Sale Price not Abad deal: your 2017 Boston Red Sox

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2017/05/02/orioles-adam-jones-calls-red-sox-fans-cowards-racist-taunts/101188156/

Jones has played as a visiting player for 12 years at Fenway Park, spanning 77 games, and has been subjected to racial epithets in the past.

Yet, this night, was like few others, calling it one of the worst experiences he’s ever endured. He listened to racial taunts in the outfield while also having a bag of peanuts thrown at him in the dugout.

“I was called the N-word a handful of times tonight,’’ Jones said disgustedly. “It was pretty awesome out there. Thanks. Pretty awesome.

“Just part of the job right?’’

Funny I don't see this story on MLB.com

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There IS a video about his stuck bat weight, though. "Man up," AJ!

Fucking hell.

Keep an eye on Sale tonight--looks like he's perfect through four with 8 Ks.

xpost: Ugh. At least it's being reported in multiple places, and I have people in my feed talking about it. Fenway/sports culture does bring out the worst of Boston's racism/sexism.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/227875462/adam-jones-gets-welcoming-ovation-at-fenway/

i think the Fucking Bullshits are a fine moniker for the Sawx

http://deadspin.com/manny-machado-repeatedly-curses-red-soxs-fucking-bulls-1794863811

yikesarooni

i'm with manny on this, why are they still throwing at him?

don't really like manny, but yeah -- you don't get to keep throwing at him every time he bats. were i him, i might have walked around the bases after homering off sale

otoh, they haven't actually managed to hit him, so maybe he should chill slightly

could be entirely unrelated, maybe Sale thought Machado was critical of Drake LaRoche.

you don't get extra shots for missing him, that's my understanding of the Unwritten Rules

lol nomar

https://thebaseballcodes.com/2017/05/03/obsess-much-time-for-red-sox-to-let-go-of-machados-slide

@NPR
The Red Sox are considering a possible lifetime ban for anyone caught making racist remarks at their ballpark.

@MikeBeauvais
That sucks for Curt Schilling.

Between the Machado home run and his rants, the racism incident, we missed a pretty strange triple play. Some series have everything.

"possible" lifetime ban for yelling racist shit at players?

i have no idea what MLB security policies are like, in terms of 'past offenders' who've been ejected from games being barred in the future.

remember when the sox had too many starters?

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2015/03/06/whos-the-red-sox-ace-theyre-all-the-ace

uh sale is the ace

sale's been the best pitcher in baseball this year, i'd say he's the ace

article is from 2015 my guy

yeah there is no question. sox have not had a stopper like this since i don't know when. josh beckett's one good year? not even that.

lmao my bad

thatsthejoke.jpg

wow, sale ties his own (and pedro's) record with his 8th straight 10-K game

Not that it's easy to do, but surprised mid-'70s Ryan or 2000-era Johnson didn't do this.

Ryan and Johnson both had stretches where they struck out 10+ in 10 out of 11 starts. (Koufax didn't.) Johnson's 2001 log is pretty amazing (372 for the year, highest single-season K/9 ever). His 35 starts break down like this:

23 starts - 10+
8 starts - 7-9
4 starts - 4-6

it's Sam Travis

http://www.overthemonster.com/2017/5/23/15681894/sam-travis-red-sox-roster-moves-hector-velazquez

travis was hitting .414/.485/.724 against lefties in triple-a, so i suppose he'll at least platoon with moreland

hey guess what

It sounds like Boston Red Sox color commentator Jerry Remy learned nothing from the Mike Schmidt controversy that dominated baseball news Tuesday. Because about 12 hours after the Phillies legend created headlines for his criticism of Odubel Herrera not speaking English, Remy was on the air for NESN saying non-English speaking players shouldn’t be allowed to use translators on the field.

“Learn baseball language,” Remy said.

This came in a discussion about New York Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka, whose translator came to a visit on the pitcher’s mound during Tuesday night’s 5-4 loss to the Red Sox. Remy, who is 64 and played 10 seasons in the big leagues, said such a thing shouldn’t be legal.

https://sports.yahoo.com/red-sox-announcer-wants-translators-banned-learn-baseball-language-014613750.html

ok fuck the remdog forever

he sounded half-dece at the beginning of this season but there was one game where eck sat in and it was like, my god, so this is what it's like to have a knowledgeable, passionate, entertaining color guy

I sincerely apologize to those who were offended by my comments during the telecast last night.

— Jerry Remy (RemDawg) (@Jerry_Remy) June 7, 2017

oh, Boston, those replies.

If it was the other way around we wld have 2 learn there language

He should of learned english by now

jesus christ those replies!

doug fister to the rescue

and jhonny peralta!

I'm relatively new to watching the Sox, but I wish Eck would learn a phrase other than "That's ridiculous!"

i think he's pretty good, but yeah he has his phrases -- eg 'losing it' for hitting a homer -- and he'll drive them into the ground

PABLO SANDOVAL DFA

still in shock, i can't believe how fast he sank. Giants dogged a bullet with him.

what is a win worth in 2017?

-2.0 / $95m =

Devers getting called up. figured this was coming once Frazier went to NY.

poor holt. he hasn't been the same since the concussion :(

sheriff david price

http://deadspin.com/heres-why-david-price-blew-up-at-dennis-eckersley-1797187651

lol @ saying a Eckersley doesn't know how hard pitching is.

I liked Price personally until I read this. You respect a Hall of Fame player. Shut up and play. https://t.co/G5eTrYPvGk

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 24, 2017

strong words from the fake richard nixon twitter account

Mentioned before. He was surly when cameras were off. Wouldn't even acknowledge my questions for while after I asked one he didn't like. https://t.co/ql4rVU6rAv

— Tony Paul (@TonyPaul1984) July 24, 2017

don’t know why i just said “divisional”

bring back bobby v

maybe they can make a trade to bring torey lovullo back

Dombrowski said Farrell was fired for reasons he won't disclose and that no level of team success would have prevented that.

— Pete Abraham (@PeteAbe) October 11, 2017

weird

woooh

from a fan's perspective dombrowski has given farrell every tool at the exact moment it was needed

gump:
Curious as to what you meant by Boston being behind the curve: do you mean the team’s analysis isn’t as advanced as in the past, or that they aren’t being listened to as much as in the past. If it’s the second, care to guess how many playoff apps with no series wins Dombrowski makes before being let go?

Dave Cameron:
Their analytics department has been one of the smallest, most underfunded in baseball for years, even before Dombrowski got there.
When everyone else was staffing up, hiring developers, and modernizing their infrastructure, the Red Sox stayed put and got passed by.

idk how many quants are considered standard these days, but they do have james and brian bannister, so it's not like they're all 'fuck data'

winning the division but not winning in the playoffs reflects badly on.... dombrowksi? how does "gump" figure that one?

I don't know how much is underpinning those 2 'name' guys in analytics. DC seems to think not enough.

They're still winning division titles so if you subscribe to "my shit doesn't work in the playoffs" then they're still doing most things right.

DD inherited Farrell from the Cherington regime and probably just wants to hire his own guy (whoever that might be). Losing in the first round two straight years gives him the perfect excuse to make a move.

They were straightup lucky to win the division.

Ausmus is presumably D's guy.

c'mon morbs they played out of their minds in September, just staying ahead of the Yanks by a nose

the backbiting boston media seem to feel that price is the real problem
http://www.weei.com/articles/column/tomase-red-sox-manager-john-farrell-sacrificed-because-david-price-was-terrible

That's an amazing read for any Jays fan. Price did nothing but say and do the right things for the few months he was here, and he's on the short list of Jays where the city just immediately fell in love with him. I believe he left without an offer from the club, so there wasn't even any fallout there--most fans were mad at management.

Quite a distance from there to here.

tbf that article is a bit of an outlier and i don't know tomase's history

tomase is not really the best guy to read but he's not the only guy writing versions of that story either.

there's a general narrative, probably true, that price doesn't want to be here and never did. and it's seriously poisoned things.

andy will know more than i do, but i've seen detroit writers express non-surprise at price being a dick to eckersley/the boston press

to a certain extent i'm skeptical of writers' complaints -- it's not the player's job to write your story for you with amazing quotes and insights -- but it seems like price's method of ingratiating himself with the team is to be an asshole to all outsiders. and people who *aren't* assholes don't need to do it that way

All I recall is Price firing off a bunch of tweets when Lynn Henning referred to him as self-absorbed.

mookie bowled a 300 this weekend

wow sick brags in 3rd person...you've changed man

u_u

"lol"

while i'm braggin' 2017 -- part of boras' spiel for jd martinez today was that a) defensive stats suck because they're all over the place from year to year and b) that mookie is so fucking good that he's wrecked the curve, making all but a few look comparatively terrible