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  1. jad
    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.
  2. jad
    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.)
  3. jad
    Anyone who read what Vitello and Devers said about this non-incident should regret he's not on the Sox. Very very sad/
  4. jad
    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.
  5. jad
    Wow. Just astonishing!
  6. jad
    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.
  7. jad
    As would Rafy.
  8. jad
    I guess JH is sitting back thinking "Wow. Look at that! What a series!--thousands of cheering fans deleriously happy. That's what it's all about. That's what I bring to this city! Sure it would be nice to win, but I don't do this job for sports reporters and scoreboard watchers. I'm about bringing joy to the people and I can't do that if I have to overspend simply to satisfy some crassly materialistic stats geek.
  9. jad
    Call me a taxi! Gab a Hansett!
  10. jad
    WE'RE SAVED!--Estragon
  11. jad
    Sell? And what will they do with all the money they get?
  12. jad
    You're right: not wanting to pay an employee market value is not complicated math, it's simple math by an organization that didn't give a f*ck what the fans (their custiomers) thought.
  13. jad
    Not to mention the fact that many of us like watching Betts play. We like seeing other humans play--human beings like Bogey and Devers. We don't watch numbers: dWAR or xWAR or fangraph b.s. or Driveline statistics ... that's not why we watch. We don't go to concerts because one group is objectively 'better' than another. That was a point one of the greatest coaches ever insisted on: Popovich always said that his players were human beings and you had to treat and judge them that way. They don't teach that at Yale.
  14. jad
    Wow. I watched the first 6 or 7 innings, and that looked like a loss all the way. But yeah, the non-HR call was completely mysterious; the damn ball disappeared over the wall and bounced back. Unless there was something completely screwed up about the video, I don't see how they could possibly have called that a 2b.
  15. jad
    Another way of putting that is the version that claimed he was willing to change positions if they were willing to make him their 1B (essentially what SF did), but he wasn't willing to put in the time to learn a new position if it was just to serve as a placeholder for a Mendoza-line hitter.
  16. jad
    I imagine one thing that's screwing B up is listening to his head churn out crap like this!
  17. jad
    Look at the positives: very unlikely Bello gets a loss tonight!
  18. jad
    Wow. Not only new ways of losing, but new ways of ending an inning. Don't believe I've ever seen one end like that.
  19. jad
    Shoulda opened with Chapman
  20. jad
    Lose to get a better draft position? But the best draft position is only one unknown prospect better than the worst draft position. So you're saying that there's one teenager out there who will turn this around? I know it's a radical thought, but if you want to get better, keep your best players.
  21. jad
    ? Sox value is in the billions. And I''m sure there are plenty of consortia that would be willing to make them the next Dodgers,
  22. jad
    At least the RS base-running is elite.
  23. jad
    Which of the many explnations (a number of which I've read) do you mean? Im sure those who speak of it are sure it works and those hitters who believe they aare practicing it may get some benefit. But whatever they are doing, they are NOT doing what they say they are doing.
  24. jad
    I believe that's Rice speaking. But whatever he means by "hit the top of the ball" it does not mean "hit the top of the ball." I wish I knew what hitting coaches mean by that, or how hitters interpret it. But 'hitting the top of the ball' in a literal (i.e., acc. to physics) will result in nothing but a ground ball.
  25. jad
    There is no such thing as a natural 'closer' any more than there's such a thing as a 'natural position'. Rivera, Chapman, Koji ... these were great pitchers, who honed their skills for one-inning work.
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