OT: 2017 Red Sox/MLB - PLAY BALL!!!!!!
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In order to help sell some books David Ortiz will be hitting the talk show circuit this week. He'll be on Good Morning America ( ABC ) on Monday morning and he's scheduled to be on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( CBS ) on Wednesday night. I wonder if the name Bobby Valentine will come up ????
cant get over the fact they had lovullo sitting there and opted to keep Farrell over him
I get lovullo not wanting to take his friends job but at some point you have to do what's best for the organization if you're the sox. If we are being honest with each other Farrell is fired if he didn't unfortunately get cancer.
I'm sick of Farrell's bullpen management and I'm sick of his dumb ideas. Inject some life into the team, they are playing uninspired ball like they are in the doldrums of July and its only mid may
Carson smith and David price need to come back soon.
I get lovullo not wanting to take his friends job but at some point you have to do what's best for the organization if you're the sox. If we are being honest with each other Farrell is fired if he didn't unfortunately get cancer.
I'm sick of Farrell's bullpen management and I'm sick of his dumb ideas. Inject some life into the team, they are playing uninspired ball like they are in the doldrums of July and its only mid may
Carson smith and David price need to come back soon.
AGREED! Lovullo would have been great and showed it in the small time when he took over, only thing that allowed Farrell to keep the job is he got sick and the RedSox did not want to look bad for canning a guy while he was out with illness. They should have made the move at the end of last season though, can't see what the Sox owners and Dombrowski love about this guy he is one of the worst managers in MLB.
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What will that really do though? It won't fix the bullpen. It won't fix the starting rotation. It won't make guys who aren't hitting suddenly hit. It won't make Panda a useful 3rd base option. It won't fix this poorly constructed roster.
And keep in mind I say that as a person who wants JF fired.
“Good, good man. Even better coach,†Babcock said. “Someone out there is happy today. I mean, you ain’t getting better."
LSCII
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For the sake of argument, I guess you can say this. Is the team playing poorly under JF because they dislike him that much? I mean you can certainly make the argument, but if that were truly the case, wouldn't they have been bad last year too though?
What will that really do though? It won't fix the bullpen. It won't fix the starting rotation. It won't make guys who aren't hitting suddenly hit. It won't make Panda a useful 3rd base option. It won't fix this poorly constructed roster.
And keep in mind I say that as a person who wants JF fired.
Everybody always points that out when you talk about firing a manager or coach, but ultimately its about putting the players on notice. Managers and coaches get fired, more than any other reason, to put the players on notice and get them to turn themselves around.
This Red Sox team is playing uninspired, mistake-riddled baseball. But it's a good enough team to win games even with a couple starters banged up. With Sale and Porcello alone they have a decent rotation, and EdRod is a solid 3 this season. What they need is to play with more desperation and more attention to detail. I think a manager shakeup is aimed to get you that.
There was definitely a "win one last one for Papi" thing going on last year that helped carry them through the regular season until they ran out of gas/ran into a hot team in the playoffs. It seems they need some additional motivation this year and Farrell really isn't the guy to help provide that IMO.
Donnie Shulzhoffer
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There was an AP article on Shaw in my local paper Saturday, he admitted that all the speculation about trading him etc got to him & he let it affect his play. He also said he was determined to make the Sox regret trading him.
So we'll have to see if Shaw can continue at this pace. I really liked him when he was on the Sox and was disappointed when he got traded.
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I don't get the point of that tweet...it was a terrible day weather-wise and if I had to guess, that pic was taken late in the game when TB put it out of reach...of course the stands are going to look like that. Attendance numbers are all about tickets sold, not how many people actually show up.
That's not the case anywhere else I've ever attended a game. The announced attendance are actual butts in the seat. Not tickets sold.
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It really depends on if you think they're underachieving, or are what we've seen. Personally, I don't think this team is very good. I think they're what we see. A few decent pieces, but a lot of holes. Holes in the starting pitching. Holes in the bullpen. Holes in the infield. Holes in the outfield. Holes in the batting order. They're a sum of all their parts and that sum isn't very good.
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I get what you're saying, and I too want JF fired. I'm just not sure the players will respond or if they're actually capable it. It's a deeply flawed roster. I don't think much of anything barring an overhaul of said roster will change the results.
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http://www.latimes.com/la-sp-attendance-082305-story.html
http://www.espn.com/espnradio/playPopup?id=19388124
That's a podcast about what you're talking about. I admit my Cubs do appear to be a .486 team so far.
Every hole I see, with the exception of 3rd base, would be solved by simply getting guys back from injury.
A healthy Price would solidify the starting pitching.
Thornberg and Smith would solidify the bullpen.
The outfield is awesome as-is.
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