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  1. Spitball
    Blue Moon Odom also had more rings, and I don't think there is even an argument for him. Tiant won more games. He also pitched more seasons, more games, more innings, fewer homers, had more strikeouts, more Ks per 9, and a better k:bb. I think the two were comparable.
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    Luis Tiant is one of the ten candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame who will be on the Veterans Committee ballot next month. I have always felt he compared well with Catfish Hunter and others already in. 228 wins and a 1.19 whip. And, who knows how old he really was when he was pitching in the big leagues. Tony Perez was amazed in the 1975 World Series when he saw Luis was listed as younger than he. He remembered watching Tiant pitch in the Cuban League when Perez was a little kid.
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    I have not heard that one. I think Manny would have broken him in two in a roid rage. The most common rumor was he was hitting on a 17 year-old ball girl.
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    I mentioned Mackanin from the start. He would be an excellent choice. I much prefer former infielders and catchers to former outfielders like Dave Martinez.
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    Good post, but I disagree with this point. I see a lot of managers out there batting fast runners with poor on base abilities at the top of their order. Corey Patterson and Willy Tavares both had a vast majority of their at bats from the number one hole despite problems finding first base. Those managers simply refuse let go of old school thought and fail to embrace the logic of modern statistical analysis.
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    A positive move at a negative time. Young may have had success in a pitchers' park in Oakland with young pitchers, but he was the wrong man for the Boston staff.
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    Best news I've heard this off season! But Young's departure was a certainty.
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    Why would Hoyer want to go from #1 to #2?
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    Meh. I don't see any bigger deal than what has already been reported. If they are drinking, I would rather they be watching the competition in the dugout than seperating themselves in the clubhouse. It seems the media is loving the chance to report dirt. We are in the reality tv era, and this crap sells. To me, boys will be boys and beer will be consumed. It happens. The same pitchers were surely drinking beer when the Sox were in first place. It was when the losing began that the search for scapegoats began. I grew up near Salem and the witch hunts seem to be a Massachusetts tradition.
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    We are talking about the Red Sox, though. If this had been the Pittsburgh Pirates or the Kansas City Royals, there would not be as much national interest. The Red Sox and Yankees are held to a different level of scrutiny than other teams. We will just have to wait that part out. I remember the early 1970s. They were known sarcastically as Unity University and known for 25 players and 25 cabs because the team didn't get along. The 1975 team AL championship team added Lynn, Rice, and Burleson but little else when they became winners. No more talk about team unity. Only time will tell, but I bet the clubhouse culture will have to change because of national scrutiny. I doubt team members will dare even go to Boston Beer works after a game for fear of appearing on ESPN the next day.
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    Call them out if you want. I am not saying you shouldn't. They are probably not reading your posts, though. You are simply venting. I simply choose to move past it. I am not making excuses for them nor comparing them to the 2004 team. I'm simply saying it wasn't about the beer or the chicken. It was about the losing...whatever reason and this team has a long hitory of that. I am very upset about the season...and seeing it like it is would be realizing the past is the past. You are not going to change a thing. I am not saying you are not a Red Sox fan if you vent, but you might be less frustrated with another team...and how did you know I wear Red Sox pajamas?
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    This wasn't meant to be a comparison. It was meant to point out the act of drinking wasn't an issue, it was the issue of losing...something the Red Sox have been known for through there history.
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    We don't really know what happens in mlb clubhouses. The point is the Red Sox have a colorful team history.
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    "Yes, absolutely I have before. Sometimes you’re just really struggling and you just say, “Hey, you know what, I need something to calm me down and let’s have a beer.” A couple of us will do it together, and sometimes it works out. It’s just, sometimes you just need a rally beer. If you’re in extra innings and you’re in about the 15th inning and you really need to get going again, that sometimes works for you," says A.J. Pierzynski.
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    http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/6384936/ Yeah, but it was 2004 and no one freaked out. We just accepted it as the brotherhood of idiots on a winning team. I am going to avoid the negativity. I still love the Red Sox and am going to put this down as part of the eccentricity of the franchise. Bill Lee put marijuana on his pancakes. Pumpsie Green and Gene Conley once went on a three day bender and tried to go to Isreal. Wade Boggs had a mistress. The team has a colorful history, and I am still with them. I can't stand that they blew a lead and perhaps the attitude wasn't right, but I honestly don't know exactly what happened. All I know is I am ready to put the crap down as part of being a Red Sox fan for nearly fifty years. Go Red Sox!
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    Going forward, I want to leave this media circus behind. Crap happened, but crap happens. I've followed the Sox for about 50 years, and 2004 was pretty special. I don't want to see it diminished by all overblown drama being thrown out there. I hope the Red Sox Nation can continue to thrive with the passion that few teams in any sport can claim.
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    Count me in the Scutaro Fan Club. Since Nomar left, the Sox have gone through some shortstops. It seemed Epstein simply could not figure out how to pick a good one (which is why I am worried about Iglesias) until he signed Scutaro. Besides, Marco Scutaro is a pretty cool name. It is right there with my all-time favorite shortstop, Rico Petrocelli.
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    I keep going back and forth in my mind on this. He brought a couple of championships, but he had resources not available in Pittsburgh, Kansas City, and most other markets. He made some great moves, but he made some vital mistakes. I hate to see him go, but I am ready for a change. When I first saw the story, I thought it was totally unfair for him to leave the Sox with bad contracts and a depleted farm system...then I remembered he was going to the Cubs. Good luck with that mess.
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    BU's Nickerson Field stands there now I believe. I understand it had a gigantic outfield.
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    I would hope the Sox would hold firm at no more than two years. I do not want him to sign with the Yankees, though. I just don't want to even think about that. I am just now getting over them signing Louis Tiant away thirty-something years ago...and I'm not kidding.
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    When I was a kid in the late '50s and early '60s, there were people around who still followed the Braves in Milwaulkee. I remember Eddie Matthews, Hank Aaron, and Warren Spahn baseball cards were pretty hot commodities. When we played wiffle ball, no one was allowed to be the Red Sox so one friend always chose the Braves. There was some evidence that the Braves had some kind of following, but it was not a strong It seemed once the Braves moved to Atlanta in '65 or '66, there was a little too much seperation to keep the already weak interest alive.
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    I do not understand the Martinez support. I would rather have a former catcher or infielder. I just feel they have been trained with years of experience in important strategical aspects of the game. Tony LaRussa is a no for me. He is a jerk. He over manages. Shreds pitchers arms. Plus, he owes much of his success to Dave Duncan who has a sick wife and is likely to retire after this season.
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