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  1. cp176
    I've been cruising on the lake this summer and I have to say that it is a pretty good life.
  2. cp176
    thanks moon
  3. cp176
    Absolutely right. A non-story that didn't need to be written.
  4. cp176
    ok - I'll try this slant - Why is this a story of any particular interest at all? Eck is a hero in Boston and Price is a bad dude excepting of course to the people who matter - his teammates and coaches. It looks to me as though this is something between two alpha adult males and has nothing to do with any of us. Maybe we should start a "drive them out of boston" campaign because they don't like the people we think they should like. Personally I could care less about how David Price feels about Eckersley. Eck was a very good pitcher - thanks - that is it. We need Price to pitch well. if his teammates hated him perhaps I would see things differently but they don't seem to. i think that people should get over their need to know everything about everything.
  5. cp176
    I agree! Cut from the same cloth. Price is the pitcher. Eck had his day. Once again the media gets in the way. i cannot understand at all why any human would give a s*** about the feud that that these two guys seem to be having. Junior high.
  6. cp176
    yawn - feud between HOF announcer and a starting pitcher who can pitch and has great teammate support. Slow news day much?
  7. cp176
    I am in awe of what Vazquez has done this year. I never would have guessed nor would I ever say that I saw this coming. good for him.
  8. cp176
    I saw Marco in Portland at a time when he was their best player. He was their everyday ss at the time. I' have been on his band wagon since then. If he is healthy, he makes a solid second baseman for this team.
  9. cp176
    Oh I'll admit that I drank the kool-aid with respect to Irving. Young guy, one of the most talented players in the game, looking for a team to lead. What was not too like? I'm not smart enough to figure out what the future holds for guys like him. I think that it is a far fetched case of hind sight now to suggest that anyone saw this one coming.
  10. cp176
    That's nice Moon. Maybe Danny should give you a call for a consult before the C's move forward. lol
  11. cp176
    I'm not sure that it was as clear as you think it might have been. It was a gamble that didn't pay off. that's the way it goes.
  12. cp176
    Sometimes you just don't know what you are getting until you have a chance to live with the goods I think.
  13. cp176
    Oh you rascally rabbit. It is about a couple of things for me I think. Not resigning Kimbrel obviously hurt us. Hoping that a thousand guys who have never come close to doing what he has done would get it done, was a pipe dream. Adding to that is the overall underperformance of one of my very favorite players Chris Sale. When you truly have that guy who everybody expects to be the man every time he gets the ball, and for whatever reason, he struggles i think that the mental impact on your team can be huge. I also think that not having Eovaldi has had quite an impact on the process as well. These guys are not robots - we know that. The mental emotional side plays quite a role regardless of what anyone thinks - it is true. On a positive note though, we have had some guys playing very well. We just seem to be a little lackluster right now. It also is human nature I guess for the typical fan to run around searching for reasons why what looked like guaranteed success just doesn't happen. Sometimes stuff just happens.
  14. cp176
    I'll simply say that that might be why he will have a new team to help screw up. No I don't believe that it is a new policy but hey you decide for yourself.
  15. cp176
    I love Al Horford. the but is that you ain't winning titles with Al headlining. I don't know whether or not the Celtics have future titles coming their way or not but what I will say is that I like very much that Danny has an obvious no ass-hole rule moving forward. Nothing is worth coddling a pompous butt for brains regardless of whether or not you can win. If this team loses with good hard working players, I'm fine with it. good bye Kyrie and see you later with good wishes to Rozier.
  16. cp176
    hey where is our poster boy ben hanging out these days? lol
  17. cp176
    Oh boy Bellhorn, don't you start with this worn and tired refrain. You know what comes next. i could start softly with my belief about where your best hitter should be which might gradually morph in to all of the ridiculous sighnings that can be directly attributed to Ben Cherington.
  18. cp176
    hang in there - love reading your posts that often relate to a time before baseball for me.
  19. cp176
    I really don't have any ideas. I don't follow the big picture particularly well.
  20. cp176
    I agree with you about Barnes. He has proven to be a very valuable set up guy. The but is that good closers imo are special animals. We had one of the best if not the best playing for us in Kimbrel. In my mind, his value is now obvious. I think that bullpens in general can be built in many different ways but when it comes to the back end not so much. They aren't going to be successful every game but you have to have someone out there that you can count on when the game is on the line.
  21. cp176
    Like I said, there are plenty of people here who after last year were suggesting Alex Cora for near sainthood. We'll see how he deals with this year. How you respond with a little adversity is a true test.
  22. cp176
    You are never as good as you look when playing at the top of your game. you are never as bad as you look when playing as badly as you can play. Same applies to Alex Cora and the rest of us. If memory serves, there were a whole bunch of people here willing to project him to the top of our leaderboard with respect to managers after last season. It's a process. Time will tell how he is going to turn out. Life is easy when everything is going well. This is a good test for him.
  23. cp176
    My argument about having your best run producing bat in the number 3 spot is exactly that. A run producing bat! This argument has always been about producing runs via the bat. Everyone who knows anything about the game at all understands that there are other ways to produce runs. If one single second i thought that the argument has been about anything other than the bat, maybe i would feel differently. I don't. My best run producing bat, is in the 3 spot. It is becoming much like a political debate. Some don't like the obvious so they change the rules as they go in an effort to prove a pointless point. Eliminate that first inning and since I have seen no data to dispute the claim - that guy hitting third takes on some serious level of importance.
  24. cp176
    Your approach is too logical and makes too much sense. We need to find some old stat master to support us.
  25. cp176
    Oh wait, i forgot to add something for Slasher. I'm not googling it because I'm just not in to that sort of thing, but I would be pretty surprised if I found out that in the world of the ancients that there weren't studies proving that the earth was flat. theories are proven and disproven everyday. maybe if more intelligent people really gave a s***, there would be theories out there proving that the best hitter in your lineup should bat third. It just doesn't seem to carry as much weight as proving that the sun is the center of our solar system did. Oh well! lol
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