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16 hours ago, 2Deep said:
I dont know.
The 1st 2 games have been demoralizing. This is what I was afraid off. We kept coasting and seem to be playing that way in the playoffs while the team we are playing knows how to turn up the heat in playoffs.
We have been out pitched, out hit (zero XB hits), out managed, out played on defense.
Every aspect of the game we have been outplayed.
We just need to win the next game and see what happens
But Robert has been fun to watch. He has been like that biker kid that joined the Bad News Bears and was the one guy good enough he could have played on the other team.
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I think they can get the win Sunday but that may be it. Houston is intense and they are hot. It will take an electric outing by a pitcher to trump that. Right now Dylan is the one guy who *might * be able to deliver that. It’s a shame we don’t have the early season Rodon.
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First, I am not on board with big headline grabbing moves from this FO. They tried that in July.
I also don’t ever want to see anything about a bullpen on the wishlist. How many times to we want to keep tapping that well?
The situation is that this team wasn’t tempered by the fire of a competitive divisional race. They have the talent, but it appears they do not have the mettle.
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I will just leave this right here....
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7 minutes ago, KipWellsFan said:
It's most of the league.
It is hard to lay off good sliders on two strike counts. If it was easy everyone would hit .350. Almost by definition, a good slider starts out looking like a fastball that's a strike.
It's everything between that allows you to succeed as a hitter including taking advantage when you do get a good fastball to hit, taking sliders that aren't quite good enough to fool you, and hammering sliders when they hang over the plate.
If a pitcher is throwing perfect sliders, and getting strike calls an inch or two off the plate (like last night) it will always be exceptionally difficult for the hitter.
As I have heard, we will never see a .400 hitter again because of the invention of the slider.
That understood, and also understood that I am hardly an expert hitter myself, but isn't this an issue of our hitters needing to focus more on going the other way with the pitches instead of defaulting to trying to jack everything and causing them to pull off the ball all the time?
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1 hour ago, DoUEvenShift said:
FUCK THE YANKEES!
I’m just thrilled Aaron Judge’s cracker Jack all-American boy face won’t be plastered over every MLB splash screen and commercial throughout the playoffs now. That and I’m glad we won’t have to face him.
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18 minutes ago, wegner said:
If I second a seconder, what am I doing? Am I thirding?
I think you are doing is missing your chance to Aye or Nay…
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The cool thing is that if the Sox win just one of the first two games, at worst this becomes a three game series in which they have HFA.
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I say just call it. Too many comebackers, HBP’s and assorted freak injuries so far this season. Now add wet slick conditions to it all right before the playoffs. Nah, pass.
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3 hours ago, ptatc said:
That's what the radar looks like. Dang it.
So if the don’t get it in do they play two tomorrow or could there be a possibly of something like HOU ending 93-69 and the Sox 93-68?
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38 minutes ago, reiks12 said:
It has been fun reading comments from people in other baseball communities that know next to nothing about our club
I was at a dinner with some acquaintances here downstate. Cardinals fans of course. One said that if they could get past the wildcard they should have a really good shot at the World Series and that he knew they always had the talent this year but just had to put it together - and mentioned how their outfied could well be the best in baseball in a couple years.
I always thought the Cards were pretty meh this year but whatever.
He brought up the White Sox. Said he would love to see a WS between them and the Cards but kind of doubted the Sox had what it takes yet.
Ok...
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21 hours ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:
Or it means that he's faced poor teams, and that a lot of his appearances so far have been only seeing a lineup 1 time through. His numbers as a starter are significantly worse than his numbers as a reliever.
Of his 202 batters faced, 136 of those have come on the first time through the order (nearly 70%). Meaning a majority of hitters are not seeing him twice.
Yeah, facing poor teams was a real break for him after posting that 7.62 ERA facing all those Ruths and Gehrigs in the AAA gauntlet...
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10 hours ago, caulfield12 said:
Seems appropriate to bump this after tonight...
We've seen players that collect lots of infield hits have higher BABIP's, but this is pretty extraordinary the last couple of months he's putting up, combined with his batting approach (minus the homers) the first month plus.
Of course, he needs to stay healthy for 145+ games in a single season, that's the biggest test remaining.
Now the pendulum is swinging back towards Mike Trout again, but fortunately he's been able to ascend to his current heights in relative obscurity, other than his highlight reel homers and standout defensive plays.
He certainly would not have the obscurity if it were an NY sewn on the pinstripes instead. I hope he continues how he has been going because it is going to be one eye opening October show for a lot of folks around the country.
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1 hour ago, ChiSox59 said:
Do we really think further expansion is going to happen? That would be so awful. I hated the 2nd wild card, and have at least come around to that. But adding another 2 teams would be TURRRRRRIIBBBBLLLLLEEEEE
I will take the MLB's craziness and up the ante. If they add two more teams then I say after 81 games the top 16 teams "make the cut" and vie for 4 playoff spots. The bottom 16 battle eachother with the best records getting the top draft positions. Everyone has something to play for all summer long.
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He is like that one kid on the little league team that happened to have grown sooner than the rest of the kids.
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My expectation for some time has been that the Sox will go through the playoffs with two regulars sidelined with injuries. It’s just a question of who they will be. I’ve made peace with it.
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TLR should have just taken the game off to party with the others and let Yaz player-manage the kids.
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And for the nightcap I assume it will be a bunch of assorted beer venders, mascots and players' kids taking the field - and I won't complain.
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4 minutes ago, Tnetennba said:
Nice to see a "business like" celebration as if the division clinch was expected and there is more important work ahead.
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Dang, not sure how this can work. It will be time to take him out after his pregame warmup pitches.
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They might be fine once the playoffs start but there is reason for concern. This is not a sport like football where you can just storm the field on the big day and win on rage. You have to be focused, respond to nuanced situations, stay within yourself, and generally be in tune with that you need to do. If you get just a bit too hyped up you wind up losing focus and doing things like overthrow pitches, pull off the ball (no, that's never a problem with our hitters), etc. and it doesn't take much. Then if you start to have trouble and don't know how to play within yourself and keep focus you start pressing, and things go south quickly.
The flip side is that the playoff environment just heightens your focus and your ability to do what you do well. Example: 2005 Sox.
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4 hours ago, maloney.adam said:
Ahh back in the days when hitting 98 on the gun was something incredible...
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36 minutes ago, brijames1957 said:
TA's mistake was letting his cheating become public. Most athletes wives know exactly what they signed up for. They tell their husbands I know your going to cheat just don't let it become public and embarrass me.
TA’s mistake was cheating. Period.
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7 hours ago, hankchifan said:
I am for keeping Leury. He is a high energy guy who can play several positions and is a switch hitter.
For what he can provide Leury looks good on paper. I’m just not sure I’m comfortable with TLR doing the paperwork.
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How many Sox runs today?
in Pale Hose Talk
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Going against a slider sinkerballer tonight so I am going to say 1 run. Cease/Kopech/Hx might shut them out though for the W.