The best news is that the Bears defense is better than I thought it would be.

I wonder of we'll break 5K in attendance tomorrow.

How could anybody attend? Sox should give away free tickets. You can't pay real fans to watch this crap.

 

Our guys should take note. That how a player comes up in a situtation and drives a mistake pitch into the night. Our guys have a hard time swinging with the cold yellow liquid flowing down their pantleg as we put the pressure on ourselves. Bases loaded, no outs and we tinkle down the pantleg.

You said it all. Our hitters are choking. They get one opening and BAM.

I have a hard time blaming a first year manager for this after having the team in first since July. Veteran guys have caved in and rookies have worn out. The latter has to be expected.

Well let's get a F***ING run.....or TWO???!!

We have some excellent arm chair quarterbacking tonight because I don't see these managerial moves as anything but what would seem obvious at the time. You pinch run a guy that you don't want to hit and you pinch hit your best pinch hitter who has had several bunt singles in our uniform to lay down a bunt. If he fails to do that, you know that he knows how to hit his way out of a paper bag.

Look who it is.

Finally he puts Dan Johnson in. 1 week too late.

Maybe every hitter should bunt. Oh wait, Cabrera isn't playing hurt tonight.

I had no idea Rodney had that low of an ERA. Wow.

 

We have some excellent arm chair quarterbacking tonight because I don't see these managerial moves as anything but what would seem obvious at the time. You pinch run a guy that you don't want to hit and you pinch hit your best pinch hitter who has had several bunt singles in our uniform to lay down a bunt. If he fails to do that, you know that he knows how to hit his way out of a paper bag.

 

Yep....

Tough luck Sox continue to pound balls to outfielders

All Dan Johnson does is have good at-bats....yet he never gets a chance to play.....good god.

Can't we even get a break?

Dan Johnson swinging the bat well. Better not let him play.

Hard for me to perceive that as a dumb play, it's not always easy to see what the baserunner is doing at first base when you're trying to watch the pitcher

 

I'm not so sure that was a hit and run. Dumb for Alexei is swinging first pitch a majority of his ABs with minimal success.

Disagree. I think he's done a tremendous job getting this far with a bullpen of rookies. Sure he made his mistakes, but to compete for the division until the last week of the season? I don't know how you can be hard on the guy. It's not like he was handed the keys to the Yankees.

 

Absolutely. This pitching staff has simply been unmanageable the last 6 weeks of the season.

We have some excellent arm chair quarterbacking tonight because I don't see these managerial moves as anything but what would seem obvious at the time. You pinch run a guy that you don't want to hit and you pinch hit your best pinch hitter who has had several bunt singles in our uniform to lay down a bunt. If he fails to do that, you know that he knows how to hit his way out of a paper bag.

 

Even Stone said that Wise is bad bunting for a sacrifice. Wise is also far and away our fastest runner, yet he decided to use Danks instead.

Won't it be nice to see guys like Myers gone?

Look who it is.

 

Him and ADA the best at bats so far this week.

Youkilis will save us.

We have some excellent arm chair quarterbacking tonight because I don't see these managerial moves as anything but what would seem obvious at the time. You pinch run a guy that you don't want to hit and you pinch hit your best pinch hitter who has had several bunt singles in our uniform to lay down a bunt. If he fails to do that, you know that he knows how to hit his way out of a paper bag.

 

I blame Wise more than Robin, but WTF. That inning was laughable, Danks included.

I don't miss Hawk at all.

Won't it be nice to see guys like Myers gone?

 

It's amazing to me how bad his stuff has been. Thankfully that option won't kick in.

Even Stone said that Wise is bad bunting for a sacrifice. Wise is also far and away our fastest runner, yet he decided to use Danks instead.

 

HA! That's a fun way to interpret that conversation. That was "sometimes guys that bunt for a hit well are not good sacrifice bunters, we'll see if Wise falls into that category since he looked like s*** bunting the first pitch"

Can't we even get a break?

 

Nah. Just tough luck all around.