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QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2016 -> 02:00 PM) No you wouldn't, as there's no reason to rebuild unless they trade your BFF Sale. If trading Sale meant that the Sox as a team would be good again, I'd be all for it. Sale is one of my all time favorites, but I'd much rather have the Sox be successful as a team than him.

I'd rather rebuild than watch this garbage.

I really have no expectations for this team anymore. All I know is that the Sox won't be in first place for much longer if they can't get their s*** together.

Frazier

On the bright side, this clunker by Sale should let me buy a couple autographs of his a lot cheaper than what they were going for a few weeks ago.

QUOTE (StrykerSox @ May 24, 2016 -> 09:04 PM) If anything, Chris Sale's CY status just went from "nobody else gets any righteous votes at all" to "no one else gets a single first place vote". No biggie. I know it's stupid to worry about it, but I just want to see Sale win at least one of them. The Sox have been so bad as a team the past few years that I've had to settle for rooting for individual players to win awards. I feel like Sale has been worthy of the award quite a few times already but has never gotten the recognition he deserves. Just hope this game is a minor blip on the radar for him and the team as a whole.

Not sure if it's purely coincidental, but it seems like Sale pitches much better this season when he has 5 full days of rest as opposed to 4.

@ckamka Dallas Keuchel had a 9-run start during 2015 Cy Young season. Clayton Kershaw had a 7-run start during 2014 Cy Young season. It happens.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 24, 2016 -> 08:47 PM) Took a shower, what happened with Avi/Lawrie? Lawrie was on second base. Avi hit a grounder to Lindor, the shortstop. Instead of going back to the base, Lawrie took a step forward and froze, and then got thrown out at third base. Avi ran too far past first base at the same time and the Indians then threw and tagged him out too. All in all, it was probably one of the worst baserunning gaffes I've ever seen.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 24, 2016 -> 08:46 PM) Sorry Benetti, fangraphs has the Sox as a bad base running team No sabermetric statistic can quantify how piss poor and idiotic that last baserunning play was.

Woooooooooow. This really is the game from hell.

On the bright side, at least Abreu has 2 hits.

QUOTE (StrykerSox @ May 24, 2016 -> 08:32 PM) Meh. Chris Sale is allowed a s*** game. And it's just one game. Blowing the historic streak is no more meaningful than any other loss, even if it hurts more on a sentimental level. Avila, on the other hand, can go to hell. That laziness is unforgivable. Put that f***ing turd on the bench where he belongs. Oh, and just to continue with my Saladino Derangement Syndrome, nice soft groundout to P with RISP, loser. Join AA on the bench. Off to other things for my evening. Exactly. Even the best have clunkers occasionally, it's just annoying as hell knowing that the offense won't do anything to fight back to get back into this game.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ May 24, 2016 -> 08:29 PM) I'd be more worried about the overall state of this team than an award. The team has been struggling for weeks, it's nothing new.

Significantly hampered his Cy Young chances today too. f*** f*** f*** f***

Just pull him now. Give him some rest in a game that the Sox will clearly lose.

Somehow I can't see this anemic offense scoring 3 more runs tonight.

That was the worst inning I've seen from Sale in a really long time. C'mon offense, pick up your ace. He can't be perfect in every start.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ May 24, 2016 -> 07:59 PM) Sale is going to be lucky to get through 7 tonight. He'll be lucky to go 5 at this rate.

Please get this moron out of the booth. He's ruining the good mojo. You guys want the high strikeout version of Sale, this is what you get.

I don't like this version of Sale at all.

f***. Jesus, what kind of defense was that?

Nice to see Jose get a hit on a high fastball.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EATON!

Sale is God. Sale is GOAT.