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Boston Red Sox (9x World Series Champions)

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No matter where you try to hide Darnell "Zippy Chippy" McDonald in your lineup, or on your bench, he will find a way to make his presence felt over the course of 9 innings.

Today's was glorious.

:slappy:
 
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Dryden;1904588; said:
No matter where you try to hide Darnell "Zippy Chippy" McDonald in your lineup, or on your bench, he will find a way to make his presence felt over the course of 9 innings.

Today's was glorious.

:slappy:
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I always like McDonald's character while with the Reds, but boy was I glad when the Reds sent him to the Sox... Like Wily Mo back in the day.
 
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I love FanGraphs.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/is-it-time-to-panic-in-boston/

With today's 1-0 loss to the Indians, the Boston Red Sox are now 0-6. This is the same Red Sox team that many people, myself included, tabbed as the favorites to win the World Series. So far, they haven't hit (only Minnesota has been worse offensively after today's shutout) and they really haven't pitched (entering the day with a ridiculous 8.25 FIP), and the total team meltdown has led to a miserable start to the season and a 4 1/2 game deficit behind the East-leading Orioles.

Those last three words should be all you need to know about whether the current standings are predictive of where we'll be at year's end, but that hasn't stopped a number of people from pointing out that no team that has ever begun the season 0-6 has gone on to play in the World Series, and only two out of the 85 teams to ever start 0-5 (or worse) had even made the playoffs. Those sound like seriously scary numbers until you realize that there's a huge sampling bias problem - most teams that start a season with a long losing streak kind of suck. By virtue of filtering only teams that have lost a bunch of games to start the season, we're left looking at the records of teams who inherently lacked talent in most cases, and holding those teams up as examples of how the 2011 Red Sox (who don't suck, despite their poor start) will play going forward doesn?t work.

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WolverineMike;1904604; said:
:lol: "east leading Orioles" when was the last time you heard that?
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Probably '97.

But seriously, there are some real flaws with this team. A lot of it might start with chemistry with so many key new parts. The offense will come around, but there may be some very real issues with the pitching staff. I said last year that the sawks were crazy giving Beckett that contract. He's getting up in years, has a history with injuries, and really hasn't looked particularly dominant on a regular basis since 2007. Dice-K is no longer a top tier pitcher. Lackey really isn't that good. Bucholz and Lester will come around, but that's a lot of questions after those two. Add in possible bullpen issues, and there are some real weaknesses there.

They better wake up quick or they're going to have a big hole to dig themselves out of. If they drop 2/3 to the Yanks, it's probably time to panic in Boston.
 
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.181 team BA (29th in the league. Tampa is 30th HAHAHA SUCK IT SEPIA)
.275 team SLG (29th)
.269 OBP (27th)
16 runs (27th)
4 players are hitting over .200 . J.D. Drew is hitting .231 (2nd best)

7.13 ERA (Worst in the league)
38 ER (Tied for most)
14 HR (Most)
6 hit batters (Most. Fuck you Dennys Reyes.)
24 walks (3rd most)
Before today Sox starters had 12 SO, 12 BB and gave up 10 HRs in 25.1 IP.

Shitty road trips happen, but that's embarrassingly bad. If they don't sack up and remember how to play baseball pretty soon they're going to be hearing their own death rattle by the end of the Yankee series.
 
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NFBuck;1904673; said:
Probably '97.
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Class act
 
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Tonyank;1904690; said:
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Class act
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That was one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen....the entire situation was illogical....

Alomar was having probably his best year as a hitter that year. He was on his way to his first ever 20/20 year (he finished with 17 steals as it was) and probably would have been in contention for his first MVP award had he not lost his mind.

That said, the spitting incident happened in 1996.
 
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