A SOSHing Good Time

I haven't visited SOSH in a while. Mostly because I really can't stand smug winners, because the last series they beat the Jays 13-0 in one game and well, their early record was much better than Toronto's. It's one thing when smug people lose, it's a whole other thing when not only do they win but they think they are entitled to their winning.

But with last night's up and down and up again Jays victory that closed out an abysmal month for one team and a great month for another, I figured I'd get a visit in.

In general what I noticed was that everything Jays fans on Twitter enjoyed, Sox fans hated. Shocking, I know.

Also, they hate Brett Lawrie, Jon Lester, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, each and every one of you and likely themselves.

Early observation of Brandon Morrow, who they think sucks for the most part.


Ugh. That slider and our lineup. 

It was nasty early, and he had a lot of strikeouts with it in the mix. Morrow threw too many pitches, however and didn't last long enough. But I'll stop complaining.

As I mentioned earlier, the SOSH crowd really hates Brett Lawrie. And honestly, if he wasn't ours, I'd probably make fun of him a lot more often. The kid is a cartoon. But I'll give props to the SOSH crowd:

So that was quite the play.

Prick Lawrie

What a fucking incredible play.Talk about helping out a struggling pitcher. Wow. 

They respect insane plays. And this was insane. 

As was this:

Holy shit, that was crushed. 

Fuck Canada and all things Canadian. 

That's pure Dominicano, cabrón. 

Holy shit.  Some countries don't have the technology to launch objects that high.

The Red Sox were tough to kill last night. They kept coming back. I nearly cried when the middle infield blew that double play. The inning continued and allowed David Ortiz to be David Ortiz. 

SOSH couldn't believe old man Oliver was still in the big leagues.

Ahh yes. Darren Oliver... 75 yrs old and about to make them look foolish...

Darren Oliver was old when we traded Carl Everett for him.

Darren Oliver pitched to Nap Lajoie a few times 

Oliver's appearance also prompted this astute observation:

Parents out there, watch and learn from this tomato can; teach your son to throw fucking left handed.

When the Red Sox pulled ahead, SOSH was pretty happy.

I LIKE BASEBALL

But some sensed trouble brewing.

Bautista scares me. Every time up, no matter who is pitching.

Nice job by Tazawa, there's worse things that walking their best player with 2 outs and nobody on.

And then:

Good fucking grief.

Fuuuuùuuuuuuuuuuuùuuuuuuuuuuuuuù 

That was delicious. I like that the "u" was pressed so long, accents showed up. 

Lester, and to a lesser extent Saltalamacchia were blamed for this loss. But one SOSHian made this observation:

Red Sox getting burned too many times by dumb mistakes on the bases.

Farrell-ball?  

The most adroit comment of the night:

That was a colossal missed opportunity to tighten the noose around the Jays neck.  With Encarnacion and Bautista kicking in they won't stay down forever, and winning two out of three this week would be a nice way to keep the distance between them and the Sox enough to make the Blue Jays keep answering questions about why they suck.

That's precisely why that win was so good and why the Jays need to go out and do it again. Because:

Ouch. This team is better than its record. 

And on Colby Rasmus, who went 2 for 4 with an RBI. 

Rasmus looks like he could sell you some killer weed......