I haven't forgotten you all....

I haven't forgotten about you all, my many, many, many loyal readers who have been no doubt clamoring for the next blog entry.


Seriously though, sorry.  My bad.  I have been busy, but not THAT busy.  I'm trying to finish up the bar I'm building in my house.  Once that's done, I'll have MUCH more time to blog.


So, what have we missed?  The Sox have taken the last two series, and had 6 (possibly 7) players named to the All Star team.  We should be feeling good.  So why aren't we?  Why are we feeling like this is headed in a concerning direction?  Aaron Hill is not going to be enough, but Shaw is obviously tired and can't hit lefties so Hill should help with that.  Farrell has done a lot of very puzzling things lately, and one has to wonder if that's going to catch up to him at the All Star break.  No reason to lose a game this weekend with the Devil Rays (they'll always be the Devil Rays to me) in here.


Side note:  I'll always try to limit this blog to last night's game, but last night's atrocity in Dallas should remind us all that police perform an excruciatingly difficult job under circumstances that the rest of us just don't have to face in our jobs.  We're thinking of you Dallas PD.


 

21-2

What can you really say about a 21-2 loss?  If someone told you the Sox would give up 21 runs in a game who would you guess would be prominently involved?  Yeah, I'd say Clay Buchholz too.  And today we hear he wasn't too happy about being lifted after 62 pitches.  The balls on this guy!  How much rope does he want?! He had already given up 4 and had 2 more on base who eventually scored. And I guess he stormed off the field too.  Geeze, when is enough gonna be enough with this clown?

Thankfully they bounced back today.  But ultimately I'm not sure if winning on this homestand is a good thing, since all it might serve to achieve is enable John Farrell to keep his job.  Not sure that's the best thing for the team right now.

I listened to the game at the beach today (almost didn't have anywhere to park to get on the beach, waited in line for over an hour to try to get a shuttle to Crane Beach, wound up ditching that plan and going BACK to Singing Beach and by sheer luck getting a spot on the street.  What a day) and was encouraged by Sean O'Sullivan's performance.  If he can pitch like that then please, for the love of God, let it be Bye Bye Buchholz.

Damn, it's easier to remember to write when they win

Ok, I've been outta the country, on vacation and trying to catch up getting back to work.  So I haven't had time to write.  Poor excuses I know.  So what the hell has been going on here???  Holy shit the wheels are coming off.  Can't pitch.  Can't hit.  JBJ couldn't run the bases today.  Can't manage the game, the bullpen or the roster (Mike Miller called up to spell Bogaerts at SS and then sits on the bench while Tazawa, Koji and Kimbrel pitch in a lopsided loss????? The hell is that?!).  10-16 in June is brutal, this team should be better than that.  Something needs to be done with the roster or with the manager.  Let's stay tuned and I'll try to write more (of course there's an off day tomorrow and I'm going to Weezer Friday, but that's beside the point).

Are the wheels coming off?

Funny how it can be tougher to find time to write entries while on vacation than during the work week..

Are the wheels coming off? What's Farrell doing? Papi hitting before he could tie the game? That I didn't hate as much as Marrero hitting in the 9th last night.  I'm worried about Koji.  And two nights ago - you load the bases with nobody out you gotta figure out a way to score.  Been frustrating losing these games lately.  Worried the wheels are coming off.

About to board a plane to Montréal.  First time visiting, oughta be fun.  Why did the Expos ever leave?

Did you think I quit?

You're not getting rid of me that easily!

Didn't see much of the weekend series with Seattle.  Had puppy duty Friday night.  Had my sister's wedding Saturday morning so I actually got to see most of that game.  Went with the gf to see her dad for Father's Day and spent most of the day at the beach, so caught a little on the radio on the drive home.  So not a whole lot of impressions from the weekend in Seattle other than Elias sucks, Porcello finally put together a decent start (and JBJ really crushed that HR) and it looks like Price is getting going.

As far as tonight's game (I know that's not the name of the blog) I can't believe they didn't score when they had bases loaded nobody out. Ugh.

On vacation this week so I'll do my best with entries for the games.  Montréal Thursday here I come!

Another wasted Price start

Price was pretty damn good last night.  Set down a bunch in a row against a damn good lineup.  But Tillman is just one of those guys we always have trouble with.  A modern day Rodrigo Lopez only actually pretty good against teams other than the Red Sox, if you will.

The question for me is why was Rusney hitting for Vazquez in the 9th?  Guy hasn't had a plate appearance since before the Celtics season ended.  Maybe you could've found him an at-bat in the 15-4 game a few days ago if you were planning to send him up against one of the best closers in the game?  Just a thought...

Free blog for my 100th page view.  Who's it gonna be?!?!

Last weekend's games

Sorry for the long delay (if there are any actual readers of this blog out there), but we were dog-sitting our dog's sister over the weekend, and these are two pretty high-energy dogs that take up a lot of time and effort, so I didn't even have time/forgot to write even a short entry.  But I do have some thoughts on the weekend...


The Twinkies are so bad you gotta sweep 'em.  You just do.  You show up for a season in baseball and you win 60 and lose 60.  So it really just comes down to those 42 swing games, how do you handle those.  Sunday was one of those and it went in the L column.  Not good.  I was glad they were able to get a win for Steven Wright, and I was glad they had a mashfest on Saturday like they should against such a weak team.  But they needed to go for the kill on Sunday.  Bogaerts losing his focus in the field was hopefully just a one-time thing.  He had the base-running issue when he thought he homered, and the lack of focus on Sunday, so hopefully he has this stuff out of his system now.  Obviously he's been pretty stellar other than that.  Pretty questionable call for Farrell to have Shaw try to lay down a bunt when that's clearly not something he's ever done very much.  They definitely had a chance in this one and it's frustrating to lose to a team you really should've swept.  Hopefully Price can get them back on track in a good pitching matchup tonight.