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Damn we might announce a game thread starter before the Sox announce the game 1 starter.

Obviously walked off in the WS. Avi is a good player now, I got no hate for him. Getting swept by the Astros would suck ass.

Brian Goodwin hitting clean up sure is something. My only concern is that the guys we've gotten back since his starts (Eloy and Robert) don't do well against guys with good sliders like McCullers. If McCullers is on and executes his pitches, we're going to have a hard time hitting him. That being said, Lucas has 2 complete games against the Astros in his last 2 starts against them with 1 run allowed, so some Astros fans might be thinking the same thing.

Hey the nerds are on our side for once!

You'll see a whole page of "take him out" or "FUCK" and the Sox will be leading 5-1.

Astros going McCullers game 1 and Valdez game 2. No surprise.

FWIW, FanGraphs writers have us as the overwhelming favorites in this series. They also have us as favorites in the ALCS and tied with the Dodgers for the World Series. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/heres-whos-going-to-maybe-win-the-2021-world-series/

Hallion sucks. The rest seem ok.

Tony might put out the get away day lineup cause of the start time.

I actually kind of agree with this. The Astros really need to take the first 2 to have a strangle hold on this series. If the Sox can just take 1 in Houston, we'll get home field going back to Chicago where we played the Astros extremely well in the series after the ASB. Also, as bad as our record is against Houston, 4 of the 7 games were definitely close/winnable for us.

I'm ok with the 2 day games in Houston and the primetime game on Sunday.

Canada on Canada crime.

Yeah Jason's home run calls and calls in big moments aren't great. Sometimes if you just listen to the audio you cringe a bit. But I feel like he's a pretty good announcer overall and he meshes very well with Steve.

Tuesday - Yankees at Red Sox Wednesday - Cardinals at Dodgers Thursday - White Sox vs. Astros, ALWC vs. Rays Friday - Thursday games, Braves vs. Brewers, NLWC vs. Giants

I was watching some highlights of last night's game and they had the Detroit broadcasters for some of them and my god are they boring. It just sounds like dead air all the time and the color commentator sounded like he was on his deathbed.

Devers just hit a go ahead 2 run shot. Guess we ain't getting extra baseball. Ugh.

Unfortunately for Cesar, he's had the power of a boy since joining the Sox. Madrigal had 2x the ISO of Cesar with the Sox.

Hamilton in for Luis on deck. Smart. No reason to try and have our main guys play in this mud.

Their run differential is of a team that could win 100 games. Meanwhile the Yankees made it with something like +40 runs.

Their best pitcher gave up 3 homers and 4 runs in one inning.

It's absolutely pouring.

Bad day for Yoan.

The 3 way tie for the 2nd spot is still possible. Boston tied with Washington still.

Yankees win. Shoulda walked Judge.

You gotta walk Judge here.