6/8 Sox vs. Guardians

[Ferm Sheller]

Just like they practiced in Spring Training.

Spring Training 1983.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

That will go on the 2023 Red Sox dvd!

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

For those wondering, the Guardians are next to last in the AL in runs scored.

19 runs on 35 hits in the series.

 

[twibnotes]

And at what point does this fanbase stop making excuses for Chaim Bloom and just accept that he’s not good at his job?

im with you there -I think it’s time

 

[JOBU]

The whole plan of signing pitchers who are injured or are reclamation projects on one year contracts has been a crappy plan.

Shocking isn’t it?

 

[Beomoose]

Well done Bloom! Too bad we didn't have a chance to resign Wacha or Eovaldi. Oh crap, we did didn't we.

Yep

 

[twibnotes]

I just don't understand how JHW doesn't watch a performance like tonight (or all season for that matter) and think "Holy shit! That's $10 million of my money that's being set on fire out there!"

I think after panda and Crawford, nothing registers that kind of response anymore - senses dulled

 

[BigSoxFan]

And at what point does this fanbase stop making excuses for Chaim Bloom and just accept that he’s not good at his job?

The group of Chaim apologists is shrinking by the day.

 

[JOBU]

I just don't understand how JHW doesn't watch a performance like tonight (or all season for that matter) and think "Holy shit! That's $10 million of my money that's being set on fire out there!"

I think you’re giving him too much credit that he’s actually watching

 

[donutogre]

I think after panda and Crawford, nothing registers that kind of response anymore - senses dulled

Stockholm syndrome kind of shit

 

[mr_smith02]

Well, I started this game thread but I still say this shit show tonight is the Sox karma for calling up Dermody.

 

[Ferm Sheller]

That will go on the 2023 Red Sox dvd!

Perfect! My last dvd player shit the bed in 2014.

 

[mauidano]

Unfortunately more River Kwai than Madison County

Well done!!!

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

The whole plan of signing pitchers who are injured or are reclamation projects on one year contracts has been a crappy plan.

It‘s not a crappy plan if you have the coaching and track record of success doing it.

The Red Sox don’t.

 

[twibnotes]

I think you’re giving him too much credit that he’s actually watching

i think we have bingo

and I worry that it matters - you don’t want Steinbrenner or Jerry jones style but you also don’t want Jeremy jacobs style

 

[soxhop411]

Well done Bloom! Too bad we didn't have a chance to resign Wacha or Eovaldi. Oh crap, we did didn't we.

We did. He turned it down thinking he could get more money.

https://www.si.com/mlb/red-sox/prospects/red-sox-reportedly-pulled-offer-for-nathan-eovaldi-after-spending-elsewhere-scott7

“"It sounds like they made him what was a good offer earlier in the offseason and (his agents) weren't ready to take it, they were like: 'this market could blow up.' The market never did blow up.

"It sounds like from some of what I've heard, Eovaldi's camp came back to the Red Sox and said 'okay, can we still get that offer back?' (The Red Sox) said no. That was after they got Masataka Yoshida, Kenley Jansen and Chris Martin."”

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Cora giving up on this game at 3-2 feels like a cry for help.

 

[AB in DC]

Hey, a third run. Don't see that very often.

 

[donutogre]

Well, I started this game thread but I still say this shit show tonight is the Sox karma for calling up Dermody.

I can get behind that.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Perfect storm brewing against Bloom right now. The Sox are about what we thought they would be, but made the mistake of having a nice stretch early on where it felt like maybe they were capable of playing entertaining baseball. If they had started out from the beginning playing like a collection of spare parts and misfit toys, we all would have just said, yeah what we thought. That plus guys who left playing great and I think his seat may start to get a bit warm. If the Yankees hammer us, the noise is going to get loud.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Is Raffy pressing trying to justify the contract or something? The OBP has been bad, now the power’s been gone for a month.

 

[Ferm Sheller]

Ugh, NESN cut out at the worst possible time!

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

Dang.

 

[soxin6]

Ugh, NESN cut out at the worst possible time!

Why couldn’t it cut out when Kluber was getting klubbed?

 

[Ale Xander]

Perfect storm brewing against Bloom right now. The Sox are about what we thought they would be, but made the mistake of having a nice stretch early on where it felt like maybe they were capable of playing entertaining baseball. If they had started out from the beginning playing like a collection of spare parts and misfit toys, we all would have just said, yeah what we thought. That plus guys who left playing great and I think his seat may start to get a bit warm. If the Yankees hammer us, the noise is going to get loud.

I don’t see them winning a series pre-Athletics

 

[donutogre]

If the Yankees hammer us, the noise is going to get loud.

It feels early in the season for things to be so dire, but definitely agree. The stars feel like they’re lining up for the Sox to get absolutely rocked.

 

[simplicio]

Man, this game was supposed to be all about us getting behind how much Dermody sucks, and Kluber had to go and ruin even that by being worse.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

at least the team really responded to the verdugo benching

 

[patinorange]

I don’t see them winning a series pre-Athletics

Optimist.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

at least the team really responded to the verdugo benching

And the team meeting.

 

[DisgruntledSoxFan77]

im with you there -I think it’s time

Finally we agree on something!

The group of Chaim apologists is shrinking by the day.

One can only hope

I don’t see them winning a series pre-Athletics

Even then…

 

[donutogre]

I do enjoy commiserating with y’all at least! Get excited for that series in NYC

 

[E5 Yaz]

I do enjoy commiserating with y’all at least! Get excited for that series in NYC

They're going to sweep the Yankees, and the board will be filled with posts urging them to trade prospects for the missing piece to a championship

 

[donutogre]

They're going to sweep the Yankees, and the board will be filled with posts urging them to trade prospects for the missing piece to a championship

I mean that would be a lot more entertaining at least.

 

[E5 Yaz]

I mean that would be a lot more entertaining at least.

Yes, but not for the reason you might think

 

[Coachster]

Minority opinion here, but if the choice tomorrow is to DFA one of Kluber or Dermondy, I’m ok having Corey around another week or so.

So long as he doesn’t actually have to pitch in a game.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Minority opinion here, but if the choice tomorrow is to DFA one of Kluber or Dermondy, I’m ok having Corey around another week or so.

So long as he doesn’t actually have to pitch in a game.

peteabe: Dermody was DFA'd after the game, which makes room for Duvall on both the 40-man and 26-man rosters. Cora indicated there could be two other moves.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Kluber to the IL, Ort called up is my guess.

 

[Ferm Sheller]

Kluber to the IL, Ort called up is my guess.

Ugh, no, it's gotta be Murphy back, not Ort.

 

[DisgruntledSoxFan77]

Peace out, scumbag!

View: https://twitter.com/smittyonmlb/status/1666988563622244362?s=46&t=JlmH7uPux-PXk1bn25Wuaw

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Ugh, no, it's gotta be Murphy back, not Ort.

Ah that could be it too. But the only way to get Ort, Sherriff, or Murphy back is via someone going on the IL, right?

 

[DisgruntledSoxFan77]

Ah that could be it too. But the only way to get Ort, Sherriff, or Murphy back is via someone going on the IL, right?

Mystery injury for Hernandez?

 

[Just a bit outside]

Ah that could be it too. But the only way to get Ort, Sherriff, or Murphy back is via someone going on the IL, right?

It was answer for Kluber going to the IL so any of the three.

 

[E5 Yaz]

View: https://twitter.com/SmittyOnMLB/status/1666995740135116803


Corey Kluber declined to speak with the media. I've been told by two sources he has not been DFA'd despite some general speculation on Twitter just because of how he was left out there for so long tonight Could that change? Maybe. But as of now, not involved in any roster moves

 

[moretsyndrome]

And the team meeting.

Team meetings are like cortisone shots. You can only have so many in one season.