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  1. jung
    Please Felix please throw one right at Swisher's head....see if he turn a head first dive into a ballet move.
  2. jung
    I know the jump throw you are referring and there are times when he really blows it and does it when it is really phony baloney. He looks utterly ridiculous when that happens. "Oh gosh Jeter has no time...has to go into the jump throw"....sure he has no time..... you can see him preparing to go into the jump throw and that is when he looks like a total ass doing it.
  3. jung
    Can't Swisher even make a routine catch in the outfield without turning it into some sort of dramatic turn what was that...some ballet move? Why don't they get him a pinstriped tutu for crying out load....what a tool!
  4. jung
    Boy did we ever luck out of that inning.
  5. jung
    I did find it interesting that JH used the same justification for the salary dump that was used in the Scutaro salary dump "we wanted the financial flexibility so that we could utilize those resources more effectively". Are we not still waiting for them to spend the Scutaro money???? I would not believe a think any of them have to say. I think the most logical and likely story is that the Sox have a few feelers out just to see what kind a deal there might be out there for them.....looking at what the Dodgers brought has got to be generating some interest in seeing what the market might suggest for the Sox. While I would not expect the Sox to go nuts trying to spend the money from this salary dump all at once if they really look like they are squeezing it out, I would be even more inclined to think they are considering selling.
  6. jung
    Eight pitch inning for Felix...how unfelix-like....how unspankee like. Maybe that lump is starting to rise in the Spanks throats....wouldn't that just be to bad!
  7. jung
    Be interesting to see how the Sox withstand what should be a real test tonight. The O's have already won their game today, and the Spanks should be very focused on winning to stay tied at the top of the division.
  8. jung
    I do think we can become at least respectable again in pretty short order...really competing for championships again will likely take longer especially now that getting all the way via the WC has become more difficult. It will at least be interesting to see how the old powerhouse teams of the AL East change and adapt...how quickly....by what means...will they be able to break the habit of buying up aging FA's. As much as I hate to say it, I think the Spanks will change and adapt relatively quickly. They want to get back their share of the league revenues rebate. So they have incentive there and I think they realize that aging stars have become a problem for them as well. I hope we will change quickly but I am less confident mainly because I have grown less confident that our guys at the top can stop exhausting so much energy pursuing short term revenue enhancement. Off season might be more fun than it has been in the recent past with changes afoot I think for both the Spanks and the Sox.
  9. jung
    Makes some sense as a bridge...not sure it makes for a long term plan at 1st base but for a year while they settle things out...if it plays out that way, they could do worse.
  10. jung
    Hopefully Joe G will wear out his bullpen using them like he is. Now wouldn't that just be to bad...watching the Spankees giving up late innings runs to perpetuity. Frankly I don't think there is much to worry about. If the Spanks get in they are not going anywhere. So all the temporary Spankee fan gloating over the Sox demise will be pretty short-lived anyway.
  11. jung
    Normally playing to tie this game in the 9th as the home team would have been playing the odds. However this Sox team is not really scary under any circumstances. That is in part why I would have preferred Ells picking on something that he had a chance to drive out as opposed to a first pitch that he might have hit for extra bases at best. With two outs...in my view we needed Ells to at least be focused on ending the game with a HR in that spot...but it does point out one of the glaring weaknesses of this team this year. They have played horrible situational baseball, seemingly oblivious to the team the are, the situation they are in, the team the are playing....just oblivious.
  12. jung
    God damn it....that was a good pitch to hit but geez I hate hate hate first pitch swings. Besides even though that was a hittable pitch, I would have preferred Ells try to get onto a classic LH hitter green light dinger pitch...like low and inside and really try to drive one over the fence...9th inning last bats....give me a dinger over a base hit any day...especially with this line up. Ells was not going to hit the pitch he swung at over the fence under any circumstances.
  13. jung
    The umps union will never let it happen and baseball needs arbitrators at other positions besides home plate...sucks but I don't think we will ever see it. You raise a good point though. If there ever was a concerted effort from some quarter to bring in machines, would there be those that would argue against it for the human element and for the drama that it brings to the game...maybe a little like eliminating fighting in hockey. Although I actually think fighting serves a purpose in hockey. Inconsistency is the killer. The players really don't care if your strike zone is different from some other umps strike zone although we tend to care. The players care about the true knuckleheads that call a pitch a ball one minute and the same pitch a strike the next...they just cannot play the game with that s*** going on. The umps that call balls and strikes that way are known and should just be canned....period.
  14. jung
    Padilla keeps his cool for a change...probably because the spanks were in their road unis. I think if Padilla sees those pinstripes...all bets are off.
  15. jung
    Even Royster got tossed. Sox are running out of coaches.
  16. jung
    What we saw there from Alfonso is just what gets ML hitters and pitchers for that matter going completely batty. He called that a ball two pitches before...in fact the one he called a ball was a slightly better pitch than the one he called a strike. All they ever want is the same pitch called the same way every time. When the ump can't do that , he is nothing more than a pile of dog excrement behind the catcher...useless....clueless.
  17. jung
    I hate the God Damned Sweet Caroline s*** too...as you can tell.
  18. jung
    Wow Ross is hot. Alfonso has been all over the place all night. Some have gone the hitters way...some not but really he has been all over the place. Would like to see where that last one was.
  19. jung
    Internet punch in the mouth for the Sweet Caroline reference.:D:D
  20. jung
    Agree on Bogaerts...only issue appears to be whether he will bulk up into a 3rd baseman before getting to play ML SS. I really hope that does not happen as he looks like he could be the prototypical ML SS...which is to say, not the typical Red Sox all bat...sometimes....no glove...all the time SS.
  21. jung

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    jung replied to wyo-sox's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk

    The min. for minor league players is $78,250.00, slightly more than $75k but that is for guys on the 40 man roster but not on the 25 man roster. The rest make very little. The rest are lucky to make a couple thousand per month unless under contract or having a big signing bonus. They don't make squat and have nobody to represent them. The Players Association while negotiating terms in the CBA that effect minor league players do not represent minor league players. They actually get hosed pretty badly from a pay perspective unless as mentioned earlier they are on the 40 man roster.
  22. jung
    Joe looking nervous, Jacko lighting candles, Spankees Hack squad feverishly at their keyboards preparing to bring down the site again.:D
  23. jung
    To Brennan's point, while I don't think Ace throws Gopher balls up there on purpose, I do think he just gives in. When you just decide out of frustration that you are going to rear back and throw it past the hitter, that is not toughness...which people think he has for some reason. That is giving in especially when you know you don't have that kind of stuff. Ace does it when he is about thirty pitches into an inning and nothing is going right and he has no chance of throwing it past anybody. In fact, he has become so predictable that you can see hitters just waiting for him to throw that nothing FB up there at that point and BANG....dinger city.
  24. jung
    Actually this is the book on Ciriaco, regardless of who or where he is playing. He not only swings at first pitches that he should lay off of, he swings at pitches that never once look like they are going to be a strike. Getting fooled on a pitch that at least at some point between the pitcher's hand and home plate looks like it might possibly be a strike is one thing...swinging at pitches that never once look like they have a chance is quite another. Unless Ciriaco cures that (unlikely) he will be meat if he ever plays a full ML season. One the pitchers and scouts build a full book on him they will abuse him something fierce.
  25. jung
    Oh God...please not Swisher. if I have to see this grinning idiot rounding the bases I am going to slit my wrists.
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