Elktonnick
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What if an asteroid ends all life on earth?
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There is an old axiom in baseball that you can not tell the team you have until they have played fifty games. Well with forty five in the bag, this team is better than the one I thought they would be in February. Yes they still have some holes, I do not expect Cordero to be on the big club much longer, but help in on the way. If they continue to play this way Bloom will definitely be a buyer come the trade deadline. I think it is reasonably to expect this team to contend for a playoff spot. Whatever happens I look forward to every game they play. I could not say that about last years team.
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It may only be April 26, but the Red Sox are the only team in the ALE with a winning record and the Yankees are in last place. Enjoy it while it lasts. BTW just finished watching the Orioles beat the Yankees. I realized watching the Yankees lose is almost as much fun as watching the Red Sox win.
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Because of his involvement in the super league many Sox fans in Boston noticed that Henry was largely mia the past 18 months. The league's collapse was a huge humiliation for Henry. I suspect he will do something to recoup from that defeat. It could well be spending big if that is what it takes to bring another title to Boston if the team still is in it come July.
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Sooner if the Sox are still contending.this Julyy
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Question for all to ponder: how will.the collapse of the proposed Soccer super league initiative affect the Red Sox? The collapse was a humiliating defeat for John Henry. Does this mean that Henry will give Bloom the green light to spend and ignore any lux tax?
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Devers will be a third base for a lot longer then this year. Devers has the potential to be a gold glove third baseman. His issues at third are all mental not physical. He WILL learn to play the position.
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I agree. Cora made a very astute move yesterday. We also have to give kudos to pitching coach Bush. He seems to have all his pitchers challenging hitters. So far no one has the nibbles.
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It doesn't get better with age. Everyone struggles to be taken seriously. It is the constant struggle.
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Wow the Red Sox sure are a lot of fun to watch right now! Also caught a couple of Yankees games. They are playing about as poorly as I have seen them play in a long long time. But this is baseball, this could turn around for both teams. The bottom line is this could be a very interesting season.
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Sound argument
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Makes sense to me.
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During today's game they showed one of the plays of Jackie Robinson stealing home. What caught my eye was the third base bag. It was a bag, the kind we had when we played years ago. It is time for MLB to get rid of those hard bases and return to the bags that were used in the fifties. BTW does anyone recall when they changed the actual bases from the bags to what we see today.
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Neither do I. It seems that MLB is experimenting with change for change sake.
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MLB will experiment with moving the pitching rubber back one foot this upcoming season in the Atlantic league,according to the Athletic. In addition, they will experiment. with something called the double hook. A team will have a DH only as long as their starting pitcher remains in the game. Remove the starter lose the DH.
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What makes this start all the more disconcerting is that they went 0-3 not against the Yankees but purportedly the worst team in the division, the Orioles.
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Does anyone seriously think this team is good enough to make the playoffs..........in the ACC ?
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Worcester is enjoying a revival. I presume Worcester is the alternate site.Great restaurant scene. However, I am told until 80 per cent of tier 1 players are vaccinated they are prohibited from eating in at a restaurant.
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I am with you. I see it about the same. I must admit I think the Yankees will have another disappointing year. I see them as potentially having a greater problem with injuries than the Red Sox. They are physically big and I think that may prove problematic health wise.
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What is interesting is to read the life stories of both Pumpsie Green and Mike Higgins the racist manager. Pumpsie lived an honorable and admirable long life until.his 80s. Higgins died on parole from prison at age 59. Karma can be a bitch.
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Who Should the Sox Have Play 2B in 2020?
Elktonnick replied to mvp 78's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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He may but I suspect they will handle it between themselves. Going public only keeps the story alive. Massorati is a pot stirrer.. He is only interested in controversy. I used b to listen to their show Felger and Massorati on the radio but it got tiresome. They are only interested in generating more heat than light.
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I have been watching interviews of baseball players and managers for a very long long time. Usually these interviews are exceptionally anodyne when it comes to comments about other players or managers. This interview was not. That was note worthy. I would hope Cora regrets going down this road with respect to comments about a former player of his. I would have no problem if Beni were still a Red Sox. Such criticism of current player is fair because the player would have an opportunity to discuss it with his manager but criticizing a former player crosses a line in my book.
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I think it was unnecessary. It raises the question that the Sox dumped Beni because he was recalcitrant. If I were Beni I wouldn't be too happy with gratuitous criticism from my former manager. It not as if the Red Sox have never trashed former players or managers, just ask Tito Francona
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What I don't understand is why did Cora bring this up at all. It seems to serve no useful purpose. Beni is no longer a Red Sox. Cui bono from raising this topic?