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Saw them in that fine stadium in ... must have been 1960. I recall my uncle explaining in detail how minor league contracts worked, not one word of which I have retained.
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By remembering the last six or seven decades, perhaps?
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The annual Jackie Bradley Jr thread (2019 Edition)
jad replied to Station 13's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I don't know. I was a great fan of his, but in all the games I saw, Wilt outplayed him. After all, in basketball and in life itself, 20,000 scores is hard to beat. -
Pedroia out with renewed left knee pain
jad replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
"Forcing a rule change" (RC is of course still in AAA and the RS are still paying his salary under the old rules) is completely different from "disregarding a rule that is in place and whose intent and implications are obvious to everyone." -
Pedroia out with renewed left knee pain
jad replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
An obvious violation of the CBA. I believe this is specifically addressed, but I'm not up for reading the 250pp of the agreement to find it. I'm sure there are other obvious violations that aren't specifically addressed either; I can't find anywhere a clause claiming a team can't pay a player in chimpanzees rather than dollars, so maybe there's a loophole there as well. -
The annual Jackie Bradley Jr thread (2019 Edition)
jad replied to Station 13's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I don't know what 'they' refers to. Nor who the target is. So I'll just say sternly that hyperbole, special pleading, begging the question and all such rhetorical and logical sleights-of-hand are (as we all know) absolutely forbidden on sports boards. -
The annual Jackie Bradley Jr thread (2019 Edition)
jad replied to Station 13's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Ha! Fred Lynn, on his worst day, was not a poor man's JBJ on his best. -
I think it very unlikely that a bunch of ESPN posters have access to the inner thoughts of two players who have never bothered to share those thoughts with anyone.
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Oh well. At least the starting pitching has once again turned it around, as they were advised to do a few weeks ago.
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Exactly. And he criticized Doerr's insistence on "a level swing" specifically because it was not in line with the path of the ball. (Also, the mound would have been a lot higher in those days than it is now, right? or was the height increased in the 60s and 70s before lowered to accommodate all the poor slobs who had to swing against Bob Gibson?)
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It wouldn't be as fun to watch, but (in terms of team success) I'd rather have a CF who went 1-3 and let that ball drop in front of him.
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Uh oh. JBJ at the plate again. At least the DP isn't possible.
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Why? It's almost certain JBJ would have struck out or (at best) ground weakly into a double play.
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Not many will be asked to bunt in order to get to the no. 9 hitter. But this is JBJ.
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How is he selling out for power? He's hitting over .300, no?
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That was typical of his strike-out swing. I think he missed that by almost a foot.
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Except for that bit about the bottom half of the inning.
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Well, that was short-lived.
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I have never understood the animosity for former players one finds in sports. True, when your now-ex leaves you, you are p.o'd. But sports isn't life, and once I get familiar w/ a player on one team, I will always keep an eye out for him on the next. So yes, I like Ellsbury (horribile dictu); I want Puig to do well (LA connections); Clemens, Boggs, etc. If I rooted for them on one team, I will do the same when they move. Why anyone would claim that fierce loyalty to a local team above all else is a virtue is beyond me, and I've been a RS fan for almost 7 decades.
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I was joking (but then, maybe you were too). We're both idiots.
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Obviously, as last night proves, you move Vasquez to 2nd base and DH Chavis.
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And if I recall correctly (and on most things, I do not), his fielding wasn't as bad as his fielding reputation. I think he likely welcomed the fame his presumably horrendous fielding won him. [Just checked the NYT obit, which seems to confirm this: 'Power hitting evidently came easily to Stuart. But he worked at his fielding, and at times did well. After a banner year in 1961 he said: ''Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.''']
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If Dick Stuart could start for the RS, I have no problem with Devers.
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It's a great great city. (You can't possibly live where your moniker implies; I've only been through there a few times, and the most culturally significant thing I have witnessed there is a white tiger spraying on plexiglass. The only two places I dislike more in this area are in fact 90 miles from LA, and you're right, the traffic is brutal. )
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Well, there have been a few RS worth watching who were not 'home-grown': guys like Pedro, Manny, Ortiz, JD, Chris Sale, Price, Schilling, etc. That said, I tend to agree with you!
