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  1. jad
    When you look at the replay, you see that the home plate ump called a hit batsman. That's the problem. He did not call a strikeout and passed ball. OK. Fair enough. Then NY must have said a "check swing" is not reviewable. So there's nothing they can do. When Farrell realized that (if he did), he should have asked the Home plate ump to ask the third base ump whether it was a swing. (Maybe that has to be done immediately? before going to replay?) Anyway, umpires aren't blind or stupid or dumb-ass, although a lot of those who accuse them of that (if they do so seriously and not, as most fans do, simply as a goof) likely are.
  2. jad
    I'll grant that the home plate umpire could not see that. What I don't understand is what the replay officials were looking at. (The play must be reviewable, right? Or is it not listed as reviewable? I can think of no other explanation.)
  3. jad
    Looks like a few breaks. So as long as you don't mind 50degrees, spitting rain, and an east wind off the water at about 20-25knts (and who doesn't love that?), they should be fine.
  4. jad
    Dice-K? Please. Without him, there's one less WS for the RS. Can't remember the guy who came up years ago, and said he didn't know whether he should warm up or ask for autographs. He came in in relief, walked the first three batters he faced, and ... can't remember after that.
  5. jad
    Fans love 'dirt dogs' (however they define them, which is often as an image of themselves). And Drew wasn't one of those. He just did his thing, no matter what the situation. And performed consistently throughout his career. (Not sure why GM's hired a .280 hitter expecting to get a .300 hitter). Oddly, and somewhat illogically, the other player I associate with that mentality was Manny--who was a hoot, particularly in the field-- but whose approach to hitting seemed the same no matter what the situation. He wasn't impassive, of course, but he just didn't change due to the drama of the game. (And it's fitting that the beloved dirt dog known for his bat-throwing outbursts after striking out--which was often--was Youkilis. My one regret about Manny was he didn't just beat the crap out of him when he finally went after him for doing this.)
  6. jad
    Well, statistics are better than memory! But according to what you sent me: he pitched only 13 for the RS over his career, and when Williams was playing, he pitched only 2. Since you have better access to this, do me a favor: see if you can look up those two and see if one of them was the game we were talking about. If you could demonstrate that my memory is better than my off-hand remarks, that would be very cool!
  7. jad
    I wonder if I'm remembering the same game. We lived in a two story house, and for some reason, there was a bell hooked up from the downstairs bedroom up. Every time the RS scored in that inning, my father would ring the bell, knowing that my brother and I were also listening to the game. Was it against the Yankees? For some reason, I associate Earl Wilson with that memory--but obviously he wouldn't have been pitching that late in the game (unless that was his no-hitter, which it wasn't!)
  8. jad
    I don't think B's 0-7 games is a function of where he hits in the lineup.
  9. jad
    6 games. 0-21 (or thereabouts). This is JBJ-esque, or like those infamous periods (two years ago?) when Xander couldn't get a bat on the ball.
  10. jad
    Ha! With me, it was the intricacies of cheap beer and the ways of obtaining it.
  11. jad
    Hey! Stop trashing old people! (Except maybe when we go off on the "I've forgotten more about baseball than all you whippersnappers will ever ..." I'm not really sure that knowing more about a sport than anyone else is necessarily a virtue.)
  12. jad
    Woa! Did SeabeachFred return?
  13. jad
    I don't think you have to worry about Pomeranz pitching today. And I guarantee, TB is not going to get a win.
  14. jad
    What if Posada had actually made good contact instead of being jammed by Pedro and ending up a hero? What if Mueller had hit the ball two feet to the right?
  15. jad
    But there's no "take" at all in that article. Nor any suggestion of what the problem is or what the RS should do.
  16. jad
    Awful game, what I heard of it. But in all seriousness, is the manager to blame for a DP? What's he supposed to do? ("Hey, guy, remember: don't hit a ground ball. Or a line drive to an infielder." "OK, Skip. Thanks for the tip.")
  17. jad
    So if the out call is made, and consequently Boggaerts doesn't bother to tag the runner who over-ran the bag, what's the result if the challenge shows him safe?
  18. jad
    Guess not. Must have been indisposed!
  19. jad
    Will Farrell leave Kimbrel in in order to earn him a save? (i.e., is he willing to risk a game in order to pad stats?)
  20. jad
    Can those really be called 'slumps'? Aren't they more likely the norm? What is not the norm is the incredible month he had last year. But I don't recall he's had anything close to that at any other time in his career.
  21. jad
    Young 2 hits in his last two ABs. Obviously he's due for an out. Bench him.
  22. jad
    Correction! Young just started hitting again. Bench or trade JBJ immediately.
  23. jad
    Ha. 'Arbitrary' is obviously not the right word. I should have said 'ill defined or impossible to define'; 'when stats begin to stabilize' strikes me as just as problematic. I get what you mean, but there's no defining that precisely.
  24. jad
    Ah! He stopped hitting! 0-3. So obviously he needs to be benched or traded immediately.
  25. jad
    Nope. Just the logic of resignation: (1) he shouldn't be traded until he starts hitting; (2) he should be kept as long as possible. (There's no conflict--I don't see him ever to return to hitting as he briefly did last year).
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