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  1. illinoisredsox
    I remember seeing him here with the Quad City River Bandits (Astros’ low A farm team) a couple years ago; I think it was parts of 2 seasons. Held his own, especially considering he was 18-19 years old and 2-3 years under the league average age. Anyone know what the rules are for Rule 5 players this year? I know normally they have to spend the equivalent of 1 full season on the big league roster. Do they have to be here for 100 games next year as well?
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    How would you have offered more than what he signed for? He wasn’t a free agent. Once he was traded there was no Sox offer possible. He wasn’t going to resign in Boston. Period. Maybe this was clearly communicated to the front office, maybe it was just subtle hints or maybe the FO could read the tea leaves, which is why they traded him. He turned down some pretty hefty offers to stay.
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    Who?
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    Nope, that was the name of an Indian group wiped out by the Iroquois in the mid 1600s. Wasn't there a NL team in Cleveland late in the 19th century called the Spiders?
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    I’m not an athlete, I’m a baseball player - John Kruk
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    Lowell looks like it will be no more, as MLB appears poised to eliminate rookie and short season ball (along with several low A, high A and even some AA teams). https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/sources-milb-ready-to-agree-to-significant-reduction-in-teams/ The list was proposed in November: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/all-42-teams-reportedly-up-for-elimination-in-mlbs-minor-league-reduction-proposal/ Some great nicknames in there.
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    Tommy Lee Jones was an offensive lineman at Harvard; I think he played in the famous 1968 Yale-Harvard tie. Tom Selleck played basketball at USC. Most people know Mark Harmon was the starting QB at UCLA and that Burt Reynolds was a RB at Florida State.
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    Good one. I'd add Wilt Chamberlain. His NBA exploits are well known (mind-blowing actually), but he was the Big 8 high jump champ at 6'6" (at a time when the world record was 7 foot even), threw the shot over 53 feet (WR was around 62 feet), ran a sub 50 second 440 yd (WR was about 45 seconds); keep in mind he was doing these at the age of 18-19, at 7'2" and weighing nearly 250 lbs, and not specializing in any of them. He also played professional volleyball, and could bench press over 500 lbs (and was doing 450+ at age 60). One last note on his NBA career; while they changed the rules to make it easier for Jordan (carrying or palming violations just disappeared), they changed the rules to make it harder on Chamberlain , such as widening the lane to where it is now and outlawing offensive goaltending (many alley-oop dunks currently allowed would have been offensive goaltending in those days). Alleged bedroom gymnastics were not considered in this evaluation..
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    There has always been a religious exception, but in reality there are very few religions that have objections, especially here in the US. The only ones I'm aware of are the Christian Scientists and the Dutch Reformed Church. There are a few small Muslim sects in Southeast Asia that object because they think vaccines are pork based, but even if there were members in the US, they don't strike me as the types who would be sending their kids to public school.
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    Not really. Anyone who's ever seen a high school wrestling tournament bracket could draw it up. Two teams would have first round consolation bracket byes is all that would happen; it would not be the two teams who got the first round bye sin the championship bracket, however.
  11. illinoisredsox
    But what would an accountant do with duct tape, a Swiss Army knife and other stuff lying around? I’m thinking about MacGyver here (yeah, I know he was a special ops guy), or those guys in Apollo 13 who rigged a way for the square CO2 filter to fit the round hole in the LEM.
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    A layman’s reading of that definition would also exclude teachers who, for some reason, needed TJS to perform their job.
  13. illinoisredsox
    So who decides the definition of “afford”? How much is that? Or, using a non-economic view, what is that? I agree it’s a bad look, but that’s a very slippery slope.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Dirt dog = scrappy player Nomar was not a dirt dog (Jeter wasn’t one either but he was closer to one than Nomar). Evans was not a dirt dog. Boggs was close but I don’t put him in that category. Baylor might qualify; any player who gets hit by a pitch as often has he did has to be under consideration for that description. Pokey Reese might qualify. He was a player of very modest ability who managed an 8 year career. I think Boyd qualifies also, if a pitcher can. Modest ability who stuck around for 10 years, amassing very pedestrian stats.
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    Varitek did both; he signed an extension after the 2004 season and went free agent when that contract ended after 2008. IIRC, the free agent thing didn’t go so well; he was after Posada money and resigned with the Sox for less than half that.
  16. illinoisredsox
    I've had it 3-4 times, it's not fun. Of course, I'm not in my athletic prime (I don't think I had one). My son was a high school wrestler and won a varsity spot as a sophomore at 171 pounds. Anyone who knows anything about high school wrestling knows that those guys, if nothing else, are in shape and generally recover from stuff pretty quickly. He caught pneumonia over Christmas and to make a long story short, he really wasn't back to normal until March, after the season was over.. Slower, less stamina, etc.
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    My favorite Johnny Mostism: "Did you see Chamberlain stick his eye into Russell's elbow?"
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    Last 6 seconds of this apply:
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    No DH (JD)?
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    Actually, the answer to notin’s question is yes, they did need 13 games in AA (plus 50 or 60 more).
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    Who does Puig play in place of?
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    I heard John Henry has developed an interest in theatrical productions.
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    Prove it and name the substance.
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    If they fire him, they have to pay him the remainder of his contract. If he's suspended, they don't. One way or the other, he's not going to be managing the Sox in 2020, so why pay him not to?
  25. illinoisredsox
    One of these times I'd I want to see the penalties go up upon appeal. I had several professors who had a version of that. If you felt you had been wrongly graded on a certain portion of a test, they had no issue looking at it, but they said up front that they would look at the whole exam, not just the part you wanted them to. After all, if one part was mismarked, then other parts could have been as well.
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