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Thank you.

My thoughts were, it's tough to make the case to sit someone as they near the plate appearances goal in a pennant race no matter what. That's why I wanted to DFA in the offseason so that you could find a replacement and not have to worry about $20M next year.

Sinking and rescue Under the command of Captain George Harris, the ship departed from Liverpool on March 18, 1841 for Philadelphia with 17 seamen and 65 passengers, mostly poor Scottish and Irish emigrants. At about 10 p.m. on the night of April 19, William Brown struck an iceberg 250 miles (400 km) southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland and sank. The captain, eight seamen, and one passenger made it to the jolly boat (to be picked up six days later by a French fishing vessel), while nine crewmen and 32 passengers occupied the longboat. One person had died earlier on the voyage, and 31 passengers, many of them children, went down with the ship.[1] Before the two boats parted ways to increase their chances of being found, Captain Harris placed the first mate, Francis Rhodes, in charge of the crowded, leaking longboat. At about 10 p.m., 24 hours after the sinking, the wind picked up, sending water over the longboat's gunwales, and it began to rain heavily. The first mate shouted, "This . . . won't do. Help me, God. Men, go to work."[1] When the crewmen did nothing, he stated, "Men, you must go to work, or we shall all perish."[1][2] Then, the seamen, among them Alexander Holmes, forced 12 men out of the boat. Two women also went into the frigid water, though they may have voluntarily followed their brother, Frank Askin. Early the next morning, two men were found to be hiding and were also jettisoned. All of the male passengers, except for two married men and a young boy, had been sacrificed,[1] while all of the crewmen remained aboard. Later that day, the survivors were picked up by the American ship Crescent and taken to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Maritime, France.[3] Trial When some of the passengers finally reached their destination of Philadelphia, they filed a complaint with the District Attorney. Holmes was the only crewman to be found in the city, so he was the only one charged. He was accused of murdering Frank Askin. A grand jury before Supreme Court Justice Henry Baldwin refused to indict him on that charge, so it was reduced to manslaughter. In the case of United States v. Holmes, the defendant was found guilty and sentenced to six months in jail and a $20 fine.[2] None of the other crewmen were ever brought to trial. Films The 1937 film Souls at Sea, with Gary Cooper, George Raft, and Henry Wilcoxon, is somewhat based on the disaster, changing the cause of it to a fire accidentally set by a little girl. A story involving abolitionists against the slave trade is involved, but the conclusion has Cooper's character forced to jettison passengers out of the overcrowded lifeboat, and facing a trial for murder as a result. The 1957 film Seven Waves Away (renamed Abandon Ship! in the USA), was also loosely based on the incident, with Tyrone Power starring as "Alec Holmes". A 1975 made-for-television version, The Last Survivors, featured Martin Sheen.

Some of the RF grandstand seats don't face the infield, they face the outfield so you spend a lot of the game with your head turned. Just not very comfortable. My least favorite part of the ballpark. I know they fixed some of the seats, but I still believe there are some that haven't been corrected.

Hanley isn't going to hit like it's April again. He's going to reach the plate appearances. We'll be stuck with him next year. And a lot of you people were fine with that before the season. Oh well.

I just did games played.

He's the worst.

Hang the dj hang the dj hang the dj.

Hold on for a minute while they decide if they want to challenge or not. Tick tock tick tock.

Great inning for the rAAAys.

X gonna give it to ya

Warning track power. OB with the premature yelling.

He was scary good.

He is.

Low baseball iq

https://www.talksox.com/forum/threads/18223-From-Chicago-visiting-Fenway-this-weekend?highlight=Fenway This comes up a lot. See the link above.

And if he sucks, you’ll just blame the Sox or disappear from TS.

NESN is saying the exact opposite

Not JBJ

Optioning JBJ? Wut?

Diekman is also on the back end of his career and has no arbitration years left. I don't think Johnson will amount to much, but there is still some sort of potential left in Swihart.

He didn't look completely helpless last night either. I think JBJ is going to be given a long leash.

@Rotoworld_BB Gary Sanchez (calf) sitting out Wednesday Heard that it wasn't just a cramp in his leg yesterday. Good chance it was necrotizing fasciitis. He may need full leg amputation.

Baseball would be a lot more fun if TS was the general manager. SMDH