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  1. jad
    I'm pretty sure Cora has been told just to play the best guys he has. Managing a team has to be difficult enough without having to go through the lucubrations we have here (since it's spring training--I assume we're all just filling up the air until the season starts [and with modern athletes--what's the point of a long ST? is it just to placate fans in Arizona and Fla?]). On a lighter note, anyone have any thoughts on JBJ's swing? (Ihaven't seen any games yet.) At .180, he seems on the way to having a predictably disappointing year. My recollection is that he generally burns it up in the spring. (Or is this just an example of his streaky hitting).
  2. jad
    I agree entirely about the Youk situation. What BV said wasn't extreme to begin with, but PD made the situation unfixable. As for the "It's not me, it's them" situation. I'm not sure. Both at the time (and every time I watched that since), I've always read what he said as meaning: "Don't single me out! It's the whole damn team" (not throwing teammates under the bus, but an expression of solidarity). PD has never said exactly what he meant, right? And perhaps there was a little of both meanings there. (Those who get real vocal during a sports contest likely do not have a clear and distinct idea of what they mean, and they're not the greatest of intellects to begin with.)
  3. jad
    Thanks. The old ST boxes were indeed minimalist. But these gave a number for pitches. (Looking again, does "#P" simply mean 'the minimum number that could account for the hitter's line'? i.e., so if a guy goes 0-1 with three walks, the number is 13?) Would it be asking the computer too much to omit that??? (Sorry if I missed an earlier exchange explaining this).
  4. jad
    Just looking at the box today, and noticed the #P and walks. No walks, and if my math is correct (e.g., a guy goes 0-3, with 1 K,and sees 5 pitches), does this mean that the RS were essentially all swinging at the first pitch? Or was something wrong with the box score?
  5. jad
    Or if you do get the job done: among those booed the loudest (and vilified in the press) that I remember: Williams, Boggs, Clemons, Rice, Papi, (Yaz? some, but not so much) ... (I apologize to the dozens I'm leaving out, but this is not a bad start for a line-up).
  6. jad
    Isn't this something that was completely predictable and foreseen during the CBA negotiations? Obviously, they left that open. If it was seen by both sides as a problem (you call it a sham), they would have agreed to language preventing it. I really can't see who the aggrieved party would be with these kinds of deals.
  7. jad
    I believe that is a myth, popularized in part by such romantic depictions as Gone with the Wind, that has been largely discredited by historians. (But maybe you were being ironic.)
  8. jad
    Glad to see Nunez back (pending a physical? which might not be a mere formality, correct?)
  9. jad
    Ha! Blessedly, I don't think any professional athlete gives a crap what I think! So I can consider him a p.o.s. as a person, and still hope he gets his location back.
  10. jad
    I see Price came out today admitting (supposedly) he didn't handle things well last year. He is now waiting for Eck to reach out to him to clear the air. (Doesn't sound to me like much has changed). Apparently Eck needs to apologize for getting on the plane and subjecting himself to abuse from this a-hole, and Price is generously willing to at least discuss it.
  11. jad
    I agree with much of this, but I'm not sure "Boston" is entirely to blame. The Celtics had plenty of black players in the 50s and an entire line-up of black players in the early 60s. Also (although this is just before my time as a fan), the Boston Braves had a black player as early as 1950 (they left Boston ... in 1952? maybe someone else can tell me whether they had other black players on the team before that). I see also (to my shock!) even the Bruins integrated before the RS. Let's just say Yawkey gave in to the prevailing (or perceived?) racism of his fans. But other teams in exactly the same position did not.
  12. jad
    Never heard of a quota, but this charge came up again in the 70s, where there were far fewer black players than one would expect (I believe Reggie Smith may have commented about this,but it was long long ago!). By 66 and 67, you're right, things had certainly changed from what they had been in the late 50s and earlier. Once Earl Wilson got there (I believe he was the second black player? signed right after Pumpsie Green? maybe 1959 or 1960?), it would have been hard to argue for an all-white team (not sure there were any segregated pro teams in the US by that point: well, maybe in the NHL, but that's a different case!)
  13. jad
    With all due respect, this is not correct. The last team to integrate in the NFL was the despicably racist (and still racist) Washington team (I think this was 1963 or maybe 1964). (Even the RS integrated before Washington). And such scumbags they were, that they immediately traded away the guy they were forced to pick (Ernie Davis, who sadly died of cancer before ever getting a chance to play). I believe they traded him for Bobby Mitchell. (in a totally class-less move,worthy of a 10-year-old: "OK we have to draft that black guy, but screw you, we'll trade him for a different black guy"). There was nothing 'seamless' about NFL integration. And nothing 'seamless' about integration in the NCAA, which took even longer. Also, Terry Bradshaw in several unguarded moments once talked quite freely about his own racist past in football (he wasn't trying to defend it, of course--just because you were once a racist s*** doesn't mean you will always be one)-- I believe this was in regard to being replaced by a black QB? (can't recall the details).
  14. jad
    There will always be an excuse to be the last racist standing, and there will be no lack of those around willing to voice it.
  15. jad
    Can't judge historical figures by our standards? OK. I'll concede that has some validity. Then judge them by the standards of the day: Yawkey presided over the team that was the last major league team to integrate. Yes, you can forgive anyone for not being the first to step up on an important social issue like this (who of us would 'scape the hanging?);but you do not have to forgive someone for being the last.
  16. jad
    Well, why would one live in Culver City to begin with? But if it came to that, and also came to wanting to go to Dodger Stadium, I'd take the train and the express shuttle from Union Station. Driving to Dodger Stadium and trying to get out of the absurdly designed parking lots pretty much destroys any pleasure one could get from watching the game.
  17. jad
    Red Sox fans do not have to convince each other than Hanley is VERY VERY valuable to other teams, who thus obviously should trade for him. THey have to convince other teams that he is that valuable--a quite different matter.
  18. jad
    Now just a second here! My recollection is that transistor radios came on the market in the mid-fifties: the Pearsall, Jenson, Sammy White, Don Buddin era. I believe they weren't even invented until the late 40s, and not sold commercially until much later.
  19. jad
    Yeah and you'd think he might try to show some good-will to the fans by attending a Celtics or Bruins game! But Nooooooo. He goes to a damn Yankees game instead!
  20. jad
    HEY!!! ARE YOU TRYING TO PICK A FIGHT?? HOW DARE YOU AC- ... [all caps.; bold; ital.]
  21. jad
    He hasn't won a game. He won't give a news conference. He hasn't named a starter for the next game. And he doesn't even travel with the damn team!
  22. jad
    Just curious: when did MLB start removing from play any ball that has touched the dirt? It would seem to me that a brand new ball would carry further than one that has been hit a few times, even though when new, they are identical.
  23. jad
    It could also be that when a hitter swings at the first pitch, it's because it's a really good one to hit. Balls outside the zone, even borderline strikes--probably he'll let go. This is not, I would think, necessarily the case with pitches for any other count, particularly a two strike count.
  24. jad
    Looked to me on the replay I saw that he was being waved in the whole time. (Of course, if Sanchez made the play, he would have been out by 10 feet). RS overly-agressive baserunning, on the other hand, cost them the division and any chance of post-season play.
  25. jad
    But Altuve made that mistake so many RS baserunners have been reviled for this season--being overly aggressive. Particularly in the 9th inning! Inexcusable. Waive him.
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