joejoesox

It quite possibly could be that the biggest whiff by Hahn and co. on putting together a big league contender this year was to assume that you can just hire a new manager every couple years and all your players will just automatically play well with each other and all lead by example and be a carbon copy of their baseball cards I never realized how important it was to have a guy in the clubhouse who every single player respected and played hard for, until this losing streak

I don't know if I'm ready to say the clubhouse is "lost" or "broken" It looks like it's lacking leadership and guys are frustrated and acting out of desperation right now Abreu was the best we had to be a team leader, I know that much

Lance Lynn said in very specific words that the team leader has to play every day to get the respect of everyone in the clubhouse We let that guy walk. Now we have a daycare with a 20yo babysitter.

he absolutely does not want to coach this team and that's the smart choice, as a fan I would love that s%*# though

not gonna happen

Are you using a mobile device like a phone or tablet? Or a desktop computer/Laptop?

was that danks rookie year, yeah that was brutal. after 2006 which was a . massive gut punch, the Sox have literally never been that good since IMHO

Why so it will get worse? ? He needs another organization to fix him.

Have you ever seen a Sox team perform this badly? (To start a season, or in general) I've never seen anything like this. Started rooting for the Sox when I was 14 (1994-95), and regularly scoreboard watching in 2001.

yes, he said it

Ozzie was on the score this morning. Said that Jerry isn't bringing in another team of managers to run the day to day s%*#, Hahn and KW are it unless they quit on their own

Benny or Vaughn should be leading off, won't make that much of a difference but imo they're your two best options

oh yeah TA and Giolito are 100% gone, I'll put money down on that if there's a site for it lol

oddly enough the TB series, they were actually competitive with them

he's scrambling to figure out how to play baseball, no different than literally everyone else on this team it's so obvious that everyone is pressing too hard now that they're buried in the standings

Ozzie was right, they need an actual fucking psychiatrist

the slow start, sticky ban, "new coaching philosophy that everyone is trying to learn", and everyone pressing too hard to overcompensate for the hole theyve dug is the biggest reasons outside of the same old organizational failures we've all talked about for the last 4-5 years I truly don't think most of these guys are nearly as bad as they're playing, I really don't (some guys are like Andrus, Romy, and the kid from the Royals that Grifol brought with him) Diekman wasn't this awful before he came here, and Bummer was good before his injury

Sticky stuff ban has almost 100% correlation to our pitchers suddenly forgetting how to throw a baseball. Listen to that Lance Lynn interview with AJ, he made it sound like they were using it a lot (could just be the way I interpreted it but you should listen to that interview!)

yeah but the story has already been written, that series is just 4 games of formalities

ball fucking game ?

god this made me laugh, I miss hawk NGL

I would say there's a near zero percent chance that the Sox coaches know these numbers re: Burgers speed

that's so hard to believe lol

what's this thing about Burger being a fast runner based on the stats, anyone heard this? He's supposedly in the top 15% or some s%*# (Robert in the top 11%) sounds ridiculous personally

he isn't a starter, they'll figure it out eventually. he's got all the potential to be a badass reliever and possibly closer though