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  1. jad
    Exactly. Not everyone on the board has the sensibilities of an 11-year-old.
  2. jad
    This has nothing to do with WS hangover that I can see. It has everything to do with leaving pitches in the middle of the plate, up.
  3. jad
    As anyone who has played sports at any level knows, it's easy to be a bad-ass tough guy when (1) you're in full pads, and/or (2) you have more team-mates around you than the other guy.
  4. jad
    You mean by going after him with full catcher's gear, sticking a glove in his face while not even taking his mask off?
  5. jad
    I believe any player to be released must first be passed through waivers.
  6. jad
    How is Porcello still in the game after that? They need to get that checked.
  7. jad
    You mean back when owners "owned" players? Back before all that free-agency stuff? And before those pesky unions that prevented the owners from keeping all the money to themselves, while players worked second jobs in the winter?
  8. jad
    I guess if a .250 hitter can score $330 million, it's time to get out your wallets. Trout reportedly signing for $430. Good news for Mookie, in that this proves you don't need to be a self-promoting a-hole to get the big bucks!
  9. jad
    Exactly. If a player likes it or feels it helps, good. Baseball players are deeply suspicious; if Boggs thinks eating chicken every day is essential, then give him all the chicken he wants.
  10. jad
    Ha ha! Right. Because then the math would likely be that the #2 has fewer walk-offs than #1 (because he's not as good); and #3 fewer than #2 and so on ... IF, that is, the hitters are ordered according to 'quality' (which of course is likely unmeasurable, or there at least is no consensus on how to measure it exactly!) But I'll bet that statistic is readily available--does the number of walk-offs correlate w/ order in the lineup? If order in the lineup is as crucial as some claim, then there should be a strong correlation. If it doesn't, then perhaps there's something wrong with the lineup? (or perhaps not!) Of course I agree w/ you: the cliche's about what you 'need' in a #1, or the absurd qualities sometimes cited for a #2 are silly.
  11. jad
    Yup, so have your best hitter lead off. But let's see the bizarre result: 162/9 is what, 18 more ABs? But in those particular games where the no. 1 gets more ab's than the no. 2., to do that, he must either make the last out, or hit a game winning walk-off. Given the rarity of walk-offs, this means that the majority (the vast majority?) of those extra ABs the lead-off guy gets (over the #2 guy) are going to be outs. That's a head-scratcher. I'm going with the notion that it doesn't make a whole lot of difference who bats where, or, if it does, it's beyond human comprehension!
  12. jad
    Too bad a leadoff hitter doesn't lead off every inning. It's rather like worrying over who your #1 starter is as opposed to your #2 or #3. Until the post-season, it hardly matters (since there is only about a 1 in 5 chance that he will start more games than whoever is behind him.)
  13. jad
    So a player who tests positive does not have to inform his team until after the appeal is denied? (I guess that makes sense, but it seems odd to me, in that the 80-game suspension comes completely out of the blue--wouldn't the team want to be involved in the appeal?)
  14. jad
    I just hope when I have his money (I don't see any reason why I won't, this being America and all), I will spring for more than a $79/hour hooker.
  15. jad
    A lot better than whoever signs a .250 hitter for even more than that, a guy whose greatest accomplishment last year was winning the Home Run Derby.
  16. jad
    Devers made an adjustment in his stance, right? Going away from that Crawford-esque set-up?
  17. jad
    (I don't see the balk there. Hand movement?)
  18. jad
    Much as I admire them (the same way I admire rats and red squirrels), I hate them. But as long as he stays there, and doesn't send any of his progeny here, I wish him well. (Meanwhile, Devers, Holt, Vasquez, and Nunez all need to be DFA'd to make room for a mediocre relief pitcher).
  19. jad
    Obviously, Devers needs to be sent down to learn how to hit Major League pitching.
  20. jad

    replay

    jad replied to cp176's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk

    Aren't those two separate issues? (unless, say, one rejects them on the basis of keeping the human element in the game). I don't care about the human element. All I want is for the game to proceed; I want to know the call immediately; and I want to get rid of arguing with officials, which is one of the most boring and annoying elements of sports (even though, of course, arguing pointlessly is pretty much what we do here all the time). Robot balls/strikes would do all three of those. Replay helps on one (idiotic arguing) at the expense of the other two. (We have to wait a minute or two to know whether we celebrate or despair). So I want all the robotic calls possible, and I want none of them to have the option of being challenged.
  21. jad
    The days of buying Indulgences are long gone.
  22. jad

    replay

    jad replied to cp176's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk

    Notify Youk. Something must be wrong with the board, as I agree entirely with everything said here.
  23. jad
    Well, we disagree. When I lived in So Dakota, I heard the word 'redskins' and 'skins' dozens, maybe hundreds of times. Not once, that is NEVER, did I hear it used in a positive or even a neutral sense. It was always pejorative. I don't think that Washington fans who use it see themselves as racists, nor do I think you are. But on the plains, that's a different story. (As for Boston and Washington having racist owners "a thousand years ago," you must be a lot younger than me, despite your screen name!)
  24. jad
    Agree entirely. The only disappointment I have is with JBJ. I don't mind a streaky .240 hitter (as long as he can field). But a streaky .180 hitter--that's a different story. There's nothing he can do in the field to make up for that.
  25. jad
    (Just for the record, I don't see it much here either. I wasn't referring to this board.)
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