the DH that night.

I know. Thing is, I'm here for discussion about things I find interesting like the epistemology of winning ball clubs. I don't really find talking about other posters interesting so rather than give you an Internet Sticker for something I really didn't find that insightful (or humorous) I decided to try and engage. Clearly, my mistake. I'm too old for this shit man. My 20s are long gone. I'm here to talk about concepts and the Sox -- the trolling and shit a lot of posters engage in (and I did years ago) just doesn't do it anymore for me.

It's hardly an original thought. Did the team have much "chemistry" when Dallas called their asses out? Hard to say, can't really measure it. Here's another non original quote that I like: if you can't measure it, it's not important. That quote is often misinterpreted to mean "if you can't measure it, it doesn't exist", which is entirely different and not the conclusion. The conclusion is if you can't measure it -- don't worry about it from a management perspective. Sure "Dancing for Dubs" might have some positive effect on how Mendick stabbed that liner against the Tigers, but so far nobody has been able to quantify it. Until we can, I'll go with that the dubs produce the dances, and not other way around.

Getting fry back is actually pretty big, who would have thought that. Sox need any warm bodied lefty in the pen that can give them some outs. Fry isn't any great shakes but if nothing else he can steal some outs in the 5th and 6th and 7th against some lefty oriented lineups.

I'd give it to TA is the season ended today. He's playing a helluva SS and as the leadoff hitter is setting the tone every day that this isn't a "tip your cap" lineup anymore.

True, and to his credit Renteria never threw guys that weren't that talented under the bus (at least in public). I'm always reminded of the Ozzie quote: Good teams win games, horseshit teams have meetings. Well, we're to the point where we're going to have a lot of meetings.” - Ozzie Guillen.

Winning leads to chemistry; chemistry doesn't lead to winning.

Sure and the fear is well placed that ur butcher in LF will have a critical mistake!

You don't manage to give up two runs in the 9th. The leverage is in preventing that in the 1st place! My god.

One big one.

Fact is about 1\3 innings have a ball hit to LF. So 1\3 times on avg Eloy will be tested in a critical 9th. There's no defending renteria here. But hey if ur not listening to me listen to Stone, who knows his baseball.

He's failed to realize the handedness of the opposing starter if this latest idiocy doesn't do it for you.

The only thing that matters is preventing the twins from scoring twice. Having the worst LF in MLB in over one of the best increases those odds. This is pretty simple stuff.

So it's not just the broken toys renteria likes... Good win renteria tried to pull a Patricia tho.

I'm kinda over him in left to say the least he's a buffoon out there. So is his manager.

Oof.

It's common sense

Renteria is a fucking joke.