The Red Sox won the first game after the All-Star break 1-0 against the Tigers behind a wonderful performance by David Price and great relief pitching from Heath Hembree, Matt Barnes and Craig Kimbrel, upping their league-best record to 69-30. Dan Shaughnessy, predictably, was pissed off:
New from @Dan_Shaughnessy: Baseball’s analytics guys are inventing new ways to suck the life out of the game. And last night's Red Sox game was the latest example. https://t.co/qvYwVrpKmw
— Boston Globe Sports (@BGlobeSports) July 21, 2018
It’s not surprising that Shaughnessy found a reason to complain about this team -- he blamed “analytics” for the game taking too long, rendering it “unwatchable” -- because the brainworms are fully in control of him now, having taken root in his cortexes and grown outward into public view.