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YastrzemskI FCL Red Sox

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I was supposed to work 12-10 today.. I took off the 5-10 part for this game. And I’m ordering some spicy food for taking a dump mojo

 

Any chance that you can just watch the entire game from the can?

I think that we would all prefer a Red Sox blow out.. know what I mean???

Would you consider it at least?

TylerD Portland Sea Dogs

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Any chance that you can just watch the entire game from the can?

I think that we would all prefer a Red Sox blow out.. know what I mean???

Would you consider it at least?

 

Very difficult. Takes a trained s*** master to do it. My max on the toilet is a half hour and my feet were dead asleep and I could barely get off the toilet. Damn Mexican food :(

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My longest was about 30 minutes as well, drunk at 3 am dealing with aftermath of taco bell after a college party. If it gets the Sox a win though, I will try s***ing all game though if it guarantees a win!
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I'm listening to LA Sports talk radio and they are basically saying that the Dodgers beat themselves last night.. and that the Red Sox are good, but they are human and can be beat! LMAO!

 

Can't argue too much with that. Everyone is human and can be beat. But the Sox are the best team. And they have been all year.

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My longest was about 30 minutes as well, drunk at 3 am dealing with aftermath of taco bell after a college party. If it gets the Sox a win though, I will try s***ing all game though if it guarantees a win!

 

Just when you thought the game thread couldn't get any crazier...............................

TylerD Portland Sea Dogs

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My longest was about 30 minutes as well, drunk at 3 am dealing with aftermath of taco bell after a college party. If it gets the Sox a win though, I will try s***ing all game though if it guarantees a win!

 

May god be with you brother!

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Official lineup

1. Mookie Betts, RF

2. Andrew Benintendi, LF

3. Steve Pearce, 1B

4. J.D. Martinez, DH

5. Xander Bogaerts, SS

6. Rafael Devers, 3B

7. Ian Kinsler, 2B

8. Jackie Bradley Jr., CF

9. Christian Vazquez, C

YastrzemskI FCL Red Sox

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My longest was about 30 minutes as well, drunk at 3 am dealing with aftermath of taco bell after a college party. If it gets the Sox a win though, I will try s***ing all game though if it guarantees a win!

 

One word dude.. DEDICATION!

jung Worcester Red Sox

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Sorry, but I'm fine with the NL rule and in fact still think it's a little weird to have a DH.

 

If you truly, truly believe in letting the good hitters hit, why not allow more than 1 DH? Don't you think we could use one for the catcher? In other words, if one DH is a great idea, two DH's is even better.

 

And how about free substitutions so guys can come back into the game? Wouldn't that be neat?

 

Nope would not allow multiple DH's as that would truly destroy the multi-dimensionality of the game. Would not allow free substitutions either. Baseball is not basketball nor is it football.

 

Myself I would not have allowed the DH. But I understood it. Pitchers don't hit for s***. They really never did spend enough time with a bat in their hands even when both leagues had a spot in the order for the Pitcher. It is and was an artifact from a bygone era when Pitchers did actually spend at least bare adequate time with a bat in their hands. But now that the DH is here, given every other BS rules change MLB has brought into being and MLB's obvious support of the Overload as a means to force this whole "launch angle" nonsense plus the juiced baseball, keeping a spot for the Pitcher in the Batting Order has had the exact opposite effect on NL play. It does not result in a purer version of the game. Take away the juiced baseball and stupid rule changes and deal with the Overload properly and then maybe there is a shot at the NL version being a purer version of the game. But I seriously doubt that will happen.

 

As for the pendulum swinging back via slap hitting baseball which has been mentioned in various discussions on the topic. Forget it, not going to happen. We already had our slap hitting era and IT was uglier than this era! The powers that be in baseball have no interest in going that way nor creating an environment that would allow it to go that way and well they should not. Heck the slap hitting era was created by accident as opposed to by intent which we are dealing with in this power fixation. In reality, other than the DH, everything else they have done and not done (not dealing with the Overload for example) has been pure garbage.

 

Fans are losing touch with the actual elements of this game that make it a beautiful game. Too many have no idea what a good fielding play actually entails or even what a good fielder fielding the baseball looks like. Don't know what the hitter is actually trying to accomplish. What his actual responsibilities are and the entire enterprise is being boiled down to success measured in HR's or K's. Fans are expecting games to be like glorified Fantasy League events because that is what MLB is teaching them to expect. The worst of it is now found in the NL where the pitchers spot in the order has resulted in even more fence bashing as a means to generate runs before .....you get to the pitchers spot!

 

The only teams left that play anything like actual baseball at this point are AL teams. But IMO, even the AL is just living on a reprieve. The Red Sox and the Astros are the best examples. When it comes right down to it, baseball is at a crossroads. Have to give up something and if the NL has a brain in its head, it will give up the pitcher's spot in the order and the double switch. Ask me to value some wizened old man double switching vs the beauty of the multi-dementional everyday ballplayer and its not even close for me. Never mind the utter stupidity of 4 WS games played one way and 3 another. You want to make changes that would make baseball similar to basketball...the NBA would laugh you off the planet if you suggested a model that forced two different types of play on their Championship.

 

This is finally the first year when I am seeing multiple voices in baseball starting to put up red flags and Manfred has even made comments about having to consider dealing with the Overload. The games being too long is one thing. But, if MLB expects fans to find "excitement" in nothing but HR's and K's and weak pop ups and overgrown lumbering infielders that live off positioning instead of agility spread over 4 hours, think again. The Overload, the rules changes, the juiced baseball and MLB's seemingly intractable notion that its future is in turning baseball into a one dimensional power game is killing this game.

 

The commissioner can not enforce a change to the DH on the NL though. The NL owners have to make that decision on their own.

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A700Hitter at the game mojo in effect.

 

Yeah? Congrats! Sounds way better than this s*** mojo:rolleyes:

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The games are too long now because of the longer commercial breaks, the multiple pitcher games, and the DH. American League games are longer, and the Red Sox seem to be involved in most of the longest, mainly because they have more offense, and have 5 inning starters
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Too many have no idea what a good fielding play actually entails or even what a good fielder fielding the baseball looks like.

 

I loved playing baseball, and when I got too old to play anymore, softball kept me going for a while. To me, defense was always my passion (in basketball, too). As a kid, I didn't dream of hitting a game winning grand slam in the bottom of the ninth in game 7 of the World Series: I dreamed of making a spectacular catch crashing against the wall.

 

I was never a very good hitter, but my two favorite personal memories in sports were a defensive plays I made as a CF'er. One was robbing a guy of a HR in left-center field as i collided with the left fielder at the wall. The other was a miracle play I've never seen anyone else ever do. The ball was hit a long way over my right shoulder. I turned and ran, thinking I had no chance at catching it and would play the ball off the wall. When I turned to look, while running full speed away from home base, the ball was right there. I had not time to get my glove properly positioned so I swatted at the ball as it went by me. Somehow, the ball ended up in my glove, even though my glove was only opened facing away from the plate. I had caught the ball as my glove was moving downward away from me as the ball was past me.

 

My teammates and opponents were in as much shock as I was. I'll never forget that play. I probably had a few big hits here and there, despite being a below average hitter, but those memories are lost.

 

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