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Wow. Smart-ass homophobic obscenities. I remember when those were amusing: I was 10 years old.
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Pink hats, as George Steinbrenner might put it, put the pennies in the seats. As an organization, you don't need to cater to hard core fans. You NEED pink hats.
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You're right. Except for the part about it's being funny at the beginning.
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WTF???? Is Butterfield still coaching at 3rd???
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I give .300 hitters a pass for that.
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Since sports is entertainment, I'd much rather watch JBJ every day than a #3/4 starter (Pom?) every 5 days. And I think I agree about JD--although the discussion is so nuanced and intricate I'm not certain of that. Hanley is a great example of what can happen to a player unhappy with his role: when he was humiliating himself in LF, his hitting definitely suffered. When he moved to 1st (even though many argued he couldn't play the position), everything about his game improved. Too bad not all players look at the DH as Ortiz did.
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We're in the midst of the longest losing streak of the year! Sale has a losing record, and all our hitters are in slumps. And no one is concerned???? Time to DFA the team, and hire a new manager
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I'm guessing because they don't take hits to the knees? (as in football). Also, maybe the nature of moving on skates lessens some of the impact? Blessedly, my team sports career ended before I got any bad injuries. Oddly, the 'most-dangerous-sport' I know is tennis (squash). Maybe because it induces 40-70 year old guys with a stupid macho complex to do more than their flabbed out bodies can take?
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A lot of us were in a lot better shape in our 30s than in our 20s. (That's one of the many reasons we were not professional athletes).
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I don't remember the Lynn play. But I can still see Gary Geiger going head first into the bullpen wall from centerfield. Can't recall whether he walked away from it. Also, I don't remember Lynn making the kind of plays that JBJ seems to make routinely (e.g., that catch from RF the other night). But I probably didn't watch as many games then. (Best Pearsall move I recall was when during a pitching change, he (a la Manny?) went out and sat behind the flagpole that used to be in dead center. I think such things always worried his team-mates, who were aware he wasn't all that emotionally stable.)
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I'm not going to bother to read it. I've already blocked one of these participants. If I need stupid obscenities, I can always just listen in on a middle school playground.
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How about Mays? I only saw him towards the end. (Not a lot of Giants games on tv in Maine in the 50s.) Of RS of that era, Pearsall was pretty great to watch (but hard to judge in terms of modern players).
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I get the idea, but then there's also the reality that defensively Nunland is not equal to JBJ even if you put both of them in CF at once (since only one of them will be able to throw on each play).
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Little guys? You mean like Pedro Martinez? or Luis Aparacio?
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Whoa. I ... Well ... Maybe I s ... started 4/20 too soon ...
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Ta hell with this. Time to celebrate the holiday instead.
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You mean both of them?
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Oh yes. But Buddin became a legend, no? Then let's not forget Billy Jurges, who replaced Higgins, did ok for half a season (with his signature move of hustling rather than walking to the mound to change pitchers), then succumbed to the reality that was the Yawkey Sox and as I recall essentially suffered a nervous breakdown in year 2.
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The Alex Cora Managerial Decision Thread
jad replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Doesn't sound ridiculous to me. All of us have likely worked at jobs that were 'no fun', and when that was the case, we didn't work as well or hard as we did in other jobs. When it's a drag going to work, all the money does is make you feel grimly that you really have no choice but to get on the damn train. -
One game. You know. Small sample. Bottom line is before that he was hitless for THREE DAYS! Sat-Monday. Sunday and Monday he didn't even get a foul ball. DFA him.
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Is Panda backing up Shaw?
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I hate the bastard. Hope he gets rocked, humiliated, and booed off the field ... well, provided that, say, the RS brass walk into Schwab's, say, where there's some 19-year-old who throws 100 mph with a devastating splitter who's willing to sign for the minimum for 5 years and turns out to win 30 games a year and ... and ... and ... You know, under that condition.
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Wow. I don't know where you teach, but I'm many years older than you, like you a former marathon runner, chain smoker before that, have 35 years at my school and (alas? I guess?) times were NEVER that way at any place I've taught!
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Well, why not use Sale? or maybe Kimbrel on his off days?
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Move here! (I realize LA doesn't have the wonderful spring weather you have in NE, but it might be worth the sacrifice).
