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C'mon, dude. I LOVE watching grass grow; I check my plants every day. -
Well, at least Cavalli said all the right things post-game and later, and so did Contreras. So maybe just let it go and play baseball. (Although of course what the RS are doing now, with occasional exceptions, doesn't appear to be baseball at all.)
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Red Sox's Craig Breslow Era Is Set to End With A Whimper
jad replied to Alex Mayes's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
So Yoshida should be hitting around .350? -
Walking Willson? (Why not 4 pitches right in on his hands for a likely ejection?)
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Again, no Yoshida?? To give Eaton (.200) and Romy (.143) more ABs, I suppose? Both batting right, so those averages are likely lower. Back when I played team sports, we had this weird convention that you played your best players, and if you weren't the best, you worked hard until you were. But I guess putting your best players on the field is just way too passé for a cutting edge team like this.
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Didn't know any of this, but I've always hated Zimmer. Is there a book about all that went on?
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Agreed. But that a-hole will wake up as a racist s*** tomorrow no matter what happens. As for Contreras, every manager has to be thinking "Hmm. You mean I can get my opponent's best hitter tossed by throwing inside and maybe saying something to him? ...Hell. Go for it."
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Yeah that act was amusing maybe the first time. He can't even play his own brother without calling out the rest of the team.
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Yeah, I don't understand why Yoshida doesn't play more. Like tonight, for example.
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Actually, hockey refs are fine and pretty well respected. Baseball umpires are BAD because 50% of the time, the calls are not what you want them to be.
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Can't recall, but I think I heard earlier this year that tapping the helmet was an automatic ejection--same as arguing balls and strikes.
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Oh well. Abreu doesn't suck; Durbin probably had never seen a throw that bad in his career and thus had nothing to go on; Chapman doesn't suck ... But it really came together on that play! (Btw Yoshi and Duran don't suck either).
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What was Durbin doing on that pplay? He looked like he was deliberately avoiding the ball.
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As usual, Cole pitches and Devers hits two dingers.
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He was 0-4 with two Ks, and is hitting .198. Yoshida was 2-3 with a dinger, having a bad year and still hitting around .250. Yes Duran 'should' be leading off, but in order to do that, he 'should' be hitting a lot better thana he is.
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Do not throw a .180 major league hitter a fast ball down the middle.
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Yeah, Yoshi couldn't even get on base to be driven in.
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"challenge skill' is an idiotic one to develop, since the system will likely be changed in a year or so anyway. How about using that time to develop skills in, say, hitting or fielding.
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Bears repeating!
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Didn't know they were playing early. Oh well, turned to the Dodgers: guy named Mookie just made an incredible defensive play, 3 for 3 with a HR so far. A joy to watch (with Ohtani as a bonus). I'll catch Devers and Bogaerts later on. May they all do well.
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Red Sox front office did something right. They got rid of Devers.
jad replied to jgar658's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Well, to me it matters. Particularly when 'cancerous plague' seems to apply more to the organization that went 'full-Tito' on him last season. (But I doubt either of us will change our views of him. I just hope he gets back to raking as he was, since he's so amusing to watch.) -
Red Sox front office did something right. They got rid of Devers.
jad replied to jgar658's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Anyone who read what Vitello and Devers said about this non-incident should regret he's not on the Sox. Very very sad/ -
You realize the difference between the first and last draft position is one player total. One player is not going to fix this team, since what's wrong with the team is not what's on the field. And dumping productive players (Chapman) is not going to solve it either.
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Wow. Just astonishing!
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Exactly. When I was a kid, I rooted for players, not stats. My favorite players? -- not Teddy, but rather Jackie Jensen, Jerry Casales (!), Jimmy Pearsal. Not the best players (well Jackie had aa couple great years), but just the ones I liked. I.e., human beings. Same in the past few years: Xander, Rafy, JBJ, and now Yoshi and Raphaela. I don't give a crap about xWAR or fkWAR or salaries or any of that. These are the humans who (for whatever reason) I want to see play and want to see succeed. I don't care if some stat-head cries out "THEY SUCK!" any more than I would choose a friend or a gf based on their height, or relative beauty, or their bank account.
