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  1. 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).
  2. jad
    Why did he give himself up? I thought in a run-down, you ALWAYS make them throw one more time.
  3. jad
    What about the famous fly that he misjudged, gave up on and let Verdugo run down? (Let's hope those days are gone.)
  4. jad
    You know, once in a while, someone says something really interesting on this board! Damn, you're right!!!
  5. jad
    Dude!
  6. jad
    Alas, it's pointless to argue with someone who is of the "Whatever is, is right" school of philosophy.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. jad
    What does THAT mean? That the league average W-L is .500? (i.e., like every year)?
  10. jad
    And yet when you have a generational player like Mookie ...
  11. 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).
  12. jad
    I'm pretty sure he was checking for a foreign substance on his throwing hand.
  13. 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.)
  14. jad
    As did Earl Wilson.
  15. jad
    What??? No love for the ferocious M. Fornieles? Ike Delock? Tom Brewer???
  16. jad
    Well, not always. But in any case, my construction gives him a way out. You're right about the semi-colon; I should either omit it or replace with a comma. That should do it. I'm not letting my boy go down in flames!
  17. jad
    I think there's an argument that he's correct. I think it's fine, but if desperate to defend it, I'd note the absence of an apostrophe in 'Twins' and construe plausibly: "Twins [are] hitting; and [their] relief [pitching] is good." (Always there for my USC homies.)
  18. jad
    Did you get the echocardiogram? That's a lot more amusing than some of the things they do in the doc's office. I hope it's nothing serious.
  19. jad
    Doubting DRS???? Dear God, say it ain't so!!!!!
  20. jad
    As opposed to most conversations in life, where we stay absolutely on topic for hours (but only if we keep repeating the same thing).
  21. jad
    That's correct. All those comments on RS defense which you and others have been posting and are posting even as we speak have been taken down by dastardly administrators and their swing-interested supporters.
  22. jad
    Wasn't Gedman a Reiniak (no idea how that's spelled) guy? Does anyone swing that way these days?
  23. jad
    Sorry. I have unsuccessfully been trying to delete the name-calling here. My bad. ... LATER: apparently I did.
  24. jad
    In his book, he actually derides Bobby Doerr for his 'level swing', noting that the ball is coming at a downward angle and that the swing should match that angle for maximum efficiency. "But DOerr, no, he just doesn't listen."
  25. jad
    Yeah, they really couldn't evaluate talent properly then. That's why they promoted Teddy who hit primarily for average, didn't strike out enough because of his amateurish launch angle, and had a crappy dWAR.
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