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  1. jad
    Good point. And you're right: I've never understood the vilification of players who are not great, but very good and who perform EXACTLY as they could be expected to perform. JD was certainly one of those. Two others that come to mind are Adrian Gonzalez who was very consistent and hit pretty much as he hit throughout his career, and J.D. Drew (not as good as Gonzalez, but hit just as he had elsewhere). There was nothing particularly unlikable about any of these guys (although they were pretty low-key, as I recall, and not rah-rah self-proclaimed tough guys, like, say, Yucker). (I would be inclined to put Hanley II in the same category, who at that point in his career pretty much gave what could have been expected.).
  2. jad
    My bad, didn't read it correctly (I was in LA during the 'Ohtani is clearly guilty and should be banned forever' hysteria, and no longer trust what any sports fan says about Japanese players.) Sorry. Again, my bad.
  3. jad
    Fair enough. You're not pissed at Yoshida's performance, right? You're p.o.d at the money he's being paid.
  4. jad
    You mean 30 million back in the day when you could buy something with that? (I hate the prices of hot dogs at Fenway! They've gone WAY up. Why back when I was a kid, they were a dime! What's wrong with the world?)
  5. jad
    And after praising Raffaela's 'catch', I was on my way to posting about how TYler O'Neill has started to come back to earth ...
  6. jad
    Wow. That was close to being among the greatest catches I've ever seen! (I know I know ... woulda coulda shoulda ..)
  7. jad
    Analytics geeks should enjoy this, even though no RS players get mentioned. Not sure what it says, other than good hitters are better than bad ones but who knows why. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40120458/mlb-statcast-bat-tracking-data-giancarlo-stanton-luis-arraez
  8. jad
    Yeah. .289 last year. Second best on the team. 3rd best in OPS. Total failure. I wonder what you would say if he were a good ole boy from Alabama.
  9. jad
    I don't know because sometimes Youk is ok but you know when he's not you realize he's not ok like when he says something good you know it might be good but don't forget different people might think different things and in the end what's obvious well it's obvious and he's not the captain that was Tek you remember he got into it with Arod that was the year we won the pennant well not the pennant but the WS which you know means that you won the pennant as well but when a ball is in the dirt it's not usually a strike and not all hitters are looking for the same pitch in every situation but the pitcher can vary speed and sometimes location but you know if a major league hitter is .... (REPEAT)
  10. jad
    How about Dennis Rodman's wedding dress and feather boa? (or does F's of Hollywood cover that).
  11. jad
    What we do know, and all we need to know, is that they got rid of the best player they had since Babe Ruth, and no one tries to justify that earlier mistake by pointing to financial exigencies or 'the farm' or anything else, and no one will finally give a cr*p about the excuses for this one either.
  12. jad
    Wow. Poor guy. None of that has happened to me in the past century and a half.
  13. jad
    Gotta say, I totally agree. This is a sports board, not a chemical engineering conference. If someone is willing to spend time researching every detail of baseball history: (1) that's fine, and (2) that's on them!
  14. jad
    Fox was great! Especially that time he hit a home run, came back to the dugout, and everyone turned their backs on him. "Sons a bitches!" he grumbled, then the team went wild.
  15. jad
    Yeah, but it's not fair, because everyone gets to play the REd Sox, and we never do!
  16. jad
    It's free. You take the train (35c for me) to Union Station and you either walk or take a shuttle to Chavez Ravine. Unless you could use the center field parking lot, the aggravation of getting in and out of the stadium lot outweighed any enjoyment you could get from the game itself. (Which may have been why in the bad ole days of the 80s and 90s, you would see the bizarre phenomenon of fans entering and leaving the stadium AT THE SAME TIME. I doubt this happens anymore.)
  17. jad
    As many have had occasion to tell me, that's getting damn close to Get Off My Lawn territory. Who was the Dodger dude who swore vehemently that he was going to devote his entire retirement to getting rid of inter-league play? (Yeah, I don't remember either. Actually I do, but his obscurity will long outlast his convictions).
  18. jad
    Agree 100%. (And I'll bet Fosse does as well.)
  19. jad
    Baseball isn't fair. It's entertainment. Why would I give up being entertained through playing all teams in the league, just because some bean-counter thinks IT'S NOT FAIR. Who gives a crap? Do we really want to return to the days when you couldn't see Pete Rose or Aaron or Willie Mays or Stan or Bob Gibson but you COULD see whatever cellar-dweller you had in your league or division 18 or 50 times a season?
  20. jad
    Loved it now, and loved it then. Watching a pitcher stand in who hadn't seen serious pitching since HS was GOLD! But yes, I'm happier now with the DH universal.
  21. jad
    Oh man, I hope you are in the minority. I love watching national league teams, and then we get gems like RS/Dodgers. Who wouldn't want to see Ohtani and Betts in Fenway? (I mean, besides John Henry).
  22. jad
    Why did he give himself up? I thought in a run-down, you ALWAYS make them throw one more time.
  23. jad
    What about the famous fly that he misjudged, gave up on and let Verdugo run down? (Let's hope those days are gone.)
  24. jad
    You know, once in a while, someone says something really interesting on this board! Damn, you're right!!!
  25. jad
    Dude!
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