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  1. We'll revisit this at our world series parade.
  2. "Great" return?? Depends how RS spend the money they saved. Or maybe finding a starting pitcher as good as Price at half his salary. Who would that be?
  3. After last night, I think the best off-season move would be to hire Snoop Dog to pair up with Joe C.
  4. As Nadal said when asked if Kyrgios could be a top-10 player if he [X, Y, Z], "Eef eef eef."
  5. Yup. (Question: Is there ANYTHING any of us have read on a sports board that made us change our minds about ANYTHING?)
  6. Wasn't the rationale for this that teams subsidized the 'training' of players through the minor leagues? (cf. the NFL, which has its own taxpayer-funded minor league in the NCAA). But now that they are shrinking the minor leagues, the pre-arb years should be shrunk or eliminated as well. (Alas, as in other sports, the players with the most clout in the union are likely the highest paid ones.)
  7. (I will never try to make a joke again.)
  8. I hear Robinson Cano might be available.
  9. Compagnon is and has been a very prolific author. I haven't read anything of his in over 20 years, but I recall it as being smart, lucid, and not overly polemical (in contrast to many of his crazed French contemporaries, whom I confess I rather liked in those days). So I'd say, go for it! (And by all means let me know what you think.)
  10. You must not be a coastal sailor!!! They are absolutely still useful for navigation.
  11. Your memory is either amazing or skewed! I didn't realize Plante was ever on the Bruins (I remember him mostly from the early 60s). But he only played 8 games for Boston (late late in his career, after one retirement, in 1973). Or so Wiki claims. I was lucky to move into a crappy apartment in 1971, whose only virtue was that the previous owner had left a functioning TV cable; so I got to watch all the Bruins games that season, right to the Stanley Cup. (Here is where memory fails; I distinctly remember the famous Bobby Orr series winning goal--the flying swan goal. But that, alas, history says took place a year or two earlier.)
  12. I believe this is only two DUIs. The case just filed in October was for the DUI in February (which would be his second). But as a 73-year-old stoner, I agree with your following post that we should let this young man learn from his mistakes and take this as an opportunity for personal growth.
  13. Hey! Careful what you say about hockey goalies!! (Maybe we USED to look like Gump Worsley, but I don't think goalies in the past 40 years or so look like that.)
  14. (I think you missed the reference to a previous poster here.)
  15. He owned his part in the cheating scandal, and more important, did not throw anyone under the bus (unlike nearly everyone else involved), he's smart and he treated everyone--players, fans and reporters--with respect (some posters--not me in this case-- brought politics into the thread--gee, I wonder if there is an analogy there ...)
  16. I have been learning and forgetting useless crap all my adult life. But for once, I am really glad that I have absolutely no idea what any of this is!
  17. As every crappy golfer like myself knows only too well.
  18. OK. Thanks. (And on Notin's remark above, does this mean that in order to get that spot open, they will have to DFA him in the spring?). I guess what I don't understand is why, if the Sox and DP agree that he can't play this year, but he will get paid, they don't just DFA/retire him now?
  19. Just read that they put him on 40-man roster. Given that he's not going to play this year, nor is he going to give up the money they owe him, what's the purpose or what are the implications of this?
  20. Fair enough. When I read statements like those LaRussa made repeatedly questioning the 'sincerity' of anyone with opposing political views, you're right--it's hard for me to resist raising an objection. But I'll try. (What I would really prefer to do is find the youtube of LaRussa going ballistic at some minor league players--[did he manage there? or was it spring training?] --because the pitcher didn't check for signs on a 3-0 pitch. "Couldn't you just look at the m*f*cking catcher for a m*f*cking sign just to pretend that you might throw a m*th*rf*cking curve ball? ..." Ah, those were the days!)
  21. Well, nothing is 'necessary'. But his politics (including past statements on Kaepernik) was one of the issues raised by the reporters concerning whether he was in touch with younger players.
  22. Looks to me that Reinsdorf's move has more to do with his fear of political stances that don't reflect his own. Like others who hold these anti-protest, flag-waving views (Roger Goodell, Jerra Jones, DT, Brett Favre), he has an absolutely flawless military-service record to back it up.
  23. Come on. They could have had Brett Favre ...
  24. I think Chicago just prevented the Red Sox from being accused of making the dumbest sports decision since trading away Ruth. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30220736/why-tony-la-russa-sincerely-curious-choice-white-sox-manager
  25. It's good to praise TB's success. Their popularity, however, seems largely restricted to pretend GM's. THe average attendance of a MLB game is 28K. Tampa Bay? Half that. Why is that? (Is this DD's fault too?)
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