Interesting thing about pinch hitting, and this isn't aimed at Farrell, but it usually fails. Red Sox pinch hitters have an OPS of .487. AL pinch hitters have an OPS of .612.
This argument doesn't really work because the game was designed so long ago, in a whole different world. No one knows what Abner Doubleday would have thought of the new technology. Maybe he would have liked it.
Baseball is such a precarious game. If we had scored with the bases loaded and no outs in Game 1....if Koji was still Koji...we'd be 2-1 in this series instead of 0-3.
One of the eternal mysteries, isn't it? As I was absorbing the pain of last night's loss and 3 brutal ones in a row, it hit me - 'Oh my God, I'm already looking forward to tomorrow's game.'
I love it when an announcer says something like this about a pitcher: 'When you're around the plate all the time, you're more likely to get the benefit of the doubt on borderline calls...'
That's great stuff!
There are guys that are horrible that are only playing because they're being paid so much (Howard).
There are other guys that are horrible that get jettisoned because the team is willing to eat the bad dough (Craig).
I'm more like the guy in the Monty Python sketch who's just looking for a good argument. (I wish they had better smileys here. The selection of emoticons they have on the music forum I just joined a while ago is beautiful LOL)