I ain't even mad at Houston. They are an awful team who just played a team who decided to be worse.

1 minute ago, Colome's Hat said:

Meidroth has been great this year. Too early to tell on Montgomery. Teel's year has been a debacle due to injuries. Return much better than the Sale trade IMO. Think these players are only going to get better. Also don't mind the K's. In general, K's are a lot less of a taboo then they used to be.

Moncada was the #2 prospect in all of baseball and Kopech at one point the top RH pitching prospect

Crochet gave more depth but not the two elite upsides that fizzled

Edited September 3Sep 3 by caulfield12

13 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

I think the grind of the long season has gotten to him.

not an acceptable excuse since they all play 162

8 minutes ago, Colome's Hat said:

Vargas and crochet trade alone earns him a lot of goodwill.

but it also reveals a poor farm system, he was once in charge of that

29 minutes ago, chw42 said:

Feels like the boys just gave up on this one after Castillo imploded in the 3rd.

Happens a lot or after we fail to score with runners on

Bad series. Come home and cook. Beat up on the Twins and get the bats right.

Havent won a series in Houston in how many years?

Just now, CBJ03 said:

Havent won a series in Houston in how many years?

2005

6 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

pretty sure with his interpreter he would have said something by now because pretty much the entire Japanese media is wondering what's wrong

well he is new to facing MLB pitchers

Varland trying to make it interesting.

Cleveland loses too. So 4 games off the schedule and we lost out on .5 a game. It just sucks because we should have won the game yesterday.

Luckily CLE isn't very good either. Really need to play well this weekend, CLE has DET for 4 games at home

3 minutes ago, kitekrazy1 said:

not an acceptable excuse since they all play 162

but it also reveals a poor farm system, he was once in charge of that

False. They play 143 in Japan. And the furthest trip is 800 miles. Travel doesn't compare at all.

5 minutes ago, kitekrazy1 said:

not an acceptable excuse since they all play 162

but it also reveals a poor farm system, he was once in charge of that

Toronto 70-71

Cleveland 70-70

Houston just 1.5 behind Sox

1 minute ago, BigHurt3515 said:

Luckily CLE isn't very good either. Really need to play well this weekend, CLE has DET for 4 games at home

Well, the double header makes it less likely they sweep Detroit. Right?

It’s ovah at Cleveland. Toronto 6 Guardians 3.

1 minute ago, Colome's Hat said:

False. They play 143 in Japan. And the furthest trip is 800 miles. Travel doesn't compare at all.

you picked out one player to a post that was not about one player unless I read it wrong

6 minutes ago, kitekrazy1 said:

not an acceptable excuse since they all play 162

but it also reveals a poor farm system, he was once in charge of that

It's one of the reasons even Ohtani scuffled his first year.

Mune was supposed to struggle mightily and then figure things out later...wrong order now.

Blue Jays win. Would’ve been nice to be coming home to a 4 or 5 game lead. Time for Will to light a fire under their asses…if he’s even capable of that

4 minutes ago, chw42 said:

Varland trying to make it interesting.

Too much GAS from Varland at the end.

1 minute ago, kitekrazy1 said:

you picked out one player to a post that was not about one player unless I read it wrong

Sorry. Thought your talking about mune

I’m just gonna pretend the Sox and Guardians had off days today.

Lost 4 of 5 after winning 4 in a row. We refuse to play above .500 ball for any stretch of time

1 minute ago, chw42 said:

Well, the double header makes it less likely they sweep Detroit. Right?

It's really less about Cleveland and more about us. Cleveland is not good (Could they get hot.....sure.......but I don't see it). White sox have Minny, Pitt at home and ST.louis on the road in the next 9 before Cleveland. You have to go 6-3, and if you do, then you are in very good shape going into Cleveland. Then you see the light at the end of the tunnel.

1 minute ago, Bad Hombre said:

Blue Jays win. Would’ve been nice to be coming home to a 4 or 5 game lead. Time for Will to light a fire under their asses…if he’s even capable of that

still amazed that this team has not yet had a serious losing streak like Cubs proportions. Noe only if they could have a winning streak Red Sox style.

1 minute ago, kitekrazy1 said:

you picked out one player to a post that was not about one player unless I read it wrong

one day off each week

less games overall

less travel

not multiple time zones

mostly domes/climate controlled stadiums

missing that time in the middle of the year just blew up his timing and rhythm, confidence, what have you