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  1. jad
    Well, that's a pretty low bar. None of the losses can be attributed to you or me either, but that doesn't mean we should be playing. You don't think an outfield of Benintendi Betts and JD would be more productive? (I'm sure this is a question that has occurred to Cora. I also assume that, like most of us, he would rather hold his breath and hope JBJ hits, rather than face this decision.)
  2. jad
    I don't disagree. But the question is when? And how? Right now, he's on pace for nearly 200 Ks, 0 HR, and at this rate, he will end the season with 15 RBIs. How many games should the RS concede while waiting for him to find his .235 groove?
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  4. jad
    He was watching the 3rd base coach, who might have helped by, say, telling him when to go.
  5. jad
    Well, now they've gotten back into the groove ...
  6. jad
    Uh oh. Has JBJ gone back to the 'toe-tap' method of hitting? A style which ensures that you will be off balance no matter when the ball gets there. Of course, the chances of him hitting it are so small, it probably doesn't matter.
  7. jad
    Exactly. It's grasping at straws; even what little relevance it has for their first starts, it doesn't explain the problems with their second or third starts.
  8. jad
    That was a terrible AB by Betts. Two very hittable pitches watched float by, then swinging at one in the dirt. Where is his discipline?
  9. jad
    Wrong! The best play Manny ever made was the catch in LF, one step on the fence, high-fiving the fan, and doubling the runner off first base.
  10. jad
    Manny! Manny! MANNY!!!
  11. jad
    Two passed balls and a steal of home in one inning?
  12. jad
    Thank God that western road trip is over and the RS don't have to face this brutal 70-80 degree spell we're suffering from now.
  13. jad
    Now wait a second. Then why do we sometimes close our eyes at the crucial moment in ...
  14. jad
    Serious question: what does it mean to "not know how to pitch." Catcher calls pitch and location. Is this just a figure of speech (ERod can't put the ball where he wants)? Or that under pressure, he's not willing, say, to throw a strike?
  15. jad
    Maybe the RS pitchers should consider putting the ball in the lower half of the strike zone?
  16. jad
    Blessedly, I know none of the names mentioned in this thread. Well, except for David Price; wasn't he on a WS team?
  17. jad
    Right. MLB is out to screw the RedSox, just as the NBA has it in for the Lakers and Golden State and the NFL is trying to make sure Boston and, say, the Cowboys fail. How else do you explain the RS having to play HALF their games away from Fenway Park????
  18. jad
    Maybe a nefarious conspiracy (because MLB of course WANTS to RS to fail!). But my understanding is that athletes in all prof. sports hate cross-country flights and (for East Coast teams) the inevitable west-coast trip. I'm pretty sure if you asked the players about this year's schedule, they would have been glad to see so much of their west coast schedule out of the way early. (Now, of course, their testimony will be worthless.)
  19. jad
    You would prefer to be playing in Boston in early April?
  20. jad
    Well, Mookie's decision at least finally kept them out of a possible double-play.
  21. jad
    OMG, what a horrible baserunning move.
  22. jad
    JBJ is obviously a great athlete. But there is nothing about that swing from set-up to follow-through that explains how he ever managed those few hot streaks in his career. He doesn't need an 'adjustment'; he needs a major overhaul--e.g., a change to Hriniak style? It's hard to imagine a worse swing than he has (well, except when he tried the toe-tap thing that I recall pretty much ruined Daniel Nava's career.)
  23. jad
    I can! 2 or 3 times in the last five or six years.
  24. jad
    OMG! You are a glutton for punishment. Does the beagle howl (as do all I've ever known)? I assume the hounds bay away when they feel like chasing something, which is all the time. And the cattle dog is up for playing fetch about 20 hours a day? (I'm dogsitting a shih-tzu mix--that's 22 hours of sleep a day, 1/4 hour eating, another hour walking, and whatever time remains, demanding to be brushed. HIGHLY recommended dog!)
  25. jad
    Yes, but as I'm sure you know (since this discussion comes up over and over again in sports), ticket prices have essentially nothing to do with the salaries of players, nor do the price of beer and hot-dogs. They are set by a relatively simple computation--what price do you set for admission (or for a hot-dog) that maximizes the take. No team will sell a ticket for $10 that can sell for $50. Whether players make 10 million a year or $1/hour does not affect this calculation.
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