Youk Of The Nation

I agree, you always chase tails. Uh, I mean, choose.

As someone who follows Rockies games very closely, I can assure you that you do not want Jorge De La Rosa pitching for the Red Sox.

I don't understand how a guy who can close as well as Kimbrel can be so bad in non-save situations.

Yeah, Porcello gutted it out on a day when he didn't have his best stuff. Most guys who give up 10+ hits against the Rangers lineup don't last past the first couple of innings and leave after 6 or 7 runs. Part of it is luck, guys getting thrown out at the plate and hard-hit balls right at fielders, but a lot of it is getting that GB double play or popout by making a pitch when you absolutely need to, and Porcello did that today.

bosoxmal, you have lost your GT-starting privileges for the rest of forever.

f*** the Rays

You probably could have just made a Gamethread instead of a thread asking where it was.

It's almost like Koji giving up those HRs the other day was an aberration and not the norm for him. Glad to see the Sox won, and I have to say the icing on the cake is going back through the GT on games like this and the last game of the ChiSox series and reading the posts declaring the game over and the Sox DOA when there are still innings left to play.

Still feeding that rope. Eventually it will go taut.

Damn, my radio broadcast must be pretty far behind. I didn't realize the game was over already.

Baseball has always taken, um, a bit longer to get with the times than other sports. How long did it take baseball to integrate compared to the others? How long has football been using instant replay to make calls? Hell, I could be wrong, but didn't both football and hockey start using helmets long before baseball, even after Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch?

I honestly think the PED test will not affect Ortiz as badly as Bonds/Clemens for one reason: People like Ortiz. I think that likability plays a larger part than some people are willing to admit in HOF voting, and the fact that Clemens and Bonds are both gigantic douchebags has to count against them in the voting almost as much as the PED cloud surrounding them. Ortiz, on the other hand, has always been beloved by the media for his personality. Just look at how everyone responded to his "This is our f***ing city" speech. I'm not saying the positive test will be dismissed out of hand, but combining his reputation for being a great guy with the fact that his reaction to the positive test wasn't outright lying or ass-covering like the other guys, I'm willing to bet he makes it into the Hall before Bonds or Clemens.

Well, this is a discussion that needs to die a quick death.

I guess I should have stayed unemployed. Since I started working and not being able to follow the games, it seems like every time I come home and log on, it's to check up on a Sox loss.

Bump

I'm with you on this. I have no problem with a system that gives umpires the correct information, as long as that information is then presented to the players and fans through the umpire, much like instant replay. I just hate the idea of replacing the ball/strike calls with a computer, or any other change that gradually phases out human interaction. If you replace the HP ump with a camera-computer, why not replace the base umpires with them as well? Install wireless sensors in the bases and gloves to determine safe/out calls. Replace managers with a computer that cycles through data two or three million times faster than a human, and let it make pitching changes and baserunning decisions. Replace the first and third base coaches too. Eventually, we won't need players at all! Or stadiums, for that matter. We can just have each player's career stats plugged into a central database (or in the case of new players, allow them to play 20 or 30 games against each other to establish a baseline and plug that in). Then we can let the computer extrapolate from that data and give us the "results" of all 162 games for each team and the results from the playoffs. The entire season could be scaled down to the click of a button and ten minutes of processing. Then we could have an Amazon delivery drone drop off the World Series Trophy to...wherever. Probably still not the Cubs. I realize that this is more than slightly hyperbolic, but my point remains that turning any sport into one that is so heavily dependent on computers and cameras turns it from a cherished and personal tradition for millions into an assembly line, churning out "games" for the entertainment of a mindless public. Giving gear to the umps to help them be a little better at their jobs keeps baseball relevant without losing what baseball is fundamentally about: people. Getting rid of the homeplate umpire and letting the batter and catcher stand in front of a machine turns it into an antiseptic bore.

Chase Headley

The point in itself is to be sarcastic and dumb. You have to really hammer the point home by making variations on the same post three or four times in the span of a few minutes, though, or it just loses its edge.

It is awesome, and knowing that it pisses off our resident Yankees fan is icing on the cake. Icing made of delicious Yankee fan tears.

You'd be fine with the guy on second base? A guy on a team that the Sox have struggled to beat the last few seasons, in an important early-season game with the fate of first place in the division hanging in the balance, in a game which the Sox ultimately won by only two runs? Against a team capable of scoring far more than necessary to take the lead? You're okay with a RISP in that situation on a missed call?

3 runs? Wright was off his game today! I had my 15-minute break today, went outside to check the score on the radio and turned it on literally in the middle of Castiglione's call for Hanley's HR. Great timing! I'm so sick of losing to this team of *******s and their ******* manager, and listening to s*** from their ******* fans. Nice to see a win, and nice to see Wright still chugging along as the quietest sub-3 ERA guy in the history of baseball.

No, the closest I've come to anyone is getting a hat signed by Papelbon as he walked the front row of seats pre-game, when I went to a game at Camden Yards. But I didn't talk to him, there were a lot of other people crowding around. I actually had to hand the hat to someone else to hand to him. I've met a few non-Sox players though, all of them when I was working as a security guard at ESPN HQ in Bristol. I escorted Jorge Posada through a building to a studio, we chatted a bit (his English isn't spectacular, but he was nice). I also briefly exchanged greetings with Jeter, David Wright, and Mike Scocsia.

I don't know, the bullpen catcher is looking a little indolent. That could spell doom for a team's championship hopes.

I agree 100%. As far as his hustle is concerned, he has nothing to apologize for.

When I went into work, the Sox were up 5-4 in the seventh. I get home and see that they won 15-4. Maybe I should not listen to the games more often.