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  1. illinoisredsox
    People forget that Rivera also blew a save in the 8th inning of Game 5 when he allowed a game tying sac fly by Varitek. But I think he came in with the guys on 1st and 3rd and no one out; an incredibly tougher situation. Still, there’s no one else I would have wanted on the mound in those situations.
  2. illinoisredsox
    New rules this year; no trades after July 31. You can still pick up a player in August if he is put on outright waivers and you claim him or he is released, but no trades are allowed.
  3. illinoisredsox
    That will increase offense even more. About a decade ago in high school softball, they moved the pitching circle back from 40 to 43 feet, offense went up a lot.
  4. illinoisredsox
    In fact, he may have been easier to hit if he was throwing harder. When you’re geared to 90+, adjusting to 70 is hard.
  5. illinoisredsox
    Exactly. But there are impatient posters here who demand perfection to start, and then improvement from there.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Pretty obvious Eovaldi needs reps. What’d he throw, 1 minor league rehab inning? The stuff is there.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Good call 😉
  8. illinoisredsox
    It wasn't just 3 games to none, it was 3.9 games to none with the GOAT on the hill for the Yanks for the last 3 outs.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Agree. 4 runs will keep you in most games. Unfortunately, the O’s pitcher picked today to have a career game.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Why wait for a decent game? Do you seriously think major league GMs care if a guy just had a decent game?
  11. illinoisredsox
    I’m at a community theater performance of 42nd Street tonight, plenty of tap dancing in it
  12. illinoisredsox
    I agree. But even the GOAT is a goat once in a while; all it means is he was human. My vote for best pitcher of all time is for Walter Johnson. 400+ wins for basically mediocre Senators teams (in an era when wins meant something for a pitcher) 110 shutouts. A career ERA just north of 2.00 and he held the strike out record for over 50 years. All while throwing just fastballs ( they say he very occasionally mixed in a curve). It’s also said he was deathly afraid of hurting someone and rarely threw inside.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Excellent. Hard the believe it’s been 50 years since I heard those immortal words. I was just shy of my 11th birthday that Sunday afternoon and evening. I was reflecting a couple days ago on how much has changed over that time. One was that they took that journey with a computer with less power than the phone I’m typing this on. Then it hit me that my grandmother, born in 1889, came into the world about the time of the invention of the automobile and lived to see a man walk on the moon. To keep this baseball related, that was before the DH and it was the first year of divisional play.
  14. illinoisredsox
    One good sign is JBJ has gone to the left side 3 times. He seems to hit best when he does that.
  15. illinoisredsox
    There’s no secret to keep. I’m pretty sure the scouts on other teams have their opinions on what’s up with him.
  16. illinoisredsox
    I think that back is still bothering him some, not terribly but enough to screw with his swing just a bit, and that’s all it takes.
  17. illinoisredsox
    Actually, forget that back end arm part; I bet they activate Eovaldi for tomorrow.
  18. illinoisredsox
    This is the perfect time to use him. If he manages to wriggle out of this cheap (say only giving up 1 run), then maybe the Sox offense can come back against the O’s pen. If he doesn’t, so what?
  19. illinoisredsox
    If it gets too far out of hand, Weber will probably eat some innings, then get sent down for some other back end arm.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Price has overall been decent this year. He didn’t have it tonight. Have to wonder if all the pitches he threw against the Dodgers affected him tonight.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Got to love Castiglione and company. They were just mocking the Sunday Night ESPN crew for taking like 5 hours to recognize that Brock Holt looks like Matt Damon and then congratulating themselves like they had discovered penicillin.
  22. illinoisredsox
    I don’t get to see every game, so I’ll cede to your observation. I guess the ones in April stood out since they were costing games and everything, positive and negative gets magnified early.
  23. illinoisredsox
    That’s true; there were a bunch of issues back in April for sure.
  24. illinoisredsox
    He thinks everyone on a lousy team is a lousy player. But then, I know nothing about baseball.
  25. illinoisredsox
    It’s hard to do when you have 3 bench players including the backup catcher.
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