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Sorry you took my post as attacking you. I wasn't. I was simply wondering why anyone in the organization would listen to what a sports board says. We don't as a group contribute much (even if more posters are like you than me): it's not like we are about to cancel our luxury boxes. I just can't imagine anyone in any profession (a RS employee, or someone in my business or yours) thinking "I need some new ideas; I'm going to go OUTSIDE the profession to find them." People say they do that. But not many of them actually do. And I can't conceive of a RS employee on any level allowing themselves to think that we 'outsiders' know more than they do or might have ideas (good, bad or indifferent) that they haven't thought of already.
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Just curious: who is doing the speculation? And who is "the Sox"? I don't think those who post, say, a dozen or more posts a year here are in any serious way representative of Sox fans, and I doubt also they are the ones who put the pennies in the seats. Just a question, how much money do you contribute to the RS a year in games and merchandise? My number is $0, and I imagine I am not alone. Why would anyone in the organization care what posters here think?
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Fire/desire/ 'piss and vinegar' -- all nice myths, beloved of fans and amateur athletes. And if desire keeps you on the practice field for 8-10 hours a day, that will make you better. But once you get on the field, it's not going to help. You do not hit a golf ball harder, a tennis ball more accurately, or a baseball farther because you were 'fired up'. Even in intensely physical sports (like football), getting fired up will not help if you forget basic technique. Anyone who played or plays sports knows that the most overtly enthusiastic players tend to be those cheering wildly from the bench.
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Hey, I don't ... Wait ... Oh, I see. Like "vagina" as in, wow, Pedroia is a WOMAN!!! You mean figuratively. And thus not tough like guys are all tough and strong? Damn. I'm exhausted. That is such a devastating put-down! And so clever. You surely don't give this stuff away, do you?
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Because we have an ADM that holds half the country (women) in contempt? refuses to condemn neo-Nazis? is full of racists? wants to get rid of health care? is pro-Christian? anti-abortion rights? anti-gay? creationist? believes wealth is a sign of virtue? despises poor people? doesn't believe in science? encourages police violence? And we have 40% of registered voters who actually supported this? Could that have anything to do with it?
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So Eckersley doesn't call the games anymore...??
jad replied to tombirner's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
The contempt for Boggs as a player was ridiculous, but it was in a long long tradition of RS fandom. Rice was booed. So was Williams. Yaz got a lot of criticism. So Clemens. Seems to me I ran into a couple of cries here for Pedey's head. And of course Dice-K sucked the year he won 18 games. Lee Smith sucked. Ortiz was done. etc. etc. Adrian Gonzales 'never fit in'. And Manny of course was terrible .... -
Exactly. I'm not sure why Leon is being blamed here, as he did exactly what he was supposed to do: given that he had no chance of tagging up if the ball were caught, he had to get as much of a lead as possible, which he did. When it was dropped, he was toast. JBJ, on the other hand, like most of us here, suffered a slight brain cramp given the unusual nature of what happened.
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It really bothers you, apparently, not to have occasion to call anyone a c*t or a tw*t.
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Agree that it's a blessing. But I don't think JBJ thought there were two outs, if so, he would have been running. He was as confused as most of us here (although many of the more confused posters are obscuring that with their sanctimonious invective). It was just a bizarre play on a bizarre night.
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Apparently, last night's game confused posters as much as it confused the RS baserunners. (such a bizarre play, I'm willing to give everyone a pass on that.) It's amusing to see posters get outraged about the baserunning even though it took them several minutes to understand what actually happened.
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Bradley forgot to go to third and it was a force out.
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Nice baserunning.
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Exactly! Giving up 2 runs in 19 innings--- Inexcusable!!!! Good thing Sox have the big bats.
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I don't discriminate either. But when I criticize black people, I don't use the n. word, and when I criticize a woman, I don't call them c*'s and t*'s.
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As you know, parking, food, and ticket prices have nothing to do with player salaries. They are set by what the market will bear, and capping what players make only puts money in the hands of the owners, who are perhaps less generous and social-minded than we might hope. There is only one way to make these prices go down--stop going.
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How is it going to affect his hitting? Is he up there thinking 'Quick bat quick bat, ... but damn I really better learn a different way to throw the ball; gee maybe that hop is bad, or is it the skip, oh hell ... was that a strike?"
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I love the smell of sexist pigs in the morning.
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Yup. 9-2. Clearly the umps' fault. Just as Cleveland's 11-1 win over Detroit was the result of the same umpire bias. Thank God the umpires and league conspired to let the RS win a few WS, just as they were completely responsible for the Cubs winning last year.
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When fans say that the umpires/refs favor 'their' team (and I've never heard them do that), then I will consider taking seriously anyone who says they do not.
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One thing that all message boards I've seen have in common is contempt for the present manager/coach (I assume, but don't know, that the Patriots and Warriors might be exceptions). Has anyone checked this?
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They really need to get rid of the "save" statistic, which is bogus (as proved by Kimbrel's performance last night). It would be fine (it's only a statistic--you could equally record how many pitchers throw a strike on a 1-1 count), if agents and GMs didn't value players according to it, and worse, if managers didn't put in relievers based on it. (The notion that a closer should only be used in a "save" situation.)
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So you're saying a professional athlete sits on the bench. He watches his manager or coach get thrown out, generally for acting like an unprofessional a-hole. And that this professional athlete then says, "Oh yeah! I'm ready to play now."
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4 straight losses. Small sample size. ... But then, so would be 10 or 15 or ... hell ... 20.
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No one remembers where they are hitting in the order when they're standing in front of a 90+mph fastball.
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Dumb rule. As Bob Costas noted, replay was not designed to micro-examine what happens after the player hits the bag (e.g., his foot bouncing off for a split second). They should definitely change that rule: once player has made contact with base, he is considered in contact with it as long as he stays over it. Meanwhile, RS suck tonight!
