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Not sure who the moronic color commentator is today, but after a two-minute peroration, we now have learned that hitters often handle pitches in the zone better than ones that are not in the areas they hit best. OMG. And now we learn that it might be better to put in the lineup players who have more skill than to keep them on the bench. WOW! And now that if you hit the ball off the end of the bat it might not go so far as when you hit it on the barrel!! Whoa, this is Kuhnian!
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Thanks! Given the 'grey-market' feeds I get, not sure that will be possible. But I can always just listen to the radio and turn to the broadcast if anything interesting happens! (Certainly better than listening to the brain-numbing blather of Youk.)
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Is there an easy way to do this? To get the radio feed over the web and sync it? (Meanwhile, anyone who agrees with this should let NESN know. As in life, if you allow for bad behavior/performance, you will get nothing else.)
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Unlikely that anyone is watching, but it's a real joy getting the Tampa Bay feed. Announcers actually let the game proceed rather than filling it with Youkilis etc. saying "You know that pitch was a strike but you don't always swing if it's not your pitch like when it's 2-0 but when there are two strikes you might have to swing at that to foul it off on the other hand sometimes a pitch outside the zone is one you like and you swing but you have to make sure it's not too far off the edge because you might swing and miss so you're looking for something over the middle but you're not going to get that every time so if it's outside the zone you try not to swing because if you miss you've lost the chance for a walk which in some situations like say the bases are loaded might be good but then if you're down 6 runs then ..."
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OMG is this now the standard announcing mode? Can't these guys STFU or if they're going to blather on, at LEAST talk about the game. NESN needs to know that this is making it impossible to watch.
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No worries! (I'll be back in your neck of the woods in a couple of weeks ... well, maybe just south of ice-berg calving).
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Dude! Has the winter been so dreary up there you've lost your sense of humor?!
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I wonder if kids today who sit on the bench brag that they are being load-managed.
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He's as bad as Tony Romo or Hubey Brown. Maybe these guys should listen to an old game called by Vin Scully. Let the game explain itself. Nobody wants to hear a speculative psychological analysis of the hitter pacing a 1-0 pitch.
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Who is blathering on tv? Is that Youkilis?? For God's sake, STFU!!! He seems compelled to provide a b.s. commentary on every pitch. (A routine g.b. to second is not 'a great at bat'!) Time to turn the sound off.
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I realize it's Old School, but I prefer .300 hitters to .220 hitters, particularly when .220 hitters can't stay healthy enough to play. Sometimes I think adv. stats were invented to ensure that owners/GMs always had a justification for failure. Like a guy I played h.s. baseball with--after he struck out, he came back saying 'Yeah, but it was a REALLY good level swing.' Or a golf partner who had been trained to think positively, started out with 'I had great loft on that' ' I really kept my head down on that slice' as ball after ball flew its errant course .... by the end, all he could come up with was 'That was a really great club selection.'
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But do they have to go to .220 hitters?
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You are likely right on this, but that doesn't explain the two instances I cited above (Story signing, and trading Vaz).
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Not to me, it isn't. I admit I don't follow the FO closely, but since they never say directly 'We're doing this to save money and make Henry richer', then I can't trust what they say, and don't understand half the moves they make ( McGuire for Vaz??? Story essentially for Bogaerts?). Is the plan simple enough to articulate?
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"Failure"? I suppose the pitch clock is a failure too because of that time, you know, when you left the tv to get a beer and missed two pitches just off the corner?
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Not sure where you're getting those prices. You can go to a Marlins spring training game for as little as $2 and there are lots of tix under $10. Same with the Dodgers. I suppose you could pay over $50 to go, but I'm not seeing any reason to do so from what is on their team websites.
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OY or M&M? Who would you rather have going forward?
jad replied to RedSoxRooter's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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What are the prices? More than, say, a minor league game? (AA?) (OK why did I ask that when I could look it up. What I saw was tix going for between $10 and $20. That's less than it costs me to go to a concert [often way way less!], play a round of golf, or even drive across town and back to see a friend.). And only slightly higher than a AA game (although I haven't been to one in two years.)
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Oh Timmy, You'll just never know the good ole days-= waiting two minutes between Josh Beckett pitches, Jeter holding his hand out at the umpire (like all LL kids do these days), then lecturing fans on their OBLIGATION to enjoy 5-6 hour RS/NYY games. No, Timmy, no more five-minute walks from the bull-pen to the mound. No more extra-innings in pre-season games. And what of those lights, that after each electrical glitch, took fifteen minutes to relight! You'll just never appreciate how the game was played during its glory days.
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Holy sh*t! Tie game, bases loaded, 2-strike count. Batter a bit slow ("not alert") in batting box. Automatic called 3rd strike. Game over.
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Streaming the game. Pitch clock rocks!!! (Of course, the RS fielding and pitching in the 9th ... that's a different story.)
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I'm trying to think of franchises in any sport, where fans and writers seemed to hate the owner. Dan Snyder? D.T. Sterling? Jerry Jones (well, he's more of a buffoon than an object of hate), Marge Schott?, McCourt in LA? Not a good sign, and i don't think in any of these cases the hatred of the owners has much to do with their losing records.
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College FB schedules are the worst. My epitome of that was when USC was beating Nebraska by 70, the announcers (obviously from mid-west) said, "Well, if Nebraska can just keep it within 20, then they can get back to business with the Toledo's and Alcorn States, and they should be fine."
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https://www.nbcboston.com/news/sports/nbcsports/chris-sale-delivers-confident-message-about-red-sox-pitching-staff/2975014/ Wow. What are the over/unders on how many of those will still be in the rotation at season's end?
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So far, you have just kept it going. So to move off my 'armchair psychoanalysis' mode, let me state it more clearly. When you are about to make a subtle, nuanced, clever, and layered take on people you disagree with, just STFU!
