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A musical, although a movie version was also made: "Damn Yankees."
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Ah. Well that makes complete sense, since it comes from MLB's own description of the luxury tax. Thus: "an effort to get below the LT and thus 'reset' the clock on penalties." That would thus have no necessary relation to how you choose to do that--small adjustments in personnel or completely blowing up the team--an entirely different question. (I wonder whether everyone is using it in this sense.)
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I think I have completely lost the distinction between "reset" and "rebuild," since they can mean entirely different things, depending on the basis of the metaphor.
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Just out of curiosity, why do you think T.Perkins was miscast? He actually was pretty good at playing crazy people: Psycho (obviously), but also Kafka's Trial. I'm sure there are others. The psychology behind FStOut seems pretty dated, but I don't know of any sports books/films of the time that were comparable.
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I know. I was watching tthat play, and thought it was fantastic, in part because I knew it would lead to months and years of hysteria on the part of sports fans. (The USC call was also the right one. All you had to do for a national championship was to keep your opponent from marching down the field 60 yards with two minutes to go [actually, I'm just making that up, but it was roughly the case], or stopping Vince Young on 4th and goal from the 6 yard line when all 100,000 humans in the stadium knew he was going to try to run it in. ...) But ... I'm over it. Completely. I mean it. Seriously. Just like I'm over 1986 ... Never give it a moment's thought ...
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I spent many decades working for USC. And since the Pats didn't exist when I was a kid growing up in Maine, I have never really rooted for them.
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You are thinking, of course, of choosing to run Lendale White over right tackle on 4th down, while Heisman-winning Reggie Bush watched from he bench.
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I think the fact that we are still arguing about this proves absolutely that we have NEVER gotten over it, despite four WS wins!
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Ha ha! Not for me!
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I would have squirmed through a worm-hole in the time-space continuum, seen the future, and acted accordingly, of course. It's really quite simple.
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Exactly. If Pedro had made a bad pitch and Posada had actually made decent contact, it would have been a routine fly ball and Grady Little would have been hailed as a genius. (Or if Schiraldi had served up a screaming line drive at someone instead of ... If Bob Stanley's palm ball had flattened out a bit ... Had Buckner stumbled and the ball hit his glove ... Had Bucky Dent overswung and ... That's baseball, I guess.)
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Oh yes. Only in 86 did I follow the whole awful series; but I can tell you exactly where I was during all of them. The worst was walking down Broadway in 78, looking into a window with a tv screen, and watching "the" pop-up. I was blessedly in a movie theatre for Stanley's palm-ball heard round the world.
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Same to you.
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Being cleared by mods does not mean you're not a juvenile, puberty-stricken a-hole. Ted is not the one cluttering up the board.
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Every sports board has the middle-school troll who thinks it's attention-getting posting on other teams boards. Is it worse here? Because of the rivalry? Or just because there are greater numbers of puberty-stricken boys in NYC than in other cities?
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It's actually quite simple: ownership is trying to screw an employee. I vote for the employee.
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Of course he should get paid. Guaranteed contracts are meaningless if they can essentially be voided any time you, say, go to a doctor or talk to one without permission.
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NYC has no case. This is obviously a move to bilk a player of guaranteed money, and it's roughly the same thing they tried w/ A-rod. I hope minimally the Union sends the same type of letter the NFL players union sent to its members about Coughlin and the Jags.
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Ugh. I don't like the logic of "The way to improve your team is to rid yourself of your best players."
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Just saw a story from LA about the Dodgers getting Betts and Price for "a couple of prospects." OK. Local wishful thinking. But I do have a question in all seriousness: can you give me some examples where veteran players have been traded or unloaded "for prospects" where those prospects have actually become contributing players? (I really have no idea; I assume most of the players who came up 'through the ranks' in Boston were originally signed by Boston, but I could be wrong.) Any names come to mind?
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Hey, introducing reason or rationality on a sports board is a clear violation of all rules, conventions, and standards of decency! Just stop!
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Yankees now (of course) trying to renege on a contract Ellsbury signed in good faith, just as they tried to screw A-rod out of his guaranteed contract. This is why you have a players union, and this is why that union does not (and absolutely should not) trust ownership. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28335129/mlbpa-files-grievance-yankees-behalf-jacoby-ellsbury
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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
Well, the category is undefined, but you can't really call Clemons or Varitek or Wakefield 'under the radar'. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Brock Holt. -
Rice and Boggs? They were trashed almost daily on the sports reports I saw toward the end of their Boston careers (This was of course before the ubiquitous talk radio, but I can recall specific phrases criticizing Rice for "dogging it" and a fan lamenting: "We're NEVER going to get to see Cecil Cooper!" [do I have the name right?]). Buckner beloved? That's not the version of the story he tells, having been forced to move away from Boston to protect his kids. I don't recall any negative press for Yaz, except for (was it Montgomery?) criticizing him for trying to pull the ball too much when he was unable to get to the fastball at age 85 or so. Of course, there was THE pop-up ...
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Well, one must remember the history of RS fans. Among those booed and hated: Ted Williams, Boggs, Clemons, Jim Rice, Buckner of course, even Ortiz during his down year. You could field a pretty good team w/ those fans and sports-writers wanted to run out of town.
