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  1. illinoisredsox
    Actually, notin did a marvelous job of mocking him. Whether or not he should have is a different question.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Dalbec ripped it (103 mph off the bat), but right at Chapman. 5 feet either way the game is tied.
  3. illinoisredsox
    That was easily predicted.
  4. illinoisredsox
    He definitely gets the first one. Arroyo got the tip of his glove to it. Hard to say on the second one, but it also would not been needed had the first one been caught.
  5. illinoisredsox
    The combined exit velocities of the first 3 hits might have totaled the one on Baez’s double.
  6. illinoisredsox
    IIRC, they talked about it but with the shortened spring training and the limited times they can yank guys up and down to and from the minors, they decided to keep it for this season. I believe it’s gone next year, but who knows. I think they could compromise. Play it traditional for 12 and then use the runner in the 13th.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Both were hit pretty hard, just not very high. Doubles in virtually every other park.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Rizzo’s was a shot but Stanton’s and LaMahieu’s were definitely cheapies.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Doesn’t he need to play his way onto the roster? He’s at best on a minor league deal right now; I know he’s not on the 40 man.
  10. illinoisredsox
    I think he’s on a minor league deal.
  11. illinoisredsox
    You know who’s really going to be hurt? The bar and restaurant and souvenir stand owners near the ball parks. The servers, bartenders, cooks snd cashiers those owners employ. Those places have to make most of their money during the baseball season; they aren’t going to generate a lot of foot traffic at other times. Every missed home date is a big hit on their revenues and many are already hurting after the past two years.
  12. illinoisredsox
    No different than happens at any large event. Take a look at what the hotel prices are for a college football game at a name school or a NASCAR race. They’ll push $300 a night with a mandatory 2 night stay. Just ran into that in northern Florida this past weekend with the Daytona 500.
  13. illinoisredsox
    The people here? Probably all of us, because it would mean we actually made the major leagues.
  14. illinoisredsox
    His name was on the same list. So were 102 other names. It’s not hard to google the list, though it should be pointed out that whoever did leak the names was in violation of a court order sealing it. I assume it had to do with labor law.
  15. illinoisredsox
    What’s your view on Pedro?
  16. illinoisredsox
    You kill your argument by citing Shaughnessy. Go against anything that clown says and you’ll be right 99% of the time. Edit - My apologies to clowns for the comparison to CHB.
  17. illinoisredsox
    Yep, he was on a list that MLB has admitted was likely full of false positives. Testing was not nearly as sophisticated in 2003 and MLB has said it was often difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal supplements at the time. Ortiz has tried to find out what it was he supposedly tested for, but has been denied because the results are sealed under court order. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qky9ew/mlb-commissioner-gives-david-ortiz-a-pass-on-failed-ped-test-from-2003 MLB was saying this long before this article came out.
  18. illinoisredsox
    LOL Thought about including them, but he never got higher than the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers of the Class A Midwest League in the Seattle organization. Come to think of it, I may have seen David Arias (as he was known then) play when the Rattlers visited the Quad Cities River Bandits in 1996; can't say for sure.
  19. illinoisredsox
    So does he wear a Red Sox hat or a Twins hat? I keeed.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Only person elected by the writers
  21. illinoisredsox
    Nobody gave it a second thought until one poster decided to make an issue of it.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Joyce was a very good ump, widely considered one of the best in the game, who made a bad mistake which cost a kid immortality. The fact that he owned up to it should say something about him. Joe West could be one of the best when he wanted to be; he just didn’t choose to care all that often. Remember, he was the one who called ARod slapping the ball out of Arroyo’s glove and properly awarded Bellhorn the homer in Game 6 of the ALCS in 2004. Like I said, when he choose not to make it about himself, he was pretty good. It just didn’t happen all that often. He’s retired now, so we can’t kick Joe around any more. Hernandez is the poster child for incompetence in every facet of umpiring. There is nothing positive you can say about his work.
  23. illinoisredsox
    From what I've read, 3 nights out of 4 during the season, Diaz is a good umpire. On the bases, he is rated pretty high. Very seldom are his calls overturned there. But he rates very poorly behind the plate. As opposed to Angel Hernandez who sucks 4 nights out of 4.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Do the Giants display a 1904 World Champion flag/banner/placard or just a National League Champions one?
  25. illinoisredsox
    I’m pretty sure there’s a seniority portion as well. A rookie ump could grade out as the best in the business but I doubt he gets a postseason assignment. Now how Diaz got seniority is another question.
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