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Don't you think there might be somebody around town who could teach our guys how to bunt?

A lot (and I mean a LOT) depends on Price. His A lot depends on David Price. And I mean an AWFUL LOT! His short-arming routine last year was a disaster. Got a little more control in exchange for about 5mph on his fast ball. I hope his delivery looks more like the guy we saw with the Rays. If it is, GO SOX!

I had forgotten last night's hame and the use of the entire bullpen. Sort of made this as close to a tgrow away game as you can get. JF was right in keeping with this guy even if he may have pitched his Red Sox game. At keast for this season.

This experiment should be over--noW This is not a LOST game.Sale goes tomorrow, use the pen.

2 diners before recording his first out. NOT a great start! Not the jitters, I don't think. My Pop would have said "hee can't break a pane of g;ass!" He must feel like someone called the hangman. How long will JF leave him in?

Only old fools stay up until 10PM to watch a few inngs (?) in Oakland. Say hi to an old fool. I'm rationalizing this foolishness by saying, "I gotta see this new pitcher."

Iam more concerned with Benni and 3rd base. Nobody seen the new guy yet. If he's not too jumpy I think he''ll be OK. I imagine Vazquez will catch him so they can communicate. The Pawtucket numbers are encouraging.

sorry, Spud; I thought I answere you last night. Probably forgot to pull the tragger. Basically, the left foot (rh hitter) moves toward 3rd base when the bat is in the hitting zone. Pulling all the time. Bogaerts is just the opposite, He's heading towrn the puitcher or even the 2nd baseman. That's why hr makes contact on outside pitches. One of my early coaches (named Fitzgerald, what else!) had an iron pipe that he made us lay out behind our heels pointing towards the pitcher. He pulled your left foot toward third bas, and you fell on your ass. This was all in early tryouts, of course, (not in practice games!) He was a terror. We'd go to Quincy, or Malden, or somewhere, and he'd disappear about the 3rd inning. He and the other coach would come back a couple innings later half in the bag. Those were the fun days!

It's what most high school hitters do, andsome instructors had heavy iron bars that they would lay behind thie two feet. Both feet pparallel with the ball flight, Keep the left foot (the non-anchor foot from going backwards into :the bucket". When the foot lands it should be pointed towards the pitcher, not the 3rd baseman. Come to think of it, I haven't heard the expression in a while. Maybe it's bot as common as it was once.

Marrero is putting his foot in the bucket on every pitch.

Ironically, I don't even remember the other post! And I know what you're saying! Thanks!

The irony is, I don't even remember starting a similar thread! And I certainly see your point!

Thank you! Thank you!

One inning to go---- then Kindee!

You're right. I knew a lot about 7 card, no limit, stud poker, but it sure as well was never a virtue!

True. And I don't think he will go down in baseball history with McGraw, Frisch, and Casey Stengel! It's true that the better young managers came right off of being a Player-manger. Durocher, Boudreau, Cronin, etc. Cronin has been sullied a little as the Peewee Reese situation came to light. But the players liked him and he knew baseball. And Yawkey didn't rescue him from Washington because he was not liked or because he didn't know baseball. (Of course if my Grandmother had a lineuo that included hoem himself, plus Foxx, Williams m Doerr, rDiMaggio, Cramer, Vosmick, Chapman, et al, she could have won a few championships. All that being said, baseball is not rocket science. It's getting the best day-to-day performance from the players handed you. Whether you put a guy in the 2-hole or the 8-hole makes little difference if he can't hit. And it doesn't take a brain surgeon to see the mess our 3rd basemen have been. The manager has to throw what he has in there and hope the ball is hit to Pedroia. The guy making the trades and drafting the young guys is the one who needs to "know his baseball". For myself, I can just imagine Bradley coming to the dugout after a pitiful swing at a high fast baallm and Ortiz greeting him with, " when are you going to learn to stop swinging at 100 mile an hour fastball up around our f***ing ears?" Thanks. Dewey!!! Sorry I couldn't get a ST game this year. Maybe next year, because I'll be a resident of Barkley Place by then, and they run excurions. (Like in between Walmart and Publix!)

Yes, delete away! You won't have to compete with someone who has seen more, and knows more, about baseball than you ever will (Make that, "put up with"!

Not bad. But, I was leaning toward Pedro as the pitching coach. Schilling would be too busy selling stock in his newestventure.

Why? Because he speaks with an accent?

Imagine this clubhouse if Big Papi walked into that clubhouse as manager. Someone who talked their language, and knew all there was to know about hitting. And I don't mean as a "player-manager". It might have a couple of years ago, but not nw. (Plus he's not a shortstop) He is, however, one of a kind!

Is it possible to win a game, now and then, without If so, I ust have missed it. the bats of Betts and/or Benintendi? If so, I must have missed it!

Holt is nor Traynor or Robinson at 3rd base, but Hernandez's nerves are totally shot. He needs at least another year. Maybe at a spot where there's a coach that can help him. Wouldn't matter much which "A", just somebody to teach him how to play 3rd base. (Man, what a team this would be with Evan Longoria!!!)

As Mookie goes, so go the Red Sox!

The New York Yankees and 2 billion dollars.

Been here since 2013. 416 games, .234 BA, K to BB ration 3:1. Answer: get what you can for him and move on.