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You can thank Noah for that

I vaguely remember something about the D-Rays paying boggs to go in as a D-Ray, but now that the HOF chooses it's irrelevant. Or was I making this story up?

I have a very minor fix that I think will help the "cramped up" feel. I know what you're talking about. It's very easy to get distracted from the post content with so many other things in such close proximity.

For those who say that they liked the old site better: what was it about it that made it better, and what changes would you like to see here to make it as good? Is it the colors, layout, text size....something else?

It all comes down to money and marketing, unfortunately. It would have been cool to have the California Angels and a team back in Washington in the same year though.

The article mentions that the city threatened to sue if the name was ever changed.

I dont know how much I trust a local NBC station, but if this is true its the dumbest, most pointless move ever. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim? That's akin to naming the Pats the Foxboro Patriots of New England. Or the Giants the New York Giants of New Jersey.

In the end, Francona was good enough. This sums it up perfectly: Francona, overall, was a good manager. He led the team to a championship. I made this thread not to judge his baseball managerial capabilities, but to comment on his handling of players. For the longest time (indeed, before he even came to Boston) he has had the reputation of being a softee. The article kind of tones that soft Francona image down. He isn't maybe the 100% nice guy we thought, even though he may show it on the outside, which is good and necessary. As for judging managers on individual decisions, I agree that you can't. You have to take the whole season in context, and overall Francona earns an A (and a ring ). Grady had the misfortune of making one of the worst possible managerial moves in history, which was enough to ruin him in Boston. Barring catastrophe, it should take more than a few blunders such as Francona made this past season to warrant extreme criticism. For some reason I wrote this post in a very, very bizarre style.. Oh well. :dunno:

Damon isn't exactly an Einstein by any stretch of the imagination. I wonder who really wrote this book.

You have to add a link to it with [url.] codes around it (minues the period)

Nope, St. Louis, Pitsburgh, Philly, Cincinnati, and the Cubs are who we face during interleague play. It's a shame too. If Pedro were to pitch in Fenway again I can only imagine what would happen.

There's a very interesting article from the globe that sheds some light on our soft-hearted (or so we thought) manager. The link is http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/01/02/francona_kept_sox_snags_sewn_up/ Here are some interesting bits: (that last part is the Francona we thought we knew coming through) So I guess he isn't so weak after all. Pretty cool article if you ask me.

Welcome to Talksox, and enjoy the book. Glad to have you here.

And where, exactly, are you?

They'll be better, I guarantee it.

Avatars now work, so if you want, be sure to update them!

Their picture is attached. I had no desire to attend, and they were bought at a charity auction anyway. I figured if they were going to waste anyway, why not? :dunno: Oh, also attached is a picture of the world's tallest bridge (in France).

I've managed to set pm and email notification settings globally, but you still need to edit your own time settings and make sure your options are what you want.

I can edit it in the admin cp, but its time consuming. Pm me for now if you want a specific avatar, and I'll do it.

The avatar thing is a known problem, and I am working on a solution.

All users should visit http://www.talksox.com/forum/profile.php?do=editoptions once they are logged on to edit their options. You should make sure that the thread subscription is set to your liking (in the old forum, the default was "do not subscribe" so you may want to use that). Also, you will want to enable private messaging by checking the box. For some reason this was messed up in the switch.

Oh man, that thing took me forever to do. I doubt I still have it, but I'll see if I can dig it up somehow.

Ahahaha, its backyard baseball fenway edition! I loved that game! This is awesome!

As awesome as firefox is, I hate not having this shockwave plugin, and I dont feel like opening up IE right now. I'll check it out later. Pretty cool that you made a game though.

The league link is now fixed, and I think that you'll grow to like it (or accustomed to it) over the next few days.