Repeating (in baseball) is never easy. If it was, someone would've done it since the last millennium. How Cora, DD, et al, will go about seeking the elusive cure for "the hangover" should prove fascinating and worthy of its own thread (unless the Dopes disagree). Please keep the emotional, knee-jerk, ten-too-many-beers commentary to the game threads.
After yesterday's loss, Cora said (link below): "I pay attention to details...I love paying attention to details and that’s something I took pride last year, and right now, we’re not paying attention to details...We’ve got to get it going. Regardless of the results – you win or lose – but stuff like that can’t happen, and that’s a reflection on us. I’m accountable, and I expect better things out of the group... We have to play better. That’s the bottom line. Like I said, I take pride in that stuff. Details. And details win ballgames." https://weei.radio.com/blogs/rob-bradford/alex-cora-after-latest-red-sox-loss-we-re-not-paying-attention-details
From another article (link below), David Ross said: "I think it’s a fine line in rest and actually being prepared and what that formula is I don’t know. We had a lot of distractions and repeating is hard. Being on two World Series teams, that second year finding that energy on a Wednesday day game early in the year when the last thing you remember is 50,000 people screaming, for me it’s hard to find that motivation and energy that takes your game to the next level that you had in October. It’s hard to duplicate that at the beginning of the year. It’s a combination for me of a lot of different things. And you’re told by the organization to rest and take your time. I think it’s difficult to get off to a good start." https://weei.radio.com/blogs/rob-bradford/can-red-sox-learn-lessons-2014-hangover
Thankfully, it's still very early and the other so-called "super teams" have had shaky starts of their own. What unfolds over the next 6 months should provide ample fodder for quality discourse. Have at it!
After yesterday's loss, Cora said (link below): "I pay attention to details...I love paying attention to details and that’s something I took pride last year, and right now, we’re not paying attention to details...We’ve got to get it going. Regardless of the results – you win or lose – but stuff like that can’t happen, and that’s a reflection on us. I’m accountable, and I expect better things out of the group... We have to play better. That’s the bottom line. Like I said, I take pride in that stuff. Details. And details win ballgames." https://weei.radio.com/blogs/rob-bradford/alex-cora-after-latest-red-sox-loss-we-re-not-paying-attention-details
From another article (link below), David Ross said: "I think it’s a fine line in rest and actually being prepared and what that formula is I don’t know. We had a lot of distractions and repeating is hard. Being on two World Series teams, that second year finding that energy on a Wednesday day game early in the year when the last thing you remember is 50,000 people screaming, for me it’s hard to find that motivation and energy that takes your game to the next level that you had in October. It’s hard to duplicate that at the beginning of the year. It’s a combination for me of a lot of different things. And you’re told by the organization to rest and take your time. I think it’s difficult to get off to a good start." https://weei.radio.com/blogs/rob-bradford/can-red-sox-learn-lessons-2014-hangover
Thankfully, it's still very early and the other so-called "super teams" have had shaky starts of their own. What unfolds over the next 6 months should provide ample fodder for quality discourse. Have at it!