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Jeter has a couple of hundred of those over the years.
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WTF, Lin will be batting after Poppi?
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He is
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You and Bobby V on the same page. Are you bragging about that?
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Nice bunt.
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He'd bunt into a DP. Let him hit into a traditional DP.
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Bazinga
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Darnell has a very pleasant face. His play makes me sad.
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And hating him for being overexposed makes sense? He has no control over his coverage at all, so hating him for it is insane. As I said earlier, Google "tebow religious controversy" and you will have plenty to read-- not all of it positive.
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I agree that the controversy is media created and that football fans by and large don't care about it, but the controversy created by the media was centered around his religion.
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Yup, the key word in your post is "themselves". The yanks and Rays have had key injuries too, but they are not stuck in last place. Also, we were playing our worst before Ellsbury and Youk went down.
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I really think you can only speak for yourself on this. Google "Tebow religious controversy" and you will have plenty to read. I think you have your head in the sand on this one. I have never known a mediocre player who was so overexposed by the media. Also, I don't know why fans would hate him for being overexposed. He had no control over that. The reason for the overexposure and the hatred stem from the controversy IMO.
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Every one is in agreement that he is not an NFL caliber starting QB at this time. About that there is no controversy. The controversy involves the other stuff.
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When a player's religion becomes a topic of non sports talk shows and Sunday morning political shows, he is controversial. I don't know why you can't see that.
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Speaking for myself, I never projected either of them as the #3 hitter for the Red Sox. I always like Lowrie's bat. I used to call him Minny Manny, because he was very productive with his hits getting a lot of RBIs. Middle of the order? Yeah, I could see him batting 5th or 6th if he stayed healthy. Who the hell ever thought Pedroia would bat cleanup at times? The fact is this E1, both the A's and the Astros got their number three hitter for spare parts, essentially just a bullpen guy. That's a good deal for them even if they have weak lineups. BTW, weak lineup or not, the A's handed us our hat when we faced them this season.
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An interesting and true observation.
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Good example. You couldn't find two more opposite guys. Yet, I love them both. They are both a bit looney and idiotic in their views, but they wore the right laundry and entertained me. Lee was a Yankee killer, and better yet, a Yankee hater. Schill killed the Yanks dead twice on the big stage- once for us and once for Arizona. I don't care about their beliefs. They are ex-ballplayers. They don't shape policy in this country. Once they left the ball field, they should be irrelevant to us as baseball fans. The truth is you never heard people on the right attacking Bill Lee for his ideas. People on the left in my experience have very thin skin and little tolerance for opposing points of view. Anyone with a different point of view is an enemy of sorts. That's my opinion and the only political statement that I will make today. I've been working in Manhattan for 25 years and I have lived in NY my entire life. I know them well--many are close family members and friends.
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He sold low on a guy that was just starting to develop. He got an OFer who can't run or hit for power and that is only okay at getting on base (Sweeney) and an injury prone reliever. People are always scoffing that closers are over rated and over valued, but people defend Cherries by pointing to how great Bailey can be. He's injury prone with elbow issues. They gave away an OFer with potential with good power who just got some ML time under his belt and did okay in his time for a guy that throws 40 innings and a washed up OF prospect who is at best a 4th OFer. Then he trades a good bat with ML time for another short reliever who has very questionable stuff. Lowrie and Reddick are the number 3 hitters on their team right now. Their new organizations think they are their best hitters. We got a bum who busted after 2 innings, another guy who is missing 3 or 4 months after some incidental contact, and a 4th OFer without a single HR. WOw!!! There is a long way to go for the Sox to come out on the positive side of the ledger on those trades.
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Sure we can. We just need to trade our prospects for guys who can perform. We need to make better trades. This Cherries guy traded 2 young players and got garbage in return. When you trade prospects, you should be getting fully formed well-performing professionals like Beckett and Lowell. That's how it is done.
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When there is discussion in the media of banning your celebration, i.e. Tebowing as being a violation of the Separation of Church and State, that is a controversy.
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The point is that we have been playing well and we haven't picked up ground or moved up the standings. There are no patsies in the ALE, so it will be hard to move quickly up the standings. I don't think anyone expected that the Sox would be in last place as we go into the last week of May.
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Speaking for myself. I am not passing final judgment on these moves. I am just noting that right now they look bad. In fact, I can't think of anything that Cherries has done that looks good at this juncture.
