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[AimingForYoko]

Aceves need work or something? Is he bored?

[Al Zarilla]

So this game kinda sux, huh? I'm glad I missed Lester's masterful interpretation of Starter Implosion.

OK, but we need to add your input on whom to fire.

[ifmanis5]

Excellent. I think Lane would be the #4 starter for this staff. Behind Don, Pete and Doubront.

[Reggie's Racquet]

Summer Olympics next week and 18 days until the first Pats preseason game...

[canderson]

What on earth can be going through Valentine's brain?

"I left an easy studio gig for THIS clusterfuuck?"

[Sprowl]

OK, but we need to add your input on whom to fire.

Fire them all, let BABIP sort them out.

[El Tiante]

Jesus, is this the cluster fuck I get to watch all summer? Depressing.

[Frank, Fenway]

Oh nobody got hurt... that's good, right?

[mauidano]

I just don't get Aceves pitching this situation. There is NO ONE ELSE who can burn up an inning?

[InsideTheParker]

What on earth can be going through Valentine's brain?

"I left an easy studio gig for THIS clusterfuuck?"

Does his brain think it was smart to put an effective lefty, Morales, in the pen and allow an ineffective starter to give up 11 runs before removing him? Does his brain have an answer to my question about removing the relatively effective Tazawa from the game just when the Sox got in spitting distance of a tie ballgame?

[soxhop411]

Does his brain think it was smart to put an effective lefty, Morales, in the pen and allow an ineffective starter to give up 11 runs before removing him? Does his brain have an answer to my question about removing the relatively effective Tazawa from the game just when the Sox got in spitting distance of a tie ballgame?

I thought it was reported the reason behind Morales to the pen was his IP and him not being stretched out as a starter... BP IP + SP IP= close to IP limits?

[mauidano]

So this game kinda sux, huh? I'm glad I missed Lester's masterful interpretation of Starter Implosion.

It was really hard to watch. he just was missing badly, nothing he threw up there was hitting Salty's spots. The 5 walks could have been worse. The Jays went up swinging after everything obviously. Surprised that he had as many strikes in his pitch count as he did (not counting the hits). Bard-esque.

[Laser Show]

So I'm watching through Scrubs on Netflix - way better than this shit - and J.D.'s hitting on a girl named Jamie Moyer

[E5 Yaz]

So I'm watching through Scrubs on Netflix - way better than this shit - and J.D.'s hitting on a girl named Jamie Moyer

Lefty

[Joe Shlabotnick]

So is anybody else as pumped as I am about this team being back in last place?

[shawnrbu]

Does his brain think it was smart to put an effective lefty, Morales, in the pen and allow an ineffective starter to give up 11 runs before removing him? Does his brain have an answer to my question about removing the relatively effective Tazawa from the game just when the Sox got in spitting distance of a tie ballgame?

Tazawa pitched in every game this series. Getting 3 innings from him seems like enough, especially in a game that was never within reach.

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

<---------Gamethread fail

[soxhop411]

So is anybody else as pumped as I am about this team being back in last place?

TOP DRAFT PICK!

[bosockboy]

Fun stat: Sox starters ERA in innings 1 and 2 for month of July: 11.00

You just can't win when that happens....period.

Complete failure by McClure to curb this problem. Again....fire him tomorrow.

[InsideTheParker]

Tazawa pitched in every game this series. Getting 3 innings from him seems like enough, especially in a game that was never within reach.

Yeah, you guys are right. It was just disappointing, the way it worked out. But as for never being in reach, haven't the RS ever caught up and won when four runs back?

p.s. In one regard, the game represented progress, in that the Sox scored in more than one inning today.

Edited by InsideTheParker, 22 July 2012 - 04:18 PM.

[Rasputin]

I believe I speak for all of us when I say "Fuck everyone and everything."

Thank you, and good day.

[LeoCarrillo]

"Listen, I'm not here to tell you how to pitch ..."

[E5 Yaz]

"Listen, I'm not here to tell you how to pitch ..."

Not a good year for Best Buy either

[E5 Yaz]

Tim Britton ‏@TBritton_Projo
Lester: "I have a hard time walking through this clubhouse looking guys in the eye."

[bloodysox]

Tim Britton ‏@TBritton_Projo
Lester: "I have a hard time walking through this clubhouse looking guys in the eye."

Good.

[fineyoungarm]

Just got off a plane to all this. Makes one believe that the romance of flight may not be dead.

So, we have a pitching coach who tells Cafardo that he's not big on going to the mound, when pitchers struggle. They're pros and will figure it out or not. What about when pitchers pour gasoline all over themselves and light a match? "I believe that they have more sense than to self immolate."

And Ben C tells Mazz (or BV tells Mazz that Ben C implied to him) that the team would make no moves that would worsen it short term. So that means pretty much the entire starting rotation is in play.

One word - Garza.

[fineyoungarm]

Good.

Agree. Try spending a few weeks in the Pawtucket club house. See how that goes. Get into joint therapy with Bard.

[LeoCarrillo]

TWO BOBS: So, you physically deliver advice to the pitchers?

MCCLURE: Well, no.

TWO BOBS: Then you must physically deliver it to the team manager?

MCCLURE: Well...no. Yeah, I mean, sometimes.

Edited by LeoCarrillo, 22 July 2012 - 04:59 PM.

[fineyoungarm]

TWO BOBS: So, you physically deliver advice to the pitchers?

MCCLURE: Well, no.

TWO BOBS: Then you must physically deliver it to the team manager?

MCCLURE: Well...no. Yeah, I mean, sometimes.

Beautiful

[fineyoungarm]

John Lester, John Lester - smoke him inside, inside.

[kartvelo]

Back to the cellar, .500, and 10 games out.

Well done, men. Well done.

[soxhop411]

MikeSilvermanBB

#RedSox digging up mound at Fenway. This may or may not have been done at request of Jon Lester. #11ER http://t.co/ktgxofTb

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Edited by soxhop411, 22 July 2012 - 06:35 PM.

[fineyoungarm]

PLEASE tell me this is humor.

Mel Parnell to the FO - You know, as a lefty The Wall gives me the creeps. Raise the mound a few inches. The league won't notice. Nothing but dilletantes there.

[Sprowl]

MikeSilvermanBB

#RedSox digging up mound at Fenway. This may or may not have been done at request of Jon Lester. #11ER http://t.co/ktgxofTb

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Open-mound surgery is very risky, but sometimes it is necessary to save the patient's life.













That will be $10.

[SoxLegacy]

$25 co-pay for Emergency Room services. Seriously though, does anyone know if this is something that is regularly done through the season? I can't imagine it is, but there's got to be someone on here with more info regarding this type of operation in general and Fenway in particular. On the one hand, maybe there is a connection between Lester and his struggles at home and the mound, though it seems that other pitchers don't have similar problems.

Edited by SoxLegacy, 22 July 2012 - 08:06 PM.

[Harry Hooper]

$25 co-pay for Emergency Room services. Seriously though, does anyone know if this is something that is regularly done through the season? I can't imagine it is, but there's got to be someone on here with more info regarding this type of operation in general and Fenway in particular. On the one hand, maybe there is a connection between Lester and his struggles at home and the mound, though it seems that other pitchers don't have similar problems.

I bet it's being removed for Liverpool or the rock concerts.

Edited by Harry Hooper, 22 July 2012 - 09:05 PM.

[armyguy25]

TWO BOBS: So, you physically deliver advice to the pitchers?

MCCLURE: Well, no.

TWO BOBS: Then you must physically deliver it to the team manager?

MCCLURE: Well...no. Yeah, I mean, sometimes.

McLure runs a tight ship. He's on the ball, workin hard 24/7...........

That's 24 minutes a day, 7 days a month.

[DaveRoberts'Shoes]

Open-mound surgery is very risky, but sometimes it is necessary to save the patient's life.













That will be $10.

You're cutting into my revenue stream.

Oh, and in my medical opinion, Lester sucks donkeys.

That's free.

[fenwaypaul]

MikeSilvermanBB

#RedSox digging up mound at Fenway. This may or may not have been done at request of Jon Lester. #11ER http://t.co/ktgxofTb

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Searching for Lester's command?