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  1. jad
    Ah yes. More 'Bloom guys'. Just what this team needs. Once Devers, Bogaerts, JD, Eovaldi, Sale, and a few others are gone, we'll see a lot more consistency from the RS
  2. jad
    By the same logic, murder laws do not prevent murder. THEREFORE, get rid of the law.
  3. jad
    Yeah, this team was better when they had Mookie. I wonder why that is. (the problem with analytics is that there will always be an abstruse stat to support your predetermined position. You know, like Devers is worth only 180 million over 8 years, or that Bogaerts is not worth a long-term contract, or that Cordero is better than Benentendi, or that you can find middle relief pitchers off the scrap heap who will help your team as much as good ones or that Robles fills a need or that a .220 hitter is worth a long term contract ...)
  4. jad
    Yes, but our 'feelings' should not supplant medical knowledge and science. There are lots of times I just don't feel like stopping at STOP signs. But I do anyway.
  5. jad
    Isn't his master plan clear? He's been directed by Henry to get payroll down. (Winning, keeping popular players--all that is secondary.)
  6. jad
    I think the Yankees could also trade away their entire team for prospects, or maybe just waive all of them and rebuild the right way.
  7. jad
    Just put them on waivers.
  8. jad
    I don't know about the new ones, but mine, alas, taught me far more about mechanics than I ever needed or wished to know.`I suspect it had a shorter life than most MLB careers (but it did go fast [in every sense I guess]!)
  9. jad
    Ha! That a sportster will hold its value a long time will come as news to anyone who has actually owned one!
  10. jad
    the notion of "value" is a problem. Of course, buying 10 mopeds at $15/each is a GREAT VALUE!! Much better than buying, say, a Harley Sportster or a Triumph Bonneville (I'm old, obviously!) overpriced at $20K. But you're not going to win many races with that strategy or get anyone to want to watch what you do with them.
  11. jad
    Pretty sad state of affairs when the most positive thing about a team is the expectation that they can get good value by selling their best players at the trade deadline. To "showcase" essentially means that the players who perform well will be gone; the ones who don't will be retained. How the business plan of getting rid of your productive employees and keeping your drones succeeds in such matters as selling jerseys and season tickets, winning championships, and putting the pennies in the seats is beyond me.
  12. jad
    I thought Garret Richards had claim to that excuse.
  13. jad
    More baserunning mistakes.
  14. jad
    I can't say whether that is true or not! I recall (again, from childhood), a variant about Ty Cobb (one of the biggest sh*theads ever to play). He was asked why he didn't have power, and went out and hit a couple of home runs. Then came back saying it was really no fun and not interesting to him; he'd rather hit for average. (I doubt this one is true1)
  15. jad
    There was an anecdote about Williams visiting one of the kids on his death bed involved in the Jimmy Fund; kid asked him to hit a homer for him. TW put two over the left field wall.
  16. jad
    If the hitters were able to hit after all that, the pitchers should have been able to pitch. They weren't.
  17. jad
    Wow. Turning a routine ground ball into a double??
  18. jad
    Barnes cannot be sent down, correct? Is there anything in the CBA that permits a medical "leave"? It would have to be the IL, right? Has that ever been used for 'psychological' reasons? (The Ben Simmons situation in the NBA?) (I didn't really think he was turning things at all. He had a nice box score on his last outing but those outs were very loud. It really does seem like a Daniel Bard situation, who is back in the league, no?)
  19. jad
    Self-defined "true fans" should remember: it's the pink hats that put the pennies in the seats. Not the wannabe GM's on the internet.
  20. jad
    And now, everyone MUST go out and see the movie "Buffalo '66".
  21. jad
    I saw one in Portland a couple of years back: Dogs down 3 in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, 2 outs. Curve ball--batter misses by a good foot. 0-1. Another curve, again a swing, not even in the right time zone. The pitcher then made the mistake of throwing another one. Over the wall for the win. Even a AA player can learn to hit the curve, given enough chances!
  22. jad
    We have all been saying all along that Franchie is the future of the franchise.
  23. jad
    Why waste your good stuff when you got an OF with Kike and JBJ?
  24. jad
    If Whitlock (poster child of the BLoom era) were an average starter, the RS wouldn't be down 4 runs after a 1/2 inning.
  25. jad
    just tuned in. Can anyone explain why Eovaldi was left in after the 2nd or 3rd or 4th HR in that inning? I don't get it.
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