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  1. jad
    Just for the record, since I remember Nomar quite differently, could someone please list the evidence for these claims: (1) PED use, and (2) more important, the statements by particular players or coaches claiming he was a bad team-mate. I'm sure they exist, but I've never seen one. Thanks.
  2. jad
    Fine in what sense? If he puts the pennies in the seats, which he will, he doesn't need to have great seasons every year.
  3. jad
    Oh I see. So your list is not the greatest baseball players. It's the greatest players who follow your arbitrary ethical principles (whereby assault and even murder, rape, [pleasuring oneself in public], and things like that are fine, but being suspected--never proved--of taking certain drugs is not).
  4. jad
    Any list of the greatest baseball players that does not include Bonds or Arod is not a list of the greatest baseball players.
  5. jad
    But then 'loyal fans' or 'true fans' (i.e., those on this board and this board only and only a few of them) don't actually pay any bills. Rather they complain about the 'pink hats' who do.
  6. jad
    What??? Talk-show hosts aren't well-informed? They don't bother to study or prepare? They get facts wrong??? I'm SHOCKED! Who can be trusted anymore???
  7. jad
    Can't recall which announcer said it, but it was to the effect that no matter how bad, hopeless the game was, Eck always made it interesting and fun. Same with Remy, or of course Joe C.
  8. jad
    Oof. Gonna miss Eck.
  9. jad
    I figured that it would not matter much what anyone did: a player who did not perform during the last week would be hammered by 'true' fans; a player who did perform would also be hammered by 'true' fans. That's why I am glad not to be a true fan; I can actually get some pleasure out of watching great athletes do well.
  10. jad
    Spot on with this. And those arguing with you seem to be making your case even more strongly than you did. Go to Fenway and survey the fans (i.e., those who put the pennies on the seats). Ask them what a qualifying offer is, how arbitration works, what the rule 5 draft is, or how many years of control a team has over a particular contract, or, say, who has the best WAR or how it is computed. Then ask them if they know who Rafy, Xander, or even Mookie are.
  11. jad
    All this whining about cheating!!! Cheater!!! cheating !!!! No evidence provided that some guys did (or did so in an unacceptable fashion); no evidence that other guys (our guys) did not (or did so in a cute way that does not deserve punishment). Shees. It's like being on a middle-school playground. But it does have an up-side, in that it prevents the hysterical anti-'cheat' crowd from enjoying some of the greatest athletic performances of our lives.
  12. jad
    Well yes. One could argue for anything. Arguing convincingly for something is a different matter.
  13. jad
    I have NO idea what that allusion is, but I assure you, like all those you disagree with, I am putting my tail between my legs and slinking away in shame and humiliation.
  14. jad
    Once again, my rapier-like wit finds itself tragically blunted on the whetstone of listeners ...
  15. jad
    I don't think Eck's phrase about Bloom's "catching something in a bottle" is really appropriate for Reese McGuire.
  16. jad
    Ha. No he doesn't. He only likes up-beat, positive, Pollyannish folks like yourself.
  17. jad
    Thank you for your support! -- C. Bloom and Henry's bankers.
  18. jad
    Sentiments like that will make John Henry's bankers and brokers very happy.
  19. jad
    That's interesting. As are the stats on Rafy. So I suppose it's just my less than complete attention that highlights those cases of taking a first pitch right there, then going down on Pitches way out of the zone. Maybe that would be an area for him to improve--if, that is, he didn't hit bad pitches as well as he does (not Vlad G. Sr. territory, though).
  20. jad
    Yeah, if you want the best workers, you have to pay them more than lousy workers. Sucks really. In our day, we just worked for the pure joy of it.
  21. jad
    Even you, Zarathustra, do not believe Martinez, Betts, Bogey, and Devers are comparable to JBJ.
  22. jad
    "We" don't have to afford anything, because "we" are not the RS ownership, which has absolutely no constraints on spending other than their desire not to spend. The RS are not going to be better by virtue of getting rid of their best players.
  23. jad
    But then again, there are those troublesome fans who want to see players they've grown attached to, and don't see them as abstract pieces of a fantasy team.
  24. jad
    Does Rafy ever swing at pitch #1? (Serious question--I can't recall.) It's frustrating to watch him take one right down the middle (as that last AB) then wave at strike three no where close to the zone.
  25. jad
    Why are we always looking for the next Bobby D or Michael Chavis?
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