Youk Of The Nation

Moreland seems to come up with his home runs at the best possible times.

Please PM me as to which signatures, exactly, you are referring to.

Nope, you're right! Last season the Sox lost their first game and as you and I both know (but some others may have forgotten) last year ended up being a crushing disappointment for Sox fans. We might as well trade Mookie, Sale, Price, and JD to San Diego for a few prospects and start rebuilding for 2025.

The first Major League movie is the best baseball movie. The third Major League movie (Back to the Minors) is the worst baseball movie.

I'm really hoping that after last season, the doom prophets will hold off on their prognostications after every loss until at least August.

I finally gave up. I got sick of the passive-aggressive "oh, I thought I wasn't ALLOWED to make new threads" crap. No one ever told anyone they shouldn't make new threads. All I asked in the beginning was that everyone stop and think for two seconds before creating one. At one point most of the first page of results in the TS subforum were threads with 0-5 replies, and every one of them was something that could have been posted in the Gamethreads. There is a difference between new discussion threads and entirely new threads to complain about a specific pitching change in one game. Everyone should feel free to create new threads if you want to start a discussion.

The Red Sox had no Pedroia for 161 games last season and no Pearce for more than half of the season. They still did okay.

It's true, I'm very insubstantial. At least during the offseason. I just don't get as invested in discussions about contracts and minor leaguers as I do in the regular-season happenings. But I assure you I log on every day and check up on things. Deleting spam threads, mostly. Also, now that I am an admin and not just a mod, I am able to manually approve each new user, which is why you guys might have noticed a downtick in the amount of "free video game gold" and other advertising topics. But yes, you guys do generally do a good job of policing yourselves. I know some of you don't get along, but I'm not going to start kicking people off the site for being mean to each other, unless it gets ridiculous. Everything runs smoothly without me and JB micromanaging everything. Splitting threads would just add more clutter and push active discussions into the second and third pages of every sub-board.

I'll never forgive Youk for being a Yankee, thus forever tainting my username. Damon helped the Sox win in 2004 so he gets a pass from me. Ellsbury hilariously cost the Yankees a ridiculous amount of money and has basically given them nothing in return so I'm okay with that too.

You're making a couple of assumptions here. 1. That Harper will play the entire contract in Philly. How many 10+ year contracts have ended with the player still on that team? A-Rod signed two different 10 year contracts with two different teams, neither of which was played to completion. Robinson Cano signed a 10-year contract with the Mariners and didn't even play half of it. Albert Pujols will have to make it to 2022 to fulfill his contract. He could opt out, be traded due to mediocre performance or financial decisions, or be injured. 2. That Harper will go into the HOF. I agree he's on pace to, if he keeps up his level of play for long enough, but who knows what's going to happen? There have been plenty of guys whose first three or four seasons were HOF-caliber who just fizzled. You're talking about this guy like he's a mortal lock to be a legendary player. He's very good but it's early to start anointing him a Phillies legend wearing their cap in the HOF. He hasn't even played a game for them yet.

My boss called me eight days after I lost my brother asking if I was ready to come back to work. When I said no, he said "some people prefer to go back to work quickly and try to get their lives back to normal". When I said "I'm not one of them, I need a little more time", he asked me to try coming back anyways because he didn't want to have to do interviews to find someone to cover my shifts for a few weeks. And my boss isn't even a super-wealthy guy running a gigantic, international, billion dollar organization with thousands of employees.

Mookie's agent: It looks to me like they just wrote "Hank Steinbrenner" five times.

25 years, 600 Billion Dollars and he also gets to murder any five people he chooses without repercussions.

Goat is delicious.

Well I've never done this before, but this got ridiculous a long time ago. Slasher and BillyWilliams, I want you to put each other on ignore. The only other options are watching you two snipe at each other like passive-agressive relatives at Thanksgiving dinner for the foreseeable future, or banning one or both of you, and I don't like either of those options. You both contribute decently to the baseball discussion on this board except when you interact with each other, so stop interacting with each other, please.

No wonder they're all douchebags! I'm glad you live there though, at least we know there are some Red Sox fans so the place can't be 100% bad.

I'm not saying Philly is the best city in the world, but for 330 million dollars there aren't a lot of cities in America I wouldn't live, and they're all in New Jersey.

They should just replace the umpires, players, stadiums, and equipment with an intricately calibrated computer program that simulates 162 games a season for each team.

That's a really interesting article. I'd never considered that before, but it raises a good point. Unfortunately I can't think of a perfect way to fix it.

Yeah, but I think the rudeness has more to do with the "French" than the "Canadian".

I only buy my Red Sox WS retrospectives on Laserdiscs!

They released this World Series on DVD? I didn't know they were still making DVDs, I thought it was all Blu-Ray now.

This reminds me, I was rewatching The West Wing the other day and one of the characters said "In baseball there's a saying: Every team is going to win 54 games, every team is going to lose 54 games. It's what you do with the other 54 that counts." I was struck by that because the Sox only lost 54 games this season, which means they won each of those 54 extra games. Awesome, right? Anyways, back to the discussion, I have to agree about keeping extra innings the way they are. That's a part of baseball I would hate to see mucked up. 17-20 inning games don't happen enough to be a serious problem, in my opinion. There are only a handful each year.

What about just dissolving a team that isn't really trying? Would anyone shed a tear if they dynamited the Marlin's stadium and sent all the players to school to be CPAs or nurses? Would there be crowds of thousands of angry fans rioting in the streets if they quietly replaced Tropicana field with something more in keeping with Florida's culture? (I'm imagining a combination retirement home-meth detox facility-gun store that caters exclusively to alligators and invasive Burmese Pythons). Actually, now that I look at this all written out, maybe we should just get rid of Florida? Is Florida the real problem here?! Seriously though, since the last back-to-back WS win (Yankees 99-00), every team in the league has had at least one season where they were a factor. I think (I could be wrong) every team has been to the postseason at least once in that time. A bunch of teams are out of it this year, but that's always how it's going to be. The only reason it wasn't like that back in the days before color TV was because there were half the number of teams. I don't see a pressing issue here.

Wait, wouldn't that just perpetuate the success of a few teams? Isn't the process set up now so that bad teams can draft the best players and keep things competitive? I mean, without getting high draft picks, would the Rays have made it to the WS in 2008 or the Royals and Astros have won in the last few years? Or even the Cubs for that matter.