June 4: Tampa Bay @ Boston

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I am so glad for the T-mobile deal so I didn't have to waste my money to watch this embarrassing team. Also going to make it real easy to walk away from the rest of the season and do better things with my time in a week or two.
 

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They deserve to be booed. That's little league level play. Seriously, wtf is going on with this team. Cora bears responsibility, but by the time a player reaches the majors he should be fundamentally sound. Bloom needs to stop playing Strat-O-Matic with his player evaluations and use the eye test more!
 

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I'd have felt better if he'd blasted a two-run homer, instead of chopping one softly to the opposite field and somehow coming around to score on it.
 

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I'd have felt better if he'd blasted a two-run homer, instead of chopping one softly to the opposite field and somehow coming around to score on it.
At least in that case I could blame Kluber rather than half the roster.
 

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About an hour from being five out of the wildcard, eleven out of first. The season is not quite over, but it's damn close. Lose tomorrow too and it probably is. They don't get their shit together by Monday after next it definitely will be.
I think after next weekend series with the Yankees we will be talking about the trading deadline.
 

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I feel like the main difference between watching cold Dalbec and cold Casas is that with Casas there's the chance for a walk.

Got ball 4 call, but a good pitch for a lefty power hitter to go to work on normally.
 

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I was doing a small chore and missed the apparent gruesome play. Who was at fault? Yoshida? Wong? More?
Wong threw to second to try to get the runner out and Hernandez, covering the bag, did not leave it to get the ball. So 3/4 Wong on the throw, 1/4 on Hernandez for not going to get it.

Ball ends up in CF and the runner scores.
 

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Wong threw to second to try to get the runner out and Hernandez, covering the bag, did not leave it to get the ball. So 3/4 Wong on the throw, 1/4 on Hernandez for not going to get it.

Ball ends up in CF and the runner scores.
Just to add, crappy throw home led to batter-runner going for 2B.
 

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Considering some were talking about that in spring training, that seems like a fairly safe proposition to make. And it will be just as boring.
Agreed. If they're in that position again, they're not dealing anyone off who will bring back an interesting return.
One of the sadder subplots of this team is that they have very little trade-worthy in a package to bring back a game-changing player
 

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Just to add, crappy throw home led to batter-runner going for 2B.
Yes, Valdez threw it to the 1B side of home. It was the right instinct, but I'm not sure a good throw would have gotten the lead runner anyway. But at that point Wong could have held it if he had no throw. All said, Wong's throw wasn't on line, but it wasn't that far to the 1B side of the 2B bag. So it's not like he air-mailed it.
 

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Yes, Valdez threw it to the 1B side of home. It was the right instinct, but I'm not sure a good throw would have gotten the lead runner anyway. But at that point Wong could have held it if he had no throw. All said, Wong's throw wasn't on line, but it wasn't that far to the 1B side of the 2B bag. So it's not like he air-mailed it.
Wong did not do anything close to a proper step and throw, and the throw on the run predictably tailed off target.
 

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You know it’s bad when the Rays start trolling you. How long before John. Henry has had enough? In 2009 he wanted Tito to start winning in a more “exciting” fashion because TV ratings had dropped. The way things are hoping you’ll soon be able to buy the cheapest ticket available at Fenway and upgrade yourself to a good seat by the fifth inning.