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  1. a700hitter
    LOL!! Touche for douche. But my wife went there. What year did you graduate? I guess that we had a few kids from Red Hook who were admitted because their mommies cried to the principal about how their sons were getting bullied in Red Hook. Brother Warren was always merciful like that.
  2. a700hitter
    you lost me. Acquiring personnel is one of management's main functions. I don't expect that they will just snap their fingers. I just hope that they do their jobs well. I certainly hope they do more than lecture Price about pitching better.
  3. a700hitter
    Valedictorian? What year?
  4. a700hitter
    If Price gives us 200 innings we don't need him to win CY Young to be a good team. We need to replace the parts of the rotation that can't fix themselves. As you said, Price can pitch better, and i believe that he will. He is not going to lower his season ERA to under 2, but he will get it under 4 and that will be good enough if we get some solutions on the back end of the rotation. I have identified a problem that can be fixed with a personnel change. That is within the control of the team management. Getting a player to play better is not in the control of the team management. That is why it is a specious solution. Let's agree to disagree. You think the solution is Price pitching better. I think you will get your wish, and I don't think it will make a difference unless my issue is addressed.
  5. a700hitter
    We had no money to pay someone to shovel our driveway. That is why my parents had me and my brothers.
  6. a700hitter
    Red Hook, now that was a slum. Us Bay Ridge boys didn't go there.
  7. a700hitter
    It was in decline in the 1950's, but that area around Prospect Park was not a slum until the Dodgers moved and the Ebbett's Field houses opened. Even then it was not a slum like the South Bronx. Us Xaverian boys used to go to Grand Army Plaza Library right near the park to do our research papers. We didn't need to arm ourselves. No one went to the South Bronx from outside that neighborhood in the 70's. What year did you graduate Babe? And I will bet that I did much better than you grade-wise.
  8. a700hitter
    When did I mention my alama mater here? Are you stalking me? LOL! It is my alma mater. And he does remind me of the douchey Yankee fans that attended there.
  9. a700hitter
    The tweeting remark was snark on my part, but your solution that Price needs to pitch better is specious at best. Why not just tell Buch or the random #5 to pitch better? Is that a solution? No. Neither is it a solution to say that Price has to pitch better. Price is probably working on that and I am pretty confident that he will get better. I have no such confidence in Buch or random #5. They need to be replaced.
  10. a700hitter
    I'll repeat my thought on this. Price pitching like Cy Young cannot save this rotation. As far as buying DD some time, DD put himself in this position. Plus, I think if Price was pitching lights out, the FO would continue to think they were on the right track. I don't think they would feel the need to fix anything. And they would be mistaken, imo.
  11. a700hitter
    Okay, we get it. you think it is all the fault of Price. Had Price been Price, we would be the Cubs. I disagree. Even if Price pitches like a Cy Young, the 4th and 5th spots will sink this team if not fixed.
  12. a700hitter
    You blamed the offense last year for the Red Sox not being in first place at the ASB. No hyperbole there. No need to debate it either as you were completely wrong. As for your criticism of Price, it speaks for itself loudly in contrast to your defense of Buch. No hyperbole there either. Just reading what you write.
  13. a700hitter
    And that is going to fix the #4 and 5 spots? I have already stated that even if Price pitches to his 2015 numbers, this team is doomed if the 4th and 5th spots do not get fixed. No playoffs, maybe not even .500 ball. So I disagree with your solution.
  14. a700hitter
    Oh, okay. Tweet him about that.
  15. a700hitter
    And your solution is?
  16. a700hitter
    Price will be fine, and it will not matter if he pitches to last year's numbers if the 4th and 5th slots are not fixed. That is my point and I stand by it -- just as I stood by my point last year that the problem was the pitching and not an offensive slump in May.
  17. a700hitter
    Any thoughts on this?
  18. a700hitter
    I didn't say that. It isn't going to help the 2016 team if we pick up 2 pitchers this winter either. Obviously, he needs to fix the problem sooner than later. I already posted that if he can't get it done, they are toast. It will not matter what Price or the Offense does. You can't carry 2 black holes in the rotation for the duration of the season. But the problem is the back end of the rotation.
  19. a700hitter
    LOL!! People from Bay Ridge are much nicer.
  20. a700hitter
    That he is our best pitcher who would give us the best chance of winning the game. I am not going to let 63 innings condemn him.
  21. a700hitter
    Sure the ship has sailed, but that doesn't mean that it is not the cause of this team's problems. I am not going to point fingers at the strong aspects of the team. That would not be fair. They are doing their job. The offense will ebb and flow over the course of a season, but this is a high performing offense. The glaring weakness of the rotation is the problem. If DD can't fix it, he can't fix it, but it is still the problem. The offense is not going to score double digits every game. No offense can. Any success that this team has had has been due to the high octane offense. We have lost games where they have scored 8, 9 and 10 games much too often. No, the problem is the pitching just as it was last year. last year the problem was the entire staff. This year the problem is a couple of rotation spots. Fix those and this team is a strong contender imo.
  22. a700hitter
    I would still hand him the ball.
  23. a700hitter
    What part of Brooklyn did you grow up in and what years did you live there? It is obvious that it was in one of the terrible school districts.
  24. a700hitter
    So did I. Lived there until 1989 (age 30). My whole family is from Brooklyn. So save your BS.
  25. a700hitter
    You are an idiot and a fool. The ballpark was built in the slum in 1912 because the land was cheap. You don't build a ballpark on Madison avenue. A funny thing happened when the ballpark was built. Commerce came into the area and the slum disappeared. The Fens were a pile of s*** before Fenway Park was built. Ebbetts was within a short walking distance from Prospect Park and was a very safe area for many years. The area did start to decline in the 1950's, but the real death blow to the area came when the Dodgers left town. I'll take the word of the people that lived there instead of a jackass Yankee fan troll.
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