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

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)

anything apart from the end of the right field foul line is exorbitant at fenway iirc. most expensive tickets in the majors!

...well, yeah.

did standing room once or twice.

can't wait to see how they blow this bases loaded opportunity

LOL IT WORKED AGAIN, albeit not as well as it should've with bases loaded, but joe kelly just got one of the weirdest infield single RBIs

but yea reverse psychology game strong if I do say so myself

nope nevermind forget it I was wrong

morbs come to a game! that would be about the only thing that gets me near fenway this summer.

@GordonEdes
Sandoval benched, admits that was him liking photos of woman on Instagram during game Said he was using bathroom at the time

lolllllllllllllllllll

I really don't know how they just went 13-2 on the royals after choking a lead and losing last night, but I like it

well ok I mean part of it was chris young but the floor scraping lows and skyscraper highs of this offense are so jarring

Wade Miley has become very impressive indeed

y'know

it's not the worst to be losing the orioles - it's annoying, mostly bc of what fuck bowshalter has done to make a rivalry there, but not like the yanks or rays - but to not be getting hits off ubaldo fucking jimenez, is this team fuckin kidding me

I could apply that to most orioles starters this year actually

that said my lawd mookie betts is still on a 10 game hit streak *fans self*

pedroia to the DL, kelly to pawsox, the JBJ experiment will roll on one final ride
https://nesncom.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/jbj.jpg

oh and deven marrero, and whoever the hell RHP jonathan aro is

@RedSox_Thoughts
Bold move by the Red Sox to swap rosters with Pawtucket. May be a #turningpoint

lol pretty much

morbs come to a game! that would be about the only thing that gets me near fenway this summer.

we'll see if i have pocket change for this in August (Jimmy Fund benefit):

http://saberseminar.com/the-participants-the-program/

this team appears to have figured out how to play. even when they lose they look dangerous. maybe instagram's been banned from the clubhouse?

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--slothroprhymes

lol that didn't work friggin zing

anyway, ~JBJ home runs~

happy canada day

burn it to the ground

been done

clearly wasn't done right

this is the wackiest fuckin game

betts, holt xander and the inexplicably resurgent alejandro de aza all have 3 hits tonight

fangraphs predicts sox to have the best record in the AL the rest of the way

I'm gonna not get hopeful and take that with like 9,000 grains of salt...

*watches hanigan score on xander's fourth hit*

SHITTY PARITY-STRICKEN DIVISION TITLE HERE WE COME *blows paycheck on tickets*

but seriously, that is good to hear and I also cannot yet see it with this rotation even with buchholz being good again and e-rod showing promise

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/david-ortiz-did-something-no-red-sox-first-baseman-has-ever-done-004547771.html

weird

FOUR WINS IN A ROW FIRST TIME ALL SEASON 2015 AL EAST CHAMPS HERE WE COME LETS GET IT

seriously they're slouching shockingly toward quality in a tangible way, but they can't lose momentum

4 1/2 back in the division

13.5% to win the division, 26.6% to make the playoffs

and you haven't even shit on mike napoli lately

I mean the team is kinda doing that for me, david ortiz is repeatedly playing first base. in AL games.

I got to figure Ryan Hanigan is probably living out the dream getting to play for the Red Sox this year being from MA. Hanigan's a cool player, definitely someone that has pretty much maxed out of his talent.

buch's breaking ball that starts outside (to left-handers) and then darts back over the plate is fucking devastating today. he's thrown it like 80% of the time and he should keep doing so

aaaand now he's hurt