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5/15 vs Athletics of Oakland
jad replied to Slasher9's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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. -
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.
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The Alex Cora Managerial Decision Thread
jad replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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.) -
5/15 vs Athletics of Oakland
jad replied to Slasher9's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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. -
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.
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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).
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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."
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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).
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Ha! Like that catch Betts just made! (Punctuated, alas, by another dismal AB by JBJ)
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Agree on Holt! On the uni's, no; you are just WRONG.
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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?
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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.
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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).
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Doesn't look like all that work in the cage Cora talked about in pre-game did a whole lot of good.
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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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Ah. Thanks. I guess grey-market streams don't feel obliged to send reminders, and turning on the radio? ... well, that's just so last year.
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Anyone at the game? Weather report?
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Well, a .700 winning percentage is a bit better than what I'm used to. But maybe it's just the Polyanna in me.
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I don't take the content real seriously, but the juvenile sexist and homophobic slurs are tedious and should be embarrassing to those who cannot seem to restrain themselves. I'm sure all this seemed extremely bad-ass when we were, say, 10 years old. It's boring now. Another way to block these overgrown pre-pubescents is to go to "settings" on the upper right of the page (on the red border).
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"Save" is a completely artificial stat (well, so are all others, I suppose). A guy who can only perform in 'save situations' is a guy who is more concerned with stats than production. (Although in fairness to Kimbrel, I don't recall him ever saying anything about only coming in in certain situations--maybe his agent has?) Can you imagine a batter saying "Sorry. I only hit with an 0-0 count." Or a fielder-- "Nope. I'm not standing out here if they're going to hit ground balls; I only do pop-ups."
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Trying to get Hanley hurt? The conspiracy theory is absurd. Isn't the manager's job to try to get the team to win as many games as possible? One way to do that right now is to play Hanley. (as in tonight).
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Until that swing by Bradley, I thought the phrase "to miss a ball by a foot" was a hyperbole.
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Betts brings to memory one heck of a player.
jad replied to dustcover's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Plus he was married to MMonroe! To be in the company of Arthur Miller--that ain't nothin'! I never saw JD play either, but I was sitting in a small espresso shop in Little Italy (La Roma, I think), when he walked in-- a fairly ordinary looking guy. Must have been for the Old TImers game that year? I didn't recognize him at first, but his awful (in the old sense) presence just filled the room. -
Has tanking now become the Holy Grail of pro-sports? Am I really seeing discussion of a first place team getting rid of starting pitchers and an ace closer for prospects? Or have I missed several onion-like layers of irony here?
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The image that is burned in my memory is the look Frank Malzone used to give over his shoulder when one went through his legs--a look that he had many many opportunities to practice. He was a gold glove 3b, whose errors were attributed to his ability to get to balls that other third basemen couldn't touch. (He also had difficulty with balls hit directly at him, which is not all that rare a weakness!)
