7/19 — Who Cares?
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The hitting was atrocious the last two games. They were lucky they were even as close as they were in this one. Other than turners homer the offense did nothing and the A’s errors kept them in it
Couldn’t watch but game boils down to 3 2R HRs? Bello didn’t have it and Oakland pitchers made good pitches when it counted? 4 Errors though, should have parlayed that into an edge it seems. What’s the thumbnail sketch on this one?
.500 ball against the malnourished siblings of the underclass coming out of the break. (PC cliche-translation in effect).
Bummer. Bad data point in the building narrative of a team that was finally getting its sh#t together.
Edit;The bad data point is particularly bad from A managerial standpoint — team continues to scuffle against lesser-talented squads. I look directly at Alex Cora for being unable to get this team on the balls of their feet on a daily basis. This 3-3 start to the critical last 2/5ths of the season — against cellar-dwelling opponents — has me in a mood to start selling now and just build for ‘24. Tip your cap to the sub-.500 set, call them your daddy and get ready for next April.
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Hopefully this convinces them finally this team isn’t winning shit and they trade anyone who can help for next year.
Huh? The Cubs aren't cellar-dwelling, they're the only team in their division with a positive run differential.
And the Sox went 4-2 agaist Oakland so I don't get the doom and gloom.
Just continuing the trend of the offense completely disappearing as a whole for stretches. Hard to project that pattern into meaningful success.
My post referred to this stretch immediately following the ASG.
Cubs were 6 or 7 games under .500. In my book that’s a subpar squad of the order we should be beating if we want to make up for going 1-10 at home against the NL Central, or whatever it was. Might have been worse. So we go 2-1 out of the break against them, and, confoundingly, 1-2 against woeful, 27-win Oakland for a 3-3 start to the home stretch.
This team plays down to their competition and they cannot afford to do that given where they are approaching the trade deadline, and especially given which teams (and how many) are ahead of them that they must leapfrog.
In light of their position and continuing suckitude against weaker teams, I’m advocating that they sell what they can to prepare for next year. That’s all.
A's are playing at a .276 overall clip, worse before Boston came to town. They went .333 vs. Boston this year. Small sample size and all that, but they just feel like a team any decent team should sweep.
Every time I let myself feel some excitement about this team, I have to remind myself.
Maybe the whole league sucks this year?
Maybe the whole league sucks this year?
Correct. Hard to project a pattern. This game was Bello having a rare bad outing. He pitches as expected, we win. Every loss isn't the same.
Outside of the Turner HR and the Masa double, offense still looked bad. Not every team is going to gift us 4 errors. Verdugo, Duran, Hernandez, Chang and Alfaro have all been dead at the plate lately. Add a Raffy 0-4 and they've got no chance even under the most favorable of conditions.