ground-ball pitchers, pandas, victorino's rickety spine and the hope of mookie betts: your 2015 Boston Red Sox

he's def a flexibility victim, also a victim of streakiness. he's a predictably decent-to-good infielder with a bat as hot and cold as napoli's albeit less dramatically so

I'm totally on board with benching ortiz and letting hanley DH against lefties btw

no updates on the woman w life threatening injuries who was hit with brett lawrie's bat shard - hope all goes well with her. scary shit.

she is in serious but stable condition. i was sitting in the loge seats along the third base line yday and someone almost got hit with another foul ball, zoomed right past the heads of me and my friend and into someone's beer.

what up 7-run comeback in a single inning after trailing 4-0, i see you

tyvm shitty oaktown bullpen

eddie rodriguez got me HYPED with that adam jones strikeout/fistpump

made wiley

my perfect record of wins at games I attend is totally in jeopardy rn

tbf few among us have seen an 8-1 lead blown

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

~flags fly forever~ ~2013 cliches~

this team has really accelerated into another level of shit

it is truly grotesque

i truly like all these players too which makes it heart breaking - this isn't a collection of your lackeys and your becketts and what have you. they just seem to choke in every aspect of the game apart from, surprisingly, starting pitching

naturally, the starting pitching sorta settled in right when the offense decided to be incontinent in key situations - not even as an across the board thing, really, bc they get those inning bursts of offense that aren't just luck

the good portions of napoli's streakiness are shorter and less frequent, ortiz is cooked against any lefty and more than a few righties, bullpen...kinda sucks aside from taz and koji

Taz didn't exactly have a great night last night either tho

part of the offense problem has got to be that papi can't protect the lineup anymore. get his numbers up to .310 and 20 HRs right now and everybody else's average jumps 20 points

but....... that ain't gonna happen

xxp I dont know why farrell ever plays him against the blue jays he is cursed against them

it's the 4th inning, at 2:46 p.m. or so, and already I need to start drinking for this one.

ed-rod was cool while it lasted

tbf I still think he's really good and was gonna hit a bump eventually but this one was fucking vicious

dude should get a pass here, considering it's the best hitting team in baseball.

yea I ain't mad

apparently two dipshits ran on the field and got tackled by security but the NESN cameras wouldn't show it, I'm expecting the deadspin post with fan shot footage and tired ass jokes about accents any minute now

boston sports fans, always so put-upon ;_;

not saying we don't deserve it half to 75 percent of the time but be less predictable

like get some new material so the zings feel more fresh

ed-rod would have been fine had not the bad news bears combined for what, three identical "lost in the sun" pop-ups to short right?

this team makes me hurt deep inside of my chest

things Billy Corgan said to Kim Thayil in Australia in 1994 poll

duuuude for fucks sake I don't troll your grit squad on the pirates thread

i'm sorry but you did in fact come eerily close to quoting billy corgan

also you are 20 months removed from your third world series title in the last 11 years; suck it up/flags fly forever

sigh, I honestly don't even have the energy to really argue/know you're right of course - irritated in general and half drunk

on the other hand you'd appreciate mook that this is the most I've watched of a hockey game in like 3 years bc i wanted an actually entertaining sport

<3

i think they might have to release mike napoli

the streaks occur less often and are shorter, when he's not streaky he's awful, he looks lost at the plate more often than not & he's an expiring. it wouldnt be a huge cap hit.

it could scare the shit out of the clubhouse & have them get their shit...it could also have the exact opposite effect, idk

*get their shit together

napoli's first extra-base hit and multi-hit game since 6/6

you are magical

lol, every time!!

this can't possibly be a sustainable strategy (begins thinking of more napoli insults)

I guess if I can get to the Saberseminar in August (Jimmy Fund benefit), a 'cheap' ticket to Fenway might be possible.

if they keep being meh or worse you could get pretty cheap bleachers on stubhub or ace ticket

man everybody gettin a piece

i'm in serious man-love with like everybody on this team. it's too bad how they all somehow combine to be exponentially worse than the sum of their parts. doesn't that have to reflect on farrell?

BROCK HOLT

first cycle since john valentin, 6/6/96

I saw Orlando Hudson hit for the cycle at Dodger Stadium on opening day many moons ago and I was almost too drunk to even notice it. Such a silly stat..

man everybody gettin a piece

i'm in serious man-love with like everybody on this team. it's too bad how they all somehow combine to be exponentially worse than the sum of their parts. doesn't that have to reflect on farrell?
--transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand)

I think it does to some extent but I don't think it's enough to say he should be canned. I don't really know what canning anyone will do, especially midseason. they all held the line today, really just want them to start clambering back toward some semblance of respectability

slotho, i sat in the Fenway bleachers once about 15 years ago; you can't see shit, and soaking in the 'mist' of Sawxfans is not compensatory.

*slothrop, read yr pynchon

they're so clean in queens amirite

i dont do OF seats there either

but for real I'm poor so I consider the bleachers cheap, ppl with normal salaries can prob get loge box seats along the baseline for not too much.

well i'm poorish but have rich relations (NYC)