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.
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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