i see what you did there¡
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 11 April 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
i was not around for that fabled ilxor but have heard weird rumblings/saw the joke made & it stuck in my head
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 11 April 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgBx9JzWsAAwesk.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 April 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
:(
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 14 April 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
swihart down, vazquez up
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 April 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
and rusney down!! :(
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 April 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
vazquez rules
https://twitter.com/iamjoonlee/status/721142943768322048/photo/1
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
lmao
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
yesterday's game is the template. just like that, every time.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 April 2016 12:10 (eight years ago) link
yeah I'm cool with that being the blueprint
so glad to have vazquez back
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 17 April 2016 12:22 (eight years ago) link
i never realized how intense the dude is
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 April 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
by the way i'm pretty sure pedey wasn't anywhere close to touching the bag when he turned two in the 8th
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 April 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
omg - that shake-off, nod-on was the best.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
@AndrewSimonMLBLast Red Sox pitchers to induce 4 GIDP in a game:- Buchholz today- Dice-K in 2008- Clemens in 1992 and '93
― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/redsoxstats/status/723231943874191360
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 April 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
the oral history of the doug mirabelli trade
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 April 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
omg that's awesome.
Mirabelli: They did, like, seven ceremonial first pitches that night. “Here’s Joey from Brockton, going to throw out a first pitch.” They just dragged it on and on.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 29 April 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
left his cup in the police car
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 April 2016 14:14 (eight years ago) link
forever in our hearts, dougie, forever going deep tonight
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, 29 April 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
JBJ's onetime inability to hit seems so far in the past given how well he's done lately
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 1 May 2016 04:39 (eight years ago) link
in retrospect it does kinda suck that sandoval had to go down in the year "panda" by desiigner is a major hit, but
a. he prob wouldn't use it as his walkup song b. i enjoy travis shaw playing 3rd
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
otm i love travis shaw and his dazed, glazed mein
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
Ortiz just tried to bunt.
― Andy K, Thursday, 5 May 2016 02:48 (eight years ago) link
maybe ortiz should keep playing
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 May 2016 02:26 (eight years ago) link
i would rather he not end his career like a certain hollowed-out, gift-basket-distributing husk, even if the lack of fielding means he /might/ have one to two more years in him - the final of those years, if they occurred, would be the same sort of facile shitshow
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 9 May 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link
but yeah having a current slash line (#smallsamplesize etc.) of .308/.393/.673 is pretty cool
also cool: steven fuckin knuckleballin' wright all of a sudden pulling off pitching lines like this: CG, 3H, 1R/ER (the gardner homer), 1BB, 7K.
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 9 May 2016 13:13 (eight years ago) link
did they flip flop which day was supposed to be the daygame? i was looking forward to seeing steve wright in the afternoon (that's a bbc radio joke, folks)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 May 2016 14:09 (eight years ago) link
hah I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it had to do with ESPN wanting the sunday game for that prime time exclusivity viewership cheddar
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 9 May 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
well i'm pissed off because i got to watch yet another completely forgettable david price performance through to the bitter end instead of papi hitting two dingers and wright getting his CG
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 May 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
how do you watch - MLB TV? blackout rules are annoying as hell
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 9 May 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
Yup and I'm international so ... no blackouts :D
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 May 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
lol sox are legit starting a dude named sean o'sullivan tonight,who I cannot confirm WASNT just pulled out of a booth at cask & flagon just before the game
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
these guys are hitting the shit out of the ball
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link
looking more and more like a classic sox home offense
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 01:21 (eight years ago) link
if the trend continues against the As the run differential will go up by like 25 just due to these 3 games
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
^^^predictive
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 May 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link
:D
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 12 May 2016 01:49 (eight years ago) link
speaking of "international", Tracer...
http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/05/11/report-the-red-sox-are-being-investigated-by-mlb-for-questionable-international-signings/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 May 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link
JBJ's last 11 games: .475/.512/1.025
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 May 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
jfc this offense :] :] :]
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, 13 May 2016 01:19 (eight years ago) link
Matias: How is it possible that Bradley Jr went from being “trash”, talked about a potential trade for a mediocre Mariners reliever, to this exciting player that is putting great numbers, with some pop? Between the last months of last season and this start, we cant say its small sample size, right?
Klaw: Well, he was never trash, right? People buried him based on what was still a small sample but didn’t look like one. The part that’s surprising to me is that he’s hitting for average AND power. I thought he could do one or the other. I still kind of think with his low contact rate, he’s going to see the average drop, and he kind of has to sell out a little bit to get to this power. I’d rather see him cut down on the swing a little to improve his contact rate, but that’s kind of a stupid criticism when the guy is hitting .322 and slugging .610.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
well
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-red-sox-offense-has-been-better-than-the-1927-yankees/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 May 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
jbj 20 game hit streak
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 May 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
― mookieproof, Sunday, May 8, 2016 9:26 PM (6 days ago)
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Saturday, 14 May 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
A couple of years ago, before the 2014 season started, I posted that Ortiz wouldn't go into the HOF as long as Edgar Martinez didn't get there first. NoTime argued that no, he'll go in. I'll stand by what I said at the time, but I'm thinking that the Edgar Factor is barely visible on the horizon at this point.
― clemenza, Saturday, 14 May 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
Something I never knew: Ortiz was first signed by Seattle in 1992--Edgar Martinez's breakout year (he'd been good in '90 and '91, but not yet the dominant hitter he'd become).
― clemenza, Sunday, 15 May 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
Bradley batted .469 (15-for-32) with six runs scored, two doubles, three home runs and 15 RBI over seven games to earn his first career AL Player of the Week Award.
― mookieproof, Monday, 16 May 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
killer b's baby
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 May 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
i was at saturday's game and it was SO MUCH FUN. ortiz had to be at his daughter's quincañera that night and i have a feeling he was just like 'ok, if nobody else does this, i will.' 600th double was the cherry on top
― maura, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
simmons said yesterday that Ortiz is now m/l as big a boston icon as ted williams
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link