How are we always so incompetent? 

Sox keep using the same game plan with Giolito. Fastball and change up until the 3rd time thru the order.  If we can see it, then advanced scouts can also.

Every ballpark is fucking empty...why are they so shitty at home this year!?!?

2 minutes ago, wegner said:

Just like that game 1 against the Angels in 2005...Angels got in late, etc....but it ended up being the only game they lost that post season.

Byrd vs. Contreras.    And Jose was pretty much the best pitcher in baseball taking the mound that night, had a long streak of not losing a game that extended into May, 2006, when he got hurt coming off the mound to cover 1st and hurt his Achilles' tendon in Cincinnati.

Edited August 15, 20205 yr by caulfield12

Just now, wegner said:

Just like that game 1 against the Angels in 2005...Angels got in late, etc....but it ended up being the only game they lost that post season.

MAN! I was thinking the exact same thing. Even before the game. 
 

but the different is we weren’t sitting on our hands waiting. We were still playing. So, really, no excuse. 

1 minute ago, wegner said:

Every ballpark is fucking empty...why are they so shitty at home this year!?!?

There has to be some correlation between being home and how bad they have played.  

his velocity is down and his changeup is hanging up there, not great bob.

Just now, SouthWallace said:

There has to be some correlation between being home and how bad they have played.  

Eloy thought it was rock 'n jock game apparently and that attitude extends to the team.  Get the fucking ball in, show some fucking urgency instead of fucking around.

This first inning nonsense has to stop.

Much better inning.

Let’s get 2 back this inning. 

1 minute ago, chitownsportsfan said:

Eloy thought it was rock 'n jock game apparently and that attitude extends to the team.  Get the fucking ball in, show some fucking urgency instead of fucking around.

For real. If that ball didn't hit the net you just let everyone move up 90 feet.

Just now, almagest said:

This first inning nonsense has to stop.

guys are TOO comfie at home, it's obvious.  I guess when you can lolly gag in the OF and never get benched that's what happens.  

Just now, chw42 said:

For real. If that ball didn't hit the net you just let everyone move up 90 feet.

But it did, so he didn't.

these MLB.tv commercials are depressing, annoying and I'd pay extra to auto mute them.

Frequently start the game looking completely unprepared.

Laughably bad 1st innings.

Playing like complete dog shit at home.  

What is the connection?

Whats Gio's ERA in the first inning over the last 2 years?

Is this a DH that continues 30 mins after game 1?

Nice play by Robert.

Usually you see guys get stuck in the ground and then they lose their focus on the ball, very smooth there.

If you really think about it Giolito got killed by the BABIP gods in the 1st inning. Neither the Fowler hit or the hit by their catcher were hit that hard. If the Fowler one is just a pop up like it's supposed to be he gets out of it with one run. 

1 minute ago, Jose Abreu said:

But it did, so he didn't.

That's not the issue. It's the attitude and lack of urgency.

Edited August 15, 20205 yr by chw42

4 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

his velocity is down and his changeup is hanging up there, not great bob.

He's been 93-95 for awhile now...

Just now, chitownsportsfan said:

these MLB.tv commercials are depressing, annoying and I'd pay extra to auto mute them.

yeah, thats why i cancelled. I find my streams through other means now. Its ridiculous that you pay AND have to be subjected to commercials. Obnoxious

Just now, Jose Abreu said:

But it did, so he didn't.

Nobody knew that.  You play out the play.  I just don't understand how a MLB player holds the ball in that situation.  A little leaguer would have chucked it in faster, regardless of the ruling in real time by the umps, which Eloy could not have known.

Just now, Jack Parkman said:

If you really think about it Giolito got killed by the BABIP gods in the 1st inning. Neither the Fowler hit or the hit by their catcher were hit that hard. If the Fowler one is just a pop up like it's supposed to be he gets out of it with one run. 

They weren't hit hard but they each had hit probabilities around 90%