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  1. jad
    Shore leave gets 'em every time.
  2. jad
    Federal authorities and MLB found NO evidence against Ohtani. All evidence pointed to his interpreter. If you are going to accuse him, you need to state why you have more facts than the feds and MLB and what those facts (unknown to federal investigators) are.
  3. jad
    And btw, contrary to what you say, log-in credentials to TalkSox do not work on that new thread.
  4. jad
    Wait--don't we already have enough 'game threads'? one for ST February, another for ST March. another for WBC ... why a separate one for US vs. whoever? (one that needs a separate log-in?)
  5. jad
    The only thing he's hit in the direction of second in the WBC have been long fly balls landing 400 feet away.
  6. jad
    Yeah, he was also playing through injury last year. I wonder too, given the FO notoriously bad communication skills, if there might have been some confusion about what his role would be. Pretty sure players with established track records (like Devers or Yoshida) do not like feeling that they're being treated like scrubs (not that they were, but rather that the FO could not convince them otherwise).
  7. jad
    Yoshi goes yard ... AGAIN.
  8. jad
    Allowing yourself to be picked off second, with two outs, bases loaded, 0-0, and Ohtani sitting on a 3-1 count?--that's as bad as it gets.
  9. jad
    I love WBC, as long as the games are minimally competitive, which alas many are not. Japan/Korea rocked. Trying Panama/PR now-- what's cool about this one is the number of guys (including our once own C. Vasquez) who look like they just stepped off a beer-league field. "Being in shape" apparently has a different meaning in different parts of the globe.
  10. jad
    Did you not note the fact that you were the one who brought Shohei up? And he was playing in a game as you were posting? I was responding to what you said, and the fact that he was playing at the time. In the future, please clarify what parts of your posts can be commented on, and what parts cannot. And which games of the WBC can be commented on, and which cannot.
  11. jad
    Shohei is the best player I've ever seen; but he was that when he played for the Angels and no one seemed to care--it just took the Dodgers to market him properly. Under the old ownership, you didn't need tix to Chavez Ravine. You just showed up, and it's the only stadium I've ever been in where fans entering pass those who are leaving--once a routine sight in the 5th inning. Even when LAD was winning, the phrase "It's only the Dodgers ..." is one I heard all the time. Now they're averaging nearly 50,000 a game, or about the same number as the Angels did in an entire season (well, I exaggerate slightly). I imagine there was someone in the LAD brain-trust arguing: pay that guy the highest amount you can without bankrupting us, as the higher the number is, the more fans will come out to watch him.
  12. jad
    Yoshi, despite not being DFA'd by Japan (who clearly know nothing about baseball,) goes yard . (Then breaks it open with a bases loaded hit in the 7th).
  13. jad
    So what? Italy wants him to play for them and so does he. As Drewski points out, having anyone step in and prevent this is not going to accomplish anything.
  14. jad
    Yeah, Shohei is the worst thing ever to happen to MLB and the Dodgers are ruining the game.
  15. jad
    I am not ashamed of liking a post that says: if you are invited by a national team to play for them and you accept, you should be allowed to play. In fact, that seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to propose, and I am baffled that anyone would object.
  16. jad
    What ridiculous counter? You're talking standard negotiations. Are you talking about what LAD paid him? The WS champion Dodgers? which was worth every nickel.
  17. jad
    But c'mon--it's just a pick-up sandlot team with a bunch of furriners--not a well-oiled machine like you find in every town in the u s OF a.
  18. jad
    I see the left-fielder for the best baseball team in the world picked up a couple of hits last night. How come we can't get guys like that?
  19. jad
    Wasn't it C. Augustus who didn't like to see 'his' months with fewer days than others so he stole one from February?
  20. jad
    There is NO excuse for dumping an MVP future hall of famer great citizen fan favorite. None. JH got a lot of money; we got a couple of years of a AAAA pornographer.
  21. jad
    not so aggressive that the catcher can roll a blunt waiting for you to arrive, but you're right--it's ST so it hardly matters.
  22. jad
    Ward looks like he's following the RS playbook on base-running.
  23. jad
    Did you hit yours? or did the irony circuit turn off? To be clear, In my view small -ball works best when the OTHER team is playing small ball as well, in which case, it is successful approxiimately 50% of the time. That is, I hate it, and others love it, and when we discuss it at this time of year when there's really nothing interesting to talk about (actual games), we sometimes border on the crazed.
  24. jad
    So are called 3rd strikes, weak ground balls, double-plays, pop-ups, balks, 'sacrifices' (but GOD Forbid--NO sacrifice credited if scorer decides the bunter was doing something so outrageous to small-ball philosophy as actually trying for a hit--one of the more preposterous scoring conventions in baseball; (I suppose by the same logic, with a runner on third and a guy hits a bomb caught at the 420 mark, he should NOT be credited with a sacrifice fly because he was so selfishly trying for a home run).
  25. jad
    In my experience, it is impossible to tell the difference between lying and error. You never know what is going on in someone else's mind; furthermore, it's difficult to tell what's going on in your own. When you speak, as public figures always do, in your own self-interest, that's all that matters, and determining whether you are lying or simply wrong is impossible.
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