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  1. a700hitter
    He is new at playing the OF. He plays hard and they threw him into the outfield in the major leagues with almost no experience in Fenway's LF with all the angles, lack of foul territory, bolts extruding from the scoreboard etc. It was an accident waiting to happen. Enough of these LF experiments! They don't work.
  2. a700hitter
    Buh Bye to his trade value.
  3. a700hitter
    People say stuff about poor folks too.
  4. a700hitter
    Everything has a price tag. That price gets lower if you need an income to eat.
  5. a700hitter
    Imagine if he didn't have $14 million and people were still saying that about him and he had to live with them.
  6. a700hitter
    Fair enough, but that is probably not representative of others.
  7. a700hitter
    That isn't true at all. In Boston, the star players had no private lives. Ted Williams was criticized about his marriages and parenting. And on and on. To the extent that there is more intrusion on player's private lives today, it is more than compensated for by the lucrative money.
  8. a700hitter
    There is an acute awareness that the ball is coming at you at a very high and deadly velocity. There isn't too much daydreaming at home plate. Like Yogi Berra used to say, you cant think and hit at the same time.
  9. a700hitter
    I walked away from a good paying job, but I didn't have to worry about feeding my family or paying my bills. Without that luxury, I am still working that job.
  10. a700hitter
    They would if their only other option to feed their family was a 9-5 job.
  11. a700hitter
    He was the target of every sportswriter in Boston, and the print press had a monopoly over the news back then. They went after him all the time. And he got booed a lot. If anything, it was harder for players in the 60's and 70's, because there were no long term guaranteed contracts, and when your career was over you had to get another job unless you were a superstar. Today, Nick Punto is set for life.
  12. a700hitter
    There would be a very long sign up list -- even at 60 k. Oil Can Boyd is 56 years old and can't pitch anymore, but he still plays independent baseball. He just loves it.
  13. a700hitter
    They live privileged lives. There is no doubt about that. I remember at Yaz's Hall of Fame induction ceremony he said that he would often be asked about how he handled pressure. I will paraphrase his answer: "What pressure? Pressure is raising and providing comfort for one's family. That's pressure. Playing professional baseball is not pressure." It is difficult. It is hard work, but let's not elevate it to a "grind." Everything is done for these guys. Every need they have is taken care of by someone else. They are only responsible to get themselves prepared to play (and they get help with that too) and play. Phil Rizzuto who prbably never made more than $30k as a player talked about how he was unprepared for the real world after his playing days were over. He was shocked to learn that he had to carry his own bags when traveling or that he had to make his own travel arrangements. It is a very pampered life.
  14. a700hitter
    That is what I am hoping for.
  15. a700hitter
    He will probably catch on with Tampa and resume beating us.
  16. a700hitter
    I have seen a fair number of those.
  17. a700hitter
    Can't score double digits regularly, and in the last week we lost games where we scored 9 runs twice and 8 runs.
  18. a700hitter
    ER is not the answer for #2. Darwin Barney is not a masher.
  19. a700hitter
    Neither can I.
  20. a700hitter
    Yep
  21. a700hitter
    And there goes Swihart's trade value.
  22. a700hitter
    And the out will be reversed.
  23. a700hitter
    LFer needed.
  24. a700hitter
    You cant trust a knuckle baller.
  25. a700hitter
    The deal is done
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