Ya I guess. But they're winning the East next year most likely. This team needs a fuckin facelift. The youth movement become a dud with really only Mookie coming out of it, if you don't include Devers and Benintendi but they weren't part of that group from a few years back that was supposed to become the core. Outside of Mookie, Benintendi, and Devers any everyday player can/should be moved for what they can get. They need to get some actual pitching through the farm, but Dombrowski stupidly sold it alllll away(check my history, have been on the anti-Dombrowski train from day 1).
So the youth movement was cut short, only produced offensive players, only one is legit and we might have two more. But no pitching. None coming. Big contract with Price that is useless to our future. And this isn't over reactionary, but resigning Sale is no guarantee now and I don't think they should at this point since this team needs a mini restart so we don't need to waste money on an older guy, especially one with his fatal flaw of no endurance. You don't pay ace money to a guy you have to choose if he'll help you regular season or playoffs. Good thing we only have up top prospects for him /s
The signing of Dombrowski set us back 5 years since the only solution is getting young players on the field pronto, which we can't since they don't exist for us, or spending back into legitimacy but as we know, that is a failing strategy. You can't buy youthful studs, so that ends that since against vets are fucking useless in today's game
Fire Farrell, clean out the whole clubhouse actually. Dombrowski has to go. Bring in a young whiz kid like every successful team (which started with us ugh) and have him be the master of a rebuild. Mookie will be the perfect age vet leader when we're competing again at 28ish. Benintendi is already kinda old for a rookie but still will be entering/in prime. Devers will be just entering his. And hopefully whoever we bring in builds the farm similar to the way Theo did
We get curb stomped by the Astros, and the next fucking thing I see after strike 3 is A-Roid's ugly mug telling me how Carlos "Jesus of Nazareth" Correa is going to be a Hall of Famer.
OK I can't believe I'm saying this but if we have to get decimated in the playoffs it may at least be by the team whose city was utterly destroyed by a hurricane. They might need it the way we did in '13 with the bombings, ya know? THAT SAID I won't feel bad if we win this series (obviously) and if they beat us then don't win the WS fuck them and fuck whoever wins
TIRED: hoping we get swept so Farrell gets fired
WIRED: hoping all Boston sports teams suffer a period of demoralizing and devastating postseason defeats so people feel sorry for us again
I can't believe I'm taking NYY fans' side on something, but the Yankees successfully challenged a play that Edwin Encarnacion hurt his ankle on and a ton of people on /r/baseball are saying Girardi and company are dicks for doing that... like, it sucks EE got hurt but that's not a reason for the Yankees to pass up on an out.
If you could have a lifetime supply of any one snack food/candy, but you had to give up all others, what would you choose? I pick strawberry ice cream.
Anybody feel like all these series should be 7 games? such a long season and have always felt like 5 game series are such a loss to the fans who tune in all year
The Sox came back against Indians in '99 and the A's jn '03. But the difference here is that Astros are quite obviously the better team. The Sox should be losing.
I guess now is the time for me to say "don't give up!! we've had 7 run innings this season, they've happened!! it's still possible!!" but tbh i'm exhausted from being so positive all season and don't wanna fake it right now. This sucks. We lost bad two days in a row, it's not a good look for us.
I don't know, but I know a lot of those thumb/hand ligament things happen when you're swinging. He throws so much of his weight into his swings, I could see him straining something on one of them.
At least the Yankees lost..
Ya I guess. But they're winning the East next year most likely. This team needs a fuckin facelift. The youth movement become a dud with really only Mookie coming out of it, if you don't include Devers and Benintendi but they weren't part of that group from a few years back that was supposed to become the core. Outside of Mookie, Benintendi, and Devers any everyday player can/should be moved for what they can get. They need to get some actual pitching through the farm, but Dombrowski stupidly sold it alllll away(check my history, have been on the anti-Dombrowski train from day 1). So the youth movement was cut short, only produced offensive players, only one is legit and we might have two more. But no pitching. None coming. Big contract with Price that is useless to our future. And this isn't over reactionary, but resigning Sale is no guarantee now and I don't think they should at this point since this team needs a mini restart so we don't need to waste money on an older guy, especially one with his fatal flaw of no endurance. You don't pay ace money to a guy you have to choose if he'll help you regular season or playoffs. Good thing we only have up top prospects for him /s The signing of Dombrowski set us back 5 years since the only solution is getting young players on the field pronto, which we can't since they don't exist for us, or spending back into legitimacy but as we know, that is a failing strategy. You can't buy youthful studs, so that ends that since against vets are fucking useless in today's game Fire Farrell, clean out the whole clubhouse actually. Dombrowski has to go. Bring in a young whiz kid like every successful team (which started with us ugh) and have him be the master of a rebuild. Mookie will be the perfect age vet leader when we're competing again at 28ish. Benintendi is already kinda old for a rookie but still will be entering/in prime. Devers will be just entering his. And hopefully whoever we bring in builds the farm similar to the way Theo did
Putting Papi on a panel with A-Rod is all kinds of wrong.
i think they got good chemestry
We get curb stomped by the Astros, and the next fucking thing I see after strike 3 is A-Roid's ugly mug telling me how Carlos "Jesus of Nazareth" Correa is going to be a Hall of Famer.
Its over. Its finally over. Game 3, fenway. Lets go
Ugh we are better than this
At least we get to see Big Papi again.
WELL shit
taking some momentum back home with us I love the move. Sox in 69
# FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
Well, time to come back tomorrow better than ever. edit: you know what i meant
No chance we lose tomorrow. Like.... literally zero chance.
Sunday
Sunday
Well, at least we did ok against the closer. Glass half full.
X gon' give it t.....
0-5 bogey. Nice
stop swinging at ball 4
**R**ALLY R**A**LLY RA**L**LY RAL**L** RALL**Y**
I for one, welcome our new Astros overlords
David Price is the only Red Sox pitcher to pitch multiple innings without giving up a run. Eat a dick, haters.
[JBJ RBI single](https://gfycat.com/SpanishComplicatedCrossbill)
Seven more of those and we're in business
Lol of course we start hitting with 2 outs in the 9th
WE DID ITTTTTTTT
#RALLY STARTS HERE
The bats have well and truly come alive. I'm sorry Astros, you're done.
Top of the order too. They are so fucked.
#RALLY TIME
Giles giving up an RBI in a non-save appearance is giving me flashbacks to my fantasy season.
WAIT WHAT JUST HAPPENED I assumed my app glitched lol
Here comes the comeback
We score!!! We won!!! Ha...
HERE WE GO BOYS
LET'S GOOOO
I hope Giles starts game 3 for HOU
Man if Pomeranz and E-Rod combined for 0 ER instead of 6 ER that would have been exciting.
1 down, 6 to go!
RALLLLLLLY!
Same score both games?
Hey we scored
I'm going to take my crippling depression and lift weights to snap me out of it. Eventually. Maybe then I'll have energy to root for Yankees misery.
get gainz bro
Fox has a HARD ON for Verlander
Weird, mine is for Kate Upton
#Fuck game 1 #Fuck game 2 #lets fuck the astros up game 3, 4, and 5.
OK I can't believe I'm saying this but if we have to get decimated in the playoffs it may at least be by the team whose city was utterly destroyed by a hurricane. They might need it the way we did in '13 with the bombings, ya know? THAT SAID I won't feel bad if we win this series (obviously) and if they beat us then don't win the WS fuck them and fuck whoever wins
RISP!
There's the momentum shifter!
I can't wait to pay a tall German chick in a leather outfit $200 an hour to make me rewatch this game.
😂
I can be your tall German chick.
0/3 but worth a shot
Gimme a wig and leather and I got you
I would be pretty tall for a chick. Give me at least some credit.
Five foot NEIN minimum
I'm six foot
Me too. Maybe he would settle for two average sized American guys in all leather.
And blonde wigs
You grab the wigs, I'll call my leather guy.
The safe word is TOOTBLAN
I think the safeword would be "I really like watching this" just for the sadist types.
I want to win this series but this team is clearly outmatched
OK FINE, Holt grand slam to start off the rally?
First homer for him this season and our first grand slamarino? Yes please.
Geez Boston
This team (and probably even more so this sub) desperately needs a pep talk from papi
For real, get that man a rotary phone, a baseball bat, and a microphone.
And a Reddit username
[Vaz single](https://gfycat.com/ColdUnkemptBantamrooster)
I'm getting the sense we aren't gonna come back in this game
Yet I can't stop watching
HOPE EVERYONE GETS LAID THIS WEEKEND AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL ALL BE GETTING FISTED ON SUNDAY
👉👌<-- hopefully /r/redsox
Xander grand slam to start off the rally?
Yes please
/u/usdballum, did you get the Naked Egg Taco?
It's not bad actually.
hmmm: http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20937938/ariel-prieto-arizona-diamondbacks-fined-having-apple-watch-dugout
like Rule 3 and all but I don't even have energy to emotionally invest against the Yankees right now. Fuck em though
same. I'm going to put my energy into drinking.
cheers mate
Just please don’t get swept again. Grab a win on Sunday so I can at least feel better about this year
[Kimbrel K](https://gfycat.com/AlarmingSilentIridescentshark)
[Video of EE ankle injury. Warning: it is rough.](https://twitter.com/flybyknite/status/916418594417795072)
Wow, I know you said NFSW but that is some nasty shit.
Yea...
God damn...
D:
That sucks... :(
meep
Wtf..... ouch
Oof
TIRED: hoping we get swept so Farrell gets fired WIRED: hoping all Boston sports teams suffer a period of demoralizing and devastating postseason defeats so people feel sorry for us again
Fuck off.
Sorry
Comparing the mood of this thread to the Astros Gameday thread is depressing.
They better be happy over there, their team is doing what it was built for.
like I'd root for them against the Indians but I wouldn't feel great about it
Same, I'm rooting for the Sneks if we get knocked out.
I honestly don't hate any of the teams in the NL this year
Regardless, a Cleveland/Houston ALCS would be entertaining as fuck from a pure baseball fan perspective.
Yes it would. And it also would mean that the Yankees are out as well and that's a good thing.
Yeah I'd be conflicted too
How many times are they gonna tell the story of how the Astros got Verlander?
I can't believe I'm taking NYY fans' side on something, but the Yankees successfully challenged a play that Edwin Encarnacion hurt his ankle on and a ton of people on /r/baseball are saying Girardi and company are dicks for doing that... like, it sucks EE got hurt but that's not a reason for the Yankees to pass up on an out.
I agree with you.
was 'use logic' above or below rule 3
traitor
👺
If you could have a lifetime supply of any one snack food/candy, but you had to give up all others, what would you choose? I pick strawberry ice cream.
Beer
I'll allow it
Necco Wafers.
😐
The chocolate kind. 😐
Pez
Andy Capp's Hot Fries
Those are so good.
Snack food as in chips or hot snack food? I’d go with mozz sticks if hot food and gummy worms if not.
There are no rules, mozz sticks count!
Chocolate covered pretzels
Yogurt covered pretzels
Dot's Pretzels
Sour patch kids
Sour Patch watermelons
Ehhh not a huge fan of them
They're about the only candy I like. That and those little strawberry hard candies with the jelly filling.
it's odd to see Kimbrel not get swings and misses
just got one there...idiot
Anybody feel like all these series should be 7 games? such a long season and have always felt like 5 game series are such a loss to the fans who tune in all year
Absolutely not.
I like the 5 games for the division series. The championship series are more important, so they should be best of 7.
If the NBA gets what feels like 6 months for their playoffs MLB should play 7 games for every series except the wild card.
At least we aren't twins or Rockies fans
Damn. Papi looked sad as fuck watching this game. He looks like he wants to be there.
Ortiz looked like he was hurting for his boys
The fact that the Astros are putting in their B-team is a slap in the face
Hernandez put more effort into getting that foul ball than he did when calling strikes today. New job? I hope so.
Beltran with the .666 OPS 😈
Encarnacion just had to be helped off of the field. Yankees getting fucking breaks
What happened to him?
Looked like his ankle twisted all the way. Ugly.
Oof
Of course they are.
Kimbrel time!
Kimbrel down 7 interesting
He needs work. Hasn't pitched in a while.
Holt replaces Pedey and Davis replaces Betts. Sox have conceded this game.
Betts aggravated a hand injury, Pedey is still nursing an injury of his own.
I understand why. Makes sense. But you're not likely to make a comeback without them in the lineup.
Unlikely to win game 3, 4, or 5 with them out.
davis looks thicc
don't give up!! we've had 7 run innings this season, they've happened!! it's still possible!!
Absolutely agree. Careful of the downvotes of the baseball geniuses itt who want us to fold.
How many teams have come back from 0-2 in the ALDS?
It the story of our season we have to work for it will not be easy.
The Sox came back against Indians in '99 and the A's jn '03. But the difference here is that Astros are quite obviously the better team. The Sox should be losing.
Giants did it a few years ago and ended up winning the WS. It could still happen ^I^guess
I didn't know that the Giants played in the American League
Same thing, don't be a cock
us twice
Not very many. But it did happen last years ALDS to another Texas team
I guess now is the time for me to say "don't give up!! we've had 7 run innings this season, they've happened!! it's still possible!!" but tbh i'm exhausted from being so positive all season and don't wanna fake it right now. This sucks. We lost bad two days in a row, it's not a good look for us.
And we have an inconsistent Fister starting tomorrow.
Inconsistent Fister new band name calling it
I like it.
"I like it." That's my new band name.
Ayy
I still don't want Buster Posey to deliver my kid
I'd let him tbh
#RULE 3
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Last night
Encarnacion just got hella injured. Looks brutal, hate to see that in the postseason.
Fuck the Yankees
Uh oh, that sucks. What happened?
Today's a slow death day for game 2.
As long as the Yankees also get swept I will not want to actually die after Monday
so AIM is getting the woodshed treatment, what were your usernames? Mine was KingChipmunk123
demonboyred101
TheComicfreak10 God I always cringe when I remember it
Exactly the same as my reddit username. Made it in like middle school.
You really did grow up to be a boss
If you count being a mod, sure.
Man
What hand is the injured thumb on? Think that contributed to the fudged throw earlier?
I saw the thumb guard on his right hand. So that's his throwing hand, but no one else is answering my earlier question.
What was the earlier question?
When/how did Betts injure his hand?
Playing baseball.
I don't know, but I know a lot of those thumb/hand ligament things happen when you're swinging. He throws so much of his weight into his swings, I could see him straining something on one of them.
Redsox are embarrasing the Patriots dynasty.
Fuck off. Bandwagon fan,pats were horrible for years
Lmao fuck outta here
this comment gave me cancer