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Gomes' beard looks very sloppy. Napoli and Ross, really just crazy Santa-thick at this point. Birds have to be living in them.
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I should have specified, I meant men who don't like beards because they can't grow them. Women who don't like them don't like them for various reasons, some of them valid but most of them not. :P

 

I knew what you meant. Just giving you s***!

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This park is such a chamber of horrors. Not sure Myers saw that as good as he should have. If anything he got caught in no mans land not even trying to play it in the air.

 

Nothing sounds right in this dump. Nothing looks right in this dump. While guys in exposed bullpens are used to taking a bit of a risk while a pitcher is warming, here you take your life in your hands just trying to sit and watch the damn game. Ya' got fans sitting right over your shoulder. Probably can't even talk to your pen mates in this dump......and then there is the catwalk.

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Not to compliment an opposing pitcher but it was just a good example of their tiny margin for error. Cobb did a terrific job pitching to WMB there. Just staying inside enough and under his hands enough to get him to swing but not be able to do anything with the pitch. Those pitches were about two inches away from meat soaring over the LF fence. So they were close enough to get WMB to swing but not good enough to get anything out of it.
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Mike Napoli couldn't be more on fire unless he was literally on fire, in which case his baseball skills would probably suffer. So I'm glad he's just doing what he's doing now.

 

Yeah, if he was on fire, that beard would be it's own forest fire.

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This park is such a chamber of horrors. Not sure Myers saw that as good as he should have. If anything he got caught in no mans land not even trying to play it in the air.

 

Nothing sounds right in this dump. Nothing looks right in this dump. While guys in exposed bullpens are used to taking a bit of a risk while a pitcher is warming, here you take your life in your hands just trying to sit and watch the damn game. Ya' got fans sitting right over your shoulder. Probably can't even talk to your pen mates in this dump......and then there is the catwalk.

 

LMMFAO jung!!!!!!! So true! :D

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Lowe has settled in and has been much better tonight.

 

I do agree that this shift s*** has gotten entirely out of control both Rays and Sox.

 

In the first place, IMO you really have to have a preponderance of evidence to be compelled to move away from optimal field coverage generally and the ability of the pitcher to pitch the best way for him to pitch and move to an overloaded positioning of players which forces the pitcher to pitch to the shift.

 

If a hitter is so prone to hitting the ball to a certain field and he is so dangerous as a hitter that the shift is the ONLY way to counter him, then that is the only situation where I would feel like the shift is justified and there better be a career worth of evidence pointing that way. Anything less is not better than a hunch.

 

In the first place in many cases, who is to say that the regular fielder would not make the play on the ball anyway. Yet the Manager ends up getting to look like some genius because the shifted fielder made the play. At the end of the day the number of times you might actually handcuff your pitcher can't even be calculated. In fact that is a second criteria that I would demand in order to be satisfied that we should shift. So the first criteria for me is that we are talking about a dangerous hitter, somebody that can really hurt me. Then, I would want a preponderance of career evidence that the hitter hits to a particular field a very high percentage of the time and I would want the shift in every case to play to the strengths of my pitcher and not force him to pitch in a way that is simply out of character.

 

IMO once you satisfied all three of those conditions the number of times a team would shift would MAYBE end up being once or twice per game. The way it is done now is mental masturbation for Managers and Coaches.....

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VA Sox Fan

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Lowe has settled in and has been much better tonight.

 

I do agree that this shift s*** has gotten entirely out of control both Rays and Sox.

 

In the first place, IMO you really have to have a preponderance of evidence to be compelled to move away from optimal field coverage generally and the ability of the pitcher to pitch the best way for him to pitch and move to an overloaded positioning of players which forces the pitcher to pitch to the shift.

 

If a hitter is so prone to hitting the ball to a certain field and he is so dangerous as a hitter that the shift is the ONLY way to counter him, then that is the only situation where I would feel like the shift is justified and there better be a career worth of evidence point that way. Anything less is not better than a hunch.

 

In the first place in many cases, who is to say that the regular fielder would not make the play on the ball anyway. Yet the Manager ends up getting to look like some genius because the shifted fielder made the play. At the end of the day the number of times you might actually handcuff your pitcher can't even be calculated. In fact that is a second criteria that I would demand in order to be satisfied that we should shift. So the first criteria for me is that we are talking about a dangerous hitter, somebody that can really hurt me. Then, I would want a preponderance of career evidence that the hitter hits to a particular field a very high percentage of the time and I would want the shift in every case to play to the strengths of my pitcher and not force him to pitch in a way that is simply out of character.

 

IMO once you satisfied all three of those conditions the number of times a team would shift would MAYBE end up being once or twice per game. The way it is done now is mental masturbation for Managers and Coaches.....

 

Totally agree about Lowe! So much better tonight. Nice job.

 

I hate the shift unless it benefits the Boston Red Sox! :D

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Not posting early in the GT mojo paying dividends haha (And I say this while stroking my majestic and clearly superior beard)

 

Any of the posters here who have beards should post pictures of themselves.

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Always stroke your beard when making an authoritative statement, to appear manly and calm, but never when asked a question, so as not to look indecisive. This is from the William T. Riker School of Bearding.

 

I must receive more of this bearding wisdom.

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