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  1. cp176
    I have been hearing quite a bit of the "win now mode" that we are in and I have to say I'm all for it. i have been in a win now mode for this team since 1967 and but for just a few years we have had a right to think that we could. Sometimes we did. I like it though - win now - it works for me. i would hate to think that what we had to look forward to was simply next year. it is and has been a great franchise that does not have to rely on a low budget feeder system. Win now - interesting - works for me.
  2. cp176
    Not really better but thanks Max - I love aggressive base running when it is done the right way. We have great team speed and if the really stupid mistakes get fewer and fewer, we get a chance to utilize it. The stolen base has made a bit of a revival for us recently as well. I have felt all along that from a hitting perspective this might be closer to who we really are than who we looked like we were last year. Moving Devers and going and out and getting Nunez have really proven to be key moves. Obviously I am a fan of DD's but I can actually say that even though I know we won't win the rest of them, I think that I could start to really like this team. I would choose to watch a well pitched game over a slugfest any day. When the pitching is good, it becomes must watch tv for me. i really do wish that we were a little healthier but this latest run has been impressive. i have been loving every minute of it.
  3. cp176
    Personally I would feel a lot more comfortable with a healthy Price in our rotation. Can't have everything I guess and getting Kelly back in the pen helps. Maybe against hope, i still am hoping that Carson Smith can get back there as well. Making a really good bullpen better, being aggressive and actually intelligent on the base paths as opposed to flat out stupid and we might just have enough!
  4. cp176
    I am all about most of the runs that they are scoring these days I just don;t get too excited about their bats in general. Aggressive (not stupid) baselining has enabled them to score many of those runs. Whether it has been by stealing bases or getting that extra base as a result of one of our singles hitters punching one out there. It's all good. Doesn't matter how they score them but they have not morphed into the great hitters that many still feel that they should be.
  5. cp176
    exactly the point - there is aggressive baserunning and then there are stupid baserunning mistakes. I really don't see too many posts that are critical of aggressive baselining even though you are bound to run into some outs. This team does not hit well enough to not be aggressive on the base paths. Aggressive vs stupid - big difference. What we have not seen much of is praise for these guys getting out and stealing some bases. They have the speed and the ability to manufacture some runs. They need to continue to do it.
  6. cp176
    Another good night for Barfield as well.
  7. cp176
    nope - all Scott
  8. cp176
    I liked that stuff back in the day. Even that one.
  9. cp176
    Don't think so . i'm really not much like him. Demeaning people never worked particularly well for me and I just coached the high school kids.
  10. cp176
    dominating pitching performance last night. First you get a big dose of Sale then you have to deal with Kimbrel. My oh my. Glad JBJ got that little base knock late. A little redemption for him.
  11. cp176
    I'm a paltry substitute for old Fred aren't I?
  12. cp176
    playoff baseball starts for me tonight.
  13. cp176
    Sadly i agree
  14. cp176
    Sadly i agree
  15. cp176
    never said that it would be easy just that it can be done.
  16. cp176
    Now that is what I call insightful.
  17. cp176
    makes a lot more sense to me than making it sound as though you know what you are talking about. Being aware of what you don't know is damn insightful.
  18. cp176
    What budget right? Of course there is one, but no one (repeat no one) knows how much John Henry is willing to spend at any time. I get a kick out of how we all want to try to spend his money for him. Is it possible that he stays within a budgetary limit? - yes I suppose it is. Is it possible that he blows right through the budget that you folks have set for him?-yes I suppose it is. All that being said, I would maybe go as high as 5 years for whatever to sign Mookie. Anymore and he ain't worth it. He is replaceable.
  19. cp176
    Does the pencil bend when you wag in front of your face. No but it looks like it does. obviously there are fastballs that look like they rise to pitchers and hitters. If they look like they do, it makes 0 difference whether they do or do not.
  20. cp176
    Seriously? There were people that that thought that the way Manny went about his business was charming? If Benintendi has been told to stop dong the stupid things that he has been doing and he continues to do them once again he is either stupid or uncoachable. Stupid is tolerable - uncoachable is not. Particularly if you are 5'10 maybe and you might weigh in at 175.
  21. cp176
    The types of mental mistakes he has made should not be happening. There is no question that he is a keeper from the physical side. Such things as trying to advance to third on a roundball directly in front of you are not all that uncharacteristic of his game. These aren't the types of "rookie " mistakes I guess that I am used to. I'm glad that we have him but I also have no problem with someone telling him like it is. no amount of rationalization makes these mental mistakes ok.
  22. cp176
    And therein lies the truth.
  23. cp176
    So I have to get this one straight. if the laws of physics say that a fastball cannot rise, then it doesn't right. I'm ok with that. But if people who have played the game and who are currently playing the game think that it actually does because of what it looks like to them, does it really matter what the laws of physics say? Maybe it is an illusion - Im ok with that to.
  24. cp176
    ya - about that Bell - at 7:14 am I bet that you are just getting home after a long night of partying!
  25. cp176
    Let me see if I get this straight (just being a pain in the ass here) - a pitcher knows that he has Ortiz in the on deck circle as he looks in to the plate. There are two outs. Is it not at least conceiveable that the guy in the batter's box might be given a really good pitch or two to hit because no one wants to have to count on trying to get a hitter out like Ortiz if they have another option? I enjoyed my strat - o - magic baseball game just like some of the people who posted here too but I pretty much knew that rolling the dice made it make believe no matter how similar the stats appeared. SS- it is pretty clear that some opinions have been made up for sure and no amount of common sense will apply. The data says this is the way it is and that's it.
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