Not to pile on, but the Red Sox losses are piling upThat's correct, because an overwhelming majority of Shank's Red Sox columns are conveniently written after a loss.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Take heart, Sox fans. The manager is as mad about the Sox sloppy play as you are.
“I pay attention to details,’’ Alex Cora said after bad baserunning, a missed flyball, and another crummy performance by a starting pitcher created a 7-3 Red Sox loss to the A’s Thursday. “I love paying attention to details and that’s something I took pride in last year and right now we’re not paying attention to details. That’s on us. That’s on me. That’s on the staff. I know there have been mistakes, but at the same time . . . it gets to a point where honestly, today I was watching and there were a few things that were great last year that we’re not doing so good right now. It’s early enough that we can clean it up, but that’s on us.’’
A routine flyball dropped on the warning track between Mookie Betts and Jackie Bradley Jr. Eduardo Rodriguez coughed up a 3-0 lead and couldn’t finish the fourth inning. Betts made a boneheaded baserunning decision in the ninth, getting gunned down going to third with no outs and the Sox trailing by four.
“It’s a bad decision and he knows it,’’ said the manager “That one can’t happen and he knows it.
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There’s no sugar-coating this. The start of the Red Sox season has been a big bowl of bad. Six losses in eight games. Last place in the AL East. I find myself starting a lot of sentences with “Not to pile on, but . . . ‘’
Since Opening Day Shank has written five columns, all of them negative in tone, about the Red Sox, and that excludes tweets in a similar negative tone. When this turns around and the Red Sox start on three+ game winning streaks, we'll note the existence / absence of Shank's columns and keep some sort of tally of Mr. Negative's 'work'. It would be nice to see some balance, wouldn't it? We shall see.
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When Belichick says "coach better, play better" it's monotone drivel. When the manager says the same thing it's "he's as mad as you."
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