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  1. I have to admit I have 'gone the wrong way' in a few grocery aisles with COVID-19 arrows on the floor. If there's no one in the aisle, no harm done. Make a quick dash to what you need, then come back out in the right direction.
  2. I just read that Simmons has had 3 left ankle sprains in the last 2 seasons. He played only 103 games in 2019 and 30 in 2020.
  3. No, because J. T. Watkins was so good.
  4. They're more diplomatic than most fans, needless to say, but they do make a lot of references to psychological stuff. One comment that stuck with me was when Roger Clemens got shelled by the Red Sox in Game 3 of the 1999 ALCS, in the matchup with Pedro, and Joe Torre said afterward "I think the moment might have been a little too big for Roger." I have mentioned this before, but in the sport of golf, the concept of choking is openly discussed by players and commentators. Everyone seems to acknowledge that in golf choking or not choking is a big part of the game.
  5. But players (and ex-player commentators) throw the concepts of clutch and choke around a lot too.
  6. Again with the Hefty? You're doubling down.
  7. I'm not quite done with ruminating about this particular move, though.
  8. Your arguments are always solid, Kimmi.
  9. I'll be Glad when this wordplay is over.
  10. The NY Post actually floated a theory the Red Sox might go after LeMahieu. Probably just to ruffle the feathers of Yankee fans though.
  11. Hiring a 76 year old drunk as manager - what could possibly go wrong? There's a theory that Reinsdorf did this because he felt bad about firing Tony years ago. Sounds ridiculous, but maybe it's so.
  12. So Larussa had a DUI the day before he was hired. Nice look, Tony. https://nypost.com/2020/11/09/tony-la-russa-charged-with-dui-one-day-before-white-sox-hiring/
  13. I think the only area in which I diverge is that I'm skeptical about the analytics being able to factor in every condition. The stuff about the Dodgers getting a shot of adrenaline from seeing Snell come out of the game, for example. I can't say for sure that's a real factor, but I can't say for sure it isn't, either.
  14. I wasn't implying that what Roberts did was right. I was just observing what he did. Last year when he used Kelly instead of Jansen it didn't work. This year Treinen and Urias made him look good.
  15. The thing is, we can never know what would have happened if the other move was made.
  16. If so, the same principle applies to a whole lot of other MLB contracts.
  17. Maybe call it 'responsibility'.
  18. I don't like the idea of trading Bogaerts, because it instantly creates a significant new need. As far as getting a better return for Bogaerts, other GM's aren't in the business of doing us favors. They see all the same pluses and minuses we do, and they probably know how to use Baseball Trade Values just as well as us, too...
  19. Economic pessimism can change to optimism pretty quickly, as we can see in the stock market today.
  20. Me: 50% John Henry's Checkbook 40% COVID and injuries 10% SSS
  21. Bogaerts's opt out after 2022 is a bit troublesome, of course. I wonder if they might make an offer to tear up the existing contract and replace it with a new one - maybe 5 years and 110 million? That would guarantee him an additional 30 million. The AAV would only go up by 2 million a year.
  22. You two would trade anything that isn't nailed down, as the saying goes.
  23. And they probably pay their manager better than some teams do, too.
  24. Bogaerts also has a no-trade clause, of course...
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