Saturday 9/21/24
The Red Sox struck out twenty times last night against the Twins--tying the franchise record--and dropped to two games under .500. I watched the extra innings portion of the contest. The Twins failed to score in the top of the tenth. The Red Sox then followed suit in the bottom of the inning. Same thing happened in the eleventh. Do you know how hard that is not to win that game if you're the home team? You start the inning with a guy on second. All you need to do is advance that man two bases before making three outs and you got two chances to do this and couldn't. What futility.
Alex Cora is clueless. In the tenth, with the Red Sox having struck out again and again throughout the game, he has the lead-off man bunt. Why on earth would you give up an out when you're constantly struggling to make contact? Guy advances to third on the bunt, but what are the chances the next man doesn't whiff? So then what? You're banking on the two-out clutch hit? Please. Does that sound like a reasonable expectation? Does that honestly strike you as a viable way of winning the game? And they're running back this slop next year.
It's September 2024 and I already have a pretty good idea that the Red Sox are going to suck come April unless some big moves are made, which is highly unlikely, and I have to watch Cora do his stuff again? I know that hardly anyone cares about the Red Sox anymore, but for the few of us who do, can we try to be decent here? Eight games left. If the Red Sox win out, the best they can do is 84 wins. They might get 80 but it's more likely they finish in the 70s.
Also, Rafael Devers is in terrible shape. Can this dough ball be traded? He's your big star? What an underachiever he is. Gave him all of that money for a single reason: To say, "See? We'll pay somebody," which was ownership's way of not having to sign anyone else. He was just in the right place at the right time with bad owners trying to save face while still cost-cutting, which worked out to Dever's benefit by him getting massively overpaid. Thanks for your 20 something homers and 80 RBI, stud. There's like one game every year where you think, "Devers was the reason they won tonight" and that's about it. I look around the league and I see all of these players having big years, and it's never Devers.
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