Wretched

To quote Sad Sox manager Mickey Sizemore from the other day, “The record [for losses in a season] is not anything we can focus on. It’s about getting better, playing good baseball and competing.” Ok, then, let’s go with that pathetically low bar. On Sunday, Garrett Crochet pitched until he came to the end of that incredibly short leash GM Hahn-Getz has him on; the front office can’t have anything happen to its most valuable player, at least not until he’s traded. The sad ones lost to the Mets, 2-0 amassing two little singles. Yesterday in Baltimore, Chris Flexen pitched, and for the twentieth straight time, the Sad Sox lost a game Flexen’s started. A 2-0 lead turned into a 13-3 Orioles’ rout. That’s eleven losses in a row and 108 on the season. So, where was the improvement? The eight singles vs. two from the game before? As for the pitching, Flexen and the first three relievers to follow gave up eighteen hits. And Crochet’s the one who’s going to get traded? The bottom four hitters, all acquired since Hahn-Getz took over as GM, went a combined 3-for-13 with a run scored; they also struck out four times. If that means the glass is half-full, I must be half-blind. I still want to know why Bryan Ramos wasn’t called up. And what about Colson Montgomery? That one I know the answer to—the #2 prospect in the organization is batting .206 with140 strikeouts in Triple-A. If Triple-A pitchers can expose Montgomery’s weaknesses, imagine what big-league pitchers would do. This is a circus. No, check that. It’s a clown convention.