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  1. jad
    Knowing now, without any trace of a doubt, why their team managed to lose all the games they did over the last decade. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43680990/mlb-upholds-firing-ump-pat-hoberg-gambling-violations
  2. jad
    I wish I had a pony ...
  3. jad
    Besides, he did not have the commitment we expect of RS players; I mean BOWLING?? Come on! Couldn't he have used all the time he wasted on that sport to hone his baseball skills a bit?
  4. jad
    Bob Tillman! Ah yes. He was great, as I recall ... until opposing pitchers realized after a year or so he could not hit a curveball. (If I remember correctly, tragically enough when he could still hit, one of his hr's hit a kid and I think that kid died. ... Anyone else here remember or can correct me on that?
  5. jad
    i guess this is as good a place as any to rant about "framing," which to me is an uninteresting skill that basically amounts to 'ability to cheat'--to make the officials make a bad call. Can't wait for robo-umps to put an end to this b.s. Since MLB and its stat-hounds USE the robo-zone to evaluate both umps (their ability to conform to robo-calls) and catchers (their ability to draw a call different from teh robo-call), why not just use the robo-zone to begin with?
  6. jad
    Identify the "one"; that means you. It doesn't mean me, or many others who have looked into this. The more i think about the better the official story offered up seems, largely because the alternatives: (1) provide NO evidence, zero evidence for their claims, (n.b. SHOHEI HAS A WIFE!!!! so? and note that he didn't have one when all this acc. to tin-hat basement dwellers went down) and (2) are generally cast in the subjunctive (he 'probably' has an accountant), and (3) are generally unreasonable and too often the product of unstable minds (not in your case, but in many others)
  7. jad
    Even though I don't have many rich friends, a few of those I do claim they have NEVER looked at the details of their bank accounts. Getting ripped off by a 'personal assistant' is very common. But then, what you and I think has absolutely NO bearing on Ohtani, nor does it affect LAD's obvious superiority over the floundering RS. Also, I apologize for the grievous sin of using the hyperbole 'infinitely', since I realize such rhetoric is completely unacceptable on sports boards, and never to be found among the posters here.
  8. jad
    On the other hand, if you own a closet full of Gucci bags, I guess it's fine if you buy your socks at Ross' Dress for Less.
  9. jad
    Once a competing organization has shown itself superior, the paranoia and conspiratorial fears among RS fans seem boundless. The standard (i.e., official) story behind Ohtani's translator may not satisify one's cynical itch, but it is INFINITELY more reasonable and credible than any of the alternatives posed by disgruntled competing fans, conspiracy-theorists, and (well, I'd rather not use the 'r' word, even though it's applicability to Boston has been proven time and time again).
  10. jad
    Yeah, nothing got the faithful into a frenzy like the late-inning walk-up music for Ike Delock.
  11. jad
    Some numbers here: 1-5, 5.38, 20million Uh "What is ... a typical RS signing."
  12. jad
    ... in addition to police blotters, hospitals, and retirement communities ...
  13. jad
    And to think there are those cynics who claim the RS aren't all in for 2025.
  14. jad
    Well, I was close: In 1969, Red Sox ticket prices were: Box seats: $6.00 Grandstand: $4.75 General admission: $3.00 Bleachers: $2.00
  15. jad
    My recollection is in late 60s, early 70s is $3 for bleachers, walking up to the window. But that could be wrong. It seems too high.
  16. jad
    Is that 'berm' level? I believe it is. So it's not a 'hill'; it's the result of the entire field being crowned for drainage?
  17. jad
    At least Pablo would be on the field the first half of the season.
  18. jad
    Well Fried gone, but that's fine, because WE WERE IN IT ALL THE WAY .... as so often before.
  19. jad

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    https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/42527774/mlb-now-eyeing-long-term-media-rights-plan-all-30-teams Is there any chance this would go through? And why would the three teams with the most successful media model want to give that up to join clubs that do not have that? Not a sports economist. Will this have any implications down the road for RS?
  20. jad
    And to think, there are still some cynics out there who think that the RS aren't all in for 2025.
  21. jad
    “Without getting kind of into specifics, I think we have to be open to improving our team"--C.B. Now THAT'S strong! Not "we're going to improve"; Not "I think we're going to improve"; not even "we have to be open to improving" but "I THINK we have to be open to improving," What GM would say "I don't think we should be open to improving."
  22. jad
    I think when you sign FAs like Ohtani and F. Freeman and Yamamoto (and acquire a few role players and scrubs like Betts and T, Hernandez), you know exactly what the impact will be. When you acquire players like Verdugo and Story and Yoshida and E. Hernandez--all decent players--then you're right, you have no idea what will happen.
  23. jad
    Listening to fans of a .500 team trash-talk a WS team is a bit on the curious side.
  24. jad
    Anyone who doubts the virtue of shedding salary (Story for Betts), or saving money and not wasting it on the latest flash in the pan (Yoshida for Ohtani), should have those doubts erased after last night.
  25. jad
    If only he would get back on the field and out of the broadcast booth,
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