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  1. Bellhorn04
    Good, I think we finally bludgeoned this topic to death.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Excellent. He's gonna have 3-way splits this year...
  3. Bellhorn04
    I'm interested in this. Can he convert from switch-hitting to just batting right-handed?
  4. Bellhorn04
    Same here man. In real life I'm on the shy and introverted side. Those qualities did not work well with high school.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Sure they have a lot of evidence. But a 211 game suspension is unprecedented, and A-Rod has the right to present a case against it. Not to mention a little bit of cash to pay lawyers.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Right. What's pissing me off out of my mind about last night's game is that he f***ed us.
  7. Bellhorn04
    But I was asking about the regular season game in July, 2004. The famous picture of Tek giving A-Rod a facial. Bill Mueller's game winning home run off Rivera.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Well, if you want to break it down like this, A-Rod scored 2 runs and drove in 2. One of each was the home run, so he scored or drove in 3 runs. There's your margin of victory. But there's more than that. In a baseball game a lot of what happens is interconnected. If you hypothetically change one thing a bunch of other things can change too. For example, managers make certain decisions based on the game score and situation. Farrell might use a different pitcher in a tie game than he would when we're behind by 2 runs. That type of thing.
  9. Bellhorn04
    If it's misleading, I didn't mean it to be. I do believe that the Yankees got fired up by the beaning and Girardi's ejection. I'm conceding the fact that nobody can prove that kind of thing. But this is part of the lore of sports. You don't say things that can become clippings on the other team's bulletin board. You don't wake up the wrong guy. How many times have we heard stuff like this? Is it truth or mythology? What about the A-Rod-Varitek fight in 2004? Do you think that had anything to do with us waking up as a team that year, or do you think it's ********?
  10. Bellhorn04
    Unlikely, but not laughable IMO. They're only 6 back in the loss column with a month plus left and lots of AL East interdivision games.
  11. Bellhorn04
    I think they would have a good shot at doing that this offseason.
  12. Bellhorn04
    And the answer to: did it help us lose the game? is yes. We know it led to a run. We can't prove that 'firing up' the Yankees helped them win - you can never prove that stuff. But to completely dismiss it is wrong too. We know there are psychological factors in sports.
  13. Bellhorn04
    No, even without that. Putting A-Rod on base led to a run.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Empirically speaking, it was one of the reasons.
  15. Bellhorn04
    And some things take on a significance that is more than just the actual outcome of that inning or whatever. I can't help thinking that some of the Sox players were doing some second-guessing during the game as things turned around. We'll never know how much it 'inspired' the Yankees to score 7 runs off Dempster. But the possibility is there. In 2004 a lot of people point to the moment when Varitek shoved A-Rod as a turning point for the team. Maybe that's ******** or maybe it isn't. Let's just hope people aren't looking back at this play for the wrong reasons later in the season.
  16. Bellhorn04
    It's such a nice ironic touch that Dempster can't even apologize or admit it was a bad move or say that if he to do it over, he wouldn't. Because he would be breaking the inviolable code of baseball just by admitting he was throwing at A-Rod. He has to take that with him to his grave like a Mafioso.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Totally agree jung. As you are saying, this was stupid for MULTIPLE REASONS. That's what really makes it special.
  18. Bellhorn04
    It's quite possible.
  19. Bellhorn04
    I know I'm saying this with the benefit of hindsight, but I firmly believe this was one of the stupidest moves in baseball history, and the whole team has to own it. -What if Dempster had been tossed from the game? This could easily have happened. Then the bullpen would have had 8 innings to cover! -Why the hell didn't the team talk about this before the series? Why didn't somebody do it in Friday's game? I'm livid. I'll calm down, but I know this was a disastrously boneheaded move.
  20. Bellhorn04
    One last post on Dempster. You're not a hero, dude. A) You didn't back up what you did. You could have gotten tossed after one inning and left your bullpen holding the bag for 8 innings. C) You don't have to step up the plate to face possible retaliation - your teammates do. D) You're getting paid 13.25 million dollars this year, and you're not really earning it so far. Now you've totally f***ed up a crucial game, against the Yankees.
  21. Bellhorn04
    If Dempster did discuss this with his teammates, I'm guessing he didn't mention that Part B of the master plan included giving up 2 runs that inning, serving up a meatball to Roid the following at-bat, and giving up 7 runs total. That probably would have dampened their enthusiasm.
  22. Bellhorn04
    I agree jung. This is one of the most stunningly stupid moves I've ever seen in baseball. Did Dempster not even contemplate the possibility that it could backfire disastrously on his team? In a tight race? Like you I can't get over this.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Well exactly. The POS goes on to have a big night. I have no objection to plunking A-Rod. The timing, however, was moronic.
  24. Bellhorn04
    And you know what - there's nothing they can even say. Farrell has already denied it. They're certainly not going to say 'in hindsight, it wasn't a great idea'.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Could be worse I guess. Benches could have cleared and somebody on the Yanks could have done a Graig Nettles on Buchholz.
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