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Well maybe. Except this implies that other teams care and think as much about the RS as people in Boston. they don't. They could give a rat's ass whether RS want to get under the cap. All they care about are their own interests.
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Alas, the guy who fits that description is Cora. MLB can chest-pump itself for being bad-ass moralists, but they need to find a way to keep AC around.
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Shocked that I agree almost completely with this. MLB would have done well to work to keep guys like Hinch and Cora around.
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Yes, but I think once the extent of this is known (well, it's known; it's just not admitted), the scapegoating may stop. If I were an owner, I'd hire guys like Hinch and Cora the instant I could.
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Ha! I knew Tek had his fan-boys. Probably the highlight of C. Crawford's career here was ridiculing him for wearing that C.
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You did not read the article referenced above, did you? (Sorry, do you need this in all-caps?)
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Let's not get carried away; there has ALWAYS been a place for 'cheating' of all sorts in baseball. Check the ESPN article "The History of Sign Stealing in Baseball." Some of the most famous series involved it (Bobby Thompson's HR, for one). It is also amusing that the RS won their last WS by beating NY, Astros, and the Dodgers (all who have now been named as involved in similar schemes). Cora is taking the fall for all of this.
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I'm in LA now, and one of the more amusing aspects of this is listening to Dodgers fans and announcers wringing their hands in moral outrage at this. "Oh woe! Demand the WS trophe! Ban the Astros from post-season! Sue MLB! Give us our deserved title!" (LA is now one of the teams implicated by Morrison).
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Anyone but Varitek. I'm sick of seeing replays of him, in full armor, cheap-shotting a guy pissed that he got thrown at. And tired too of having that Pete Rose-esque cheap-shot praised by fans as an example of toughness.
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Thanks. That sounds right. I'm sure he knew what was going on, but must have taken the position 'This is something players and coaches do, not something the manager puts in place.'
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I haven't been following this discussion, but has anyone explained why Cora would have put an inferior system into place, when he had been part of the all-encompassing one at Houston? (Was it bec. he refused to share the details of that system? i.e., would not rat out the Astros? or did he just feel what they were doing was a bit much? Or did he think that ethically (!) the point was to encourage the players themselves to develop a system of their own?) Sorry if this was answered above.
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Actually, all I care about managers is their droning pre-game interviews on the radio. Loved the droll lilt of Francona and Cora--sort of like baseball Musak while I'm cooking dinner. I'll miss them.
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I would also do that, as well as giving credit for answers I mistakenly marked wrong. But then, of course, I would lie to them and say that the points (one way or the other) did not affect the letter grade I had assigned.
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They're both on my block/ignore list. The board is much more enjoyable as a result.
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I wouldn't put too much faith in anything a sports owner says. Isn't he trying to sell season tickets right now? Whatever his plans, why would he come out and say that essentially, he's tanking 2020?
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When I saw him in AA, he seemed worlds apart from anyone else (similar to what you see at a AA or even AAA game and someone, say, from the bigs is down there to rehab). But, knowing nothing of him, what set him apart from others, at least to me, was his defense. I assumed that was his strength.
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Ah yes. We too often forget the kids! Replay is great, bec. it teaches them the valuable lesson that unseen authorities are ALWAYS right.
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Now there's a thought! Of course! Since perfect contact cannot exist, right? If you check the runner with an electron microscope, he will never actually make contact with the base at all, since "contact", "safe," ... and hell, even "base-hood" are philosophical constructs that have no counterparts in the real world. Runner is OUT! That's it.
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The easiest way to fix that absurd safe/out call on a slide where the runner loses contact is simply to make a rule that on a slide, once the runner makes contact with the base, he is considered "in contact" with it as long as he is over the base during the slide (i.e., doesn't slide past it). That's essentially the way it's been called for 150 years, and to change it because of some idiotic replay review is ridiculous.
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Why not Eric Thames after we Dump Price ?
jad replied to Swiharts Ghost's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
No they cannot, blessedly. As a friend has repeatedly pointed out to me, owning a franchise does not mean you own the players or those who work for you. -
My parents never raised their voices. Ever. And I never had a problem handling conflict. (And as for those a-hole coaches, I'm sick of seeing fat, loser coaches yell at kids to the point of abuse, something they seem to do at all levels, from college down to sub-PeeWee leagues. What I find stunning is watching a group of parents sit passively on the sidelines while one of these pompous, unathletic a-holes abuses their kids in public. Not much you can do in these situations, since calling them out will mean you will have kids, coaches, and parents all ganging up against you. But I do report it to the AD or the rec league, and occasionally, mirabile dictu, that will get results.)
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Yup. Works in football. If you're worried the hitter might hear the call, all the dugout has to do is tell P/C which sign will be valid. Catcher still calls the game. (That could probably be done w/o technology as well). For MLB, the best part will be that this scandal goes away.
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Who is the greatest under-the-radar player in Sox history?
jad replied to Northern Star's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Oh my God, I'm having a flash-back! -
I must have made a mistake. I thought I was on the RedSox board. Not the Yankee board peopled exclusively by adolescent trolls.
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(I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like for me as a kid in the 50s, listening to Curt Gowdy, to turn to the last part of this thread and be assured it concerned baseball!)
