Red Sox (Bennett) vs Orioles (Young): 09/03/26, 7:15 PM

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

This one looked like a playoff game: tough starting pitching on both sides and shaky bullpens. Home runs drove in most runs.

Pivotal moment: Jones' slide that prevented a DP before Sogard's game-winning blast.

Clutch hit that stayed in the park: IKF's game-tying single inside the bag.

Key play: White holding onto a pop-up despite getting run over by Abreu (easy on the greenies, Wilyer).

 

[JoeBrady]

9 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Roman's fragility is worrisome.

You have to match the injuries to the positions.  Is playing LF going to impact his finger?  I'd imagine that hitting a 100 mph FB is much harder on your hand.

[notin]

11 hours ago, JoeBrady said:

Y'all Bostonians are cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

I think you mean bean-eating surrender monkeys.  Boston ain’t France…

[drewski6]

10 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

So...

1. L Anthony LF

2. R Rafaela CF

3. L Abreu RF

4. R Contreras 1B

5. S Rutschman C

6. S Gasper v R/ R Jones v L DH

7. R Story SS

8. R Durbin 3B

9. R IKF v R/ S Sogard v L 2B

(Seiler would be fine v R, but he's in AAA)

I would hit Gaper second but other than that....Looks great.  Dunno what wed do if Mead got healthy.

[drewski6]

26 minutes ago, notin said:

I think you mean bean-eating surrender monkeys.  Boston ain’t France…

Nor is it Wisconsin

[drewski6]

I dont eat that many beans 

Im more of a ethic Asian/Indian cuisine eating surrender monkey.  My diet is heavy Korean/Thai/Indian/Japanese

Also, im not sure where percentile i fall into , when it comes to speed of surrendering.  I do surrender in games when they are taking too long.  Ive gotta make my rounds, too social to get stuck in a game at a party.  Unless the whole party is playing, that I enjoy.  But I dont want to be trapped in a game wiht like 5 people when there are 30 people at the party doing sometihng else.

 

[drewski6]

I surrender a lot of civilization games against the cpu.  But if you dont get out to a fast start , you are behind where you want to be all game and the game is at its funniest when you are industrializing and its still BC.  Get way out ahead.

[drewski6]

I eat a fair amount of hummus, does that count as bean eating?

Hey whats the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?

[drewski6]

and before i finish that , whats the policy on mildly dirty jokes.

[mvp 78]

24 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

I eat a fair amount of hummus, does that count as bean eating?

Hey whats the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?

They are the same thing. 

[mvp 78]

23 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

and before i finish that , whats the policy on mildly dirty jokes.

Instant ban.

[JoeBrady]

25 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

My diet is heavy Korean/Thai/Indian/Japanese

I never understood the fascination with Japanese food.  IMO, very expensive and very mundane.  Even in Japan, I ate mostly Indian.  The biggest drawback to being in NY is that it is difficult to find good Indian.  And I am surprised you left of Chinese, or Malaysia (fusion of Chinese & Indian).

[mvp 78]

Nice to see Adley come alive. Has good insight into the O's pitching being their former catcher so we'll have to see if he can get hot. 

I agree on the popup slide. Some O's fans think the slide was a problem, but that's only because the IFer got a boo-boo face about it because he yoinked the throw. It was good clean baseball. No intent to injure at all. 

Sogie's HR was huge. My MLB.tv glitched so I missed Roman's HR and came back to the O's rouding the bases in the 9th. 

[JoeBrady]

28 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

I eat a fair amount of hummus, does that count as bean eating?

Hey whats the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?

I like chick peas, but hummus is by far their best use.  And there are 100 ways to make hummus, so it goes with everything.  Okay, I'm going back to BB.

[mvp 78]

1 minute ago, JoeBrady said:

I never understood the fascination with Japanese food.  IMO, very expensive and very mundane.  Even in Japan, I ate mostly Indian.  The biggest drawback to being in NY is that it is difficult to find good Indian.  And I am surprised you left of Chinese, or Malaysia (fusion of Chinese & Indian).

My 11 year old loves sushi, but it's a pretty americanized form of it TBH. 

No good Chinese restaurants in SoFL. I didn't know how good I had it up north. 

[JoeBrady]

2 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Has good insight into the O's pitching being their former catcher

Great point.  I assume he knows the exact spin and break for every pitcher.

[drewski6]

1 minute ago, JoeBrady said:

I never understood the fascination with Japanese food.  IMO, very expensive and very mundane.  Even in Japan, I ate mostly Indian.  The biggest drawback to being in NY is that it is difficult to find good Indian.  And I am surprised you left of Chinese, or Malaysia (fusion of Chinese & Indian).

I like Schezuan hot pot but theres usually a price to pay on the other end if you catch my drift.

My friend who is a cook is huge into japanese curry so ive been eating a fair amount of that even though i do probably prefer the aromatics of indian curry or the freshness of thai curry, and i also enjoy hibachi and door dash runs a lot of bogo sushi rolls.  And Im a social butterfly so im usually dining with friends, and sushi is easily  splittable.

[drewski6]

1 minute ago, mvp 78 said:

My 11 year old loves sushi, but it's a pretty americanized form of it TBH. 

No good Chinese restaurants in SoFL. I didn't know how good I had it up north. 

Try moving from northeast to fresno california and trying to find a good italian food.  Im like how do you mess up a pizza.  Who made this marinara? Ed Cooley!!  (lil throwback for you)

[drewski6]

pew pew

[drewski6]

3 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

I like chick peas, but hummus is by far their best use.  And there are 100 ways to make hummus, so it goes with everything.  Okay, I'm going back to BB.

original q: whats the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?

your answer: above (the post that this post is replying to)

The answer we were looking for: The difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea is that ive never paid to have a garbanzo bean on my face...but i have paid to have .....

[JoeBrady]

1 minute ago, mvp 78 said:

My 11 year old loves sushi, but it's a pretty americanized form of it TBH. 

No good Chinese restaurants in SoFL. I didn't know how good I had it up north. 

I think most ethnic food is Americanized.  I'm not sure anyone from Mexico would recognize our version of Mexican food.  One of the things I like about Chinese is that, around here, these places are hole in the wall type of places.  A couple of tables, that no one sits at.  Very little variety on the food.  It's a handful of woks.  So all you pay for is the food and prep, and the overhead is nothing.

And I'm not sure if Boston has them, but almost every Halal trucks serves a very nice meal.

[drewski6]

10 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Instant ban.

ut oh

[JoeBrady]

4 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Try moving from northeast to fresno california and trying to find a good italian food.  Im like how do you mess up a pizza.  Who made this marinara? Ed Cooley!!  (lil throwback for you)

Ever watch Goodfellas?  "Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup."

[mvp 78]

22 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Try moving from northeast to fresno california and trying to find a good italian food.  Im like how do you mess up a pizza.  Who made this marinara? Ed Cooley!!  (lil throwback for you)

Lived in SF and LA for several years. I agree that the Italian food is less than desirable. There was a good pizza place near me in SF, but nothing edible in LA. 

[notin]

1 hour ago, drewski6 said:

Nor is it Wisconsin

True, but the “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” phrase originally came from The Simpsons, in an episode where groundskeeper Willie was teaching ESL to French students and began berating them…

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

1 hour ago, drewski6 said:

I would hit Gaper second but other than that....Looks great.  Dunno what wed do if Mead got healthy.

Hit more dingers.

HRs are the preferred way to score, because nowadays they're a lot more likely than three different batters stringing together three hits in the same inning.

Merloni said modern good hitters now bat .250. Ichiros bat .300.

[Randy Red Sox]

11 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Roman's fragility is worrisome.

we said the same on Mayer last year

[drewski6]

2 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Hit more dingers.

HRs are the preferred way to score, because nowadays they're a lot more likely than three different batters stringing together three hits in the same inning.

Merloni said modern good hitters now bat .250. Ichiros bat .300.

Im not sure Mead beats IKF/Sogard for 2b or Roman/Duran/Gasper/Jones for DH.  But Im not against another option if someone struggles or gets hurt.

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[mvp 78]

25 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Im not sure Mead beats IKF/Sogard for 2b or Roman/Duran/Gasper/Jones for DH.  But Im not against another option if someone struggles or gets hurt.

Running out of time for big roster decisions like that IMO. At some point, you just have to set the roster.