Thad Bosley

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jul 14, 2013 -> 07:00 PM) And you probably think Courtney Hawkins is a sure fire major league superstar in the making, worthy of top 5 prospect ranking. Good grief - what a silly comment. Who talks about ANY 19 year-old as being a "sure fire major league superstar", no matter what round they were drafted? You can certainly like their chances, given when they were drafted, and I continue to expect great things of Courtney at some point given the ability he universally is said to possess. But why you would feel otherwise with him being all of 19 years old and without the benefit of a full year in professional ball under his belt is beyond me, other than an incessant need to be negative around here all the time. It's so disappointing to read comments like this one, and luckily it's very much the exception rather than the rule on this otherwise well-informed site.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 09:36 PM) Thad I applaud your patience and I would normally agree since I am among the most optimistic of Sox fans but the writing is all over the wall already on this season. Bad defense ,bad offense. Bad luck. Bad mojo. 0dd numbered year. Injuries and on and on. I'm just hoping whatever is going on doesn't end up with Sale on the DL and Danks shows improvement and getting 1 or 2 legitimate ML ready player at the trade deadline. The Sox played good ball only for that stretch that got them to .500 .That Cubs series the bad mojo really set in. Pitcher HR's, grand slams, terrible hitting, pitchers not holding any leads, and no HR's for us, it's just been brutal to behold. We are not world beaters by any stretch of the imagination. I also happen to think we are not a 95-100 loss team, either, as this site's most infamous provacteur suggested earlier this evening. I still think there is sufficient talent on this ballclub that will surface and even out the results on the season. Will that be enough to prohibit us from being sellers in the next six, seven weeks or so? Probably not. But I don't think we are in the dire straits that some would lead us to believe.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 09:17 PM) Says who? Hawk can keep saying this, but at some point, your team is what it is, not what you think it could be. Says the 2012 season. This is, for the most part, that same team, the same team who was in first place for the majority of the season, and save the abysmal late season collapse in those final two weeks, would have won the division with around 90 wins.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 09:09 PM) We're more than 1/3 way through the season. How much do you need to see? 2/3? It's not mid-April anymore. I understand that. I also understand that before this streak, we were a .500 ballclub that had not yet played anywhere near as well as it could play, as it played last year when it was in first place for most of the season. Now I'm not delusional - we are not going to catch that Detroit ballclub this year. I'd just rather judge the team in it's entirety outside of this streak when the team is playing in a more normal course of play.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 09:09 PM) Believe what you want to believe. That's clearly the mantra under which you seem to operate.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 09:04 PM) This team has shown no signs of breaking out of their season long hitting slump. The starting pitching started off great, but even that has fallen off (and you have Peavy being out as well). It's very difficult to imagine this team ending the season within 10 games of the Tigers. There's just way too big of a talent difference between the two teams. Points well taken, Fathom, as always. I'm just not willing to rush to any conclusions yet on a team that's going through a bad streak. I know the team has it's shortcomings, but I'd rather evaluate them in a more normalized stretch of the season.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 08:55 PM) 95 losses is within realm of possibility as they have played one of the easiest schedules in MLB thus far. Easy to say in the throws of a losing streak, which every team faces eventually. Were you calling for 95 losses before this streak? I don't recall as much. The 1983 team was heading for a similar fate right around this time, and how did that eventually turn out? The point is, the range of the "realm of possibility" remains quite large at this point in the season.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 08:47 PM) I think this year will be rock bottom in this rebuild. Don't exaggerate. "Rock bottom" is in the 100 loss season range. This team won't be quite that awful, as they will pull out of the current rut they're in, and at the very least, play somewhere in between the team that was in first place for the majority of last year and where they're at right now.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 08:42 PM) make it three. Hitting successfully only 15% of the time at the Major League Level for as long as Dunn has is just not acceptable. When is the breaking point for the Sox brass to pull the plug on this disaster?

QUOTE (Baron @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 08:39 PM) I could go my entire life without watching Dunn bat again. Ditto

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 08:28 PM) He's a man in motion that's for sure. The look on his face as he was operating, or attempting to operate, his smart phone was funny. Shhhh! Ballgame in progress.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jun 7, 2013 -> 08:12 PM) Following the antics of the M&M guy sitting behind the plate is the best reason to watch Sox games these days. Brooks needs to me sure he sits there every game. Leave the humor to the professionals, please.

Alejandro is De WOWza on defense, and not in a good way.

It really is frustrating to continue watching Dunn take one close pitch after another for a called third strike on the 3-2 count, over and over and over again. The umps do not give him the benefit of the doubt on those calls, and yet he won't swing the bat. Not a characteristic you want to see with someone hitting in the middle of your lineup.

Irony of all ironies, but our much-maligned Sox offense ended up doing much better than the league average against said "King" this evening!

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 4, 2013 -> 09:52 PM) That was 1990 when the Sox won 94 games. They fell apart in August then too. Kittle was a big part of the '90 team coming out of nowhere and helping the Sox give the A's a run for their money that year. But for whatever reason, Larry Himes decided to trade him away at or around the trading deadline for Phil Bradley who, on paper, might have looked like a better, overall player than Kitty. But Bradley bombed with the Sox and ended up being nowhere near as productive as Kitty had been earlier in the season. And that trading away of Kittle was one of the reasons, I believe, why the Sox lost out to Oakland that season.

This conversation going on right now between Hawk and Stoney re: hitting coaches and teaching "one method" is a far cry and away ahead of the snooze fest going on in the Seattle TV booth as we speak.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ May 22, 2013 -> 09:15 PM) Where did Hawk go? Is he off pouting? No, he's there, and he and Stone are having a nice conversation right now putting this game into perspective in light of the entire series.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 21, 2013 -> 08:45 PM) Still just under 22k tonight Where the H-E-DOUBLE-TOOTHPICK is the so-called "Red Sox Nation" tonight? What a pathetic showing on their part!!

Reed's changeup to Nava followed by the high, hard fastball - just a thing of pitching beauty!

Alexei has had quite a night for himself with the leather.

Terrific at-bat for the Tank! Way to pick up Paulie!

SALE RIOS DUNN GILLASPIE: REED:

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 17, 2013 -> 09:15 PM) Hawk and Wimpy are amazing. LOL at the haters. Agreed!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 17, 2013 -> 08:41 PM) Was Rios homer another huge bomb? Not in the league with the one he hit last night, but he hit it to a very deep part of the ballpark, left center field.