Ducksnort

I have slowly stopped watching games. I think I've watched 2 innings of this baltimore series. What a shame. This series and these injuries feel like the nail in the coffin

I mean not really. Robert doesn't suck. He's hurt seems like every other month or more. Moncada, Grandal, Mendick were all heating up before they got hurt. Anderson is hurt usually a few times a year. Eloy you could make a case for but he wouldn't suck if he weren't hurt so much. Just needs to find a consistent power stroke but you can't do that if you are constantly not playing. Engel is really good in the role he plays. All the pitchers that are hurt don't suck.

Leury lmao

And who is supposed to play instead? Everyone else has strained, torn or broken something.

Because all the players this team has been built around are constantly hurt. It's like they don't exist. This team has been playing at like 50% what it should be ever since Hermy left. This season has felt more like 25%. It's been a team akin to mediocrity because the players that are supposed to make them good simply aren't playing. And their backups are hurt. So...this is what you get. What a shame. Fans got pumped up to see certain players play, and rarely do we get to see them, and only a handful of games have they all played together.

Well that's not going to fix it either

He's in!

Rick Hahn's plan for world domination: Step 1-Pay Kenley Jansen to not sign with the Dodgers in the "offseason" of 2021. Step 2-Draft Nick Madrigal and make everyone think he's the next Jose Altuve, but knowing he won't make it due to his inevitability to be injured. Step 3-Trade Madrigal to the Cubs, receive a closer who you know is going to tank (Kimbrel) but actually will make people think the Sox will do well in the playoffs at the time of the trade. Hook. Bonus--screw the Cubs with a trade. Again. Step 4-Make Kimbrel shit the bed. Everyone's pissed, but the goal is to win it all in 2022. So who cares. Step 5-Trade Kimbrel during spring training and receive stud AJ Pollock from the Dodgers. A win for Kimbrel because, Dodgers. Step 6-Sign Big Energy and piss everyone off again, knowing you only need a little more time to show off the real second baseman. Step 7-Let Sosa loose and show everyone his superstar capabilities in the minors. Step 8-Destroy Mendick's legs Step 9-Welcome to the bigs, Lenyn Sosa. Step 10 (yet to come to fruition)- Sosa wins ROY with just half a season of play. Sox win world series in game 7 on a walk-off bomb from Sosa. What a fucking genius. Bravo Rick Hahn.

I am so confused with how these things work now. Used to be so simple to follow.

We are getting that much closer to TA catching. I can practically smell it.

The same thing happened with Grandal, Moncada and now Mendick. They all were just starting to fire on all cylinders and then they got injured. The hits just keep coming.

And the pitch count rises

He's the manager forever.

We have a pitching rotation and an injury rotation. One guy goes on, another comes off.

He and Stony are full of it tonight. This is thoroughly entertaining.

I'm really not feeling good about this series. I hope I'm wrong but this just feels like it's gonna be another series loss or sweep to another good team. Having TA back will be nice and is sorely needed, but we have much bigger issues than that, sadly. Who's getting injured in this series?

If he doesn't have Nationwide I don't even know what life means anymore.

I expect something along the lines of "I quit"

I have definitely heard one of the announcers hock at least 2 loogies in this broadcast

"Yeah he hit that ball pretty good that would have been an out in any other park."

Wooahh.

Hoo boy. I really don't have the time to thoroughly answer this question. All you need to do is look at the lineups he was screwing around with for the first 2 months of the season. And I would actually argue it's more with pitchers than with the hitters. Exhibit A: Intentionally walking Trea Turner with a 1-2 count to get to Max Muncy. Got national attention. Easy case of manager losing the game. Look, I wasn't totally against TLR when he was hired. I wasn't "thrilled," but I wasn't against it. Hell he even got us to the playoffs last year. But if you've watched most Sox games this season, and have a good sense of modern-day baseball, I'm not sure how one doesn't question TLR's decision-making. Lately, I think someone up front has been up his ass, because his lineups have been actually making sense.

Sure. But the obsession with this manager with handedness, no matter who the hitter is, is a little ridiculous, don't you think?

That was a great comeback after yesterday's debacle. Baseball sure is a strange game.