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i would liken his injuries in comparison to what many pitchers who have thrown as many innings as he has to my grandson when he falls off his bicycle. They have been minor. The obvious way to look at things is that as he grows older he will feel more pain. that is pretty normal I'd say. Suggesting that he is going to start a big time decline at the age of 31 is just an opinion based on what could be a flawed assumption. You mentioned David Price - who i like by the way - as a comparison yardstick. You can, I don't choose to. Chris Sale has been and likely will continue to be one of the very best pitchers in the game for at least a few (how many no one knows) more years. he isn't David Price. i think and hope that he will get paid heavily after next year and i think that he will be very good certainly for a few more years...
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I'm with you here. Of course every Red Sox fan on the planet will be disappointed if we don't win it all but no one who looks at things in a reasonable manner will consider this season in totality a failure if we don't. Of course we want more, of course we want it all but the baseball season is long and we have seen the Sox already accomplish things that i know I never have seen and might not see again. There are too many highlights to even go over. This whole concept of if you don't win it all then you aren't successful is asinine. It is new and just as ridiculous as stuffing robots out there on the field to make calls
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Kimbrel was very lucky to get out of the jam that he put himself into. It took a great play by both Nunez and Pearce to let us escape that one. Yup he was lucky. The way he was throwing it pretty much looked like a recipe for disaster.
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No complaining ever again - robots don't make mistakes.
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You know what, you are right. The Yankees were absolutely lucky just to be back in that game. It really is just a matter of how you choose to look at things isn't it. I like your way!!!
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No offense at all intended but the suggestion that someone wanting robotic umpires is more interested in accuracy then someone wanting accountable humans to make the calls is very very wrong. The inference here I guess is that a person not in favor of robo umps is more human being friendly I guess but I don't think that that would be fair either. I was (am) a teacher so I'm sure that I don't have to tell you how important accuracy is to me. Once again though really no offense - my larger point is that there really is no in between in today's world. You are either all in or I guess you aren't. I do very much value your opinion. Do you think that that the high dose flu shot makes a difference? How about the new (2) shingles shots? Shingles is something I do not want to get.
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For the record - I might have tried to get a little more out of Barnes and Brasier they both looked really strong. I'm not that hung up on certain pitchers for certain innings. Cora did what he has done all season - he went with one of the best closers in the game and I kind of wondered why no one was up earlier when it really looked like he was off his feed but I go with Cora on this one. It was Kimbrel's game to save or not save. I would not have felt any better watching Kelly or Workman coming through that bullpen door. I agree though - we did kind of get lucky but sometimes that happens when you are the better team.
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So i just reread my post more closely than I did when i wrote it notin just for you. i don't think that I came close to implying that the Sox sign him to a 7 contract that pays him 180 to 210 at all. You embellish a tad which is ok - it is what you do. Now with all that being said, with respect to what starting pitchers are being paid today, I think that he is worth as much as any pitcher in the game. Regardless of what anyone thinks about his throwing motion, I think that based on his lack of injury history, it would be utterly ridiculous to simply assume that he is likely to be injured. We are all made differently. Even though, I fully understand that they all seem to get hurt from time to time. Now I don't know if the Sox will sign him or not, but if you are asking me if I think that at the age of 31 it is possible that he is worth what ever the going rate will be for a pitching ace - yup would be my answer. But what do I know right - we are getting one fine ace for one hell of a bargain right now. I hope that some day he breaks somebodies little piggy bank.
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For what it's worth, everybody wishes they had an athlete like Chris Sale. He is as tough as they come. He is a focused dedicated teammate destined for the Hall of Fame. He comes with no ******** attached to him as well. He speaks for the team and the types of players that they have brought in. At 75% of full strength he is still top of the line. He is a pitcher who right now just happens to be able to throw the ball upwards of 95 mph. When someday his velocity slows, which it likely will, he will still be really really good. he is a power pitcher who already knows how to pitch.
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No - that expression does not imply the impending sense of doom and gloom that "the cliff" does. It is all over. Maybe ok through next year right but when world is apt to come to a full stop for our beloved franchise in 2020. We just will not have enough loot to continue to compete at a high level. lol
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There are some here that would claim that I might be on the over the hill side of the cliff. I'm just too old fashioned. lol
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2 words - Larry Barnnett
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He was also one fine baseball player.
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Really after one season you think he is the best you have ever seen. It sure was one of the best years I have seen but saying he is the best manager you have ever seen causes me to pause.
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I don't believe in the cliff theory. Is it still ok to call myself a Red Sox fan?
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It is amazing how all of our rememberers seem to work. Bill buckner was one of my all time favorites.
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So far today, I have read that the Yankees are all in on Machado, Harper, and now Kershaw. Pretty soon they will be in on every free agent. lol For the record, Kershaw would be the only one I would not want to see them able to sign.
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You really keep track of how many times you question Cora's calls? I realize that we have people here who question and second guess almost every move Cora makes but I have to applaud you for only calling him out 8 times. You know that there are people here who are never wrong right?
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Oh man I'm ok with a minor beatdown from all of my "friends" on talksox but I'm afraid that it doesn't change my opinion about the value of human interaction in this game. Continuing to sterilize it an an attempt to "get it right" isn't going to enhance its popularity. Age really has nothing to do with this either. It is all about people to people. The popular approach and the safe approach today is to try to get everything right but that doesn't make it right. Personally I miss an occasional manager umpire confrontation. I respect all of your opinions too for real just like I know you all respect mine. If you continue to robotocize, when does it stop? Oh well, I'm one of those people who more enjoy discussing the topics we discuss here in person as opposed to in print. I hope that doesn't make me too old even though i had to have the extra dose of my flu shot the other day for the first time. The old person's extra dose.
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They are interesting plus they are focused and very determined I've said right from the beginning that the team has done a great job with the types of players that they have brought in as well as the types of players that they have gotten rid of. We haven't heard much but what we have heard is that these guys like each other and to a player support each other. I like that. Alex Cora is certainly partly responsible for this. I think that he has a pretty good idea of the types of guys he wants on the roster. This is far more important to me than any in game decisions that he might make.
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I think that Francona goes down as one of the best ever but not simply because of championships. They help for sure but there have been many many great coaches who never won one. We'll see how Cora does over the long haul - one season does not a career make but he is off to a good start. if i felt that winning titles was that much of a career definer than i would have to believe that Eli Manning is a better QB than Dan Marino was - I don't. Eli is not a Hall of Famer regardless of the titles.
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Turning the game into a technological monster and trending toward eliminating the human factor will do nothing to help grow the game. People just seem to keep things interesting.
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I sure hope this doesn't happen.
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Kind of like using or not using Kimbrel in the 9th for me. You coach a team over the course of a long long successful season and then you all of a sudden make a philosophical change in the 11th hour. I don't think so. It is a no brainer that Price starts and that he starts game number two. A short leash i guess but he starts.
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I'm not going to criticize Cora for any move that he makes. He has been too good over the course of a remarkable season. It is the whole process of scripted pitching that bugs me. I'm not sure that you need designated 7th, 8th inning guys. A guy in that "role" blows through an inning of that magnitude and makes it look easy, couldn't you kind of maybe at least let him start the next inning? Sale - one inning max the other night for sure but Barnes and Brasier - they couldn't of at least started the next inning? it is a plan that is used by almost every team in the game so I guess that is just the way it goes. And no, once the plan is in place you aren't going to change it. Kimbrel in the 9th regardless and there was no other choice. He gets it done or he doesn't. No Kelly and no Workman. Maybe we got a little lucky but it worked. Oh and I feel that I have to add no I am not in favor of closer by committee.