What's with the Line?

Yes, folks. It's that time of year again. A series with the Red Sox means that the Jays have the opportunity to beat them, thus making SOSH one of the more entertaining sites on the Internet. Sort of.

Let's do it. Coming into this game the Sox were scuffling along at 2-9. I have no idea why, with the on paper talent, they are sucking so badly. But it's damn amusing.

The redsox have not lost in 2 days. Lets make it 3!

Delusion.

All of the players will wear #42 tonight in tribute to Mo Vaughn.

Attempt at humour.

We're going to continue to fucking lose until Crawford bats 6th or 7th and Lowrie gets in the goddamn lineup. It's baseball Jesus trying to tell us something.

The message is that baseball Jesus hates you and wants you to fail.

Is it me or does it seem like everyone throws their LHP in their rotation against us? We have two lefties on our roster and it seems like everyone else has 6!

Um, we have 3 and JoJo is only sort of in the rotation. So, no, not 6.

Y'all cry too much. Boston is winning tonight no matter what. Shut up and enjoy the show. Greg Zaun on the Canadian broadcast of tonight's game was discussing the difference of how Varitek and Salty set up for a pitch. In stop action frames, it showed Varitek has his target set up well prior to Beckett's delivery while Salty gets target set up as Clay's hands were separating. He thinks that is a difference that can throw a pitcher off.

That's 3 gs, bitch.

tight zone tonight

I always find it amusing when teams like the Red Sox and the Yankees complain about things like the k-zone, as if they have completely failed to see how the league conspires to have them stay competitive in the interest of ratings for Fox.

Must every game be so painful?

You've been watching too many Sox games, dude.

Where is the velocity on his fastball? I know it's April, but still.

It's comforting to know that everyone has this annoying and pointless conversation in April. Creates a sense of common experience.

Am I the only one that thinks this Jackie Robinson stuff is overdone?

No, you aren't. But the other guy who agreed with you is an asshole, too.

And then the Adam Lind homer/foul/ground rule double happened.

I'm going to hand it over briefly to Dustin Parkes, via Twitter.

But the Sox fans were also deeply, deeply confused. So that would be confusion on top of delusion and entitlement, for those keeping score at home.

Clearly foul

Yeah...it was really clear.

well it went inside the line on the wall, but outside of the foul pole... WTF that's a double, right? landed in fair territory.

Wow, I'm am not sure if that is a home run or not. What's with the line?

The line is in three different spots. It makes no sense, but I have a strange urge to buy Scott's paper towels.

Good news! Maybe lady luck is on our side now.

And then they whinged about Carl Crawford for a few pages...here is the jist- They hate him.

in other news ... the Sox continue to make a complete douchebag look like Koufax on the mound

Oh bless their hearts. This is a time honoured Red Sox tradition where every lefty that has a bit of success against them and Sandy Koufax gets name dropped. Ted Lilly was Koufax reborn (in a baseball sense.) Congrats Brett Cecil, you have arrived.

So, when do we expect Youks to stop sucking?

We have all been asking that for years now.

Ellsbury would look great leading off for a national league team.

The ritual eating of the young.

he would CRUSH the NL Central

I would crush the NL Central.

Pedroia is so much fun to watch. Makes up for a lot.

He is quite the little shit.

Pedroia really might be the best defensive second baseman I've ever seen

Were you born after 2000? Or do you have your head up your ass?

It'll be real fun once this team gets going

Well, it's been fun so far.

Youk is fortunate that Arrancibia(sic) runs like a true catcher.

I don't know why, but it seemed like JPA was running in quick sand tonight. Maybe he was cold.

I'd rather run the marathon. Should take about the same amount of time as watching Matsuzaka get through the 5th.

It's amusing that the Sox fans have also noticed that Dice-K dithers. But, fellas? All your pitchers dither? Why do you think games are 6 hours long?

Corey Patterson... is this real life?

Apparently.

Toronto recently seems to pick guys like Patterson or Fred Lewis off the scrap heap, and they produce for them.

Silent Assassin. He'll silently assassinate you.

Is there anyone who doesn't love Pedroia?

Hi there.

tailor-made dp, instead 2 on - jinxed. this season has been baffling.

No, it was just a totally AWESOME fake steal. The running game in general was really fun, creating holes all over the infield. John Farrell, you sly bastard.

Can we put an end to the hyperbole of the season being over, etc? Yea, this team is playing like shit right now, but we're 11 game into the season. It's incredibly frustrating, but it will even out.

But with this sort of talk, how would the other Sox fans recognize you?

Words can no longer describe how much I hate this team. Awesome fail at every level tonight

Does every team in the league have our signs or something?

Well, at least they are consistent. It's easy to hit pitches that are up and wait on pitches that are clearly not strikes. It has nothing to do with signs. Your pitching just sucks.

And then they whinged some more and bored me. Then our bullpen stopped throwing strikes. And they got all excited, which continued to bore me.

There was a mildly diverting conversation about how to pronounce Rzepczynski

it's really, zep-chin-ski, right?

Did Bautista always stand on the plate? Did he change his stance to get the added pop or his pharmacist?

This is nice. You know, coming from fans of a team that got a crap load of homers from a couple of key players, who later showed up on a certain list and one of whom just retired in disgrace. You guys used to get on the Yankees for having juiced players and buying WS, but the Red Sox are exactly the same. Perhaps worse because at least the Yankees own that they are SOBs.

Nice, the script has been written! A stirring comeback win in Frozen Fenway kick starts the season!

Oh save us.

Jon Rauch used to close for the Nationals. They are terrible. I think this is a good sign!

I haven't always loved what he's done so far, I will give this to Rauch. Dude came out and threw strikes. Like a man possesed.

Toronto coughed up a 7-0 run lead to Seattle last week. This is nothing!

Oh shut up.

Carl Crawford, renowned Ray who killed Jays, K'd and he hung his head in such a way I felt really bad for him. These people had truly broken his spirit.

Shitty zone tonight. This ump is on the take. Did Crawford really just strike out on 3 pitches against a guy with a tattoo on the back of his neck.

As opposed to Crawford, who has one on the side of his neck? What?

That was flaccid.

The posters at Sons of Sam Horn are flaccidity experts.