Red Sox 2016: The Lard of Pablo, or No More Papis in MA

sox are being smacked down for international signings violations

they did a dumb thing and the penalty is pretty fair all things considered

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/source-red-sox-banned-from-signing-international-players-for-a-year-153432545.html

...lost 21-2 today to the goddamn angels, with CJ fuckin cron going 6 for 6

I think the pitching may indeed be a problem

in which actually functional red sox pitcher steven wright waxes poetic about the knuckleball http://www.theplayerstribune.com/2016-7-6-steven-wright-red-sox-all-star-knuckleball/

in which professional baseball pitcher michael kopech throws a 105-mph fastball:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/red-soxs-michael-kopech-hits-105-start-vs-wilmington

damn boah

now if only he can stop punching people and using speed

fans seem divided over the pomeranz trade. some are like, yo he's pretty good & signing groome makes loss of espinoza easier to swallow, whereas ppl who either a. obsess over prospects the way sam hinkie obsessed over arm length and 2nd round draft picks for the 76ers or b. think any move that isn't COMPLETE AND TOTAL GENIUS is a failure are moaning

personally i lean more toward column a but this year is honestly pomeranz's first genuinely good one. FIP not being that much higher than his ERA, plus good ERA+, K/9 and decent (if not earthshaking) bWAR are encouraging.

5.5 fWAR, depending on which of those u put more stock in

so i will be staying near BU (tho Cambridge side of river) Aug 12-14... i take it Tracer already has Sox tix w/ his fam for a game. I'd be up for Fri or Sat night, cheap as possible (StubHub i guess) if anyone wants to. cad and i were talkin' bout FAPping Sunday eve as he will not be around earlier.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn0uCePWcAAR_21.jpg

lolllllllll

i try v hard to never say the "we" or "my" shit when talking about the sox. i mess up now and then but it's a huge pet peeve

agreed

hanle_y

the hanley ramirez game

espinoza did about as well as pomeranz tonight fwiw

hanley stunt on them haters

hanle_y
--mookieproof

the record for XBH age 40 and above is 62, by dave winfield. papi's double just put him at 60 w/67 games to go.

morelike david yikes

_hanle_y
--mookieproof_

--if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes)

and another one

"That was a great moment. Another memorable moment this year was Big Papi's walkoff."

"The baby powder walk-off."

"It was flour."

"Oh it was flour?"

"It was Joe Kelly's idea to do that. Throw flour on Papi as he came into second base. ... Baserunner for Pujols now who's gone 1 for 3."

"I guess baby powder would have smelled."

"Not a good idea to get baby powder in your eyes."

"I'd guess flour isn't good to get in your eyes, either!"

"Gary it's not good to get ANYTHING in your eyes."

ok that was an immensely gratifying game of baseball.

I worked that walk-off!

i will be up in 2 weekends; whether i will be able to buy a seat for $60 or less for the 13th is a diff question

just to get this pun out of the way: dealing pat light was not abad move to get fernando

(actually it was a gr8 move pat light sucked this year in his big league appearances, though im sure someone will tell me he had gr8 stuff)

have an infield seat for Sat 8/13! to the left of home, row 10

letting Wright throw 119 pitches in a 9-0 CG win seems nuts

it was excessive but they have a day off this coming monday so there's extra time for him to rest - he prob won't throw again till at least next Wednesday or thursday

arms don't explode on the 101st pitch, particularly when they're throwing knuckleballs. i'm sure he'll pull through

he's a knuckler!

or what mookie said

bobblehead disaster

link to bobblehead disaster: http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2016/08/09/red-sox-deem-david-ortiz-bobblehead-racially-insensitive/qwAnoxGz56oV5pxohgrFuM/story.html

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#RedSox Manager John Farrell: Jonathan Papelbon "could be an addition here"

i assume he means that as in "possesses a mammalian frame that has weight and volume"

Papelbon had the good chicken and beer contacts, club house hasn't had as good a spread since.

the fuck has gotten into mookie betts

I can't remember which one of the three, but that one he hit to center was a bomb. If you are 5-9 and have that type of power, you are in league with Jim "The Toy Cannon" Wynn. All those old 60s and 70s guys would talk about how much power that Wynn had for his size.

Don't see Betts play much at all, but the guy has to have some amazing bat speed.

mookie in 11 games against the orioles this season

.426/.490/1.000, 20-for-47, 8 HR, 3 2B, 17 RBI, 3 2B, 16 R, 6 K

seven of the homers have come in the five games at camden yards

Criminy, I figured you guys were referencing the 3 HR game a couple days ago. Yowza, the ball must look like a beach ball to Betts right now.

he was AL player of the month for july; he already has more homers and rbi in august

I guess it is good that Betts never got moved out for a stretch run free agent a few years back when his name came up in those rumors.

he does indeed have incredible bat speed

betts is currently at 6.9 WAR per baseball reference #nice #chill

Haven't read everything on this business about Detroit refusing to change today's game time (from afternoon to everning) to accommodate Boston's schedule, but it seems like Boston should have first asked Baltimore to change the time of yesterday's game since THAT was a getaway day. Anyway...

http://www.bostonherald.com/sites/default/files/styles/gallery/public/media/2016/06/22/062616dombrowskifarrell1.jpg?itok=VeFv7x9s

apparently it was bc there's a preseason lions game tonight? idk. thats what they're saying publicly i think

i was gonna blame showalter bc why not but by all accounts he agreed to let last night be called after finding out what boston's next-day schedule was