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  1. jad
    Once again, announcers (this time, Eck) speak of the air being 'thick'. But the fact is that misty, humid air is lighter and less dense than dry air, that is, it has less resistance. Balls theoretically should travel farther (although there may be other factors involved--cold? the nature of the surface of the ball?)
  2. jad
    Wow. And again again.
  3. jad
    Again.
  4. jad
    He isn't in a slump. He has demonstrated over the past couple of days he cannot (for whatever reason) hit basic ml fastballs. Enough already.
  5. jad
    OK I've seen enough. I've really supported Bradley, but if he can't hit a series of pitches like that (and those like it he saw yesterday), he has no business in the league. Having the manager spend time with him in bp is a waste of time for both of them.
  6. jad
    I'm sure John Henry as well as all RS sponsors are thrilled to know that not only pink hats come in to watch games, but that the RS have fans from other teams actually following nearly every pitch!
  7. jad
    Well, at least Mookie didn't hit into a DP.
  8. jad
    OBVIOUSLY, should have left JBJ in the game.
  9. jad
    OK. But exactly what do you recommend they do about it? Any players you acquire (and could you get any as good as, say,Nunez [remember how he virtually carried the team last year], Hanley [how's he doing this year?], and JBJ? [capable of extraordinary hot streaks]). Anyone you get is going to be as subject to slumps as these are. Hitters like Martinez are not out there just waiting to be picked up on the waiver wire, or traded for unproductive, streaky players.
  10. jad
    Well, it's not a clean inning any more.
  11. jad
    Yeah, I'm sorry. In the future, I will be sure to tailor my statements so that they are perfectly understood by fans of other teams.
  12. jad
    Hard to figure what their stake is in this. But then again, without them, we would probably have to listen to the juvenile rants and boring obscenities of the three or four posters I've blocked.
  13. jad
    I don't understand the mystical religious philosophy of snake-handlers either. I don't expect to. Nor do I expect to understand fuel injection systems in my car. Nor the Tax Code. But what I do expect in all these fields, is that those who do understand them (or those who refute them) can explain the basics in ordinary language. When they cannot, or when they fume and demand that I research this from the ground up, or insist that I categorically reject the whole thing, I lose faith. (By the way, an excellent example on this matter is the presentation in Moneyball. You may or may not agree with any of it, and the theory may or may not be dated or naive, but it is explained clearly and intelligently, and can be understood even by a casual sports fan.)
  14. jad
    Exactly. I stopped watching them after opening day, since I didn't share your rosy, Polyanna-esque attitude--surely not enough to follow a team with a 0% winning percentage.
  15. jad
    What's ridiculous about the NBA is that they could fix it in a hearbeat by changing the ridiculous lottery rules, which reward failure. Why they do not is beyond me, unless they cynically believe that fans of losing teams will find reason to celebrate. But this only applies to die-hard fans who will always support the team (the way I supported the RS in the bad old days of the late fifties and early sixties). You will never attract pink hats (who are finally the ones who put the pennies in the seats) by an abstruse strategy of manipulating lottery rules.
  16. jad
    It irritates fans (like me), who believe when we watch competitive sports, we want to see competitive sports, not competitive front offices. Also, "rebuilding" is entirely different from "tanking" (which is deliberately trying to lose, something seemingly more prevalent in the NBA).
  17. jad
    It's New England. That's who we are. I have a friend here who hates winter, and in mid-May she was heard to lament: "Oh God. In six weeks, the days will start getting shorter again."
  18. jad
    I don't buy it. I saw him play in Portland and he was the same way. I hadn't heard of him, and I was amazed at his athleticism at third (just playing at a level way beyond others in AA). But he also made an error--exactly same type on a throw as he has made at the majors. Nothing has "sped up on him"; that's the way he is, and he just needs to work on it to improve (which I am confident he will).
  19. jad
    Ha! Like that catch Betts just made! (Punctuated, alas, by another dismal AB by JBJ)
  20. jad
    Agree on Holt! On the uni's, no; you are just WRONG.
  21. jad
    A real 3 baseman? This is great in theory, but you might bear in mind how the RS did when they had this same problem a couple of years ago. I would guess for these three you would be demanding a .300 hitter, excellent fielder, who hits 30-40 dingers a year. There are 30 to choose from. Who do you have in mind? And if a team had such a mythical star, why would they dump him?
  22. jad
    Blaming NFL ratings on nice white folks angry at the anthem protest is total right-wing b.s. You will recall that BLM called for an NFL boycott before that, leading to the kind of double-think we are now getting used to: black leftists are hurting business by not buying our product!!!!!! Bad evil black people!!! the people not buying our product are good, decent white folks who do not like black people not buying our product!!! Poor patriotic white folks!--we need to lure them back.
  23. jad
    He looked really bad last night. In the last few weeks (months?-- into last year?) he has proven not to be that .230 hitter the Sox could live with, but more like a guy you would want to replace with a DH. I do not understand how anyone who has proven he can hit in the past can look so bad. (But then, Daniel Bard comes to mind).
  24. jad
    Doesn't look like all that work in the cage Cora talked about in pre-game did a whole lot of good.
  25. jad
    Totally agree. ... Of course, the RS also have the best record in baseball. So maybe this is the way to go.
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