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  1. 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.
  2. jad
    Wow. Poor guy. None of that has happened to me in the past century and a half.
  3. 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!
  4. 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.
  5. jad
    Yeah, but it's not fair, because everyone gets to play the REd Sox, and we never do!
  6. 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.)
  7. 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).
  8. jad
    Agree 100%. (And I'll bet Fosse does as well.)
  9. 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?
  10. 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.
  11. 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).
  12. jad
    Why did he give himself up? I thought in a run-down, you ALWAYS make them throw one more time.
  13. jad
    What about the famous fly that he misjudged, gave up on and let Verdugo run down? (Let's hope those days are gone.)
  14. jad
    You know, once in a while, someone says something really interesting on this board! Damn, you're right!!!
  15. jad
    Dude!
  16. jad
    Alas, it's pointless to argue with someone who is of the "Whatever is, is right" school of philosophy.
  17. jad
    I don't recall you saying anything against him. Just a lot of posts (this year and last--no idea who wrote them) claiming he was a horrible defender; and blaming him for the light incident (it would have been cool had that been Manny!) They may be right about his bad defense, but there's been no evidence of that in the games I've seen.
  18. jad
    The fact that there are those who criticize Yoshi because a ball got lodged in the light says more about the social attitudes of the posters than it does about Yoshi. What I've seen of him suggests that he's serviceable out there, and there have been many RS outfielders who were not.
  19. jad
    What does THAT mean? That the league average W-L is .500? (i.e., like every year)?
  20. jad
    And yet when you have a generational player like Mookie ...
  21. jad
    Everything I've read on him says he speaks English. I don't see why that would be unusual. I also read that English is a compulsory subject from grammar school through the university in Japan (i.e., a student in Japan likely gets more training in English than students in the US).
  22. jad
    I'm pretty sure he was checking for a foreign substance on his throwing hand.
  23. jad
    He did indeed! But not as much as my favorite pitcher, Jerry Casales. (And didn't the weak-hitting Raddatz even hit one? or maybe what I'm recalling is he once incredibly hit a ball off the wall?) (I had forgotten about Brewer's pinch-running: I'm amazed that I could even come up with the name.)
  24. jad
    As did Earl Wilson.
  25. jad
    What??? No love for the ferocious M. Fornieles? Ike Delock? Tom Brewer???
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