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Well, in most of our workplaces, we have occasion, while doing our jobs, to criticize someone. Teachers, for example, routinely give out bad grades. Supervisors give bad evaluations. We should not feel that if we do this, we will return to the office or the classroom and a bunch of a-holes will stand up and hurl f-bombs at us. These guys are acting like overgrown middle-school kids or dumb-ass frat-boys. And what is worse, NO ONE on the team is (or at least in this case 'was') willing to stand up like an adult and tell them to chill.
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Maybe, but I'm disgusted by what everyone seems to admit are the facts: a bunch of grown men, professional athletes, collectively standing around while one of them hurls f-bombs at a popular reporter, who everyone agrees is doing his job. These guys, and even more, the bozos who manage them, are despicable.
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I think that when the 'story' involves a group of players essentially 'lying in wait' in the plane so that can publicly abuse a reporter, while other players (one of their 25 'leaders') and staff sit around and say nothing, then absolutely, it needs to be reported. There have been many dysfunctional RS teams over the past 6 decades or so, but this is the first one I'll be rooting against the rest of the season.
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Why don't their 25 "leaders" (all of whom, apparently, think that abusing reporters with HoF credentials is just fine) step up? Or is performance something that needs to be handled 'internally'?
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So Devers will 'develop' by sitting on the bench? If he doesn't start, they need to send him back. But in truth, after seeing more detail about the players treatment of Eck, and seeing how some of my once favorite players were involved, for the first time in over 60 years of following the RS, I woke up glad to discover that they had lost last night, and I hope Price gets shelled tomorrow.
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DFA him.
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Amazing that he recovered after booting it! An E-5 would have made for some high drama.
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It's actually quite an extraordinary admission. You don't have anyone in that organization with the stones to say: "Do not abuse reporters. PERIOD." No one who can explain to these children that the millions of dollars they make are largely due to the free publicity they get from sports-writers? No one in the League who is disturbed by this?
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Why? Didn't sitting a certain class of people in the rear of the bus work really well the last time it was tried?
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Well yes, but what's he supposed to say? "Holy crap, my guys, the little weenies, can't hit for s***. Screw them." You know, the kind of trenchant analysis we fans give of the situation.
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How difficult would it have been on that plane to say "Hey, STFU! Seriously, enough!" And the fact that neither Farrell nor any of the supposed 'leaders' on the team said that suggests to me that there ARE no leaders on that team.
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Given Price's history, it's probably not worth trying to find his pathetic motivation. The fact that he's a db is enough. That cannot be corrected. But his boorish behavior can be.
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So you have a manager who allows his players to abuse reporters? And an ownership that won't demand that he issue an apology? Oh that bodes well. I'm sure the fan base is ENTIRELY behind Price on this one.
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Have you seen him play? In the game I saw two weeks ago he made a couple of fantastic plays. It was his hitting that seemed suspect.
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Not so. This should be the way it is scored, but it is not. (Unless they've changed it in the last year or so.)
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Another way in which the irrationality of the bunt is instituted by baseball is the way it is scored: If a guy tries to muscle the ball out of the park with a runner on third, he will be credited for a sacrifice if the ball is caught. Yet a bunter does not get credit for a sacrifice when the runners move up, if he "intended" to get a hit.
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Except Pedroia's replacement had 2 hits, and the others you name got 2 more. The 4Bs (i.e., the regulars), were the ones who did not produce: 0 for 15. -
Well, that half inning brings some excitement, no?
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I'm torn as to which SNL routine these trade discussions remind me of the most: Da Bears on Ditka, or perhaps Chris Farley as a dumb-ass interviewer of celebrities.
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7/21 @ Los Angeles of Anaheim
jad replied to Thunder's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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Well yes, but not all bunts are 'successful'. One could also say "a successful home run swing increases the chances of scoring two runs." Not sure why the bunt is so persistent (although Moneyball's analysis that it has to do with the word itself 'sacrifice' is very cool). But I do remember reading as a kid in the early sixties articles about how the math showed absolutely that it was a bad tactic.
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Maybe. But again, although high salaries may seem to correlate with ticket prices (in baseball), they are not the cause. They are the effect of full stadiums, tv and ad revenues, and the CBA. You could cut MLB salaries in half, or force players to play for free (again, think college football!), and the ticket prices would remain exactly the same, with all the money going to the owners.
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Have you been watching the result of RS's 'aggressive' base-running the last couple of games?
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Incorrect. High ticket prices have almost nothing to do with salaries. They are set according to one principle: how to maximize the money at the gate. If you can fill a stadium with $300 seats, that's what they will cost, whether the players are making millions or playing for free (e.g., as in college football). And it's not "the sport": there are plenty of half-empty ballparks where you can go for under $10. So the way to make Fenway like the 'old days' when you could walk up and get a seat for $3, is (1) not go and convince everyone else not to go, and perhaps (2) enter a time machine where $3 now is what it was in the late 50s.
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Yeah, well, like, I mean, that's just , like, your opinion, Dude.
