Jump to content
Talk Sox
  • Create Account

jad

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4,473

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

 Content Type 

Profiles

Boston Red Sox Videos

2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking

Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker

News

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by jad

  1. jad
    But c'mon--it's just a pick-up sandlot team with a bunch of furriners--not a well-oiled machine like you find in every town in the u s OF a.
  2. jad
    I see the left-fielder for the best baseball team in the world picked up a couple of hits last night. How come we can't get guys like that?
  3. jad
    Wasn't it C. Augustus who didn't like to see 'his' months with fewer days than others so he stole one from February?
  4. jad
    There is NO excuse for dumping an MVP future hall of famer great citizen fan favorite. None. JH got a lot of money; we got a couple of years of a AAAA pornographer.
  5. jad
    not so aggressive that the catcher can roll a blunt waiting for you to arrive, but you're right--it's ST so it hardly matters.
  6. jad
    Ward looks like he's following the RS playbook on base-running.
  7. jad
    Did you hit yours? or did the irony circuit turn off? To be clear, In my view small -ball works best when the OTHER team is playing small ball as well, in which case, it is successful approxiimately 50% of the time. That is, I hate it, and others love it, and when we discuss it at this time of year when there's really nothing interesting to talk about (actual games), we sometimes border on the crazed.
  8. jad
    So are called 3rd strikes, weak ground balls, double-plays, pop-ups, balks, 'sacrifices' (but GOD Forbid--NO sacrifice credited if scorer decides the bunter was doing something so outrageous to small-ball philosophy as actually trying for a hit--one of the more preposterous scoring conventions in baseball; (I suppose by the same logic, with a runner on third and a guy hits a bomb caught at the 420 mark, he should NOT be credited with a sacrifice fly because he was so selfishly trying for a home run).
  9. jad
    In my experience, it is impossible to tell the difference between lying and error. You never know what is going on in someone else's mind; furthermore, it's difficult to tell what's going on in your own. When you speak, as public figures always do, in your own self-interest, that's all that matters, and determining whether you are lying or simply wrong is impossible.
  10. jad
    George! What have you done to Moon?
  11. jad
    When did George Costanza join TalkSox?
  12. jad
    He shoulda bunted!! Anyone with even an ounce of baseball savvy can see that. how are you going to play small ball if guys keep hitting dingers?
  13. jad
    AGAIN Duran fails to take advantage of his speed. Shees. What's the use? If he won't learn the fundamentals, DFA him.
  14. jad
    Story and Duran obviously have no clue, not playing small ball as they should.
  15. jad
    small ball, blessedly, is not coming back. Because not enough fans want to see it. There's nothing quite as meh as watching a bunch of guys take a third strike. We don't need baseball to become soccer.
  16. jad
    Small-ball would really have turned todays game around.
  17. jad
    My father's favorite player! (or maybe he just loved repeating the name.). In tribute to him, he (dad) would always try to catch pop ups one-handed at his waist. (Not sure Rabbit did that, but my father had a lot of fun pretending he did.)
  18. jad
    I didn't even get that.
  19. jad
    No broadcast today?
  20. jad
    Damn, you guys are young!
  21. jad
    Well that third of an inning had not much to recommend it.
  22. jad
    Hey, that Adams guy can throw. Does he have a shot at making the 40-man roster?
  23. jad
    I ate at a bunch of these, all claiming to be the 'original'; but it didn't matter since V&T's was better anyway. Sort of like "Tommy's" in LA, where the food was equally bad at the original and all the wannabe's.
  24. jad
    When I was growing up, I admired the players and dreamed (vainly) of being one of them. That's likely why I support them. I never once thought (as apparently some fans do today) 'Damn, i'd like to be like Tom Yawkey'. But on more important matters: watching games, even NE vs. RS, totally rocks.
  25. jad
    Yes, but as has been pointed out repeatedly, there is no direct relation between player salaries and ticket prices . Ticket prices are set by one consideration: how to price in order to get the maximum gate. That's it. It would be the same calculation whether the average player makes 50 million or 50 cents. But the owners are very good about blaming players for everything--ticket prices, salary discrepancies, even w/l averages. And fans are very good at the mental gymnastics required to think the plantation owners are somehow the good guys.
×
×
  • Create New...