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  1. jad
    Well, yes and no. But baseball isn't like basketball or other sports. In basketball, defensive specialists don't have to shoot; in baseball, he has to hit--it's not a 'bonus'. Sure, if he doesn't make that catch last night, it's a one-run game. But if he had gotten a hit or two earlier, that catch wouldn't have mattered. Of course as a fan, I'd much rather watch these spectacular catches than a weak single to the opposite field--that's why I have always liked JBJ. But as far as winning games is concerned, the hit he prevents every three games or so is less valuable than, say, the two hits an average MLB hitter could have gotten at the plate during the same period.
  2. jad
    Don't worry. I did the same thing in the 50s. If you stay around long enough, you be listening on the radio again and it will STILL be way past your bedtime, as it is now mine.
  3. jad
    Hey, it's a sports board. A SPORTS board! We all pretend to care about things that aren't in the slightest bit important. No need to call anyone out for being a tad hyperbolic.
  4. 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.)
  5. 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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  7. jad
    He was watching the 3rd base coach, who might have helped by, say, telling him when to go.
  8. jad
    Well, now they've gotten back into the groove ...
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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?
  12. 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.
  13. jad
    Manny! Manny! MANNY!!!
  14. jad
    Two passed balls and a steal of home in one inning?
  15. 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.
  16. jad
    Now wait a second. Then why do we sometimes close our eyes at the crucial moment in ...
  17. 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?
  18. jad
    Maybe the RS pitchers should consider putting the ball in the lower half of the strike zone?
  19. jad
    Blessedly, I know none of the names mentioned in this thread. Well, except for David Price; wasn't he on a WS team?
  20. 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????
  21. 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.)
  22. jad
    You would prefer to be playing in Boston in early April?
  23. jad
    Well, Mookie's decision at least finally kept them out of a possible double-play.
  24. jad
    OMG, what a horrible baserunning move.
  25. 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.)
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