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  1. illinoisredsox
    True, but the Sox bullpen is not exactly a carbon copy of the one the Royals trotted out there last year.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Actually, catchers (as catchers) disagree all the time. But they do it in facing the pitcher and "discuss" it in such a way that most fans never realize it. The ump isn't being "shown up" and so the discussion is allowed. I'm sure there are a few guys (umps) who don't allow any such discussion, but I imagine those names get passed around the catching fraternity pretty quickly. Conversely, you seldom see catchers (as hitters) say anything to an ump. They simply file the pitch away for discussion when their guy is on the mound.
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    As I said earlier, there are differences in inaccurate calls. Missing on a pitch that's 1/8 of an inch inside or outside the black may be "wrong", but understandable. Missing calls on pitches 4 inches off the plate or down the middle is an entirely different wrong.
  5. illinoisredsox
    All turned out fine. Younger one has some fine motor skill issues, but that's about it. Both were/are excellent students. Older one was a pretty good HS athlete and graduated from Purdue in 2015 with an Engineering degree; the younger one is an Eagle Scout and will be senior at Notre Dame in the fall. We were very lucky and I often wonder what happened to some of the really tiny kids I saw in the neonatal unit at that time.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Ya think? Joe West is the union President. Nuff said.
  7. illinoisredsox
    He will be back with the team Friday night when they come home (unless something happens). The real question is if there's no change in status, what happens when the Sox head to the West Coast on Monday? I went through preterm labor with both my boys; my wife was on hospital bed rest for 7 weeks with the first and the second didn't listen and was born 9 weeks early; believe me when I say you may be at work while this is going on, your head is not all there.
  8. illinoisredsox
    This road trip.
  9. illinoisredsox
    It's a sad commentary on tonight's pitching when Buchholz has been the most effective pitcher so far.
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    The best ones don't. You generally don't know they were umping. and if they blow a call, they man up and admit it (think Jim Joyce after blowing that perfect game a couple years back, Joe West would have never done that and probably would have tossed the manager and pitcher for good measure). Agreed, but unfortunately, the unon will never let that happen.
  11. illinoisredsox
    I don't think they can send Kelly down to the minors like they did last year.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Not quite. He came up in August 2006 and per Baseball Reference had accumulated 9 years, 41 days (9.041 years) of service time prior to the start of this season. He's added 58 days this year through today, putting him at 9.099 years. A season is considered 180 days, so come August 21 or so, he will reach the 10-5 mark. That being said, given the way the Sox are going, he's not going anywhere this season.
  13. illinoisredsox
    The thing is, there are misses and there are misses. A guy who calls a strike on a pitch that is 1/8 inch off the black or a ball on a pitch that nips the black by that much is "wrong", but more understandable than the guy who sometimes calls a pitch 3 inches outside a strike and then a pitch down the middle a ball (Donaldson on Saturday).
  14. illinoisredsox
    Reminds me of a one of the Dean Martin roast of Johnny Carson when Bob Newhart, as only he could do, said something like "Johnny's first wife's name was Joan. His second wife's name was Joanne and his third wife's name was Joanna. The man just won't spring for new towels"
  15. illinoisredsox
    John Smith IV? What about George Foreman and his 5 sons, George Jr., George III, George IV, George V and George VI?
  16. illinoisredsox
    April 1967, Phillies at Mets. My grandparents lived in NYC and took me. Phillies won as I recall, but I don't remember much else except being there.
  17. illinoisredsox
    Read mvp's signature.
  18. illinoisredsox
    3 homer games can be strange. Mookie now has one. Pedroia has one. For all of his 500+ dingers, David Ortiz has never hit 3 in a game.
  19. illinoisredsox
    I seem to remember one of the relatively recent Yankee teams doing it, maybe 2009 or 2010? I think the Blue Jays did it as well around that same time frame. Don't think the Red Sox have ever done it
  20. illinoisredsox
    Cmon fellow BDC alums, there was already a thread started on this (it's about halfway down the page). It's not that hard to at least skim the first page of threads.
  21. illinoisredsox
    In what way?
  22. illinoisredsox
    This was in the Globe today re. Sam Travis. Torn ACL and out for the year. http://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2016/05/31/red-sox-prospect-sam-travis-season-torn-acl
  23. illinoisredsox
    In the ideal, so true. However, what the players (hitters and pitchers) want is consistency. The same pitch called the same way from inning 1 to inning 9. They also want consistency from game to game with an umpire. If an ump tends to call a pitch an inch below the knees a strike and does it all the time, the players don't complain very much. They know what to expect and can adapt. It's the guys who are never the same that most have issues with.
  24. illinoisredsox
    I believe you are right, Evans was beaned early in his career. I remember him missing 1/2 a season or so sometime in his first 2-3 years, but that might have been a knee.. Defensively, the only thing Betts has over Evans is speed, but Evans had such incredible instincts. Evans arm may have been better than JBJ's and it was certainly comparable. His assist totals were not as high as some other guys because teams just didn't bother trying to score from 3rd on a medium fly ball or even go from 1st to 3rd on routine base hits. He earned 8 gold gloves in his career and deserved every one of them.
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    Didn't Rice hit 15 triples in a season a couple times? I'm pretty sure he led the league in triples and homers one season (1978?). He was never a gold glover, but he made himself into a pretty decent outfielder as well.
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