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  1. bosoxmal
    I guess I'm comparing it to the day I watched the little trickling ground ball that went through Buckner's legs. Rationalizing? You bet! Easy to do when there is no comparison.
  2. bosoxmal
    I am hopeful, and optimistic about both Buch and the offense. How often, this year, will the Betts, Bogaerts Ortiz threesome go 0 fo 14 (or whatever it was). I'll be over joyed id Clay goes 6 or 7 innings and gives up 2 runs!
  3. bosoxmal
    On tbe positive side, anyone noticed that Chris Sale has given up 26 hits in his last 19 1/3 innings? (3 starts) He is far from being dominant!
  4. bosoxmal
    Of course Farrell made the right calls. Did they bring this rookie up so he could polish their new shoes. Hind sight is a terrible waste of time. Pedroia swung at a pitch that would have taken his helmet off. None of us expected that! I'm calling it a freakish game, probably not repeatable. I'm also going to look for the turn around. What would it do for this team for Buchholz to come out, beat Sales (maybe 6 to 2 with HR's from Betts and Bogaerts)?
  5. bosoxmal
    Right on!
  6. bosoxmal
    So might we all (change our minds)If popularity was the most important factor, I would call it Ortiz beating Betts by a nose. From the MOST VALUABLE angle, I'd call it a Bogaerts/Wright dead heat. But you're right, a lot can happen between now and the all-star game!
  7. bosoxmal
    If this continues on this way all year, I can be glad I am not the one to name the Red Sox 2016 MVP. I can think of 5, with good reason, and that’s without glancing at the roster. Numbers count, in my book, so does what we see and feel. Which makes it more difficult. In alphabetic order, I have Betts, Bogaerts, Bradley, Ortiz, Pedoia. I am old fashioned in giving the pitchers their own awards but, if someone insists, I might add Price, Wright and even Kimbrel. Good grief, that’s 5, at least, and some people might say 8! If this flies, lets pick the winner by unanimous choice after the all-star game. (where all 8 belong)
  8. bosoxmal
    I met a guy who had been, before he got married, a star in what was called, "the Old New England League". He lived in Greenfield, but played for Keene. He was born in 1886, and he was 28 when I met him. He was standing beside my bed when I was born ---in Keene in 1924. My dad died young (at 63) but never stopped being my No. 1 hero! Best advice he ever gave me was, don't ever go to work for the railroad.
  9. bosoxmal
    Swihart could turn into a VG switch hitter, and he's a lot better left fielder than he was a catcher. Castillo is trade bait at best. Young will do fine for a year or two. I'd kep the subject of this post down on the farm and get at least a year of AAA.
  10. bosoxmal
    It may be my, hopeful, imagination, but I didn't think he was straining has he been for the last year or so. Hitting more spots, and finishing his pitches more on balance. He also hit 93 last night with at least one pitch (without almost falling down). I guess we'll find out soon enough. If we noticed significant differences, you can bet that JF did so as well.
  11. bosoxmal
    Can I assume that 5days hence we will see Buch again? With eRod in Pawtucket? Buchholz certainly earned a shot. Note: The Forum was not accessible during this entire game (6/16)
  12. bosoxmal
    He did, I'm afraid; but it was the wrong statement. I assume 5 days hence, Buch will get the nod.
  13. bosoxmal
    I have a feeling we may be seeing Buch here pretty soon
  14. bosoxmal
    I have not seen a decent curve ball from Erod. Has anyone else?
  15. bosoxmal
    Thank you for the nice comments. I have to watch that memory like a hawk. The older I get, the taller Lefty Grove gets, the bigger Jimmie Foxx gets and the harder Ernie Lombardi could hit a line drive. I wish I could remember more unimportant details. Like how far it was from where we got off the street car at the Braves Field stop to the park. And why we kids had to wait three or four innings before they let us swarm into the left field seats (benches). The Knot Hole Gang started in St. Louis and the Braves version was a little different. But so were the Braves. They really stunk! Nevertheless, they were my favorite team until Cronin came up from Washington, and Yawkey bought half the A's team! The 193? Fenway fire didn't help much. The place was a mess until the Cronin-Williams crowd took over. I couldn't believe it when the Braves moved to Milwaukee (Milwaukee? C'mon, man!)
  16. bosoxmal
    I saw Grove pitch several times, I was 8 years old when we moved from NH to Somerville. That was in 1933. Got on a bus on the corner of Medford and Sycamore, changed at Lechmere, and got off in Kenmore Sq. Sometimes, for school kids, it was a nickel. sometimes free. Every time my older brother (he was born in 1918) or my father went (which was about every other Sunday), I got to tag along. MY teams, at the time were Groove, Foxx, Cronin, Doerr, Cramer, etc. I was there with my dad the day Grove beat Feller in a one run game (I thin k, 1-0 but it could have been 2-1). I also remember a famous A's catcher (who used to catch Lefty) quoted in the morning paper, that "Grove had no fast ball any more and was not the pitcher he once was.) Grove struck him out 3 or 4 times that Sunday. Bill Cunningham, in the Post, said Grove through 10 fastballs all day, and they went sailing by (Hayes?) Funny. I sometimes wonder where I parked my car, but I can remember who played left field for the Boston Braves in the 1930's!
  17. bosoxmal
    So, the rant is over. I suppose you were one of those who said, "he's too old", and that being the best pitcher in baseball during the month of September of last year didn't mean very much. Of course, I had a little advantage. I saw Lewfty Grove go from being a 100 mile an hour fas ball to a guy to the DL to developing the best curve ball in the game. All when he was 35 years old. He went 15-4 when he was 39! Like Grove, RH has learned how to pitch.
  18. bosoxmal
    This giuy is 8-3 with a 2.25 ERA. He is the ace of the Oakland staff. No other Oakland pitcher is in the top fifty! One wa on the other board said I was *******because I wanted to pay this guy 6mil for two years, he, and others, were willing to go 1 mil. for one year. I wonder why these other guys don't know a pitcher when they see one. My ow son (who is 63 and has seen a lot of baseball, emailed me, "By the end of May he'll be 5 and 2 and on the DL." I think that may have been the consensus.
  19. bosoxmal
    Sometime after Ted Williams retired, my wife and I walked into the Hancock Inn (Hancock, NH,) Ted was with a friend and sitting at at a window table directly across from the front entrance. As I recall they were the only ones in the restaurant. We sat down, and when Ted's friend went to the jionh, I wandered over and said something about always being excited when I could get to the ballpark in his playing days. I did not ask for an autograph. I was not carrying a menu. I guess he appreciated my waiting until he was alone. Not long after, when we were ordering, the waitress told us that TW was paying for our lunch. If I had to guess, I would say it was November 1967. The hunting season.
  20. bosoxmal
    I'll wager that Bogaerts learned something today. Sometimes he's so smooth he seems to get a bit lackadaisical
  21. bosoxmal
    Bogaerts. No contest. Then Ortiz. I don't think Wright was that big a surprise. JBJ holds on for show.
  22. bosoxmal
    No, it wasn't. The point is to TRY and help Hanley GET OUT of the"slump". Or, it is a slump, or the end of a great career. I think the latter.
  23. bosoxmal
    THAT'S nonsense! Does he own the club?
  24. bosoxmal
    Granted he's being nicely absorbed by the others, but that situation can only go on for just so long. Another month like he just had and he'll be down around .240. What would be wrong by stocking down in the 8 hole? See, maybe, he starts to come around.
  25. bosoxmal
    I guess Hanigan doesn't have to worry about his back up job. I didn't realize Leon was this bad. He has been put into the good field, no hit category. I don't think so!
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