Random Sox Crap (Sox Thoughts without Threads)
#1
Posted 25 April 2009 - 06:27 AM
#2
Posted 25 April 2009 - 07:06 AM
#3
Posted 25 April 2009 - 07:13 AM
Burnett hasn't been getting them to hit on the ground as much as he usually does this year, so we'll see what difference this makes. Hopefully someone lines a ball into Teixeira's Maddow-looking vagina.
#5
Posted 25 April 2009 - 08:26 AM
Atleast I won't have to hear Yankee fans in CT trying to patiently explain to me that Ransom was an excellent player because there was a Youtube of him jumping over a chair, or some such silliness.
#6
Posted 25 April 2009 - 09:33 AM
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"I left a pitch over the plate," Rivera said in front of his locker when it was over, when it was a few minutes before midnight at Fenway.
"Too much of the plate," he said.
"It's hard," Mo Rivera said, "but it happens."
Not like this, not to him.
*****
A blown save that made Fenway sound the way it does for much bigger games than these, much later in the year. You knew it was only a matter of time after that, because sometimes there is an inevitability about these things, the way there was an inevitability to Game 4 after Bill Mueller's single scored Dave Roberts that night.
Youkilis hit the walk-off, Youkilis finished the Yankees off in the bottom of the 11th at Fenway. But Jason Bay did this. To Mo Rivera. Hit him as hard as anybody ever has.
-Mrs. OCST, after reading P&G
#7
Posted 25 April 2009 - 09:51 AM
hair and cheese, on Apr 25 2009, 08:06 AM, said:
Pedroia put on a clinic last night.
#8
Posted 25 April 2009 - 09:56 AM
Nice way to start round 1 with the Bay and Youk shots to their collective gut.
I'm pretty sure Sveum would have sent the Space Shuttle today - little risky, but what the heck.
-Steve Dillard
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We don't have royals here in the U.S., so heiresses acting like they're Kennedys or something will have to suffice. Maybe Elton John can write a song about Paris in jail. "Goodbye useless cunt. May you never cure your syphillitic ways. You are the mold that grows itself wherever moisture can appear..."
Chemistry Schmemistry in the Paris the Prison Bitch thread.
#9
Posted 25 April 2009 - 10:43 AM
But, lets remember it wasn't all roses last night. Drew, Papi, and Taco all left a lot to be desired. The double plays were extremely frustrating. We scored 2 runs, 1 earned off a guy who allowed 13 baserunners in 5.1 IP. I'm going to chalk the double plays up to some really bad luck on BAPIP. But, the thing I found most frustrating was how aggressive some the Sox were in their approach against Chamberlain who did not have very good control last night, as evidenced by his 4 BBs. I was really hoping going into the game that the Sox would be patient in order to get into that bullpen which is now further weakened by the loss of Bruney, but they were not.
I'm specifically remembering a lot of swings on the first pitch of the at bat. Tek did it in the 2nd, Taco in the third, Lowell in the fourth, Drew with one out and two runners on in the fifth. I really think you have to make the opposing pitcher work a lot harder when the pitcher isn't showing very good control especially considering the opposing bullpen. On the flipside, Pedroia, Youk, Green, and Bay were all patient in their approach and were successful.
This post has been edited by bombdiggz: 25 April 2009 - 11:17 AM
..."I had a steady job, Hauling items for the mob, Y'know the pay was pathetic, It's a shame those boys couldn't be more copacetic." - Robert Hunter
#10
Posted 25 April 2009 - 10:53 AM
Here's my fave from the New York Post:
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Usually, it doesn't get any worse than a future Hall of Fame closer flushing a save by giving up a two-run, two-out ninth-inning home run to the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
#11
Posted 25 April 2009 - 11:01 AM
Could someone please post the graph of pitch location and called strikes when they have a chance, I'm curious to know if the data actually supports that or if was just my angst before the polite canadian blasted that ball to deep center off Rivera. I thought Lester was getting squeezed a bit and it seemed like Oki got squeezed a couple of times too.
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfx/zoneplot...l&sp_type=1
Ok, so I found the data and it's pretty damn clear. The Sox had a lot of strikes lower in the zone and one right in the middle that were called balls, by my count five. On the other hand, there were 3 pitches thrown by a Red Sox outside of the zone called a strike by Cullbrith, while roughly 9 Yankee pitches outside the zone were called strikes. Cullbrith had a pretty bad night last night, missing about 20 calls and the majority of them in favor of the away aquad.
This post has been edited by bombdiggz: 25 April 2009 - 11:35 AM
..."I had a steady job, Hauling items for the mob, Y'know the pay was pathetic, It's a shame those boys couldn't be more copacetic." - Robert Hunter
#12
Posted 25 April 2009 - 11:02 AM
hair and cheese, on Apr 25 2009, 08:06 AM, said:
Lowell should get some love at third base as well. That was a great catch, which saves at least one run, maybe 2.
#13
Posted 25 April 2009 - 11:20 AM
DannyHeep, on Apr 25 2009, 12:02 PM, said:
Lowell has done that multiple times this season. Its really amazing how quick his first step in the field seems to be despite his obvious slowing on the base paths.
#14
Posted 25 April 2009 - 11:25 AM
I wonder how many saves Rivera has blown like last night. Not with a couple seeing-eye hits, but with an absolute rocket from Bernie Carbo, err, Jason Bay. Bay wasn't up there looking to "keep the rally alive" and "fight off a good pitch" and "put the ball in play". He was up there to belt the living crap out of the ball. It was incredible.
#15
Posted 25 April 2009 - 11:30 AM
LahoudOrBillyC, on Apr 25 2009, 12:25 PM, said:
I wonder how many saves Rivera has blown like last night. Not with a couple seeing-eye hits, but with an absolute rocket from Bernie Carbo, err, Jason Bay. Bay wasn't up there looking to "keep the rally alive" and "fight off a good pitch" and "put the ball in play". He was up there to belt the living crap out of the ball. It was incredible.
Rivera's given up at least two other game-winning home runs to the Sox, Hillenbrand's in April 2002 in the 8th inning, and of course Mueller's in Aug. 2004 on Brawl Day. He also gave up a game-tying HR to Varitek in April of 2004, but the Yankees won that game in the bottom of the 9th.
I've always thought that the way to beat Mo was via right-handed batters. Unless he's really off on a particular day, that cutter is murder on LHB, and saws them off exactly the way he sawed off Drew last night in the 9th. RHB have an OPS of 638 off Rivera over the course of his career; LHB are at 515, with a minuscule .259 slugging percentage.
It's always doubly gratifying to beat Rivera because his career has been magnificent.
"I was introduced to cocaine in 1973. So from 1973-80, I was taking Dexedrine, Benzedrine, Darvons, sleeping pills, smoking dope, drinking beer, doing cocaine, and chasing women, and I never played a day without it.’’ - Bernie Carbo
#16
Posted 25 April 2009 - 11:39 AM
Smiling Joe Hesketh, on Apr 25 2009, 09:30 AM, said:
He also handles himself magnificently whether he wins or loses, which is one reason he is still here after all these years. When Mariano pitches on Sunday, he's not going to be all rattled because of what happened on Friday.
Relievers who pound their chest or whine about the boos tend to come and go, while Mariano stays.
This post has been edited by LahoudOrBillyC: 25 April 2009 - 11:39 AM
#17
Posted 25 April 2009 - 11:51 AM
I'm just hoping we go through today without hearing that JD Drew tweaked something on that double off of Jeter's bat that sent him crashing into the wall.
This post has been edited by rembrat: 25 April 2009 - 11:51 AM
#18
Posted 25 April 2009 - 12:19 PM
rembrat, on Apr 25 2009, 10:51 AM, said:
I'm just hoping we go through today without hearing that JD Drew tweaked something on that double off of Jeter's bat that sent him crashing into the wall.
Hometown scorer. That play should have been ruled an error as the ball was in his glove. Drew's AB in the 9th shows he is healthy, he had a couple decent swings but Rivera's cutter demolished him.
One of the things I'd like to do some day is lead an effort by the finest minds of our generation. -EV
#19
Posted 25 April 2009 - 12:31 PM
Dogman2, on Apr 25 2009, 01:19 PM, said:
No way was that an error, ball glanced off the tip of his glove as he was approaching the wall.
Pretty funny/sad that Drew's best play in the game was hitting the ball just weak enough so that they couldn't turn the double play in the 9th. If he hits that even 10% harder they likely hit into their 5th DP of the game and Drew leaves to a chorus of people not quite chanting his name.
#20
Posted 25 April 2009 - 12:36 PM

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