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And again.
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Yet again!
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"Well, we handled that internally ..."
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OK. I'll bite. Hurricane prediction is extremely good (well, compared to the 50s, say), and it should be exactly the same in the Atlantic as in the Pacific (the difference is only that because of the E to W movement, the west coast is rarely affected by them). (I'm only arguing because the game is postponed and there's nothing else to do)
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The last game I went to Fenway, I waited 5 hours in the rain. (It was a D/N doubleheader--unknown to us, they cancelled the night game, so we waited in the rain all afternoon for the game to finally start).
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The most surprising thing was that Moreland had the wherewithal to run, after standing there in despair for a second or so. Had the ball rolled only 10 instead of 20 feet away, the image of the game (and the team) we would take away was him standing idly by while the catcher lobbed the ball to first.
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Since "small sample size" is, I see, now the answer of choice to any and all arguments, I suppose then "Well, 3 out of 4 years in last place is too small a sample size to be significant... only 4, you see ... but championships! They're forever!"
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Good pitching beats good hitting every time.
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Maybe not throw the heat belt-high in the middle of the plate.
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Again, Dale Berra sends a guy home to what should have been a sure out.
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Oh you're right. He did. Rule must be something like 'catch' as long as you don't set up or start your leap out of bounds? (They're explaining it now--yup--that seems what the rule is.)
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Benitendi did the same thing last year. It's an out.
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No. But Sale and Encarnacion sure are.
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Can't really blame Holt. He's just following what Butterfield (or is it Dale Berra?) tells him to do.
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Enough of Butterfield's 'aggressive' base-running. He has run three guys into outs at home plate (Leon's miraculous slide saving one of them) in the last four games.
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I agree entirely. It's even worse in basketball, where the 'blow it up' chants start the instant fans believe they 'can't beat [the Warriors]', (that is to say, months and sometimes years before the season even starts). Or in NCAA football, where the goal of many teams seems to be to put together the least challenging schedule in order to have a shot at whatever the playoff scenario is that year. It's as if fans are more interested in the 'fantasy sports' aspect (competitive GM-ing), than in competitive sports itself (physical competition on the field).
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They did the same with Pedroia, and now look--career's gone to hell, constantly injured, never reached his true potential
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Plus his fielding too. Just look at how lost he looked on that last play.
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Does Butterfield actually get paid?
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My look at that play was that he was only out by 10 feet, not 15. I'd say the slide (slide??) was miraculous, but anything that bizarre has to be beginners' luck.
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So he couldn't persuade the puberty stricken Price to keep his mouth shut rather than continuing to call Eck out? (Apparently, those here who want this story to end disagree with Mr. Price.)
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What possible reason would the Union have to make a concession just so the owners can save themselves from themselves? What it would amount to is spreading the money now going to the best players out to go to average players. (Not sure who has the most clout in the union, but in the NBA, you can see that union leaders--the best players-- seem to tailor agreements to benefit themselves). And why would the owners care? All it would do is keep a few of the richest teams from over-paying a few duds. Would NYY want an agreement in place that keeps them from getting a star by overpaying him long term? WOuld the RS? As long as the money keeps rolling in (and it seems to), the only people who get worked up over these contracts are the fans (which is probably a good thing as far as fan interest goes).
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Definitive, sustantiated role of Pedroia in Price/Eck incident
jad replied to dustcover's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
It's hard to see how this explains their performance. I can't imagine anyone going to the plate thinking, "I love Eck, thus I can't hit" or "Price really showed that guy ... I thus can't hit." I assume in baseball when you're at the plate, you're only thinking of yourself, not team 'chemistry'. The issue to me has nothing to do with performance. It's simply a question of whether multi-millionaire celebrities (in sports, entertainment, or government) are going to held to the same basic standards of civil behavior as the rest of us. -
My God, it's too bad Mr. Winning-Finds-Me is such a boob, because he actually had an interesting point to make on L/R swings, rendered completely unintelligible by his inability to form a coherent sentence.
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Ah right. Of course. Thanks. (Without the shift, P would be backing up third on a hit, right? It didn't look like he got there on this play.)
