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Everything posted by a700hitter

  1. a700hitter
    Peavey is making me nervous.
  2. a700hitter
    He's all over the place.
  3. a700hitter
    I hope we hit some high drives to LF. It could get interesting with Peralta out there.
  4. a700hitter
    Hopefully, Napoli will go on one of his post-season runs and Pedey will hit too.
  5. a700hitter
    yes, I have been getting the ads too.
  6. a700hitter
    What a game!! Lackey was unbelievably good after the first two hits. He matched Verlander pitch for pitch at the top of his game. Tazawa was great in that AB against Miggy. That was riveting. This has been a very tense and exciting series. We are up two games to one. I can hardly wait until tomorrow night.
  7. a700hitter
    All solid points. I agree.
  8. a700hitter
    They need to follow the same approach that they used all season long. Get the starter out of the game and feast on the bullpen. IMON the Tiger pen is ready to implode.
  9. a700hitter
    I will go dark at 4 and catch it on DVR starting at 6:30. I hate that.
  10. a700hitter
    I'd prefer if they kept all 3 -- Drew, Middlebrooks and Bogaerts. Drew tends to get injured and Middlebrooks has not found consistency. There should be enough playing time for all 3, and underperformance or injury by one of them would not cause much of a problem. However, I think the Sox will let Drew walk.
  11. a700hitter
    I want to see Erin Andrews and Ken Rosenthal standing side by side for the comic effect.
  12. a700hitter
    Get a plate of nachos at Remy's before the game.
  13. a700hitter
    Many choke under the bright spotlight-- more than you would think. The guys that remain calm and determined are able to perform to their skill levels in those situations. They don't get faster or stronger, but they conquer the situation mentally when many others cannot. Heck, Curt Schilling had nothing left in 2007 yet he still won in the big spots, because he was so accustomed to those big spots that he could exceute in those big games like it was a game in May. It took almost flawless execution to get by with the stuff he had in 2007. He could barely crack 90 on the gun. The hitters were all jacked up on adrenaline and chasing his pitches out of the zone. I guess the best definition of clutch is being able to perform to your talent level in big situations. Many can't
  14. a700hitter
    It is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. You don't have to be a great player to be a clutch player. I have seen great players that are not clutch. I have seen average players that are clutch. The clutch guy is the one you would want at the plate in a key spot and the one that the pitchers don't want to see. On the Tigers, Prince Fielder is a better hitter than VMart, but in a big clutch situation, I would rather be facing Fielder than VMart. He always seems to put up such tough ABs in big spots. Explaining what makes a guy a clutch hitter is like trying to explain why a little guy like Dustin Pedroia is so much better than other players with far superior skills. It's like trying to explain why a marginal major leaguer like Tommy Hutton owned a Hall of Fame pitcher like Tom Seaver. Seaver can't explain it, but he knows that it became a mental thing at some point. Statistics don't explain everything in the game. In the words of Yogi Berra, 90 percent of the game is half mental.
  15. a700hitter
    Please, don't ever try to tell me that there is no such thing as a clutch hitter. Ortiz goes to the plate in those huge situations as calm as if it were a Spring Training game while the pitcher is s***ing in his pants.
  16. a700hitter
    Nice catch by the bullpen catcher too. How the hell did he see that ball from the crouched position?
  17. a700hitter
    Yep, hopefully we get on a roll from this.
  18. a700hitter
    We need you to bring the positivity. The GT wasn't that bad considering how miserable they looked for 7 innings after a miserable performance last night.
  19. a700hitter
    Great picture!!
  20. a700hitter
    Workman, Doubs and Koji did the job tonight. Uehara was his usual awesome self with a 9 pitch inning.
  21. a700hitter
    Jeesh, where the hell were you. No VA in a GT is not good mojo.
  22. a700hitter
    That must have been some call. I hope they post it on Red Sox.com
  23. a700hitter
    Good news is that Pedroia is hitting with 2 hits tonight. When he hits, the Sox win. It is as simple as that.
  24. a700hitter
    Who called it on Radio for the Sox ... Castiglione? I'd like to hear that call.
  25. a700hitter
    He out-managed himself.
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