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  1. illinoisredsox
    Seems to me Ellsbury needs to be in there somewhere. He certainly has had a better career than Nava, for example. And while Kopech has all the talent in the world, he has pitched 5 games above AA ball, none at the major league level.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Before we start annointing anyone the "best" after less than 20 games, we should remember Joe Morgan started out 19-1 in 1988; Sox went 27-30 the rest of the way and got swept by the A's in the ALCS. The teams Joe managed were not nearly as talented as the current iteration, but Joe got a lot out of them (2 division titles) and uttered those immortal words "Your team is not as good as you think it is" to the upper management when they let him go. The disasters that followed under Hobson proved him correct. With 2 titles, Francona is still the standard and there's a gap to second.
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    Pretty sure Cora said that since Porcello is a ground ball pitcher, Lin would be starting tonight at ss due to his better range. That's the theory anyway.
  4. illinoisredsox
    They apparently tried last year and Mookie turned them down. Offer was supposedly 5 years, $100M. https://www.bostonsportsjournal.com/2017/09/07/mookie-betts-turned-multi-year-extension-red-sox/
  5. illinoisredsox
    Still amazes me that Ortiz hit 541 home runs in his career and NEVER hit 3 in a game.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Easy to see how they could get that mixed up; after all, the foot bone is connected to the ankle bone, etc. Just going off the name, you get what you pay for.
  7. illinoisredsox
    With due credit to Col Sherman Potter, let me guess, Will Rogers never met you.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Neither one of them looks Romanian. Now maybe Natick speaks that language, I have no idea.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Dynamic? We don't know that about either one of them. In fact, I would say neither one of them is. Betts is dynamic. Devers could be. Neither Lin nor Swihart are in that league. Lin came up last year and went 9-25 his first 10 days or so. He then went 6-31 for the rest of the season. His minor league stats don't show anything special. Neither has Swihart shown that much either, Granted, he's been hurt for 2+ years, and he showed some promise in 2015, but he wasn't that great.
  10. illinoisredsox
    I don't think it's that unusual to have 2-3 teams play .800 ball for 10-15 games, nor a couple more to play over .700 for the same span. It's just magnified because it's the start of the season. If this were June or August, it would just be said that x and y are red hot right now.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Smoltz said on the MLB Network broadcast that 45 minutes was about the limit. I'll go with the 21 year vet's opinion on that.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Which one? Judge or Gregorius? Of course, if Devers makes the play on Stanton's ground ball, it's a double play and we probably aren't having this conversation. And the sequence from the errors on Stanton's grounder to the Sanchez double was all of 6 pitches. I'm surprised Kimbrel was able to get loose that quickly. Walden pitched okay in the 8th. A 6-0 game (or 0-6) is the type of game you use the last guy in your pen in, especially when said pen had to cover 8 innings the day before.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Good thing it’s not the playoffs then.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Austin gets 5. Yankees once again get the lesser penalty under Chief Justice Torre. They always do. Slight revision to my prediction; after appeal, Kelly 5 games, Austin 3 (was 5 and 2).
  15. illinoisredsox
    Good for you. Being in Illinois (a top 5 HS wrestling state), I've had the pleasure of seeing some of the best kids in the country over the years, especially back when my son was competing and I would make those 3-4 hour drives on a Friday night/Saturday morning to Chicagoland or down to the St. Louis area which I did seemingly every weekend in his 3 varsity years. We were a large school on the western edge of the state so they traveled to seek better competition elsewhere in the state. It never translated to a state trip for him (lost the match in OT to go to Champaign for the final weekend) but he was better for it. What he (and all wrestlers, no matter what their skill level) got out of it was discipline and learning to push yourself to what you thought was the limit and even beyond. I'll hire a former wrestler any day of the week.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Try rereading. I said that MLB said the play was nonreviewable because Holt did not attempt to complete the DP, so they couldn't make a judgement on it. I said that the umps basically told Cora that next time have him throw the ball. And where the spikes were/weren't only is part of the illegality of the slide. The current rules also say you have to be able to maintain contact with the base after the slide. It's why you see guys grabbing the bag as they go by. Austin ends up 2-3 feet beyond the bas with no way to stay in contact; that alone makes it illegal, and that rule has been in place for several years.
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    Did jad need to put the tongue in cheek smiley in there?
  18. illinoisredsox
    No matter how you want to parse it, Austin went in spikes up. That's a no-no. Reynolds said as much in the postgame show, and he was putting at least part of the blame on Holt. And even the audio from your clip (featuring Yankee announcers) made reference to "the high spikes part" being taken care of on the field (as it was). Me thinks you would be singing a different tune if that was Cano taking that throw.
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    Older boy was a good high school wrestler; I still go to the high school meets even though he graduated 7 years ago.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Holt is 5'10" 180, Austin is 6'2 220. Holt may be a mediocre player, but he's not stupid.
  21. illinoisredsox
    It was a nice throw by takedown. Unfortunately, Kelly immediately gave up the escape and was in the process of being taken down. Still, when the cavalry arrived, it was 2-1 Kelly.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Actually, MLB did not rule anything on the slide. Since Holt made no attempt to complete the DP, they said it was not reviewable. Telling was what the ump said to Cora, "my advice is next time have him throw the ball" or words to that effect (the my advice was definitely there). Tells me it would have been ruled illegal had a throw attempt been made. MLB network played the audio after the inning.
  23. illinoisredsox
    I've been muttering to myself since last year that Sanchez needs to be knocked off the plate by Sox pitching (not beaned, knocked off the plate). Waaaay too comfortable up there.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Whoever he used was going into an almost impossible situation. Sit on the bench for nearly 4 hours on a freezing cold night and come in to face a guy who throws 98 on a bad day. Maybe Leon was the warmest of the bunch? (was he or Swihart in the pen to warm up the pitchers, who ever it was was probably the warmest).
  25. illinoisredsox
    Unless warnings are issued prior the game. Porcello has to go some distance tonight. Wouldn't be shocked to see Poyner sent down for the minimum time and another reliever brought up just to have another arm.
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